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...

WOW!

AMAZING weekend!!!! All I can say is... WOW. The Whaleshark experience is really breathtaking. Pictures can't describe it, not can they prepare you for the feeling you get when a fish 2x larger than a bus is coming at you! It's so magnificent and graceful! I'm definitely doing that again!

Exciting weekend!

Something I hope to see this weekend!!!

Blogging glitches... Part II

Ok, tech support has been receiving the same reports from other users... but so far, my site seems to be fixed... so my posts for the last week finally got published. Still checking to see what happened...

Blogging glitches...

Been having problems with Blogger... it's mainly due to my website undergoing maintenance. Hope this post gets through...

STOOOOOP!!!!

After giving me 5 years of relatively trouble free driving... this includes 1 track day, numerous out of town fun runs, slightly agressive driving, and 3 situations that have called on Kookie's Emergency Braking training, it was time for me to replace Annette's brake system. I'm not quite sure, but I think they were still the original discs (Annette is now 18 years old) so it really was about time to replace them.

How to drive a car the BMW way... (BMW Driver Training)

Following the test drives offered at the BMW Expo last weekend, BMW also held special Driver Training classes for a limited number of people. Our class today was composed of approx 23 people. Although BMW offered the driver training during the expo, it was a much shorter version than the one we took today. (And I think drivers were only allowed to drive 1 or 2 cars around the course) The training is sponsored by Citibank Platinum so the other participants were all Citibank Platinum card holders.

The cars we got to drive were the following:

118i
120d
320i
320d
325i Coupé
X3 2.5i
X3 2.0d
520i
520d
530d
X5 4.8i
740iL (can you say Titanic?!?!?)

We were made to do the courses over and over, each time using a different Bimmer. Each car had 2 people in it, after one round, swap, then the other person got to hit the track....BUT since we were an odd number... and I was odd-man-out... I was told to do each car twice so as not to break the rhythm of the class!!! Hehehe... so I got to do the extreme braking and wet braking/cornering class twice!!! (The sacrifice!!! Hahahaha)

And for the sheer thrill of it, we were all given test rides (unfortunately only qualified drivers are allowed to demo the M-cars, which means, only Herbert was allowed to drive it) Although, I have to admit... riding an M-car with someone who knows how to handle it, is more fun than driving it and not knowing how to maximize the 420 (500 for the M5) horsepower under the hood. To actually feel a 500bhp car drift is something else all together (specially with the precision to drift through a narrow road cone course)... and to feel the grip of the M3 corner at race speeds is something else!!!

Photos are on my Multiply page.

Driver training!!!

Yahoo!!! I think I got one of the 6 limited slots for BMW's Driver Training!!! We get a private lesson this coming Wednesday morning with the BMW Instructor Herbert Grünsteidl! I've never been so excited to wake up early on a weekday!!! Hehehehe

Torque - A BMW Xpo Driving Experience

22 to 24 February 2008
BMW Pavilion,
ASEANA Power Station
Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard
corner Bradco Avenue
Pasay City

Exciting New Products

• The newly unveiled BMW M3
• The latest BMW Diesel range
• BMW Motorrad G Models

BMW XPO Torque
Exceptional Drive Experience

• The full range of BMW vehicles available for test drive
• BMW motorcycles ready for test drives

• Limited slots available for BMW Driver Training on site
• Featuring the new BMW 3 Series on a practice track
• Driving courses from BMW AG Certified Product Trainer Herbert Grünsteidl

...on blogging...

Wow, haven't had much time to update this blog... I usually just try to keep some activity on this personal site going to keep my site active on the search engines... thankfully blog activity is logged.

Although I haven't had time to update the other html pages, I just want to post a message to some people who have found this site by accident...

If you're looking for Dr. John Lacson, please type John B. Lacson on Google instead (this refers to both the college, and the Dr. I don't know if I'm related to him...but I probably am)

If you're here from Zürich, Switzerland ... you probably found my site through my comment on the Swiss+Austrian band called Lacson (Found at Lacson.at) and I'm not sure either, but we're probably related as well.

A little car joke on a Friday...

A few days ago I was having some work done at my local garage A blonde came in and asked for a seven-hundred-ten. We all looked at each other and another customer asked, 'What is a seven-hundred-ten?'

She replied, 'You know, the little piece in the middle of the engine, I have lost it and need a new one..' She replied that she did not know exactly what it was, but this piece had always been there.

The mechanic gave her a piece of paper and a pen and asked her to draw what the piece looked like. She drew a circle and in the middle of it wrote 710. He then took her over to another car which had its hood up and asked 'is there a 710 on this car?'

She pointed and said, 'Of course, its right there.'

If you're not sure what a 710 is Click Here

Running man...

I REALLY have to start running everyday again... hahahaha... the Holidays were just too deadly. :P

:(

I'm sad... my friend Joni left this morning to go back home to Holland. :(