art saves

botong's last paintbox.
Botong Francisco, 1913-1969, National Artist.

carry

freedom time!

new look for old laptop:


wine (gossips) and cheese (old amsterdam from holland)
at midnight:


two shirts and too many bags from vietnam:

white

lights

for sunsh: a dose of pinoy humor :)

not at all alone

and more pumpkins

musikero kong tatay

thought bubble

a promise of sweets

(to the question: how are you?)

1. plodding

(three more weeks to SEMBREAK!)

2. rising (to the occasion), i.e., hitting the
ground running

(in lieu of a picture by camille, here she is
at larry's book launch -- yes, sunsh, you will
receive this in the mail soon.)

3. tumbling

rockin' and rollin'. still.

a bouquet

(kamusta na, ins? camille?)

the lipat-bahay crew, august 1st

days of mourning

26 July 2009

an american graveyard in the midst of a pocket of
first world urban manila, third world philippines.

strange. but appropriate.

why with all these boxes packed is this place not yet empty?!?

finally, space!

this week: moving on, moving on!

monday: vietnamese and walter.


tuesday: the view for my smoking.


wednesday: girls in skirts.


friday: snakes at delan's house.




a happy gecko:

absence equals work

1.

2.

bath

summer playground

buttermilk blueberry muffins

fried catfish a.k.a. piniritong hito

because i could use a drink

his fancy guitar

movie night

two jacarandas and a bottlebrush

flying dog and gordon bierse

shoes i wore 5 years ago today

eating asia *edited*

... in a span of two days. saraaaaaap.


1. japanese: rock and roll fried sushi (well, just the nori
was fried) with a fried shrimp salad and chicken teriyaki,
at john and yoko cosmopolitan japanese. edit: had some
super yummy absolutely-will-come-back-for cheese
wrapped fried tofu that had a light cream sauce and
goodness gracious, some bacon bits on top. how could i
forget?


2. thai: sticky rice dessert, ordered with tokwa and some
strange sauce, chicken satae, oh oh red chicken curry,
and catfish salad -- heaven, i swear! at SOMS.


3. chinese: the end of which was this wonderful tea that
began the meal, too. we had hakaw (goodness!), shark's
fin siomai, three mushrooms in oyster sauce, crispy lechong
kawali -- literally to die for. hahaha. at UNO seafood wharf.

leftover cake

in real time: drinking with the nanay

rainy days

pasalubong love continues