Businessman

Not many of my friends here in the states know where I was before I came here in 2002. I was teaching in the Philippines at Mindanao State University - General Santos from 1997-2002. Aside from teaching, there were a few things that I did when I was there and I didn't realize that I was good at it. I was a businessman selling bromeliads in General Santos. There was really no hard work to it, basically, I go home and buy my mom's and her friend's bromeliads, transport, do some advertising then do a 60-70% mark-up on my mom's price then sell it and eventually profit. I earned a lot of money on my first week and started the bromeliad craze in General Santos. Here's a sample of a bromeliad from our house in NY, its not as colorful compared to what I sold, we manage to keep a few ones indoor.

Four Houses

Here's a photo of my paintings from yesterday (four different paintings, just placed close to each other). I haven't painted in more than a decade and I decided to revisit my long lost hobby. I originally was planning to paint only one (original is top-photo) from a photo I took last Christmas but I decided to mix some colors and came up with 4 different paintings.

First Day of Spring

We were on top of Hunter Mountain in the Catskills, NY this weekend. It was not easy going up because it was very steep and it was also icy. The spring season started this weekend and small buds of the plants are slowly coming out.

Water Drop

I've been browsing other people's photos online and I was intrigued with the water drop photos. So, I decided to give it a try. I learned that you need to adjust basically 2 settings in the camera, ISO number and the shutter speed, then start taking pictures. I didn't know that whole set-up was a lot of work (background, light, source of drop, papertowels, etc.) I took ~300 shots and I manage to get ~15 good ones and this is my favorite.

Rest

Here's a picture of a baby crocodile resting. I took this at the Everglades Crocodile Farm in Fl.

Bond boat

If you remember the James Bond movie, "Licensed to Kill", agent 007 used this boat in his mission. When we were in Florida, we got chartered by the same boat for our scuba dive trip. Nothing too fancy about this photo but I thought it was cool to ride a Bond boat.

Dancing Princesses

This picture was taken from the Willimantic Food Coop anniversary performance. We've been performing at the Willimantic Food Coop for 4 years? now and it's always fun. We had a very small space during our performance but it didn't stop these girls from dancing.