Shoot while the flower is hot

 

Just for a few hours in a day, this flowering plant whose name escapes the current Ate caretaker of the garden, explodes in fiery nature goodness!

And before you know, it it retires and dies a fugly brown prune..

PUCHEH!!

Take your pets out to play in public! 

What’s “routine” and “exercise” to Poochi here (or your pet dog) may actually be a serendipitous moment of connection for strangers and create an afternoon they’ll remember for life!

View from heaven

 

I’m just so tired, won’t you sing me to sleep?

And fly through my dreams

So I can hitch a ride with you tonight

And get away from this place

Have a new name and face

I just ain’t the same without you in my life

 

- View from Heaven, Yellowcard

 

I took this picture two years ago, on that scorching noon day of my grandfather’s burial. I couldn’t, didn’t know how to react to the white-clad relatives around me who were reminiscing of my best Quiapo buddy. Luckilly my mother gave me the camera, and I goofed off, escaped my grandmother’s crying, and shot the beautiful cemetery scenery instead.

The weekend after the burial, I got sick of food poisoning. I was supposed to go back to classes that week, which happened to be as toxic as those clamshells I’ve eaten at someone’s party.. hehe. But I did seriously believed that he made me deliberately sick that week so that I can rest and think for myself.

I remember him at moments like these. He’s such a happy person, nothing could stress him out (well, ok, maybe one of his stubborn fighting cocks), I’d love to hang out with the likes of him these days, and just chill. 

Morning Buddy

What a feeling.. watching the sunrise and knowing you’re there.

私の心はあなたのものです。

Love is.. organic.

It’s nice being sappy when everyone isn’t (yet).

Let’s go marathon Wong-Kar Wai movies!

Kawawang Metro Aid

Look at all those leaves—a version of “Philippine autumn” at school:

I can’t work when the weather’s this good because I’d rather spend all this time just being outside! It’s so refreshing, especially knowing that there’s city muck and dust to greet you as soon as you plunge in those streets just a few blocks away.

I wonder how street sweepers feel when it’s the January-February, tree-shedding-leaves season.

Veins

“Philippine autumn”

 

Morning sky

I’ve been up and about on the streets as early as 6am daily for a while now. I used to do it for jogging waaay back; now I do it for classes, school errands, and meetings with friends (especially if you know someone who insists on meeting at seven before church or work!).

“Waking up early” is a good reason to continue my feeble attempts in following the “healthy sleeping time” that’s so lovingly endorsed by people who hate stress :D

Anyway, I consider early mornings as a good way to start the day. It’s nice, and calming, like what you see in this picture: weird, windy sky abstracts, and that extraterrestrial-looking dimple in the sky that is the moon.

Azure

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

Remind me why

 

Sunset, graffiti, UP Diliman.

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.

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..

Hooray, the rain

I like the rain, how it mushes down the pace of everything, be it psychologically or catastrophically. I think that people generally welcome the rain. Here in the Philippines, in schools or the offices, the rain lives up to be a pretty solid excuse to not go to class or work (“Ay nabaha ‘ho kami.” [We were bogged down by floods]). It’s gives people time to think, to take care of their mental selves, to stare out the window, wonder where their lives have gone by or where it’s heading, or whether to dump dude Z for former classmate Y..

 

Escapism through shopping also becomes common these days. See how crowded the malls are during rainy season:

 

Trinoma Mall, QC

Please just don’t play with me, my paper heart will bleed

“…This wait for destiny won’t do, be with me please I beseach you“

- My Paper Heart, All-American Rejects

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When I realize I can’t stay cooped up for too long within four walls ^^;.