Guilty Pleasures

Finally, Spring...not as cold anymore. Had our first baseball (exhibition) last month. The new National Baseball park is gorgeous! That was the coldest game we've attended though. The opening itself, only hugbun and our friend went. When hugbun arrived home later, he told me that the camera (point and shot) was broken. With the President throwing the first pitch, security at the park was so tight, every item you're holding was inspected thoroughly. In the process the camera fell from his grasp into the hard concrete. Sure enough, no matter what I did the camera just stayed "silent". So we did some research for a new camera. A few days later I was ready to order. I tried to tinker with the old camera again to be sure, by taking the battery in and out (which I did dozen of times before) and then turn it on...the blasted thing works again! Anyway, I always like to have that SLR camera anyway for "serious photography" (Ginoo ko, pa serious serious pa hahaha), so we might go ahead and order it.

National Baseball Park

Screech the Mascot and Hugbun...

One of my guilty pleasures is I love to read blogs and forums especially Cebu based or just bloggers who mention Cebu with plenty of pictures in it, pawa sa kamingaw, I guess. Blogs that I'm addicted, and a lurker to and in my favorites folder are:

http://mycebuphotoblog.wordpress.com/ The blogger in this site is so amusing and entertaining and have plenty of pictures of Cebu and the surrounding islands. An articulate young man.

http://cebuheritage.wordpress.com/ The site is awesome, plenty of pictures of "old houses, churches, buildings, institutions, schools etc." and information about them. Nostalgic...

http://www.marketmanila.com/ An informative yummy food blog. I think the blogger's family is originally from Cebu, I might be mistaken.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LivingInThePhilippines3/ Expats living in the Philippines (mostly surrounding Cebu). Having an American husband who'd like to live in the Philippines on and off after retirement, I found this site helpful.

http://www.istorya.net/forums/ Excellent site if you want to know almost anything about what's going on in Cebu and the rest of the Philippines. The paranormal and ungo-ungo section is not shabby either ;-).

http://www.depanorama.net/ Duke Ellington's music. Hugbun's site hehehe.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fernan/ A family tree on my Mother's side.

What I'm currently following (couldn't wait for the installment hahaha) is this blog,

http://delfindjmontano.blogspot.com/ A gay Aussie blogging about his former Filipino boyfriend/lover and the Philippines "alta sosyedad" kuno.