Once upon a sunset, I fell in love with you.

Once upon a daydream, I heard you say "me too".

Once upon a phantom song, you said you'd bind yourself to me.

Then the daydream ended with me hanging on a tree.

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Taken at Liloan, Cebu.

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the room is
dark while stray lights
take away minutes and hours
of sun from me.

minutes and hours are all I
have. stolen, they
march me away to elysium. I
walk, I think, but
I cannot seem to answer the

questions. what am I
doing here?

minutes and hours. time
and space. I occupy mass
but must I occupy reason?

minutes and hours march.
those answers are a dream away I
know but how many hours
should i have to sleep? Until
balding hair and weary skin
defeats my soul?

minutes and hours.
does time even tick for a reason?

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Taken at Cubao, Quezon City.

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The rise and retreat of the sun and airports are two different things preaching the same gospel: that of leaving and that of arriving. And somehow, they are intertwined.

Imagine this: In a hospital somewhere, an old man is dying, his life draining as he struggles to hold on to his dear memories. Of love? I do not know. But it is said that at the moment of death, the memories of your love are the ones that will struggle most to survive and will fight to be remembered, until your very last breath.

Now imagine that somewhere in the maternity room, a woman is giving birth. A child is being brought into this universe.

How hard is it to believe that in that time in between the old man's soul departing and a new child's soul arriving, that they somehow met in soul-space and had coffee, a little conversation and perhaps, the departing soul giving an advice or two.

How hard is it to believe that somehow, we are all connected like a circle, where all souls departing imparts a part of themselves to all those new souls arriving.

Maybe that kid she was holding had coffee with your lolo before he was born and moments after he died.

Strange, strange thoughts.

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Taken at the Mactan International Airport, Mactan, Cebu.

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Poddcorp

In the recently concluded Tholons Globalization Service, Cebu ranked 1^st among 50 emerging cities in the Global Outsourcing Industry. Cebu City is the only city from list maintaining its ranking from the previous year. Coming at 2^nd and 3^rd are China’s biggest cities, Shanghai and Beijing, while Krakow, Poland, and Ho Chi Minh Vietnam ranked 4^th and 5^th respectively. The top 50 list is dominated by mostly South American and East European cities.

Other Philippine cities also excelled in the outsourcing industry according to Tholons. One of which is Manila ranking 4^th in the Top 8 Global Outsourcing Cities - a list which is dominated by 6 cities from Dubai and Dublin Ireland. Also, Iloilo ranked 3^rd in Top 10 Aspiring cities in the outsourcing industry.

Scale and quality of workforce, business catalyst, cost, infrastructure, risk profile and quality of life were the six categories that the different outsourcing cities were evaluated upon.

Cebu’s vast workforce makes the province highly recommended for outsourcing. With different skilled individuals trained in prestigious schools with excellent English language proficiency, Cebu is filled with talented resources willing to render services to foreign clients.

And since resources are very much well-rounded, the city can offer different types of service to clients: outbound and inbound call centers, customer service, graphic and web design, software and applications development, SEO and online marketing, and lots more.

All the factors that Tholons Globalization Service have in their categories for qualification makes Cebu globally competitive. Indeed, it shouldn’t be questioned that Cebu got the top spot in outsourcing and offshore services.

Poddcorp

The contest’s aim is to be able to inspire and influence the graphics community to be creative and be involved in the local art community and, of course, have a blast of fun and entertainment.

The awarding of winners would be on the night of the 17th, still, at Handuraw Lahug at 7PM onwards. Aside from the contest, there would also be live doodle and graffiti, open bazaar, tattoo sessions, and food with live performances from Russ Ligtas, Hastang, Zarah Smith, Mary Peril and Uno.

Philippine Offshore Design and Development Corporation is in one with the event's goal in taking Cebuano art a step further. As sponsors of the event, PODD Corp believes that there is much talent in the pool of artists in Cebu and events like this would encourage each of them to participate and support local art.

Aisde from PODD Corp, other companies are also sponsoring the event like: RCTV 36, MetroGrafix, Tri-J Marketing Inc., Art Cebu, Bliss, Jordan Tattoo, Indiesign Creative Group, Philippines Islands, Sun Cellular, Killer Bee 92.3, Handuraw Pizza, Crols Tatoo, Foundry Publishing, Electrolux, and M Lhuillier.

This event is for the benefit of Tsinelas Association Inc.

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