Sunday, August 7, 2011

artbike

what a PERFECT way to spend a saturday morning - gallery hopping on bicycles! around 50 artbikers converged at MO's space and made their way to a total of 10 galleries, in a pleasant pace covering 15 kilometers in the BGC, Pasong Tamo, Makati areas:) the galleries welcomed the bikers warmly - we had pandesal, strawberry jam and coffee at the first gallery, bananas and water at another, brownies, cookies, puto, etc at the next ones :) some of the artists were there to meet the bikers, and there was a cool performance at one of the galleries :)

glad i got up early (and biked the extra kilometers all the way from the house and back).

our bike route :)

outside MO's where we all met on a cloudy saturday morning

at Pablo Gallery

inside Manila Contemporary

percussionist Jean Paul Zialcita at NOW gallery, with impromptu zip dancing by one of the bikers (nuk)

at silverlens

Romeo Lee at the Department of Avant-Garde Cliches...

his mural :)

at our last stop, the drawing room

next month will be at the Roxas Blvd galleries and museums! :)

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Dear Stella

On this special day, I want to share with you the letter I wrote to Stella on her blog.

"

Dear Stella,

Today would have been your Lolo Achie’s 82nd birthday. He would have been beyond joy to see you and hold you in his arms. He was a very loving Dad and Lolo to us all. Just ask any of us, your titos, titas, cousins (from Paolo to Ella), and they’ll tell you how funny, warm and sweet Lolo was to each one.

I’m sure though that in time, you’ll experience Lolo’s sense of humor, simplicity, generosity and kindness in each of us children and grandchildren, and yes, in time, even in yourself.

Sometimes I catch you talking and smiling at a space above you. I’d like to believe that’s Lolo Achie you’re playing with.

When you’re older, I’ll tell you all about him — about his short shorts, big belly, corny jokes, yummy steaks, contagious singing, and more.

"

Happy Birthday, Dad! We miss you!


Friday, July 15, 2011

feelings are... just you...

i'm sure you still memorize these by heart the way i do.




home is in your heart!

Saturday, July 2, 2011

25 (very) random things about flower

1. when she was a kid, she wanted to be a boy.
2. and she wanted to be named "monty", after JC Bonnin's character in Flor de Luna (hahahaha!).
3. as non-outdoorsy as she is now, she was actually once a girl scout.
4. she was on the ateneo football team and then the ateneo golf team.
5. she paints really well and was once part of a group exhibit.
6. she is a published children's book author and illustrator.
7. she has always been luminously white, and her feet were mistaken for bread by fish at a creek when we were kids.
8. she had always wanted to have a dog but never got one until she was married.
9. she has never had her own room (shared one with me until she stared sharing one with her husband - hwehwe).
10. she is a serious excel geek!
11. she used to have brooke shields-like eyebrows in the 80s (hehe).
12. she wrote and composed the graduation song for her batch in highschool (or was it gradeschool?).
13. she studied architecture as a second degree (years after graduating from a management engineering course).
14. she and her highschool friends used to have tons of swimming-sleepovers complete with catwalk videos!
15. her driver's license is still expired.
16. she claims to have "quit" smoking several years ago (even if she was never actually a smoker - haha)
17. she doesn't like pesto.
18. she once slapped a girl she fought with in highschool.
19. she does graphic design work on the side (when she has the time) - making logos, etc for her own company and for others.
20. she loves to put labels (made with her labeler) on all her stuff to keep them organized.
21. she loves to read non-fiction books.
22. she has 2 yayas - a daytime and a nighttime one (hehe).
23. she plays the piano, and can play songs by ear.
24. she once took my one of our mom's jars, which she had been looking for for weeks, and gave it to her for christmas. hehehe.
25. she has a phobia (not fear) of cockroaches.


p.s. you're right, this is much harder than i thought.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

25 random things about belly

inspired by a post from kiki&lala, and as a way to fill in our blog's gaps (hehe), lemme jot down 25 random things about you. please reciprocate (hehe).

1. she used to painstakingly collect postage stamps -- with albums and all.
2. she was in love with river phoenix.
3. she was captain of the ateneo varsity football team.
4. she always graduates with honors.
5. she would always be the highest (non-chinese) accounting test scorer in her batch.
6. she can eat as much as (or more than) the boys.
7. she wasn't the cutest baby... but then she would say she's like the ugly duckling who became a swan.
8. she knits.
(wow 25 is a lot ha...)
9. she was engaged before. (mwahaha)
10. she was once a marketing professor in ateneo.
11. she was a kindergarten teacher.
12. she used to teach an autistic toddler one-on-one -- she got him to speak -- and now he goes to college in ateneo!
13. she has a phobia (not fear) of real-looking dolls
14. she can fearlessly kill a big flying cockroach.
15. she can cry buckets with sad movies and books.
16. she loves female images, female singers, female artists.
17. she took classes for photography, pottery, fashion illustration, oil painting, diving, ... did i miss anything?
18. she's a proud UP mountaineer... climbed the highest and 2nd highest peak in the philippines.
19. she still plays football.
20. when she dies, she wants to be remembered as a happy, free spirit.
21. she was once part of manila's 25 best dressed (eiw).
22. first words of her college write-up: small but terrible.
23. she said that if brad pitt met her he would fall for her.
24. she sometimes tap dances when she's drunk.
25. she is a crafts woman at heart -- she even subscribes to martha stewart's website.

corny ba?

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

moving up

we've come a long way!

check out the manuals...


and the ad!


*clap*clap*

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

today was a good day to FLY

jumping right back in with a video of my first paraglide flight jumping off a ridge in carmona :)



woohoo!

seriously thinking of taking this up as a new sport.....