My BEST OF 2009

It's about 21 minutes to midnight local time and what better way to end my year by remembering it's 29 best moments (i couldn't possibly list down 2009 now can I?)



29) Hed Kandi with Kloodie, Carol, Jaja, Noomarz and Val

28) Jaja's birthday island hopping adventure

27) The Twin Lakes adventure in Negros Oriental

26) Passing out on Halloween

25) Good Friday photoshoot in the new Mactan bridge with Maria

24) Scouting for apartments in Lahug

23) Finding and eventually moving into one!

22) Airport drama - San Francisco (valium scare), Phoenix (tears of anger), JFK (so close, and I mean sooo close to missing my flight)

21) Resigning - twice!

20) Drinking sessions in Route Stop and JCA

19) The beginning of Angel and Xiao

18) The melodrama's of Kloodie and Yon-yon

17) My kiddo...

16) Holy Thursday adventure in Lilo-an with Angel, Les and June

15) That chemically induced Sinulog Sunday!

14) Meeting Travis Barker

13) Random sex with several people (go ahead, judge me!)

12) Whale watching and trekking in Dumaguete

11) Watching Angel slip in PUMP! Boom Boom Shake Shake now DROP!

10) The American Idol concert and hearing Kris Allen live

09) Meeting Saraah

08) Sunday Sessions

07) Santa Cruz, San Francisco and Palo Alto California with the Twins

06) Jetsetting to Makati on weekends

05) What happened to Thursdays? (with my brotha Mr. JC Gabisay)

04) Watching the "Britney Spears Circus Tour" in Madison Square Garden

03) "Sheep Cow Horse Tiger - Sheep" weekend in Malapascua

02) Getting tattoos

01) N E W Y O R K !!!




Here's to you 2009!

the Park Bench...

The Central Park in New York is full of park benches that not only serve as a place to rest and escape the city life...







But it also tells the city's best stories.







Go ahead, have a seat...

Happy 090814

"You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight." - Liz Gilbert


Just a healthy reminder of a time when I was honestly and genuinely happy...



Everyone deserves this! Everyone deserves to be happy...

Lexington Avenue Summerfest 090809

on Lexington Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street...







one thing I love about summer street fairs is the FOOD...




and the shopping...

JFK arrival 090809

just landed...

San Francisco blur 090809

A collection of my photos of San Francisco with the words of
Chris Isaak's San Francisco Days

I still love you, I still want you.
I still need you, don't hang up and say goodbye



Walking on the beach last night, hoping things would be all right,
my baby lying on her bed, it's you I saw instead.
Thinking of the one I love, your the one I'm thinking of.
San Francisco days, San Francisco nights



I meet a girl in Mexico I should of told her then I know,
that I still think of you, we never will be through.
San Francisco days, San Francisco nights.
San Francisco days, San Francisco nights.
I still love you, I still want you.
I still need you, don't hang up and say goodbye





Walking down to market street feeling my heart skip a beat,
to see someone who looks like you, I guess that I'm not through.
Dreaming of the one I love, you know what I'm dreaming of.
San Francisco days, San Francisco nights



I'm heading for that golden gate hoping I won't be to late,
to find the one that I still love







It's you I'm dreaming of, San Francisco nights



San Francisco days, San Francisco nights





San Francisco..........

PR 104 090808

The flight to San Francisco was quick.

Why? two words - VALIUM and WINE! hahaha...

It was such a beautiful sight when we landed, the sky was clear and the sun was still up, I love summers in the west coast...

I just have a day to spend here and will head off to NYC for the American Idol concert, can't wait to hear Kris Allen live...

So for now, it's just a lazy day to waste in the Bay Area with my dad (who is asleep from jetlag)...

Here are a few shots from the flight, I normally don't like airplane food but when you fly Business class, one can't complain - thanks Dad, you're the best!

Here are my first glipmse of the Bay City, shot it in the plane when we were about to land...

a beautiful view of the US west coast

San Francisco skyline and the Golden Gate bridge

Alcatraz island

me love!

Corporate frustrations 090803

I am in a stand-still.

I am torn.

I am pissed and frustrated.

I am seriously sad that I feel like this towards my job. I have long swallowed the fact that I am underpaid but now it's just too much to bear.

I go to work doing NOTHING! I am asked to do something, but I am wise enough to know that it is just to guise the fact that I am doing nothing! I am the type of person who goes to work to WORK! Not to procrastinate and come up with trivial things to show that I am productive when that is the one thing I am NOT! I hate that I cannot use my potential because I am not certified to do so. I am better than that! I am to good to NOT be doing things I know I can be great at. How do you expect me to feel when I go to work and do the same things as people who are paid way more than I am? No offense to them but what the fuck!

I have always had high hopes for my job. But all those hopes have gone kaput! And I am saddened that I feel this way, because to be honest, I love what I do. But now I am doing things that I never signed up for. I am TOO GOOD for this!

What's even more sad is the fact that I have the best boss in the world and the coolest co-workers. I know the situation is beyond their control but I hate the fact that I am working under the false pretense of being productive.

It's sad, but I really have to let go.

Again, I'm too good for this!

Summer 2009: Talima - May 16

A beautiful day with beautiful beach bodies.

Talima resort is a quaint get-away just off Mactan in the island of Olanggo.

My gorgeous friends asked me to document their island get-away.


ladies of the ocean


now that's a beach body


wooh!

dive!

pretty Anne


headin' back

Summer 2009: Malapascua - April 11-13

Vacationing at my Tita's resort in Malapascua is always the highlight of my summer. She made sure we had the place all to ourselves that weekend.
I brought my friend's with me and we had a blast!

Swimming, snorkelling, diving and sunset cruising...


our little private cove


showin' some lovin'

the ladies

soaking up the afternoon sun










my version of heaven...




Big thanks to my gorgeous Tita Pilar...