Fickle Weather and My Sleepy Town

i spent the weekend in tagaytay before heading on to Pagsanjan Falls. i have always loved tagaytay for its stillness and eerie calm. i feel at peace in this place. i also did the trek again to Taal Volcano just for the sake of seeing the fantastic vista. the clouds were fickle that weekend. here are some of the photos:

sunrise

Love waking up to mornings like this. lovely too to be out of the city. This is definitely my happy place. Morning everyone!

-Pia S. Rieza
Sent from my Nokia phone

Daily commute

scenes from everyday

Photo of the Day

i lost my phone, i wonder what HE lost...

Eat Pray Love

Listening to EPL. Seems fitting on an early sunday morning. i agree with her idea that it is only in travelling that we begin to understand and fully know ourselves. It is only in comparison to the rest of the world do we see what we truly value and what we have come to hold dear in our hearts.

i have not had a quiet early morning in a long time. it is marvelous. i love watching the sun come up, bathing me in its light. and as it does, i know that somehow, everything will be alright. that through something or someone divine, i will make it through the day and wake up the next morning to feel the sun bathe me again.

-Pia S. Rieza
Sent from my Nokia phone

F(a)tness Trail

i have not been running for the past couple of months. this is the reason i have been sporting the unsightly muffin top. it is also the reason i decided to haul ass and start moving sunday morning. i got up earlier than usual and decided to take my camera along my walk. i knew there was no hope i'd be able tyo run decently anyway, so i took the easy way out and walked for about two and a half hours. i also decided to take an unusual route. here are pics from my walk:

yes, i go up this hill whenever i want to get out of the house.
nothing like a clear blue sky and the smell of the neighbor's breakfast to keep me going

i don't remember ever seeing these trees with leaves... ever.

the twin peaks, i like to call them. notice the incline sign... yeah, it dips and then rises again. i used to run these two hills for speedwork before. i need to get back in shape, dammit!

there's a golf course just behind that fence (and if you look very closely, you'd see Regine Velasquez' home, too... or is it Ai Ai's?!).

I love this canopy of flowers. i love flowers. i really really do.


no, i did not walk all the way to Chile. they were widening C5 right outside my village.


i love how UP bustles with people early Early Sunday mornings.


yeah, i didn't know there was a sidewalk along university avenue. sweet!




the sun was hot hot hot! that was oasis across this humongous freeway!


i took that overpass. damn it was shaking!!


i love the entrance to the technohub. and it's always so quiet here in the mornings.


i took my baby holga with me. will post pics from it soon.

tall iced americano with 5 splendas please. and lots and lots of water.



he's wishing he was somewhere else alright...

in case you're wondering why the photos stop at starbucks, it's because i asked my little brother to pick me up! i couldn't take another step!

anyway, it was fun. i enjoyed the walk so much i will probably do it again this weekend. i'll probably go for a run midweek just to see if i could still do a 5k without collapsing but i'm really looking forward to the walk next sunday. hope you enjoyed your weekend boys and girls!