Cool Retreat
March 5, 2010 
We spent two consecutive weekends already in Tagaytay. It was just too hot to stay at home and too frustrating to just window-shop. It is not that far from where we live, but it’s not that near either. You still feel like you’re going on a “trip”, if you know what I mean, so there’s still some excitement. Plus anywhere with lower temp is worth the drive.
Last weekend, my dear mom wanted to buy those small bananas, those still attached to the trunk. Do you eat that? That took some time…you know how moms can be too picky. Before that, we stopped along Silang to buy some plants. Got to Tagaytay just before sunset. Dinner was at Leslie’s, our usual “default” resto when nobody wants to drive around anymore.
Please don’t laugh, but I just discovered a liking for gardening. Just look at these mini-roses. My souvenir from our trip.
It would have been cool though if we also bought some sunflowers. That’ll be a nice way to pay homage for my love of the best game in the universe—Plants vs Zombies. Hee hee. Next time. I took pictures of the blooms with a coin for scale to show how small the flowers are. Pretty, right?♥
The blooms may be tiny, but the thorns are still nasty. I don’t mind. Now I can have roses everyday.♥♥♥
Huge Contrast
March 4, 2010We went from the heavens pouring hard on us to this superdry el niño. From a wet calamity to a dry calamity. I complained when there was too much water, now I’m praying for a single drop of rain.
Anything just to ease this heat. Please.
It was 35deg the other day. And some say the temperature will reach up to 40deg in some parts of the country. Gosh! We still have the summer months ahead of us. A long way to go but some dams are already at critical levels. Even the fish are dying.
I know it’ll be a miracle if it rains this March because it’s the just the beginning of summer. But who knows? Nothing can ever be certain. We all anticipated the tsunami after the 8.8 Chile earthquake, didn’t we? But it never came.
Faith is the key, I say.
Also, water is precious. Conserve.
