Statues of the Sto. Niño in Indigenous garb for Dinagyang 2025. Photo by Jep c/o Flickr. With the Dinagyang 2025 festival fast approaching in Iloilo City, Philippines, displays such as this are common at shopping malls and other areas with heavy foot traffic.
My picture won! Wohoo!!! Well, I did not actually win anything. The good folks at www.gadling.com picked my photo as the picture of the day last October 22, 2008 . I am so happy that I will ignore the fact that they misspelled my name. I guess this makes the trip to Portulano resort worth it. A lot of things happened during that trip. The waves were high and the current was strong and one of my friends ended up being cut all over by sharp rocks and corals while snorkeling. By the time he climbed back to the boat blood started gushing out from…
Fire Tree Originally uploaded by Jepster . As if the hot atmosphere and brilliant sun is not enough to remind us that summer is here, the brilliant red fire trees all over the golf course just screams summer! At this time of the year, the tress lose most of their leaves and red flowers begin appearing all over the branches. These tress are all over the place and the one pictured above is at the golf course near the road going to the our office. A few of my colleagues and I just couldn't resist taking a little break from work and examine the trees…
