iloilo here i come!!!

the Iloilo River Esplanade

I can't believe that this is how beautiful  it is now

we used to pass this way five years ago for shortcut to Molo

but indeed, even before I already saw a promising view like these

I was dreamy then every time I pass by Iloilo river and one of my fantasies was a wedding reception at the restaurant fronting the river, oh I've forgotten it's name but i do remember how it looked like.

I'll be checking it out very soon....

photos by lewdsaint
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1555645&page=4

the colors of my world now

i don't know the name of this orchid, that mommy & i 

fought over a week before she  passed away. 

she was telling me to transplant the newly grown stems but i just shrug it off until she did it herself

 i bought this one planted in a small pot @ 50 pesos.
i just had it replanted, and now i have 10 growing, not that bad for 50.
sabi ng natanungan ko,sinauna daw ang halaman na 'to. red malunggay daw tawag nila

these were just two plants that mommy used to have, i replanted it and now i can't count how many i've grown..But my father always comment that i should stop planting this every time he sees me because it spreads so fast.. I want to have this planted abundantly like the one in the landscaped garden of BSP Legazpi

Mommy said this is gladiola espaniola.
I love it because even f I kept transferring it from one place to another, it survives.

I so love this banaba tree when the flowers are in full bloom kaya naman uminit ang ulo ko ng i-cut nila ang lahat ng sanga,as in lahat.good thing tumutubo na uli

it keeps growing everywhere and i  am delighted that i already have a mini-garden out of it

my sampaguita is blooming

my new addition, hope it will survive

andaming naloloko akala nila plastic lang, sana lang mabuhay ko din

pamana ni mommy na greens
finally nahanapan ko na ng space,naka-ilang lipat muna ako

CACAO.  it's every where from my sight that my Father had grown  tired harvesting it. it is always raining here and it's hard to dry up  cacao beans.

I am no hard core gardener and I don’t think I will still have the stamina in the years to come to be one. But I am trying to squeeze some gardening whenever I have the energy within a busy day. You know it involves a lot of lifting that I can’t bear anymore and too much time under the sun that Crissy complains about, because she doesn't want a dark-skinned wife,haha. So you see, while I was trying to add more colors around, it is my color that gets dark. Life has always been about that, you get some, you lose some. And i am always about balance. If I can't have everything that life has to offer, I hope it would allow me to have every bit of it.

And now, I remember again what our professor used to tell us, "a journalist must know a little of everything". Might be the reason I didn't become one, hahaha. I only knew a little.

christmas is coming

dave's 7th birthday

si bens ang punong-abala sa pag-ihip ng lobo

ready na ba yan? credit goes to pau na maghapon busy sa lobo at over-all assistant  ng decorator

uuuy, ngiting-ngiti 'yong nagpapasaway lang
kita ang teeth niya

@ 3pm tulog pa ang celebrant at naglaro ng sili,ayan binabad kamay sa tubig

10.08.2012 Finally, dumating din ang much awaited day ni Pet. Weeks before his birthday he was really excited for this day. Lahat ng tao sa palibot nasabihan na niya ng kanyang wish na regalo. Siyempre, wala kaming ginawa kundi asarin siya. Moody na siya lagi at hindi naman daw siya hahandaan. It was only on the Saturday that we came with the final plan. Nag-pledge na kasi mga sponsors,hehehe. Anyway, it was just a simple children's party. Para lang daw may magregalo kay Pet. Mga pa-epek lang decoration. It only cost us one hundred forty two pesos for the balloons. 

everything is set, where are the visitors?
thank you tita da for the print-out...
thank you tito denz for the table cloth...

thank you aric for the flaglets

thanks tita han for the beautiful cake

my cake for pet,hahaha

full force in blowing his candle
naka-pormang john lloyd ang may birthday

happy birthday tapet-zoo
party!!! wish granted...
kunwari nakalimutan ni tita ris ang gusto mona gift galing sa akin 

dwyne,baby dean, kian, dave, totis, sam and brent...
uuy talagang kasama ka na jan binky?

xander, pet's kinakapatid
green balloons for the boy in green

nanawagan po si pet sa pwede pa magdagdag ng  cash gift niya.
kulang pa daw siya ng 50

walang clown kaya entertain sarili nila
enjoy naman sila maglaro

ang buddha

binky's 10th month

wala pa sa mood at nakanguso na naman

nakaka-dami ka na ng cake baby.
dapat may loyalty card ka na sa cherryland

pinakapaboritong gawin ang pumukpok

his new love

beautiful as in magayunon

Does it come with aging? Then, i'm going to love him more on his old age. I didn't know what happened that suddenly orchids, plants, and vegetable gardening are now in his vocabulary. Of course, cars and motorcycles still occupies big part of his mind, but I'm just glad that gardening came in the way. Oh, well we still couldn't afford yet to buy the pricey orchids, much to my envy, we are just on the beginning stage but ain't its cool that this early, long before our retirement, he turned to an hobby mostly of the olds.

sige pili ka lang ek,kaw naman bibili

 I am no expert too that is why prices still got me shock but who knows we could start saving for that. Maybe just in time when we have completed our house too. Crissy would went to the extent of exploring plants and orchids even on his own. Eew, we must really be getting old that suddenly Guess shops is no longer our past time. Instead of having that shirt, we opted for greening our surroundings. I'm so excited to have him back and scout again additions to our greens.

I just read about this statistics in Skyscrapers forums and it's so amazing that Albay and Iloilo came in at first and second. I wish i had Tatay's orchids collection. Maybe it just runs in their blood. Looking forward  to capture them.

Top 10 Producers of Orchids
as of Dec. 2011

1 Albay 464.78 (my hometown)
2 Iloilo 159.54 (his hometown)
3 La Union 117.92
4 Davao del Sur 76.78
5 Laguna 64.46
6 Bulacan 56.53
7 Palawan 37.62
8 Lanao del Norte 36.86
9 Isabela 36.86
10 Pangasinan 34.68

Source: Bureau of Agricultural Statistics