for official use also

i saw two cars with red plates tonight while i was out...not one but two...the second one was when i was driving home at 10pm and i happened to be following it...but well it was probably on its way home so im gonna give the user of the car the benefit of the doubt...but the first car i saw was far too suspicious and it really made me ponder...coz it arrived at the coffee shop at more or less 8pm, aside from its oh so red plate, it has a sticker on the side of the car in huge bold letters " for official use only"...and when it passed by me its too difficult to miss it.... so it came to be that i cant help but think what kind of official government business is done at 8pm in a coffee shop on a saturday night?is it that urgent a meeting for the user to drive a government-issued vehicle to a coffee shop near the Capitol?...and i thought most government run establishments dont have their offices open on saturdays?..and still i thought more that in most government offices, they always call it a day at 5pm sharp?..what seems to be the official business of that person who used the car with red plate that he sat there at the al fresco talking to some other guys over coffee...and was looking so relaxed with not an iota of business written on his face...could it be that the sticker is wrong?...and that car is really "for official use also"?

oh to be gay and pretty!

hmmm its the 24th of sept and im here relaxing at ny fave coffee shop before i head home...im just killing time here waiting for one of my photographer friends to arrive since he promised to give me a copy of the photoshoot we did with my hubs just before he left for Australia.
Anyway, im just entertained by these 3 gay guys over at the next table since because of their proximity i cannot help but eavesdrop on what they are talking about. well, their conversation is about their respective beauty regimens, from glutathione to centrum to the pills they are presently taking to make them look more feminine. dont get me wrong, i love gay guys, they are the life of the party and no one can top their humors so i continued to interestingly overhear them. they are kinda advicing one of them to use this certain product, that will enhance their boobs. well i cant help but wonder why they really want to look like women. for me theyre fine as they are. gone are the days when they need to be more feminine to be known as gays. lotsa gays now go to thebgym,lift weights and get bulky yet they remain as gay as they are. i, myself, sometimes do not like having boobs or having monthly menses and sometimes i envy the male species who can just go about with their daily lives without having to undergo PMS every freaking month without fail!
but yes we all have our own choices and preferences in life. i could never judge them for what they want and what they prefer. i have a gay cousin and i could never condemn him for being one and besides he is so fun to be with, no dull moment when he is around.
so i can only wish these guys luck in their attempt to belong to the female species, who knows they can achieve it. perfectly sooner or later!


photo: my cousin in his prettiest makeup ever!

today

26 august 2012. sitting outside at the al fresco in our favorite hangout coffee shop , hubby noticed that one of the cars parked there had his engine running. we initially tolerated it but some minutes later it tended to become annoying. yes, the area may be open but still, we were still breathing the fumes the pickup truck was emitting plus the fact that it was very loud and cannot be ignored. as we were the ones seated closest to it, i went over to inform the guard on duty about it and if he could please do something about it because it is not really healthy. i was really thinking how irresponsible it is for this driver to let the engine run when there are patrons in the shop. when i approached the guard, he only told me that there was someone inside the car so i further said to him that car is already annoying and that it should be turned off and then the guard said that the car is owned by a certain cebu city councilor and he gave me the impression that he was scared to get his attention because of who the driver was. well, i told him to just approach him calmly and tell him some customers request if he can turn the car off.luckily he did.
it has always been like this in our country... we treat our politicians like they are royalty and we are scared to get their attention just because they are who they are. and the same thing goes for those in power, sometimes they feel like they are above the law, that they can do anything just because. they claim to be servants of the people yet they want to be treated as kings!
how i long for the day to come when they,as politicians, would really act like servants.. but then it is just wishful thinking!

nothing in store

Makati. It's busy and bustling yet i am here with an empty mind and all i wanna do is get back home to Cebu. Three days of being unproductive makes me long for something busy and bustling myself. I do not know really where to put myself. Being called a bitch by someone dearest to me makes me crawl down into earth and disappear. But it is true. I am one. And i am even more than just that. At 40 I am a loser. At this point in time, I am alone. I feel like i did nothing worthwhile in that span of time and I just wanna disappear into thin air. I dont really know what to do with myself. I dont have the will to go on right now. There's nothing out there for me. Coming here only made matters worse for me. I only got myself to blame for all things that happened. I wanna sleep but i just cant. I am so freakin' tired of myself!

next to heaven

two months after i climbed Mt. Mayon, i did it again and this time i conquered the highest peak of the Philippines....that is Mount Apo..and what made this climb even more special? i was with my love when i did it...i could not really imagine myself successfuly trekking it up to the summit,after all, im 40, i did not train rigorously which means i wss very inconsistent in my self-imposed physical training and e en went on vacation to Singapore a few days prior to the scheduled trek. ...but to cut it short...I MADE IT! i am so proud of myself and i would say i owed all my energy and determination to my hubs, Andrew, who totally believed that i could do it! kudos also to four of my friends who climbed with us and made it through albeit first-timers except for one.today i am more confident than i can do other mountains with flying colors, after all, mount apo is the highest peak in all of Philippines' 7107 islands...i am so looking forward now to future climbs coz nothing beats the feeling of calmness and serenity when yu are on top pf the world...it is just an awesome feeling!

Her Majesty

aah the beauty of this magnificent volcano! it was truly an experience to be able to climb it!
10 March 2012 will forever be etched in my memory!

warm brownie cup and me

on a monday,when everything is supposed to be in a frenzy, i took it slow and went to get this cup to make me feel awhole lot better. and yeah, it worked!

green slippers

idle inside the female dressing room,made me take shots of scattered green o.r. slippers used by people at work inside the operating room. no one takes notice of these things yet they help , in a way, in making people's lives better...in a small way.