Day 119: Nightswimming

Day 119:

Swimming without the sunburns. :p Entirely different allure altogether. Different but beautiful nonetheless.

Day 118: Couple Getaway

Day 118:

Let's run away, just you and me. Maybe not so far away. Maybe just around the corner. Maybe a few hours drive away. Maybe a plane ride and a boat away. Just enough for us to forget about everything messy in our lives. Just enough for us to be us. However far or near that'd be. To be reminded of who we are. For me to tell you how much I missed you all this time.

Day 117: Streetlife

Day 117:

I took this also during the wednesday market.

As a photographic study... I like the feeling of depth. :D That's it. bow.

Day 116: Face of A People

Day 116:

Face of a People.

Trinkets. Tourist souvenirs. Reminders of places that foreigners go to. A form of self-orientalization by the natives. These things that people buy at inflated rates, are not so much reminders of places themselves, but places that may be created in the imagination by ourselves, or the people who visit. We are who we are. But we are also who we show ourselves to be. When we look at what we say to be "natively" filipino, or what is filipino, how much a part of that is really who we are, and how much of that is born out of a need to distinguish ourselves from the "others" who visit us?

Just a thought.

Day 115: Comfort Food

Day 115:

I took this at the Dumaguete Wednesday Market.

On this hot summer day... wouldn't a scoop of ice cream be great... specifically, that street-found "Dirty" ice cream? :p

Day 114: Independence

Day 114:

This is a picture of my brother. He loves the water. This is his independence. (somewhat. :P) This in a pool probably 8-10 feet deep. But he doesn't really care. He jumps into the water, and waddles around with an awkward dog-paddle from edge to edge. He also ventures off short distances when we would stop for snorkling. He apparently isn't afraid of the open sea.

Day 113: Lifeline

Day 113:

SCUBA diving... is one of the funnest, often misunderstood "extreme" sports. To be honest, (I speak as a PADI Certified Advanced Open Water Diver of 3+ Years) to be a diver... you don't need to know how to swim really well. You just have to be comfortable with the water. Enough not to panic as you go down above your head. Swimming is a plus for sure! But do you need to handle 1km of freestyle.... naaah. Do you have to be fit like an athlete? Naaah. Look at me. I'm fat. I'm not really fit. Is diving a life threatening sport? Well... if you aren't careful, and you don't follow the rules, it can be. As long as you do the necessary checks, you should be fine! Just get a physician's clearance for the ears, or any patent morbidities, to be sure. But for the most part, diving is a leisurely, slow-paced scenic tour of the reefs.

Bleh. Go diving. :P Dive Philippines!