Weekly Photo Challenge: Resolved.

To keep my Mac shutdown more often so I could read more. I bought these books years ago and they just collect dusts on the shelf, only a few of them I tried to open. I hope I could read …

Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 In Pictures.

My 2012 were heavily highlighted by musicals: two musical plays, a dream concert and meeting my musical idol. I just love the musicals; and the showing of Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary in the cinemas in the late month …

Finally… The Sun.

Today, after several days of non-stop monsoon rain – which intensified last Monday night and brought a drowning floods to a lot of area in Luzon particularly Metro Manila – it’s such a relief and a delight when the blue …

I Am My Mother’s Daughter.

Thoughts on reading Kyung-sook Shin’s literary prized novel “Please Look After Mom.” Never had I cried that much reading a book. The first five or seven pages didn’t stir me, maybe because it started in a second-person narrative style; I …

My Mother’s Favorite.

My love for nature came from my mother, especially with the flowers… oh, how she loved them. Among her favorites were the orchids – we had several of them in our garden when she was still living. She’s been gone …

Blog Awards: It Feels Great To Be Grateful.

I would like to thank the following people who nominated me for these awards: http://bellableue.com/ – for Very Inspiring Award. http://catbirdinoman.wordpress.com/ for Kreativ Blogger Award. http://jandeelstra.com/ and http://ristinw.wordpress.com/ – sorry guys if it took me months to reply to your …

Where Have All The Dragonflies Gone?

During my childhood, my playmates and I used to sing this when one of us tried to catch a dragonfly: Tutubing bungayngay, Huwag kang papahuli Sa mahaba ang kamay. Huhulihin ka ng patay Sa ilalim ng tulay. In English it …

Saturday Night. Alone In A Bar.

Twenty-fourth of March. Two thousand twelve. Eleven forty-two. Saturday night. In a bar. Alone with a camera. Drinking an ice-cold water… …just a glass of plain iced water. That’s all.

Life: A Changing Hopper.

Countless of times it has been said, and many are still verbalizing it: the only thing constant in this world is change. Truly, life is a permanent change – in good ways and bad, depending on how one looks at …

1Q84: Weight Does Matter.

Last Saturday morning, before getting up out of the bed, I opened my copy of 1Q84 who’s been sleeping with me for the past couple of months. Bookmarked to Book Two: Chapter 3. It was mid November last year when …