SWEET VALENTINE

This is the first valentine's that I haven't received a bouquet of flowers from that somebody who normally sends one even if there's no occassion. But I don't really mind now. I received an unexpected email from a new friend whom I gave out some travel advice for his trip to Singapore. I'm just so happy I was able to help out and truly grateful that he remembered to greet me on Valentine's. So sweet. That's one heart-warming incident last weekend.

Another one was the expected call from that special person on the other side of the globe. Glad he also remembered sans the flowers je!je! And the usual greetings from my parents and other siblings. I guess I'm still my Mom's baby because she even texted me to ask how my Valentine's day went.

But for me, the most memorable of all was the gesture of 2 of my nephews. It was such a pleasant surprise they exerted efforts to give me the most beautiful flowers I've received so far even though they were just picked from their own garden.

It's just so heart-warming to know that these kids would do things to make their Auntie happy, not that I was not last weekend. It started as a joke when I kidded them that I'm a pitiful person because I don't have a date on Valentine's day and nobody's giving me flowers.

My 4 year old nephew kept on raising his right hand and telling me he's going to give me flowers on Sunday for Valentine's while his 12 year-old brother was just silent and kept on smiling. Lo and behold come Sunday before I left their house to go home, the two siblings fulfilled their promise to me.

At the end of the day, it's still your family you can rely on. At the end of the day you will realize .... Children really don't lie.

EMOCION

Te hecho de menos.
Nuestro conversacion.
TU.

AND THE RESULT IS ...

Oh yeah! It's already out and I AM H-A-P-P-Y!

The race result is already on the net and lo and behold! I got this ( drum roll please ..... ):

RANK BIB NO. NAME AGE GENDER TIME PACE
883 22007 Dxxxxxx Txx 34 F 37:30 7:30

I ranked 883th out of 2,279 runners. I know at my level this is already a feat! I also reckon this is better than my first 5k last year where I finished around 46 or 47 minutes in the RUNNEX Marathon. I will take running seriously now. I want to do this mainly because I prefer to be healthy and fit.

I will try to sustain this. In this marathon, I ran for the Dolphins, it's a cause I truly support and this in itself makes me a WINNER!

PHOTOWALK 1.30.2010 ...

PHOTOWALK 1.30.2010

I'm glad I attended this one last January 30. It's not really the first time I've been here. My second actually, the first was with my good friend Camille who lives in Fort Bonifacio.

It was such a sunny and tiring day but everything paid off. The serenity and the landscape was worth the trip. I think I went home darker that day! And it was also fun being with my colleagues whom I have same interests with - PHOTOGRAPHY! This is the very reason why we are here. The place is such a very good subject. I'm so glad we have camera club at the office. So glad =pD

On a different note, I truly SALUTE the soldiers who fought for us and helped restore the democracy that we have right now. I'm truly blessed to have been born way past the era of unnecessary conflicts brought about by man's selfishness and greed. And I do hope NEVER to experience war in this lifetime.

I hope with these pictures I am able to once again give glory to what they've done for us.

REST IN PEACE YOU ALL BRAVE AND SELFLESS SOLDIERS!

BIB 22007

I'm all set. We claimed our race kits last night. I've been practicing with friends. I just hope I will deliver.

CAT FIGHT

I wish it was literally a cat fight, but it is sad to say it was not. I wish it was due to a very valid reason, but apparently it was not. I wish it was between two same aged females, unfortunately it was not.

It was an awful sight to behold but I guess it was bound to happen. It was just so sad that the one who started it was way younger than the other. I felt bad witnessing it considering it was just because the younger person thought she was being pushed by this elderly woman.

I just can't fathom the fact that someone would pick a fight with an older person and a woman at that! I reckon she's a grandmother already. I can even hear the younger woman screaming she didn't care if she's old.

WHERE'S THE RESPECT HERE PEOPLE! It was a crowded MRT station and everybody would like to get home immediately. Everybody would like to take that escalator and go home! Do we really lost the virtue of respecting our elderly? It was just an awful sight.

A very sad, awful sight. I thought of my own Mother coz I think she's her age. If I was there and it was my Mom she fought with, I will not think twice of defending her. It happened last night when we're on our way to U.P. Diliman for our practice run but until now I'm still somehow affected by it. I wish it will not happen again ... never to happen again in someone's Mom.

I still believe this is not a cruel world.

( The pix I got from the Net. Thanks whoever the owner is. Shot was great )