On Sundays, Emerald Ave or F. Ortigas Jr. in Ortigas Center is closed from 6am to 6pm, thus, no car can pass by. Found out about it few months back when we had an event on a Sunday at Exist TechBar which happens to be in Emerald Ave.
Haifa Carina
Haifa Carina
Haifa Carina is a tech community builder from the Philippines. She leads various initiatives for the Philippine tech community, volunteers for DEVCON Philippines and curates for Startup Digest Philippines. She’s a marathoner, wall climber and Spartan racer. She loves to travel and dreams of building her own underground house.
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As part of my responsibilities in DevCon as Executive Director, i am to ensure that all legal and financial documents of the organization is well taken care of. If you’re not familiar, all registered companies (for profit or non-profit) is required to submit their financial statements annually to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). For the year 2013, we decided to do our audit yesterday March 27. The people there was our accountant, auditor, our president and me! It was a much better year since all expenses were accounted with receipts. The previous years, as our accountant said were a…
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Today marks my Day 1 for a 300 Word Daily Challenge! What’s easy to write about is of course about myself! Couple of days ago I went to have my eyes checked. When you have a damaged pair of eyes like me, you’re advised to have a regular check up atleast once a year just to see if there are changes in your grade.
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JournalTravel Chronicles
Bangkok, Thailand: Elephants, Tigers and Floating Market
by Haifa Carinaby Haifa CarinaHuhua! The last destination of our two-week trip! Bangkok is pretty much like Metro Manila, a big busy metropolitan city. We were hostel hopping here. From Sukhumvit, to i-dunno-the-place to finally the convenient Khao San Road. If you havent done lot of research, then you’re probably end up having difficulty moving around like we did. Floating Market, food trip! You’ll find many kinds of weird tasting food. Lol. Khao San Road, chilling spot for travellers. They have exotic street food! Wanna eat spiders and worms? Ack! Then we went on a tour which was outside Bangkok. First was the War…
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Siem Reap. We stayed here for four days as the third town for our Indochina Trip. The Angkor Wat Temples, the main attraction of this town is swaaaarming with tourists!
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Grand Temples and Khmer Rouge
by Haifa Carinaby Haifa CarinaThe second town of our Indochina trip is Phnom Penh in Cambodia. You’ll see a lot of grand and colorful temples, monks and Buddhas.