tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57766841740404991782024-03-05T19:15:02.106-08:00I Am PatzsPatzshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00314064122700370454noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776684174040499178.post-91416428433583594582018-01-08T01:03:00.003-08:002018-01-08T01:03:36.846-08:00Hello 2018<img height="480" src="webkit-fake-url://1ad660a0-ecfd-44d9-a2fe-2e77848f6a9c/imagejpeg" width="640" /><br />
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Work hard and travel more. The world is just so beautiful.Patzshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00314064122700370454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776684174040499178.post-42861956712653354642015-08-16T12:28:00.003-07:002015-08-16T12:34:34.693-07:00SunburnBeen living in my hometown for a year. Chicken squawks early in the morning when I begin to experience deep sleep.<br />
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The extreme summer heat turned me into a mulatto, the complexion I hardly achieved in Europe. Normally, friends are now complaining I look poor or neglected.<br />
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In Norway, being tan is envied.<br />
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I am no longer scared of the sun. I love being grilled under the sun which seems to angrier every year.<br />
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Patzshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00314064122700370454noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776684174040499178.post-31777473425912761402014-03-01T18:03:00.001-08:002014-03-01T18:03:16.286-08:00Devil's Here on EarthThis might be a pessimistic or 'negative' post, avoid reading ahead and visit my optimistic blog at <a href="http://www.patzs.com/">www.patzs.com</a>.<br />
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Illegal recruitment agencies, terrorists, cheating lovers, liars, and all individuals who caused pains towards others people, are the devils. Devils are here. As Tracy Chapman wrote in her song 'Heaven's Here on Earth.' Thus, heaven and hell, are made by men on earth.<br />
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No need of seeing blazing fire to believe it is hell, neither of angels playing harp to affirm it is heaven.<br />
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I agreed to come in Norway when a friend promised to endorse her jobs to me. Instantly, she became an angel to me. The promise was only partially granted.<br />
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This 'partial' is like 10 to 20% which only affords me monthly transportation ticket. Weeks after since she left, I did not complain, and waited for my 'angel' to lay down the 'promise.'<br />
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Next month, I will be 1 year in Norway. I have become furious. A simple explanation why the jobs were not given was all I need. She has become a devil.<br />
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And she made my life a hell.<br />
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Unintentionally, my hatred towards her became intense and extreme. I started cursing her life and think ill of her.<br />
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I became a devil too. I made a world of hell for both of us.<br />
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I prefer heaven. Peace, harmony and optimism. I have stopped being a devil. Quit whining that 'she's a wicked devil, bitch, mother fucker.' Because I choose to move up, improve my world, my personality, and not go down, back to a hellish world.<br />
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I prefer to embrace pain and suffering and take these as factors to do better things in life and not cling with negative aspects of life. I am putting off the fire and not allow people to go through the same sufferings to make things fair. I am taking things differently, make somebody else's life comfortable.<br />
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Nurture heaven, not hell.<br />
<br />Patzshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00314064122700370454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776684174040499178.post-50527188961946756122014-01-20T17:07:00.003-08:002014-02-13T16:39:02.199-08:00Trying out WordpressI started using Google's Blogger in 2008, but my frequency of posting is as dormant as Blogger's innovation. Its templates and features have never improved. Wordpress took my curiosity so I tried it out. I have a new (or another home) for my photography and travel journals.<br />
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Patzshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00314064122700370454noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776684174040499178.post-84909979392578579452013-10-19T21:45:00.000-07:002013-10-19T22:07:35.917-07:00Norwegian hypocritical ruleIt's 4:31 in the morning. I'm in the bus off to Bærum. Been in Oslo bus terminal from past 3:30 a.m. I witnessed a scenario that created questions regarding my point of view towards beggars, homeless, and drunk passengers.<br />
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The guy in the photo above was obviously dressed well. Judging from the material his trench coat is made of and a nice wool scarf, he's a normal drunk guy unable to resist sleep while waiting for his bus. Having palms clasped together, he cradled his head over them, eyes closed, comfortably—and probably–waiting for his bus.<br />
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I was sitting in front of him, sipping an overpriced little cup of coffee and munching an 18 kroners ultimately dry, hard raisin bread from Que Presso. A security guard tried to wake up this sleeping, bald guy. He talked in Norwegian which I presumed was something about sleeping is not allowed inside the bus terminal.<br />
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Therefore, if any parts of your body is in horizontal position, it is prohibited. You may close your eyes and sleep just like this lady in the photo below, but you can never comfortably take a nap horizontally. This lady is lucky to have a huge back which she can lean on and sleep or nap. Too bad, the guy had a small back pack that can never be leaned on, vertically.<br />
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Bald guy sat up. Undeniably sleepy. A couple of minutes later, his eyes closed and dropped his torso again in the seat like a child sleeping. It took only a few minutes, the security guard woke him up again. The latter seemed serious that the guy had to push himself up, eyes half closed and walked along the corridors. I perfectly understood what he was doing. He had to walk to shoo away his lethargy.<br />
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I was shattered with what I saw. Firstly, there were vacant seats, literally and figuratively. Why can't anyone take a nap with his torso flat in the seat? It's a waiting area: which means a place where people wait for their bus, irrespective of the habits of waiting: with eyes wide open, napping, talking, or staring at nothing. Simply, Oslo <i>bussterminalen</i> can put a sign that goes: "No one is allowed to wait for his bus in horizontal position."<br />
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Secondly, in the southern Philippines, you can rent a small bed and sleep while waiting for your bus, inside the bus terminal. Inside—to keep people warm.<br />
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If, unfortunately, you were in this guy's shoes, would you want someone shaking your body and stop you from lying down?<br />
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Finally, the scene didn't end with the sleepy dude. When he's gone, the security shook off this young guy, legally (?) napping in upright position. The former spoke in Norwegian which I assumed accused the latter to be sleeping for hours already inside the terminal. This guy looked decent and finely dressed. He left the terminal. It was freezing cold outside.<br />
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I asked myself, if one day, I missed my bus or lose my bus ticket, I have to freeze to death outside since I can not stay long inside this boring, no-style-at-all terminal.<br />
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Teaching discipline sometimes go hand in hand with selfishness. Not giving anyone the liberty to overstay avoids the tendency of homeless people turning a certain place into a warm, temporary shelter. It may teach a bit of lesson. Do not be homeless in Oslo. Work hard. Earn money. And again, do not be homeless.<br />
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Homelessness happens in various reasons. One can be just annoyingly lazy. This bitch might be an addict. That dude might be a wayfarer. They might be victims of human smuggling. Despite the validity of these causes, I see no point in ignoring the people outside the terminal, freezing. It was zero degrees centigrade.<br />
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Hypocrisy lies beneath a nation's sugar-coated facade. A classic disease contemporarily confused as maturity of societal rule.<br />
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Last month, I received an email from Google AdSense warning me to remove nudity in one of my blogs in 72 hours. It's not an adult blog. It features beautiful Filipino, fit, sexy, good-looking, in their best shots. Photography comes in all angles, colors, and moods. Some of this blog's photos had nudity in them, taken by well-known photographers.<br />
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Google doesn't really care. Artistic or not, butt exposure is against their policy since they claim to be "family-oriented" working with their "family-oriented" clients.<br />
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But this blog oftentimes, randomly, gets ad from Google AdSense with smiling Asian women, showing upper part of unusually big Asian boobs and more inviting cleavage, which can be sexually stimulating for some men. It's a "date Asian women" advertiser. These thumbnails are too far from being artistic though. They look so "Craiglist."<br />
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I removed all the butt-exposing pics, crotch-focused ones, and even a Filipino supermodel in sheer-clothing photographed by a well-known artist.<br />
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Now, my earnings has been plummeting. Virtual enterprise is not as stable as having a real, four-corner-job.Patzshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00314064122700370454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776684174040499178.post-41348055664820157252013-09-05T19:06:00.000-07:002013-09-05T19:21:10.300-07:00New Yahoo! logo reminds me of MS Word's WordArt<div dir="ltr">
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Yahoo! new logo creates such noise that calling the logo "it sucks" has been popular from blogs and social networking sites.</div>
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A few minutes ago, I typed <i>yahoo</i> in my tablet's Chrome browser, hit enter, and got Google results such as <i>yahoo.com</i>, <i>yahoomail</i> and news about Yahoo!.</div>
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I didn't notice the news headline (one con of using smartphone and tablets, my eyes quickly look at pictures, then the tiny words, or read the small letters of the words if interest occurs), but the new logo caught my attention immediately. In a couple of seconds, I presumed two things: a dork hacked Yahoo's site and changed its logo; and a cute kid won a logo contest for Yahoo!. </div>
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It is so Microsoft Word's WordArt, versions NT, 90, or 2000. The logo looks childish and fun, though. But it is not a <a href="http://pinterest.com/patzs/visual-stimulant/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">visual stimulant.</a></div>
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Surprisingly, I found out it's the initial design of the Yahoo! CEO, after reading some 'pissed-off' news.</div>
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She <a href="http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/post/60336044815/geeking-out-on-the-logo">mentioned</a> lots of things about the new logo and one of which is about not having it in straight line since <i>ain't</i> no straight line in real life. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Found out about the word "erudite" and the quote above through <a href="http://www.kernelmag.com/" target="_blank">The Kernel</a> via email newsletter from <a href="http://digg.com/" target="_blank">Digg</a>. If you're a dude, tired of the whining and 'for-the-sake-of-contradicting' blogs and sites, The Kernel is what you will give you a sigh and say, "at last!" Just like how I said, "at last, a movie for adults!" when I saw the movie <i>Closer</i>. </span>Patzshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00314064122700370454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776684174040499178.post-70316245305379982982013-08-01T18:40:00.000-07:002013-10-08T20:05:05.189-07:00Awesome Android App: PhotoEditor <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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No more whining when some shots are not impressive. Do not rush to delete photos that you think not worth saving. Open them up first in this app and be surprised of how they'd look after trying all the features.<br />
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Absolutely free with so many features like mirror editing, cropping, auto features (auto: gamma, tone, contrast, etc.), texts and a lot more.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oslo Ski Center</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Allow me to be a camwhore sometimes please.</td></tr>
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Patzshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00314064122700370454noreply@blogger.com0Norway60.586967342258689 6.679687543.901029342258688 -34.6289065 77.2729053422587 47.9882815tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776684174040499178.post-38810787638178640282013-08-01T16:49:00.001-07:002013-08-01T16:49:27.611-07:00Using Instagram for photo essayI have been recently active in Instagram. Firstly, there is no need to worry about viewers or photographers frowning upon my pixelated or low-resolution photos. I have been using non-HD, old DSLR. For instance, Flickr and 500px showcase crystal clear, extremely high-definition photographs.<br />
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Secondly, a "like" or two in Instagram is addicting. Seeing the heart in the app notification is so much better than Facebook's "thumb up" icon.<br />
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Lastly, photos posted by people are realistic, like an essay of their daily lives: what they see, eat or feel.<br />
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Below are my posts in Instagram with some thoughts I started to write off when the long, summer was stopped by the rain and chill wind.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[0]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Comparatively, these shapes and colors have relaxing effect, than "Tine" melk, IsTe Zero, Iskaffe Zero (respectively, milk, iced tea and iced coffee—products of a "big cheese" brand Tine. Three months in Norway, the pearly white teeth and square jaws of the models in train station print ad spaces have gradually locked my gaze straight ahead, ignoring these rectangular ads plastered like 4 to 6 in a row. But I'm no marketing mogul. Maybe surrounding people with same ads 360 degrees is effective. A website with ads in all corners is definitely not so appealing. Asian dude is helplessly having too much expectations: classic or modern and sophisticated European train stations. Just like the pictures in the books the white guys donated in Asian public schools. Location: </span><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[1]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">#Oslo</span><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[2]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> t-bane (train station).</span><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[3]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">#Norway</span><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[4]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[5]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">#advertising</span><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[6]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[7]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">#PrintAds</span><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[8]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[9]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">#commercialism</span><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[10]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[11]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">#RainMakesMeThinkOfEconomics</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span id=".reactRoot[4].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[0]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">A few months ago, I was an excited Filipino dropped in Norway so suddenly that I felt no worry at all owing to the mutual security the US dollars had have given me. Unbelievably, my childhood impression of "superhero" US dollars became a worse lie that I grew up to believe to. US dollar is weak in Norway—its buying power is as low as a sun setting behind the low hills. So the Asian dude ran to Tiger store, a cool but cheap store in the outskirt of Oslo. Scalp-scraping hair comb, chocolate, eraser (that refused to get rid of pencil sketches) and chocolate beverage (that seemed to be 90% sugar, water and 10% cacao), all from Sweden: not bad for $18. </span><span id=".reactRoot[4].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[1]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">#Norway</span><span id=".reactRoot[4].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[2]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span id=".reactRoot[4].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[3]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">#USDollar</span><span id=".reactRoot[4].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[4]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><span id=".reactRoot[4].[0].[0].0.[0].0.[0][0].[1].[1].[0].[0].0.[0].[1].[2][1].[5]" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">#RainMakesMeThinkOfEconomics</span></span></i><br />
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<br />Patzshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00314064122700370454noreply@blogger.com0Norway60.47202399999999 8.4689459999999646.059243999999993 -32.839648000000039 74.884803999999988 49.777539999999959tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776684174040499178.post-38302410335946582912013-05-28T16:19:00.001-07:002013-05-28T16:19:13.882-07:00Flickr gives free terabyte<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/patzs/8867045080/" title="Bærums Verk by patzs, on Flickr"><img alt="Bærums Verk" height="527" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2828/8867045080_b7e1f6504e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/patzs/8867047028/" title="Oh-range by patzs, on Flickr"><img alt="Oh-range" height="398" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8412/8867047028_9177abf3c5_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/patzs/8872073749/" title="Reach out by patzs, on Flickr"><img alt="Reach out" height="427" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3804/8872073749_16d332b0cf_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/patzs/8872072011/" title="Tringelen, Bærums Verk by patzs, on Flickr"><img alt="Tringelen, Bærums Verk" height="427" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3810/8872072011_5e2ec39b59_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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Good thing Flickr gives each account holder a gree terabyte. I have ignored it for so long and have used other sites for posting photos.<br />
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<br />Patzshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00314064122700370454noreply@blogger.com0Oslo, Norway59.9138688 10.75224539999999359.658993300000006 10.106798399999992 60.1687443 11.397692399999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776684174040499178.post-29972459194104579242013-05-14T17:12:00.000-07:002013-05-14T17:12:22.335-07:00Lost in Norway<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I didn't wear socks. Too stubborn and insisted it's summer in Norway. It rained, shiver ran into my spine. My hands would get somewhat numb. Oftentimes, I get this "electrical" sensation. In the Philippines, my friends complained they felt the pang of electricity when I touched them in the malls. This time, I electrify myself. Electrify? Forgive the word, I'm using a Norwegian laptop. 90% of the words I'm writing gets underlined in red. Bloody. You have to be ready for everything in Norway. Weather app tells it's gonna be sunny or cloudy today, but rain or hail can happen. This morning, I was sitting outside having coffee and smoking. I let the sun kissed my face. Hailstone fell from the sky. A summer winter? This is my longest photo caption so far.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am lost in Norway. Lost in translation. Lost<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;">—and I am loving it. New things are like antibiotics, they repress the lassitude bothering you from your former comfort zones. The more striking my desire grows to see the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">"Be happy, the world is big," I used to tell my friends losing grip that <i><b>la vita y bella</b>. </i></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oslo Central Station. How staged is a staged photography? As if someone calls my name. I turn around. The trench coat sways in the air like Neo does in the Matrix. Neo did it for film. I'm doing for what? It doesn't matter darling. I want to laugh someday and look how fun life had been.</td></tr>
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One sure thing to do when living in a new place: take pictures. It doesn't matter if a camera at hand is a 5 megapixel, triple AAA battery powered with a resolution of a VGA camera. There's Photoshop. Torture pictures with editing softwares. </div>
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Amazing how places become beautiful when they're in pictures. The latter are more beautiful when you're in the photos. It's gonna be the best picture ever when your best angle get caught. Quicker than thunder, it becomes your profile pic in Facebook or Twitter. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm trying to achieve a pompadour hairstyle. Norways seems to be having a moist air most of the times, my hair loses its James Dean look. One day, I had my hair tied into a ponytail. A man approached me and bowed down. He thought I was a yakuza.</td></tr>
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James Franco never fails to prove he's a no nonsense jack-of-all-trades. He produced a documentary film about the current creative director of the label Gucci: Frida Giannini.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a warning before you click on emails that are awesomely authentic-looking<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.390625px;">—and fake</span>. This one made it into my inbox so I opened it since it's from Yahoo!. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1</b>. Point the mouse cursor/pointer over the sender's name (e.g. company name or full names). The sender's email appears near it. In the screenshot above, it shows <span style="color: red;">mpearen60@yahoo.ca</span>. We all know that default emails from companies<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.390625px;">—particularly big companies like Yahoo! and Apple</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.390625px;">—basically use emails like support@company.com or billing@company.com.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have heard people in awe of the Google Maps Street View<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16px;">—some are for voyeurism purposes</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16px;">—but consider me a late bloomer, I have experienced it today. And yes, it is helluva awesome. The website is called the <a href="http://www.safestyle-windows.co.uk/secret-door/" target="_blank">Secret Door</a>. Learned about the Secret Door as I stumbled upon <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/17/the-secret-door-uses-google-maps-street-view-to-remind-us-that-everything-is-amazing-and-we-barely-notice/" target="_blank">Venture Beat</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Once you click on the door, you will be randomly traveling to places like The White House, Rome's Colosseum, and even to a tiny library in Nunavut, Canada. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">The feeling is beautiful, it's heavenly actually, seeing serene forest Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave in France.</span></span><br />
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You can drag the screen or click on the arrows and it brings you to the next spot: it's like you're trekking there yourself. There's a background music which is kind of working like a sleeping pill. You can put it off by clicking on the icon in the upper right corner of the screen.<br />
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So here are the screenshots of the places I've gone to today. Enjoy!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Google's Headquarter bulletin board; located in North Carolina</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Russian and Turkish Spa, Miami, Florida</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">London, England</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tate Modern, London</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I forgot to check the name of this stadium; I was busy circling the place, it was so huge.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The location appears as boxes, they must be in Chinese characters.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jigokudani Monkey Park, Japan</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Earthquake-hit Plaza Maiya in Japan; yes they show stuff like this.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Russian & Turkish Baths, Miami, Florida</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tate Modern, England. You can zoom in and see the details of paintings, Victorian chairs, and others</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dauin, Dumaguete, Philippines</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Borealis in Norway. Click the image for larger viewing. It's like seeing a place in 360 degrees. </td></tr>
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Try it now, just click on the door.<br />
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Patzshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00314064122700370454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776684174040499178.post-284268648718718772013-02-16T12:10:00.000-08:002013-02-16T12:10:58.869-08:00Words I Learned Today (WILT)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Vituperative</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"...And Franco knows what that feels like, more than Sherman or McCarthy or Gordon. I ask him if his <b><i>vituperative</i></b> art works taking aim at the blogosphere are a form of revenge. There is, after all, some pretty nutty stuff out there..." <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/cf4edf24-75f2-11e2-9891-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2L5H16T3x" target="_blank">Source: Peter Aspden interviews James Franco for Financial Times</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Portent</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">"Rod Stewart’s “I Don’t Want to Talk About It” starts to play in the background – an ominous <b><i>portent</i></b> – but Franco is in a relaxed, giving mood. Did he find it difficult to compartmentalise his complicated life and multilayered work?" </span><a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/cf4edf24-75f2-11e2-9891-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2L5H16T3x" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">Source: Peter Aspden interviews James Franco for Financial Times</a></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Zonked</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">I am a little <b><i>zonked</i></b>, I say, having just arrived on an early flight from London. “I’ve just flown in from LA,” he out-zonks me instantly. “But I’m used to it.” We both order cappuccinos."</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/cf4edf24-75f2-11e2-9891-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2L5H16T3x" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">Source: Peter Aspden interviews James Franco for Financial Times</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Erudite</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"But Franco, 34, is not just an actor. He is also an artist, a writer and a scholar. Indeed, depending on your point of view, he is either the most <b><i>erudite </i></b>and cleverly subversive commentator on the relationship between fame and art since Andy Warhol or a pretentious, self-referential fraud."</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/cf4edf24-75f2-11e2-9891-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2L5H16T3x" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">Source: Peter Aspden interviews James Franco for Financial Times</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Henpecked</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Kalimati, sans-serif;">"I strongly doubt that Lacson will welcome LGBTs coming to his defense (he has strongly denied being gay and in fact let it be known that he is a <i><b>henpecked </b></i>husband) which would account perhaps for the LGBT's silence." <a href="http://www.interaksyon.com/article/55190/marie-yuvienco--truth-or-dare-pinky-lacson-vs-miriam-the-crusading-crook" target="_blank">Source: Marie Yuvienco reports over the alleged sexuality issues of Senator Ping Lacson for Interaksyon.com</a></span></blockquote>
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Last month, flying back to Davao from Manila, I decided for the first time to seriously take a photograph of the clouds, sky, and the sunset.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Good thing the PAL crew asked me where I'd like to be seated.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three layers: cotton-like clouds in the bottom, could be dark smog in the middle, and sky on top.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saw three rainbows in one flight, lovely.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is this what they call Bokeh?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I felt like I was an astronaut looking at the Earth behind me.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ohlala, the cotton candies!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bye Luzon! The weather went bad when we reached Visayas or it was Mindanao I think.</td></tr>
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Granny's cats living in the dirty kitchen's roof.<br />
<br />Patzshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00314064122700370454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776684174040499178.post-13486129125163397472012-12-29T11:45:00.003-08:002012-12-29T11:59:32.947-08:00Hello 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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2013 is gonna be a year for all of us.<br />
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The year 2012 has been filled with chaos, surprises, insecurities-countries fighting for a mere island's ownership, a silent-type geek firing bullets in school-achievements, and others. But we're still reading each other's blogs, Facebook or Twitter posts: in the end, good heed occur among us wishing everyone well.<br />
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I took a break from the corporate world in April. A decision I made that surely made me looked like a loser in the eyes of judgmental people. Let me emphasize I have become conceited: I pity them for seeing things like how the crowd deal things based on the reality of others.<br />
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Quitting is not losing. We need to breathe.<br />
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Some of us have been obsessed with money. Literally seeing life as working to have a paycheck landing into your palms in paydays.<br />
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We die without notice.<br />
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Do you wanna die with a fat bank account from working (and floating) at work?<br />
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Do you wanna die being stubborn and lazy, sometimes, enjoying the aimless driving of motorbike in the countryside, smoking and sipping coffee the whole while listening to Jack Johnson or the chirping of the birds?<br />
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It is a choice my dear.<br />
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<br />Patzshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00314064122700370454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776684174040499178.post-35551783167190931642012-11-28T02:43:00.001-08:002012-11-28T02:53:38.279-08:00Gumamela + RawTherapee<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I saw this gumamela flower in my mother's garden. Tried post-processing the photos with <a href="http://rawtherapee.com/" target="_blank">RawTherapee</a>. It is an amazing, open-source software. It's easy to use and gives good results.<br />
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These cupcakes were amazing-and moist. Last month, I made more than 80 cupcakes for the children party my sister used to do every 2 years.<br />
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Moist Vanilla Cupcakes - <a href="http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/desserts/moist-vanilla-cupcakes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Tasty Kitchen</a></div>
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Moist Chocolate Cupcakes - <a href="http://thefarmchicks.typepad.com/farmchicks/2009/01/moist-chocolate-cupcakes-with-vanilla-buttercream.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Farm Chicks</a></div>
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But I'm mostly disobedient to published recipes. I always read the reviews especially the suggestion of those who've done a particular dish. Sometimes, I reject all their ideas and make my own mixing formula. Instead of a cup of coffee, I like making a cup of brewed coffee out of 4 tablespoons ground dark coffee. Surprises are fun.</div>
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Kids need fairy cupcakes though. They tend to eat the frosting alone with a small bite of the cupcake. </div>
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Owl</div>
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Morning sun</div>
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You're never fun</div>
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I always run</div>
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Don't shine.</div>
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Oh night</div>
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Keeps me alive</div>
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Dark clouds</div>
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Let me drive.</div>
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I need you</div>
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Let me take you</div>
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Patzshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00314064122700370454noreply@blogger.com2Digos City, Philippines6.7575087 125.3523986.5052162 125.036541 7.0098012 125.66825499999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776684174040499178.post-19573717496702155002012-10-22T15:27:00.002-07:002012-10-22T15:27:33.725-07:00Some Devil by Dave Matthews<iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F22718587&show_artwork=true" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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One last kiss one only<br />
Then I'll let you go<br />
Hard for you I've fallen<br />
But you can't break my fall<br />
I'm broken don't break me<br />
When I hit the ground<br />
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Some devil some angel<br />
Has got me to the bones<br />
You said always and forever<br />
Now I believe you baby<br />
You said always and forever<br />
Is such a long and lonely time<br />
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Too drunk and still drinking<br />
It's just the way I feel<br />
It's alright<br />
Is what you told me<br />
Cause what we had was so beautiful<br />
Feel heavy like floating<br />
At the bottom of the sea<br />
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You said always and forever<br />
Now I believe you baby<br />
You said always and forever<br />
Is such a long and lonely time<br />
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Some devil is stuck inside of me<br />
I cannot set it free<br />
I wish, I wish I was dead and you were grieving<br />
Just so that you could know<br />
Some angel is stuck inside of me<br />
But I cannot set you free<br />
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You said always and forever<br />
Now I believe you baby<br />
You said always and forever<br />
Such a long and lonely time<br />
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Stuck inside of me
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Patzshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00314064122700370454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776684174040499178.post-8230993915051938092012-10-18T14:32:00.003-07:002013-01-20T11:46:58.435-08:00Surigao del Sur<b>Tinuy-an Falls</b><br />
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<b>Enchanted River</b><br />
Located in Talisay, Hinatuan<br />
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<b>Britania Islets</b><br />
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I'd like to thank <a href="http://iam.ariellalisan.com/2012/06/04/surigao-del-sur-getaway-britania-islands-enchanted-hinatuan-river-tinuy-an-falls/" target="_blank">Ariel Lalisan</a> for the ideas in getting to Surigao del Sur in 2 days.Patzshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00314064122700370454noreply@blogger.com0Surigao del Sur, Philippines8.9950309 126.00232257.9868698999999994 124.738895 10.0031919 127.26575000000001