Iced Gem

Celebrating a sweet life. No matter how hard, how painful, how violent all the things around us and the things that surround us, we still find some time to drink, to sing, to dance, to party, to splash with the wave, to harmonize with the wind, to breath, to live. That's life, celebrating it, sweet and beyond. The above was a shot of iced gems. Remember your favorite biscuit when you were a child? The throwing of the base, brown, biscuit...

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Community People

Do organize, be organized. It is all what we wanted to do and what we wanted to be. We tried. And tried. Again, tried. But we always failed. We are nailed by our unsound determination. We cannot maintain it. We end up staining it. We are all like these – the country, the government and the people – no exception. We have the administration, we have the opposition. There’s the military, there’s the NPA. Crab mentality. Vengeance. Corruption. Explosion....

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Pagudpud | Year-End Sunset

All things must come to an end. The sun rises cheerfully, furnishing us with hope – the sun sets majestically, instilling us with love. A tree is cut into pieces and burned – a charcoal is ignited and turned to ashes. Through metamorphosis, butterflies develop – through destiny, they disappear completely.Great heavenly bodies, living and non-living things, beautiful creatures in this world – all entertained us, gave pleasure on our eyes and in...

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Starflower

If there’s a starfish, there’s a starflower. The merest reason why things keep being complicated is ignoring time at its best. We are always busy, we are always in hurry. We don’t mind what we passed by, what is around us. We are only seeing the bare, the just sufficient, in this world. We are missing the beauty, the supposed life God accorded to us. The above photo was taken during our community immersion, as student nurses, just this first week...

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Ube Macapuno

I’m depressed. But I’m not deprived. A street child manages to grin after receiving a 10-peso tip from work while an overseas worker manages to smile after receiving a telephone call from family. Well, it’s all about one’s threshold to happiness.Understanding should be conferred then to a man at a corner, sitting, alone, thrown and despised, who doesn’t have what his everything can’t buy – love. We shouldn’t sneer at him. ‘Cause we don’t know him,...

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St. Augustine Church of Paoay

Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands! (Psalm 100:1) Thanking is a pride, it’s not a shame. It opens an entrance, it closes an exit. Hellos are cherished, goodbyes are perished. It welcomes the new, it strengthens the old. It gives happiness as much as it withholds anger. It’s countless, it’s harmless. The above photo showcases the famous and stunning Paoay Church in Ilocos Norte. The church was built after 190 years of processing coral...

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