For the single ladies it'd be "Go, Girl: Finding Adventure Wherever The Road Leads" by Marlee LeDai. Read my synopsis here: http://www.shelfari.com/books/1107785/Go-Girl-Finding-Adventure-Wherever-The-Road-Leads/readers-reviews
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
What's the Buzz?
My favorite-st macro shot, totally spontaneous, totally amazing.
Ok, I'm not trying to rain praises on myself. I'm gushing over how my little Panasonic Lumix LX-3 is able to take awesome macros when least expected... and the grace received in capturing this moment.
Taken in Bangkok, Thailand last June 2009.
Ok, I'm not trying to rain praises on myself. I'm gushing over how my little Panasonic Lumix LX-3 is able to take awesome macros when least expected... and the grace received in capturing this moment.
Taken in Bangkok, Thailand last June 2009.
What can I moo for you?
An irresistible 'face-to-face' moment between a city girl holding her camera, and an absolutely clueless farm cow grazing in solitude in her natural paradise.
Call me biased, but I love the composition of this pic. Most of all, its the, "What can I moo for you?" look. Priceless.
Call me biased, but I love the composition of this pic. Most of all, its the, "What can I moo for you?" look. Priceless.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
After 12 Years since the Kyoto Protocol, things looks grim
I'm not a harbinger of doom...but today's news is.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto
(AP, 11/24/2009) WASHINGTON — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.
WASHINGTON — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.
As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice. Mountain glaciers in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa are shrinking faster than before.
And it's not just the frozen parts of the world that have felt the heat in the dozen years leading up to next month's climate summit in Copenhagen:
* The world's oceans have risen by about an inch and a half.
* Droughts and wildfires have turned more severe worldwide, from the US West to Australia to the Sahel desert of North Africa.
* Species now in trouble because of changing climate include, not just the lumbering polar bear which has become a symbol of global warming, but also fragile butterflies, colorful frogs and entire stands of North American pine forests.
* Temperatures over the past 12 years are 0.4 of a degree warmer than the dozen years leading up to 1997.
Even the gloomiest climate models back in the 1990s didn't forecast results quite this bad so fast.
"The latest science is telling us we are in more trouble than we thought," said Janos Pasztor, climate adviser to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
And here's why: Since an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas pollution was signed in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997, the level of carbon dioxide in the air has increased 6.5 percent. Officials from across the world will convene in Copenhagen next month to seek a follow-up pact, one that President Barack Obama says "has immediate operational effect ... an important step forward in the effort to rally the world around a solution."
The last effort didn't quite get the anticipated results.
From 1997 to 2008, world carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels have increased 31 percent; US emissions of this greenhouse gas rose 3.7 percent. Emissions from China, now the biggest producer of this pollution, have more than doubled in that time period. When the US Senate balked at the accord and President George W. Bush withdrew from it, that meant that the top three carbon polluters — the US, China and India — were not part of the pact's emission reductions. Developing countries were not covered by the Kyoto Protocol and that is a major issue in Copenhagen.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto
(AP, 11/24/2009) WASHINGTON — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.
WASHINGTON — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.
As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice. Mountain glaciers in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa are shrinking faster than before.
And it's not just the frozen parts of the world that have felt the heat in the dozen years leading up to next month's climate summit in Copenhagen:
* The world's oceans have risen by about an inch and a half.
* Droughts and wildfires have turned more severe worldwide, from the US West to Australia to the Sahel desert of North Africa.
* Species now in trouble because of changing climate include, not just the lumbering polar bear which has become a symbol of global warming, but also fragile butterflies, colorful frogs and entire stands of North American pine forests.
* Temperatures over the past 12 years are 0.4 of a degree warmer than the dozen years leading up to 1997.
Even the gloomiest climate models back in the 1990s didn't forecast results quite this bad so fast.
"The latest science is telling us we are in more trouble than we thought," said Janos Pasztor, climate adviser to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
And here's why: Since an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas pollution was signed in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997, the level of carbon dioxide in the air has increased 6.5 percent. Officials from across the world will convene in Copenhagen next month to seek a follow-up pact, one that President Barack Obama says "has immediate operational effect ... an important step forward in the effort to rally the world around a solution."
The last effort didn't quite get the anticipated results.
From 1997 to 2008, world carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels have increased 31 percent; US emissions of this greenhouse gas rose 3.7 percent. Emissions from China, now the biggest producer of this pollution, have more than doubled in that time period. When the US Senate balked at the accord and President George W. Bush withdrew from it, that meant that the top three carbon polluters — the US, China and India — were not part of the pact's emission reductions. Developing countries were not covered by the Kyoto Protocol and that is a major issue in Copenhagen.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Emoticons circa 1970s, before the Net was born
Got this off billycoy's plurk. I know I've seen this before, but today, this struck me again as plain hilarious.I didn't know emoticons existed this early
Brilliant!Thursday, March 19, 2009
Bored ka ba, at walang magawa?
Looks like ganun nga ang buhay ng mga mahilig mang-'Good Time'.
Stumbled upon this link thru Chris A's plurk today.
Aba naman, if you want to keep abreast of the times, but want to take things so UNSERIOUS-ly, eh di mag-Good Time ka nalang! Unabashedly hilarious, sarcastic at times (ok sometimes I find them crass), poking fun and humor at most public figures.
Latest issue/entry: Nicole to Daniel Smith. Aba, current issues nga!
Caveat: HUWAG SERYOSOHIN mashado, slight lang!
Stumbled upon this link thru Chris A's plurk today.
Aba naman, if you want to keep abreast of the times, but want to take things so UNSERIOUS-ly, eh di mag-Good Time ka nalang! Unabashedly hilarious, sarcastic at times (ok sometimes I find them crass), poking fun and humor at most public figures.
Latest issue/entry: Nicole to Daniel Smith. Aba, current issues nga!
Caveat: HUWAG SERYOSOHIN mashado, slight lang!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
ABS CBN: Pinay Painter Holds First International Exhibit in NY
Link
Amazing how God works miracles in the lives of those who continue to hope and place their full trust in Him.
For Puchette, God's timing is never too late, and is always perfect.
Her condition now behind her, she's blessed with a loving, caring husband and 2 beautiful children. Her angelic, delicate style has always been admired by friends here in the Philippines. Who would've known that because of the power of the internet, her works would one day find recognition elsewhere?
Her FIRST exhibit? Not on Philippine shores, but within the walls of the Ico Art & Music Gallery, Tribeca, New York City.
Congratulations Puchette!! You make all of us, your friends and Pinoys elsewhere, so proud!
Amazing how God works miracles in the lives of those who continue to hope and place their full trust in Him.
For Puchette, God's timing is never too late, and is always perfect.
Her condition now behind her, she's blessed with a loving, caring husband and 2 beautiful children. Her angelic, delicate style has always been admired by friends here in the Philippines. Who would've known that because of the power of the internet, her works would one day find recognition elsewhere?
Her FIRST exhibit? Not on Philippine shores, but within the walls of the Ico Art & Music Gallery, Tribeca, New York City.
Congratulations Puchette!! You make all of us, your friends and Pinoys elsewhere, so proud!
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