the next best thing to flying...

If you ever wanted to fly... diving is the next best thing! We left Manila at 5am, and we were back by 3pm. 2 dives. Visibility was great! Water was clear... no strong currents... lots of fish!

The Car Maintenance Bibles

The Car Maintenance Bibles

For all gearheads, petrolheads... or anyone that's just curious about cars. This is a very informative (albeit technical) site about every single system you find in your car.

Whether it's for performance upgrades, general maintenance... or just sheer curiosity on how cars (and their subsystems) work. This is a great site for all that information!

Enjoy!


***photo is of the new BMW M3 S65 V8 engine glowing a lovely orange (my fav color!)***

...on Wanderlust...

...where to go...
...where to go...

...ever have that feeling that you just need to go somewhere?

...I've got a strange feeling of excitement of going somewhere...
...like the feeling you get when you're about to go on a vacation...
...except I have no idea where I wanna go yet...

...let's see what the future has in store!

AFTERSHOCK!!!!

Wow, I didn't even feel a single aftershock! There were 106 recorded aftershocks yesterday, and another one today (which I didn't feel again) I hope everyone is ok!

Metro rocked by 106 aftershocks: Phil Star

...whew...

Just got back from a long day at UP Los Baños to do a documentary on IRRI (Int'l Rice Research Institute)... learned a lot about rice... pretty neat seeing so many great minds working towards a common goal with no desire to profit from it. All research materials are free, and in the public domain. They even give away free seeds to farmers to help them grow better rice! I LOVED their cold storage room!!!! -20C!!!!! Hehehehe!

...yesterday...

Ran off to Anilao yesterday for a day dive trip... really fun, really quiet & peaceful when the weekend Manila "tourists" aren't there. Beats a day in the city w/ all the traffic! This was my 2nd dive using my camera... I'm pretty happy with the pics, considering I didn't color correct them yet. I really need to get a color card to white balance underwater...

BMW Lifestyle...

Klassik BMW, over at Araneta Ave, gave a tech talk on the new BMW Navigation System...as well as a sale on BMW Lifestyle items (caps, shoes, etc.)

Although, they didn't have it in stock, I saw this in their product catalog and I thought it was pretty cool... hehehehe

reposting...

It was brought to my attention that the Top Gear episode I posted was taken offline, so I edited my previous post to include an updated link of the video.

car nut...

Just a few videos (and a personal article on hybrid technology)

BMW M3 vs. Merc C63 AMG

BMW M3 vs Toyota Prius for fuel economy

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Hangin' ten!

Woohoo!

"Smile!"

my new toy! still getting used to white balancing under water...
(click for photos)

Water world...

Surf camp was so much fun... was one of the faster learners (according to the instructors)... by the end of the class, they were already teaching me more advanced techniques. I only started falling when they told me to start doing the harder stuff.

Now I'm off to dive! Hope everyone has a fun weekend!

Wipe out!

Took a while to balance... but I had such a great time. Will be going back for sure!

surf's up!!!

Wahoo! All day tom!

sick...

I hate being sick...

Back topside...

Relaxing day trip to Anilao. Just went on 2 dives. We tried out the newly finished Star Tollway that goes straight to Batangas... NICE! None of us had any idea where we were going, even the guys we were convoying with never tried the new road, but we all agreed to give it a shot. We got lost 2x, hahaha, but no big deal... now we know where the other 2 roads go! The new road is a much longer route, but the road is way nicer & it ends up being a shorter trip since there are no trikes or jeeps that stop along the way.

Going diving is gonna be so much easier now! :)

Another day... another dive!

Just packing for my dive trip tomorrow in Anilao. Just going for the day... trying out a new "toy"... hehehe... report & review when I get back.

Dream work desk!

I WANT! I WANT! I WANT! HAHAHAHAHA!


More info on Ergoquest.com

Tan tah nan taaan...

ok... that doesn't work so well without the music...

rainy weekend...

Was supposed to go diving this weekend, but the weather & the fact that I woke up late Saturday morning, made me decide against going to Anilao.

It was a blessing since the weather in Anilao was bad as well, and my friends that were there decided to abort their dives. Not to mention the fact that one of my friends was attacked by a triggerfish ... hehehe... he probably pissed them off.

So I didn't miss anything. Ended up hanging out with some friends for DVD night! (I prefer hanging in someone's house for movie nights, rather than going clubbing.) Hopefully the weather will be better next weekend. Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Here comes the sun...

Read a short article about them in the newspaper today. It's so nice to see companies like this in the Philippines. For anyone interested in unplugging from the power grid, I recommend visiting their website & getting in touch with them!

Solar Electric Company

TGIF!

A little humor on a Friday!

...there's nothing wrong being square...

A round watermelon can take up a lot of room in a refrigerator and the usually round fruit often sits awkwardly on refrigerator shelves.

Smart Japanese Farmers have forced their watermelons to grow into a square shape by inserting the melons into square, tempered glass cases while the fruit is still growing on the vine.

...never...

I will never turn my back on you...
I will never hide the truth from you...
I will never tell myself how I should (or shouldn't) feel towards you...
I will never shut the door...
I will never erase the memories...
I will never tell my heart that it's wrong...
I will never stop wanting to make you laugh...
I will never apologize for making you happy...

No matter how much you hate me... wish I never existed... or even delete every blog entry that refers to me... it won't change the truth... If this is how things must be for me to love you uninhibitedly... then so be it. I'd rather love you from a distance, than lie to keep you close. Loving you hurts less than pretending to just be friends.

Bimmerfest 2008

Annette's home!

Finally! And just in time for our show this weekend!!!

Back from Anilao...

Went diving in Anilao over the weekend. It was part of an online magazine tourism shoot ScubaMagazine It felt good to get back in the water after all this time. Went on my 2nd night dive (I need my own light, resort stuff just sucks) and saw a lot of sleeping fish... hehehehe... I don't think they liked the fact that we woke them up... hahahaha.

We went looking for sharks on Sunday, but didn't get to find any... shucks... oh well, maybe next time! Hopefully the pictures should be up on that website within the next few days when the guys from LA get back home.

Bimmerfest 2008

Life at 200kph...

Clark to Subic... 20 minutes... 'nuff said!!!

...quote...

"There are some people who meet that somebody that they can never stop loving, no matter how hard they try. I wouldn't expect you to understand that, or even believe it, but trust me, there are some loves that don't go away. And maybe that makes them crazy, but we should all be lucky enough to end up with somebody who has a little of that insanity. Someone who never lets go. Someone who cherishes you forever."

What I'd give...

...to tell her I miss her.
...to hug her so tight.
...to make her laugh.
...to see her smile.
...to make her blush.

...to let her know that I'll still love her.

Am I in love with someone who doesn't exist? Or in love with a side of her that she never truly wanted to be? She said she never wanted to be her happiest... maybe that's where I went wrong.

Why is this happening now???? After a whole year! Why can't I forget about her as easily as she forgot about me? Why do I feel this way again after all this time?!?!?

Bimmerfest 2008

BMW Car Club of the Philippines
BIMMERFEST 2008

May 4, 2008
Promenade, Greenhills
San Juan

I hope Annette will be done in time for this!!! :)

IT'S SOOOOOO HOT!!!!

It's so hot! Aaaaaahhhhhh!

..long weekend..

Back to work from the long weekend... not that 3 day weekends really affect me... hahaha... just decided to relax w/ my friends and bum around over the weekend. Trying to schedule some major work to be done on Annette sometime this summer while work isn't so heavy. I can't believe how hot it's getting this summer... :P

Photo Exhibit at Ayala Museum

For those interested in photography, there's gonna be an underwater photo & dive exhibit at the Ayala Museum this Saturday, April 5, 2008. I'm not sure of the time yet since my friends who are coordinating the event haven't given me details yet! Hahahaha! (Ok, details added)

Come see the photo entries to the Mad About Us Digital Underwater Photo Shoot Out. Winning photographers will be awarded. It'll be a fun filled night and a chance to meet fellow divers. Ceremonies start at 7pm on April 5 at the Ayala Museum in Greenbelt.

...on hate...

I hate that I miss her...
I hate that I can't stop thinking about her...
I hate that her life is now perfect without me in it...
I hate that everything reminds me of her...
I hate that it's almost been a year, and it still hurts...
I hate that I can't make her smile or laugh anymore...
I hate that she probably doesn't think of me anymore...
I hate that I miss her laugh...
I hate that I still love her more than she will ever know...

...sigh...

I hate feeling confused... so many things on my mind... I wish I could just Ctrl-Alt-Del and do a memory purge. Hahahahaha... sigh... dunno why I've been feeling very melancholy the past week...

..on life...

Are we all living the lives we were meant to lead? Or are we just going through the paces of a life we think we should be leading? Is life really supposed to feel like an emotional juggling/balancing act? Or are we just so afraid to let go of things and see where things naturally fall? What if things don't fall where we want them to fall? Is that even as bad as we think? Won't that leave our hands free to receive the blessings truly meant for us?

"What if fine isn't good enough?"
"What if I want extraordinary?"

Back from the abyss...

Went on a dive day-trip yesterday... I missed it. I haven't gone diving in a looooong time, so it was good that I started again with a basic dive (although the 2nd dive was pretty rough with strong under currents) And now that I finally got my C-card for nitrox (after getting lost in the mail for 3 years), I don't think I'll ever go back to using regular air again! It's just so much safer (and honestly, the only reason I wanted to take nitrox is that it smells better than air..hahahaha)

Signs...

Ever feel like the universe (God, life, etc) is trying to tell you something, but you're just not listening (or just refuse to listen)? How do you tell the difference between a sign (a warning sign) and a challenge? How can you tell if life is just giving you a challenge to overcome... or a big flashing "DANGER!" sign? When does perseverance turn into stubbornness?

Sigh... if only life came with an instruction manual... but then again... maybe it does, and we're all just refusing to read/listen to it...

mobile post test from iPod...

Just testing if I can post from my iPod Touch.

My return from Saturn...

This isn't an entry I really wanna share, so this just goes on this private venting blog.

http://newage-directory.com/saturn.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_return

I never believed in this stuff... but I also don't believe in coincidence, I believe things happen for a reason... and things happen at the exact time they should. A lot of the stuff in the articles makes sense. The past 2 years of my life have felt like God stuffing me in a blender and hit 'puree'. It hasn't been fun at all. Dunno how much more of a beating my heart can take. Hahahaha!

Sigh... I wonder where this is all going to lead me...