shoe fetish

bought this pair of black, semi-flat, pointed, velvet-skinned shoes from charles & keith the other week. it’s a rare occasion that i’m able to immediately decide on the style of shoes i want to buy so i usually need to visit all the shoe stores and see all the options i have before i buy, but this time, the moment i saw these shoes, i knew i wanted them and so i bought them! lucky me, it was the last day of the Dubai Shopping Festival so i was able to buy them on discount! here’s a photo…aren’t they pretty?

simple joys

just had my lunch–a very satisfying one! i’m a pasta lover and i especially like tomato-based over cream-based pasta. i’ve had my share of kitchen struggle as i usually end up having to eat either overcooked or bland food during our recent trip to the supermarket, nico introduced me to his new discovery- Dolmio Sauce for Pasta Bolognese! it’s a ready to eat pasta sauce, the taste is so good you can add it to pasta straight from the bottle or add your fave meat–canned tuna, sausage or ground beef/pork… i don’t need to be an expert cook to enjoy great tasting pasta! i say, you check if it’s available in your supermarket and try it!

a celebration of friendship

my bestfriend, penny, is online once again, yipee! wala lang, i just feel the urge to write about it since it really feels good to unite with old friends, even virtually. pen & i have been friends for almost 15 years now (tanda na namin, yikes!). we’ve been thru so many things since we first met in college (talaga bang sabihin ang age??) and everytime we were together (with the rest of the barkada), we just never ran out of things to be happy (read: laugh) about. heartstuff, movies, songs, poems, books, coffee, shopping, friends, family– the list is just endless.

but times change, she got married and moved with hubby to canada while i went on with my busy life at work (i even remembered searching for jose mari chan’s “constant change” for empathy). sure, we promised to keep in touch, and we did, as much as we could. snail mails, emails and sms every now and then but the feeling was never the same, nothing could replace the company of a friend…

indeed, times change, years later it’s my turn to get married; i had to relocate and join nico in dubai. i feel i have more time to catch up with friends now while i am waiting for whatever God has prepared for me (read: next job??).. and recently, we got our own laptop at home while penny and sam have just moved in to their new house and got her a new computer as well.. so now, we have the time and the means to stay in touch… i am eagerly awaiting the next chapter of our story– that part when we will meet again and spend time like we used to. here’s to a lifetime of friendship!

sunset

i have always been fascinated by sunset. who wouldn’t be? at dusk, the sky seems to turn into a big palette of colors where God displays His artistry… surely, it happens everyday, but you will never find a moment when the sky is painted the same way twice, there is always something different– always a reason to admire the awesome beauty of God’s hand at work.

photos that i was able to capture just before the camera battery went dead (yeah! it died just in time for the much awaited last 5-minutes before the sun sets–sigh!)

light & shade

mamzar beach park photo taken during our recent weekend getaway–don’t know why, but it kinda reminds me of fra lippo lippi’s “light & shade”

he will paint the light and shade the colours and the trees he will climb the steepest hill believing what he sees he will lay down on the ground beneath the old oak tree he will sleep forever if you try to set him free sail on the wings of a cloud where to, well nobody knows and cry, cry if you want them to see die every day to be free be proud to wear the colours that you call your own be loud, speak out when you want the world to know be strong, hold the flame for everyone to see be weak, if you want to love he will paint the endless sea a mystery to me he will reach out for the sun not dreaming what he sees he will fall down on his knees angel touching ground takes him to the other side sweet love is coming down

lone time

since weekend is the only time we get to spend the whole day together, we see to it that we visit different places within the city, it’s our weekend escapade. and everytime we go out, we always make sure we bring our camera so we’re ready to capture a nice view whenever and wherever it appears. few weeks back it was the creek park that we visited–photo of a lone bird taken by nico:

this weekend we went to the nearest beach park, about 15-min bus ride from our place. here’s a photo of a kid which i captured after experimenting on the different scene modes– nice sepia effect minus the editing…

forrest gump??

we’re working on the hair..konting trim na lang pwede na ala-Forrest Gump hehehe

creek park

two weeks ago nico & i went to creek park and immediately set to test our newly-bought toy– an Olympus camera SP500UZ. good thing there were only a few people when we arrived so we had all the time to take photos of the place, syempre agawan pa kami kung sino unang gagamit ng camera hehe, but when we finally rode the cable car, he had the camera all to himself, takot kaya akong tumingin sa baba hehe

our neighborhood

this is our neighborhood- photo taken from our flat’s window usually peaceful; occasionaly disturbed by people who shout out stuff only they can understand (sigh!)

buddies

in good times…

and bad…hehe