***KnEeKo’S aRt ExPeDiTiOn***

This is my last watercolor painting for the year 2007 (I made only four paintings for the whole year). A friend requested me to paint any flower (color red) to be displayed on their living room. What I did was, copied a flower shot from my Romblon Gallery - bunch of flowers in our front yard in Romblon. The outcome was not as good as Mari and Ebb Tide’s still life paintings. I forgot the name of this flower. Can you please click Romblon Gallery and tell me this kind of flower? This flower has more than five (5) varieties of colors.

As you can observe on my other works, the subjects are usually abstracts - things that I encountered on my daily life.

Fresh from the Garden
12″x 16″
Watercolor on Paper
2007

These shots were taken during our Sports Fellowship @ Al-Nakheel beach. We played basketball and volleyball around 10am - 12noon wheeww… The groups divided into four (4), we were third (3rd) in volleyball and champion in basketball.

Master and matt are familiar with this place.

Along the beach, there are wide varieties of gift shops and boutiques.

d*mall - you can find here several high-end stores including clothing, art and household items. Some places will permit you to haggle, others have a fixed pricing system with price tags.

Waling-Waling Beach Hotel - at station 2, the most expensive resort within the island (US$200+++/night). We just, ate snacks while waiting for the sunset.

*Willy’s Rock - infront of the Waling-Waling Hotel.

*Bobbit House - here, waiter and waitresses were all under height, even the performers/singers.

*Thai Resto - dinner with my friends, ordered “Pad Thai” but not satisfied the way they cooked.

For more Boracay views, please click THIS.

Aside from jet skiing & sunset viewing, we also did island hopping.

*First stop, Crystal Cove - an island with two caves. Among the two, Cave 1 is the best as the boatmen says. I was not able to go down to Cave 2 because of high tide that time and my camera will be in trouble eventhough my backpack camera bag is water proof.

*A view from Cave 1

*Inside Cave 1

*Next stop, snorkling at Crocodile Island…

*School of reef fish.

*Feeding the fish with “ensaymada (bread)” - shots were taken by using Sony Underwater Camera owned by L&A.

Last stop, I forgot the name of the island. I was a little bit tired that time so I did not took any photos. We just ate lunch and go back to our place.

At last got a chance to visit Boracay.

At PAL Domestic Airport, waiting for my flight schedule going to Kalibo, Aklan..

At Kalibo going to Caticlan seaport.

Meeting up with my childhood friend from US, L and her husband A and B2 from Australia.

I had a two (2) nights free room at Microtel Inn & Suites (located at station 1) courtesy of L & A while they stayed at Fairways & Bluewater Resort.

After two nights, I looked for another hotel to stay-in for two more nights. I contacted Lorenzo Resorts a resort owned by one of my relatives. Then another resort Acanthus Hotel managed by a friend of mine and classmate of my cousin way back from Romblon. Then, I decided to chose Acanthus Hotel (located at station 3 and a private one) for US$ 100/day (discounted price), with free breakfast. The water in station 3 is clearer than station 1 (where I noticed sea weeds on the surroundings). By the way, Lorenzo Resort is next to Acanthus Hotel.

Acanthus Hotel…

When I visited my hometown, San Fernando, got no chance to roam around due to rainfall and my time was very limited because of other commitments.

Mt. Guiting-Guiting, Magdiwang, Romblon - shot taken while I was on board a Ro-Ro Ferry going to Batangas Port.

Please visit Milex for more informations about Romblon and how to get there.

Just want to share some of my SHOTS, mostly at the backyard.

I removed some France travel slides due to sluggishness of my site. If you want to view it again, please click THIS. Thanks again.

17 May, my body still needs rest but we have to wake up early to prepare our things.

*At 11AM we went to Nancy Cathedral, rehearsal of the songs ( French and Latin) for the May 20 mass.

*6:30PM dinner before our 8:30PM 1st concert at Palais des Congres for 45 minutes.

*We sang 12 songs in every shows, but if the audience asked for more… we sing another piece. - photo courtesy of KPP
*For me the scary part was my solo but I did survive wheew :). Before my part, I just think that, “This is my first and last solo song in my whole life so please help me God.” - photo courtesy of KPP

*Taking shots while aboard train… photo courtesy of novem..

*Late arrival in the train station of Nancy… reception at M. J.C. Etoile Hall w/ choir Croqu’ Notes (the group assisted us for the whole event.)

*Flags from participating countries - Germany, Saudi Arabia, Bulgaria,Finland, Lituania, Spain, Mongolia, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia & Sweden

*Our Mama Josephine preparing our first dinner. We (together w/ my buddy -Jonar) stayed at their house in Chavigny (outside Nancy) for 6 days. She’s an Italian married to a French man (Papa Joseph), she speaks a little bit of Spanish so we really never had a hard time on communication unlike our other choirmates whom their foster parents speak French language only hehehe… But sometimes, if she really don’t know how to explain… she showed us some photos of the things, for us to understand.

*Wheww… 1st she gave us biscuits and wine. My buddy told me, “I’m really hungry, I need real food.” After an hour or more, we are full already… no place for the food. Even if there’s no rice (can live w/o it), food is great. Later on we learned that she’s a cook in a restaurant before, a couturier now. Wine is prohibited that time but still I drink… not much… hmmm a bottle only

*A view from living room… a foggy afternoon…

*Country side… I really love the place…

Simula pa ng Miyerkules na pabugsu-bugso ang ulan dito. Kapag hindi umuulan, sandstom naman ang humahalili.

Around 9PM KSA time kagabi, 13 April, Jubail, , habang naghahapunan kami (ng dalawa kong college classmates) sa KFC, nagulat kami sa pagbuhos ng ulan na may kasamang hangin na humahampas sa glass wall. Ito’y parang isang tornado, umiikot ang hangin sa iba’t ibang direksiyon. Maya-maya pa ay may tumutulo nang tubig-ulan galing sa kisame ng KFC. Sa labas naman ay huminto ang mga sasakyan at nag-park muna sila dahil nagliparan ang mga basurahan at may mga sangang bumabagsak sa daan. Ang ilaw naman ay patay-sindi pero di naman tuluyang nag-brown out.

Kukunin ko sana ang camera sa sasakyan para makuhanan ko ang mga pangyayari pero hindi ako pinalabas ng Supervisor ng fast food at hindi na ako nagpumilit baka ilipad din ako ng hangin.

Pagkaraan ng 15 minutes humupa din at paglabas namin baha ang tumambad sa amin dahil walang drainage na tutuluyan ang tubig. Hindi pa nga tuluyang naubos ang tubig sa kalsada eh nadagdagan na naman.


Nag-alala ako sa bahay namin dahil pumapasok ang tubig sa bintana kaya tinawagan ko si Deks sa cellphone niya pero hindi sumasagot. Pagdating ko sa bahay ay andun siya at nahawi na niya ang mga dapat hawiin. Di ba master?


Habang papasok kami kaninang umaga ay umaambon pa rin, nadaanan namin ang mga sanga ng ng mga punong-kahoy na nakahambalang sa gilid ng kalsada. Ang nangyari kagabi ang usap-usapan sa loob ng sasakyan, sabi ng iba’y limang taon, siyam na taon na raw sila dito pero ngayon lang sila nakaranas ng ganun katinding hangin na may kasamang ulan.

Paano kaya kung inabot ng isang oras, dalawang oras o isang araw ang malakas na hangin at me kasamang ulan? Anong mangyayari?

Abangan sa susunod na kabanata…

After this occasion, we will be focusing on our practice for more upcoming performances..

Additional photos….


***Beach volleyball - one of my sports but enjoyed watching them and taking photos.


***Patintero - grabe… kakatuwang tingnan na hinihingal na sila sa pagtakbo Iba na talaga ang nag-kakaedad wheew…


***Baywatch?





***Luke - showered by dolphin…





***Jetskiing - wheewww I really love this type of watercraft…





***Birds having fun also…





***Foot prints…