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About iamgeemiz

Geezelle is a travel and lifestyle blogger who aims to shower positivity and kindness to the world. She is a Management Accounting and Accountancy Graduate. A member of the Cebu Bloggers Society Inc., Best Cebu Blogs Awards volunteer and co-founder of Cebu Book Club.

Book Review: Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Before the Coffee Gets Cold Tales from the Cafe

Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Ratings: 9/10

The books are a compilation of heartwarming stories. These are tales from the customers of Cafe Funiculi Funicula, a 100-year-old café that would let its customers travel to the past, or is it just to the past? The gist, they should come back before their coffee gets cold.

 

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I love how even short the books are (around …

Danao City Kasahos and Bohol Kusahos: Just A Vowel Different

Amazing how life would remind us of so many things in the past through the slightest scent up to the certain food we used to eat when we were children or with special people at a specific place.

Danao City Kasahos

This time my husband is craving for Kasahos. A dish he enjoys eating with his family in Danao City. The last time I remember eating Kasahos was 3 years ago.

Danao City Kasahos
Danao, a City in …

Tableja de Binsoy

Did you know that the Philippines produces and has its very own dark chocolate? We call it tableya.

Pure Tableya Kisses

What is Tableja?
Tableja is the Boholano name of the Filipino chocolate tableya/tablea.

What is tableya?
Tableya or tablea is roasted, ground, and molded nibs of fermented pure (100%) cacao beans without added ingredients and additives. It is also a cocoa mass and made from cacao beans that are fermented, dried, roasted, ground then molded.

What is

Best HMO for Freelancers, Self-Employed and Limited Budget Filipinos

Health Insurance is the number one basic financial necessity that every individual or family should own. It protects you and your family when getting sick. This is most important when you are a freelancer or self-employed because when you get sick you pay your own medical bills and no employer to take care of your health insurance.

Affordable HMO in the Philippines

What is (Health Maintenance Organization) HMO?

Republic Act 7875 (National Health Insurance Act of 1995) defines HMO as …

Balwarte ni Vossing

The place is located in Carmen, Cebu. It is beside the entrance gate of Cebu Safari so 8km away from the national road. A steep and winding road with beautiful scenery of nature.

Carmen Cebu Coffee Shop

Ratings:
Place: 4/5
*nature ambiance. Situated beside/under a mini forest
Music: 1.5/5
*not fitting to the nature ambiance.
Hot Chocolate: 1/5
*sorry but it’s washy (lasaw), particles still floating even if we stirred it.
Coffee: 3.5/5
*I ordered iced cold brew but

Lateral Reading: The Armor in Fighting Against Fake News

Fake News has been an issue even before the internet era, but here in PH it was just generally known after being widely used on all political parties during the 2016 PH presidential election. I can’t stress enough the importance of media literacy thus I am delighted after learning about Lateral Reading and how to apply them to our daily information/news consumption.

Lateral reading to combat fake news

Definition of Terms
Fake News – false stories that appear to be news, …

Review of “The Delight of Being Ordinary”

Author: Roland Merullo
Rate: 3.6/5

 
 
 
 
 
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  1. I love the idea of a trip of 2 of the most powerful religious leader on earth, the Pope and the Dalai Lama. The idea that Jesus and Buddha in their time are with their people preaching and not in the comforts of huge cathedrals or temples.
  2. I agree with most of the times when the Pope and

Sustainable Dining through Cebu Food Crawl 2018

I wanted to start this post by saying that I am no foodie, but I think some of you will doubt because I usually post food on my social media. But what I am really trying to say of “not a foodie” is that I rarely go to a new restaurant to eat. I only had a handful of restaurant that I frequently visit, most of them I have been to more than 5 times.…

Know yourself and know what you’re good at

A few weeks ago I had the privileged to be interviewed by The Big Picture Philippines Podcast to share my experience of working from home.

I have been working from home since 2010 as a freelance and in June 2011 I am affiliated with a company, so basically about a little more than 8 years now. I had my fair share of ups and downs in the industry but thankfully I am still here, grinding …

My Danasan Eco Adventure Park Journey

I have been longing to write about Danasan Eco Adventure Park, like circa 2012 but each time I told myself well next time if I tried this adventure and the next time, the same thing and it took me 5 visits to at last write something about this great place in the highlands of Danao City.

Danasan Eco Adventure Park Review

The year 2012 – The Unplanned Visit

1st visit with Team Buktot. This is actually an unplanned trip. …