Live it Up. Live it Big.

Belfort Tower, Brugge, Belgium

Arrows that point to an infinitely beautiful townscape. The highest point in Brugge towers before a small square with horse-drawn carriages and food markets. I’d definitely come back here for the lovely city - and Belgian chocolates.

Santorini 2010.

That year was the first time the island has graced snow after such a long time. We were lucky we had the sun when we arrived in November 1st.  Santorini unexplainably has the most beautiful view of the sunset and and white-washed domes lining a caldera. Take me here for summer?

Pretty sunset while going down the winding road of Antique. We had to pull over :)

And there was light.

Santorini, November 2011.

Where the sky and the city are mapped out.

For a winter day in late December, it was surprisingly endurable a thousand feet above ground. Or maybe my senses just paid more attention to the sights. One of the best mornings, ever :)

Ateneo de Manila University, School of Management

This is it. I am graduating tomorrow! It’s been a wonderful 4 years but it’s time to make them proud :)

December 2010. Taken during a walk around Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise.

I don’t have a thing for roses but the fleuriste had really pretty ones for winter season. If I hadn’t slowed down a bit, I wouldn’t have noticed them at all.

November 1, 2010. On a 6 - hour boat ride from the port of Piraeus to Santorini, Greece.

Cheaper than a plane ride with the added perks of viewing the Ionian islands, scattered across the Aegean Sea. I always dreamt of sailing on a boat in exotic places. That was the closest I could get - vivid blue sea, white-washed houses, blue domes, rolling hills, the most spectacular skyline, a ferry and good friends.

Midnight in Paris. December 30, 2011.

My last view of the Eiffel Tower up-close. I had an unsettling feeling of not being able to see it sparkle differently during midnight, just right before its lights completely shut out. So at around 11 in the evening, I took the Parisian cab to La Tour Eiffel and waited for the clock. I was lucky enough to buy Nutella crepe right before my favorite crepe store closed.

It was worth it. The play of lights was blinding, as sparkles of white randomly popped out from a dim, towering structure. Personally, it wasn’t the Eiffel at it’s prettiest, but it was most memorable.