Monday, October 31, 2005

Happy Halloween!

In the spirit of all things ummm well....spiritual....i sincerely greet all a Happy All Hallows' eve well I think it's tom evening but the village's Trick or Treat for the kids is today. Here we are prepping the kids costume. Will post more pics of the monstrosities as soon as they're available.


Happi Halloween
Well you can guess who played the guinea pig. Looks good though.

Friday, October 21, 2005

Underwater Shots

By special request of the family, I am posting their underwater shots.
Unfair daw that I should have my underwater pic posted, well it is MY blog hehe.
Here goes.


Bora Underwater
My one and only Marina...este...Des.




Bora Underwater
Dino




Bora Underwater
Marco and Luis


Aah Boracay!


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Finally back to Boracay!



We had our annual office outing to Boracay this past weekend (Oct. 15-17). It was the perfect opportunity to spend quality time with my family, plus it was my wife's birthday on the 17th and it was a treat to spend at least half of it on the island. Incidentally this would be Marco's first plane trip.


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Marco and Dino on the flight to Kalibo.



We noticed Marco crying on the flight to Kalibo, we asked him why he was crying. He answered, "Miss ko na po ang house natin." ("I miss our house")....yah right....I'm sure what he was crying about was the thought of 3 days without the X-Box hihihihihi.

Finally....

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Touchdown! Me and Des.....




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...Dino...




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and...Marco...well, being Marco.



Of course the entire family wasted little time in heading towards the beach.

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SPLASH!



I, however, had a different agenda altogether......a plan was hatched after a couple of dozen bottles San Mig Light to go on an intro dive the next day. Yup SCUBA (Self Contained Breathing Apparatus...as my dive instructor Jilla so eloquently put it). You see, no one in my family loves the water more than I do, and I was the only one of us not certified to dive. I never had the time to do it and I found the cost just too darned prohibitive. So when a chance to dive on a budget with another greenhorn passed by I just couldn't resist.



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Leading the lambs to slaughter.




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Yup that's me behind the fogged up lens.



The whole trip was fun for everyone. The kids had a heck of a time in the water while we grown ups, aside from chasing the kids around, had a grand time walking along the famous boracay path and haggling with the not-so-famous boracay tricycles. As the vacation ended, I did some snooping around for good deals around the island just in case the family has the itching to come back.

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The gratuitous family shot.


Sunday, October 02, 2005

Not Papa Material!

Just a short story of my youngest son, Marco, deems me as not Papa material.

He asks....
Marco: Daddy, is Papa and Daddy the one only?
Daddy: What do you mean?
Marco: Is Papa and Daddy the same?
Daddy: Yes Marco, they are the same, a Daddy and a Papa are the same.
Marco: Ah.......
Daddy: Why Marco? Does your classmate call his Daddy "Papa"?
Marco: No po.
Daddy: Do you want to call me Papa?
Marco: (Enthusiastically) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Daddy: Oh, why?
Marco: Basta....di bagay sa yo! (It doesn't suit you!)

There it is, my child has decided I am not Papa material.

Better ask my wife nga.