bohol trip

i finally had the chance to set foot on bohol kahit short vacation lang. matagal ko nang pangarap makapunta dun. first time ko rin sa airport at makasakay din ng airplane. good thing very supportive ang mga izone girlfriends ko that i didn't felt awkward about the fact na first timer ako. the tour was fun though it is very exhausting kse we arrived in tagbilaran at 6:35am tapos diretso nang tour. tapos umulan pa nung later part na ng tour mabuti na lang malapit na kme matapos. so ayun. will post the photos soon. i am still getting familiar with my new lens. nakakapanibago kseng walang zoom barrel and i just can't switch from wide to zoom in an instant.

i just learned that helping other people has conditions. and that it should go according to the priorities of the giver who has nothing but good intentions. can't it be that complicated? hay...

randoms

finally, i'm back. been busy with a lot of things. serious things. work's been very demanding lately and it's been eating a lot of my time. i even stay up late at night to still work at home. weekends were also spent working. so i still don't get to really rest at all. hay...

i had finally finished the final prints of rio's prenup photos sometime august i think. sorry, i already lost track. thanks to my officemate who is a graphic artist. he helped me finish them. though, rio still has a few demands on the photos which up until now i was not able to do. geez...

then came typhoons ondoy and pepeng which brought too much devastation to a lot of properties and even deaths to a lot of families in our country.

i was too depressed to blog about these unfortunate things that had happened to my kababayans. i was a victim too but we are still fortunate that we still have our house intact compared to a lot of families who lost all their possessions. up until now, mukha pa ring bodega ung bahay namin. nakataas pa rin ung mga upuan. tumataas pa rin paminsan-minsan ung baha sa harap ng bahay namin kaya til now may tulay pa rin.

it has been more than a month and yet my heart continues to break for those who had lost their families and their properties because of those typhoons. i still shed a tear whenever i see the exact same footages i already saw. but we filipinos are resilient and through these tough times, heroes arise. i salute those people who are continuously helping our kababayans. mabuhay kayo.

big brother is back with a new pakulo. yup, i've always been a fan... hehehe...

i have not received any commissions for the past 2 months because of my account's poor performance. yeah, after all the effort, i had exerted. tsktsktsk...

i finally bought a new lens for my camera na hindi ko pa na-testing ng todo dahil sa super busy ako sa work. hopefully sa bohol... excited na ako... first time kong makakasakay sa airplane... sana lang hindi bumagyo...

my internet connection still sucks until now... i hope it gets fixed soon. it's been more than a month...

i had my hair cut and colored and spent a whopping 4k for it. yeah, i know. i hope next time, i remember not to spend too much on this. i hope...

mom's been whining a lot since the floods and all... and it's getting to my nerves...

just when i thought i was doing a good deed to some unfortunate kids; apparently, to someone else, i am not.

ang buhay talaga parang life... hay...

Thank you, President Cory

after more than a year's battle with colon cancer, former President Corazon Aquino passed away last Saturday, August 1, 2009.

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i really had a hard time organizing my thoughts for this blog entry... please bear with me...

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i have always been the type of person who is easily moved to tears. as much as possible i avoid conversations that will make me cry but ironically i still watch tearjerkers. (at least no one sees me cry. hehehe... ) i must admit that the past two days' events made me shed tears. it felt like that there is a part of me that was lost and cannot be found.

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a lot of people tell how good a person she was. how full she lived her life. how good a president she was. i must admit that i was moved with these untold stories about how she handled power. i am surprised to find myself teary eyed. no doubt, she touched a lot of people's lives. even mine. too bad, i just realized it now.

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to president Cory, i hope you get to read this in heaven:

thank you for the freedom i am enjoying right now. i was too young then to understand what you sacrificed for all of these. thank you for sharing your life with us. i hope i could live a life as full as yours and that i can uphold the values that you believed and lived by.

i know you are in a better place right now where there is no more suffering and pain but only bliss.

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the entire nation is mourning for your loss. you will always be remembered madam president. your legacy lives on.

hair talk

i got bored with my hair and finally got the time to go to a salon and had it cut. please see below:

this was my hair before I've decided that I need to cut it.



this is the new haircut I've got

from measles to dry skin then peeling

from catching a viral skin infection without any particular cause (viral exanthem), i experienced having dry skin last week particularly on my hands. to my surprise, it was just the start of it all. my hands and feet are now peeling. it all started last friday. my hands look like that i played with glue... soaked my hands into a bucket of glue and let it dry. and yeah, it looks nasty. hay, i hope it would peel all at once but that was not the case. hay.

new watermark

i feel like a kid. ecstatic with my new watermark symbol for my photos. i know. it's shallow but ain't kids behave that way?!! and i must admit i must boast it today. hahaha... thanks to kuya raul for the new watermark. now, i will save more time putting this mark on my photos. hehehe... below is the photo with the watermark i am raving about. hehehe...

thunderbird poro point, la union

late post of the photos i was able to take during our stay in thunderbird resort poro point, la union. the rest of the photos are here.