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Lunch Picnic

Posted on November 17, 2008 by greenbucks| 10 Comments

Weekend was spent quietly in a place where trees abound and where cool air blows on our faces. Lunch was served on a mat under a tree.

We had a lunch picnic, two hours of quiet time of lunch and snacks even before the lunch remnants were placed in the trash bag that we had. Yes, we do this, put everything in a bag to be thrown afterward.

Scratch the quiet since there were workmen milling around, getting the remnants of an obstacle course’s thingies lying near where we found our perfect spot. Still, it seems that time stood still for a while there.

The kids had fun and I had loads of photos. Here is another photo from this picnic.

I got interested in taking photos of these nearly leafless White Calachuchi trees:

But wait, I had to get a photo of those flowers in the middle, above the letters “uc” of greenbucks. So I decided to zoom in and take a closer photo:

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Todos los Santos

Posted on November 3, 2008 by greenbucks| 2 Comments

Todos los Santos is known in English as All Saints Day. In Filipino this is called Undas.

This is a day when the saints are being remembered. This is mostly a Catholic celebration because other religious denominations do not have saints.

Saturday 6pm we attended the anticipated mass. Then we had dinner here. The priest specifically stressed that the misalette in the pews’ boxes are not to be used for these are prepared for the All Souls Day which is an entirely different celebration.

This is usually the day that the people flock to the cemeteries to visit their relatives who have crossed over (although November 2 or All Souls day would have been more appropriate). This is also a day when scary stories abound in households and/or gathering. This is also a day when people who can’t physically go to their dearly departed’s physical resting place, light candles in their homes.

Did you light a candle and say a prayer for your loved ones?

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Sunday Nature Trip

Posted on September 8, 2008 by greenbucks| 7 Comments

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I was a bit frustrated for I wanted to see the sun rise over the mountains. But we had a slow start so the sun was already rising when we were still in the house.

We traveled anyway and seemed to waste gas along the way.

As we did so, we saw lush green mountains, which were a part of the Sierra Madre Mountain Range, said to be the longest mountain range in the country.

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The roads started to twist and turn as we burned fuel. I don’t really mind, we were enjoying the scenery.

Oh no! It is starting to rain. How will I take photos? How will we have our outdoor breakfast?

We didn’t get our outdoor picnic breakfast. I wasn’t able to take the photos I wanted but we got this:

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Nature really is full of surprises 🙂

We also went to another wonderful place not frequented by people but that would be for another post.

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(There was a nasty accident involving a motorcycle rider before or after that turn in the second photo. The ride was really in bad shape and the rider was lying along the road with his fellow riders. I hope he is ok. There have been a lot of motorcycle-related accidents in this area I am wondering they weren’t banned from going this way. They could get  really fast on these twisties and tend to overdrive and have accidents. I shudder thinking about this when my husband rides with his buddies to this place.)

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Zooming In

Posted on September 1, 2008 by greenbucks| 6 Comments

Living in the city is synonymous to being busy and having a hurried and harried life.

The sound of vehicles, the heat, the smog and the lack of trees around make people just accept urban living as devoid of nature’s sights and sounds OR they might crave for it’s beauty, peace and quiet.

The sky which in itself is like a canvas where wonderful colors can be seen can sometimes be dull.

Instead of seeing sunrise and sunset colors as well as cloud formations which people often times do not appreciate, we sometimes see airplanes, huge ones, flying above our heads. Not that its bad to see these, no not at all.

So I decided to try zooming in on some interesting objects that I can see around me for comparison.

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An airplane flying overhead. One of the common things being noticed in the sky because of the noise it makes or the lights it flashes at night.

People rarely stop to smell the roses, so to speak. We are fortunate enough to be surrounded by trees and therefore we often hear the sounds of birds, playing happily among the branches, twittering and chirping.

it is quite difficult to take photos of birds because they do not stay in one place for long and I am just glad I was able to capture this photo (plus other bird photos) when I spent some time “bird watching” on the third floor of hubby’s family home.

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Which photo do you prefer?

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Lance Feliciano at Clark Expo

Posted on April 22, 2008 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

Lance Feliciano is a driver. He is a drift driver. Lance Feliciano is a Formula D driver. Lance Feliciano is the only Filipino to be issued a professional competition license, one of the 38 drivers who can compete in the US Formula D competitions.

He is only 20 years old.

Catch him live as he performs his drifts at the Philippine Race Wars at Clark Expo in Pampanga on April 26, 2008.

Read more about him here.

My son Julian loves drift driving back in 2006, when he was younger, he used to watch, and he still does, Initial D, a Japanese anime about drift driving. He even has toys from the show 😀

We could go there but Dang! there’s the iBlog 4 Summit that day which we signed up to go. Hmm…

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