SPENDING A LAZY DAY WITH THEN 7-YEAR OLD KUNIG It was 2013 when I first heard of KUNIG and MALIGCONG. My best buddy, Ironwulf , decided to take a detour and spend the holidays in this part ...
http://lagalog.com/2024/04/remembering-kunig-my-original-maligcong.html
ALVIN, my almost 2-year-old rescue cat, has a liking for tasting my plants. Though she's off limits to the balcony garden (she once almost gave me a heart attack for jumping on the ledge; good...
COPYRIGHT 2024 OG RAMOS • ART + ILLUSTRATION After 6-7 years, I found the time to update my Bontoc, Mountain Province Map for printing on tarapaulin as the Maligcong Homestay girds up for...
2024 COPYRIGHT • OG RAMOS ART + ILLUSTRATION With the new year comes new hope. I did several materials for the Maligcong Homestay and was inspired by the increasing number of birders floc...
PEANUT BUTTER SEEDLING 31 DAYS AFTER SOWING SEED 2 SEEDS, 1 LIFE My best buddy, Ironwulf , gifted me with an unusual present last holiday season -- two peanut butter tree seeds from Dav...
http://lagalog.com/2024/02/every-seed-is-promise-of-life-sowing.html
2024 OG RAMOS ART + ILLUSTRATION I'm glad that birding and nature watching/bathing is getting to be a bit popular in my second home in the boondocks. With more birders eager to see beyond...
That my late brother loved cats all his adult life isn't lost on me when I befriended a grey cat I found at the Uncle John's at the back of the St. Peter's crematorium in QC, days into the new ...
http://lagalog.com/2024/01/the-grey-cat-who-consoled-me-at.html
I understand that Youtube channels on gardening will like to bait viewers on the intricacies of composting but I honestly think it should be downright simple. A lot of the kitchen scraps that u...
http://lagalog.com/2023/11/composting-in-city-just-simplify-it.html
A GREEN SET OF GIFTS -- ALOCASIA AND CALADIUM It's been a kinda bittersweet couple of months, especially, the last few weeks. I would've thought that there was relief coming to my corner of ...
http://lagalog.com/2023/11/gardening-notes-when-universe-sends-you.html
THE FIVE ELEMENTS COME TOGETHER IN A SHOWER OF GREEN I actually had this realization awhile back but only wrote this on this space now. I think one of the reason why people (particularly cit...
http://lagalog.com/2023/10/gardening-confronting-decay-and.html
NOTE THE ELECTROCULTURE STAKE AMIDST THE OREGANO AND GIANT POTHOS Pardon if the title borders on the religious but it's how I describe my conversion from being skeptical to believing in what...
http://lagalog.com/2023/10/more-electroculture-stories-from.html
NEW BATCH OF BASIL AFTER A TYPHOON BLEW AWAY MY FORMER BATCH I would like to think I'm more open to fringe theories than most people I know. Even then, I thought electroculture gardening was...
http://lagalog.com/2023/10/electroculture-gardening-experiment-was.html
I must admit that my belief in the universe is again in a state of flux. I've been growing older (maybe a bit wiser) but I have yet to partake of abundance as the countless gurus talk about it....
http://lagalog.com/2023/07/conundrums-belief-disbelief-and.html
BITTER GOURD/MELON I got mixed results from sowing seeds a bit too late in the year. Or is it? It's El Niño season so I can be wrong. The wind funnel effect of living in a building san...
http://lagalog.com/2023/07/urban-gardening-notes-wind-afternoon.html
GROWING GENOVESE BASIL FROM SEEDS WAS WORTH IT It's not the first time I sowed seeds ever since I've moved abodes last year but this is the first time I did so with the earnestness of befor...
One of my past times is drawing/sketching and at times, I do spoof layouts using Adobe Illustrator. Even without a Wacom tablet, I've gained enough proficiency to sketch using an ordinary wir...
http://lagalog.com/2023/04/spoofing-chatgpt-my-catgpet-logo.html
AVIAN VISITOR ON THE LEDGE I wrapped up work on a Friday, my first week on my new employment, when I heard some flapping of wings from outside my window. There were two pigeons on the led...
http://lagalog.com/2023/04/birdspotting-close-encounter-of-bird.html
SHIWA, CIRCA JAN 2020, WAITING FOR FOOD TREATS UNDER THE KITCHEN TABLE To say that the past half-a-year or so has been tumultuous for me is sort of an understatement. After rescuing my favo...
http://lagalog.com/2023/04/my-beloved-shiwa-see-you-on-other-side.html
We often forget that we are magickal beings (the k intentionally put there to set it apart from stage magic). We search for divinity outside of ourselves and we forget that each one of us carr...
OG POSTER • PHOTO ATTRIBUTION: SENJUTI KUNDU | UNSPLASH IMAGE: SIMON & SCHUSTER The first time I saw this quote from the late BOB PROCTOR, I was dumbstruck. It's an inversion of the p...
http://lagalog.com/2023/02/shifting-perspectives-time-to-start.html
OGGIE POSTER • PHOTO ATTRIBUTION: AARON BURDEN | UNSPLASH I came across a derivative of this quote by OSHO from a video that cited a similar quotation from the late metaphysician and inspi...
http://lagalog.com/2023/02/shifting-perspectives-expect-miracles.html
IMAGE FROM KEN HONDA'S SITE WWW.KENHONDA.COM "The energy that we put into the world, our beliefs and words and attitudes, is the energy that comes back to us." - KEN HONDA This is one of ...
http://lagalog.com/2023/01/ken-hondas-happy-money-is-metaphysical.html
It's the day after Chinese New Year Eve, a time to think ahead for the year which is the Year of the Water Rabbit according to Chinese astrology. I'm rereading the works of the renowned America...
http://lagalog.com/2023/01/the-wisdom-of-florence-scovel-shinn.html
2023 OG GRAPHICS • GOLD BACKGROUND BY MACROVECTOR | FREEPIK Last year, the tiger brought a somewhat roller-coaster of a year, as far as I'm concerned. 2022 was a year of mixed fortunes --...
http://lagalog.com/2023/01/2023-year-of-water-rabbit-thoughts.html
I have no idea if the artist commissioned by the brother of my friend, SUZETTE, owner of the Maligcong Homestay has channeled me when he was designing the graphic of this souvenir shirt. The...
http://lagalog.com/2022/12/finding-myself-on-souvenir-shirt.html