i came into the office, turned on my laptop and the first email i read was a meeting invite from boss. subject: emergency meeting today.
turned out, one of my teammates is on indefinite emergency leave. boss is re-allocating projects. i readily signed up for more work. i think i’m biting more than i can chew, but it’s ok. more work = less time to think. perfect.
bring it on. give me your best shot. i’m ready.
Lately I’ve been listening to everything Evanescence.
Dark. Haunting. Melancholic.
Lately I understand their songs very well. Darn.
It’s the scariest night of the year
And my ghost would not let me sleep tonight.
The ghoul of my pride creeps at dusk,
Following my footsteps
No matter where I go.
There is no respite, no hiding from it.
Not even under layers of sheets,
With lights on or off, it finds me.
Feeding on words I will not say
and deeds I will not do,
It gains power as midnight approaches.
If choosing what is right is better than
Choosing what I want,
Then why do you haunt me so?
finally! i got to swim with the whalesharks again!! i named this whaleshark “butie,” short for butanding, the local name of whalesharks.
doing this for the second time never lost its wonder… it really never grows old! i can’t wait to come back in donsol to do it again.
this malunggay pandesal had us craving for more!!!
on our first morning in Legazpi City, we woke up craving for some hot pandesal. the receptionist at the inn we were staying at told us to try emong’s malunggay pandesal. so we walked for about 20 minutes, asked for directions for 5 times, until we reached a bakery with an incredibly long line!
at 6:30am, this place had about 20 people waiting for their turn to buy those freshly baked malunggay pandesal. as we waited, the delicious aroma of baking bread made our tummy churn even more.
finally, our turn came. the counter was manned by 2 ladies: one gets the cash, other bags the pandesal. another lady was taking out the baked pandesal out of the oven and replacing them with the next batch of doughs. inside, i could see about 6-7 bakers busy kneading the dough, cutting them, placing them in baking pans…i realized, for a store that only sells one product and operates 24 hours a day, this business must be really doing well…
when the bag of pandesal was handed over to us, we couldn’t wait any longer. we got one each and bit through it —- ahh…now we got what the fuss was all about! crunchy outside, soft inside, hot, fresh, and not quite anything like we’ve had before…this malunggay pandesal was definitely worth another trip back to Legazpi City!
a geek who loves the outdoors; 
