A Walk Down Manila Chinatown

On a random weekday that every one in my family was home, we made plans to head to gritty Manila for a food trip in Binondo (also known as Manila Chinatown). We went home with full stomachs and aching feet but the photos were all worth it in the end.

sweet trippy, you're lost in the deep end

I've been visiting the Virgin Island in Cebu every year since 2014 and I still get amazed by it every year. My only disappointment this year is that I didn't get the tan that I wanted because my sunblock was just too strong (oh well, guess that calls for another beach trip 🤷‍♀️).

There's nothing particularly different from this trip except for the copious amount of alcohol that we had but this time around, I was able to capture the island on film! For this set, I used two rolls of Kodak Colorplus 200 (bought from Korea by a friend!) 

Also, one thing about the photo (see right) above is that pose was NOT easy to hold. I was half drowning with my eyes closed for the 'gram but shoutout to my sister who was able to capture it well. We're really after that buwis-buhay aesthetic.

New In The Neighborhood

With the new year came a new location and a new look for Hoodwink. We had the K shaking before 2018 ended to make way for a much bigger space. The goal was to retain Hoodwink's quirkiness while introducing our new coffee concept in Makati.

The space blends our retail and coffee concepts into one. “We like to think of Hoodwink as homme et femme’s youngest sibling—the one who gets away with a lot of things,” says Jappy Gonzalez the President of homme et femme (aka my boss). “From its name alone, it blindsides you with its alternate take on what’s considered contemporary.”