So, until March 9 I didn't know there were gendered nouns. I asked why, and their answers can be found here.

Maru's new laptop is named "Shew" which originated from the word "shoe" because it sounds cute. I'll have to buy Shew a "funke" bag soon. :P It's cold up in Baguio.

 I thought that "Shew" was another silly concoction by my sister but Wiktionary has proven otherwise:

shew

to shew (third-person singular simple present shews, present participle shewing, simple past shewed, past participle shewed or shewn)

1. (archaic) To show.
2. To prove.

Quotations

• 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version)^[1], Genesis 12:1

  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

• 1786: Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xiv.

  The section shewing its concavity and handle.

• ????: M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG) page 40.

  I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.

my mind to join photo contests when this month ends. I'm looking forward to it because I know the experience comes with some sibling love and hopefully, a bit of luck. :D


Which brings me to remember that that won't be the first time I'd be joining a photo contest. The first contest was in college, and in retrospect, I had absolutely no inkling as to what I stood up against being that I didn't have any formal background on photography (still don't). The results were based purely on gut feel and playing around with whatever pixel range and lighting I had at that time. The cam I used (which wasn't even mine to begin with), wasn't even branded! and it was supposed to be a 7.2 mp but I later on found out it was close to just a 5.-something. I didn't even know that the small tulip sign on the cam stood for macro. Haha.

All those didn't matter though, as I was one happy member of the clicking crowd. It was only towards the end of the event that I found out that my  rivals were among the best in Baguio and the Philippines and the world, most probably  (some of them were photographing for the PDI Northern Luzon Bureau. My goodness!).

Here's a handful of the photos I salvaged from that wonderful initiation:

[It was for Camp John Hay but I forgot what the name of the event was or even the theme. I also don't remember which of the following I turned in (there was a maximum of 5 photos for each contestant but I only submitted 3).

I also forgot what captions I came up with since these are bordering on the melancholic and the event was supposed to promote Camp John Hay as a haven for stressed out vacationers. It's not likely that these images promote something "gay" or "fun" or anything like that.]



Of course, I didn't win (haha). I ended up somewhere in the middle and that was good enough for me, I tell you. It was such a memorable event for the clueless first timer that I was and I'm wishing for more of these spur-of-the-moment days. 

Which is why I should remember. But let it not be as tragic as this. 


Seven Years Later, Driving Home
Justin U. Camacho


It is impossible to fall in love again
for the first time.
The first blush, the heart quickening,
racing madly with a secret:
these things happen only once.
Yesterday, in the car,
only half-listening to a song,
I remembered.
And in my mind, I turned around.
If I had known that I would never
see you again.
If I had known that afternoon in August,
I would have stayed rooted there.
Watching you.
Nineteen yet and dreamy.
I felt the years deaden me, one by one.
And all the headlamps around me
blurred.
It was so sweet,
even to feel
that wound again. 


If it should be, then let it be for the last time and for a long time.  

I finally got around to buying the cam that I've been dreaming of. Since I'm crazy on moments like this, I got hold of the image of the guy who did the assisting. :P He doesnt look too flattering in this pic but I'm a fan of first times and since his is the first pic that I clicked, he gets the right to be spammed here. Thanks Sony guy!