Manlapaz Reunion

Ate Arlene's Day

     Happy
        Birthday!!!

Christmas at Claire's

Montalban - Marikina Road Trip

Avilon Zoo

more avilon photos here

avilon zoo photos by reynald ngo here

Wawa Dam

more wawa dam photos here


World of Butterflies

more butterfly photos here

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Night Shots

from the torre lorenzo roof deck

Department Christmas Party

Torre Lorenzo Roof Deck
more photos here

Alay Exhibit
Pinto Art Gallery
December 11 - January 12

laya martinez heinrich

at the baptism in Köln...

gabriel lorenzo's baptism

more photos here

antipolo-morong-binangonan-angono road trip

Antipolo

• pinto gallery
• cresent moon cafe

Morong

• pacheco art foundation

Binangonan

• binangonan common mountain rocks

Angono

• balawbalaw art gallery
• miranda art gallery
• a failed attempt to find the angono petroglyphs (located a few months later)

pinto gallery

first take

our first time to eat a snake and a couple of frogs at balawbalaw in angono, rizal

Palawan!!!

DAY 1

Day 1 photos click here

• check in at casa linda
• honda bay island hopping
• lunch at starfish island
• snokling at snake island
• dinner at ka lui

DAY 2

Day 2 photos click here

• underground river tour
• lunch with monkeys and monitor lizards at the beach
• stop over at viet ville
• dinner at badjao seafront

DAY 3


Day 3 pics click here

• dos palmas
• lei's "learn to appreciate kayak" lesson
• snorkling at helen's garden
• buffet lunch
• lei's advanced kayak lesson
• mass at the cathedral
• dinner at balinsasayaw
  

More photos from Lei's cam here

2006 Palawan Trip here

when in palawan...

Tour Guide:

make sure you ask for Senith Pabli... probably the best tour guide ever. get her and she'll see to it that you'll have the best of everything...

Accomodations:

well, we've only tried one but if you're low on budget, try Casa Linda this will probably give you the best value for money. only 5 min away from the airport, and just a tricycle ride away from everything else at puerto princesa.

Resorts:

for a 1.5K day trip package, try Dos Palmas. the package comes complete with boat ride to and from the wharf, buffet lunch, marine gear rental, speed boat ride to snokling sites and use of kayaks, this should complete your palawan experince

my sister... grimace

same size...
same color...
same appetite...

teng's birthday

go!!!

we've got tickets!!! we're definitely going to palawan!!! wohooo!!!

road trip

went on a 378 km road trip with lei and grace last saturday.

roadtrip highlights:

• first stopover for breakfast at sto tomas, batangas
• trip resumes, severe verbal bashing from lei... (and grace) begins
• at nagcarlan, we visited gabrielle... a's newborn baby
• had a's famous spaghetti for merienda
• a very loooong trip to san juan, batangas
• 2 hour trip from nagcarlan to to san juan ends with a 20 minute "hey, look at the beach!" session
• a quick peek at marikit resort (nice place... we'll be back)
• dinner at basil and mint at lipa... kwento galore...
• went around pansol looking for a quick dip and a place to stay...

• dipped at around 12am at a resort somewhere in los baños
• 4:30 am, after a 10 min attempt to sleep in the revo... we left for home
• a quick stop at jolibee calamba
• grace navigates... big mistake
• mad max drives... from alabang to las piñas... the scariest 15 min of my life
• 5:30 am... everyone's home

meg goes cooking

From geek to chef
posted September 14, 2004 at 01:33 PM

This past May, when I decided to go on sabbatical I wrote that I needed a break because:

I had no perspective on anything, I was so deep into my world of weblogs and tech that I didn't have much sense of what was going on outside of my geek circles... I've been burning my candle at both ends for years now, and decided it was time to stop. Emotionally I was drained. Physically I was drained.

But that wasn't the full truth of it,because there was something I'd been feeling that I wasn't quite able to admit. It's taken me several months of time away from computers and tech and geeks to accept the fact that computers and technology are not my passion.

My interest in the web and tech was always more about people. With weblogs, it was making it possible for everyone to write online and share and communicate. And while I was doing it, I really did care very deeply about my work -- the products we were creating, the people for whom they were built, and the people who worked with me to build them. As my career progressed, I pushed myself to be more visible as a technology speaker,dabbled at freelance writing, and started another tech company. But something was always missing, and I've realized that was true passion for what I was doing.

So last night I ended my sabbatical and began my new career doing something I've always felt passionate about: cooking. I'm working in the kitchen of a restaurant called Fifty-Six Union here on Nantucket.Yesterday at 3 PM I put on my black chef's clogs, my black pants and white t-shirt, pulled my Red Sox cap over my hair and got to work peeling and deveining shrimp. Seven hours later, sweatily scrubbing the kitchen floors, I was still smiling.

I've learned a lot this summer during my sabbatical but it all can be summarized in three words: follow your heart.

-taken from megnut

the day that wasn't...

the balanghai

the balanghai is today's featured cityshot at ClickTheCity

THE boat-like structure cuts a majestic figure on the water’s surface. Its three sails—massive triangular forms of steel and fiberglass in hues of yellow and orange—sway ever so slightly with the breeze. As the wind blows, two oar-like shapes at the tips of each sail dip into the pool, seeming to propel the entire vessel to some unknown destination. But there it stays, a vision that is fixed yet moving at the same time.

This is the Balanghai, the “crown jewel” of the Bonifacio Art Foundation Inc.’s public art collection. Conceptualized and designed by Gerry Leonardo, the sculpture, with a height of approximately nine meters and a length of eight meters, is named after the native boat balanghay which supposedly carried the first settlers to Philippine shores.

Named the grand prize winner in BAFI’s first public art competition held in 1997, Leonardo’s work recently sailed to its permanent location at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig, Metro Manila, capping years of meticulous construction.

-taken from www.artscentralmanila.com

weekend at pampanga

visited nai at pampanga after her laparoscopy

term break

tostada

when at tostada...


try the adobo flakes...

da moves

mel demonstrates the proper execution of "da moves"...

sir glenn's day

sir glenn celebrates his 21st birthday at shakey's


HAPPY
BIRTHDAY!!!!










then dessert (syempre) at plato platina with anj

somewhere in antipolo