the Earth-bound adventures of the Lost and Found

Status:    CLOSED Category:    Electronics this is another one of those things that was stolen from my room. an expensive pair of sony earphones that i bought for the compact, convenient case =( but last weekend i saw a cool pair of head phones that you just hook onto your ears like earphones--without the pain and inconvenience of having to put them IN your ears. wonder how much those cost.... need it to use with my laptop--my all-in-one home entertainment center =)

Status:    CLOSED Category:    Clothes & Accessories i've lost a lot of money from my current black bag, not because my things keep falling out of it but because it seems attractive to that thief at our boarding house. this is also the same bag that almost got stolen from me at knifepoint last year. so it's very historical, but it's cracking all over from stress, so i'm donating it to the BAzaar for the Poor at SAcred Heart PArish (along with all the boxes of recyclable mineral water bottles). which means i desperately need a new one to match all my black blouses =P

Status:    CLOSED Category:    Music & Movies i have almost all of joey a's albums--except this one =) also looking forward to his next album--underwater and sea songs. to be co-produced by BFAR.

Status:    CLOSED Category:    Clothes & Accessories pearls have always been my default earrings ever since i had a say on what jewelry i wanted to wear. but i keep losing them! i've bought a whole range, from P20 to P200, aside from the more expensive ones i've lost that i didn't buy myself. the last pair i lost during my dive in barili . so i wore my old gold hoops. but i lost those in manila too. WAAH! finally i've decided i'm not buying any earrings anymore. i'll just wait for an angel to give me a pair (or more ;-).

Photos from our reef assessment , October 28 to 30, 2004.

Start:      Nov 27, '04 End:      Nov 29, '04 Location:      Puntod Island and Antequera, Bohol kayaking under the full moon, rapelling down to a river, exploring a cave -- all for only P1,500 http://www.cebuweek.com/bohol/index.htm

Start:      Nov 30, '04 7:00p Location:      Ayala Entertainment Center, Cebu part of our advocacy campaign for clean, renewable energy in Cebu. This concert is also a prelude to an International Launch of WWF's PowerSwitch Campaign at the Holiday Plaza Hotel the following day, Dec 1.

these are pictures i took in February 2003, when i went on journey alone to this remote island. my stay turned out to be terrible and potentially very dangerous, but the sunset made it all worth it. these shots inspired me to write my sunset poem . And you can read the travel article too, if you want. But I'm not posting the essay I wrote on what REALLY happened.

Gene Boyd was buried on my birthday, but I didn't know about his burial until yesterday, when my father told me about it. Anyway, the night before my birthday, I couldn't sleep, so I started writing this poem. I actually started writing a poem with this title, also about sunsets, early last year, but I couldn't finish it. It was gene boyd's death that showed me how it should end. Last night, I couldn't sleep again, I had this weird, weird heavy feeling I couldn't describe. So I decided I wouldn't sleep till I finished this. I slept at 3 am. I'm sure so many have written about him the past week. I only really got to talk to him when we were on the streets during kadayawan , and I was even planning to meet up with him when I go home for Christmas. But that’s the tragedy of life, you never know when the last time you see a person is the last time forever. I’m still disturbed by what happened so I can only imagine what people who spent more time with hi...

strangely enough, even with so much happening lately, i haven't felt like writing anything here. maybe my mind's still reeling. my weekend in manila after los banos to see people i haven't seen in awhile was hectic but fulfilling. after a long-awaited trip to the high school for the arts in makiling (wasn't as nice as i imagined it to be, but the view was nice enough), i proceeded to CCP to watch chin-chin guttierrez's UYAYI with cris , who fortunately invited me to the one-day-only show. we were so enthralled that we each bought cds. expensive (especially since i'm used to getting music for free =), but after listening to the 2-cd album, i absolutely have no regrets. the culture carmmed into those discs is absolutely overwhelming. afterwards, with our cameras in hand, we tried to catch the manila bay sunset which, strangely enough, i've never seen. but we missed it by a few seconds because we were running to the malate church area to try to view it there =...

Start:      Dec 4, '04 7:00p Location:      Handuraw Learning & Leisure Cafe, MJ Cuenco Ave, Mabolo Handurawan means "imagination" in Cebuano. Join us for a night of poetry, and let your imagination soar. Beside Kahayag Cafe.

Start:      Dec 7, '04 6:00p Location:      Balay Chanselor, CP Garcia Ave., UP Diliman the annual gathering of writers who've gone through the ritual of the UP Writers Workshop. and then some.

first published as lost and found column#12 on November 13, 2004 in Sun.Star Weekend Cebu I�m turning twenty-five in a few days. Reading through my old journals and poems last week, I realized I�ve outgrown writing about philosophical insights and spiritual illuminations. Now all I write about is love, the rollercoaster kind. Really, I wonder where all the profundity went. Throughout high school and for most of college, my journals were full of expositions on the meaning of my existence, questions on the truth about God, an occasional incident with a crush maybe, but mostly reflections on my life. Now my journal entries read like �Dear Diary� more than ever before. The older I get, the mushier I become. While I used to write down lessons from my readings or conversations, now I write about my feelings�how I keep longing for a particular person, how someone really hurt me, how a confrontation has left me angry and confused. I thought I was supposed to grow wiser with age, my ...

Yesterday my brother and i went to talikud island to get baptized. So my plans to spend a week in siargao (particularly bucas grande) became a one-day island-hopping thing with people from the church who didn�t know how to swim and who had never seen live corals before in their life. It�s to their credit that they got on the boat without any reservation or sign that it was their first time to do something like that. Anyway, I decided to get baptized because I just recently understood what baptism really signifies, I mean as revealed in the Bible. Jesus said we must be born again not only in Spirit but also in WATER. And to be born again means to die to our old self and resurrect as new creatures filled with the Holy Spirit. The immersion in water after true repentance and surrender to God signifies that death or �burial�, and the rising up signifies the new life that is born, just as Jesus was resurrected from the dead. Isn�t it interesting how he specifically said there should be wate...

been hectic the past week because of travel. from thursday to saturday went southwest to barili to do reef monitoring in the marine sanctuary there. was in charge of the budget and logistics for our group of 16 people (with me as the only girl) from 2 NGOs. left for davao sunday morning. squeezed in buying a laptop wednesday night. so really, i've been running on a tight schedule. the skies were sunny as we left the city, but after lunch, when we were about to do our first dive, it suddenly rained. but of course, we couldn't change the schedule even though visibility was likely to be bad. so we still did our monitoring, which was partly a training on how to do a fish visual census (yes, we count fish) and a point-intercept transect for the substrate. because it was low tide, we had to do a shore entry, which means walking down to the sea and then swimming to the dive site in full gear. unfortunately, the rocks there were sharp and the waves were strong, so i not only got scratc...

Start:      Nov 11, '04 End:      Nov 12, '04 Location:      UP Los Banos, Laguna