OK before anything else, let me say this: I am not a heavy beer drinker (at least not as heavy as Monette) couple of bottles will attenuate me to a lesser form of social being, add another one and expect me to start blabbering some gibberish Spanish with a Nihongo accent.

It was couple of years ago when I heard of this urban legend about the Happy Horse. According the this drunkard’s folklore, there are these nasty bottles of red horse beer out in the market containing twice as much of …

Global warming is not a myth.
And we all know that you know it.
And now is the time to start doing something.
Earth Hour is an attempt to redeem ourselves and save our planet from a ruthless end.
On Saturday, March 27 2010 at 8:30 p.m., we will be taking part in Earth Hour, an initiative of the World Wildlife Fund. We’ll be joining hundreds of millions of concerned citizens in showing the world we can work together to resolve the threat of global warming.
Last year, millions of people took part in the third …

Admit it, at one point in your life you sang along with the Sesame Street ensemble and probably learnt the ABC’s and 123′s of the fundamentals of elementary school education with Maria, Ernie and Cookie Monster.
Last night, Monette and I had a face to face encounter with our familiar furry friends of yesteryear’s television. Not exactly Elmo, Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, but incarnations of the puppets we love. It’s just that this time, they are not talking about counting numbers nor colors of the rainbow, but of sex, …

You might think that it was a typo. You might think Ron and I developed another liking to weird things (ok, maybe not weird, just unconventional [ok, maybe conventional, but not many people would admit to liking it]). You might even think that we gave in to Bangkok’s glitter. I have to correct myself when I said that Lub’d was the only highlight of our trip. It was Lub’d AND the PORN house. Yes, you read that right, the PORN house. Feast your eyes on this…
with the porn chicks
Remember when …

So why did we attend this year’s TravelTour Expo?
Because we are planning to avail a package complete from airport transfer to food, souvenirs and guided tour…
NOT!
Again, backpackers don’t get tours or vacation package, unless required for visa approval. If you have the money and don’t have the time to plan it, then TravelTour Expo is the best place to get SOME of the good deals. So other than the freebies and being surrounded with other travel hungry monsters, we attended this event just for the kick of it. We drove …

Being that we are backpackers, it always follows that we travel on a budget. Our plane tickets carefully booked, our hostels painfully scrutinized, and our daily allowance tightly budgeted. It is also an art of backpacking to find the most affordable places to eat in. We also consider the cultural requisites like flavor, tradition and the old school way of cooking it.

In most cases, we end up being seen in the streets and hawker stalls getting down and dirty. Hawker stalls can be found all over Asia, and the Philippines got …

Damnoen Saduak is popularly known as the floating Market and the Venice of Asia.  Every Morning, the Floating Market is routinely crowded with hundreds of vendors and purchasers floating in their small rowing boats. They usually use small traditional boats, however, today the long-tailed engine boats became more popular. Vendors are selling and buying or exchanging their goods, which are particularly food, fruit and vegetable which mostly brought from their own orchards, in recent years these goods were replaced with souvenirs and trinkets for tourists, and the floating market became a huge souvenir shop.
Other than “Damn! …