Dancing in Midlife Tune

This is the sky while we attended a birthday party last Sunday. As i looked up to take a shot, this is what i saw. Check out the next photo.

What can you see?

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Always i know but not as evident today.  Currently, the PHilippines is experiencing El Nino and we have high temperatures even before the summer time was officially announced.  The riverbeds almost runs dry and even the water supply for the electric power was affected.  Almost all over in Mindanao experience daily power interruptions from the minimum of 3 hours to up.  So this morning, as what they told me, they have prayed for rain.

And guess what?! Early this afternoon the rain fell!  It was real rain.  Nobody was prepared for the rain so many got wet.  It was still raining when the office hours finished.

It rained for several hours and when i went out to the hospital lobby to wait for some friends, this is how the sky looks.

The thick fluffy clouds were really dark that i thought it would rain more. Good thing the rain totally stopped when we left the hospital compound for Calda.

Pizza pics will be in the next post.

The other weekend was the culmination of our week of spiritual emphasis. As always, we celebrate the ending and entertain the guest speaker during potluck. The gathering was attended by the members of the administrative council from both the hospital and college. The Advetist Health Professionals also attended the Sabbath services here because they had a meeting at 2 pm.

I will be sharing to you some of the foods we served that morning. Again, i missed the Sabbath service.

– Fresh Lumpia –

~~ baked spaghetti ~~

~~ paksiw na bangus ~~

Actually these are just some of the main dish. Let me share also some of the sweets we served that day.

~~ cassava cake ~~

~~ palitaw with sweetened buko meat filling ~~

~~ looks like a peanut cake ~~

~~ this is so sweet! looks like brownies but beware of it’s sweetness. tastes like macaroons coz it’s like brownies with desic. coconut filling which is soooo sweet. ~~

With this is also the ice cream. i ate so much ice cream for straight two days that is why when Monday came i had sore throat. Tonsils lil bit inflamed.

The sky i saw the moment i stepped out of the side door in the dormitory on Valentine’s day. It was an hour before noon. I can almost feel that the light is very glaring that my eyes can’t handle.

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A Thursday meme of roads & its signs, signages, paths, passages, street scenes & the like. Hosted by Tink.

I was on an official trip to Cagayan de Oro the other week and i had breakfast at Mc Donalds Divisoria. After eating my breakfast, i then too the time to enjoy the view. Actually while eating i was already enjoying the view but took time to click my camera after eating already.

After breakfast i went to Liceo de Cagayan University and then to Capitol University. I took so many roads and signage shots but id like to share this signage from Capitol University.

I enjoyed walking around (after my official transaction of course!) in the big campus of the two universities i visited that day. I think it was a nice way to be slimquick in a natural way. I just walked and walked at same time enjoying the view and clicking my camera. I wish my camera lens can capture all the things that made my eyes spark with excitement.

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I went with my boss and his wife and some company to Cagayan de Oro last Sunday.  3 of them are delegates to the meeting while the two of us (me and the boss wife) have the time to ourselves to go around.  The other one is the driver.  Some of us didn’t have breakfast so 4 of us went out to find a diner.  We looked for an “eat all you can” buffet and yeah we found one.  We had breakfast at Sunburst (will make another post about this place) and we were all full!  Even though i was full but i was looking forward to go out of the restaurant so that i could sky watch.  So this is one of the shots!

Here’s one taken last Saturday -

It was a gray afternoon with little showers.

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While traveling to MVC, Valencia, Bukidnon last December 18 – i took so many sky shots. This is one of them. Our vehicle stopped in the traffic and good thing i was able to capture this angle of the UCCP Church. What a neat blue sky.

When we arrived our destination, the sky got this evening glow already,

This is a sky angle facing the telescoping hill.  I was standing at the road near the Science building in MVC.

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Happy New Year, everyone!

It’s nice to be part of the Sky Watch Family for another year!

We were invited on a birthday celebration.  They spent it swimming and it was a nice experience for me and Dimple because it’s our first time to be at that place.

This is a certified swimmer’s pool with 11.5 feet the deepest.

Happy Sky watching everyone!  Sorry for missing this meme for several Fridays. I was just busy with everything during the last 2 weeks of the December.

Just a short note to say am back from the trip to Mountain View College.  The trip was for my daughter as she was there for the whole week yet it also refreshes me of my college days memories.  It’s a weekend trip.  We left Iligan Friday morning and arrived just awhile ago.  So i missed the time checking out these promotional products for the Christmas holidays. I thought that mommy duty must come first before anything else.

There were only 22 schools that attended so the campsite was not filled with people.  There was not even a trace of campers or visitors in some common spots.    Mountain View College is situated in up the hills of Nebo in Valencia City, Bukidnon.  It’s around 30-40 minutes travel up the rough roads towards the top hills.

My last visit there was two years ago so am happy to be able to visit this weekend.  Luckily, i met one of my dormitory roommates.  She married her college sweetheart so we really had fun recalling our many college happenings.  We also met one of our highschool schoolmate and oh my we laugh just like there was no tomorrow.  Schooling years were so much fun in spite of the challenge of studying hard.

This is my first time to visit MVC as a parent and doing duty as a parent. It was a nice feeling yet it’s reminding me and my friends that we are not getting younger anymore.

photo credit: sunshineforlife

A Thursday meme of roads & its signs, signages, paths, passages, street scenes & the like. Hosted by Tink.

- a no smoking sign i saw inside the operation room at the NPC – Agus 4 Hydro Electric Plant when we visited the place last week of November.-

I like no smoking signs but hate to see people smoking near NO SMOKING signs.