Larry Memmott's Blog

Here are some photos from the past couple of weeks. These cover shopping in the pearl market at Greenhills, visiting the old fortress in Intramuros, and stops at Mall of Asia and at Baywalk at sunset. Click on the thumbnails to see larger versions of the photos.

Today Florsheim gave us copies of some of Aliciya’s posters that they are using to decorate their stores. They gave us five different posters, and three of them in digital form. Though you have seen some of these photos in much lower quality in my photos of the stores, I figured you might be interested […]

I went to the Fall Out Boy concert last night. It was great! Honestly, I liked the opening act, Hey Monday, perhaps even better than Fall Out Boy, but they were both a lot of fun. And it was great to see so many young Filipinos rocking out. Unfortunately, I had to go alone, as […]

We really did have a great time (again, this is our forth time in Baguio). We visited the Bell Chinese Church and the Tam Awan Village and wandered around Camp John Hay. However, in the end, the best thing about Baguio is the incredible Ambassador’s Residence and its grounds. It is just sooo relaxing there. […]

We went to Baguio for the weekend of February 7. As always, it was lovely. We took our friends, Anya and Sasha, and their cute little daughter Masha, and stayed at the cottage on the incredible grounds of the Ambassador’s residence there. The residence dates from before World War II. In fact, all of Baguio […]

Florsheim Kids opened a new store in the Mall of Asia, the forth largest mall in the world (and second largest in the Philippines).  We went to see it tonight, and I shot a few photos of Aliciya in front of her new poster, which is the centerpiece of the store.  That makes three stores […]

We had a really nice Thanksgiving.  It started when I was asked to give the “Thanksgiving Message” at the annual Thanksgiving Ball put on by the American Chamber of Commerce Foundation (a charitable organization).  They asked me, I expect, because neither the Ambassador nor the Deputy Chief of Mission were available.  Still, it seemed very […]

Nothing so new about this, but Aliciya’s Florsheim ad was in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, page E3, this morning, so I figured I’d put it up for everyone to admire.

We had been waiting since July for Florsheim to start using the photos of Aliciya they took. It happened while we were gone. When we got back, Myrna, our maid, told us that she had seen Aliciya’s picture on a billboard on EDSA, the most important street in Manila. Of course, we had to go […]

July 16, 2008 This is one of my favorite photos from that day. One thing Dive Link really did up big time was the lunches. They were full hot meals, even on the beach. A bit too much for me, really.