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Filed under Photohunt, people, travel
It’s midnight where I am, and I can’t go back to sleep. I’m still on Philippine time, I guess. I thought I’d better do my PhotoHunt until sleep comes upon me. 
I am featuring here some paintings made by children for the Art for Heart, an exhibit set up by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey for the children who lost loved ones at the 9/11 tragedy. It was intended as a therapy for the kids. Look what they’ve come up out of their loss, and notice the raw emotion in the artworks.
Click the photos to enlarge.
The exhibit, by the way, was put up at the site of the World Trade Center. I’m not sure if the paintings are still there today, though.
Filed under human interest, travel
It wasn’t even a wish, it was more like a passing thought. I wrote in my journal at the beginning of the year that I wanted to go back, and look, it is coming true!
I’m leaving later today for Hong Kong. From there I’ll be flying to Los Angeles, and then to Dallas, Texas, and then finally to Lexington, Kentucky. Lexington is the horse capital of the world, sometimes also called “Athens of the West.”
I was given an assignment that requires me to travel to the corporate headquarters, thanks to my fairy godmother who is always watching out for me. I’d probably be pulling all my hair out doing the work, but heck, it’s still a trip and it’s a rare opportunity. Actually, I am more excited about the trip rather than the work. LOL.
I am glad I am going because I didn’t get enough of the place when I was there last year. For one, I wasn’t able to get on a horse. The best I did was feed a mint to a horse before it ran in the racetracks. And I won a dime from the race, by the way. 
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Filed under food trip, travel
I’m ashamed to admit that I lived in Manila for more than four years and never heard of dampas. A dampa, I just learned, is a wet market where you can buy fresh seafood. Near it is a string of restaurants. The catch is that, you buy seafood from the market, and then choose from among the restaurants nearby to cook the seafood for you. You decide how the food would be cooked, of course. Much like the Sutukil in Cebu, but dampas are bigger.
My friend’s friend brought us to this dampa near the Mall of Asia the other day. It was past dinnertime and I was starving, but I enjoyed checking out the large array of crabs and fishes. The fishes were so big,and some were alive. I learned that there is a gay crab, and it is supposed to be the best to buy, because it is the meatiest.
The cooking charge is quite expensive, though. Prices range from P300 up. We paid P900 for a meal of Calamares and Sweet and Sour Pork. That excludes the price we paid for buying the fish and the squid outside.
I’m wondering where they got the fresh seafood, considering that Manila is a metropolis and there are no clean water bodies to fish from nearby. They couldn’t have gotten the fishes from as far as Cavite, or am I wrong?
Anyway, pictures! Click the photos to enlarge.
Filed under Photohunt, human interest, travel
Do you see what I see?
I snapped these photo soon after taking off from the Legazpi Airport. It’s on the northern part of the Philippines, by the way, right where the world-famous cone-shaped Mayon Volcano is.
I thought the clouds looked like a bear hiding in the bushes.
Look, he is standing up and scratching his right cheek!
Filed under Photohunt, adventure, human interest, travel, trivia
This is the Delirium, a thrill ride at the Kings Island Amusement Park in Mason, Ohio. (Trivia: This park is the biggest in the Midwest. It was once featured on The Partridge Family and Brady Bunch.)
Riders are seated on a ring facing outward with their legs dangling in the air. A giant arm swings the ring back and forth as if it is swinging a slingshot, and riders are spun in a 240-degree arc 137 feet in the air, or roughly more than 13 stories. Hanging, indeed!
I didn’t ride the Delirium because I was already dizzy from the other thrill rides in the park, and besides, I didn’t have the guts to go up on it. Just looking at it from afar made my insides knot.
