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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: And Then There Were None

Author: Agatha Christie
Ratings: 10/10

And Then There Where None Book Review

For an investigative story fan, I don’t know why this is my first time to read a book by Agatha Christie. I heard so many good things about her book and even enjoyed watching the 2 movie version of the Murder of the Orient Express.

 

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There is a certain grey line between crime and thriller that I …

Book Review: Ilustrado

Author: Miguel Syjuco
Ratings: 7/10

Ilustrado Book review

Mystery, historical, and critical are genres I incorporate in this book. It has politics, gossips, rich problems, heartaches, passion, and doing what you like best. It’s one of those books that gets better the more pages you read.

 

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Remembering Papa through the Rorouni Kenshin Movie

 

As the Rurouni Kenshin movie series about to end with “Rurouni Kenshin: The Final”, I can’t help but miss my papa who is an ultimate fan of Samurai X, the anime series version of Rurouni Kenshin. The photo below is from my graduation last 2009 – Bachelor of Science in Management Accounting.

Papa’s voice of yesteryears echoes the same time as I have written this movie review of the first Rurouni Kenshin movie …

Of Memories and Trying New at Dong Juan

Babe and I love food and we both love to eat but we are not food adventurists. We are not choosy either, we ate whatever given and provided to us. But, if given a choice we like to eat at places we know and comfortable with. There are a handful of restaurants and food that we ate on a daily basis and during special occasions.

 

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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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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, …