Loving the rain

I love sunny days and rainy days but I think I love the latter more.

Comic strip from Mutts

Davao!

This is what you see going down the stairs of our house in Davao. I make it a point to file a two-week vacation leave every summer and that's when we go here. We arrived yesterday morning and we went to the beach after having brunch. We saw some relatives and we stayed there until late afternoon. I let my son swim to his heart's content while I, my sister, and our cousin did a little sunbathing. See, this is what I love about Davao. Relatives are everywhere and almost everything is a 10- to 15-minute drive away.

My singkamas obsession

Image from flickr

When I was young, summer was about trips to the beach, reading book after book, watching movies on VHS (remember VHS??), and eating singkamas -- that's jicama in English.

Now that summer has begun over here I've been on the lookout for those carts that sell bunches of singkamas. And I'm a happy girl because I've been able to get my fill of these crunchy and juicy veggies everyday. I peel them and eat them raw with a little bit of salt. I eat them in the morning, in the afternoon, and in the evening when I come home from work. Obsessed much?

As an added bonus I found out that it has very few calories. Although I shouldn't be surprised seeing as it contains mostly water and starch.

Grabbed from caloriecount

Image of jicama from flickr. Nutritional info from caloriecount.

Haze of sloth

I haven't been running as often as I should, and when I do I don't run as hard as I should. See evidence below:

March data from my GTC

Pitiful. I have been stuck in this rut for quite some time now and I need to motivate myself harder. I've been trying to convince my brother-in-law to register with me late this year for The Bull Runner Dream Marathon which will be held sometime in 2012. After all, we still have about 6 months to train and up our mileage. We'll see. If not next year, maybe in 2 years.