this is your day

"Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find “tomorrow” on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday’s defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, “If I had my life to live over again…”Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day!" ~ Og Mandino

For more quotes from Og Mandino's A Better Way to Live click here.

lollipop 3

I know you're tired of seeing these lamps, promise this is the last. I'll post a different photo tomorrow =)

lollipop 2

lollipop

I just love the psychedelic lamps lining baywalk and this is the first time i get a chance to take its pictures and i had a blast and cant get enough of this lollipop lamps =)

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"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." ~Charles Darwin

watching people

I love watching people... scary? don't worry i'm harmless and i dont bite hehehe.

Caught this guy texting while holding the hands of the statue of Evilio Javier (a martyr for democracy during the Marcos regime) and i just can't help but take this photo. But the flash of my camera caught his attention and he said "Uy ginagawa mo akong model ha" (You're making me a model huh) and he proceed to chat with me and take a look at his picture :) thankfully he was okay and didnt get mad at me.

Sometimes i do ask permission to take a person's photo, but more often than not I just snap away... how about you, do you ask for permission first?

vendors along baywalk

Pinoys are entrepreneurs by nature, give him a small capital and he'll make a business out of that... sometimes luck and hardwork pays off but at other times it's just a means to live and put food in the table.

First photo: A mango vendor, he'll do the peeling for you and slice the mangoes, complete with bagoong or salt whichever you prefer (aren't we lucky to have mangoes all year round?. At his back is the vendor of sorbetes (dirty ice cream), very different in taste with commercial ice creams but delicious too. If you want to get rid of cough, go out and buy sorbetes. :)

A modern ice cream vendor.

This one sells, chicharon, peanuts, kropek. Yummy!

greatest show

They may have closed down the bars along baywalk but it didn't stopped people coming here at Manila Bay... after all, the greatest show is still here - the sunset.

wedding by the bay

I was taking pictures of anything and everything at Baywalk while waiting for the sunset when suddenly a van full of professional photographers arrived (5 photographers and 3 person who have a video cam with them).. complete with their top of the line cameras (my point and shoot camera got embarrassed LOL) and then followed by a newly wed couple in their jaguar, they had a photoshoot by the bay and of course a photo opportunity i can't resist. I took tons of photos of them (i only pick two photos to show here)and the bride is so beautiful.

You cant blame them for wanting to have a photo session by the baywalk because the sunset here is really amazing, it was just that it was cloudy that afternoon, but had they waited a bit longer it'll be really perfect. I'll show you the magnificent sunset tomorrow.

angels

i dunno what is it about sculptures that you can see in cemeteries and tombstones... they look so mysterious and much more interesting.