Basketball Sports Cards

As an avid fan of the NBA, I have been collecting basketball sports cards since 1996.

I don’t want to be redundant regarding how I happened to stumble into this hobby so I suggest you read my blog post titled My NBA Trading Cards Hobby on my old web site.

During that time, the hobby had an explosion here in the Philippines.

I remember trading with hobbyists of all ages: from a 7 year-old kid to a 40-something professional.

However after the shortened NBA season in 1998 due to a lockout, many fans were disgusted with the turn of events. As a result, they left the hobby causing it to die gradually.

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[Filipina on Flip Flops] Korean Food at Minato Restaurant, Ortigas

From Filipina on Flip Flops: Travel Tales and the City Life of a Filipina

Minato is a Korean restaurant along Escriva Drive which is part of this entire lot of Korean establishments – you won’t miss it, the handful of signs in Hangul are a dead giveaway (but in case you need more landmarks, it’s the joint of establishments immediately beside Millenia Tower). My friends and I went to college in UA&P, which is around the area, so we were pretty familiar with the place.

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