New Years Eve Fireworks
No, not Chinese new year (Xin Nian Kuai Le and Gung Hay Fat Choy by the way), but these are long exposure shots taken on Dec 31st at midnight as the sky lit up with fireworks. The exposure is set to 15 seconds.
Archive | Philippines 2011
Typhoon Quiel / Nalgae to hit Philippines
Well, here we go again. Just a few days after the last storm Nesat smashed into the Philippines, we have another one due to make landfall early tomorrow. Yes, it’s definitely rainy season here! New Tropical Storm Details International Name: Nalgae Local Name: Quiel Expected Landfall: Saturday around 10am Strength: Category 3 (111-130mph). However, it [...]
Category 4 Nesat set to slam the Philippines
Light rain spits down from the swiftly moving clouds as two tropical storms spin to the west. The Philippines has a unique underwater landscape. To the west is shallow with many islands. To the east, it is deeper before the Philippine shelf disappears into the Mariana trench, the deepest part of the worlds ocean. This [...]
Total Lunar Eclipse June 15th – 16th 2011 from the Philippines
The eclipse swung right across the middle of the earth and I was lucky enough to be in its path. I took a series of photos over the duration of the eclipse as well as some video. For now, I have the edited photos below as well as an animated gif I made. Animated Image [...]
As I stand here today…
Every day of my life has the same routine. This is the main drawback to working from home. I have experienced it for a long time and it can get very depressing. But it’s much harder for that to happen here. I stand on my balcony, watching the sun set and I think of all [...]
Another call
Friday morning. We are working in my office when Ian receives a text message saying that Del had passed away just after 11am. It shocked us to the core. Around a year earlier, Del had been rushed to hospital as he had stomach pains. At hospital, they found that he had cancer and began running [...]
The phone call
I received a txt message today. “Call me ASAP. Mam” it said. I called my mam as soon as I could. “It’s your grandma” My mam said, “She died yesterday”. The news shook me like a rag doll in an explosion. My grandma (on my mothers side) has been mentally ill for a while and [...]
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