bacuit bay, palawan

i've been putting this off because i have to write an article anyway. but i just wanted to say, really, how amazing the Philippines is. i've had to make the choice, more than once, between staying home or moving away, but how could I? how could anyone?when you've got limestone cliffs right in your backyard.
(i swear, if there were a fight, superman would just have to slam brainiac into one of those cliffs and wala, patay na sya.)

i've been inexplicably so happy this day. someone's asked me why, e inexplicable nga e. but anyway, i'm thinking it could be my perfect perfect tan (haha, yabang!), my lovely relationship with mucus man or the two great meetings yesterday. but i guess it's just everything falling together. it's like that moment in the small lagoon, when i finally snapped out of jadedness.

it all boils down to moments like that. when you lean back and let the kayak take you out, careful not to tip over. slip under a rock bridge and emerge in a lagoon. You look around and you're surrounded by million years old rock stretching around and above you, greens breaking through the cliffs and the mysterious deep green of water below. Then, as today, you think "i really really like where i am right now. thank you god for taking me here."
(if i weren't tamad, pwede kong i-connect to with the previous airplane entry. you know, transporting, taking me here eklat? whatever. anyway, never mind. tamad nako ;p)