Every Saturday participants post photos based on a theme. The theme for this Saturday, October 4, 2008 is SAD.

Sad for me mean a lot of things. For starters, I am a cry baby because a lot of things make me sad. Sadness is a complicated feeling and if my opinion is asked, being sad is relative, it is a personal issue, stemming from the fact that people in their own ways, are different from each other.

I have another sad entry here by the way.

So here goes:

I feel sad when I see children out on the streets, exposed to all the dangers lurking in every corner, not having a safe place to play and not being able to go to school even if education is free. At the same time, I am angry at their parents for having children that they can’t take care of. I have that same photo appear in this post.

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Every Saturday, participants post photos based on a theme.The theme for this Saturday is VIEW.

I have lots of photos to choose from so I decided to put two in my other blog with a  post entitled Hanging Bridge or View Deck.

I have decided to post three photos that I took from the passenger window during our road trips and here they are:

A pine-tree lined highway view during a late afternoon trip home from visiting my parents.

A view of the skyline of one of the business centers here in the Philippines. Hmmm…I can see my workplace there in the middle part.

My son enjoying his view of the picture window in a bus.

I have read this and it is very fitting to the photos I have been posting, that WE have been posting:

“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.” by Susan Sontag

Have a great weekend everyone!

photohunt

We love going on road trips. We love taking photos when we have these road trips. I have lots and lots of photos of roads where we have been so it was hard to choose the best ones even if I put several in all my blogs Oh, I even have a category here in my blog called “On the Road”

We love taking road trips whenever we have the chance to do so. By the way please see my other entry here which got me singing Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” song in my mind.

What am I talking about? This week’s theme for Photo Hunters is ROAD.

I thought about something different for this theme so I  copied used parts of poems and quotes and looked for photos that would match the lines:

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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost:

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien

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The Road Less Traveled by Kit McCallum

How often must we bear the challenges of life; The endless roller coaster between happiness and sorrow; The constant ups and downs of daily strife. And Always the question remains….why?

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So now I ask you, “What kind of road are you traveling on right now?” I hope the travel is smooth sailing

Have a great weekend everyone!

photohunt

A cup of warm lemon grass tea can do wonders. Julian had a bad attack of asthma last weekend and had cough and wheezes last Friday night till Saturday night. Sunday morning he was a bit better so we went to Tagaytay to bring something to friends living there.

Tita C gave Julian a cup of warm fresh lemon grass tea with honey after we had our lunch. Julian drank it slowly. After lunch he and Tania explored the different nooks and crannies of their home. Even if the weather was a bit cold, Julian was sweating profusely.

But what surprised us was he did not need the nebulizer.

In fact the machine has been untouched till now since the last time he used it, on our way to Tagaytay around 11am last Sunday.

Tania is running a fever now and I have given her half a cup to drink because it has been proven to reduce fever/body temperature. And now we wait for the fever to subside.

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UPDATE:

Tania’s fever was gone last night.

To those who want to know to make the fresh lemon grass tea, click this post I have written. Thank you.

We came not just for the view and fresh air, but also to bring a laptop that was a part of this balikbayan box, among other things.

These friends, my husband’s brother’s in-laws, are more like family. What a wonderful thing to hear PD tell us when he opened the door “Oh, I’m so happy to see you. Its been a long time.”

They had a visitor, an American who is staying in the country. We were able to talk briefly to him and we were surprised to hear him say several Filipino words.

When hubby and PD were setting up the laptop we brought which they had asked to buy from the US, the three men, hubby, PD and the guest started to talk the IT talk. When hubby was asked about his IT consultancy work, the first thing that came to my mind was “He should always be ready with his logistics resumes just in case something like this comes up.” That goes to me too.

Weekend was a lot of fun and it may take several posts to write what we have done and where we have been.

For now, I leave this red flower for those who took their time to visit:

Have a great week, everyone

It was supposed to be a breakfast picnic. The fried rice with hotdog bits and left over barbecue bits were cooked and the sandwiches were prepared. The disposables were readied too. We plan to order some food so that we won’t have to pay the entrance fee.

The roads were almost empty after two or three bottlenecks that we had to squeeze our way through. Several motorcycles and walking people can be seen. Otherwise, its a long sometimes straight, sometimes winding, road.

Instead of having our breakfast under the pine trees with the mountain view in sight, this was our view. It rained for almost the duration of our stay there.

When the rains abated, we decided to explore the place. Since Tania has just been sick last week, she can’t go far and needed to be near the concrete structures just in case it rains.

So when hubby, Trixie and Julian went exploring, we decided to stay behind.

Walking on the hanging bridge amidst pine trees.

While we were waiting for the three to come back, I had a chat with the senior guests who also had other breakfast there. These were ladies in varying age (near or past the senior citizen mark, IMO) and discovered that their husbands were brothers. One of them lives in the area where we live.  I also had a chat with resort owner’s son who happened to be a neighbor and hubby’s childhood playmate! Talk about small world.

While we were happily chatting the time away, the clouds descended and the place became dream-like and foggy. As my trio were making their way towards us, it looks like they were walking on clouds.