OF OBAMA, CHINESE NEW YEAR, MENTOS and OTHERS....

This actually is just a "spur of the moment" thing.


An OBAMA caricature i came across while flipping some magazine pages last January.


A shot taken without the use of a tripod, during the 2009 Chinese New Year's fireworks display at the Freedom Grandstand (Iloilo).


The same amateurish shot.


A mentos candy I uncovered from one of my maong shorts' pocket which I readied for the laundry.


Papaya slices ready to be devoured with a little help of pure and very sour tuba-venigar.


some papaya, anyone?


Guimaras island (Jordan) viewed from the 4th floor of CSCJ BED building.


Iznart Street, Iloilo - a week before Dinagyang 2009.


The new Iloilo Provincial Capitol building, dwarfing the old one in front.


Iloilo river, free-flowing in the backs of St. Paul's University, Assumption and some hotels.


The new GMA bridge, connecting Gen. Luna St. and a certain part of La Paz.


LIFE, they said, is a JOURNEY!

THIS THING MAKES the jOuRnEY A LITTLE EASIER, at least literally.
A picture of one of MAAYO shipping barges, rolling on and off (ro-ro) for its cargos and passengers to board...plying Bato and Tampi-Amlan and back.


LIFE CAN BE STORMY at times. But those who BRAVE their way to cross to the other side, are those VERY APPRECIATIVE of LIFE... and they are the ONES who LIVE their LIFE too.

I wish I had that 50+K camera to clearly capture this zoomed scene.


LIFE doesn't give us crystal-like waters all the time.


To balance everything, it gives us this too.


Some of us take the "bus" for a more comfortable ride. Some of us take other forms. Some give meaning to their existence by making a stop to a place they believe can be called home and continue searching for the meaning within.
BATO Ceres terminal viewed from the barge.


The search for LIFE's subsistence.
Two fishermen on their way to shore in the early January morning. They must have sailed the night before in the hope of bringing food on their respective family's table.
Life indeed, is a cycle of LEAVING and COMING home.


LIFE's JoUrNEy'S different directions!


LIFE's MISSINGs and FINDINGs!


Meeting other jOurNeYmen that cross your path.


A TRUE jOurNeyMAN is SENSITIVE to LIFE's signages. STOPS are too important to ignore!

OSLOB CHURCH RECONSTRUCTION

Few months after the Oslob Church burned down last March 26, 2008, it finally saw RECONSTRUCTION.


Beholding this new sight of the Oslob Church is a tearjerker as looking at the almost completely burned down walls and bricks of the formerly proud, dignified and imposing La ImmConce Parish.


The belfry viewed from the sea wall near the cemetery.


Notice the steel cross on top of the dome of the belry, it has been fixed straight.


From it was like this....


One of the re-construction workers, working on a steel to be used for the roofing---the first phase of the "re-building" process.


The remains of the altar.

The north side of the Church viewed from the old SMA.

The belfry viewed from the left entrance.

Closer look

Left entrance viewed from Eternidad Street.

One of the lucky bells, as the campanario was spared from the fire.

The altar, the only part of the Church that was left almost unburned --- BELIEVED by many Oslobanons to have been shielded by the MIRACULOUS Patroness from destruction as she was seated above it and behind the glass. The antique icon endured an amazingly slight damage.