Postal History Day Tour

My good friend Alvin sent me a ym message a couple of weeks ago about the free Postal History Day Tour he came across on one of his Yahoo Groups. I have no interest in Philately but I was curious as to what the tour was all about so I said yes to accompanying him.

Most of the info I learned from the tour has already been expunged from my memory but it was fun, I got to try my hand with photography using my Sony Ericsson C-902. I haven't yet fully explored and exploited the camera features of my phone (that's why I bought it in the first place). I haven't enrolled in photography class and I have no idea if what I'm doing is right or wrong but the pictures I took were based on my instinct.

Let me know what you think :D

"Old Man by the Bench"

It was an awfully hot day so guess who my new best friend is? Hint, he's red and black & likes to stand still with his head rotating from side to side every 30 seconds or so... Hahaha :))

This was an ornament hanging off of the office ceiling of the Philippine Postal Authority office. The way I laid it out, it just looks like a person with glasses and huge ears.

"Tumbling Down"

"Zigzag"

"Cityscape"

*I find it fascinating that he was wearing a shirt with a print that looks like it was copied from a comic book*

"Symmetry"

"Waiting"

"Distance"

"Post No Bill"

"Contrast"

"Concrete Garden"

"Ruins"

"Jumping Jack"

And that my friends, is the end of the trip.

FYI... the Philippine Philatelical Library is located inside the building that also houses the Postal Police :D

Closing Time

Closing time - time for you to go out, go out into the world.
Closing time - turn the lights up over every boy and every girl.
Closing time - one last call for alcohol, so finish your whiskey or beer.
Closing time - you don't have to go home but you can't stay here.

It's day 4 of the new phase of my life called 'unemployed' and I'm still a bit antsy. I'm used to not doing anything only on the weekends and now the rest of my unscheduled days are stretched out before me.

I've been out of the house running errands for the last couple of days so I don't really notice it. Today, it looks like I'll be stuck in the house and all the more that the thoughts of my earning some income's been rattling my brain even more.

At the same time, I'm also thankful that I'm now getting a break. I've been working for 6 years straight and I am spent. In my heart of hearts, I am kind of envious of my two sisters. They both took some time off after graduating college before they started working and well, I was reporting for work a week or two before I graduated. After all I've been through the last couple of years -- near bankruptcy, office interpersonal relationship disasters and everything else -- I am just spent.

I think I have had the chance to really think things through on what I really want to do with my life but somehow, my coming into this situation now tells me otherwise. There are so many things that I wanted to do as a little kid and somehow I managed not to do any of those when I chose to step into the "responsible adult" phase.

I'm now considering this to be a sacred time -- time to figure out where next I'll be headed in spite of all the uncertain path that lies ahead of me. I hope I finally figure it out before committing myself to something for the next couple of years. I don't know yet if I'll be employed or I'll strike out on my own doing my own thing (business maybe or finally going into a career in fashion) but whatever's going to be the best for me, I trust & believe in the wisdom of the universe.