Oct 27 2009
Prambanan and Malioboro
No. The above is NOT Angkor Wat. Angkor Wat looks like this…
Archive for October, 2009
Oct 24 2009
Hyatt Regency Yogyakarta
Free slippers, crisp white sheets, buffet breakfast… I love hotels. And even if I have no time to see the place where I am because of endless meetings, I could at least still enjoy the hotel. In the Hyatt Regency Yogyakarta, the hotel itself is quite a sight to behold. My first morning – I [...]
Oct 17 2009
A Break in Borobudur, Part 2
Con’t from A Break in Borobudur, Part 1
Put ten lawyers in one room. Chaos. Now, make those ten lawyers of different nationalities. And each of them has one to three evil assistants each. Mayhem. Bloodshed. Well, not really. But you know what I mean. So although we had a lot of work to do and [...]
Oct 16 2009
In the Skies Again
Was just on another plane ride and feeling bitchy. The attendant just poured coffee on me (and I have to wear these pants for the next six days! Yuck! They don’t have a vegetarian meal for my Indian seatmate. The ride was particularly turbulent (my Indian seatmate was hanging on to me for dear [...]
Oct 10 2009
A Break in Borobudur, Part 1
I am a horrible travel blogger! I don’t read up on the places I go to and I never listen to the guide (zzzz!). I very much prefer to chitchat and giggle with my friends (after 16 bloody meetings all around the Southeast Asian countries during the last year, we are all good friends). So [...]
Oct 07 2009
Of Morning Routines, Work-Related Temper, Representing the Philippines and My New Blogging Strategy
So I made it. Here I am at the Hyatt Regency in Yogyakarta. Aaaaah, the sun. I haven’t seen the sun in a long time and it greeted me warmly when I arrived amidst the different bodily smells in the domestic airport of Yogyakarta (pronounced Jogjakarta, or simply Jogja). No typhoon cancelled my trip from [...]
Oct 02 2009
Between a Storm and an Earthquake
The government owes me four trips worth of reimbursements. That’s a lot of money. The problem with all these foreign trips, they give you hell worrying about hotel authorities, per diems, plane fares, etc.. Then, they’re so slow in approving and reimbursing and yet so quick in disallowing and suspending. Do they think that I’m [...]
