Project 2010: 151 - new friends

11.06.10

being in a new environment held an opportunity to meet new people and bond with old friends.

on a walk by the orchard, i met yet another one ....

... iron man!

Project 2010: 146 - it's never a bore

10.19.10

stranded at the airport. just my luck.

good thing, i wasn't alone. it's never a bore to have someone to spend and pass the time with you. :)

Project 2010: 140 - heehah!

10.15.10

it was a cowboy themed party and the start of the tagaytay/manila mini vacay.

pic taken by boyet. felice and i - well - we didn't have toy bikes when we were kids.

and so that explains the second childhood :D

Project 2010: 134 - a different kind of high

09.24.10

getting "high" with the officemates at Crown Regency.

first stop edge coaster, then sky walk.

it was unarguably a different kind of high.

Project 2010: 109 - goofing off

07.10.10


yup, whatever that bug is, it runs in the family :P

Project 2010: 86 - game night

05.09.10

just one of those nights when we wanted to do something different yet fun.
so scrabble it was with the family!
i can't wait for our next game night. maybe i should get us a cranium set while i'm at it. i can just imagine my folks humming and doing charades. :)

Project 2010: 82 - toy truck

05.08.10the little tyke brought along his toy for a day at the beach.
who says toy trucks are not for the sand too?

Project 2010: 72 - my turn

04.24.10

one day, i told myself, that would be me up there.
close to the skies and the clouds, with the wind against my face.

Project 2010 : 55 - who knows?

03.28.10

who knows one day you'll find these faces on the "most wanted" list?

Project 2010 : 47 - of buttons

03.13.10

i just had to laugh when i saw the label.


bet you already know what's inside.

Project 2010: 45 - frustrated photographer

03.07.10shot taken by dee.

i dunno if i'll ever be a good photographer, i'm still learning the ropes.
i feel like a newbie in a sea of experts.
but i'll try.

if all else fails, i can always be in front of the cam.
always a model at heart? :P

Project 2010 : 37 - my fortune says

02.24.10

i cracked my fortune and it said: "luck is coming your way."

honestly? i know and feel that i am very lucky. and blessed. and if "coming your way" means more of it, then bring it on! :>

Project 2010: 15 - whirls and swirls

02.06.10

time to try out snow tubing.

and t'was an hour of whirls and swirls (and chills!)

but as i think of it now, silly and crazy at it may seem, i had so much fun i wanna do it again..

just one last time?

Project 2010: 14 - always be a child at heart

02.02.10
it was snowing hard the weekend and the night before. so inches and inches of snow have turned into thick mounds.

not letting the opportunity pass, on our way back home, we literally parked in the office premises and found our perfect snow spot.

there we played in the snow. i felt giddy all over, and it was like christmas morn. i glided, slid, made snow balls and even sat on the snow! (it was not enough for snow angels, huhu)

passers-by literally took a double take at us. seeing snow for them was akin to rain for us, i guess. they were probably amazed at grown-ups who made a big deal of what is natural to them. but then, i let out the inner child and didn't had any care for the world.

i guess sometimes, you have to let yourself go and see the world as a kid. more fun that way :D

i sure didn't miss out on mine.

the red tag

just a little break from 365. :>

list down seven red things that can be found in your home and tag seven people to do the same.

jen tagged me, and so here i am with my seven things. as i'm away from home now, my "red" items are limited. but i tried, searched and found :)

so here goes...

electric outlet. my fave shades. lipstick. paper bags. the beam off the webcam. toothpaste. lan cables @ the office. garment bag.

whoa, i even have 8 instead of 7!

now it's your turn. seven people? i need volunteers. :)

Project 2010: 2 - B1 and B2

01.22.10

i use to find couples wearing identical shirts a little too much. :> but almost a year back, i just can't stop myself with buying us with two pairs! even so, i couldn't still bring myself to wear the shirts together with him.

now i've finally mustered it. and oh, it's cute! :)

Proj 89 of 365 - Basketball champ

090109

bag left in the counter. arms in position. serious faces. a serious position and stance. i try to elevate my heel as i aim to shoot hoops. to a passerby, i may have looked like i was up for championships. but really, i was just concentrating on getting a score - anything!

i shoot. it hits outside the ring. i shoot again. it hits inside, but gets thrown back, like food that it decides, after tasting it, that it will not eat after all. rejected. it was disappointing to have an “almost there“. then i try again. at last, i got lucky!

my hands were sore after shooting baskets. but i was proud of my accomplishment - 74 points. nevermind that james got 115 (i was hoping nobody would notice that, though). the important point is i didn’t get a 0.

i‘ll beat you next time, james. watch out! :)

Proj 59 of 365: checkmate!

(06.12.09)
don't be too impressed yet, i am not a chess genius.
i know the pieces, their places, their names and moves.
but just the basics.

making winning strategies is another thing - give me checkers, i may have a chance.

i remember in 5th grade when i had to match with our batch's chess wizard and i was just a starter! the team rep was desperate and saw me as someone who can differentiate a pawn from a rook and signed me up for the job. i knew i was going to lose, but at least not via default. the game only lasted for 5 minutes, but out of desperation i even attempted the "three-move checkmate" which my opponent easily caught on and blocked!


the game finished too soon with my opponent not even breaking a sweat and i was just glad it was all over.

p.s. by the way, chess pieces aren't arranged in the board that way in the picture. i didn't notice the misplaced pieces until i was putting the set back to the shelf. my usual OC self had to put every piece to where it should belong as i smiled to myself.

at least i knew where each piece should be, someone else surely doesn't. :p

Proj 58 of 365: in between pins and gutters

(06.11.09)
it's true, bowling balls have minds of their own.
when we're looking, they may look still and motionless but try playing bowling and you'll see the naughty buggers that they are.

it seems there's this international syndicate of avenging bowling balls because this always happens to me wherever the bowling alley is.

first, i pick up an innocently light ball and the moment i put it in the alley, it just gets loose. sometimes, it'd go directly to the gutters even if i instructed it not to! the most frustrating part is that even how slowly i push the ball to ensure it'd hit even a pin, it still double-crosses me by running straight for several meters then swerving either to the left or right when the pins are inches away (allergies against pins, maybe?) sometimes, it grows angel wings and in order for me not to get too suspicious, tries not to give me a hard time by giving me freebies - a strike and spare every once in a while as a bribe for my silence.

are you nodding your heads in agreement? if it doesn't happen to you, hear this:

the next time your ball goes to the gutter, don't say you haven't been warned. :p

Proj 52 of 365: mario madness

(06.03.09)

tell me someone who doesn’t recognize mario. impossible, right? having grown up in the Mario boom, super Mario had been immortalized as a universal gaming icon.

i first met the guy when I was about 5, it happened at home with a Nintendo gaming console – the big box where you have to insert gaming cartridges. Super Mario was one of my favorite games. I sucked at it, of course, I never got to finish it, but I so enjoyed smashing bricks, collecting coins, jumping over enemies and on rare occasions, turning invincible after being bestowed the power of the stars.

then came Mario 2, where you can be mario, luigi, toadstool or princess. i always played as princess – she may run slower, jump lower and take her time moving but boy, was she a head-turner with her pink dress and that compensated for everything else.

i don’t know what happened of that old console box, but I somehow got reconnected to mario and princess through james’ handy ds which has been in my hands for ages.

during this reunion with mario, (with a bit of help from the cheats) i got to finish the game and save the princess, too. :)