Aplaya Laiya

I was 11 years old when I first set foot here. To get here then, we had to travel through unpaved roads and we ended up with dust-covered hair when we got here. There were no resorts, no huts for rent, no garbage, no vendors - just beautiful, pristine sand and clear waters. It was first time in any beach and glad to be back where I started my life-long romance with the sand and the sea.

My Lounge family

These pictures were taken for the Mandala 2011 yearbook. In the picture are some of the people closest to me in the Psych department. Though they probably consider me as their Nanay on account of our age differences, I feel like they're my BFFs. They keep me young with unrepressed laughter! Love you, guys!!!

Walking around

... the compound of the Development Academy of the Philippines.
October 2011

Heavenly music in Lucerne

The choir is singing the entrance hymn in a mass we attended in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Paris 3: Montmartre and the Sacre Coeur Basilica

The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica (French: Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, pronounced [sakʁe kœʁ]), is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Paris, France. A popular landmark, the basilica is located at the summit of the butte Montmartre, the highest point in the city. Sacré-Cœur is a double monument, political and cultural, both a national penance for the supposed excesses of the Second Empire and socialist Paris Commune of 1871 crowning its most rebellious neighborhood, and an embodiment of conservative moral order, publicly dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which was an increasingly popular vision of a loving and sympathetic Christ.

The Sacré-Cœur Basilica was designed by Paul Abadie. Construction began in 1875 and was finished in 1914. It was consecrated after the end of World War I in 1919.

Paris 2: The Louvre

The Louvre

Paris 1

Lucerne, Switzerland

Venezia

Firenze!

Florence, Italy

Tower Power

Postcard Rome

Castel Gandolfo, Italy

Castel Gandolfo (Italian pronunciation: [kaˈstɛl ɡanˈdɔlfo],[1] Latin: Castrum Gandulphi, colloquially Castello in the Castelli Romani dialects) is a small Italian town or comune in Lazio that occupies a height overlooking Lake Albano about 15 miles south-east of Rome, on the Alban Hills. It is best known as the summer residence of the Pope.

The resort community includes almost the whole coastline of Lake Albano that is surrounded by many summer residences, villas and cottages built during the seventeenth century.

Assisi, Italy

Roma, on our own

August 24-28, 2011

Post-WYD Madrid

World Youth Day 2011

Aug. 16-21, 2011

Days in the Diocese (Coria-Caceres)

San Pablo in May 2011

Had lunch at Sulyap Restaurant with relatives & friends. Then, just before mass at the cathedral, was able to view the Santacruzan. Actually, two of them!

CSSP Plays!

Team-building in Caliraya Resort Club in Cavinti, Laguna and then shopping in Liliw, Laguna. All that in 2 days! Whew!
May 20-21, 2011