August 21
I can’t think of a better recipient of holiday gifts than these two kids, and kids like them who spend most of the time on the streets. This picture was taken last August 21, by the side of the Quezon Bridge on the Plaza Miranda side. Maybe their parents have been paid to setup these flags and passed the task on to them. Maybe they were hired by whatever political party this was.
If only every flaglet they stuck on the ground would raise their hopes for a better future…
Once in a well, lifetime
The flower you see below is on a cactus plant on our neighbor’s house across the street. In all of the five years we have lived here since coming back from Mindanao, we had never seen it bloom till yesterday. Today it had already wilted.
It sort of reminds me of things ephemeral, like chocolates from abroad that come in big shipping boxes from a relative far away. You eat up all the chocolate and remember the taste for weeks on end.
I remember this flower, and I thank my camera I was there to shoot it before it died.
Looking for the Kwento
Just recently I blogged about joining PhotoWorldCup 2008 on Ning.com. One of the rules on PWC is to upload just one photo a day per member. This saves space and bandwidth on the server, as opposed to members being able to upload an unlimited number of photos in one day — uploading just one forces a user to choose his best photo for the day.
I received a comment on the first photo I uploaded, the one I call A walk in the clouds, reproduced here in smaller resolution.
Bryan Lee had commented: “simple yet it tells a lot of stories…hmmm, what would be the ending?”
And I realized that is the purpose of taking pictures. To look for the story and to tell it at the same time. And to succeed in doing so will be worth a thousand words.
MMO Accounts for the taking
I had no idea what MMO meant until I asked my eldest son about it. MMO means “massively multiplayer online game” otherwise known as MMOG. I never had a taste for MMO because I always thought they could be an expensive past time. I restrained myself to playing Battle Realms on the PC, and the most I ever did was play it on a network with my brothers-in-law.
But recently I have heard that there are wow accounts for sale, World of Warcraft online gaming accounts. I asked my son about it and he said that it’s because some people eventually get bored with their characters and so they put them up for sale. Hopefully there’s someone out there who’ll buy it because he either has unlimited time to play or is not that good at the game as of yet. There are other players who don’t want level up their own characters. The people who get bored and just sold their accounts in turn look around for other, more interesting wow accounts for sale.
The ‘items’ the character is currently equipped with make a big impact on the price, the more ‘godlike’ your equipment is, the more expensive the account can get. most items are specific to the class who can use them.
What an interesting commodity!
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