PH#179 - Upside Down

These pictures were taken during Josh playful antics in our sofa, he was just one and a half years old here and so active! He was beaming with happiness here as he's doing some acrobat-like :-) positions. My camera was with me then and even if he's not what I'm take a shot at I immediately took some shots and sit beside him ton control him. I was worried that he might fall or he might break some limbs hmm Josh had my heartbeat in fast beats!

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:Food Friday - Nutritional Foods (Banana Heart Burger)

This is the winner in SJES cooking competition during the school's nutrition week celebration. At first glance you'll see here ordinary patties for your burger. On the contrary this burger patties uses the heart of banana together with a little ground pork. Sounds good!

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:Photo Hunt#175 - Ripples

While others tend to avoid water I really searched for some water photos but reminded myself to use a subject on the water so I decided to pick on this one. I like this shot of fish pond when my office friends were in Hongkong with plenty of fishes mostly gold fish swimming endlessly :-) (of course they're fishes and water is their habitat). Well that causes some ripples on the water. There I got my theme!

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:Thursday Challenge - Curved (Roads)

"CURVED" (Roads, Buildings, Shapes, Bowed, Arch, Bubbles,...)

This is the curved roads of Laguna. We're on our way here from our house to our hometown in Laguna to visit our cousins and relatives there. This road is near the top of the mountain where Rizal and Laguna province separates or what we call the boundary. This place has an expanse of long curving roads because the mountain sides was constructed merely to be able to cross the mountain in reaching Laguna from Manila. Way back when we were kids there were no road signs and no metal fences around so travel is very dangerous, a bus actually almost dropped down the cliff.

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: Photohunt 174 : Artificial (Clock)

As I'm in my kids' school yesterday with our Induction of Officers I thought of taking a shot on this artificial clock used by the kindergarten class. We used the kinder class room to prepare the foods for the occasion and I just spotted this one for a photo hunt idea. The teacher used this artificial clock to teach the basic of learning how to read the time. Well I had some pretty shots on other areas of this room and will save them for other themes. Happy weekend!

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:Food Friday - Nutritional Foods (Chopsuey)

This is the entry of Grade 6 level in Nutritional Foods Competition in last month's celebration of nutrition month. I've enclosed a picture detailing the basic ingredients used to cook this very healthy and delicious chopsuey, well for me it's really yummy as I love veggies especially chopsuey. I also cook chopsuey in my house but I don't put chicken on it. I used chicken liver as the meat ingredients and breaded chicharon tofu to put on top and all over the menu. Anyway as they cooked beside us we exchanged plates to them to taste their food. It's delicious and veggies are nicely cooked without overcooking. They got the second place though I think my chopsuey recipe is more economical and healthy because of the tofu ingredients (Just an opinion :-)).

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:Thursday Challenge - Rare

Rare Coins

My entry for this week's theme are some of my collection of old coins which for me are rare these days as these coins were replaced by many generation of silver coins. These coins were made in early '70s and my collection dates from 1972 to 1974. These coins are very different with the latest coins as it has money value. I've learned from one of my former office mate that in their place these coins were bought at P600 and up. Actually they sell some of their collections. When I was still in primary and secondary schooling it's my hobby to collect stamps and old coins. These One-Peso coins are my favorites as it has a deep engraved face of Jose Rizal's, Philippine National Hero. You can gauge from the picture that it's really rare, just see how old it is.

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:Photohunt 173 : Low (Grounds)

Well as I'm thinking early this day what will I post for the photohunt theme I came across my friend Win's picture of their domestic flight to Aklan. He actually gave me this picture because he took the picture for my collections lol! He's also learning photography like me.

So now this is my entry because the plane is on the LOW grounds before it will go up on high grounds, see my picture is just right for the theme! Anyway I really liked the shot from where Win stand because it captured the beautiful sky above with white and gray clouds, perfect background for the plane.

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:Thursday Challenge - Earth

EARTH (Sky, Clouds, Mountain, Sea)

This is the view of Mindoro from ferry boat leading to that island also. The view is very breathtaking as you can see everything 'earth' and nature here. See the clouds behind the mountain and the sea? Makes me yearn for a relaxing vacation in this beautiful province. My brother went there for an outreach ministry in one of their churches there.


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:WS - Last Visit to Uncle

Few minutes before the rain with my niece
and my god daughter Sheila

While having some slight raindrops the view of
Sierra Madre Mt. behind us suddenly gets dark!
The view looks beautiful even on cloudy rainy days!

Here's few of the shots taken in our hometown in Laguna where sceneries of mountains, trees, clouds and skies are so beautiful. Just can't have a clearer shot than this because of the weather.

We were there on the 18th of this month because my uncle, the only living sibling of my Mom died last July 15. He's a very loving and humorous uncle that the whole town just can't get enough of his funny antics. Ever since he was young from what Mom remembers of his big brother he always have some funny jokes about something. Until now his grandchildren would always tell us that they will be missing his jokes and funny attitude over something.

Everyone in town loves him and so we are! He's very strong even in his eighties but suddenly a month ago he began resting on his house and just stayed on his bed. He didn't have any sickness at all, seems like he suddenly felt like resting. I just put in my mind that we all have our own timeline with God, in time when it's your time to leave the world He'll take you even if you're not suffering from any sickness. He's 86 years old when he died, happy and healthy!

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:Food Friday - Chicken Lollipop

Chicken Lollipop is my kids' favorite, actually it's our family's favorite as this is the common cooked food on occasions and some other ordinary days. It's actually from the wings' part of the chicken but when it's done it looks like lollipop. I've observed how it is done in the market and did it myself at home. It's easy as you nly have to divide the chicken wings into two and then make some trimmings :-) then you have your own chicken lollipop. Then you just marinate and put some breading on it before you deep fry it! Result - yummy and cute chicken lollipops!

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:WS - My Despedida

Finally after more than one year of my resignation I was finally approved for early retirement. It was a very happy day for me as I see my plans will finally pursue. I wasn't informed that there will be some sort of despedida for me and it wasn't until few minutes before lunchtime that I was told by Berry, the youngest girl of my boss that they have prepared some food to feast on as my despedida. My despedida was both attended by my officemates from both companies and we feasted on chicken curry, lumpiang shanghai and pancit. Later I've bought ice cream for our desserts.

Those are few of my shots, first one with some of my officemates and the second one with Sir Bob's children, Ms. Berry and my junior boss Sir Bobby. I like their smiles here, makes me feel touched with their thoughtful words and valuable effort in making me feel special. He joked and told me not to cry lol! I'm not the least teary-eyed though I'm touched!

I served for the two companies of my boss for more than 16 years, ten years on consultancy doing technical proposals and bidding projects and 6 years on BT&T Telecoms/Network Corp. doing multi-task on being Billing & Collection Officer, Accounting Supervisor, Administrative and Human Resource Officer. Actually even if I have no educational background on all these jobs because I'm a Computer Eng'g. graduate I've learned the skills through experience. I thanked Sir Bob for letting me learned all of it. It was a privilege for me.

I had some talk with my younger boss and he arranged everything for this final day.

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Thursday Challenge : Power (Electronics)

CPU

My Little Technician at Work (Do not disturb!)

This is the Central Processing Unit of my sister's personal desktop computer, the POWER inside any computer. We opened it because it bogged down and we replaced its power supply. When my son Josh saw us tinkering with the computer's hardware he asked us to let him put the screw back into each places and there he had the case closed perfectly.

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:Food Friday - Dinner Feast

This is our dinner foods which are a combined potluck from all who attended, it's actually a dinner with bestfriend JennyL and some of our friends way back in school days. I brought Andok's Liempo and JennyL brought drinks. Some of our friends brought pancit, cake and salad. It was a mixture of various foods without really organizing who will bring this and that. Anyway even if some foods are the same we enjoyed the evening with our friends.

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I ♥ Faces : Just For Fun

My entry for this week's 'Just For Fun' is my kid's photo when he's one year and 6 month. His dad is holding him here and his hands suddenly tickled him just as I point the camera to him. Just love his smile here, seems like he's enjoying his moments with his daddy.

Now that Josh is already 5 years turning six this September I tend to look back at his pictures when he's just a baby and toddler. The Mom in me sometimes holds back to him as a baby, I still miss his being a baby. After just few more years more he'll grow fast that his world will not only surround on me, on his dad and his sisters, but also to his friends. But for now I'll just cherish him and take advantage that he wants to be always with me.

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Thursday Challenge : Male (Church Brothers)

These are my fellow brethren in the church, most of them here are our ministers in our church., deacons and the young ministers. This photo was taken during our December Camp Meeting in Villa Dominga Forest Resort in Indang, Cavite just beside Tagaytay City where we had our camp fellowship for three days. This was our last day and this was shot before we travel back to our homes. You can see their faces here enjoying the photo session :-). It was an enjoyable camp fellowship there last December last year and we've booked again for next December.

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I ♥ Faces-Let's Hear It For The Boys (Kids)

KIDS CATEGORY

This is my favorite boy simply because he's my one and only Josh. I have two equally favorite daughters :-). Josh was only a year and a half here and he keeps on pointing at me to take his photo he doesn't want any other to shoot a picture of him. Of course he's comfortable with me taking his photos. I just love his eyes and smile here, a captured innocence of baby! It's a good thing I have many pictures of him since he was just a baby because when he grows old it will be easy to remember his baby face with my photo collection.

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Photohunt : Advertisement

Know why I have this one for my entry? If you've been to the whole 15th avenue these days the whole street is filled with these Eight O'clock promo banners. It's all over the place and only the blinds will not see it lol! Anyway this one was taken across our church, just took some snapshots after our service.

Everywhere you can hear and see about juices with Iced Tea flavor, people I think are becoming addicted to Iced Tea drinks. Well this one offers Immuno Active Eight O'clock Iced Tea in Sulit Trio packs and I'm sure this advertisement will hit the public, people tend to try new flavors and promotional offers.

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