You

I don't know how You do it, weird but every time You do, I am always in awe... 

Thank you Lord for guiding me through everything... We will get through this... 

for I have You...

A time for Heroes

The Philippines was hit by typhoon Ondoy the hardest. Aside from what the people lost, we've gained more. Everyone became an everyday hero.

I would like to share these videos created by our team, made to honor the brave Filipinos.

Tita's Garden

This is my second favourite place. I would really love to share it so I used my laptop’s built in camera. (with a poor effect) but can you at least picture out the place? it’s an old terrace, thanks to my lovely tita Alen, who planted the beautiful vine plant on top and the potted flowers, she was able to preserve the beauty of the place. what I like best about this place is the night view. Whenever I sit here at night, I can always see the beautiful stars and the sparkling lights of the city of Antipolo below! Oohhh! Its just so lovely, that I lost the right words to describe it! I hope everyone can see it. Especially those people who are dear to me.

See my cup of coffee!? It’s a perfect afternoon indeed! A beautiful place and a coffee to settle everything!

I just saw a plane… pretty… I wish a have a camera to capture the moment.

Hays! Everything is just so lovely.

A comfort place! that’s its! It’s a comfort place! you will leave everything but lovely thoughts in here.  Here, sorrows don’t exist.

Look! Another plane on tip a perfectly paint brushed-like clouds… hays… pretty…

Typhoon Ondoy Experience.

The world knows that Philippines is one of the country that was hit the hardest by typhoon Ondoy. Specifically Metro Manila, Bulacan, Laguna and Cainta. I myself experienced swimming on floods while carrying my laptop to safety, and i will tell you, IT WASN'T EASY. i cannot see where i am heading at, when i look around, what i saw was a rubble of ruins, and as i try to see the water I'm swimming at, there was nothing but mud and dirt. My feet always bumps into something hard or sharp and i cannot prevent it from happening because for one, i cannot see anything from the mud wrench water. I got bruises all over my body. Good thing the rest of my family were safely relocated at a local school. Thinking about that gave me the strength to ignore everything I'm seeing. 

After the typhoon, it wasn't easy going back home. our house was consumed by the floods. Everything inside is gone. My sister's school stuff all gone (i saw her shoe floating in mud) , my moms living room was left in disarray, we cannot even see my fathers gadgets... Then i saw my books, J.K Rowling, Sidney Sheldon, Dan Brown, Meyers, Montgomery, Crichton, King, and many many others, gone... its as if seeing your own children dead... i hurriedly went outside and cried. 

I know everything passes. But right there, time stood still. We stayed no longer than a minute yet everything we've strive for a lifetime is gone, overnight. 

But i know everything has its end, this too will end. 

and everything we lost will come back double! 

for we are brave. 

we will strive harder.

let this be a challenge.

and we will get through this.

in the best possible way.

A dream within a dream by Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

 lovely... makes me realize how one can be as tiny as a grain of sand, yet however hopeful and trying we might be to hold on to that single grain, the wave will still took it back... Funny how hard we try to tighten our grip, knowing the force would leave our hand wounded. Yet, we grasp, with all the force we have.

the sun is hiding at the moment...

...so am I.

at peace

I am calm and at peace...

not a good day...

Today is not a good day. Period. I’ve been struggling not to cry. I feel so bad. I feel so terribly bad. I will remember this day for the rest of my life. Someone I care about hurt my feelings. And I don’t know when I will be able to talk

to that person again. I know I will be able to forgive, but uncertain when I will forget. It hurt so much. I feel like crying right at this moment… I want to do something that will take my mind off things. I want to run… run as fast as I could without looking back. Then maybe, maybe when I’m loosing my breath, when my lungs can’t take the pressure, when I’m dead tired, I will be able to forget.

Funny how I think of ways on what to do to ease the pain, yet I am

doing nothing… I am so tired even to run… my knees are wobblin

g like that of a child whose about to take his first step… sadly, unlike him, I am not willing to take a step…

From now on I will simplify my life. I will get rid of things that are constantly hurting me, for they do me no good. I am about to change my life for the better. I will focus on my family. I will disregard somebody else’s issues and

look at mine and try to resolve them on the best possible way. I

will not be defeated by myself. I will conquer my fears and work it on my advantage. (That includes always counting myself as a second priority) I will live life the way God wants me to. And I know he doesn’t want me hurting like this.

the dazzling sun

it was wee bit difficult taking this photo... the sun was blindingly bright...





fishing at exactly 11am wasn't really easy...
these boys were really tough.

on a much shallow water, eager young mangrove sprouts welcomes the nurturing sun...

Bohol

the waves were proud...

yet the sky accepts no defeat...

let the man in the picture decides which is more mesmerizing...

Voyage

have you ever seen such a beautiful hue?

I would like to share some of my photos taken from different islands in the Philippines. ;D
(for i just saw some being used by international organizations, its about time i share my own. yey!)

On our way to Apo Island, on board the 3rd and largest yacht...

where everything you see is blue...

ON IT'S MOST BEAUTIFUL SHADE.