Category Archives: Environment

Tipanan

Posted on February 19, 2009 by greenbucks| 26 Comments

Para sa mga magsing-irog, importante ang magkaroon ng lugar na tipanan na masasabi nilang espesyal at bahagi ng kanilang relasyon. Dito sa tipanang ito, saksi ang lugar sa mga pangarap, paglalambing o kaya alitan ng mga magsing-irog.

For couples, it is important to have a meeting place that they consider special to them and is a part of their relationship. This place bears witness to their dreams, sweetness and even their arguments.

Kung ako ang papipiliin, mas gusto kong tipanan ang nature, kumbaga at least dito, kahit kung minsan hindi mo maintindihan ang panahon, mas kaiga-igaya at nakaka-relaks.

If it were up to me, I would prefer the meeting place to be outdoors because it is more relaxing.

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Brown Waters

Posted on February 5, 2009 by greenbucks| 45 Comments

Matamis. Sweet.

Yan ang unang pumapasok sa isipan natin kung tsokolate ang pag-uusapan. That is the first thing that comes to mind when one is talking about chocolates.

Me in-edit na nga akong larawan para dito, isang chocolate fountain. Kaya lang nagbago ang isip ko. Heto na lang: I have already edited a photo for this theme, a chocolate fountain. But I changed my mind and decided on this instead:

Bucao River, Botolan, Zambales

Ang Ilog ng Bucao na dumadaloy mula sa Bulkang Pinatubuan Pinatubo. May pagka-kulay tsokolate ang tubig. Marahil dahil ang mga bundok sa may di kalayuan ay kulay tsokolate din kasi kalbo na. Lalo na sa tag-init, litaw ang kulay tsokolate sa mga kinalbong bundok.

Bucao River which runs from Mount Punatubo. The water is brownish, like chocolate. Maybe because the mountains in the background are also brown because there are no more trees. The brown color is apparent during summer.

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Hanging Bridge

Posted on January 5, 2009 by greenbucks| 15 Comments

One of the things we enjoy doing when we go to that place to savor cool mountain air (my other WS entry) is to walk on the hanging bridge.

I was not able to walk on this bridge this time because the drizzles made the wood slippery. I don’t know why my running shoes felt that way.

Hanging Bridge which I also featured with a photo taken from a different perspective in this post.

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New Year’s Eve

Posted on December 31, 2008 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

We are obligated to join hubby’s family tonight for an early dinner because its his brother’s birthday.

We would have wanted to just stay in the house because it gets a bit nasty when the clock is nearer 12 o’clock. Almost the whole country mimics a war zone due to firecrackers being fired. Everywhere its smoky and noisy and dangerous.

The moneyed ones have fireworks display. City governments schedule fireworks display in key places at the stroke of midnight to lure away the people from their homes so that they would not light up firecrackers.

I personally know of a family whose home was almost burned down due to these practices. Yes, that was a tragic thing to happen on new year’s eve itself.

We spent the first few days of 2007 in the hospital because of a severe asthma attack that my son suffered. We wouldn’t want to have that repeated. Should I have stacked safety equipment then like respiratory protection?

Personally I always wish for rains during new year’s eve, for my own selfish benefits and its been drizzling since we woke up. To that I say “Woohoo!” (insert Plurk banana dance here)

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A New Bike!

Posted on December 29, 2008 by greenbucks| 7 Comments

The kids got their Christmas gift a week earlier before Christmas: a new bike (which they had to share since we still have a bigger and rarely used bike which belongs to my eldest daughter).

Biking in the house ain’t fun so we bring this bike if we go to my hubby’s family home where  the streets are much safer to navigate than those in front of our house.

Here is my son, guiding his bike as he gets ready to tackle the wide roads of our favorite weekend place, that place where we go walking in the woods on Sunday mornings, and/or have picnic,  and/or go to hear mass.

Just the perfect place to learn to ride a bike, which is like a bikers’ “heaven” during Sundays.

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