After what seemed like forever, actually, just two excruciating months of frenetic reading, I’VE finally finished reading A Dance with Dragons. I admit that reading GRRM’s fifth book proved to be a bit of challenge chiefly because 1. I’ve been swamped with work, 2. because I went out of town and 3. well, the book consists of an eye-popping 1,100++ pages. Imagine?

Bemoaning aside, this installment in the A Song of Ice and Fire series was able to draw the line–clearer as ever–between the real, key players and the minute pawns in the Game of Thrones. The unprecedented events and the connived. And the characters with a hint of goodness from the incorrigibly evil. Sure GRRM created his previous books to mirror this fact but every single one on the list of his past four books weren’t as unraveling and riveting as this one.

As enemies closed in on one another I felt biting my nails especially during the part when, at last, after five books one of the vicious antagonists got the taste of Karma. I was like, “Hell yeah, you deserve that!” But along with this totally satisfying portions were the ones that totally crushed my heart particularly the hapless encounters which my favorites had to face. The only thing that kept me from bawling my eyes out was the hope that GRRM won’t be as insane as I imagine him to be by killing these faves of mine. Oh dear God, but at the rate that GRRM was going, I can’t help but feel a gut in my stomach that he’s gonna let one of my faves die a very excruciating death.

Nevertheless, as expected, GRRM did, again, a magnificent job with this installment. I hope he completes the next book sooner than her announced.

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Three stars

The Boracay post will be in two parts so you my dear readers, and myself included, won’t have to scroll down endlessly in the post simply because I crammed all the photos in a single post. Nope, i’m not gonna have that here on my blog.

So, the second half of the post is composed of the must-eat, must-visit and roughly all the must-dos that a Boracay virgin must experience. The most heartfelt gratitude in the planet of course goes to Mark Sablan for patiently baby-sitting the four of us and for gladly, not to mention, tirelessly touring us around the island. You’re awesome Mark!

Although we get to have the chance to try water activities as there’s just too much work to be done everyday, I had so much fun because of the awesome company  I was with. So, I guess it is of the highest order that I name each one of them here starting with my dancing partner Jovic Yee, my ever-so-nice roomie Honey Esculliar and our mother Becky Ate Jen Pagalilauan. Thank you so guys for making my first Boracay experience truly a memorable one!

Yes, I had to try the proverbial Boracay milkshake stop

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The long overdue Boracay post is here!

After sorting through over 500+ photos from my DSLR alone for over three excruciating weeks, at last, I was able to pick out a few favorites of mine which pretty much tells the story of my amazing experience in the panoramic Boracay island last month.

Since words weren’t enough to describe how beautiful the place really was I’ve decided to skip on the writing and just leave you guys with these equally magnificent photos.

Touchdown Caticlan

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