Image from The Daily Loaf
Sorry for this late post announcing the winners of my vanilla bean giveaway. My schedule’s been very erratic lately (case in point: buy plane ticket 10 am, pack clothes 10.30 am, check in online 12 noon, fly 5 pm the same day) and I haven’t had the time to sit down [...]
I’ve been the lucky recipient of a huge bunch of vanilla beans quite recently. They’re of the Vanilla planifolia species from Madagascar, more commonly known as “Madagascar-Bourbon” vanilla. They were given to me neatly tied up in strings just like in this photo that I found on the internet.
I was astounded to read in Wikipedia [...]
I must announce the winners of the recent Dutch souvenirs giveaway.
First of all, I made a list of the names of the people who left comments, then I went to Random.Org’s List Randomizer and got this…
Congratulations, Jessi and Fortuitous Faery! Please email me your name and mailing address sometime this week because I’m leaving for [...]
In the Philippines, it is customary for someone who travels to bring back little gifts called pasalubong to friends and family back home. Pasalubong is usually something that’s indigenous to the country/place visited by the traveler and does not have to be expensive. It can be food or clothing (t-shirts being a favourite among Filipinos) [...]
Continue reading about Gifts From Amsterdam (And A Giveaway At The End)
First off, my apologies for my failure to announce the winners yesterday, as I originally planned. It’s 12.23 am and technically already Saturday. My flight from Jakarta was slightly delayed due to bad weather…then my luggage took its own sweet time to show up on the carousel in KLIA upon my arrival…plus the internet connection [...]
