The night I Stubled Upon

I just discovered a new way to explore sites of my interest thru Stumble Upon – it was so great that I enjoyed wandering the World Wide Web and bumping into sites I like. In a way, it will help me uphold this blog’s purpose to log my wanderings in the web, among others... The images for instance awakened my artist wannabe persona, the library resources were oh so exciting ( I hope I will adapt a patience to read e-books this time), and the snippets of tech materials made me felt big (at least from a tech newbie's perspective) . In my web adventures, Stumble Upon will surely make a good company.

These are some great sites I’m glad I stumbled upon:

Bibliomania

Photoshop Tips and Tricks

Artwork of Katerine Dinger

Kenneth Parker Photographs

Miles's Valentine

We were love struck this month as one of my friends tied the knot with her prince who came all the way from Nottingham, England. Theirs is a wonderful love story worth retelling - Miles or Milagros as we fondly call her, then qualified for an MBA program at Nottingham University around five years ago when, despite the grueling two years of graduate studies, somehow managed to meet a fine man, Calvin, at local pub, during one of her after class night outs with grad school classmates. Fast forward 2008 - their wedding took place at a chapel in Mactan Cebu one breezy February afternoon. Everyone was in high spirits as the sun displayed its majestic splendor and despite the presence of a tad annoying wedding coordinator, the church ceremony went well. The reception set on a beach theme in Plantation Bay was splendid; the usual Filipino wedding ritual was punctuated by some unwitting remarks of the wedding coordinator cum host cum singer entertainer, whew! Good thing I was seated beside the priest celebrant, Fr. Donal O’ Hanlon of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban who chatted about his wonderful adventures from Ipil to London – it managed to keep my attention away from the wedding coordinator (stop laughing Kin! :)). But the stars of the night, Calvin and Miles who exchanged adoring looks all throughout, felt exultant to be wed at last!

Meeting Kin

After more than ten long years I finally met Kin – my nerd of a high school classmate who is best remembered as a science adoring, technology manic whiz kid. Seeing him show up at another classmate’s wedding looking almost exactly as he did years back brought an amused smile as memories from high school played like slideshow in my face. A scene depicting me and my other classmates laboring badly in our Physics and Algebra assignments while Kin, bored in his seat, was all set and ready with his computation and seamless solutions to those dreaded subjects, was just among the funny memories remembered. I learned that he indeed made use of his brains by becoming, according to him, a perennial student – earning two undergraduate degrees and currently on his way to obtaining an MS in Computer Science while authoring two tech textbooks on the side. And his interests never waned after all these years – science, astronomy or technology or a sensible mix of all these (see photo of a galacticship orbiting the earth below grabbed from his blog); and as he blogs about them, I cannot help but feel delighted seeing Kin and his old usual self. Now, even as he makes this world his ant farm, it is still Kin all this time.