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“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in...

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:05:41 -0400

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

-Richard Bach

The Taal Basilica in Batangas. The largest Catholic Church in...

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:41:57 -0400

The Taal Basilica in Batangas. The largest Catholic Church in Asia.

June 23, 2012 (c) Carmela Lao

Heaven shine down on us…shine down.

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:59:42 -0400

Heaven shine down on us…shine down.

Out in the middle of nowhere.

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:58:17 -0400

Out in the middle of nowhere.

I’ll bet my neighbor’s house I will never learn how...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:55:45 -0400

I’ll bet my neighbor’s house I will never learn how to do this.

So it’s summer. :)

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:53:30 -0400

So it’s summer. :)

Just feeling the water on my feet makes me realize I am very...

Thu, 31 May 2012 22:52:00 -0400

Just feeling the water on my feet makes me realize I am very loved. God is good. God is awesome. His creations…perfect. :)

I remembered those days when playing with an elastic string is...

Thu, 31 May 2012 20:04:38 -0400

I remembered those days when playing with an elastic string is not being stupid.

@ Baybay, Leyte

While at a ferry ride from Samar to Sorsogon. :)

Thu, 31 May 2012 08:56:28 -0400

While at a ferry ride from Samar to Sorsogon. :)

I would love to see your feet beside mine. Someday. -Kabarak...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:20:17 -0400

I would love to see your feet beside mine. Someday.

-Kabarak University, Nakuru, Kenya

Camera shy. :) -Kabarak University, Nakuru, Kenya

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:05:42 -0400

Camera shy. :)

-Kabarak University, Nakuru, Kenya

The perfect way to celebrate the conclusion of your LAST DAY OF...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:49:00 -0400

The perfect way to celebrate the conclusion of your LAST DAY OF CLASS in college is to EAT YOUR HEART OUT. :)

Photo taken at Dulcinea in AliMall Cubao. Dinner date with friends.

alive-and-awkward: I just knew about SOPA and PIPA today when I...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:52:04 -0500

alive-and-awkward:

I just knew about SOPA and PIPA today when I am searching for visual multiplication fractions which is my younger sister’s Math homework. I Googled it and clicked on Wikipedia’s link and there I saw that they are blacking out the site for public awareness.

I never really knew what SOPA means until a friend of mine explains it to me and from then I started reading articles about it and along with other people’s reaction, I started to wonder.

What will happen if SOPA passes?

From what I understood based on what I’ve read, the Internet will not have the same freedom like it used to.

This does not only concern Wikipedia but all the sites in the WWW. Next thing you knew, you cannot post the things the you want in your blog or if you already had, it will pretty much look like this:

That █████ moment when a █████, █████ post is █████ because some ██████████ destroyed the █████ of the█████.

Well, that’s how I understood it and I am open to any corrections. I run some blogs too that’s why I am concerned about this topic and seriously I want to know more about this.

This 9gag post helped me a lot also, if you are not that big fan of a long text posts, this might help you have a little insight about SOPA.

http://9gag.com/gag/1114501?ref=sopa

I’ve seen a lot of sites support the No To SOPA campaign and I am more willing to do the same. After reading more articles, I’ll sign up to Google’s petition against SOPA and PIPA. How about you?

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

I don’t want to sound like the Miss Know-It-All that’s why I keep on repeating that I don’t know much yet about this but until SOPA is not yet passed, I’ll do my part in spreading the awareness.

END PIRACY, NOT LIBERTY. —Google

And oh. By the way, the photo is created to at least lessen the tension that has been going on regarding this topic. :)

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I...

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:18:30 -0500

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

-Khalil Gibran

Sleeping giant. Hahaha.

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:06:35 -0500

Sleeping giant. Hahaha.

Best mom in the world. :) *My sister, me, and our mom at SBYC.

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:05:00 -0500

Best mom in the world. :)

*My sister, me, and our mom at SBYC.

The Thing I Love Most About Pancakes

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 05:25:33 -0400

http://brightandsunnynights.blogspot.com/

I just gotten into a new relationship that turned me into a pancake lover: a relationship with pancakes! If there would be a club for pancake lovers I would probably join—and that thought just gave me an idea! Maybe I’ll just put up my own organization. That would be more convenient. Going back to the topic: So what do I love about pancakes? The sight of melting butter that reminds me of the warm love I feel everytime I wake up in the morning; Its scent—as sweet and as comforting as the *morning’s breath, lingering on my skin; Its sweet taste that kisses my tongue everytime they meet; Its very existence, greeting me in the morning with a promise of assurance of an awesome day ahead. The love—I just can’t imagine my life without it. This is my relationship with pancakes.

I made pancakes the other day for breakfast. Okay let me just insert a random thought here. One thing I hate about fast food restos is that they serve pancakes only during breakfast. Totally heartbreaking—and suddenly, a new idea comes up: maybe I’ll put up a resto that would serve pancakes 24/7. Watch out Pancake House. So I was making pancakes with an excessively overwhelming excitement. ‘Oh my God. This is really good’ was playing repeatedly on my mind like an endless recording. Suddenly, a disturbance took over my monotonous train of thought. A very excellent disturbance that gave me an idea for a blog post. A disturbance that made me realize the thing that I really love about pancakes.

The feeling you get after being able to accomplish something successfully is really priceless. Like the moment you stepped on the stage to accept your diploma during graduation, the moment movie stars smile and pose at flashing cameras after a very successful premiere night, the moment you shout and jump after being promoted at your dream job, that moment your face beams brightly after getting compliments on the dinner you cooked for the first time, and et cetera. However, I thought, ‘Hang on. What about those things that you did to get to the top of those flights of stairs?’ The long journey you took to be successful?

How you toiled so hard to get your homeworks done that you almost forgot that there is a concept called ‘sleeping,’ and the times and memories you shared with your friends and classmates? How movie stars endured those innumerable takes to get the perfect shots for the movie to be a timeless hit? Those times you stayed very late at the office, sacrificing your social nightlife (or your life in general) just to get your boss’ most sought-after approval with your work? Those times when you feel so unsure on the next step to take because you don’t want to peek on the recipe book and learn to cook the dish yourself? Same thing applies to my beloved pancakes.

Yes, tasting the finished product could be priceless but the process of making it is more precious. Nothing could top the excitement building up from the time you started mixing the ingredients in a large bowl, and how the feeling becomes stronger as the lumps in the mixture began to form and be diminished; The agitation on your mind when you start pouring a measure of the mixture in the pan and how you get so insanely impatient to flip it over as you watch its bubbles appear then burst. Nothing could best the effort that you exert when you delicately flip the pancake over because you don’t want its perfect circle to get ruined, and how you carefully take it out of the pan so it would not be invited by gravity on the floor.

The point that I’m trying to convey is more than the procedure of making pancakes. It is natural that people become so overwhelmed with the END that they totally forget about the MEANS. The end is just a prize for all your toils to achieve success. It is good to enjoy your pancakes knowing that you made it on yourself and that you did it well. However, if you don’t get to enjoy it—let’s say your pancake was burnt, then there might be something wrong on how you did it—there’s something wrong with the means. With this given, then you should always take note on what might appeared to be wrong and strive to make it right next time.

The end justifies the means. The process should never be forgotten and be taken for granted because no one will ever succeed without putting their best foot forward. Do not just aim for the best but be the best because you can’t enjoy good pancakes without making it good yourself. Cheers!

* Take note. I wrote MORNING’S BREATH. Don’t get it mixed up with MORNING BREATH because the latter is not really sweet. Hahaha. Just sayin’.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to...

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:51:36 -0400

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'd like to...

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:02:46 -0400

…compose a blog but me and my sis and my bro are gonna watch YAKITATE JAPAN. My bro is going sentimental about the DVD he bought. Nasasayang lang daw. *smirks*

pinoytumblr: ‘Hooray for Hollywood’ on Taal Volcano Islandby...

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:19:52 -0400

pinoytumblr:

‘Hooray for Hollywood’ on Taal Volcano Island
by Jerome Balinton, Inquirer Southern Luzon

It was something only a movie star could have conceived.

Why not put up a towering “Batangas” sign on Taal Volcano island similar to the “Hollywood” sign in Los Angeles, California?

The provincial council approved on October 5 a resolution supporting the idea of Governor Vilma Santos-Recto, the award-winning actress, to erect a hard-to-miss landmark and potential tourism draw, according to Vice Governor Mark Leviste II.

Tagaytay City Mayor Abraham Tolentino, however, questioned the Hollywood-inspired design for the island, flatly saying: “Why put up a Batangas sign? It won’t help.”

“People, while sipping a cup of coffee, will just say that the view is more beautiful from Tagaytay without that sign,” Tolentino said with a hint of a warning.

Read more here

*Taal image from the Office of the Vice Governor of Batangas
*Spoof concepts by Macky Pamintuan
*UPDATED: View other ~~spoofs~~ memes here

(via helgaholic)