don't you just hate it...

when you know you're doing something wrong but you keep doing it anyway cause you just don't have the willingness to take a risk and the associated sacrifice to turn away from it...

anyway, last night, holy thursday, we brought over to here a very filipino tradition... bisita iglesia, or quite literally, church visitations.

i don't know how exactly this came about, my only guess is its some sort of a small pilgrimage... or maybe just to support the kropek vendors outside churches back home.

anyway, its not an event here, only a handful of people are in the churches for the exposition, and out of that, i'm guessing only a handful of them were practicing what we ourselves were doing.

here's the map, and the list of churches is:
-> St. Joan of Arc, our parish
-> St. Joseph
-> Most Holy Trinity
-> St. Francis of Assisi, though it was closed
-> Our Lady of Perpetual Help, clased as well
-> St. Maria Goretti
-> Blessed Sacrament

let me also take a moment to endorse maps by yahoo. though yes, google maps is the de facto pioneer with a lot of user-contributed input through google earth and 3d-buildings(through google sketchup in google earth), and yes, msn live maps has that cool brid's eye view, none of them have the one feature in yahoo maps that i find dead useful(maybe they have them as well... buried in a deep navigation tree). that is, stackable destinations, useful for plotting out multiple destinations in one trip, from point a to point b, to point c... to poink.

here's a link to the map i used, don't know if the link will work for you or for how long it will work(i have yet to get down and dirty with yahoo maps' api).

> http://maps.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTExNmIycG51BF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEc2VjA2ZwLWJ1dHRvbgRzbGsDbGluaw--#mvt=m&q7=11300%20North%2064th%20Street%20Scottsdale,%20AZ%2085254&gid6=20033674&q6=6261%20North%20Granite%20Reef%20Road%20Scottsdale,%20Arizona%2085250&gid5=20029609&q5=7655%20East%20Main%20Street%20Scottsdale,%20AZ%2085251&q4=4715%20North%20Central%20Avenue%20Phoenix,%20AZ%2085012-1796&q3=8620%20North%207th%20Street%20Phoenix,%20AZ%2085020-3197&gid2=19999223&q2=11001%20N.%2040th%20Street%20Phoenix,%20AZ%2085028&q1=3801%20East%20Greenway%20Road%20Phoenix,%20AZ%2085032-4698&trf=0&lon=-111.985874&lat=33.558419&mag=6 <

imho, this is a specially useful feature for those who do a lot of adventure traveling. the only thing missing here now is the ability to opt for a public commute route(like bus routes and trains, and a bit of walking of course).

well, that's it for now. i do have a lot of things to write about, but i'm holding it off until i decide where i'm going to take this site.