Souvenirs from the Phillipines

These are the gifts that SO brought back from the Philippines from his plant sourcing trip.

I think SO is a very bad souvenir shopper. If not for the Eternity perfume and the 8Gb memory stick, which he got from the duty shops, I would not have gotten any nice presents from the trip.

Hey, gifts need not be expensive. They just need to be of value and long lasting.

Frankly, if some one were to give me such gifts, I would rather give them to some one else. Sorry, I dun appreciate funny leather pouches or fridge magnets or common key chains.

Oh yeah, he bought 2 pairs of underwear for himself and some Filipino news papers.


One animal pouch and 2 fridge magnets.


Some awful tasting nutty sweets. They are wrapped in these poor quality inferior paper wrapper, which are not edible. (yeah, I tried to eat the paper cos they are so thin) I took one bite and spat it out.


Dried mangoes. Very common in our own local supermarkets too. Not that unique.






2 postcards and a label pin. On specific request from a colleague.

Yuck! What awful souvenirs! Give me I also dun want!

Shopping at Airport Duty Free

I asked SO to check the prices at the airport duty free shops.

And this is what he came out with

Sandisk memory stick *8Gb
$106

Eternity (Homme) 100ml
$81

Pleasures Delight 100ml with Body Lotion 75ml
$103

SK2 Facial treatment essence
125ml $125 ??
215ml $155 ??

In the end, he bought the memory stick 8Gb, before flying off to Manila, cos he was afraid that the 4Gb in the Sony camera he was bringing over, did not have enough memory spaces.

And out of the 1000 available photos in the 4Gb memory stick, he only took 411 photos! And he never used the 8Gb memory stick. What a waste! Maybe I could use it for my PSP.

I wanted the SK2 products but I was hesitant cos it was quite expensive but definitely cheaper elsewhere. So we both decided to get the Eternity 100ml for $81 instead.

And that's my main spoils of souvenirs from his trip to the Philippines!

Airport to send SO off