Nap Time Rocks!

high

the following chronicles my recent brush with death. haha, or maybe not.

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the ground rushed out from beneath my feet, falling about 37 stories downward. the only thing suspending me in the air was a 4 foot wide steel walk that would have been the same as wire mesh.

the ropes above securing me gave no assurance whatsoever at that dizzying height atop the country’s tallest hotel building, the Crown Regency Hotel in Cebu. i was horrified from the moment i stepped out onto the ledge and was still terrified as i stepped back into safety.

of course the safety lines, the “heights people” (as i would like to call them), and the entire facility were safe and tested, but for acrophobic people like me, that does not mean anything. well maybe it does, but it does little to calm the nerves.

i could not, for the life of me, let go of the safety ropes even for a second, thinking that if i did, i would begin the plunge to my imagined death. it was funny that compared to some of my companions then who were self-professed acrophobics i, the one who refrained from declaring my profound fear of heights, freaked out the most in the whole of 20 minutes.

but the sunset at that height was magnificent, the view breathtaking. that was such an unforgettable experience.

and as if i didn’t get enough,

i rode this baby.

yeah, yeah. acrophobic, shmophobic. but this was DIFFERENT. nothing like being strapped on to a metal platform with nothing between you and the ground, tilted at 50 degrees downward. this, the Philippines’ first Edge Coaster, was crazier than the Sky Walk. if you have super zoom, you’d see my knuckles and nails are deathly white gripping the railing.

jump to today, sunday. i’m still alive. the Sky Walk is great done in groups and is a good team building activity. the Edge Coaster if you’re acrophobic and you really just have a death wish. haha. the heights didn’t kill me, so i guess if that did anything it was to prove to myself that fears can be conquered.

i also have slight thalassophobia, the fear of large bodies of water like the sea. but that can wait. one at a time.

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our photos of getting 100% naturally high in Cebu

“Intexticated”

i hit a motorcycle last tuesday morning.

i picked up my phone to dial a number when this motorcycle suddenly became an unmoving fixture just about a foot from the hood of my car. i stepped on the brakes hard and soon enough, but not hard enough. so his rear end hooked onto the front of the car and saved his life.

i could’ve killed the guy.

it’s funny that same morning as i was leaving the building of our (ex)distributor, i read (glanced is more like it) a snippet of an article posted on the bulletin board that said, “Don’t be intexticated” and had a photo of a wrecked car. so yeah you guessed it right, it was a reminder not to text and drive.

funny. that was a premonition, i guess. kind of like when i wrote this short story, and a few weeks later i find out i was expecting.

funny. that i knew at some point a car accident will be the cause of my nonexistence. and i didn’t take it seriously. i know i’m a good driver, but i didn’t have to let it get into my head.

so thank you, Lord, for waking me up at the right time. guess it served its purpose. i’ll be more careful this time.

maybe i won’t have that dent on my hood fixed just yet as a reminder.

when the sun did come out [ws]

the sun almost never comes out lately as harsh as did last weekend. that’s because of major climate changes, our summer has been reduced to one month. one month!

for beach and summer people like us, it’s unthinkable. it’s almost  a crime.

so last saturday (and fortunately since the past couple of days) the sun finally did come out.

and it was time to bring out the pool!

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my Weekend Snapshot entry, after a looong hiatus from the meme.

Canon EOS 400D, P.

happiness mo, aksyunan mo!

haha. (this is the slogan of the enervon billboard i pass by at EDSA almost everyday. what can i do, it’s stuck in my head like bad LSS :p ).

so i printed some of them already.

and i get to hang them on the wall with these!

found them at Fully Booked Gateway, priced at P65-P75 per set. wish they had more ’serious looking’ kinds of clothespins. these are all kikay! pano na yung monk shot ko?

i must say, Pating, the idea is really good. hehe. bakit di ko naisip yun dati? pero eventually i want some to be framed, para naman malagay ko sa baba.

6 photos down. nylon string nalang.

will post the finished wall soon! so there, my happiness, i finally did something about it. what have you done about yours?

Frame me up

now that i have some of my prints, i’m ready to get framed up thanks P for these nice ideas!
Ribba Frame from Ikea online Wooden clothespins

which just gave me a great idea…

i can hang my photos up on a nylon string and clip them on with wooden clothespins like these (which you can actually buy at Fully Booked, not the exact designs though, but there are lots of other designs):

yun nga lang, pag exposed, madali madumihan. hehe. oh well, kesa naman hindi nakalabas mas sayang.

excited nako!

Pagkatapos [lp]

isang beses napaaga ako sa airport para sa isang trip (as in mga 2 hours na mas maaga) kaya ayun, naupo ako sa isang tabi. at kesa naman ma-bore ako magintay, inilabas ko na lang ang camera ko at nagkukuha ng litrato…

kahit na walang kwenta ang mga kuha ko, dinaan nalang sa post process. make the most out of what you have, sabi nga. kaya ayan na yun, pagkatapos.

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canon EOS 400D. March 2009, MLA

Everything Everywhere

I envy this guy. I think bestfriend P will too.

Everything Everywhere: Around the World Travel Blog

Sold his house, put his possessions in a storage place, and booked a flight to see the rest of the world.

Envy, envy.

3 prints down…

… hundreds more to go!

now to find nice photo frames, or a brilliant idea on how to frame my pictures without spending too much… any ideas?

fred flare love

All from fredflare.com. love, love, love!

Hello Kitty Rainbow Lunch box

Bacon Strips bandages

Striped Canopy dress

Indie Publishing

(Buttered Toast wallet, PB+J earrings, Chinese Laundry birdcage heel, etc after the jump! Too long a list of pictures )

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things i should remember when the right time comes

Note to readers: this post is so important i made a page solely for writing down things i need to remember.

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1. “Lucky” (Mraz/Caillat) will be part of my walk-down-the-aisle playlist
2. I should be able to complete at least 50% of my travel bucket list
3. Get some of my photos printed out and have them framed
   • print 3 photos
4. Write letters to Mia in long hand
5. Compile all the short stories and whatnots I’ve written and publish it somehow
6. update this list every now and then
7. watch Star Trek, Transformers 2, G.I. Joe the movie

what’s on your list?

Baby dresses

I still shop at the Infants section at the department store. Mia’s 2 and a half years old. She’s supposed to be wearing toddler clothes already! Oh well, she’s really just on the small side.

Which is just nice since babies’ clothes don’t usually cost as much as toddler clothes. SM Cubao recently had a month-long Baby Sale and I got 4 pieces (dresses and tops) for about Php500 only (one of them is what Mia’s wearing in the photo). Neat stuff, no?

I love sales and bargains not just because I’m a cheapskate but it’s also an excuse for me to be extra patient and resourceful in finding really cool stuff (which I don’t normally do). Sige na nga, cheapskate kasi talaga! But not for shoes, though. Those I don’t mind buying the more expensive ones for her. Mahirap na, ang likot pa naman ni Mia.

Where do you usually shop for kids’ stuff? Do share!