Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Old pictures

I was browsing old photographs on my laptop when I stumbled upon my family's summer trip to Ocean's Adventure last March 5th in Subic Bay Philippines.


Rufus getting a tan Posted by Picasa

I was with my wife, son, a nephew and our nanny and took along enough stuff to have a beach picnic. As you can see from the picture, we were able to pack a lot of stuff into Rufus trunk. What your not seeing there are the swimming equipment that we brought with us like the snorkeling equipment (for me and the wife) and the inflatable rafts and what-nots that you have to bring to the beach.

I remember that we left Bacoor, Cavite pretty early. Since it was Rufus first time on the NLEX (North Luzon Expressway) so I pretty much let him run to 120kph whenever possible that morning.

The whale and dolphin show was pretty amazing. It different if your just watching it in television or video because when your there, the anticipation and joy of just watching the animals swim and jump is just exhilarating. It just want to make you go up and join Greenpeace. ;) Don't take my word for it, visit the place.

We had lunch in the adjacent Kamayan Restaurant and Beach resort. Suffice to say, it was really a test of will just to keep my son from running into the water before getting lunch. So me and my wife spent a lazy afternoon swimming around the beach and it was nice.

Dinner was at Gerry's grill which is also on a beach and beside a water-ski shop. Were able to watch the sunset while dining on grilled calamares and their famous sisig. We parked Rufus on the sand and my family strolled by the beach and everything in the world is as it should be.

March 5th 2005 was a great day in my life.

Monday, September 19, 2005

Picanto on 17" RIMS?


This is NOT Rufus on 17" RIMS Posted by Picasa

Someone in the Picanto Yahoo! Group posted the above picture of a Picanto on 17" RIMS. It looks nice doesn't it. Btw, just to clarify, thats NOT Rufus. Although I would love getting mags for Rufus but most of vulcanizing shops along my route and normal provincial destinations (Samar and Romblon) are not equiped to properly change tires on mags ... leaving it scored, scratch and damaged.

There are more pictures of other vehicles with nice mags on Concept One's gallery site and there's this really nice picture of a gray picanto.

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

New kid on the block


Parking Neighbor! Posted by Picasa

I passed by this vehicle parked in basement level 6 of the PBCom Tower here in Ayala. Technically, this is the first Picanto besides Rufus that I saw parked here.

Hmmm ... if not for my wife, Rufus would be sporting the same color ...