a picture a day: september 2010

the ninth month of my on going project 365. it's an open ended project, anything goes, but with one rule: at least a picture a day.

for the january 2010 album of my project 365, click here.
for the february 2010 album of my project 365, click here.
for the march 2010 album of my project 365, click here.
for the april 2010 album of my project 365, click here.
for the may 2010 album of my project 365, click here.
for the june 2010 album of my project 365, click here.
for the july 2010 album of my project 365, click here.
for the august 2010 album of my project 365, click here.

the main theme for september: stress. and in case you're wondering why my blog output has suddenly decreased these past few weeks, it's because of that very reason: stress.

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2010.09.01 a lonely street, a quiet evening. i'd taken a picture of this street before, but i was still struck by the loneliness of that street on that evening. so there it is.




2010.09.02 unreachable




2010.09.03 at the office, under my desk




2010.09.04 the city of dust




2010.09.05 at the fringes of development




2010.09.06 the comfort of finding traces of the existence of others: to know that you are not alone




2010.09.07 how sweet the sleep of the weary, part 1




2010.09.08 going home, after another stress filled day.




2010.09.09 missing in action




2010.09.10 that there is light at the other end is reason enough to keep us moving




2010.09.11 a sleeping child. and i do not mean that michael learns to rock song. michael never really learned to rock. end of discussion.




2010.09.12 outside, looking in




2010.09.13 mga nangapyot sa jeepney, part 1




2010.09.14 harassed




2010.09.15 overdrive




2010.09.16 superstition




2010.09.17 monitoring stress levels at 10:23pm




2010.09.18 stranded by a sudden downpour




2010.09.19 let your light shine




2010.09.20 lines and shadows




2010.09.21 mga nangapyot sa jeepney, part 2




2010.09.22 how sweet the sleep of the weary, part 2




2010.09.23 at a birthday party: the last morsel




2010.09.24 and the birthday party continues into the wee hours of the morning...




2010.09.25 as the blind man played silent night on his bamboo xylophone, it made me wonder: a literal silent night must be madenning for a blind man, a man who has already been robbed of his sight, a man who is eternally at night. and the silence then robs him of another dimension of the world: sound. it only makes sense then, that the blind find refuge in music.




2010.09.26 you'd be surprised to learn that there are people sitting in hidden corners of the world, people that you never knew were there as you passed blissfully by, people that, as far as you're concerned, don't really exist. but they are there. you don't see them. but they see you.




2010.09.27 this particular line, from chapter 10 of the life of pi, i found quite striking: "Yet there will always be animals that seek to escape from zoos."




2010.09.28 how sweet the sleep of the weary, part 3




2010.09.29 the weather report, in more ways than one. the view from our office pantry.




2010.09.30 creatures on an officemate's desk: spongebob and patrick reading the back of a lotion bottle

the rules of physics in a jeepney

waiting at a jeepney stop one evening were two ladies and me. an almost full 13C jeepney going to talamban then arrives. the conductor announces to us:

"o duha nalang kulang, duha kulang..."

i let the two ladies get on the jeepney first. the conductor then notices me, and says:

"o naa pay isa! naa pay isa!"

right. apparently, the pauli exclusion principle (which states that no two objects can occupy the same space at the same time) does not apply on that jeepney.

shooting the moon

taken at a basketball court in maglinao, basay, negros oriental, january 2010

don't worry

"Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindsides you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday."

from Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

an old picture taken under the marcelo fernan bridge, feb. 2009.

a picture a day: august 2010

the eighth month of my on going project 365. it's an open ended project, anything goes, but with one rule: at least a picture a day.

for the january 2010 album of my project 365, click here.
for the february 2010 album of my project 365, click here.
for the march 2010 album of my project 365, click here.
for the april 2010 album of my project 365, click here.
for the may 2010 album of my project 365, click here.
for the june 2010 album of my project 365, click here.
for the july 2010 album of my project 365, click here.





2010.08.01 the space between: street peddlers, mabolo, cebu city




2010.08.02 at the movies




2010.08.03 two couples




2010.08.04 even a power blade can't cut through traffic this heavy. at the flyover near TESDA, cebu city.




2010.08.05 light and shadow: the city at night




2010.08.06 an empty bar




2010.08.07 on the kinship of shadows and chained dogs




2010.08.08 the state of the nation?




2010.08.09 a game of chess, maguikay, mandaue city




2010.08.10 kitten and plastic flowers




2010.08.11 a student rally, at the gate of USC-TC, talamban, cebu city




2010.08.12 a new metaphor occuring to me, while staring at a tablet of paracetamol on my palm: frailty is our fate. it is written on the palm of our hands.




2010.08.13 the belle on the boulevard, mandaue city




2010.08.14 when i came across him that afternoon, i instantly remembered having a taken a picture of him months ago, while he was making music at the intersection of colon st. and osmena boulevard (around january 2010). i wonder what (or who, and why and how too) brought him to maguikay, my neighborhood, of all places. a street musician, hi-way, maguikay, mandaue city.




2010.08.15 "i know that face..."




2010.08.16 traffic accident, mango avenue, cebu city




2010.08.17 floating around downtown one last time, before returning to corporate slavery




2010.08.18 first day of work





2010.08.19 workstation, IT park, cebu city




2010.08.20 the malleability of pictures: either he's repairing the jeepney, or the jeepney just ran over him, or the jeepney ran over him while he was repairing it, or ...




2010.08.21 a trip to the countryside, baranggay sirao, cebu city




2010.08.22 "unsay naa diha oi?"




2010.08.23 the view from my new office's pantry, IT park, cebu city




2010.08.24 puddles are windows, where eyes from under the ground stare at you. a rainy evening in the city.





2010.08.25 another day at the office, IT park, cebu city




2010.08.26 solitude is a no parking sign, IT park, cebu city




2010.08.27 hallway, IT park, cebu city




2010.08.28 crucifix




2010.08.29 one can only remember so much: early morning sunlight on old dusty issues of national geographic




2010.08.30 i think the flowers say it more eloquently than the sign




2010.08.31 not a good sign: at the office, an empty first aid box