Out for quite some long time

Frequent official travels, loads of work in the office and pounds of school requirements had been making me crazy with lots of chasing and pleading just to beat  the deadline. Technically I was out of the couch and I missed this time when I can just sit down and write anything that buzzes in my restless mind.

Definitely I am not yet back to the couch where I am so used to spend the lull times surfing TV channels while munching anything I found edible inside the fridge. Here I am kilometers away from home doing field work. I love doing this for sometime a great way to end the monotony in the office routine. This time I have to cover 15 towns in Antique for validation of projects they earned after making it to the Seal of Good Housekeeping list. This is a mechanism introduced by the late Secretary Jesse Robredo focusing on the LGU performance on financial accountability and transparency. The million peso reward is an incentive for passing this assessment under the Performance Challenge Fund, which entitles an LGU to submit project proposals relating to the basic infrastructure services they want to fund. I will have to write a separate article on these programs soon.

Meanwhile, travelling in the land where the mountains meet the seas has been a close and personal encounter for me. I believe it is all about the serenity of the place that really touches my sensibilities. The laid back yet fun and exciting way of living is what sets this place apart from others. Perhaps my inclination to this type of living has an added value on why I love this place that much. That explains why I always volunteer doing the fieldwork for Antique when opportunity comes. I have this realization, that perhaps I was not born to appreciate the noisy and crowded urban jungle instead I am more productive and relaxed in a place like this. So can I ask for the re-assignment now?

Perhaps, this is the couch outside the couch. I have been out for quite some long time but I am enjoying those times I am away doing fulfilling things and feeding some goodness in the soul. I recommend this to my Yellow Boss! He can bring her bitch, that might give some perspective on him and change the whole thing before the 16. (Unsolicited ranting here)

Anyway, I am sharing the things I am seeing for the past days through this viedeoclip courtesy of the lens master Ruperto Quitag. He has awesome photos on his FB Page you might want to see. Here are the links:

https://www.facebook.com/ruperto.quitag?fref=ts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjIKe2wgqCA&feature=youtu.be

Enjoy!