Plants galore

I’ve been meaning to share these pictures with you. These are some rare plants that I took with my old Canon camera (those were the good old days). I so love these pics because these are plants I rarely get to see.

I spotted this “polka-dotted” plant in Laguna, if I remember correctly, at Exotik Restaurant. Wendy was so amused by this leaf! 

This small, cute tomato is the Paris version of our tomato.

I honestly don’t know what this plant is, but I just found the “lining up” cute.  

Now, this is something we will not get to see here in the Philippines: hollies! It felt like Christmas when I saw these in a Paris garden!

There! Some of my most favorite shots! Hopefully, next time, I can get to share more pictures!

Of oils and leaks

Remember Selina Sevilla? The one who had silicon oil injected to her butt around 10 years ago as a procedure for butt augmentation and is now suing the “doctor” who performed the procedure because “about five years ago, she felt pain and she noticed that her butt started discharging an oil-like substance” [gosh, maybe she should have put a Delta faucet “so that the leak would go out in an orderly manner”].

Anyway, most of us would ask, “Why, oh why did she had to have her butt done? She was pretty enough!”

Well, the answer would be simple:  We age,we get fats, we sag, and we’re WOMEN!. What a deadly combination!

And some women can’t accept these facts! And no matter how some may seem beautiful to others, it will never be enough!

Now, lucky for most of us, we are not celebrities and really don’t have to look good all the time! Extra pressure is put on celebrities to look perfect all the time, even when they age. So that must be what propels these women to go under the knife for the sake of beauty!

But I believe that there’s one more deeper explanation: These women will never be satisfied with how they look. And that’s where the problem really lies. Whn you’re not satisfied, you have lipo, undergo augmentation, and have all those things done to you.

I just hope I don’t come to that!

Nice to know that even celebrites like J. Lo get those bumps in unwanted places!

Losing weight the "bad" way

My younger sister told me that, lately, I seem to be losing weight (and asked if I have found the best diet pill). However, the scale is telling me no, I am not losing weight. My weight has been steady in my normal range.

So that got me thinking how she would say that. How can my weight stay steady and yet look like losing weight? Is that possible? Yes, I think.

I realized that it must be that I look to have lost weight by the simple fact that I look gaunt (to exagerate it). With all the “stress” and hardwork these past few weeks, I must have been feeling a bit tired and looked like it. These past days [and weeks] have been doing this, doing that, going here, going there! Ha! And the stress must be the reason why I look “payat”!

Well, I certainly don’t want to look payat because of stress. Pangit yun! He! He! So I promise to manage my days more efficiently again, as I have done in the past!

Aftershock

In the aftermath of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s SONA, a lot has been said. There are those who saluted the president for all the accomplishments under her leadership. And ofcourse, there will always be the critics, who seemingly cannot see anything good about the president and the current administration.

As for me, not to sound so apathetic, I don’t really care what she has said (like making “parinig” to all her enemies) or promised (I haven’t even heard or read the transcript of her speech so I don’t know if she promised healthcare and disability insurance just like Obama did), I just want this to be her last. P-e-r-i-o-d!