Showing posts with label seaside. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seaside. Show all posts

January 24, 2008

There is a place in Cebu I dream of going back to. (Went there last 2006, a quick side trip. Embee was attending something in the city.) It is the porch of Hannah's restaurant in Basdiot, moalboal. Sunset best time.

Seen is Negros island:

Birds flock to this boat, they were very noisy:


The porch of Hannah's restaurant:



on this porch Embee and I talked and talked and talked. I didnt like the afternoon / night to finish.

January 9, 2008

Laiya (Batangas)

I woke Embee up while everyone was still asleep. Talks about work ruins the scenery.

Come, this place is viewed better with less people and less talk.

Out we went. What a beautiful day.





January 2, 2008

Southeast Cebu coast (if riding Ceres and other bus going to or from southeast Cebu, these are what one may see.

It was a side trip from Cebu City. Sometimes meetings can get boring, not because the topics are really uninteresting, but because one is thinking about some place.

We decided to extend for 2 days.

One of the most helpful people in one's life can be someone whom one can call not just when one is in distress but when one is in a seminar the venue of which is just 50-60 km from a lovely place.

Thanks colleague for exchange duties.





November 29, 2007

Argao, Cebu
There is a fishing village in Argao in southern part of Poblacion. They call it Lawis.
Been here for so many times during my childhood. Everytime I come back, I feel a punch in my chest...nostalgia they call it. There is also that realization that the Earth is the same, it is I who ages and passes. The terrain looks the same since thirty years ago and counting. It always tugs at my heart and sleeve when I stand up and go. I look back and wonder if ever I can come again.





November 20, 2007

Karaoke near pier. Argao, Cebu.

My aunt was anxious how to entertain us so we sneaked out when she rested. I wanted to show Embee the place where I spent my childhood summers. Later, we went to this karaoke and sang. Good we were the only guests. In the picture though the one singing was the one who served us food (and microphone later).










You can see in the last picture the sea. I remember our grandfather, he was chief of police of the town. He always invited us to swim here (though I never learned how to). He invited us early morning and after some 5 minutes of swim, he wanted to go home because he had to work.


It was also near this place that I saw one patient that was imprinted in my mind. She was my first encounter with breast cancer. I don't know if it had something to do with my future training in radiation oncology, which after a while I froze, but probably...just probably. I can still remember the face and the tumor of the patient. She was a sister of my mother's friend. Their house was just behind this now karaoke place. There was no karaoke before. People waited for the weekend dance at the plaza.


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November 6, 2007


Title: Oh, why should they sail during low tide and torture us?!!!

Mactan Island. Men push boat to deeper area during low tide.

October 19, 2007

Pundaquit: Structures and corners:












Embee had to go to Olongapo. We decided, together with Mama and kuya Roger, to be a day earlier there for a sidetrip to Pundaquit. We were not disappointed.
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October 17, 2007

Pundaquit III: Some trust in God, some in luck.







October 11, 2007

Pundaquit II: The people.

Adults









Just a text before he sails:






Children and teengers:
I wonder what he was thinking:


With less toys, they talk more and play:











Hard working teenagers: