Wearing eyeglasses for the very first time

Our eyes are the windows to our soul.

The USS George Washington

It's been 14 years ago since the US bases left and the USS George Washington came to port. She arrived last Tuesday.

Selected members from the media were invited and toured by Urban. Water taxis were docked at the MOA (Mall of Asia).

USS George Washington (CVN 73) is the sixth ship in the Nimitz class of nuclear-powered supercarriers, and the fourth United States Navy ship to be named after George Washington, first President of the United States. She was built by Newport News Shipbuilding and was commissioned July 4, 1992.

The Nielson Tower

The Nielson Airport in New Zealand was built by Laurie Reuben Nielson, a businessman born in New Zealand, on a 42-hectare piece of land owned by the late remarkable billionaire tycoon Spanish-Filipino Colonel Enrique Emilio Jacobo "EZ" Zobel during the American colonial period who played a key role in developing the Makati financial district.

It was inaugurated in 1937 and soon became the primary gateway between Manila and the rest of the Philippines, and between the country and the rest of the world. During World War II, commercial flights were relocated so that Nielson could serve the U.S. Army Air Corps. In the 1960s, the vast track of land in Makati of which the airport was a part, became a premier commercial and financial hub. Nielson stopped being an airport but the terminal building remained, to be put to different uses. When I was a child, it was a fine-dining restaurant. Now, it is The Filipinas Heritage Library, and the home of an extensive vast collection of rare Filipiniana books.

The Nielson Tower is located at just across the Manila Peninsula Hotel.