Tag: expat life

Why you should NOT come back to Manila?

.Reading time 15 minutes.

Someone asked me in my blog what I regret the most coming back to Manila. To be honest, I’m pretty lucky. I got to spend one year with my father before he passed away from liver cancer, met a reformed troublemaker who was tall and cute enough for me to marry him, have an adorable kid, given […]

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The Problem with Being a Former Expat in the Philippines

.Reading time 7 minutes.

I’ve lived overseas for almost 10 years before coming back home. There was a time I moved from Hong Kong to London, from London to Hong Kong then back to the Philippines in a span of four months, with luggage in tow. Moving is depressing. It takes a lot of work, and there’s a sense […]

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