Photography
A (Not So) New Template
March 13, 2008
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It’s not so new but I created a template for my personal Filipino blog. I’m creating some more new templates for friends and some other sites I have. I’ll post them here when they get done.
Ok, “Totally-Family-Pictures” alert here!! I’ve been hoarding these pictures in my laptop for awhile now. I couldn’t find the time to organize them. But they are sooooooooooo overdue that some of them could celebrate their own birthdays already. Oh well, here they are…
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How Many More Days Till Spring?
February 2, 2008
How I long for spring.
Not because this winter has been cold. As a matter of fact, this is really mild compared to my winters in Canada. Which also bothers me because this mild winter would mean a drier summer for Maryland. And a dry summer would mean not too much water in the reservoirs, right?
But yeah, despite this very tame winter, I really, really wish it is spring already. I miss the happy mood, the promise of growth and newness and life. I miss the tulips. I wish we can soon go back to the Sherwood Gardens in Guilford to see all the wonderful tulips in their garden. I miss taking pictures of them.
Maybe I should just cross my fingers, close my eyes and wish that Spring would soon be here.
Some More Pictures
January 20, 2008
My husband and I love photography! We enjoy going places, just the two of us, and just start taking pictures. We’ll bring our trusty Canon A40 and our Canon Rebel XTI and we’d be good to go. We’ll swap the two cameras between the two of us and get lost in the world. At the end of the day, we’d feel accomplished. Not just because of the shots we take but also because we have the whole day for just the two of us.
I have to admit, hubbie has a better eye when it comes to compositions. He finds angles that I rarely see. But he always says I take better portrait photographs. Well, I just try 
There’s a high I get when I’m in any place and have nothing on my mind except taking pictures. I see a subject and really get into it. But don’t get me wrong, I don’t always come up with very good compositions. But I think that’s where the ultimate high comes from – that one shot that would make you say “Hey, this isn’t so bad!” No matter if you’d taken a hundred photos before you got to that one good one. It still was worth the whole afternoon for me.
We’ve taken a lot of pictures already for the past two years. And I’m really counting on us taking so many more in the years to come. And hopefully our photographs would get better and better – just like wine… just like a good marriage.
Tags: Seeking a Cure
December 26, 2007
My husband has psoriasis and has been suffering with the affliction for about 12 years now. Lately, it has graduated to psoriasis arthritis, which means it isn’t just an inflammation of the skin, which is the general characteristic of psoriasis, but it has also now inflamed his joints.
It isn’t easy living with the disease. Hubbie has had his moments when the pain would just be too much. A bottle of Advil, Tylenol and every other pain reliever would always be by our bedside table. And somedays, it doesn’t help anymore. So you could just imagine how much we’ve prayed for a relief from the illness.
About three weeks ago, because of a very good doctor‘s perseverance to help people like my husband, he has gotten an ok from his medical insurance to take Enbrel. It’s a biologic medication which is injected under the skin. Its a type of protein that helps block TNF or tumor necrosis factor, which is overly produced by a patient’s immune system. And I have to say that Enbrel works like a miracle drug for my husband. The arthritis pain just went away and the patches of red skin from his body are slowly clearing up. The itch is still there, but it has gotten less and less everyday. I cannot believe that only a few weeks ago he had a hard time walking already because of the inflammation of his knee joints.
We’re not really sure how long he has to stay on the medication tho. We have heard of cases where some patients had to switch medication after some time because their systems had gotten used to the drug and need a change. But for now, I’m really happy that the drug has given my husband his life back. It’s something I will always be thankful for everytime I wake up in the morning.
The picture below was taken last October 6, 2007 while heading for the meeting place of the National Psoriasis Foundation‘s Walk for Awareness held at Washington, DC. Hubbie enlisted to join the walk.
