to Greenbelt

the sight of plants relaxes me

From work, Greenbelt is about 2 to 3 minutes walk lang. And along with some officemates we usually go to Greenbelt during lunch break. More so when work is neck deep, we just have to go down and try to absorb some oncogenic sunlight and inhale some of Makati's vehicular pollution.

Here's another shot of the same park (SyCip Park along Legazpi St.).

I was pleasantly surprised when I first passed by Greenbelt 5 (G5), and saw the 2 pools (low lying "fountains"). Those pools gives the shopper or passersby a refreshing view amidst concrete and glass structures. You can see beyond the pool the pocket garden in the middle of Greenbelt. The pocket garden is surrounded by G3, G4, G5, and the Greenbelt chapel.

Here's another shot where you can see G3 beyond the greens.

Next are some shots of the path to the Greenbelt chapel from G5.

The Greenbelt chapel. I sometimes spend some of my time here. The chapel's location is very convenient for Makati workers not to mention the serenity it imbues to whoever seeks solitude inside.

swarovski bracelets and pearl accessories

I am posting pics of some of the pearl earrings I recently sold. I ran out of time then, so i wasn't able to post the Swarovski bracelets pics ordered by some friends and officemates.
Well, here's some...

Yeah, the resolution is indeed poor. The light where I took the pictures is poor din. But, you know I like that feeling of knowing that what you have created/made is appreciated and was/were actually bought! Yup, my simple "creations" were bought and I also am receiving orders, that somehow gives me a nice feeling :).

I welcome suggestions... My creations are very affordable at very low low prices. And if you would like to order, you may contact me here just use the comment post or txt me at 0910-3492214.

I was able to sell the blue and white crystal bracelet (see pic below) sometime in January (2008) and since this is one of the few pics I took of my creations I think I'll just post this and also of some (again blurred) pics of a double rainbow Swarovski bracelet on 10K gold I made for an officemate (he gave it as a 2008 Valentine gift to his wife).

Below is the white Swarovski bracelet (double rainbow) in 10K gold that an officemate bought for his wife as Valentine gift.

Yup, the resolutions are really bad, not to mention that I did not present the pieces in better settings/background(well...) well I am trying to save up for a better camera (an SLR maybe?)

kakenkoyan sa work

Even if dreary ang weather ganundin ang work because of deadlines, good natured officemates make your day naman :)

there's Gil infront of his station, (super busy and dedma to the world as usual!), here kuya Benny and April posed for my cam (this was taken during the last Friday that April is employed by the company (she opted to work in Singapore)

hehehee, kiliti naman dyan!

busy! hehee, si Teri (back at the cam) at April nagko-conference

di talaga matipid ngumiti si Araj at Irvin!

minsan talaga di umiimik si Macoy, serious yan sa work parang tong si Harvs serious din at magaling na layout artist (nagbabasa kasi at dinidiskartehan ang pag-layout unlike other external and inhouse suppliers)

hmmmm...at ano naman ang pinagkakaabalahan nyo, hmmm? (super busy guys, from the left (seated) Martin, Macoy (cream jacket), and Irvin

buhos

There are days na I can hardly raise myself from the bed or rouse myself from deep slumber. Maybe, yan ay dahil sa distance ng work ko from our house. Imagine I have to travel from Monday to Saturday(half day lang naman) from Cavite to Makati. At first I can hardly raise my head from the pillow, ganun!

my cluttered desk at work

I have often contemplated leaving Makati and work in Cavite near our home(of which I did job hunt, unfortunately karamihan grads of IT courses ang preferred, heheheee).

And there’s the horrifying traffic scheme in Cavite – daily travelers refer to it as “buhos.” Buhos works like this – Cavite’s traffic enforcers stop the Cavite bound vehicles at Longos (bottleneck area at the flyover sa bungad ng Emilio Aguinaldo Highway) and they let the Manila bound vehicles occupy both sides of the road. The Manila bound vehicles roar onwards like scurrying wildebeests (ngek, exagz!). Bohus for Manila bound or Cavite bound vehiclesmay last up to 5 to 10(?) minutes then the ongoing vehicular flow is stopped then yong isa naman. Kaya kung ang sinasakyan mo (Manila bound) at di nakalampas sa SM Bacoor ng quarter to 7am at pa-Makati ka well bukas ka na lang pumasok. 'Coz the vehicle flow creates a bottleneck traffic at Niog on to Talaba and again by the tollgate or at the MIA road parallel to Uniwide Sales Coastal Mall. Whew!

Fortunately, it seems that Cavite's traffic management partnered with the MMDA in the current road widening project along Emilio Aguinaldo Highway. The last time I looked the spray painted structures and "USLI" posters has reached Dasmariñas, Cavite. Yeeey!

crazy dance

My daughter likes to dance! Hay naku! I am sometimes amazed with the way she dances to the latest TV soap craze (chan. 7’s Marimar) and (also of Chan. 7’s lunchtime TV show) EatBulaga’s “Kagat Labi.” More so when I found out that my husband taught her how to do the “Kagat Labi” dance.

Hay talaga! Here she is doing the “Kagat Labi.” J

My children's antics keeps me sane from life's daily concerns. My kids are my true joy...

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park in the middle

The Washington SyCip Park is a refreshing green island in the middle of Legazpi and Gamboa Sts., near Greenbelt 1.

On this huge rock and on two other huge rocks at the other two park entrances, the park's name were hammerred.

The entrance to the park from Legazpi street.

One of two gazebos inside the park. Beside this gazebo is a pond populated with kois. Fountains and an artificial waterfall aerates the pond water.

I like walking through this park when I have the time, it somehow gives me the feeling of being transported somewhere far from the city.

Here are photos of other parts of the Sycip Park.

Here's an interesting structure, a mobile sculpture, it rises in the park's center



Here's another sculpture, well I'll take a better shot of this, so for now I think this will do.

And here's what welcomes you at the Gamboa street entrance of the park, a cute big stone tortoise(?)

my other joy - beading...

Here are some of the pearl, glass, and wire earrings I did. The designs are simple for I'm still a newbie.

Next is an enlarged photo of the dangling pearl earring, in the photo above.

Sorry for the resolution, the photos were taken with an N70, and the light was poor where I took it. Next is a colored glass bracelet. I do sell these bead jewelries at very low prices. The pearl earrings were sold at Ph35.00 each to my officemates, the cultured pearls and swarovzki crystal I used there are real.

And below are the Swarovzki crystals in 10K gold bracelet (price starts at Ph300 up, price depends on th amount of gold and Swarovzki crystals used) and the cultured pearl bracelet (Ph 60.00) that I also did. I usually wrap the jewelries, such as bracelets, I sell in string pouches such as the one in the photo below.

I will soon post my other creations. If you are interested you may contact me at lmerjb@yahoo.com or at 09103492214

our little Joy

Here, are some photos of Joy with the family last December 2007.

This was taken at the Aviation Security Group-Special Operations Unit HQ at the NAIA compound. My husband took the kids with him to their unit's christmas party.

Joy, carried by her Papa posed with two of her ninongs, Sam dela China(in blue and white striped shirt) and David(in ASG black shirt).

Here, Joy and kuya JB plays with the other kids at SOU's 2007 christmas party

bag enamoured

She was so keen on having that pink Disney princesses bag that she gamely posed for it, of course mama thought of alibi's just so nothing is bought on a whim!

Here my daughter plays with the doll that her lola Pilar bought for her instead of the pink Disney bag (see previous photo).

Taken hours before New Year 2008 (ooooops! house in disarray, hehehee...)

mostly of Joy

Joy is a typical 3-year old, makulit na malikot and madaldal kahit bulol pa. Noong mas bata pa sya ang tahimik and very shy, she was to me a very fragile kid (even now kahit makulit at malikot na) she would cry whenever her kuya is being makulit. I even considered staying at home so I can take care of her, I was afraid she was not being taken cared (by the yaya) of the way I would want her to be.

I sometimes tell JB to look after his kid sister and not to leave her sister while they are outside. I told him as gently as I could, that some people are not good, that those people sometimes take away kids and make them work for money. My son of course is still young and he forgets some serious talks we've had but he did look after his sister most of the time more so if the yaya is not around. Joy is turning up to be a hardy kid like her brother. My fears after all can be set aside. But, of course nothing's lost in being cautious.
Joy loves to dance the "Marimar," it is the most popular cinenovela on TV's primetime these days.

Here is Joy dancing the "Marimar" even on the street!