Azure

The sense of being ultrablue, violet and pink one sabaw Thursday dusk

Repair

I went to a watch repair store today to get my favorite watch fixed. I don’t like relying on my cellphone anymore to tell me the time these days.

My favorite watch is what’s left of a pair of Mickey-Mouse handwatches an aunt bought home for me and my cousin from their honeymoon. I’ve had it since fourth grade. 

Mickey’s silver hand “covers” the face of the watch, and both are held together by a simple spring mechanism. The watch and Mickey’s hand lives on, but the spring does not.

This miniscule spring gave up on me many many times, but I used to be able to fix it myself before because I’m like Tinker Bell, I like fixing stuff.

I’ve grown a little lazy, and a little out of time now so I bring this watch to people who make a living out of fixing watches. But no one could ever fix it.

“Binigyan mo ako ng palaisipan ngayong Pasko a,” one of the repairmen I visited told me.

“Pero, sir, kayang kaya nyo po dapat ayusin yan! Ako gumugawa nyan dati e, nasusugatan nga lang ako minsan,” I replied. 

(Repairman: You gave me something to think hard about this Christmas, huh?

Me: But Sir, I know you can fix that easily! I mean, I could, but I’d rather not hurt myself again trying to fix it.)

I came home this day a little perplexed. I realized that even with all the rightly-qualified people in the world combined, some things are meant to be fixed by none other but yourself.

 

 

 

 

[ƒ@#%! ang emo wahaha]

 

Rainbows

No matter what happens, rainbows and dreams still exist.

Wreath

 

When it arrives

The darkest of nights

Let me have my back turned

And not realise

 

The story’s coming to an end

I’ll never be just giving in

I’m living by the rolling dice

It’s closure but it’s in disguise

 

- To An End, Marit Larsen

The world it turns with us

 

A tribute photo to one of my favorite songs by my favorite band of all time, Urbandub:

 

 

 Endless a Silent Whisper

 

The night belongs to us 

We’re caught in a world of our own 

We cling to the hope it would change for us 

Is it in vain? Is it too late? 

Why did it have to be you than I? 

I heard the news today. 

 

Embrace so much tighter

This could be our last together 

Heaven sheds tears for the wounded hearts 

Our forever has been torn apart 

 

Our vast religions won’t help us answer 

What was pre-destined for us to have since long ago, 

It’s hopeless.

The world it turns with us.

 

Hold me in closer, don’t let go of me 

Now we close our eyes and let go to the night 

The night we feel alive.

 

Is this the beginning of our last dance? 

Once around the floor, can we do it again? 

I feel the thrill from words we say, I love you. 

 

Supershortbreak

Hi guys! I am currently attending my final undergraduate semester in school and may only get to sporadically update this mobile phone photoblog for the meantime (or until I adjust to “schedules” like building up my mood to post, to write, to do schoolwork, to finish extracurricular work, etc).

I still photograph daily, though. My October to November 2008 photodiary pictures are here and here.

Also in my break, the Aleli Photodiary somehow got into this list of top 20 Manila photoblogs. Please visit it for more Manila photography coolness!

To those who have messaged/talked to me about this photoblog, thank you very much for appreciating my work :) These messages (even the negative ones) are among the best of motivators a blogger can have!

Be ready to scroll again–I will be back by the first week December!

Remind me why

 

Sunset, graffiti, UP Diliman.

In rainbows

I was a happy girl at Starbucks this afternoon. Besides getting out of a good business meeting, beside me was this sliver of a rainbow, rekindling this childish energy I never thought I still had :)

Nighttime breaktime

Ten minute chance meets under the clear night sky are healthy. Especially after some six, eight-hour marathons of school/work/procrastinating.

Every time I step outside to take a break, my pet cat follows and stands guard and ready to scratch ‘n pounce for me.

Necking disco balls

Awww… how glittery, mirrory sweet.

Sanguine

Greenbelt literally redenned my day and made me soo happy :) Mabuhay Dear Poinsettias in Manila! They look and feel more.. merrier than other red flowers like roses. It’s cool how they cover more space; it looks like a bloodsea, or a sea of flattened cherries, or sparkling vermillion, crimson, ruby, exploding stars, or even nebula..

Floorflower

Is there such a thing? A floorflower (derived from the “wallflower”, someone excluded from all the fun at a party)?

There are moments when I prefer sitting on floors, quiet uninhabited floors and write and think. It doesn’t feel uncomfortable; sometimes it even refreshes me so much that I become somewhat “hyper” at the next class (after discovering a solution to a problem in my “Floorflower” time). 

 

UP Padyak wheels

The UP student most likely gets 5-6 classes every semester. Every class could be held in another building that could be about ten frickin’ minutes away. If you’re lazy and have plenty of money, you ride the Ikot jeep. If not (like me), you walk (and could look as sweaty as if you jogged by the time you arrive at the next building).

Now to get to places, you can also ride the UP Padyak bike!

In the line of the global warming and UP centennial spirits, my university and some very generous UP Mountaineers alumni started promoting environment-friendly ways of getting to-and-fro places through wheeling it in with the  The UP Padyak Project. 

A student can rent a bike for an entire semester to use around the campus, and park them in “parking lots” in the most popular buildings/places people usually hang out like, like the picture above taken from the FC-AS walk.

Not only do you get a cool-looking bike as a new biker-lessee, you also get to feel buff-ness, and the environmental goodness seeping in you throughout the sem! Get to burn fat and burn money elsewhere, while parading awesome artwork, and saving Mother Nature! (And spreading the UP spirit too!)

Eeergh. If only I don’t wear skirts all the time, I’m gonna go padyak for UP!

Feel the breeze and spread the happy colors! Support the UP Padyak project in the next UP semesters (or suggest the same project in your college!)

Interested? Visit their official site, and Multiply account now :D

Cebu: Basilica

Basilica Minore del Sto. Nino

Magellan's Cross.