Sugar Free Sweet Moments

Project 365: #10 Tong-its

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:42:00 +0000

My husband's family is almost complete. His mom and sister is with us tonight. This is just one of their bonding moments.

Project 365: #9 Bookworm

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:38:00 +0000

He's nine years old and he's into Mitch Albom and Paolo Coelho. This is aside from the fact that he also reads the Harry Potter series, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, and Bob Ong's books. I'm not a bookworm. He got it probably from his dad.

Project 365: #8 Work-at-Starbucks

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:25:00 +0000

I woke up today to the sound of my phone ringing. It was the bus driver much to my surprise. So I woke up late, probably slept through the alarm, and ended up bringing my son to school myself. From his school, I went straight to Starbucks to finish my online tasks. It's either I should add one more alarm clock in the house or I should stop sleeping late at night.

Project 365: #7 Trying out something new.

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:44:00 +0000

I'm trying out a new set of shampoo and conditioner. I don't know if it can bring wonders to my hair. My hair's a little dry and dull nowadays. And I'm having hairfall problems, too.

Project 365: #6 Fighting the Fat

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:07:00 +0000

I'm now working out daily via Wii Fit Plus and I make it a point to burn this much calories a day. I do this by doing the advanced aerobic games yoga, and strength training exercises. It takes 3 hours for me to reach this goal but it's ok since I see the results already. This 2010, I'm fighting the fat the healthier way. No more pills and crash diets.

Project 365: #5 Missing Bicol Already

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:52:00 +0000

I still have the back to work blues. But I tried to humor myself by taking a shot of some of the goodies we brought back from Bicol. They are part of the first set of photos I captured using my DIY lightbox.

Project 365: #4 I Love You, Goodbye

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:29:00 +0000

I am not buying frameless glasses anymore. I guess, this kind is not the best for accident prone people like me. It will cost me 500 bucks to replace that broken lens. And to think that I just bought that pair last October! Once I get this pair repaired, I'm gonna keep it and use it occasionally.

Project 365: #3 Reality Bites

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:18:00 +0000

It's officially the last day of the long Christmas holiday season. It's so hard to get back to the daily grind once you've taken a much needed break from work, don't you think?

Project 365: #2 Homeward Bound

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:27:00 +0000

I am not really a fan of flying. My ears always hurt when I ride a plane especially when my nose is clogged. Just like what happened on our latest plane travel. I usually try to sleep during the entire trip. But the skies last this afternoon was a welcome sight that I forgot all about my earache. The clouds looked a lot like rolls of fluffy cotton.

Project 365: #1 Water Baby

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:15:00 +0000

This is Gabby, our baby niece who arrived from the UK days after Christmas. This was taken during our New Year's Day celebration at the Camsur Watersports Complex in Pili, Camarines Sur. She's just a year and half and was understandably scared of the water in the swimming pool.

We let Gabby walk by the shores of the man-made lagoon where wakeboarders do their stunts. She was afraid of dipping her feet in the water at first. But after a few minutes, she started to enjoy throwing the small pebbles into the water.

Trapped

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:51:00 +0000

I took a shot of this small butterfly hovering inside my son's bedroom while I was working the other day. I tried so hard to take as shot of it with its wings flapped open but I failed to do so. I let it out after this shot.

Old and New

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:23:00 +0000

This tree behind my boy is the Blanco Tree. It's the tree where well-known artist Jose "Pitok" Blanco played as a young boy. The tree has also served as the navigational guide of fishermen fishing in the shores of Laguna Lake. It's the perfect contrast to my boy who's clearly born in the digital era. See how many gadgets he has?

Photo shot by my husband using his Blackberry during our trip to the Angono Petroglyphs in Binangonan, Rizal.

Shadow

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:23:00 +0000

Clouds?

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:54:00 +0000

Shot by my husband one morning. Can you guess what this is?

Dream Catcher?

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:55:00 +0000

Not! Although it looks like one from this angle. It is actually a shell wind chime hanging at the middle of our veranda's trellis.

Bright Lights

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:15:00 +0000

Caught this sight of the ceiling at Burgoo, Greenhills branch.

Turning Japanese

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:14:00 +0000

Scenes from a recent food trip at Rai Rai Ken, SM Taytay.

Photohunt: Walking

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:37:00 +0000

We watched a Dolphin Show last weekend at Ocean Adventure, Subic, Zambales. This, apparently, is how dolphins walk on water. Aren't they great?

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Camera Critters: Time To Buy My Dog a Bone!

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:45:00 +0000

I am a bad master but my dog is a naughty one. He played around with the screwdriver while the carpenter was doing some woodwork in the garage. Don't worry, he wasn't able to gobble it up. Just a lot of drool here and there.

Holy Week 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:24:00 +0000

The family spent the Lenten season with my husband's side of the family in Naga City. We brought along my youngest brother so he can experience how Holy Week is spent in Bicol. These shots were taken during the Good Friday procession that we were able to witness in downtown Naga City. This procession is quite different from the usual Good Friday processions I have seen because almost all of the highlights of Jesus' passion and death were showcased in the procession.

Judas' Kiss

Jesus and Pontius Pilate

St. Veronica with the cloth she wiped on Jesus' face

The Way to Calvary

La Pieta

The 12 Apostles and Jesus Christ

The Mourning Women of Jerusalem and the Mater Dolorosa

Baguio's Treasures

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:18:00 +0000

I just came back from a four-day stay in Baguio City. Pretty flowers are always a common sight in the City of Pines. It could be that the cold weather makes the flowers appear brighter and the grass greener. I wasn't able to resist stopping once in a while to capture a pretty sight.

This one was just by the driveway of our unit. Don't know what it is called.

Almost stepped on this while trekking at Tam-awan Village. Could this be a pine tree sprout?

This pretty flower found its place in between a crack of a boulder.

Sitsaro grown in the Strawberry Farm, La Trinidad, Benguet.
It's my first time to see a sitsaro plant!

Summer is strawberry season! :)

Petunias hanging on the trellis of Good Shepherd Convent's store.

Are these mums or carnations?

Colorful aren't they?

Anthurium

Weekend Snapshot: Grassy Car

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:50:00 +0000

We saw this cute grassy car parked in front of Palma Hall when we went to attend the UP Diliman Feb Fair last Friday. At first, I thought that it was giving the "Go Green" message but the slogan perched on top of the car reads "Bawal ang Damo sa Tao" (Grass are not for Humans). It turned out to be an anti-drug campaign after all.

Feel free to view my other Weekend Snapshot entries here:

Living a Sugar Free Sweet Life
Meet The Thordies

Weekend Snapshot: Take a Dip!

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:03:00 +0000

Ralph was finally able swim yesterday when we attended my niece's baptismal reception. I am glad that we enrolled our son in swimming lessons last year. It was such a relief to let him swim by himself in the big pool minus the fear of him drowning.

Feel free to view my other Weekend Snapshot entries here:

Living a Sugar Free Sweet Life
Meet The Thordies

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PhotoHunt: Bridges

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:29:00 +0000

My entry for this week's PhotoHunt.

This is one of the unpublished photos that we had while visiting the Sierra Madre Country Club. My knees often shake when I cross hanging bridges but not in this one. It was sturdy and made of steel that's why I was able to confidently cross to the other side.

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Weekend Snapshot: Windy Day!

noreply@blogger.com (Mauie Flores) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:22:00 +0000

Hehehe....

This was supposed to be a good shot of my boy enjoying his time in the park of Eastwood Mall. But it was a very windy day and I guess he just caught off balance. He did not fall from the ledge, fortunately.

Feel free to view my other weekend snapshot here.

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