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It was fun and tiring! I am talking about my trip to the country’s capital last December 2009. Fun because not only I got to experience the Manila life for three days I also got to visit my sister and bonded with her, speaking of sister, she did make a perfect host. She was our tour guide and she toured us to the most popular places in Makati. I have to say that Makati is truly a business center.

We arrived at the NAIA 3 at exactly 12NN; my sister picked us up and headed straight to her apartment for a lunch. After resting for a couple of hours, we roamed around Greenbelt. We then had coffee at Starbucks (I really wish there’s a Starbucks in Davao). It was past 8 in the evening when we got out of Starbucks. We continued to wander around the busy streets of Ayala and stop at Ayala Triangle Park to have our foot some rest.

After discussing where to have our dinner, we finally settled down at Tokyo Tokyo, a Japanese food chain. It was almost midnight when we decided to go home and called it the day.

Our second day was spent in Manila Ocean Park and the biggest mall of Asia none other than the SM Mall of Asia or popularly known as MOA. The Ocean Park experience was fun and I felt like a kid again having those little kids in the same room with us. We also get to watch the famous “The Mermaid Show”. The show was just short but it was entertaining.

Our next stop was the Mall of Asia. The mall was huge and it houses loads of cool stuffs (if you are shopping addict then you’ll know what I mean). When we got to the mall we felt the need to eat and decided to chow at Wendy’s, another famous food chain. Vhong Navarro, Valerie Concepcion and local celebrities were at the mall doing a show. We wanted to have our dinner at the “The Racks” but the restaurant was already full when we got there. According to my sister, their food is superb but we could not wait until there’s a vacant seat because we are all hungry so just decided to eat at the food court. It was still early and none of us wanted to go home yet and we ended up watching Ninja Assassin. The film was great but cinema was too cold that I couldn’t concentrate watching the movie.

Our third day was spent in Greenhills and some other malls in Manila. While on our way to Greenhills, few local bands had a free concert in the MRT station. We saw Sandwich, Sugarfree and some other not so popular bands performed. It was another tiring day yet fun. We had our dinner at the “Old Spaghetti House” which by the way was the best dinner I had. Their food was excellent and so was the ambiance. The restaurant is located inside the Waltermart Mall in Makati, just a walking distance from my sister’s apartment.

After dinner, we headed home and called it a day. We were exhausted from our mall hopping activity. It also marked the end of our Manila trip.

The whole Manila escapade was just the beginning of my dream to travel the whole country and the rest of the world!

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