Diyandi Festival 2009

Diyandi Festival is an annual event of merry making and celebration to honor the City’s Patron Saint St. Michael Archangel. The feast falls every 29th of September, but each day of the whole month of September has lined up activities organized by the city government. One of the main event and most loved by Iliganons is the Kasadya Streetdancing and Merrymaking. Students from different schools, barangays and even from nearby towns came to join this yearly competition showcasing colorful costumes, props and graceful performance to vie for the P 200,000.00 cash prize for the over-all champion.

The Kasadya contingents gathered from Iligan Port routing the main street of Iligan city proper, then halted on some areas were judges posted to have their performance and after which they proceeded to the Amphitheater Ground @ the Iligan City Hall where each contingent had their final "showdown".

The sky started to sprinkle rain at the midst of the street performance, I don’t have an umbrella with me so I had to cover myself and of course my camera (I can’t afford to have my gadget rain soaked LOL!) but still I managed to capture some snapshots so here are they and hope you’ll enjoy the colors and smiles of the participants.

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DIY - Guest Book or Photo Album?

My body resistance dropped down and my immune system has weakened after continuous lack of sleep, work stress, and other extra activities that contributed to my condition right now. I had colds and I feel my head will burst any moment, but somehow I managed to get up and report to work.

I’ve written in my last post that I’ll be posting the photo shoots I made during the annual streetdancing here in Iligan City but unfortunately I wasn’t able to upload and select the better shots I had. So maybe by tomorrow I’ll begin my series of posts on “Diyandi Festival” I will also include my first try on concert photography. (cross-fingers! LOL)

So what will I post today, the last day of September 2009? hmmm… let me see.. how about an album layout? I made my own version of a 20 pages 10x8 guest book layout for our wedding last year featuring as page background our rugged pre-nuptial pictorial.

FYI, the guestbook ended up as purely pre nuptial photo album because I didn’t have it signed, LOL… Good thing the wedding planner provided a separate guest book for the guests.

(photos by Mr. Cipriano)

Check out also my previous blog. I posted 2 versions of our wedding album photo storybook that I did myself too.

http://faeriejan.blogspot.com/2009/07/diy-wedding-storybook.html
http://faeriejan.blogspot.com/2009/07/diy-wedding-storybook-2.html

Enjoy!

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Pompon Flowers

Oooopss! Another delay here in my site! No updates from me the past couple of days, hmmm why do you think? Well, because of another busy days! Huh! Fridays usually are super busy day at work bunch of reports to be prepared and submitted. I was hoping I can post anything last Saturday but too bad I wasn’t able to do so. We had another usual get together with friends and ended up getting home late.

Then the following day “Sunday” woke early to catch the “Kasadya Festival” or street dancing. I had numerous photos taken during the event, I’ll be posting it soon. So watch out for it.

For the meantime I’d post another flower for you my friends, an all-time garden flower favorite “globe amaranth”. Globe Amaranth is a non stop blooming plant that can flourish in hot condition. It offers a pompon like flowers that are very attractive to butterflies.

These purple pompon flowers were taken at the garden landscape of Divine Mercy Shrine in El Salvador, Misamis Oriental.

Enjoy! Have a Nice Day!

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Real Farm Town

I've joined the gang per invitation from friends who virtually own a farm and dreaming to have the same in the real world. I got hooked on Facebook’s “Farmtown” also and became one of the million dreamers who wish that someday I will own a real farm with really mansion in it.

Kringggggg! Janjan wake up! Welcome to the real world! Owning such a huge property takes forever for us ordinary people to acquire (maybe on the next reincarnation) so it is best to be contented on what we have at the present.

So I rather share to you a real life small farm owned by my husband’s parents. This is where Jessie and his siblings had grown up. This is the small farm that Jessie’s parents had plowed, harvested crops, worked hard to live on and give their children good education, good life, better future.

Rice Stalks

Livestock

Ricefield & Mountains

Citrus

Happy Farming!

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Redlight on Smoked Glass

I found this photo while digging into my hard drive. This was one of my practice shot taken sometime in June 2009 while having a break from a tedious voluntary busyness in layouting souvenir program, stage back draft, giveaways design intended for the Institute of Integrated Electrical Engineers of the Philippines, Inc. Regional Conference held in Zamboanga City last June 2009.

I saved this photo because I believed I was able to capture a pretty red light reflected on the dining table smoked glass.
I love my mouse. I can't use my laptop without it because laptop cursor pad and I are enemies!(it slows me down! LOL)

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A Coffee for a Lovely Angel

I was trying to figure out how to place a “grab my button” on the sidebar (just in case somebody wants to grab it and add me in their site, LOL ) but I’m hopeless, I don’t know how to do it, I’m not familiar with html etc. I’ve searched the internet for tutorial but I wasn’t able to find one.

Then suddenly an angel came and willingly taught me how to do it sent me an email for the code and some instructions, my lovely angel Jaye of http://scrapping-delights.blogspot.com.

As a token of appreciation here’s cup of café latte for you! Thanks so much dear!

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Pretty Vinca

I have been a slacker in updating my blog the past 3 days if I counted it right, I been busy at work and busy doing nothing at home. haaaaaaaaaaaay!

Anyways, I mentioned in my last post that I’ll be hunting another sunset this weekend but sad to say the sun seems to play hide and seek with me. The sky is too cloudy again. No sunset insight again. Grrrrrrrrr!

Hope I can catch him soon... cross-fingers!

Since I don’t have a sunset shot for today, I'm going back to one of my favorites, FLOWERS!

Hello VINCA!

Vinca is an annual plant, meaning it can tolerate variety of conditions and all throughout the year it can deliver pretty flowers. This pretty vinca can grow from 6 to 16 inches tall, it is easy to grow and a drought tolerant.

My share of tropical rose vinca and pretty in white vinca.

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