An Afternoon Trek at the Park

This picture was taken a few years back. My sister in law visited us for a vacation and we brought them to the La Mesa Ecopark in Quezon City.

It was a wonderful break. We got to spend time with family and at same time unwind from the daily pressures of work.

We all need a break in order for our systems to revitalize. Its a natural law of life. One day in a week was the recommendation, as God did after the six days of creation. Yet somehow we tend to ignore it's importance because of our busy schedules.

I myself am guilty of it.

Probably it was meant to be that I have unearthed this picture. Not only do I get a nice material to post... I also got the chance to redeem the precious time.

What a blessing for you and me. HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!

Wordless Wednesday: Cold Seats

This entry is for the Tuesday and Wednesday edition of...

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Life Quest receives an Award

Tony from Blind Faith and Jena Isle from Clamor of Kalinga awarded me the Arte Y Pico.

Its a great honor to receive this award. Thanks Tony & Jena Isle!

The Arte y Pico award was created and to be given to bloggers who inspire others with their creativity and their talents, also for contributing to the blogging world in whatever medium. When you receive this award it is considered a "special honor". Once you have received this award, you are to pass it on to 5 others.

The rules for passing this honor on:

1) Pick 5 blogs that you would like to award this honor to.
2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
3) Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.
4) Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of "Arte y Pico" blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award. http://arteypico.blogspot.com.

Here is my list of recipients:
1. KML from PhotographybyKML
2. Mharia from Wanderings
3. Lizza from Life's Impression - the paper vision
4. Petra from Blooms & Blossoms
5. A. from A Changing Life

Souvenir Stop Over

Whenever we go to a new place or a tourist spot, its always part of the itinerary to drop by a souvenir shop. Just like this one in Baguio City. There were a wide array of items up for sale. My friends went out to buy stuffs while I just enjoyed looking at the colorful clutter.

..For me, this photo is souvenir enough.

Wordless Wednesday: Rudolf

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Is it a Good Time to Fly?

Heavy clouds covered the sky. Rain poured heavily that afternoon. I wondered how closely the Air Traffic Controllers were monitoring their radars and weather indicators.

Times like this is like when market situations are difficult in business. This is when we give a sharper look on indicators. Especially now that all inputs are sky rocketting while markets are dwindling, the bottom line is forever challenged. But as long as the data is acurate, a good forecast can be made. The course can be plotted on how the business can soar.

A Glimpse of the Horizon

During one of my trips to Cagayan de Oro City from Manila, the pilot struggled to pass a cloud layer. We experienced jolts of air pockets and turbulence, but when we breached through, the flight was again stable. Upon reaching the designated altitude, a beautiful view of the horizon was visible.

Its a wonderful view being sandwiched between the clouds. It gives another perpective. Such is the transformation we get when we experience life situations, after all the trouble and the struggles, we tend to grow and see things in a different plane.

Wordless Wednesday: Alignment

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Focus

As part of our team building activity, our group went to ZOObic Safari after taking the survival trek at Subic Bay's JEST Camp. One of the main attractions was called the "Tiger Safari" where you'll visit an enclosed area on a jeep where tigers are free roaming in their natural habitat. We bought some chickens to draw the tiger's attention.

Did you know that Tigers consume about 10kg (22lbs.) of chicken in a day. Such fierce creatures. Just look at those eyes. 100% focussed and they are so relentless until they get what they want...

...And so can we if we go for our goals with such intensity.

Wordless Wednesday: Hey, Wazzup?!

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Tilted Reflections

This shot is not my original composition. Maiylah did it first with her S3IS (She was too kind to lend me her 450D. lol!) Anyway, what caught my attention from this angle was how the clouds' reflection tilted from the view of the car window.

Sometimes, the same situation happens when we do reflect on things. Especially when our thoughts are taunted by a stimulating idea. Afterwards, we tend to see things in a different light and viola...a new paradigm is created.

Reflection helps us refocus our energy. Learning from the paths that we have traveled and preparing ourselves for the continuation of the journeys that we have chosen.

Magic Lamp of Luck

Got tagged today by Maiylah; she’s passing on to me the Magic Lamp of Luck!

Here’s what she posted …

Alakazam!

The mighty Genie King and the beautiful Genie Princess from the magical Land of Faraway are back! Upon escaping the clutches of their Evil Master after being held captive for 1000 years, the magical genies have been busy flying on their Magical Flying Carpet, granting wishes and spreading love throughout the blogosphere.

And now, the genies are back with a special gift for everyone! Behold the sacred, Magic Lamp of Luck! With this magic lamp, your blog will enjoy much good luck and fortune, warding off all things evil lurking around in the blogosphere. We would like to share this magic lamp with you so please pass on the Magic Lamp of Luck to those in need of some good luck. Remember, do not be greedy or unkind, evil or vengeful and good luck & fortune will always be with you! Join us on another exciting magical adventure as we spread goodwill and good luck to one and all!

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1. Add your site(s) to the list once you have received the Magic Lamp of Luck.

2. Pass on the Magic Lamp of Luck to as many people as you like. After all, everyone needs some good luck!

3. Leave a comment HERE once you’ve passed on the Magic Lamp of Luck. Once the Genie King and Genie Princess have visited your site to make sure your links are complete and proper, you will then be added to the Master List.

4. To ensure everyone receives equal link benefit, please UPDATE your list regularly!

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Lets Share a Little Prayer once Again

I am putting up the Praying Hands back on post. This time its for Makoy.

He was fortunate enough to go to Singapore for employment. However, during his recent pre-employment medical exam, the Doctors saw something odd from his chest X-ray. He fears that if he is found positive for Tuberculosis (TB), he would be endagering the people he is living with in Singapore, not to mention missing the opportunity to land a job. We hope and pray that it is not TB.

Makoy has been a regular Entrecard dropper for most of our sites. He needs our prayers right now...

...and every little prayer that we share counts.

P.S. Please also drop a message of comfort for Makoy. I appreciate your help & thank you so much.


(Picture of the "Praying Hands" courtesy of
www.graceofholland.org/gsprayer/)

Blog Experiment

Some fun blogging questions ... a tag from My Wanderings.

Begin HERE.

Participants: 1. Me and Mine 2.Creative In Me 3.Little Peanut 4. Pea in a Pod 5. Sugar Magnolias 6. The Salad Caper 7. All Kinds of Me Stuff 8. Aggie Scraps. 9. Winding Creek Circle 10. Mommy Talks. 11. Fun | Fierce | Fabulous 12. Me, Myself + 2 13. Confessions of a Supermodel Wannabe 14. My Online World! 15. My Life in this Wonderful World! 16. My Precious Nice 17. Just Me.. Eds 18. Eds Mommy Life 19. Thea is BloggerHappy 20. Thea is BerryScrappy too 21. Swept Away 22. A Slice of Life. 23. Jenny Said So 24. This and That 254. Simply Jen 26. Dancing With Butterflies 27. Blessed Chic 28. Just Let Go 29. Twisted Angel 30. Pieces of Me 31.buhaymisis 32. kathycot.com 33. Krississippi 34. My Colorful World 35. My Wonderful Life 36. Sweet Temptation 37. My so-called Life 38. Lynn’s Chic Spot 39. In Seventh Heaven 40. Lindsay Talks 41. Fun Without Frills 42. MindBubbles 43. VanityKit 44. SomethingPurple 45. Stripe&Yellow 46. Em’s Detour 47. Jean’s Live it Up… 48. BLOGSILOG 49. Cherry’s Comfort Zone 50. DigiScrapz: Captured Memories 51. Thinking Out Loud 52. Buzzy Me 53. Wishing and Hoping 54. PRC Board Exam Results 55. Filipino Jobs Abroad 56. Jobs for Davao 57. We are Family 58. Momma Stuff 59. Pinay WAHM 60. Teacher’s Corner 61.My Simple Joys 62. Gagiers Striking Zone 63. Gagiers Amazing World 64. Caroland’s Breathtaking Adventure 65. My Life, My Fashion, My World 66. Kusina ni Gagiers 67. WilStop 68. Dare to Blog 69. Lets Travel Philippines 70. Life Realities 71. WebGeek Journal… 72. WebGeek Journal 73. Webline Help Desk 74. BlogHop 75. Simply Me 76. A Mothers Horizon 77. Crissy’s Zone 78. Crissy’s Haven 79. Sunny Side Up Foodie & Lifestyle 80. Almanac Queen 81. Alamak OiOi 82. Lost in Love 83. The Pit of Gadgetry! 84. My daily life Experience 85. My life is Peachy 86. My Simple Joys 87. Glamour-Vanity 88. Angelic-Mist 89. M.Glamour-Vanity 90. Just Blogging It 91. Text Messages 92. Nierva Dot Com 93. Thoughts and Beyond 94. Photos 95. Davao Life 96. Davao Food Trip 97. Journey in Life 98. Tere’s World 99. Blessings in Life 100. Julai’s Corner 101. It’s Leisure Time 102. Tidbits and more 103. Strong and Healthy Living 104. Bucks from Home 105. whenmomspeaks 106. Bloghop 107. My Daily Discourse 108. My Point Of View 109. coicoi’s World 110. Dave Lucas’ Notes
111. A Life in Bloom 112. Digiscraptology 113. Because Life is a Blessing 114. Deranged Insanity 115. Traipsey Turvey 116. PierrEzrah 117.Picture Clusters 118. Maiylah’s Snippets 119. My Wanderings … 120. Femikey Thoughts 121. A Handful of Surprises 122. My Paper Scraps 123. Digitally Diane 124. Somewhere Over the Rainbow 125. When Silence Speaks 126. Kitty’s haven 127. Life Quest 128. Your BLOG

RULES:
1. Add your blog/s to the list. Feel free to add all your other blogs. It’s okey if you only post this questions in one blog as long as you answer them.
2. Get back to Me {YEN} and I’ll add your blogs to the master’s list here!
3. Tag as many friends online you know. But you don’t need to be tag in order to join.

QUESTIONS:

1. I posted this experiment at URL: http://strider-lifequest.blogspot.com/
2. I posted this on date (day, month, year): Friday July 2008
3. I posted this at time (24 hour time): 21:20
4. My posting location is (city, state, country): Cebu City, Philippines
5. My blog is hosted by: Blogspot
7. My gender is: Male
8. My occupation is: Veterinarian
9. I use the following RSS/Atom reader software: FeedBurner
10. I use the blog format to post to my blog: Blogger
11. I have been blogging since (day, month, year): sometime April 2008
12. My web browser is: Firefox
13. My operating system is: Windows Vista

Wordless Wednesday: Adolescence

This entry is for the Tuesday and Wednesday edition of...

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The Lonely Fern

The world has witnessed another davastating loss of lives and properties from the wrath of typhoon Frank (international codename:Fensheng). It ravaged the several provinces in the Philippines causing massive floods and mud slides particularly in the island of Panay. An estimatated damage to infrastructure and agriculture was about PhP 5.5 billion (US$ 122.5MM).
Yesterday, I travelled to Iloilo City, one of the major cities in Panay island. It has been a week since the storm. Traces of the typhoon's damage were still evident.
But life has slowly started to move on.

Like the fern that grows on a broken branch...

...No matter how difficult the living condition can be, as long as there is a single root that attaches to the tree, there is hope for the lonely fern. It will survive...
...and so shall we.