I Am Issa

  You can’t blame me for craving the view of the beach, its bayside coconut trees,  and the mighty sun melting down its water. It’s like a dream realized in a sudden, subtle click. Speaking of dream, I have a silly, utterly secret one to tell you. I spent most of my childhood and teenage

Note: Click each photo for a closer view.  How could something ephemeral be this beautiful? Short-lived they may be, but butterflies spread their wings with vigor. No trace of sadness can be seen as its wings work out to make this world a flower-ful place. There was once an episode about butterflies and their brief

Girls, I know you can’t stop grinning whenever you remember how men tried to obtain your big, hearty “yes“. Do you know that these wooing practices are not just limited to human beings? Birds and other animals similarly display these courtship gestures. However, I think no other animals can surpass the male birds’ bizarre display

“Picked flowers let a lady’s love bloom; wild flowers let them escape gloom.” – Issa’s Nonsense Sayings Yellow and pink aren’t my top color choices for clothes, but for flowers, I’d kneel on soiled grass to get the best shot of them.  Watching bees hurriedly gather pollen grains was a true marvel. They were so

“Good night. Sleep tight. Don’t let the bedbugs bite.” Whoever uttered that rhyme must have been all too familiar with bedbug attack and infestation. These tiny, itchy, bitchy (most feeders/biters are female) parasitic anthropods of Family Cimicidae can turn a perfectly normal person into a manic zombie overnight. We can’t murder the person who has brought

When all you want is a little peace and quiet, Camiguin Island is the place to stay a while. Crowd and chaos are rare scenes, just the unspeakable sunrise, the captivating view of Mt. Ilihan, the quiet sunset, and the unfading smiles of people whom I haven’t seen in the last 16 years. Camiguin still

Restrooms fascinate me. I linger in a washroom when the interior intrigues me. Faucets, mirrors, free hand sanitizers, hair blower (in hotels), hand-dryer, and all kinds of tissue papers are some of my favorite bathroom features. Yet, have you heard of Otohime or Sound Princess? See that picture on the left side? Yeah, that’s a