Aicha Amano

Hi everyone! If you followed my other blog, you would know by now that I'm in Manila ( A Chuvaness.com gift to welcome me in Manila! ). This is a crazy, hectic, fast-paced city--descriptions of which are the exact opposite of what I would describe my hometown, Davao City.  Greencross and I have pooled our resources to start getting rooted in this city. We are renting this small and neat condo in Soho Residential Condominiums. He has just landed a job and I dearly hope that I follow suit, too. I have a job that I've set my sights on; I really, really like the job so I'm hoping for the best. I don't have friends here in Manila, yet (except folks from Davao who are also here, thank goodness for them!) but I'm hoping that in the next few months, that'll change, too. I'll take to blogging in the meantime. This is one of the Late Bloomer blog projects I will start on: " Healthy Hacks ", a series of posts dedicated to share with you some quick and healthy...

Good Morning, Paranaque! Hay naku , Manila, it's another one of your extremely blinding hot days. I'm in Manila you guys ! And everything is so busy and blinking and fast and noisy and fun and superlatively exciting! Since touching down last April 1st, everything has been strange. But you can't blame me, what's 10 days when compared to 26 years? All my life I've been in Davao. Suddenly, my plane lurched and landed (none too gently I may add) at the pristine NAIA. I've been busy getting acquainted with the Metro's jeep / bus routes and trainstops. Having always been a one-route jeepney girl for a good part of my life, I was mortified to find out that there were so many ways you can easily get lost in various transportation; Manila is HUGE, myged , and you can't even ask people for directions daw . And not like I can actually muster the courage to ASK them, because my Tagalog is still lilting and funny and probinsianic . If that's even a word hah...