camera critters #2-year end post for 2009

this could be my last post for this year and i want to thank everyone for being a part of this simple blog of mine that i used to be my companion after my work,blog that helps me unleased the boredom,the sadness that i can truly feel deep down inside me.i will be away for 10 days to attend to my father who is now critically ill,i wish that when i come back everything will be alright and will be the same again.wish me luck  all guys...... it is hard to tell what i am feeling  right now the fear that im trying to fight with  at this time but just hoping for the best and whatever happens,i know i can stand and face it.i will miss you all in here..... let me wish everyone a peaceful new year....

May God grant me the wisdom to face the reality of life in a easy way that i will no longer feel the harsness of the so call loneliness.

bye everyone!!!

hey you,sleepy  head....come on get up.....don't be lazy,im going to take picture...be ready.....

that's good...come on baby....don't be shy im going to take picture of you...

come baby,don't be afraid come to me......more...more... closer....plsssss....

okey,there you go a bit more close up for them to see you.....thanks baby...

your awesome,and look at your face grrrr......thanks for making my day...

monochrome weekend-cijin beach 1

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    "faith is courage;it is creative while despair is always destructive."-david s.muzzey

                                                                                         

                     cijin beach is well-known for seafoods and said to be one of the two decent beach in kaohsiung,if you want to visit this island  to try their varieties of seafoods(no chance for me to try though they look yummy!) or just wander around the island take some photos or might want to try surfing or swimming on its clean beach, first thing  you need to know is that you need to take a ride in a ferry boat where it is located at gushan ferry pier  or try the underwater harbor tunnel.

a leaf-design bench where i sitted for awhile  watching those people walking,chatting,couples hugging and kissing each other,those riding on a tribike,kids playing on the sand,others playing kites,those taking pictures,a few surfer on the beach,sellers selling different kinds of seafoods,oldies playing poker,a serenader couple  performing for free to entertain visitors like me,and one foreign girl(indonesian) already upset waiting for someone(she's been there for an hour as i observed huh!)whom i  asked to take one picture of me.(thanks to her,can't forget her because of the picture...)

                        im not lucky enough to find any beautiful flower, spent half day wandering in cijin beach and this is the only flower(or should i say grass?!) i  got/saw....not a good place  for planting flowers  i suspect because the place was actually  well-known for its  famous seafoods  and beach not flowers,LOL!

Sky Watch Friday-rapid change of colours on winter afternoon

 more sky watch friday here .

 i get up from the bed to prepare for work at about 5pm(taiwan &manila time) i look at the window and i saw the rapid change of colours of the sky and decided to take a shot before preparing myself.... let me share to you some of my shots and hope you will like it.... as my christmas offering for everyone,enjoy your holidays folks for im still out to work tonight *sigh*

"dont live down expectations.Go out in there and do something remarkable."-wendy wasserstein

"life is a wave,which in no two consecutive moments of existence is composed of the same particles." - anonymous

uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.security is an insipid thing,and the overtaking and possessing of a wish,discovers the folly of the chase."-william congreve

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph waldo emerson

"We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies"-rhoderick thorp

glimpse at wulai part 2

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my niece and i

its us again

my niece with the waterfalls and gondola at her back

i really love this place especially the fish

man-made waterfalls at my back from the top of the mountain

i was supposed to ride on that boat but i got no chance *sigh*

                last christmas 2007 when my brother was still here we decided to celebrate our christmas at wulai,together with our niece and a friend of us.Since christmas was not a feast to taiwan people(well,atleast some christians do celebrate)and nobody from the company want to celebrate,we just went out took the bus going to wulai.
                  as i mentioned on my earlier post its worth the time visiting this place because of its fantastic falls and breathtaking gondola a must ride for you to see the beauty of wulai,once you get there you can see alot of beautiful things that can make you close to nature and to the one who created it though some parts are man-made still you can't just ignore the views that are well-managed,what i really like most in wulai was the chance to ride on that gondola because i  was actually very very afraid of heights and its one in a million experience for me that i can never forget especially it happened at christmas time and i was with my family....allow me to share a photo taken by my niece and my brother(please forgive me that i need to post my face here,hehhehehe.....i just want to share some views!sorry!

Dance with my father again....

                       "who is to give light must endure burning"-victor frankl

back when i was a  child
Before life removed all the innocence
My father would lift me high and dance with my mother and me and then
 Spin me around ‘til I fell asleep
Then up the stairs he would carry me
 And I knew for sure I was love
If I could get another chance, another walk, another dance with him
I'd play a song that would never ever end
 How i'd love, love, love
To dance with my father again
 When I and my mother would disagree
To get my way I would run from her to him
He'd make me laugh just to comfort me, yeah yeah
Then finally make me do just what my moma said
 Later that night when i want to sleep
He left a dollar under my sheet
Never dreamed that he would be gone from me
 If i could steal one final glance, one final step, one final dance with him
 I'd play a song that would never ever end
    'Cause I'd love, love, love, love
To dance with my father again
  Back when I was a child
 Before life removed all the innocence
 My father would lift me high and dance with my mother and me and then
Spin me around ‘til I fell asleep
Then up the stairs he would carry me
 And I knew for sure I was loved
If I could get another chance, another walk, another dance with him
I'd play a song that would never ever end
 How I’d love, love, love
To dance with my father again
When I and my mother would disagree
To get my way I would run from her to him
 He'd make me laugh just to comfort me, yeah yeah..
Then finally make me do just what my moma said
Later that night when i want to sleep
He left a dollar under my sheet
Never dreamed that he would be gone from me
 If i could steal one final glance, one final step, one final dance with him
 I'd play a song that would never ever end
  'Cause I'd love, love, love, love
 To dance with my father again
 Sometimes I'd listen outside her door
 And I'd hear how mama cried for him
 I pray for her even more than me
I pray for her even more than me
I know I'm praying for much too much
But could you send back the only man she loved
 I know you don't do it usuall
But dear Lord she's dying
To dance with my father again
Every night I fall asleep and this is all I ever dream


for my dad(get well soon) and my uncle who just past away...may  he rest in peace!   

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Camera Critters-momo

after she saw me crying she gave me a face like this....

looking at me while im very very sad

after losing someone its only momo-knows everything...she's more of a friend anyone could have lovable,huggable and very sweet.... let me share with you two of her precious photo.

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Monochrome Weekend-Gas Plantation in Kaohsiung 1

i took the pictures while im riding a motorcycle.i just find the look-a-like-bridge connecting on the other side of the road so cool,beside that road....you can see a rail road going to taipei...at the end of that long look-a-like-bridge another huge gas plantation ....so i grabbed my digicam and took some photos....it might not be interesting to others but the fact that 99.9% of people living in this city depends on that plantation for the gas they produced.The first time i saw that look-a-like-bridge i was mesmerized,i may sound funny but that's me,every single thing that matters to me and to my eyes well definitely can captured  may attention,and maybe because everytime i passed by in that street and look-a-like-bridge as long as i can remember the smell that my nose can breathe in was really really bad,seems like i was in the middle of cow farm,hehehhehe...so sometimes i prefer not to used my fave perfume because i thought its just a waste if i whisk by  the plantation,lol......so,let me share some photos....and hope you will like it too....

the back of the first area

the look-a-like-bridge that fascinates my eyes

                 the other side of plantation near to the rail road


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Skywatch Friday

"Your task is not to seek for love,but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself  that you have built against it"-anonymous"

"if you cannot find the truth right where you are,where else do you expect to find it." 

                 "pain is inevitable,suffering is optional."-dalai lama



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a glimpse at wulai 1

Wulai (pronounced as ulay) is a rural townships in southern Taipei County in north Taiwan (ROC). It sits near the border with Taipei and is famous for its hot springs. The name of the town derives from the Atayal phrase kirofu ulai meaning "hot and poisonous".
i've been there two times but still want to come back  to see more of its beauty and to enjoy the nature(im a nature lover!!!)... it's a nice place to visit and worth the time hiking reaching the highest top of the mountain on the other side using its cable car or gondola  not to mention the thousand bucks you got to spend visiting the place...allow me to share some of my photos .(click the pictures to enlarge)

a view from above inside gondola

taken from the entrance of the cable car

the wulai waterfalls     

 

the cable car or gondola

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santan flower for my ate nimfa in bangkok,thailand

                               i want to say thank you to my cousin ate NIMFA for visiting my blog and for  the time to listen and reminisce our family reunion that we always celebrate when we were still in the philippines.we shared a moment of recollection but then quickly stop when we both realized that we are already missing our family back home,we both felt the same feelings.....and before letting our tears to drop,we change our topic.i don't want her to be sad if she will read this post so i won't add anything that will make her cry,and because this is actually my first entry to Todays Flowers  im offering this post to her.Ate nimfa,hope you will like my token of appreciation for being the nicest cousin in the world.I truly missed you,its been years we never see each other but God knows YOU and everyone in our clan will remain dearest  to my heart that no one can ever replace.wo ay ni....im sorry that its only  here i can tell you this 3 magic words but i mean it.

Today's Flowers-Santan (ixora coccinea)

"Our pictures may fade, but our memories wont."

“you can always have friends doesn' t matter if  they're boys or girls but they can't always be there, but cousin's SHOULD always be there.”

''a cousin is someone out there for you when no one else has got your back, when they are the only family you have left, your official brothers/sisters"

"cousins are true, best friends are few. what a delight to have both in you".

                 "No power of hell, no scheme of man, Can ever pluck her from my hand! Till she returns,or calls     us home,Here in the power of Christ we stand "