victims
of gloria arroyo's all-out war against "terrorists"
These two are students at the University of the Philippines
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i took this around may 23, two weeks after surgery.
that scar goes 7 inches downwards. then 2 inches below
that line there's another scar, cross-shaped, where…
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still life, practice with ballpoint pen (no erasing) using diagonal strokes only
drawn from a "live" model
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picLapu-Lapu, hero of the Battle of Mactan (circa 1500s)
never saw this statue before; either it's new or I haven't been around
Manila lately...
picprotesting Gloria's 1017
students at the University of the Philippines walked out of their
classrooms in protest of Gloria's suspicious executive order...
which allowed her to make warrantless arrests of…
piche casts no shadow
see, that's why i had to squint!
(thanks for the pic, Bj:)
this is Lapu-Lapu of course, the man not the fish:)))
piclarger that life, much larger
Lapu-Lapu, the warrior chief of Mactan island, Philippines, circa 1500s.
He vanquished the conquistador Magellan whose fleet wanted to claim
the rich islands..
But wait! Is that a…
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picstudies of a nude figure
(because Jellico requested it*)
this is another first for me, sketching a live nude model in art class
last week:)
picampalaya flower with a guest
in roy's garden*
ampalaya is 'bitter gourd', makes yummy salad with egg and tomato, or
simply hand-mashed in a bit of salt and black pepper:)
picbaby tomatoes
in roy's garden
(close friends know that roy is the foodmaster in my home; he buys
food, cooks food, grows food)
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picmy friend's papa
certainly not your ordinary dad...
he lives on boracay island; came to tagaytay for the seagames on his
bicycle; how far is that? well, about 1 hour…
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picend of a weekend marathon meeting with colleagues
(i'm the one in the skirt, front row)
it wasn't so bad; we were booked in this luxurious place in Antipolo
called the Eugenio Lopez Center.
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just sitting there in my house forever; oh well, maybe in my next life..
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picyellowbell?
as usual i'm not sure of the name, don't know the local name in
batangas where i found it
picfriday night with friends
that's bj on the left, of course. the others are elmo and ron. these
are my favorite persons to hang out with, at least for now...…
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my dining room christmas thing which matched my tree,
made from recycled ribbons and balls and flowers
from the previous year's holidays..
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pici have to wear reading glasses now
the contact lenses are for distance only :(
my old eyeglasses had progressive lenses, which had distance and
reading functions
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picsenator pia cayetano
a cycling enthusiast, she has bike-for-a-cause campaigns for kids
we spotted her at the 23rd southeast asian games, cycling event
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cycling, women
waiting for countdown to begin
thailand and malaysia won this event, we saw them do it!
picwith friends trina and bj
my first picture without the old eyeglasses; it's the 2nd day i'm
wearing contact lenses :)
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picwarm-up on the mat
Last Tuesday at aikido practice Bj's cold kept him off the mat, so he
just watched and took pictures. This is me, doing the customary
front-rolls and…
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my friend Gus is a hands-on dad; he brings his new baby to work:) caught them this morning after class
pici discovered him kinda late
my husband owns a small collection; i read 2 straight away! the guy's amazing!
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the staff interviewed me and bj for an article on the aikido club that
we have been managing
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picon All Saints Day (Nov 1)
i make this 'altar' on All Saints Day because it's inconvenient to go
to the cemetery--1 hour away by plane. not all the departed are in
those…
pictoo many beaches, too little time
a brief holiday at the beach in Batangas, to get rid of 5-months'
worth of eyebags!!!
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pica break from work, first day
i visited roy in benguet province last week, where he does popular
education work among the kankanaay people. the staff lives in this
spartan 2-storey wooden house
picat bonglo village, atok town, benguet province
bj couldn't get over it :) took more than a thousand pictures :)))
picigorot woman in bonglo, atok, benguet province
working the celery plantation.
we spent 2 days and 2 nights in this quaint and beautiful little
village of vegetable farmers.
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picbeside me in church one sunday
at the memorial of our dear friend norman who died with punongbayan in
that helicopter crash in june
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picmy building
it's called De la Costa Hall (the brick-colored one) after one of our
most renowed historians, Horacio de la Costa, a Jesuit priest. This
is my view…
picgrimy gym restroom mirror
so this is how i would look if I were unwashed :) luckily, i was only
sweaty after last night's workout.. but this bathroom? yukk
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picmy nanay, when she was 47
i shot this old picture, frame and all (don't know any tricks), sent
it to a sister who's getting married
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