Mary Jane Boots by Marc Jacobs Finally I am in my other home, the Philippines. As I am slowly creeping in the ranks of the senior citizens, I don't find travelling as much fun as five years ago. Being airborne for 18 hours in a stale cramp space, how I wish that I can win a lottery so that I can buy a comfortable arrangement in my crossing of the Pacific Ocean. Its understandable that majority of Filipinas going home to their tropical abode when some parts North America were buried in 6 inches of snow, wearing knee length boots was de rigueur. I wonder how they managed when their legs and feet swell after travelling almost 8250 miles up in the air. It was in my second leg of my trip in Narita airport in Tokyo (another 4 1/2 hours plane ride to reach Manila) when I was totally blown away what some Filipinas would do to be fashionable and to announce to the people in NAIA that they came from the world of snow and sleet. There were a couple of