Another curious vine

This is another curious vine found in the rural areas in the Philippines. I don’t know its scientific nor its English name; only by its Pangasinense vernacular name, i.e., singsing carabao.

 

Friday panic

I had a hard time getting a cab this morning. It’s a Friday and the infamous Manila traffic is at its peak. Anyway, I got one after almost 20 minutes wait. I arrived in the office a little after 8am. My call time is 8:30am and so I am still early. My log-in time today may be my latest for the month though.

 

Everyone’s in a panic mood in our department today. I was the third to arrive. There is a Risk Management Committee meeting early Monday morning and our report is not yet done. The download data from several systems arrived late and it affected the schedule. Added to that, is the fact that risk analysis for the month just ended must include consolidated data from the two merged entities. Whew! Talking about the pressures at work. Everyone feels its no TGIF!

 

After office today, my friend Charie and I will be going to a new sports center for an hour or more of ping-pong games. Something we looked forward to. Hopefully it will relieve our week-long stressed life in the workplace.

After the play, I’ll head head home and then travel to the province to visit my Mom and the rest of my family. Its been three weeks since I last visited them.

 

I am looking forward to a great weekend!

Curious vine flower

I have taken a shot of a vine flower when I went to Caleruega (Philippines) last summer. I just used my mobile phone camera to capture the image.

 

 

 I have been interested in plants since I was a child and this vine got my attention. I don’t know its name though. It reminds of the Chayote and the masaprula that are very much abundant in the Cordilleras where I grow up as a child. Chayote is a vegetable vine while the masaprula is a vine fruit. The taste of the masaprula is like “sing-sing carabao” (those who grew up in the rural and remote areas in Pangasinan, Philippines would recognize the name).

 

 

Unlike the Chayote and the masaprula, this vine is planted as an ornamental. It actually gives color to several brick-buildings in Caleruega as they cling to the lattice-wires attached to the walls. The deep crimson hue of the petals bending from the center, the black & red colored receptacle, and red pollen tube with yellow stamens rising from a white-colored center is an attraction to a plant enthusiast. What a creation!

My first post ü

Haven’t had lunch yet so I can create this blog… I hope skipping it will be worth it. Hopefully, i can update this site as often as I want to. Its rather late creating a blog… everyone seems to have ridden the bandwagon and here I am trailing the dust …

 Anyway, its never too late! Deep inside the question still exist… why blog when you don’t have something to write worth someone’s time? Well, i don’t have to have a reader or an audience to do something I would like doing, right? So here I am…

 the journey begins today.