I’ve been playfully complaining to Hubs that I absolutely cannot read his penmanship – even his hiragana and katakana, the characters of which I’m familiar with now. I tell him it’s like the penmanship of a kindergarten. And he laughs because he says his penmanship has been lauded as very professional. I try to write.
He tells me my penmanship IS the kindergarten type. Hoh well. At least I can read it. 🙂
Looking back to our “growing years”, boring is certainly not a word in Elna’s (aka Kaloka) vocabulary; where there’s fun and excitement Elna was sure in the thick of it. And when I say “growing years”, I mean almost the whole span of it for Elna has been my longest running classmate ever – we were classmates since 1st grade and got accelerated together in 5th grade (accelerated being we jumped to the next higher grade within the same year, hence graduating elementary a year ahead from our real batchmates). We were both quite active in academic and extra-curricular activities back then and as Math Quizzers in high school, together with Rezza and our Math mentor Sir Iroy, Elna and I also went to trips to different towns to compete (and win! Hehe) against other students with our Math prowess. Those girls and our Math mentor surely made Math easy and very interesting despite the fact that we had to spend even some of our weekends with Math. Had I pushed with my plans months before graduation to pursue accountancy, Elna and I would have been classmates all the way to college since we also went to the same university. But I found out about Chemical Engineering and pursued the course and so struggled with Math from thereon hahaha (thankfully, struggled just enough to keep my scholarships).
Ever the fun and interesting person that she is, Elna has been maintaining a blog for the last couple of years or so where her posts on fashion are among my favorites. I remember in grade school how we waited with big-eyed excitement as Elna sketches pretty girls in pretty dresses.
Do visit her in her new address — thekaloka.com. I especially liked her recent post on marriage.
Elna also did a touching feature on us when our wedding got featured in the Martha Stewart Weddings Philippines magazine. Thanks for that El! 🙂
Here’s to more years of friendship! 🙂 albeit separated by continents. 🙂
Cheers!
Pretties!
A very special day indeed! Not because of the annular solar eclipse but because it’s the birthday of the most important person in my life. Been showering hubs of my feelings since last night so it’ll be just a simple greeting here, teehee.
Happy Birthday, my dear dear A! 🙂
(this is the complimentary “birthday cake” that Kihachi prepared for us. We had my birthday dinner in this fine dining restaurant. Thought it best to have Atsushi’s birthday here as well).
They also gave us a birthday card with our souvenir photo.
Will post the great food we had for dinner next time, in my goodfoodhunt blog.
A meaningful day for the both of us, in more ways than one.
Happy birthday again Hubby! 🙂
I pray you more happiness, blessings and love. And patience (for me hehe). Mwah!
People in the office have been talking about this once-in-a-millenium-event since last week. Hubs and I were of course anticipating it as well – for uhm, some mushy idea that I have (you know, walking hand in hand under a perfect ring in the sky….yeah. I shouldn’t have mentioned it).
But alas, my insomnia was at its worst last night, making me sleep at 4am and so I only woke up at 7:30, just right when the apparently smaller diameter moon was perfectly blocking the sun, creating the ring. When hubs brought me outside (having had woken up earlier he of course witnessed the ring), I was only able to witness the half moon vision. And when I got inside to get my camera again (iPhone was no good), the cloud was already blocking even the half moon vision.
Some friends and colleagues were lucky like hubs though. This photo taken by our friend Russell Olaguer is surely amazing.
Truly a Ring of Fire.
Hubs told me of a song popularized in 1990 by the Japanese band, Dreams Come True. It tells of this year’s annular solar eclipse.
Can you give me the ring? Only one. I will wait for you up to solar eclipse in 2012.
Please don’t forget. Yes, it’s the ring of the sun.
If you are close to me, I am so happy that I cry
Sigh. Isn’t it romantic? 🙂
By the way, Russell was also the one who took our early autumn prenup . Look for more of his amazing photos in his Flickr account or subscribe to him in Facebook.
Receiving a warm email on a Monday morning is like a harbinger to a great workweek ahead. And when topped off by a surprise work of art, featuring you no less, you’re sure to start the week beaming with positivity.
From an esteemed mentor-friend, all the way from Houston, David Coyle. From the man who reminds me of the Bible adage
to one who has, more will be given.
Indeed, not just gifted with intellect and wit and sportsmanship, but with talent as well! Care to agree with me? 🙂
The caption of the email (which I plagiarised here as the title of this post hehe) surely equates with the big smile on my face. And as I reflect, yes, I sure am a happy pregger. Indeed. 🙂
I love how my pregnancy badge was included in this watercolour painting.
Thank you David for this. Most importantly, thank you for the time you spent in doing this. This will not be forgotten. 🙂