Promises

This is, I think, the third weekend this month that I have had to work. I don't mind having to work on weekends every now and then, but this is starting to get really annoying and scary. Yes. SCARY.

I wouldn't want to end up working every weekend here because that would make it really feel like I never left the Philippines. When I was a legal slave there, Saturdays or Sundays, or both, were often reserved for working so that I'd be able to catch up with my work load. Now, everything here is starting to feel dreadfully familiar. And, from the recent assignments that I've been getting, it seems that things are just going to get a lot worse.

Anyway, I don't want to talk about that anymore. I still have hours and hours left to deal with that later. The reason for this post, and for the title, is that I sort of promised that I will write something more about our recent trip home. Out of laziness, I decided that, instead of writing about our trip, I'd just post some pictures. Our trip was mainly, or solely, to attend my sister's wedding. So, the pictures I'm posting here are all from the wedding. I'm actually posting only four -- the ones that I especially like. The first, because it has a very anime feel to it. The second, because it's a picture of my just-about-to-be-married only sister and my eternally beautiful wife (that's for when she reads this post). And the last two, so that you'll know how my new brother-in-law looks like (it also doesn't hurt that I'm in one of them).

Hope you enjoy the pics. My break time's over!

Koyuki 小雪

The actress that should have played 小百合（Sayuri)...

Top 300

After more than two years of being married, Rassell and I have finally come around to choosing our final 300 pictures out of, roughly, 3000 taken during our wedding. It's for our wedding album, which up to now, thanks to our constant dilly-dallying, is still to be made by our photographer -- much to my Mom's annoyance.

Ever since our wedding, my Mom has been asking us to have our album made already. She wanted to put the album in our living room for all her guests and friends to see (that's the punishment privilege one gets when one marries first amongst his or her siblings). However, we just didn't feel like sifting through 3000 odd pictures to pick out only the best ones. If I had my way, I would have just picked each and everyone of them, except for maybe one or, at most, two that didn't show my photogenic side.

But, finally, on one really quiet evening (which did not end to be that quiet since Rassell and I couldn't agree on some of the pictures), we finally decided to hunker down and do it. And do it we did. Surprisingly, it didn't even take us the whole of two hours to finish it. Now, if I had only known that before, I would not have made my Mom wait for so long. =)

Anyway, while we were picking our top 300, I came across several that I wanted to post here. It's been a while since I last saw those pictures and I've sort of forgotten how truly fun and beautiful that day was. So, following are some of my own picks. If you want to see the rest of the 300, then I suggest you go to our family's house and ask my mom to let you in and see it ;-)...