|Narration| Visiting my San Jose City Foster Home

Last weekend was a loooong one. 

I took the opportunity to visit my foster family in San Jose City, Nueva Ecija.

 I spent my Saturday night pushing and struggling against the tide of commuters equally excited to shift to vacation mode.

I arrived in Binabuyan, San Jose City at around 11pm of Saturday and stayed there until the morning of Tuesday, Aug 21, 2012.

I had a chance to hear the bishop's mass in the cathedral. It was Apung Bobet (Bp. Roberto Mallari), newly installed Bishop of the Diocese of San Jose. It was quite weird to hear Apung Bobet saying the mass in Tagalog.

San Jose City Cathedral's retablo

|Narration| New "G"

For some personal reasons, I changed the "G" in my blog.

I designated "G" of the ORANGE as "Greetings" when I started this blog.

I post here my random greetings to the random people who were celebrating something special in time with my blogging mood.

This past few weeks, I've been addicted to an app on my phone--Instagram.

Instagram is to blame for changing my "G | reetings" page.

I decided to post some of my Instapictures on this blog.

So, ORANGE's "G" would now be

<insert drum roll here, haha>

"G | allery"

<appluase>

I hope this would not be a big deal to all of you (hahaha, asa!).

The Greetings posts can still be seen on the "E | tc." page.

So, friends, that would be all :)

Enjoy browsing my G, "G | allery"

|Narration| Ani ng Sining

I was scanning the channels of local TV yesterday and PTV caught my attention.

It is broadcasting the Concert at the Park, which I usually tune in whenever I get the chance to.

The show featured various dances from folk to contemporary.

What struck me most was the music for the finale and curtain call.

The song sings about the arts and it is accompanied with lively indigenous and contemporary instruments.

I love hearing songs like this so I quickly guessed and typed "Ani ng Sining" on my youtube app.

It gave me interesting results. 

This one is an animation of the seven arts with "Ani ng Sining" background music.

I thought that this was new for 2012. After googling the title, I found

out that it was used for 2010-2011.

Philippines was declared the Culture Capital of the ASEAN for the year 2010-11.

I wished that I was aware of it. I could've witnessed the cultural shows and exhibits

that NCCA had prepared.

It is too late to witness the event but it is not too late to play a looped "Ani ng Sining: in my pc. :)

Here is a video with the full length song of "Ani ng Sining" by Joey Ayala.

I hope you like it as I do. Enjoy!

|Narrations| Liturhiya

Kasuyuan king Liturhiya.

Dakal pa pala kailangang abalu.

Kailangang makabuklat ku isipan ban maustu ing balakusang ustu na.

Ministry on Liturgy.

So much to learn.

I need an open mind to accept the real truth about the accepted truth.

|Narration| Peppermint Almond Mocha

This is my favorite coffee! Para sa akin, hindi masarap ang kape sa isang coffee shop pag walang almond syrup.

Peppermint is easy to blend in my coffee I just crush two peppermint candies and voila, meron na akong peppermint coffee. Kaya almond syrup talaga ang hinahanap ko sa isang coffee shop.

I admit that I am a coffee addict. Pero hindi naman ako dependent sa kape. I just love drinking it. I tried brewing my own coffee via french press. It was the best brewer as per coffee connoissuer. It retains all the flavor since it has no paper filter involve in the process. The coffee that was brewed in french press is better than the coffee that passed thru a paper filter. I am no expert in coffee but I can diffirentiate what is good and what is not for me. "Kapag nalasahan ko na ang pagkawala ng lasa ng kape after 20mins, expert na siguro ako," I told myself. But until now, I still can't and i do not force myself to learn it. I still enjoy my coffee even after 60mins of being stale on my desk.

I forgot to mention that I like my coffee a little bit bitter than the average coffee drinker. Kung instant ang kape na gagamitin, creamer lang at mainit na tubig ok na. Pag gourmet coffee, nagpapadagdag ako ng espresso shot.

I am now in a coffee shop in SM North the Block (oh how I miss this mall!), Caffino, masarap dito! Kasi may almond syrup sila. Matamis nga lang ang kape nila. So next time, magpapadagdag din ako ng espresso shot dito. We, me and the head architect, are waiting for clients. Late sila. Kape kape muna and i thought of writing para pumatay ng oras.

Kakakape lang namin kagabi ng mga officemates ko c/o Madam Beth. Sarap na sarap ako sa kape ko pero sila nung tinikman nila pait na pait sila. Haha. Pero masaya ang usapan. Sumasarap ang kwentuhan pag may kape. Parang alak lang pero pampahyper. Allergic ako sa alcoholic drinks pero sa kape hindi. Walang problema after mahyper.

Tara! Kape tayo!

|Narration| First Entry (hope it won't be the last :3)

Google became part of the languages worldwide. And its definition is to search using a keyword on google.com. Due to my curiosity on what would show up, I googled my name. It displayed my membership in different social networking sites, tagged videos and blog posts wherein my full name was written.

My attention was caught by a blogpost in PISTORI entitled "Color Me Orange" by Nic, a younger sister in my provincial org back in UP. It gave me the inspiration to blog again. I tried to do blogging so many times but it failed. Haha. I didn't find time to update them (or I don’t like to write back then). I even lost track of the blogging sites that I used.

This blog is entitled “Color me O.R.A.N.G.E.,” an adaptation to what Nic had written (Nic, I hope you don’t mind me using the title of you blogpost J). Expect to read about my Opinions, Reviews, Agitations, Narrations, Greetings, and Etc. in this blog.

With that, I welcome you my new official blog!