Weekly Photo Challenge: UP

This is going to be my first time this year to participate in the weekly photo challenge, after being on hiatus for several months. Very timely for me, “UP” is this week’s theme. Heads UP for a new start!

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I am sharing the photographs I took when we visited Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque In Abu Dhabi. The chandeliers hanging on the ceiling are just amazing.

This ornament is considered the world’s largest swarovski chandelier.

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Let’s check out other entries for this week’s challenge by The Daily Post.

• शुक्रबार – म नेपालि सिक्दै छु । | rfljenksy – Practicing Simplicity
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | At least we made it this far…
• A Child’s View | The Voice from the Backseat
• Weekly Photo Challenge – Up | Beyond Beauty Tips
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | blogagaini
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Stefano Scheda
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Today, on Earth
• stack | yi-ching lin photography
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | MythRider
• 1 UPmanship | The Palladian Traveler
• Things are lookin’ up | Beyond the Brush
• Up the winding staircase of life…. | Multifarious meanderings
• Weekly Photo Challenge “Up” on the Roof Top | Slam on the Brakes, Pull Over, Take the Picture
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up (Up and Away!) | slightly insightful
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | acieartikulasi
• WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Dim Lamp/קנה רצוץ לא ישבור
• Weekly Photo Challenge: UP in the Cayman Sky | My Caymanian Life
• Weekly Photo Challenge : Up | Hanya Jepretan Biasa
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Sonel’s Corner
• Way higher than the moon… Two pics needed | A Happy and Beautiful World
• Hope Floats | Broken Light: A Photography Collective
• From the Heart | Views From My World
• Weekly Photo Challenge – Up | Just Sara
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | progress by accident
• Weekly Photo Challenge – Up | Min lite av varje
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Traveller soul
• What’s Up? | theseeker
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up (Flower Parade) | What’s (in) the picture?Weekly Photo Challenge: Up « Lagottocattleya
• Weekly Photo Challenge – Upp | Min lite av varje
• Weekly Photo Challenge – Up | The Syllabub Sea
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Alastair’s Blog
• Up, Another Great Sunrise | The Bottom of a Bottle
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Uwana
• :: Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Belo Horizonte daily photo
• Sea gulls – Up in the air | A Happy and Beautiful World
• The Home Of The Humongous photo challenge post | Linda Long Writes!
• Look Up #wordpress #weeklyphotochallenge #haiku | Moondustwriter’s Blog
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | KnowledgeKnut
• Weekly Photo Challenge : Up! | Les Petits Pas de Juls
• Weekly Photo Challenge – Up
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | The Sleepless Sessions
• only one way to go – UP | Lovin the Trip
• Weekly Photo Challenge~Up | Mlissabeth’s Musings
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | A Face from the Crowd
• LOOK UP – Weekly Photo Challenge | Prayers and Promises
• Weekly Photo Challenge: (The Set-)Up | Photography Journal Blog
• UP – WPhotoC | Ouch!! My back hurts!!
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Jejak Langkah…
• Weekly Photo Challenge : UP |
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up (in the South) …. lol | Welcome to my world…
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Simply Charming
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Humbled Pie
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | A Hedonistic Wander
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Shaking the tree
• Eyes Skyward | IMAGES & WORDS
• | Weekly Photo Challenge – Up
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Cardinal Guzman
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up « Sasieology
• The suffering of my dog’s dog | Belly Up |
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | onesmallpot
• Up in L’Oceanografic – The Fried Eggs Blog
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | AC’s Sharing Spree
• When life gives you lemons… | beeblu blog
• Weekly Photo Challenge: UP – Sun over the ramparts | Bastet and Sekhmet
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Eat, travel, photograph
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Look UP! | humanTriumphant
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Mike Hardisty Photography
• Up: Hot air balloons over the Valley of the Kings, Egypt | Taking to the Open Road
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | MissAdventure
• Rock Faces | breathofgreenair
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Last Train to QVille
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up ~ The Beating of a Hummingbird’s Wings | In Da Campo
• Tilt-A-Whirl. | Luddy’s Lens
• Wekly Photo Challenge: Up in the ceiling | lena de almeida
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up : TEFL Bloggers
• Silent Sunday | Stray Thoughts
• Salzburg Dom, Salzburg, Austria | Billy’s Travel Album
• Up! | Things I See and Know
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Northwest Frame of Mind
• Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Up | Heart’s Home
• bottoms up | yi-ching lin photography
• Up All Night | this man’s journey
• UP and Stairs | The World Is a Book…
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Charming Chris
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | The Land Slide Photography
• Weekly photo challenge: Up | so i wrote
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | The Day After
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Travel. Garden. Eat.
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Marsha Lee
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | Anotherdayinparadise2’s Blog
• Weekly Photo Challenge – Up | Isadora Art and Photography
• WordPress weekly photo challenge: up | It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see – Thoreau
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | progress by accident
• Weekly photo challenge: Up | Menomama3’s Blog
• Nadine Issa Photography | سان
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | A Number of Things
• Nature’s Usual Pose | Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | SimplySage
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | The da Vinci Apprentice
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Up | shutter + bliss

Weekly Photo Challenge: DREAMING

This week’s photo challenge theme is DREAMING.

I hope my entry qualifies 🙂

DREAMING and DROOLING OVER CARS

Ferrari 330 GTC

Ferrari 275 GTB/4

Ferrari 512 BBI

Ferrari Dino 246 GT & GTS

My favorite… I was so excited that I didn’t get the car’s name 😀

Ferrari F50

Ferrari F40

Ferrari 328 GTS

Ferrari 365 GTC/4

I can dream, eh?

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Photos were taken from Ferrari World Abu Dhabi

Weekly Photo Challenge: TODAY

The photo challenge this week says that I have to take a picture of something – now and today… without cheating! I found out today’s theme while at work so I decided to take pictures on my way home.

I came from a night shift so I thought the sun would be up when I come out of the hospital.

Before I went home, I dropped by the cafeteria and bought some vegetable noodles to bring home for breakfast.

On my way home. Our place is known as the City of Gardens because everywhere there is greeneries.

Taking a shot while on stoplight. The last intersection before my building.

Taking the stairs on my way to my unit on the fourth floor. Exercise.

The views from where I live.

The morning promises that it’s going to be a great day.

And when the world is about to start their day, mine’s ending. Time to sleep now. Have a great morning, everyone!

Weekly Photo Challenge: SUMMER

Hey guys, I’m back! I was away for about a month, and I definitely missed a lot of blogging and photo challenges.

I traveled to the Philippines to attend to my brother’s wedding, and also to take a short vacation from work. I just got back last Friday.

I’m glad about this week’s photo challenge theme, SUMMER, because that’s what I just did – a summer break!

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For this week I’m taking you to JED’s ISLAND RESORT where we spent a day having fun – eating, singing, swimming, and taking pictures. A great way to spend summer!

Jed’s Island Resort is one of the most popular resorts in Bulacan. There are so many activities that can be done inside the resort, aside from swimming. A family can rent a videoke machine, and can also go for boating, fishing and horseback riding. There’s a place for billiards and basketball.

The kids will love the different characters scattered around the resort.

A great place for shutter-happy like us.

Playtime!

Swimming time!

What a lovely day!

n

On Leave!

@Abu Dhabi International Airport. 03 May 2012.

Just a quick note!

I am on leave until about the end of the month, so pardon that I’ll be away from the blogosphere for a while. I’ll be back with lots of pics and stories to tell… promise!

Weekly Photo Challenge: SUN

Burj Khalifa is the tallest building on earth. The sun is the brightest thing in the solar system.

Dubai. April 2012.

A Day in Paradise

It was my wife’s birthday.

She only wanted a simple day.

But how could I just let that day pass without even a simple celebration. And because  I couldn’t bring her a dozen roses, I brought her to a million flowers – to a place called “paradise.”

Get ready to treat your eyes…

Al Ain Paradise is a garden park in our city which opens only during spring – a time when flowers  are in full blossom. It holds the Guinness World Record for the largest display of hanging flower baskets.

I dedicate all these flowers to you 🙂

Happy birthday, Mommy 😀

Weekly Photo Challenge: CONTRAST

Father and son. Big and small.

This post also appears on my son’s blog – The Adventures of Inigo Boy .

Around the World in 4.5 Hours

Yesterday, we visited the GLOBAL VILLAGE in Dubai.

dubaichronicle.com

Global Village Dubailand is claimed to be the world’s largest tourism, leisure and entertainment project. It is the region’s first cultural, entertainment, family and shopping destination. Every year, it has 6 million visitors over an area of 17,200,000 sq ft (1,600,000 m²).

Global Village started out in the form of a number of kiosks in 1996 located on the Creek Side opposite to Dubai Municipality. It then later shifted to the Oud Metha Area near Wafi City for 5 years.Today, Global Village has 6 million visitors at its current location in DubaiLand. (wikipedia)

This is how it looks like from afar, during the day, 30 minutes early before the gates opened.

Mom and Inigo at the entrance gate

Global Village has over 26 pavilions each representing different countries. We went around the village for 4 1/2 hours try to sample each country’s culture. It was like going around the world for 4.5 hours!

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So are you ready to go around the world with us? Here you go…

Starting off with our current home…

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

YEMEN

 We tried different kinds of honey from Yemen. Eventually, we liked the “mountain flowers” honey and bought a jar so we’ll have natural Yemen honey for our pancakes.

INDIA

We liked the design of their pavilion.

SPAIN

SYRIA

The carpets in Syria are very nice.

QATAR

Of course, this trip will not be complete without a visit to our beloved home country…

PHILIPPINES!

MOROCCO

THAILAND

TUNISIA

LEBANON

EGYPT

IRAQ

AFGHANISTAN

VIETNAM

AFRICA

PAKISTAN

CHINA

MALAYSIA

SRI LANKA

IRAN

EUROPE

KUWAIT

TURKEY

BAHRAIN

JORDAN

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There you go! Thanks for joining us in our world tour!

Wishing for peace and happiness around the world 🙂

Weekly Photo Challenge: PEACEFUL

This week’s theme by wordpress is “PEACEFUL“.

A peaceful morning by the beach with my son.

(Boracay island, Philippines)