This piece of news didn’t register to me because I have just heard about it in passing: that there were going to be brownouts in Metro Manila as well as the suburbs around it.

Of course I was concerned about this because every household uses electricity.

We even use electricity for cooking. What about my son who can’t use his nebulizer when there is no electricity to power the electrical appliances that keep him cool? Should people and establishments start getting emergency lights? Should we get those rechargeable lights and fans for our home? What about a power generator, even if its the smallest one?

The best thing to do then was to look for something that will provide me information about the news to avoid panic. I found this link and read on.

Power lines close to one of the poshest places to live who will not be affected with power outages if this line is shut down.

Suggestions to make underground transmission at PhP400,000,000/kilometer to construct.

For sure, we are on the list of those who will be affected if this power line is shut down.

Its Saturday once again and its time to hunt for photos with something WILD.

I was a little pressed for time so I just had to make do with the photos I have and did not bother rummage through my archived photos.

Are these shell lamps pretty? These shell lamps hang on a trellis in the MIL’s second floor mini-garden.

So what is wild about this?

MIL just arrived from a six-month vacation in the USA and there was no one to tend her mini-garden while she was away so the trellis plant looked like this:

It has grown a bit wild, hasn’t it?

By the way, I have another entry here, a wild crowd.

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Saturday, participants posts photos based on a theme. The theme for this Saturday is BEAUTIFUL. I have posted so many beautiful photos, (ahem ahem, of course, these are mine so the photos are beautiful for me) here in some of my latest PH entries: colorful, bright, water, and any photo.

For me, nothing beats the beauty of nature.

Whether at the beach,

or the mountains

or flowers

And even a leaf.

Nature has so much to offer so we should all do our best to take care of it.

I wish everyone a beautiful weekend and remember, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

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Every Saturday, participants post photos based on a theme. The heme for this Saturday, June 21, 3008 is WATER.

I live in an archipelago of 7,107 islands whose number varies if it is a low tide or a high tide. I haven’t been around the different islands although I have many, many photos that tell stories about water and how it is being polluted and how is scarce here in our country even if we are surrounded by so much water. By scarce I mean we only have water flowing out of our faucets from 2pm - 9pm daily and only from the faucet outside and not from those in the bathrooms inside the house. Pathetic.

My homeschooling children blowing paper boats for a Science lesson.

That is my daughter Tania, looking at Subic Bay. I can’t for the life of me appreciate the view with those towering steels up ahead. To say that the water is now polluted is an understatement. The Americans who helped develop this place must be turning in their graves if they could see what has been done to the waters and decades-old trees that they helped preserved when they still had naval facilities here. My father used to work here with the SRF, Ship Repair Facilities and they were called the SRF Tigers

Blue starfish that can be seen through clear waters from this dive site called Dive Solana. Have been here twice.

We sometimes pass by this place on the way to my parents house, 201 kilometers away, one way, whenever we get the chance to visit.

Photo above is in Baclayon, Bohol, one of the finest tourist destinations here in the Philippines. Bike in the background is hubby’s. Boats on the other side will take you to see dolphins and whale sharks playing in the waters.

This is a tribal group (which I am not sure from what tribe) whose small boats ran alongside big barges and ships to beg for money. How? People will throw money and they will either catch it using the woven sacks they are holding or dive and retrieve it under water. What is it? Most of the times, coins.Yes, such is their lives.

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“We love our planet”, so we say, because it is the only one we got. But do we do things to help our planet survive? Maybe this planet will survive, and everything in it will survive because the planet will evolve, will change, just as it had done millions of years ago. Except, maybe the inhabitants, and these inhabitants mean us, the people.

Mid-morning city sight, the metro is engulfed with smog. I thought this happens more frequently in Beijing. I’m wrong. This happens more often as I observe as we travel to work.

I thought the smog was just visible further from where we were n the bridge. I was wrong.

This is ground level and guess what, that farthest building on the left side is enveloped with smog.

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

Below are some photos taken which I call Sky-High. In my other entry, I had a different interpretation of high here.

Yellow Bells in the foreground with the blaring sun high up in the sky.

An old (and not functioning anymore) fighter jet used to fly high up there in the sky.

A beautiful and awesome rainbow high up in the sky.

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