Victor Villanueva
@victorvillanueva.bsky.social
🇵🇭 Diplomat and Lawyer. Currently📌 Beijing 🇨🇳. Views are my own. 🗣 Aussi disponible en 🇲🇫
Need to settle and move into an apartment before my hotel allowance expires in x days !
May 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Need to settle and move into an apartment before my hotel allowance expires in x days !
First week into my six-year tour of duty. From the DFA's WPS Division to the Embassy in the Chinese capital. Now privileged to be in Beijing to engage in the broader spectrum of our bilateral ties. Feels like a profound sense of purpose guiding this journey. 🇵🇭🇨🇳 Filled with hope, tempered by reality.
May 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
First week into my six-year tour of duty. From the DFA's WPS Division to the Embassy in the Chinese capital. Now privileged to be in Beijing to engage in the broader spectrum of our bilateral ties. Feels like a profound sense of purpose guiding this journey. 🇵🇭🇨🇳 Filled with hope, tempered by reality.
Getting a feel of this neighborhood.
May 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Getting a feel of this neighborhood.
📌 Beijing 🇨🇳 Day 2 of x,xxx: Apartment hunting in neighborhoods around the Embassy.
My dependence on Google Maps has never felt so pronounced—I feel disabled. You wonder how people did it before smartphones.
My dependence on Google Maps has never felt so pronounced—I feel disabled. You wonder how people did it before smartphones.
May 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
📌 Beijing 🇨🇳 Day 2 of x,xxx: Apartment hunting in neighborhoods around the Embassy.
My dependence on Google Maps has never felt so pronounced—I feel disabled. You wonder how people did it before smartphones.
My dependence on Google Maps has never felt so pronounced—I feel disabled. You wonder how people did it before smartphones.
Batik shopping 📍Jakarta, Indonesia
February 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Batik shopping 📍Jakarta, Indonesia
Attended the UK's regional maritime security synposium in Bali last week, along with at least a dozen other participants from the DFA and other governmment agencies.
February 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Attended the UK's regional maritime security synposium in Bali last week, along with at least a dozen other participants from the DFA and other governmment agencies.
Pawis na pawis tayo for today's half hour walk to the office. Achieving 12k average daily step count this month so far!
January 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Pawis na pawis tayo for today's half hour walk to the office. Achieving 12k average daily step count this month so far!
Monday office selfie 🌞
January 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Monday office selfie 🌞
My kind of winding down for the night
January 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
My kind of winding down for the night
Just imagining how more pleasant this jog could be if the air didn't smell like wastewater and there were no mountains of gray sand on the horizon. 🥲
January 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Just imagining how more pleasant this jog could be if the air didn't smell like wastewater and there were no mountains of gray sand on the horizon. 🥲
Send offs for some of our FSO batchmates to their first assignments to 🇷🇺 🇧🇩 🇰🇪 🇨🇴 capitals. Me soon? 😉
January 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Send offs for some of our FSO batchmates to their first assignments to 🇷🇺 🇧🇩 🇰🇪 🇨🇴 capitals. Me soon? 😉
If I could only laze around a bit longer
January 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
If I could only laze around a bit longer
🌅 Sunset watching at Diniwid Beach, Boracay
January 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🌅 Sunset watching at Diniwid Beach, Boracay
Happy new year! Super excited for 2025 😉
December 31, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Happy new year! Super excited for 2025 😉
Lunch out yeaterday with my FSO cadetship batchmates on the last working day before Christmas. No half-day announcement for gov't employees...
December 24, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Lunch out yeaterday with my FSO cadetship batchmates on the last working day before Christmas. No half-day announcement for gov't employees...
Sunday lunch out
December 22, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Sunday lunch out
Tonight's family dinner in Solaire QC in celebration of my sister-in-law's birthday
December 21, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Tonight's family dinner in Solaire QC in celebration of my sister-in-law's birthday
Emceed our office's appreciation reception for partners and stakeholders tonight. Fellowship and thanksgiving for a very productive and challenging year for the country's maritime affairs.
December 19, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Emceed our office's appreciation reception for partners and stakeholders tonight. Fellowship and thanksgiving for a very productive and challenging year for the country's maritime affairs.
Visit to the Silaqui Island giant clam nursery of UP MSI 📍 Bolinao, Pangasinan
December 18, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Visit to the Silaqui Island giant clam nursery of UP MSI 📍 Bolinao, Pangasinan
Very Pinoy coded yung sabayang pagbigkas ng thank youuuu after a group photo.
December 18, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Very Pinoy coded yung sabayang pagbigkas ng thank youuuu after a group photo.
📍 Cape Bolinao Lighthouse. Second highest lighthouse in the Philippines. (Obviously my photo doesn't show that)
December 17, 2024 at 11:34 PM
📍 Cape Bolinao Lighthouse. Second highest lighthouse in the Philippines. (Obviously my photo doesn't show that)
Office field trip at the UP Marine Science Institute's lab in 📍Bolinao, Pangasinan
December 17, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Office field trip at the UP Marine Science Institute's lab in 📍Bolinao, Pangasinan