29 December 2014

2014: Looking Back

1. Sickness and finding healing.

2. Gradual learning of life and humanity's inevitable truths, values, and potentialities.

3. Stepping back from too much reading, selecting what to read, and making effort to be 'productive.'

4. Understanding.

5. Realization that the potential for savagery and violence still exists in this age of modern civilization; that much of our original built-up and psyche (inherited from the past) still exist.

6. Learning when to speak and when to remain silent.

7. From rigidness to flexibility.

8. From blind following to critical awareness.

9. Realizing that strictness cannot win a heart / hearts.

10.  Genuineness to oneself and to others.

Some essentials I have learned from this year, most of which are not uncommon, but their relevance had been strengthened because of the many events that happened during its course.

One thing is for sure: we learn a lot through the years (isn't it?) :) Brace for the coming one!

28 December 2014

Weekend

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Visited the sea with family by mid-week and spent Sunday with my cat.

Saturday is becoming stressful to me, I have to organize and facilitate classes, it seems like energy is draining out of me when I am surrounded with many people and I'm forced to talk and socialize.

26 December 2014

Golden Sunset

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A metaphorical way of kissing this year bye! :)


Hopefully, I'll be making a little bit of a reflection of how this year had been in the coming days. Until the next post. :)

- m.

Éphémère Série

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20 December 2014

19 December 2014

Selected Paintings by Claude Oscar Monet


A corner of the Garden at Montgeron , 1876-1877




Path in the Forest, 1856




Garden of the Princess, Louvre, 1867




The Sheltered Path, 1873




Poplars near Argenteuil, 1875




The Cliff at Varengeville, 1882




The Red Road. 1884




Poppy Field in a Hollow near Giverny, 1885




Tulip Fields near Leiden, 1886



 

L'Aiguille and the Porte d'Aval, Étretat, 1886





Path in the Wheat Fields at Pourville, 1882



I am following Nature without being able to grasp her; I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

- C. Monet

15 December 2014

A Few Quotes

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small, I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
- C. Dickens.

Either I will find a way or make one.
- P. Sidney

I dwell in possibility
- E. Dickinson

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- J. Campbell

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

The soul that is within me no man can denigrade.
- F. Douglass

The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- A. Camus

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosened upon this world
- A. Camus

Yesterday, at the Garden

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Some photos I took yesterday afternoon. I'm practicing a little bit of macro-photography with my regular camera and lens. Though the quality of the output is still something I am always after.

09 December 2014

Floral Dreams

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26 November 2014

Recently


Random photos taken recently: Sunset on the road, A Monet book, picnic at the park, and the mailbox where I receive letters from students. 
 

In the meantime, here's a sneak peak on what interests me perhaps, for years on end. 
Definitely worth exploring.


20 November 2014

27 October 2014

Ilocos Sur


Bridge at Santa, Ilocos Sur




Arc of Vigan: entrance to the town and the world-renowned Heritage Houses




Spanish colonial architecture of Vigan, along Calle Crisologo




The surrounding neighborhood



Along the shores of Santa, Ilocos Sur

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