Grandma's 80th Birthday

Mama as we fondly call her because we, my brother and sister almost treat her as our second mother. She celebrated her 80th birthday strong and glamorous. We love you so much mama, more years to your lovely life.

Still glamorous at 80

Mama's infectious laugh.

Miel Christine turns O-N-E

My little princess Miel Christine S. Go have turned one last January 08, 2013 although we celebrated earlier because the 8th falls under the weekdays.

It was a celebration of my birthday and her birthday plus the christian dedication all in one.

Loooooong Holiday.

After a long holiday weekend, no work in one week, We are now gearing back towards the keyboard, mouse and monitor and neven ending emails and tons of paperwork. But as they say, life is a balance. We will appreciate the holiday because we work hard. So thus the work. Im glad to have both in my world.

Halloween in Al Khor Community

Fun is how I describe the festivities of the underworld, Although to some people and religion this practice is taboo. I believe because of the commercial in nature, this event became popular around the world. As described by Wikipedea; 

Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of "All Hallows' Evening"),^[5] also known as All Hallows' Eve,^[6] is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on October 31, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows (or All Saints).

Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (also known as "guising"), attending costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

Excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween 

Eid al Adha Holiday

It is the second long holiday here in ME, as we are alrady in the third day of Eid outing after outing is planned, reeeeelax as we know it. After this everything will be back to normal, business as usual.

Another one is coming . . .

Taken after a day of sunshine in the Philippines.

Habagat - Monsoon Disaster

August 7 - 8:31pm (Doha, Qatar Time)

I have been monitoring the weather via government tweets and facebook walls of my colleagues back home. at the same time retweeting it back to my wall. I have been there from start to finish, It was another devastating blow that hit the NCR area hard on the face.

According to PAGASA, it poured more rains than ondoy, it's more devastating than a category 5 typhoon. (Flooding aspect)

I have monitoring it from here http://www.goes.noaa.gov/sohemi/sohemiloops/shirgmscolw.html

All I can do is to retweet, repost all information that I can relay, to my civilian friends and colleagues.

I wish, I was there with my brother doing what I love to do, SAR Ops, rescuing others.

This happened after a typhoon pounded central luzon and dump all the garbage in manila bay, As if our mother nature has a master plan. As our Government and Non-government prepare for a clean-up drive after that storm, The rain started to pour hard and non-stop that night, So all the garbage that was washed out the day before had found a way to come back. As we say it in tagalog, "Basurang itinapon mu, babalik din sayo" "The trash you throw will find its way to come back to you" and indeed, It is true.

Unless we learn to segregate our trash, this will happen time and time again. We need stricter rules and laws, environmental laws must be focused to avoid or at least reduce the effect of disasters.