March 14, 2010… Thai wedding’s detail, the memories continue

As much as I would like to try to describe the details of the wedding, I don’t think that I could get into many details. However, there is another blog by Richard Barrow of Thai Cultures Blog, that has information regarding the Thai wedding. The blog provides very detailed insights into the Thai wedding ceremony.

I guess it would make more sense to read his blog then come back to check out the photos that I have taken on the wedding date.

Enjoy :)

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March 14, 2010. A day to remember, a journey begin for Por and Jo.

A moment to remember…

A story of a girl whom had ventured to do her internship far away from home. There, she had met her soul mate… Jo! Their story is one to remember… Jo, a man whom had been waiting for the one and Por, a woman whom has found her prince charming at the least expected place.

… to see more of their story, please visit http://www.por-jo.com/ there, you will find a collection of their wedding photos and a MUST SEE video of their story.

On March 14, 2010 I got the chance to take picture of the Thai wedding ceremony of Por and Jo. It was amazing; the room, the location and the moment…. felt magical. The feeling of someone that is committing their life to another is just unexplainable. Yet, the feeling of the parents letting go of their daughter, whom they raised since day one, was just too overwhelming for simple pictures, videos or any words can describe those moments.

I, a mere photographer, can only try to capture those moments to share with us all.

Date: March 14, 2010
Location: The Rose Garden

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Jan 23, 2010 The wedding celebration in the PM

The guests must have gotten me confused, as for some reason, all the guest will ask me again right asking for their table and direction. Oh well, funny enough… I became a host, greeting all the guests and directed them to their assigning table.

Oh yes! This is about June and Paul’s wedding celebration. As I was occupied with greeting the guests, I didn’t have much of a chance to take pictures, but please do check the pictures out as it was a really amazing wedding. Allow me to try to describe the experience from the guest’s perspective.

Each guest will be greeted with a photos gallery archway where the guest can see June and Paul’s pre-wedding photos taken by PaHn and I. It was a really good feeling to see our photos hanging in the archway and even better when the guests stop to look at each photo.

After the photo gallery archway, was a table with presented pre-wedding photo albums taken by a professional photographing service. A really nice album that I wish someday to have a chance to do one for a couple. The guests will then meet with the bridesmaids that helping out the event. The bridesmaids then direct the guests to a flower archway where they will take group photo with June and Paul before they were then lead to their table.

… a very lovely couple indeed!

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Jan 23, 2010… Engagement ceremony in the AM

The wedding day has finally arrived for June and Paul, but who would have known that the ceremony started at about 4:00 am!

The wedding tradition in Thailand involves the handover of the bride by her family to the groom and his family. The time of the handover, moving out from her house to move in to his house is really important. It is believed that there is a specific moment, the right time for this handover as when done properly will bring prosperity, good fortune and longevity for the couple.

The engagement ceremony for June and Paul is a Chinese one which involves a tea ceremony where June and Paul offer “tea” to the groom’s family members. This tradition is for the couple to show respect to the family and also for the family to show acceptance of the couple marriage.

The morning engagement ceremony lasted til about 11:00 am and then everyone was off to get ready for the evening’s wedding celebrations!

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Jan 09, 2010 my very first pre-wedding photo shoot for my lovely friends!

Having not written for a while… only means I am way too busy with work. No, I haven’t forgotten about twostepsbehind. As a matter of fact, I check the web’s stats everyday. Some of my friends and families are starting to wonder of what have I been doing here in Bangkok, Thailand.

January 09, 2010 was the first time that I get the opportunity to take photos of the lovely couple for their pre-wedding photo. It was really fun and I really enjoy seeing the couple’s love that they are sharing and caring for each other. It’s proof that… love exists!

And that was how my interest in portrait photographing began.

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Tying The Knot.

Who would have known that googling the phrase “tying the knot” would bring so many interesting articles to read. The very first link that was provided by google was a link to a wedding photography service.

Tying The Knot

-One of the Top 10 Wedding Photographers in the World.
www.tyingtheknot.net

So, I started to wonder, what does “tying the knot” have to do with “marriage” so I again… Googled for “tying the knot meaning” and was lead to a website explaining how nowadays wedding have their customs and traditions traced all the way back to ancient Egyptians!

Wedding Traditions & Their Origins

- Tying The Knot. This comes from the days of the Roman empire when the Bride wore a girdle that was tied in knots.
The Groom untied the knots prior to the consummation of their marriage.
www.pibweddings.com/traditionsorigins.html

What was I thinking that made me took the picture when I saw the rope tied on the boat?

I guess the message was “commitment” because when tying the rope together it meant to have one “attached” to the other, to add length, to extend, to go beyond… what one rope can do. Meanwhile, there are tension that pulling the ropes away from the knot in opposite direction, proven by Newton’s 3rd law of motion “Whenever a first body exerts a force F on a second body, the second body exerts a force −F on the first body. F and −F are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction”, therefore the only thing that will hold 2 ropes together is how strong would each rope would be able to withhold the tension that is being created with surrounding force.

The knot would never untied the itself, but the strength of the ropes is the key that hold them together… Maybe this is the reason why the phrase “tying the knot” has so many related article with wedding and marriage because it take 2 people’s commitment that the will provide a lifetime of support and cherish each other, as long as they can withhold the pressure from the surrounding and that one rope doesn’t snap before the other.

*a moment of photo taken on the rooftop of the long boat that was taking me and my family to the Nail Island, Phang Nga, Thailand.

untied Phang Nga Thailand

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The sunset…

Love… happens

Chonburi Bangsaen sea sunset

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Hello Planet Earth, Today is… 1 year anniversary of TwoStepsBehind!!!

In celebration of the 1 year anniversary of TwoStepsBehind… I chose this Panorama that was taken in Phang Nga Bay, Thailand. The island also known as the Nail Island. The picture was taken on Christmas of 2009; the same day that I was reunited and met many of my long lost family members. It was the family trip that I must have mentioned on previous posts.

Looking back a year to date…  there are many changes in the way I process pictures, which hopefully have improved greatly. A year ago, I believed that there would be a day that I could take a nice landscape shot, a panorama of some sort… as my very first post at TwoStepsBehind, Hello Planet Earth, Welcome to Two Steps Behind!, was a panorama of the Vancouver Bridge, Canada. That belief… brought me to where I am today… with the photo which I am really proud of. To me it’s a really big step that was made of many small steps.

A year has passed and I couldn’t believe how much things have changed… or at least just me.

There was so much to learn in a year, and I can say for certain that life is…

to Live and Learn…
to keep going forward…
to give and to love unconditionally

and most important of it all…

to never lose hope.
because I do still believe strongly that, hope achieves the impossible.

In celebration of 1 year anniversary of TwoStepsBehind… I am going to make a slide show, when I have time, to see where has TwoStepsBehind has visited. I know that Apple has those cool programs, iMovie, iDvd… etc to make the globe spin from one place to the next. Let us see how would that turn out!

But first things first… I must thank you everyone for visiting this website…
First of all, my mother for making me realize that I should write a blog so that she could keep up with my where abouts.
Secondly, Qi for gifted me with “HALF” of the Canon Rebel XSI for my Bachelor of Architecture graduation present.

Thirdly, SCI_Arc for exposing me to the world of APPLE and MACBOOK PRO

Forth, WordPress + Flickr + Facebook + iPhoto… for making it so easy to blog.
Last but not least… is Trey, the god of HDR for sharing his tutorial at www.StuckInCustoms.com which became a great inspiration for me. Thank you to all of my reader to continuing reading many if not most of my non-sense posts!

THANK YOU!!!

Cheers… on to the next and many more year to come!

Photos taken at Phang Nga Bay, Nail Island, Thailand on December 25, 2009

Phang Nga Nail Island Panorama Flickr

A year ago…

Vancouver Panorama Bridge

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I believe

To believe and to trust Orgiva Spain

I believe that everything happens for a reason…

Today post may sound a bit serious and very personal, but it is part of who I am and could and would affect the way I see and do things that may be different from others.

I truly believe that everything happens for a reason… that is simply because of John 14:6 “I am the way and the truth and the life…” said Jesus Christ.

Before I became a Christian, I always needed proof or some sort of evidence to verify each life events that happen to the point that… I always asked myself, “why on earth would this have to happen to me?”

No matter how many “because dot dot dot” for the answer of “why dot dot dot happened?” the question can NEVER be answered in full or totally acceptable to me.

But that has changed

After having put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ… my heart and my mind is at peace because I have stop asking myself “why dot dot dot?” because “everything happen for a reason” or reasons that has already been set by Jesus Christ, after all he is “the way” and “the truth” and “the life”

How could I say that I trust you, Jesus… but to always doubt in him when anything bad happen or when things doesn’t happen the way I – expected – it to be.

By having faith and trusting him, I simply believe that anything that happened is for the greater good and that it was from his best interest in my well being.

I mean… to think about it how heavy it would be if I were to have the burden of carrying all of the problems (or I thought that it was the problems) and try to solve them (maybe it doesn’t even need to be solve in the first place)

The way we do anything is the way we do everything – another phrase that I do live my life by.

I give the same trust and faith that I have in Jesus to all those around me. When I said I trust in Jesus, I meant it and that I would not doubt his method of how my life would turn out because… I simply trust in him.

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But we all know that everyone is different and I guess I was wrong to assume that everyone would have the same mentality as I am, hence I create an expectation when someone said “I trust you.” I know that everyone is different because no matter how many reasons explained… it sound like excuses to them.

Elbert Hubbard once said “never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”

I think he got the point.

But the point is really, why would you ever doubt the person you said, “I trust you” to?

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somewhere only we know, Phang Nga, Thailand

Exactly 2 years ago, on January 11 2008 I had a thought of coming to Thailand to work.
2 years later, I am in Bangkok, Thailand working!

It is amazing how things can turn out… unexpectedly.

Below is the photo I took while I was on the roof of the boat during the trip to Nail Island in Phang Nga, Thailand. To only realize later that, I have been here before… but perhaps it was 15 years ago. Not much have change about the place, but I am certainly getting old!

15 years ago, I visited the island with my mother… as for this year I visited the island with my grand mother! Well, there was no scuba diving this time :(

While I was taking picture, its remind me of the song “somewhere only we know” by Keane.

somewhere only we know Phang Nga Thailand

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turning dream come true, one at a time

I’m sure everyone has their dream wedding…

how the cake would look, round – square – layer – cupcake ?
the arrangement of flower… the colors?
the color of the table cloth, red, green, blue, pink? or just plain white?
the location… Ballroom, island, beach, skydiving ?
the ice sculpture… oh yes, in Thailand it is very common to have an ice sculpture as part of the wedding decoration.!
the type of food that is served…
the guest of honor… dad, mom, … Mr President? ??? ??
the brides maid…?
the best man! ?

..
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the list continues… on and on.

I too… have my dream… a dream to, one day, make others dreams come true.
One couple at a time.

In the end, I believe that that most important part of the wedding itself is not the wedding… but the one you love.

Bangkok Wedding Cake Dream Flower

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A photo from Madrid Palacio de Comunicaciones City Hall as a tribute to.. *Clair* de lune by Debussy.

There are many times in life that… I just can’t seem to find words, pictures, nor paintings to describe what I want to say. Today is one of those days, a day that is best expressed by Debussy – Clair de Lune (moonlight).

A moonlight, that I’ll never forget.

Madrid Palacio de Comunicaciones City Hall with Tulip

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Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.

“Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will”
a very inspiring quote that keep me going days after days!

Love make you blind but…
wedding will open your eyes…

It’s a saying that most, if not all, people find it to be true… absolutely not all people because, not all lovers have their wedding, not yet anyway.

The wedding day is the happiest day of the wedding couple. It is the day that the couple taking their first step together, to create and start a family. By announcing to the world that they will spend the rest of their life as husband and wife, together from this moment on.

Wedding is not end result of love, instead it is the beginning of their journey. It is a journey of two people that grow up from different places, had different experience in life, born from different family, believing and seeing the world from different point of views…

…two people that has absolutely nothing in common to begin with
to make a vowed that they would spend the rest of their life together because…

they… forgot about all the reasons why something may not work and found one good reason why it will,
whatever that reason may be…

Bangkok Wedding InterContinental Gala Bubble

Bangkok Wedding InterContinental Gala Orchid

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Memories…

Madrid Hostal Maria Del Mar

In this world you tried,
Not leaving me alone behind.
There’s no other way,
I pray to the gods let him stay.
The memories ease the pain inside,
And now I know why.

All of my memories keep you near.
In silent moments,
Imagine you being here.
All of my memories keep you near,
In silent whispers, silent tears

Made me promise I’d try,
To find my way back in this life.
Hope there is a way,
To give me a sign you’re okay.
Reminds me again it’s worth it all,
So I can go home.

All of my memories keep you near.
In silent moments,
Imagine you being here.
All of my memories keep you near.
In silent whispers, silent tears.

Together in all these memories,
I see your smile.
All of the memories I hold dear.
Darling you know I’ll love you,
Til the end of time.

All of my memories keep you near
In silent moments,
Imagine you being here.
All of my memories keep you near,
In silent whispers, silent tears.

All of my memories..

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Beauty, but short lived… the irony of a flower.

Orgiva Flower Daisy

After looking for pictures for hours in my thousands of images archived that I have taken over the past 2 years, ever  since I got the camera, I found this picture that I took at a friend house in Orgiva, Spain to be very inspiring for me….

… I must have wrote pages for this post but chose to erase it because I couldn’t really explain why I choose this photo for today, November 11, 2009 – my 26th birthday.

Why?

Just because.

A day, a night, a year… with hope that achieves the impossible.

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GOOGLED “Why Get Married” and the answer is…

Bangkok Wedding Cake flower

So… I googled “Why Get Married?” and the very first link is to this article by Aron Moss on this website http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/361650/jewish/Why-Get-Married.htm

Question:

In today’s world, is marriage still relevant? Unlike a hundred years ago, a couple today can live together without getting married. What are they missing? (This is not a theoretical question for me…)

Answer:

Marriage is more relevant today than ever before in history. Marriage used to be a given. Now it is a choice. All the old arguments for marriage have fallen away, and we are left with only one true reason to get married. We can finally get married for the right reason.

What were once good reasons to get married are largely irrelevant today. Here are four classic reasons to get married:

So we can live together. As you pointed out in your question, this reason no longer applies to the many couples who live happily together without getting married.

So we can have children. Again, it is possible to have children and be wonderful parents without getting married.

To make a solid commitment. That’s a charming one. We are getting married to make it harder to walk away from each other. How romantic.

To make our relationship official. You could achieve that by placing an announcement in the newspaper saying, “We are now official.” You don’t need a caterer to serve gazpacho soup in a ballroom just to make it official.

So what are we left with? If not to live together, to start a family, to make a commitment or to make it official, why get married?

There’s only one reason.

Marriage makes a relationship divine. Getting married means that something bigger than both of you is bringing you together. A wedding achieves something that simply can’t happen otherwise — G-d is introduced into the relationship.

Until they are married, a couple’s commitment to each other is a human commitment, with all the limitations of being human. We can’t see the future, we can’t know what may change and what may eventuate, and we make mistakes. The chuppah elevates the commitment beyond human limitations. The blessings made under the chuppah invoke G-d’s name upon the couple, and bring G-d into the union as a partner. You are married not just because you chose to be, but because G-d has said so.

Without a chuppah you can have love, commitment and family — but it isn’t holy. Only by standing under a chuppah and marrying according to tradition does your union become sacred. Only after the wedding is your love blessed with the divine imprint of eternity.

I find it to be a very interesting perspective… to make the commitment holy and sacred. Why? So that your love blessed with the divine imprint of “ETERNITY”

But who would believe in this kind of idea anymore?

*Photo taken … yesterday while the couple were rehearsing for their ceremony that about to start in an hour! WHY DO WE NEED TO REHEARSE a WEDDING?????? I just don’t get it!


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Here comes the WEDDING season! I now pronounce you husband and wife.

Bangkok Traditional Thai Wedding

You may kiss the bride…
NOT!!! Not a part of the Thai Wedding Tradition.

The wedding season is officially here! However, I wonder what makes November and December the wedding season? Because of the cold weather or simply to cerebrate the years end and the start of the new year together. Thai Wedding Tradition is much more complicated than any of those I can imagine. It involves many steps and processes that the couple must go thru before they get to start their life together. Here are a rough outline of the processes.

ขันหมาก: Khan Makk
ขบวนขันหมาก: The Khan Makk Procession
พิธีกั้นประตู : Barring the Groom from Approaching the Bride
พิธีนับสินสอด : Counting the dowry
พิธีรับไหว้ : Paying respects to the Elders
พิธีหลั่งน้ำพระพุทธมนต์ : Water Pouring
สวมมงคล : Mong Kol
การเจิม : Scahet Powder
พิธีปูที่นอน – ส่งตัว : The Nuptial Bed

The picture today represent part of the Water Pouring process.

“The pouring of water is the most important part of the Thai wedding ceremony as it is during this part of the ceremony that the couple officially become husband and wife . Traditionally, this was all that was required to validate the marriage, but nowadays the couple are also required to obtain a marriage certificate from the Amphur or local registration office.

Before the water pouring can take place the couple must seat themselves at the traditional water pouring tables (Tung Rod Nam), with the bride to the left of the groom.”

info from jittima

Anyway… the “You may kiss the bride…” process is after the – “พิธีปูที่นอน – ส่งตัว : The Nuptial Bed”. An FYI, just in case you were wondering about when does the groom get to kiss the bride… ASSUMING that she is not to tired from the ceremony.

If you think, planning for a wedding is hard? Think again! Because the hardest part is for the bride and groom to actually try to survive thru the ceremony!

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Happiness underneath JamJuri tree on the Loy Krathong Festival day at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

Bangkok Chula C U Band

Bangkok Loy krathong festival at Chula.jpg

It was the first time after 10 years that I got to enjoy the Loy Krathong Festival in Thailand.

Location… at the Chulalongkorn University, Thailand… the University that I probably would have went to if I were to continue my studies in Thailand. I have realized how much I have missed out by not staying in Thailand. The fun, the food, and the friendships that are everywhere here at CU. Everyone seem to know each other like brothers and sisters, they always look out for each other.

I was going to float the KraThong as well, but there are so many “urban legend” about the “circumstance” that would have happen if one, or a couple were to Loy (float) a KraThong together. Who am I to challenge the legend??? That is why I ended up NOT Loy any KraThong for the nigth.

Disappointed…? NOT AT ALL.

The time I spent there for an hour or so was a blast! It was very memorable just by simply eating, drinking and listening to musics from different bands of different faculties. However it was one band… the CU Band I enjoyed the most because they mixed the marching band instruments with pop music! Amazing!

Chilling by the pool, watching the fireworks, listening to musics… and just wasted the night away

PRICELESS!

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Thinking about having a Siberian Husky???

First of all, I am blogging this via “internet tethering” because apparently, we (at home) forgot to pay our Internet BILL… and I thought the Internet was out due to the storm!!

So… what am I gonna do? Really I don’t know! But anyway I start typing on the MS Word (yea we do have that on Mac as well) then I remember that… my iPhone can do this thing all “Internet Tethering” that I saw my co-worker used at work. Basically sync the iPhone up with the MacBook… then turn on Internet Tethering function on the iPhone…

VIOLA!!! Here I am!

Anyway… the speed is super duper SLOW because I am in the 2G area, unlike the 3G area in the city.
Umm. Another problem… how long would this take to upload my photo up to flickr and back down to TwoStepsBehind? I’ll let u know once this is posted.
Missha Puppy
updated!

Today…
Got a forwarded email with the topic “Thinking about having a Siberian Husky”

Many who have a husky (or huskies!) would know… that pretty much owning a husky bring you a lot of troubles!!! TONS of troubles!
Really, when we come to think about it… what is so good about having a husky?
I can’t really answer for the other, but for me… despite all the troubles

Missha, she loves going out for a walk either in the rain, in the sun, in the fog, HOT or COLD, 8am, Noon, 5pm, 10pm… or even 2am in the morning… she will always walk with me (or she walks me LOL).
And when she got tired, she would just slam on to the grass and just roll on it… so I would have to wait. And when I got tired, I rest… and she would just wait patiently until we both are ready again. Then we just walk on, together.
She loved listening to me talking (oh yes she does listen and making that “what are you saying” face! Yup. Yet… I just keep talking nonsense to her about this and that, about her mess, about my mess, ETC ETC ETC…

Despite… all the troubles, all that matter is…
Missha was always there for me…
I wish that she is here with me now… so I’ll be talking nonsense to her… and go take a walk in neighborhood or just drive away to Santa Monica beach at 1am… and just walk till the sunrise….

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The Serenity Prayer… reflected in the night.

Pattaya beach at night

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

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Press Play… ^_^

San Francisco Cafe Majestic 2

feliz aniversário meu amor

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all that’s left…

Sriracha calm sea

Life… is so fragile.

One day… she was there
The next… a phone called… that changed everything

She is gone.

Is that all this is too life? In the end, all that left are memories that forever rested within you.

My deepest condolence… to the loss of my very dear friend’s paternal grandmother.

I have never met her in person, but I always hear story about her thru my friend.
The only thing I can relate to her is this sea… at Sriracha.

Memories…

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Just because she can fly… doesn’t mean that she has to. A true angel.

Bangkok Angel at Santa Cruz Church

A sculpture of an angel at the Santa Cruz church in Bangkok got me thinking…

Why would someone that could fly… wouldn’t?
Why would someone that could rise above anyone else… be so submissive?
Why would someone that can be anywhere else… sitting here patiently?

Humbleness!

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não não não come a flor!!! the road to happiness

Marbella road to happiness

Parabéns a você,
nesta data querida.
Muitas felicidades,
muitos anos de vida.

^___^


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colorful shelf – full of donuts!!! Donuts for breakfast, lunch and dinner in Madrid, Spain. YUM!!!

Madrid Dunkin Coffee Donut

It is very unhealthy for me to be blogging this right now, late at night, because I want to have all of those sweets right now! It was so good! We had a full box of them for our breakfast, lunch and dinner! This is the Dunkin Coffee by the Sol metro station in Madrid, Spain. How lucky were we to have found this shop right when we were starving!

That was the best box of donuts ever! So sweet, so good… very very good!

Okie…. that’s it, I am going to get a box of Dunkin Donuts tomorrow!

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waiting… patiently

Thailand Hua Lumphong Departed Bangkok

Really… what are you going to do? Make the train come faster… which is very unlikely to happen. Well, when we bought the ticket for the train… there is an area that said its arrival and departure time. As for the train coming earlier, doesn’t that mean that it wouldn’t leave earlier as the departure time has already been scheduled?

Just wait… patiently. That is all that we can do, knowing that the train is going to arrive and it is going to depart at the time that it was scheduled. Also knowing that… the train is going to take us to the destination we have been waiting for so long, that is well worth the wait.

Until then… be patient and let TIME FLY!

*Photo was taken at the Bangkok Train station, Hua Lum Phong.

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Just believe and have hope, trust and fate… bitter then sweet!

Thailand Santa Cruz Just Believe

I am certain that everyone must have heard more or less of story about Noah’s Ark. His dedication to build his ark was merely the result of his believe, hope, trust and fate in God. It doesn’t matter how everyone else was mocking him as if he were a fool because it was that belief, hope, trust and fate in God that kept him and the other believer alive from the flood.

It was this window glazing that reminded me to not lose faith, hope and to believe and trust.
Noah had his bitter time while he was spending days and nights building that ark but was able to later enjoy the sweet time.

First is to endure, then to enjoy! How can we know what is “sweet” in life if we have never had anything “bitter” before.
No pain, no gain!

Something that I have been reminding myself everyday, is to endure… and to never lose that hope and fate.

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… is lost

Marbella hidden road

happiness, family, love, belief, fate, trust, father, mother, daughter, son, life, rebirth, restart, renewal, beginning, peace, calm, innocence, relaxation, freedom, relief, self, path, future,… together

… is lost
… wants to be found

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Mother… A True Angel.

Madrid Almudena Cathedral a mother and her child

As for the photo at Santa María la Real de La Almudena, a Catholic cathedral in Madrid, SPAIN, I took this just weeks before I left Spain. Walking in the sun for hours, I was lucky enough to get a shot at this because Matt was exhausted from all the walk and wanted rest ASAP! So there I went, snapping photos as much as I could before we went to have our brunch near the Palace.

A mother holding her child… an unconditional love… a purest gift… the greatest joy. (This is Me… trying to write a poem)

I don’t think I can ever put words into defining what I would tell my mother on mother’s day. 2 Days ago, it was Mother’s Day in Thailand.. 12 August 2009. I couldn’t find a picture or word to tell her how much I care for her and love her.

Today, I found the one photo… with an inspiration by a mother that wouldn’t want to miss a minute spent with her child, a great mother indeed.

Dear Mother and mothers, I would like to dedicate to you, A True Angel by George W. Zellars.

A mother is special, she’s more than a friend.
Whenever you need her, she’ll give you a hand.

She’ll lead you and guide you in all that you do.
Try all that she can just to see you get through.

Good times and bad times, she’s there for it all.
Say head up, be proud, and always stand tall.

She’ll love you through quarrels and even big fights, or heart to heart chats on cold lonely nights.
My mother’s the greatest that I’ve ever known, I think God made my mother like He’d make his own.

A praiser, a helper, an encourager too, nothing in this world that she wouldn’t do.
To help us succeed she does all that she can, raised a young boy now into a man.

I want to say thank you for all that you do, please always know mom, that I love you.
A True Angel – © George W. ZellarsMother Child Poems

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Two Hearts, One Love in Madrid, Spain.

Madrid Plaza Mayor Facade

Back to the Easter Holiday once again, it was April, 09 2009 just a few days before the Thai New Year celebration (April 13). I had only seen the picture of the Plaza Mayor in photos and postcards before. But once I actually had been in the Plaza, it was simply amazing! I have seen many plazas like this before on the Discovery Channel, but never before in person until that day! At that time, I had spent so much time taking pictures, I must have taken several hours at the Plaza Mayor.

Anyway, I told myself that day… “I am going to visit this place again but it would be with the love of my life.” Who would have known that just a few months later… I actually visit Plaza Mayor again. But instead of spending time taking pictures, I was spending time with my fiancée, Matilde, The love of my life.

Being a wedding planner is not easy, especially when you want to plan one for yourself.

I am not much of a speaker… I hope that this would explain how I feel for her. Is it classical, rap, hiphop, R&B? I have no idea! But it is a great song that I found on YouTube!

Two Hearts, One Love.

Verse 1

Reminince back when the first time we met
i thought to do something but i was too scared
of the main fact that i might get rejected
neglected even if i got selected
it was too much for a small heart to handle
had this dream me and you on the table
heads tight me and you with dim lights
no one in else in sight only you and i
the skys dim blue stars out too
you from the star it was gonna be true
when you howl my world me and you were together
i live one you yeah we be here forever

our loves my life when you give me butterflies
i see my wife when i look into your eyes
your my life your my friend you my motivation
my girl of my life you my new sensation
your more like no one else yeah your one of a kind
its hard to believe some time ichiban
i think you were sent to me from above
always intrigued two hearts one love
two hearts one love for life
two hearts one love till the day that i die

Verse 2

i was lost before but now im found
just thinking about you make my head go round
i love you for you and your personality
whenever im drunk you make it seem like a reality
if something wrong and im left in the dark
your the first one i talk to coz your whom who i trust
before i sleep i make sure that you brush
you my baby my sweetie my lil princess
i cant explain how much i love you
whenever im around you i feel so triggered
just feel so right like it meant to be heaven
having you in my arms means so much to me
when we kiss i just feel so much
how you change my day just with a single touch girl
theres no you can trust me with your heart
655 for life from the start

Chorus

your my life your my friend you my motivation
my girl of my life you my new sensation
your more like no one else yeah your one of a kind
its hard to believe some time ichiban
i think you were sent to me from above
always intrigued two hearts one love
two hearts one love for life
two hearts one love till the day that i die

Bridge

Still cant believe that you were mine
the love that we shared was so genuine
family first? well you come first
i love you so much that my heart gonna burst that it hurts
musical feeling inside the thought of the two of us goin to collide
everytime i hold you my heart beats fast
its you before my crew called outkast

bridge break

the love we have grows strong by the day
you my one lonely love where the word hoe’s okay
in bed its only you in my head and running now
which you would feel i was dead
instead im at home alone
atleast one hiss with your voice on the phone
and i do that i dont care about the bills
650 man that aint giving me the chills
i just think of you
when you watch that i wait with you
i share love and thats how its gonna stay
this love that we have bright white like a dove

forever and ever its two hearts one love

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