Because life's a marathon! :)

You set a goal and work hard to achieve it.

You feel the urge to stop, but you find yourself pushing beyond your limit.

You slow down, recover, and carry on...

Then live off the high from crossing that finish line!

Yey for my first ever marathon!

The Condura Run, Skyway Run for the Whale Sharks. 

Official time: 38:56 for the 5k run :)

[http://www.condurarun.com/5km_results.html]

Until the next one! Woohoo! :D

Diana everywhere

This time, I tried shooting people indoors, but I'm not very happy with how most of the shots came out. I only have eighteen decent ones. The rest are just dark and hazy. Must. Have. The Flash.

Unlike my first roll, I dint use any of the frames that came with the camera, so there's hardly any vignetting here. I think I like it better with the frames and vignetting.

Some pictures have thin blue lines across them. I wonder what those are. Parang gasgas. They must have mishandled the film over at the lab. Boo. And there was something wrong with how I rolled my film coz in a few pictures, I can see part of the previous frame--- that, or it must have been the scanning lang. Oh well :)

Pictures from Rona and Ton's wedding, Jay's surprise party, Trinoma, and my favorite not-so-secret place :)

Welcoming Balikbayans

January 26, 2009
Josefina's, Seaside Seafood Market
CBTL, Eastwood

A Sunday Morning of Everything That Flies

Hot Air Balloon Festival
Clark Field, Pampanga
February 15, 2009

And then Zapata's for lunch :)

With Fri, Chai, and TJ.

We did get there a bit late and missed the actual lift off, so we got pictures of the balloons when they were all up in the air already. I've more pictures of the gliders than pictures of the balloons, hee!

Next year, LET'S RIDE! :D

Honeymoon crashers

January 30 - February 1, 2009
Belle View, Tagaytay Highlands

We dint exactly "crash" the honeymoon. For the record, we were invited, and we enjoyed every bit of that chance to be lazy and oblivious to time, just as the newlyweds were :)

We arrived late Saturday afternoon and spent the rest of the day eating, watching True Blood, and watching some more episodes of True Blood until we all got hungry and craved for steaming hot bulalo.

Sunday breakfast was a group effort--- I prepared the (instant) pancake batter, made my own version of the french toast, fried the sausages, and made scrambled eggs; Penny cooked and "flipped" the pancakes and french toast; Alan made crispy bacon and omelet; Paul washed the dishes; and Trish was in charge of cleaning up the rest of our mess :)

Lunch was very late, and we pretty much had the same division of labor (only that Paul did more than just the dishes this time, he actually cooked). And when everything was done, we spent the rest of the afternoon at the balcony with our mugs of hot chocolate and soaked in the whole experience of breathing in fresh mountain air and watching the sun bid another day goodbye.

Yes, this one's the first honeymoon I've been to :)

Trisha and Alan's Wedding

January Wedding No. 2
3:00 p.m., January 28, 2009
Santuario de San Antonio

Reception at North Forbes Clubhouse

If These Walls Could Talk

Spraying ilang-ilang cologne :)

The Carlos Celdran Tour
Intramuros, December 30, 2008

Walk this way: http://celdrantours.blogspot.com/2008/11/tour-dates-tour-rates.html

Ma'am Ly-an and James's Wedding

More pictures by Naddie boy :)

Zapata'a margarita and Cold Spoon froyo :)

Stories of my first roll :)

With my new toy :)

Pictures taken during a run around the UP Academic Oval and a visit to the new UP-Ayala Techno Park along Commonwealth Avenue :)

December Weddings and AHRC

Seky and Neil
December 20, 2008, Baguio

Ma'am Lyan and James
December 27, 2008, Pampanga

Pictures by Dema, Ipe, Tricia, Quannie, and MRD

Beautiful, beautiful weddings and beautiful, beautiful pictures :) To love and happiness! :)