tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1620688452882835422024-03-08T10:20:46.114+08:00Islander in the Cityatto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.comBlogger308125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-9937660909634765032010-06-30T11:32:00.004+08:002011-08-11T07:19:32.314+08:00Into The Lightrsandarino.com - Into The Lightatto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-32688548202051340872010-04-03T10:47:00.004+08:002011-08-11T07:19:58.347+08:00A Season of Hope
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atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-65808320165656298072010-01-06T15:23:00.002+08:002010-01-06T15:35:52.887+08:00SilenceVacation has come and gone, but I have yet to make a decent post in this blog. Seems like I've already ran out of drive to express more detailed statements to the world. Must be because I could make simple shout-outs through my facebook updates anyway.I was hoping to transfer to my own dotcom site at the onset of 2010 but even that takes the backseat for now. It's all fired-up, just a few more atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-2092121369064449972009-12-28T12:24:00.003+08:002009-12-28T12:30:01.595+08:00Happy New Year, Folks!I spent my recent weeks in places where access to the internet was scarce. Forgive me then if I have not greeted you last Christmas.I surmise I will continue to be generally offline in the next few days. I missed the Philippines so much I am now savouring every minute of my stay here.So to all of you, have a blissful New Year!atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-55303219855552883542009-12-12T12:53:00.002+08:002009-12-12T12:58:05.871+08:00Enjoying So FarI've been in Manila for a week now.And while I spend most of the time on-line in Japan, here it's practically a vacation too from the virtual world.So blogging goes on the back burner for now. I will be back, soon I hope.<!--Session data-->atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-21124952540786059242009-12-04T09:32:00.009+08:002011-08-11T07:22:03.330+08:00Yasukuni Shrine
I was just aimlessly exploring the city when I saw this imposing torii (gate). I checked what it was, and I was pleasantly surprised that it turned out to be the entrance to the Yasukuni Shrine - a shrine I have seen many times on international tv. This is the shrine that always attract a lot of media attention whenever China protests the visits made by local and foreign dignitaries.
Here's atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-24137804992878084502009-11-30T12:40:00.005+08:002009-11-30T13:04:58.440+08:00Autumn In the CityIt's actually winter here already (it feels like it). And it's been weeks since the declared best days for foliage viewing. But since I've been quite busy attending to some office duties the past weeks, it's just lately that I had time to roam the city.Good thing I still got a glimpse of the koyo or autumn leaves that colored metro Tokyo. Armed with my trusty point-and-shoot, I walked about 5 atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-78349874847716516632009-11-28T12:20:00.004+08:002009-11-28T12:28:41.330+08:00Liberal Party PlatformTo these I hold them accountable for, when our support catapults them to the seat of power. Noynoy Aquino Platform of Government atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-45907312192414859792009-11-23T22:20:00.006+08:002009-11-24T10:43:35.995+08:00Tobu World Square: Tour of the World in 3 HrsI had visitors I needed to tour. But I don't want to bring them to places I've been to. I too should enjoy the trip just as much, right?So I decided to check Tobu World Square - the park which houses miniatures replicas of world heritage sites. Built in 1993, the park boasts of 102 reproductions built to 1/25th of the original sizes.Here are the reconstructions of some of the places I would atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-73647725605345496782009-11-18T05:34:00.005+08:002009-11-18T07:55:40.227+08:00QuickieOne hurried tour that was!More pics and details in the next post.atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-34197330474953187702009-11-17T07:43:00.004+08:002009-11-17T08:05:51.777+08:00Irony PhilippinesI am currently handling an international project, the completion of which has long been overdue. Why? Because every time we approach the end, a new bureaucratic requisite sprouts which consequently throws the finish line farther away.This confounds our foreign partners since the same initiative has been implemented in many other countries and so far, it is the Philippines that has asked for the atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-56134057345578648372009-11-10T08:50:00.005+08:002009-11-10T09:08:24.407+08:00Extreme Make-Over at the TrainsTokyo Metro trains have for some time been running a campaign featuring a series of posters encouraging proper decorum at the trains. With the slogan "Please do it at Home" the subway management admonishes people not to do things that are best done at home like eating, drinking, being rowdy, playing, etc. Using cartoons as medium, some exaggeration is understandably employed.But the most recent atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-23767691664496747002009-11-02T09:14:00.005+08:002009-11-02T09:37:16.847+08:00Hokkaido Pics: RecoveredAllow me to share some of the few good pics recovered from my busted memory card. These were the ones I took during my visit to Hokkaido, an island north of Japan. Regularly, the place is covered in snow, but summertime converts it into one vast grassland (cultured). The place is known as Japan's milkland, where there are more cows than people.The farmers in the area are rich, living in atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-56710890454042013612009-10-24T18:09:00.005+08:002009-10-29T11:37:14.478+08:00Creatures in the Flower ParkI first saw the fallen angels ... resting beneath the tall trees that seemed to fence the large flower farm. I asked permission to take their picture, but before I could even make a few decent clicks, the other tourists rudely took my frame. I was not in the mood to serve as their official photographer so I decided to wander afar.Luckily I met other interesting creatures, mostly on their way to atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-77361592107273986982009-10-21T19:53:00.009+08:002009-10-30T11:36:31.288+08:00Tsukuba: Just Another Bus Tour PostFor the nth time, I joined a Filipino organization in a bus tour - this time in Japan's science showcase, the city of Tsukuba in Ibaraki Prefecture.Our first stop was the Tsukuba Expo Center which greets visitors with an impressive 50-meter high full-scale model of the Japanese-made H-2 rocket. Once inside, we were exposed to many Japanese inventions, like the ocean floor investigative atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-10878298582854815812009-10-19T10:39:00.003+08:002009-10-19T11:13:12.847+08:00My Camera Failed Me!I was in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost part, the past few days. And there I got exposed to the Japanese "inaka" or countryside - a scene so unlike the image that comes to mind when people talk about the high-tech, populous land of the rising sun.From above, one could see vast plains all over the area, with greens that look like golf courses. It turned out that most of the land was planted to atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-37635987068814690392009-10-13T07:02:00.002+08:002009-10-13T08:54:15.741+08:00Missing You ...He he. Ala lang. Napagaya ke Abaniko.(This song is one the most popular Waray ballads of all time.)atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-46096367190178216172009-10-09T14:48:00.007+08:002009-10-09T19:12:34.715+08:00Never EnoughI just had a conversation with a friend who was one of those who were badly hit by Ondoy's fury. Having had no communication since that fateful Saturday, I was simply too eager to know how things were going for him.But in reply to my "kumusta?", he chided me for not giving him any form of assistance - and further noting that I did send little "somethings" only to my relatives. Taken aback, I atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-50214062251915245672009-10-06T08:58:00.006+08:002009-10-06T09:43:39.715+08:00Digging GiboI just finished watching ANC's Face to Face where Sec. Gilbert Teodoro had an open forum with local government leaders (three more are supposed to follow).Admittedly, I was impressed with his eloquence and his firm hold on issues - he does have the big brains that's a plus for any presidential aspirant. I even think that if he gets pitted with Chiz Escudero, Gibo will level with him content-wise.atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-5554273228416356242009-09-30T07:53:00.007+08:002009-10-01T11:19:16.179+08:00Gentle RapidsA friend from Saitama invited me to visit his home last Sunday. From there, we drove to the Nagatoro area where he surprised me with a riverboat ride.It turned out that Nagatoro is a center for whitewater activity just a few miles out of Tokyo. City folks troop to the area for kayaking and other water activities.We rode a traditional large wooden boat manned by two local navigators in uniform. atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162068845288283542.post-92077275807071112802009-09-28T09:35:00.002+08:002009-09-28T09:55:37.083+08:00WorriedMy heart bleeds for relatives and friends living in the areas affected by the floods.I am particularly worried about those from Marikina. I'm quite sure that by now, there already are hundreds of people I know who are now in the evacuation centers. You see, there is a specific area in Marikina where most of my kababayans from Samar converge and that is exactly the purok beside the river.For atto aryohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16762087147430357408noreply@blogger.com34