fire in the city

lonely city

fire at work

canteen + trilogy + park

fernan


canteen


eating won't get you pregnant


see-food diet works


diet makes me do bad, bad things


eating is a way of life


tin, norman, jonel, reg


chocolate souffle and chocnut ice cream... gone in 60 seconds


bryan mannequin


them mannequins


washington sycip park

sharing: when we started taking pictures in the park, a security guard came up to us and asked,
"para saan yan?"
me: "ah wala po, personal lang po."
security guard: "private kasi 'to eh."
me: "ok."

we continued taking pictures and the guard went away.
we posed and we played and we jumped.

then the a-hole guard came back again and said, "BAWAL TUMALON DITO."

what the hell diba? bawal tumalon sa park?! gago.

reg


jonell


bryan


hahahahaha!


MAS HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

tiendesitas to follow :)

ciao!

lunes ulit

bilang nagkaroon nanaman ng isang weekend, nagbalak akong magedit-edit lang.

sa 'di pinlanong pagkakataon, nagkaroon kami ng photoshoot ng pinsan ko gamit ang digital na slr ng boypren (mok) ng pinsan (cheska) ko nung isang-isang linggo (matagal na, in short). pinaglaruan at nagfeeling lang. at bilang utu-uto rin ang pinsan ko, hinimok ko siyang pumose-pose sa pinakamalinis na dingding ng bahay namin (mahirap humanap ng ganun okey?!). ayun nagpauto naman siya at nakakuha ako ng mga maayos na shots ng mukha niya. lilane pala pangalan niya.
ewan ko ba, siguro nasa portraiture ang karera ko at kahit na anong lawak ng shots ko, di ko namamalayang naka-crop ko na pala siya sa papunta sa mukha. kaya yung mga gustong magpabeauty shots jan, pumunta lang sa bahay ko sa makati (hindi yung sa dasma o sa forbes, dahil ni lupa sa paso, wala ako dun) at magdala ng tumataginting na pera, pera, salapi, salapi, kwarta, at kwarta. kung ayaw niyo, 'di wag, wala namang pilitan to eh. tutal, maguutuan lang naman tayo. (sabayan ako sa pagbigkas: HINDI AKO MUKHANG PERA o MONEY-FACED sa mga tanga tanga magtranslate diyan)

sabi ko nga, level na kung level ang pagpapanggap ko. bilang gayon, gumawa ako ng isang logo para sa mga ret... ritra... litrat... pictures na i-eedit ko ng maximum level.

naiinis ka na ba sa sulat ko? 'di bale, ako rin. kaya ito na ang mga RITRATRO na todomaximum kong inedit. magpakalunod ka. saksak mo sa baga mo. tignan mo ng tignan hanggang sa mamatay ka. =P jowk lang! 'to naman sensitive! emo ka?! oha oha..

nga pala, wag kalimutan ang star ng bawat ritrato, ang logo. =P

una kong gawa. gusto ko ng natural lang... natural na pageedit.

natutuwa ako dito kasi ninakaw ko lang yang shot na yan. ang lakas kasi ng bentilador sa harap ng mukha niya. in fairview, quezon city, mukha namang natural lang.

at dahil natuwa ako sa "look" at "feel" ng picture, fineel ko na rin ang magedit. tutal, malapit na magpasko.

siguro napansin mo na rin na nag-edit ako ng mga pictures nitong nakalipas na linggo para kunyari lomo. ayun, inapply ko ulit siya ng konti lang naman. narealize ko, gusto ko ng mukhang lumot ang kulay.

o ayan pa isa. umart lang ng konti sa likod likod. kunyari may drama. pero kuware lang.

o siya. nahihilo na ko sa pagpapanggap.

MEEEEEEEDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCCCCC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111

pero wait lang, game na, purihin niyo na ko sa sorbang galing ko.

hep hep hep hep!! @&%~$*^ ka rin!

ciao!

hmm ok

so, is that it?

i can do that, too.

and oh, share some pics. bleeech!

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bag-o lamang ko diri. ingon nako sa imo mu-tuo na jud ko bisag unsa'y sultihon nimo. ayaw lagi ug panibuang diha kay mu-tuo man ko. oki?

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pang-ilan na kayong tumawag dito at ilang beses ko na ring sinabing walang ganyang tao dito. i know it's not your fault but please, inform the others. thanks!

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i don't like surprises. never been a fan of it. you can try; if i like it, then i'd be happy. i'm confusing, i know. yes, this is for you!

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anton is transferring offices. these are some of the pics from his last day... in galleria, that is.

last picture: i wasn't really aware that vins was at my back so i was scared to see vins after tin took the pic.

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i was doodling while watching tv and i thought i should color it in photoshop -- and i did.


i don't know which one is better, red or blue. so this is my take.

so, red or blue? haha

ciao!

monday artsy blues

so it's a monday. apart from it being a laundry/cleaning/domestic-helper day, i drew, i painted, and i tried my hand on lomography. well, uhmm, not quite. =D i just edited old artsy fartsy pics to make it look like lomo. i liked how some of it turned out, though. these are my faves.


dami kong favorites, no? haha!
click here for moar!

ciao!

i paint again

i was inspired to paint again, thanks to youtube. i'll be buying my art supplies again soon. for now, i have to be content with photoshop.

i know it's still rough but i'm just using the standard mouse. i can't get the feel of the brush on the space as i should if i use graphite and paper. i'm happy with how it looks, though.

red eyes

this is also supposed to be the whole face but i got lazy midway through hehe.

ciao!

happy mother's day

happy mother's day!

love you lots!

ang sakit ng ulo ko

ang sakit ng ulo ko

im officially at a loss

... kung ito ay isa'ng laro lamang, time first muna.
... kung ang buhay ay isang humaharurot na jeepney, paki sabi sa tsuper, "PARA," bababa muna ako.

news tidbit

tidbits

daming nangyari. pero katulad ng sinabi ko sa mga kasamahan ko sa trabaho, manhid na ko.

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i'm addicted to red pesto. i eat it together with skyflakes. i cooked pasta with it. i ate garlic bread with it. fish and rice and red pesto. meat and rice and red pesto. corned beef and rice and red pesto. hotdog and pesto. everything with pesto. as if it's cheap. i should make one. cherry tomatoes, olive oil, basil.

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i'm getting fatter by the minute. everyone this week has been dropping comments about my weight. i should watch myself. but i just love carbs.

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i just spent 70 worthless pesos just for overdue charges for my vcd rental. tae.

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i tried photoshop again. inisip ko lang na i should do whatever i want to do again. yung gusto ko talaga at hindi dahil kailangan. eto siya.

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everday na siguro ako naglu-look forward sa family reunion in june sa dumaguete. i'm hella excited. sana lang nga matuloy ang lahat.

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i hate it when people don't say "thank you." how can those two words be so hard to say. wala namang bayad yun eh.

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i hate the MRT. wala silang tinitindang stored value tickets. ayan araw araw tuloy akong pumipila. nakikipagsiksikan sa mga tao. mas pagod pa ko sa commute ko araw araw minsan kesa sa trabaho mismo.

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eto yung mga nakuha ko sa text na natuwa ako.

i've realized that life is indeed full of contradictions. sometimes it's crazy to be sane. you need to fall to fly. people suffer because you care. you have to unlearn to know the lesson. you have to give up just because you are strong. you have to be wrong to make things right. nonetheless, life's complexities are also life's source of beauty. we should cry to laugh again, fall apart to be whole again. and get hurt to love again.

here's another wave of self appreciation. another batch of solicited texts.

eros - co-worker

bryan is my friend/supervisor/kalandian
i met him at *****
i like him because down to earth siya. sobrang down to earth siya abot hell na nga sa sobrang down
wala pa naman akong inaayawan sa kanya SA NGAYON
one thing ill never forget about him is yung pangaabuso niya sakin
bagay sila ni *ap**
my message for him is thanks and goodluck, pahirapan ba ko?

macel - co-worker

bryan is my idol
i met him at work
i like him because he's makulit
i hate him because he has a butt nicer than mine
one thing i'll never forget about him is everything!
bagay sila ni a**e* **cs**?!
my message for him is to get an insurance for his butt and get some sleep.
AT MAGPATULOG KA NAMAN! MASAYA KA NA?!
stay nice and true!

erika - girl friend

bryan is my best guy buddy
i met him in taft
i like him because he's always available
i hate him coz he's selfish (doesnt wanna share himself to others)
one thing ill never forget about him is his poetry
bagay sila ni wala
my message for him is: bry wag ka malandi! mahal kita alam mo yun! but you can never have me. haha thanks for everything!

isa pa:

• does jennifer love hewitt?
• where did vincent van gogh?
• is marvin gaye?
• why is norman black?
• where did sandara park?
• is chow yun fat?
• what did henry sy?
• why is alonzo mourning?
• is lucio tan?
• when will orlando bloom?
• what did scooby doo?
• is the birthstone of kevin garnett?
• what is victoria's secret?
• kapag namili ba si manny pacquiao?

ciao!

read if youre bored, dont if youre not

read if you're bored, don't if you're not

my day starter

yesterday, my day started late. i woke up at 3 in the afternoon. i am supposed to go to school to submit the CD of my thesis. i was too cranky so i decided to read friends' blogs. then i got bored then hit the showers and i was all ready to go. i went to school and arrived almost 5. the department should be closing at 5:30. but i made it.

the cd cover i made looked like this!


front back

after the bittersweet moments of walking through the corridors of my university - the place where i used to study (stress on the tense) and practically built my world in - i went inside the chapel. i had my very own baccalaureate prayer. hehe. i just sat there and thought about what i have gone through, even in pre-school, elementary and high school, what i am going through and what i will go through. *sigh*

i then went back to UM. where, again, i usually hang out with friends. together wiht my friends, we played card for 3 and a half hours. i literally almost dropped because i was so exhausted both from thinking of my cards and standing up. i was so hungry i hadn't eaten since i woke up. the only thing in my stomach is the cold coffee i had at 3. then someone brought carbonarra. yay! haha. it was really not for me but the one who was offered it didn't like carbonarra. so i just helped myself to a really generous serving of it. i think i ate almost 3/4 of what isn't mine. haha.

casino filipino

the friends whom i was playing with, brenda and mea, were all so giddy to go already. we're going to the casino with abner and yuri. i don't play but i just go there with them. apparently, i enjoy watching their facial expression when they win or lose. i think i went with them enough to make a conclusion that when abner loses he smokes frequently on the table, eyes and shoulders drooped, all quiet and has this really serious potanginang-yan-ang-laki-ng-talo-ko-pero-babawi-ako look on his face. yuri on the other hand, is all fake-smiles and all sabi-ko-na-eh-dapat-tinaya-ko-na-yung-500-ko-eh. hay funny. but there's one common thing about these two funny gamblers: all the gamblers in table will be irritated by their banter when they're winning. haha. one will look at them wryly and the other will try make them see that they are too loud.

i played. hahahahahahahahaha. i was just watching yuri play pontoon and i immediately got the hang of it. i was betting on my mind and all my bets were just winning. so i told yuri to bet me 200 on his. i lost. i think i really have this ill luck on gambling haha. last time i bet, which was my first time, beginner's luck turned into beginner's bad luck. anyway i was not to make myself owe yuri 200 so i sat down on the table and bet 100 just to be sure. i won. then i bet 200 again and i won again. i don't exactly remember the whole thing but my highest earnings were 450. yeah yeah, it's JUST 450 but like i said, i don't gamble. anyway, yuri told me to bet my extra 50 pesos to the tie where winning is 1:10. i thought so, too. but i just let it slip away. but wuddya know, i had a double jack! fuck it! i should have won 500 from that ugly 5 P10 chips!
anyway so abner had 8 grand. yuri had 2. mea had 1. hundred hahahaha. and brenda lost 1,200.

mr. kabab and abs-cbn

we then ate at mr. kabab again. oh my god. that has to be my most satisfying meal. i only had keema and one a half rice and a yoghurt shake but i was so full! you gotta try the yoghurt shake! i'm craving for one right now. too bad i don't have a digicam to take pictures of it. boohoo.

brenda lives literally beside abs-cbn, just a kilometer away from mr. kebab. so we went to her house after. but her ex boyfriend was there so we took off right away. abner and brenda were ex's too. lol.

to marikina and antipolo.

abner decided that we should do misa de gallo - in taytay. since we have nothing to do and to worry about, yuri and i decided why not. so we did. we first went to abner's friend's house in marikina. for about thirty minutes, i was just laying there on the car seat trying to get my forty winks. i couldn't of course, my inarte body just wouldn't. after a while, abner got inside the car again, with yuri snoring at the backseat. we drove straight to antipolo city. tried to sleep again in abner's house but again to no avail. yuri of course easily dozed off. i was in one bed and the two were in another. i was just there laying trying to scare myself thinking there was just a ghost that grabbed my leg.
abner started for the bathroom while i was just there staring at the ceiling, yuri snoring. we went to krizka's house at about 3 am. imagine the length the roads between antipolo and taytay - we were in krizka's house in 7 minutes.

father and his homily

we went to san juan bautista cathedral in taytay, rizal for the simbang gabi. The cathedral was packed with people. I think that was the most attended mass i've ever been to. it was filled to the gardens and people are sprawled outside. anyway, the highlight of the mass was father's homily. it just went on and on and on and on...
after 20 minutes of going around the bushes and adding some commentaries on the social injustices that infect society, add to that the economic woes of the country during the year, he said "mga kapatid, ito ang pagnilaynilayan natin.." you can literally hear other people gasp for relief. but no. father went on, " sapagkat ang kapaskuhan ay panahon ng pagmamahalan, panahon ng paglimot sa kasalanan ng iba at..." then the crowd was quiet again. between father's patriotic speech about loving the philippines, and i think i heard him ask me if i've already fed my dog, the crowd grew restless. i think what father should understand is people in general have very short attention span, add to it the fact that it is 430 in the morning and the cathedral is packed. then we heard him say again "at mga kapatid, ito ang pagnilaynilayan natin sa araw na ito..." then everybody gasped again. but father was in his mood to talk, mind you. he just kept going. he's like the energizer bunny priest, the only thing lacking is the big drum.
by this time, the people were already talking to one another. abner, krizka and i even laughed at the choir who seem to be having their own sermon. we were trying to guess what they were speaking. according to me, one choir member said to her co-member "anong ulam niyo mamaya?" then the co-member replied "ay di ko pa alam. di pa ko namamalengke. baka pagkatapos nitong misa" the people in front of us who were also standing during the whole mass started to sit on the ground. time passed and it was already 5 am. after a few minutes, again, the priest said again " at iyan mga kapatid ang ating pagnilaynilayan natin sa araw na ito..." the people didn't mind him. "sa ngalan ng ama, ng anak..." then one amazing thing happenned.
the whole cathedral clapped their hands. the three of us were all laughing our asses off! we even forgot that we were inside the cathedral.
what's worse is, the only thing that is somehow connected to the gospel in his sermon was about two minutes after he started the sermon. everything else was just "what?!"
it's funny how all the readers and songs were hurried. the offertory was a breeze. after the communion, the three of us decided to go to the entrance of the cathedral so we won't be lost in the crowd when the mass is over.
after mass, we went back to the car to wake yuri, who was still sleeping. we went to the nearby jollibee for our 6 o'clock breakfast. then off to the tabi-tabi of the cathedral to buy bibingka.

after 40 minutes of waiting for the bibingka to cook, we went back to krizka's house. there we stayed until until 9am. abner slept, yuri slept, i watched the tv. no matter how hard i try to sleep, i just can't.

so that was what happened yesterday and today in a hurried, lengthy blog. i have no sleep. we got home at 11 and slept and woke up again at 3 and slept again until 630. damn.

i just wish i have my normal sleeping habit again. now.

ciao!

weird

feels weird

i don't know but it feels weird this week. it's so perfect - no fighting, no hard quizzes, no nothing. i could say boring but i'm afraid the man above would listen and give me something else. right now i'm happy. but i'm kinda weirding out already. i'm thinking that this is just the calm before the storm. i don't know. but as of now, i'm enjoying every minute of it.
or i just don't see the logic of it. i was almost on my knees the other week because like i said, i'm having personal and family problems. and i prayed hard for it to be over soon. maybe now's the time.
wow.
and finally, before i end this semi-nonsense post, i want to share to you what has been keeping me busy all night last night up to this moment!






so here are the two bottles.
nothing really special.
except that i made it in photoshop and i'm so damn proud of myself for this! hahaha!
i especially like the way i did the back label. nice!






anyway, since there are two bottles here, why don't we drink to the way my life's been going now... CHEERS!

ciao!