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Yerevan, Armenia: The Armenian Genocide Museum

[Warning: A couple of graphic images in this post.] No words. Just concealed tears. The air felt stiff. So stiff it smothered my senses. I was painfully looking at a black and white photo of Armenian doctors hanged at Aleppo Square, 1916. In my peripheral view I caught sight of other visitors, barely moving, fixated…

Dinosaur Discovery: Lost Creatures of the Cretaceous

“Emu’s grandparents were dinosaurs, remember, mummy?”, Luna was clutching her emu doll. They are ratites, and would have descended from dinosaurs. That was me talking in my head. What I actually told her, “Yes, but great great great great great grandparents!”. Amazing how that, out of the million things I read to her in the…

Hyde Park Barracks Museum, Sydney, Australia

The spring sky was shrouded by dim gray clouds. Imposing a mean threat. I huffed a fog as I quickened my pace and barked at the rest to hustle like so. Brisk, short steps. I knew that when it rains, there’s no way my measly knit top-mini shorts-opaque tights ensemble could shield me from the…

That Psychedelic Village Named Nimbin

Duuude, it’s 420! We ain’t celebrating with a slice of space cake though. No Puff, The Magic Dragon either. To commemorate this uhm, counterculture holiday, let’s do a different kind of “trip”, shall we? A psychedelic visual trip. The talk of spliff takes me down two travel memory alleys. That of Amsterdam’s (where possession of …

Photo Essay: Geek Out At Intel Museum

Oh how crestfallen these geek parents were when we learned about Intel Museum’s temporary closure due to renovation during our visit in May of last year. It was our first time to step foot on San Francisco Bay Area’s famed Silicon Valley and aside from the hubby’s job interview, we only got our eyes set…

Huaca Pucllana, Lima, Peru: The Ruins And A Red Balloon

A map in one hand, and a red balloon in the other. I led the way. Hubby lumbered by my side with our daughter in his arms. The stroll from Parque Kennedy where we had lunch (and snatched that free balloon) at some pollo a la brasa resto took twenty minutes. It could have been…

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