i was never there

the mountain is just too stiff and the cliff is just too deep
the rain is pouring down and the slope is just too slant
can't grab the rocks and bury my hands
the climb was too risky it ain't worth our time

you thought it would be daring to dangle dry
the view is beautiful but that is only for awhile
there's a constant change in that blue dark sky
there's guts but no glory and the wind is howling by

one chance for me and ain't today
even tomorrow it won't and it'll never be
for there are a lot of mountains that my eyes wanna see
adios Monte Nada I'll set my dreams to an Everest someday :)

this Wyoming rocky mountains look majestic and unforgiving to climb and explore. no words can describe its natural charm. with jugged edges arranged surrounding the likes of a dormant volcano maybe. that's how i can describe it the very least. knife like and bare, cold and couldn't care. distant but never dull. amazing though far...but i would rather climb a tropical mountain range which is full of warmth and covered with a rain forest for i love the birds and the trees... tsk! really new years' resolutions are hard to keep, laughs. oh well. but i can't blame myself for i have sooo much to write or to talk about. my mind is just too full of things to pen, or to type about. but who cares really for no one does and i know that. so my keyboard will march on or not, for now...(^_~)...

our world sings with flowers :)

we ran around all day carrying a suitcase that's empty
we drive around all day with nowhere to go nor an itinerary
the sun was young yesterday but now it's golden and dreary
its rays are weaning, its warmth is now a cold book
closed and never to be read in one's rest or reverie

we could have put some wool in that suitcase
that could have draped a shivering body
we could have driven in a long and winding freeway that leads to eternity
that as the sun moved slowly we can catch some fire to light our way
before it goes to sleep or before it is being tucked gently

our world needs colors to adorn our tired eyes
our hearts need the flowers to give their smiles
the bees that buzz in our ears telling and asking you and me
where is my food, my honey, those sweet taste nectarines
that only these God made flowers could give us freely...

flowers are indispensable parts of our lives...they give colors and bring smiles to every sad heart... above are my very own flowers that once made my garden sing with joy and pride :) it is like drugs ex. cocaine, crystal meth or MJ to me...i don't do drugs, never did... but i do flowers, i smell or sniff them as i please :> drug addicts though sadly make the wrong choice, a big mistake for the high is just but slight and not forever like the euphoric memories you get from the smell of a rose, a sampaguita, a rosal, a dama de noche or an ilang-ilang :) so guys wake up...

a see through...

...of our province in my brod's place taken november, 2009...my ilang-ilang tree is this big na, tsk! and it is only 2 yrs. old...i bought that on our 2007 vacation then, now blooming and huge! a duck swimming and a lot of kangkong tiny white flowers...sayang i wanna fish pa sana nang bangus at tilapia under those kang kongs and behind my ilang-ilang is a small river or creek with plenty of fish! it's a very glorious time for me and we did not even go to that other place where it is rolling hills that you can see and mountains as well but we went to his beach and i'll tell a funny story about it, laughs, really, really very funny :> okay, lots of pink cadena de amores :) and that green one is a kalamansi tree. luv it!

"a cut above the rest"...

...the theme of this year's 2010 Rose Parade...Captain Chesley Sullenberger...remember the miracle at the Hudson River? he was the pilot of that lucky flight that landed on water without any casualty January, 2009. he is the 2010 grand marshal of the 121st Annual Rose Parade which is the mother of all parades here in the U.S. done in Pasadena, California right every New Year's Day. what could be the best thing to do in opening or welcoming the new year than watching fabulous floats covered and adorned with exceptional, pretty or beautiful flowers all over them and seeing and hearing lots of great marching bands from different parts of the country play or perform...this is what i do :) it bring smiles into the new year as you see a lot of smiles as well. one dream vacation of mine too, maybe in the future. and yeah, countries in asia also participate with their parade float entries and during the past parades they were even winners of the best float. corporations also participate. i just saw Honda won the best animation trophy where a plane looking like a helicopter doing its stunt on the parade. also snow boarding dogs are featured today, lovely! incredible 2 hrs. live program at HGTV, (home and garden TV) without any commercial :> and i just saw JACKIE CHAN in a Chinese float, my favorite actor. a comedy marshall art hero. the "spy next door" is his new movie coming up on 1-15-'09, i bet it will be fun to watch it :) ...see the movie shot here...

time to turn the page...

goodbye to the past
it's all but a memory now
hello to a new dawn
hope wrapped afire
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wishing for more laughter
praying for more love and smiles
here we are at the stroke of midnight
welcoming a new time, a new life
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let's toast to a prosperous future
with hopes of happiness that will endure
from now on and years yonder
the sun will shine brighter
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let's gather around the table
raise our hands and the bottle
pour the champagne, fill the glass
let's march on and be merrier
for a new day is here :)
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A VERY HAPPY, BLESSED and a BLISSFUL 2010 to everyone :> thanks to the www. for these incredible images for they make one in anticipation of the new year... smile, shine and dance :)

rise and shine...

Florida's sunrise near the shuttle endeavour courtesy of NASA, the two bottom ones are Atlantic sunrises, pretty amazing!

"malinac lay labi"...a peaceful, calm night...

a pangasinan favorite serenade...i am an ilocana, but i can't find the ilocano version but this will do. wonderful tune, thanks to ms. charmaine's sweet interpretive voice. a song brought alive as it digs the heart. really when you hear a song from your province it makes you reminisce, pause and think. sometimes it makes you sad esp. if you are now in a far away land...

my dad passed away at this time of year as we were welcoming the new year...sadness unsurpassed esp. if you have a dad like mine...death the ultimate divider, death the equalizer between rich and poor people for everyone will go through it, young or old, ugly or pretty it does not matter... death the unmerciful taker of sunshine, smiles and everything nice. death, the end of our physical existence on this earth...love is lost bec. of it. there will be no tomorrows, no rainbows, no stars...death is the final change...i miss you papang, i am sooo sad still esp. when this time of year comes. even how long and how many years had passed the hurt is still there. the emptiness that can never be filled. the loss that can never be replaced. my tears are dripping as i am writing this. my heart still breaks...time do not heal the hurt, it won't and it never will...

WELCOME 2010!!! soon :)

May you bring loads of smiles and happiness to us all :> and thank God for another year :) thanks also for the NW-Delta Xmas miracle flight that spared almost 300 lives here in our state last Christmas day...thanks for the good times and even for those that are not. things happen for a reason like a blessing in disguise we just don't know it yet at that time...but most of all thanks for the love of our families, muses and friends...priceless. life would be empty without them. for we always want them at our sides... in pics, metaphorically or physically or what have you, laughs. but kidding aside, thank God, for we are still alive...because there are so many that are not...another year to spend whatever we please. as that music goes by John Lennon, "let's hope it's a good one" :) the old days gone and a new one comes. time for celebration :> sorry for the old pics folks but nothing can convey the message more than them, laughs. and thanks www, the vast ocean of eternal memorabilia that you can fish out with just a click of a mouse, really superb :) i am grateful for your wonderful images for they adorn my blog like no other :) thank you! as if they are reading me, laughs, fat chance. but just the same it is a must to say my thanks...

my dad made the heart-shaped thing on our back :)

memories of days gone by...that red beating and pulsating organ that makes us all alive. what's inside our hearts? only us and God know that's for sure :) thank you all for your visit...i really do appreciate it :) this old pic was given to me around 5 yrs. ago by my grade school teacher, (for i can't find my own copy) Percy's mom and that is her handwriting which says a token of remembrance. she is on her 80's now and just widowed one year ago. my favorite teacher...the past is quite nice to revisit every now and then...the past is a precursor of what you are or will become in the future, sometimes...(^_~)...to me the past is not like a pandora's box that it will spew devilish stuffs, laughs, it is really like a MUSIC BOX sort of that will sing on most days lovely lullabys to your ears, except on one occassion. and that is when i open it this time of year when my dad died...okay, lesson here guys? give a music box playing your favorite love tune to your muse on special occassions, the gift that will make her SMILE for sure :> esp. if she digs music, laughs. oh well.

always a symbol of life

you opened your eyes and lit up the world when you came. you brought joy and peace to the populace. you are the symbol of life and grace. Jesus through His death had redeemed us of our sins. we were born again because of Him. we are saved and can continue to adore Him till the end of our lives on this earth. Jesus never sleeps, He's always there for us 24/7...