New Finds...

June - not only is it the month of weddings but also the month for our Pili Festival and City Fiesta celebration. Lots of activities going on everyday. Wish I took pictures of the ones I saw or went to but as usual - same old forgetful me. Well, yep.. ok... I admit I was also busy with someon-... something else. *winks*

There's Search for Miss Sorsogon, band shows here and there, street dancing, oldies' day out, Beer Plaza and a lot more. There are also stalls/booths of different agencies and groups built on the capitol kiosk and lots of people from around the city and nearby municipalities came to buy, look around, relax and make the most of the holidays.

I was one of them regular visitors of the park/kiosk as me and my friends hand out there. There are many nice native products that, if I wasn't on a tight budget, I would have bought loads.

The few things I wasn't able to resist are:


Left is a bouquet of dried flowers and twigs carefully handcrafted by mothers during their livelihood trainings, placed in a vase
of commendable workmanship. The vase is made of halved pili kernels, patiently painted with rustic gold and glued together to create this intricate design. Right is a similarly dried flower but of smaller size and simpler design.

Clays of different sizes and designs were also all over the place. This simple medium-sized clay lamp have star-shaped holes to let the glowing yellow light out. Lit in the darkness of my room, it helps my mind wonder and imagine of places and people far away.


We also went to the Beer Plaza held at the Rompeolas with two bands (supposedly from Manila, but I'm just not so sure) keeping the people entertained.

Neither me nor my friend,Fatima drink (unless "forced" to) so we just had cali which comes free with the tickets (3 beer for 1 ticket). It's but natural for Filipino entrepreneurs to make the most of the situation but P3 for 1 piece of fishball? wow! that's too much! For such supposedly shrewd businessmen, I wonder why it's still taking us very slowly to get there.

Good thing that we weren't that hungry and just wanted something to nibble while listening to the band play.

It's been a while since I've been to band shows so I was excited. They were good, although not in the rock-on-head-bang-girls-screaming kind of good but still overall good.

The second group was an R&B/HipHop which the guys on our table didn't really like. They played upbeat, dance-and-sweat-your-booty-off-the-seat songs which at first kept the crowd silent and sort of caught off guard after the hotel-california-finale of the first band. But after a while, they were grooving and singing along especially when the group did love songs.

We weren't able to finish the second set of the show coz I had to go home early. I heard though, that the girls from the Hip Hop group took off their tops towards the end of the show. Well, that's one thing we missed but I'm sure didn't regret. hehe

The fiesta day itself was an activity-filled day. Bought a brand new motorbike (which I'm going to discuss in detail in the following post), went to my friend Fati's house and ate a lot and showed my butterfly tattoo the whole day!

I forgot to mention that among the new things I had was a henna tattoo of a butterfly in my right shoulderblade area, which is rarely seen coz I wear uniform to work so I took the holiday opportunity to show it off. I was wearing a halter top and tied my hair in a pigtail.

It's starting to fade now and pretty soon it will just be a memory of my "wild" days. lol! wild? yeah, right.

New Finds, Good Finds. Some will fade, others will last.

One good thing is for sure - the memory will last forever...

(that is if I don't get alzheimer) :D