World Gold Medal at New York Festivals

I am still in awe and disbelief when I learned about the award -- World Gold Medal, Biographies/Profiles category.  

And today, we were on the Inquirer (Sunday / Jan. 25) and I learned that we beat Christian Amanpour's works for CNN... and another one about Dame Helen Mirren... 

The enormity and the prestige of the award suddenly began to sink in... 

Gosh, what a feat we've achieved!  

Happiness! 

WELCOME 2009...

Another year... 

another opportunity to change, to improve... 

so far, so good...

December Blues...

Christmas season should be merry... 

The city is filled with lights... the people are frantically shopping or going out with friends... 

Parties here and there... music everywhere... 

But this season, i also feel a bit of sadness... of being so alone, amidst the hustle and bustle of everything around me... 

I just have this strange sadness ... because December passes by so fast, then, it's January... another year... another birthday...  another moment to hide away... 

LEISURE AGAINST NATURE...

Golf is probably the stupidest sport (if we can even call it a sport!) ever invented!

I hate golf, simply because of the fact that it destroys the environment just to satisfy the whims of its wealthy players!

A golf course is not just a tiny piece of land... Imagine the number of trees torn down? And imagine the amount of water used everyday to maintain its well-manicured grass?

(from a lush vegetation somewhere in Tagaytay...)

(turned into a playground of the rich... )

And it's not even a sport for all! It is only played by a few who can afford to buy the expensive equipments, to pay the cabbie, and the lofty membership fees! Gosh!!! Why oh why?

This is no doubt a leisure against nature!!!

(Oh well, I think golf should be played in the desert!)

I am definitely not playing Golf in my entire life...

COOLING DOWN...

Going to Tagaytay later... 

getting some fresh and cool air...

hopefully, I'd enjoy... coz I'm going there to work...

Ilocandia Tour 2008

I have been to Ilocos several times before. And each trip is always a revelation about this far and hot region.

In my recent visit last October, I really felt how far it was to go there... Perhaps, our driver was moving so slowly (averaging only at 60 kph), thus the 8-hour travel turned into a gruesome 10-hour drive. Also, I was sick that time, so I really felt the discomfort of travel.

Nevertheless, this trip revealed another facet of Ilocos Sur for me. I learned quite a few things, and it's always nice to go back to the places you've once visited before...

I will post some of my travel pictures next time... They're just too many, and I'm quite impatient to upload them all....

SUNSET COVE... in BATAAN.

I recently went to Morong, Bataan to take part in the season finale shoot of Midnight DJ. It was my first time to visit Morong and I was impressed with the new expressway (Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway) that lessened the travel time of getting there. It was a very smooth ride and we were travelling at 160 kph... That's fast!

The beach was fine enough. When we got there in the morning (the sun was barely up from the east), the sand and the sea were not yet inviting... It was almost black-ish...

But the midday sun revealed its beauty... and I appreciated the verdant land (or hills) that safely protects the beach from the waves...

But the most spectacular view of all was none other than the sunset...(after all, this cove is named after this). It was fast and sweet... very lovely, indeed!