Andrea has been shooting so much lately. Every little chance would have her pressing the trigger. I’m talking about our point-and-shoot camera. She’s been using it like crazy ever since she started her photoblog. She’s now mentioning thoughts of getting a DSLR. Since we don’t have money for it, she’s trying to cook up some other way to get it like selling some stuff or stay up every night for several months doing paid posts. She’s telling me to use the camera more often too. If I know her any better, she just wants me to want that DSLR as much as her. Hehe!

I’d seldom get the chance to wash our old car. Most of the time, we’ll just hose it down with water or if it rains hard then that’s it. Today though, the dust on our red Mitsubishi Lancer got too much even for us. Right after getting home, I decided to clean it really well. Andrea and Mateo kept me company outside. I guess it can be therapeutic too!

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Andrea and I have our blogs hosted on our own web host. We initially had a free hosting account which came with the domains we bought. It was okay for a while because we didn’t really need that much space at the start but there was a banner of ads on our sites. The free hosting account is ad-supported so we had to endure seeing those ads on every page of our site. After a few months, we decided to pay for our own web host to be able to get rid of those pesky ads. There are a lot of good web hosts out there and we didn’t really know which one to sign up with. Andrea read and studied the different web hosting choice available to us. I’m happy to say that we were able to get a good one, thanks to webhostingchoice.com

A co-worker is experiencing a lot of good breaks in her chosen field. She has recently been assigned as a project leader in the company she works for. For the longest time, she has wanted to work in an IT consulting company and it’s really good that she is finally getting her dream. Although she’s been working for more than ten years already, I guess she feels most successful in her line of work now. I wish her all the luck in her new chosen career!

Last December 7, I went to Bataan with the first and second year high school students. Nope, not for a vacation. (Well I wish it was, but it wasn’t.) On the contrary, it was more like a practical exam on the beach.

Last weekend, we had the yearly field trip to the Pawikan conservation site in Bataan - part of a unique tradition that hedcen started four years ago. Fortunately, I was part of the pioneer group that initiated this extraordinary custom. For the past 4 years, usually during December, freshmen and sophomore students spend 3 days and 2 nights camping on the beach of Morong, Bataan looking for Olive Ridley turtles that climb onto the shore to lay eggs. Students, accompanied by Pawikan volunteers and teachers, go on night patrols to scour the 7-km beach for egg-laying females and/or nests. The goal is to save both the adult females and the eggs from the relentless assault of poachers who, most of which, come from the same fishing villages surrounding the beach.

And for the past four years, I’ve successfully released turtle hatchlings, transferred clutches of eggs, seen abandoned nest sites, but I’ve never seen a female Olive Ridley turtle actually lay eggs. Well, at least not until last December 7.

Finally, after four years, I got a chance to witness the rare opportunity in person. I couldn’t even come up with the right words to describe how elated I was so instead of doing so, I’d just share the pics…

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The past week has been more than just a badly-needed break from work for me. It provided me with a chance to find my bearing, get some sleep, and rekindle my love for relaxation because for the whole 7 days, aside from playing with my cute little baby, my free-time routine consisted only of three

In a few days, my wife will be turning 26! I’m still thinking of what to do or give to her for her birthday. For the past several years we’ve been having small surprise parties, usually held at home, for her. We won’t be doing it this year due to lack of planning and funds so I just have to think of something else to make this day more special for her. Any suggestions?

Finally, after 5 months, Mateo was baptized. During the baptism, I was fervently praying up to the time when the priest was almost done anointing him with oil. I was praying that Mateo wouldn’t cry… and thank goodness he didn’t. You see, I have been to a lot of baptisms already, and I know that some

We’re now in the last stretch of summer vacation. Mateo’s getting baptized this Saturday while school officially starts next Monday. Andrea and i are frantic about the preparations for Mateo’s baptism but at the same time we and the rest of the school are in a great rush to prepare for the first week of