it may take a while, but i’ll wait

My girlfriend and I recently got engaged.  On 04 August 2012, we scouted for possible churches for the wedding starting with the churches in the San Miguel / Mendiola areas bringing a camera to take sample photos.

Our first stop was the San Beda College chapel which we learned no longer accommodates weddings.  A bit disappointed, we proceeded to (and eventually chose) the National Shrine of St. Michael and the Archangels.  Going there, we passed the College of the Holy Spirit and saw a young man holding a bunch of flowers sitting on the sidewalk while  patiently waiting for a girl (whom he may be courting) to step out of the school gate.

We found it so sweet that we just had to document it and walked away with a decent photograph.

To the young man we saw that day; thank you for demonstrating and reminding us of one very simple truth…that real love will wait and will never be tired by waiting.  We sincerely hope you won the heart of your girl.   

This is my entry to “Love as I see it.”  A project of www.islandrose.net flowers Philippines.

the quiet before the storm

This picture was taken at the Punta de Fabian Resort in Baras, Rizal on 19 September 2009 exactly one week before the onslaught of Typhoon Ondoy. The image of serenity is in stark contrast to the devastation brought about by the rains of Ondoy.  The resort itself was not spared the destruction.  As was my house in Quezon City.  But together with my girlfriend, Laiza Tiamson, I picked up the pieces and began anew.   

Notwithstanding all the bad things and setbacks that have, and may come our way, we will meet them together and together would look forward to the promise of a new day.

This is my entry to “Love as I see it". A project of www.islandrose.net flowers Philippines.

inhalers

Months after quitting smoking, I get to see interesting items relating to tobacco.  In a trip to Bicol in November, I find myself in my cousin’s sari-sari store which is stocked with a cigarette named “Winnsboro” which appears to be a hybrid of two famous cigarette brands.

I have no idea just how much the Philip Morris – Fortune Tobacco merger influenced the name.  But based on the green color, I’m pretty sure this one’s menthol.

Upon further research, well, googling, I found that Winnsboro is the name of at least three cities located in three different states (South Carolina, Louisiana and Texas) in the United States.  So it may just be possible that the cigarette was named after these cities much in the same way that the Winston and Salem brands were derived from the city of Winston – Salem.

Up next is a calendar issued by a tobacco company:

The calendar is unique since unlike the usual ones given out by tobacco and alcohol manufacturers which feature a half-naked female, it instead features someone praying to a representation of the Virgin Mary.  Quite accurate considering that after developing emphysema or some other respiratory condition, you will find solace in prayer and not in pictures of half-naked women.

Opening

Being the luddite that I am, I have belatedly embraced the blogging culture.  This is explains why I created my own blog about a decade after I signed up for my first email account in 2000 (which was discarded after the provider decided to discontinue its free service a few months after I signed up). 

As a tribute to the decade past, here is a scanned photo of me and my classmates in law school taken in October 2000 with my trusty 35 mm canon camera;

and a picture of some members of the same group taken during the recent UP Law Alumni Homecoming in November 2010