Dear Sarj,
Thank you so much for using Yahoo! Photos. Before we go, we can help you move your photos to Flickr.You must decide what to do by October 18, 2007, because any photos still here after that date will be deleted.
*Yours Truly
This is the note posted by Yahoo! Photos which greeted me as I signed in to my account. Well, this isn’t new all right. I’ve received a mass email from them about 2 months ago and I actually don’t care if they shut it down - I have Flickr, Photobucket, Multiply and Webshots - a lot of free image hosting I can choose from. But the “transfering” part was kind of, I don’t know, a downer. From scanned printed pictures, camera phone moments to digital shots - I’ve seen enough of my highschool through college life through these developments in technology - and how I miss it.
Oh my, I’ve marked this day until Saturday with a strictly-no-drama sign so please I want myself to keep that in mind. 
Part of moving on is having no intention of moving this 303 pictures to any image/file host. No plans on sharing it, except for some which I have sent to my friends, since I have always set my photos there as private. I am, however, saving the precious ones to serve as a record, a proof, that I once had a lovely past. So here are the bits that are worth remembering. I’m not saying that some or most of them are not, but I’m only exposing a few which brought me smiles that don’t hurt *momentarily ignoring the no-drama policy*.
Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone. - William Albert Allard
At the reception hall on my sister’s wedding day. No, I didn’t catch the bouquet. This is just a bundle of flowers arranged for the maid of honor.
Trivia: I was the wedding planner, make-up artist and camerawoman of this event.
Goofing in our dormitory near the university I attended. This is what we do during late night. Eat and take pictures.
Trivia: My cousin on the left, who is younger than me, is already getting married by December! What could make me sadder and happier at the same time than to hear this news from my closest gal cousin?
With my former Korean students. Have I told you that teaching kids is the only anti-stress job I have ever had so far? Something that I could never get tired of, I guess.
Trivia: I once had planned to teach in Korea so I could be with them. Nyay!
During our usual beer-galore bonding session at the peak of Antipolo.
Trivia: A week after this night out, my close friend Lian and her then-boyfriend, who was also with us at this time, broke up. Maybe the guy felt so out of place with the girls. Haha.
13 more days before Yahoo magically turn these snapshots into nothing but an error page. Now I am saying goodbye to the pieces I’ve decided to leave out. It’s a good thing that pictures don’t have feelings. It doesn’t care if you throw them away, yet you care for it as much as you would care for the physical person. 
Delete = Empty. Refresh = Clean. Restart the process of gathering memories and do not forget to save up.
