ahoy hoy 2010

oh yeah, i don't have a hohoho post *i had to plan and execute noche buena and media noche* so there.

for the past 2 days, it felt like i'm sleeping with one eye open.

thank God, it's all over and my sister just gave birth to a baby boy and they're both fine.

fearless forecast : antukin din ang batang yun. hahah!

i'm usually cynic but i think 2010 will be better -- aim higher, complain less, more love and good food with great friends. *cheers*

tardy

sorry. i'm late. buti na lang umabot ako sa august. ehehe.

broker than broke

a wishlist update:

someone is telling me about his recent trip from palawan. that i should go there since the fare is dirt cheap. i wish i have money to blow on trips but all my money is being sucked dry by my lust for filters and lenses. haha! *expensive hobby, f*

now, im targetting the canon 18-200mm *nerdtalk*. i seriously need a Sideline since the bugger cost 30k+.

i'll just add the lens on my wishlist for now. =)

wish list 09

The anniversary and my birthday is coming up. i decided to help those people who loves me. hahah!

• Absolute Sandman Vol 3

kase crush ko si neil. haha

• the crumpler 4 million dollar home

for my dslr. (because i need a bag for all my gadgets and my camera bag looks like a lunch box). i want the red one.

• The Sanuk buttoned up sandals

because i couldn't have enough sandals. closed shoes doesn't work for me, since my feet is like those of a kangaroos.

play. pause. rewind

because i needed to remind myself what i should be doing. hehe.

wanted updates

• i've been obsessing with finding a hand mixer or a mixer stand so i can make walnut tartlets and maybe cookies. if you have can i borrow it?
• i need a new book
• plans that i've been looking forward to just went pfft
• i should go and shoot photos *soon*
• i need a vacation
• i miss tabs

haze

i was up until 3am...
some people knows why...
my head is swimming...

and because of this.
i deserve a pedicure and a trip to the ice cream bar and new tsinelas! hehee!

being mortal

ah. its been a long time. 

i was juggling JO's after JO's. haggling for deadline extension -- baka umubra. its been a crazy week. hay.

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watched Curious Case of Benjamin Button last saturday, not because of Brad Pitt, but because i have read the story way before i learned that it will be filmed. and i agree, it is one of the best films of 2008. =)

i've been reminded again of how short life is.

weird when g & i were talking about money and fulfillment. i said i'd pick fulfillment anyday. since i think there would come a time you couldnt think of a single thing to buy.

i feel fulfilled when i cook for the people i love -- esp. when all i end up with are dirty dishes. hahaha. i should really open my own carinderia. =)

taken from leaflens: always be happy, and enjoy. no amount of stress is worth it. pera lang yan. trabaho lang yan. aanhin mo ang payroll kung patay ka na o nasa coma ka? morbid thought, but it's a good reality check nonetheless.

project 365

i know im a bit late. i'll play catch up. this is one of the things i'll do this year. wala lang pong kokontra. hahaah! wish me luck!******Project 365: How to Take a Photo a Day and See Your Life in a Whole New Way

People will often say that their whole lives flashed before their eyes after they experienced a traumatic event. Perhaps it’s a bit morbid, but we think that sounds pretty incredible.

When Taylor McKnight started taking a photo a day on January 1st, 2004, he never imagined the project would not only serve as a way to remember a year, but also help him understand what was important to him in his life.

Whether it was his relationships, his career, or his fashion sense, recording a photo a day for a whole year left him with a rich visual history of his life. And it made him a better photographer to boot!

Now that he’s in the middle of doing it for a second time, we asked Taylor to write about it for us. Read on for our tutorial on how and why to create your own daily photographic history.

WHY DO IT?

Taking a photo a day is a big undertaking with big payoffs. Here are just a few reasons why you should consider doing it:

• Imagine being able to look back at any day of your year and recall what you did, who you met, what you learned… (Often we find it hard to remember what we did just yesterday or even last night, let alone a whole year ago!)

• Your year-long photo album will be an amazing way to document your travels and accomplishments, your haircuts and relationships. Time moves surprisingly fast.

• Taking a photo a day will make you a better photographer. Using your camera every day will help you learn its limits. You will get better at composing your shots, you’ll start to care about lighting, and you’ll become more creative with your photography when you’re forced to come up with something new every single day.

TIPS ON HOW TO DO IT

Here are six tips on how to create your own Project 365:

1. Bring Your Camera Everywhere
   Yes, everywhere. Get in the habit. Grocery stores, restaurants, parties, work, and school. Going to a movie theatre? Snap a pic of the flick with your phone–there are photo-ops everywhere. If you have one of those tiny tiny cameras, you have no excuse not to have it in your pocket all the time. And if you don’t? Camera phones are a great substitute.

2. Make Posting Easy
   You can install blog software like Movable Type or Wordpress on your own site and create an entry for each photo, but for true ease of use, try a photo sharing site. Flickr will let you post a week’s worth of photos in 2 minutes flat, and fotolog and Photoblog.com are geared toward a photo-a-day workflow. Making it fast and easy means you’re much more likely to do it.

3. Vary Your Themes
   Try to capture the day’s events in a single photo. Perform photographic experiments. Take a photo of someone new you meet, something you ate for the first time, or something you just learned how to do. Take a photo of something that made you smile. And don’t forget to take a photo of yourself at least once a month so you can remember how you’ve changed, too.

4. Tell a Story
   Use your blog entry, or your photo description, to explain what’s going on in each day’s photograph. How good did that dinner taste? What made you want to take a photo of that stranger? It’ll help you remember down the road, and it gives friends following along a better appreciation of why you took the photo you did. You don’t need to write a lot, just enough to add some color.

5. Don’t Stop, No Matter What
   This is perhaps the most important tip of all. You will get tired of taking a photo every single day. Some days, you will consider giving up. Don’t. The end result is worth the effort. Remind yourself why you wanted to do it in first place.

   There will be times you’ll think there’s nothing interesting left to take a photo of, and times you’ll think you didn’t do anything exciting enough to take a photo of. There’s always a great photo to be made.

   Get out of the house and take a walk. Or stay inside and look around. Take a photo of something important to you. Take a photo of the inside of your house so you can see how your taste has changed over the years. Take a photo of anything, just don’t stop.

   N.b. It helps if you’ve told your friends about the project and asked them to follow along. Their encouragement will keep you going!

6. Post early, post often
   Plan on going through and posting your photos at least once a week so you don’t get backlogged and feel overwhelmed. Ideally, post every day or two. Again, spend the time up front to make sure it’s quick and easy to post. It’ll make all the difference.

link here 

manly man

as one of my favorite dj's said:

what makes a man feel very manly?

get a good parking spot

and

when a girl comes up to a guy with a jar of whatever and asking him to open it for her. =)

in the guy's head -- hes doing blackflips. hehe.

if this is true, its very cute. ^___________^

break

lately, it felt like i have been holding my breath for soo long, seems that i am starting to waste away. i wanted to just pack my bags and leave manila. its just that i am overwhelmed with whats happening. too much shit going on.

oh, this is not about you, hija. really. dont ever think that you are better than me. hmm... should i say your power expires when the sun comes down and esp on sundays and when i just decided to be "sick". good thing i, despite all this, i have people who love me like m and c. yes, i have her you dont. you can always pretend that you are better than me just because of the rank, but, no matter how hard you pretend, you know that you owe me. if not for me, you will still be broke and wallowing on your mistakes. but i never used the rank card like you did. no. even if you treated me like trash, you worthless primitive, I acted civilized and professional towards you. because if i didn't, oh, you'd be well on your way home, looking for a sorry excuse of a job and i will be laughing. but i'm nothing like you. i never believed in putting career before friendship. not like you. "NOT. LIKE YOU. ---and Thank God!
i used to consider you as a friend, but after how you treated me, you are now just a big joke to me.

erhm, i Need to get out. badly.

pardon the anger. =)

er. long time

i just realized... its been too long since i've written. er. who should i point my finger to??? ah.... the job orders!

so whats been happening...

• i'm still looking for the Job.
• a friend is getting married (are you really sure??? you can still back out, you know. hahaha!)
• er, im still waiting for my trip to the beach.
• hmm, i am divorcing a friend. so i should call her my ex-friend. to betray me the 2nd time is just too much. *cue in, JT's what goes around*
• i met and cooked for a lost brother *hey ecky!*
• i need to do a new postcard
• watched U2 3D -- bangis! crush ko na si edge!

yun na lang muna. maya uli.

memories

from lette:

here's the copy:

If you read this journal, even if I don't speak to you often,

post a memory of me.

It can be anything you want.

It can be good or bad, just so long as it happened.

Then post this on your journal too!

Be surprised (or not) about what people remember about you. :)

show me

because i refuse to be stressed. =)

do yours at http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/badge.php

rant fro the nth time

i will consider this a closure to the issue since talking to you will not help me AT ALL, this is the last time i will talk about you. 

i have to admit it surprised me a bit when i learned that you became more friendly i guess you don't know what loyalty is. but what can i say? SHIT happens. i guess you deserve one another. 

i never wanted to regret doing something to help people, but i guess, i shouldn't just throw lifelines just like that and i learned that there could only be a handful of people that i can call REAL friends. i will have to charge what happened to experience.

no, i wont be vengeful nor i will make you realize that you owe me anything, when i helped you i am sincere and i am glad to see where you are today.

i believe that what goes around come around.

and soon, i believe things will change. BIG TIME. just wait for it.

ho! ho! ho! again

in this season of good cheer and waist widening (hahahah!), i would like to thank all the people who is and became part of my life somehow. *if i forgot to put your name im very sorry and its not intentional.

to m and my family, for still being the best reason for me to wake up everyday, to my sister from another mother, tabs, happy bday and for having patience with all my rants and coffee dates (lee, thank you for sharing her with me! :)), to all my new found friends at work (esp to mommy liz, ate badette & psst xz, ms lei, aileen & the boys) thank you for helping me not commit murder, to my friends that i miss the most -- ann, jan, jian, and lot, to my old friends -- elaine, rache and the other ics people, to not so old friends -- lerry, trisha, rache and kathy r it was nice seeing you again. to m's friends -- kitty and vince, jo and dodo. to my multiply friends and facebook friends. and to you, whom i forgot, i wish you all the best this christmas! cheers!

from the dream king

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

- Neil Gaiman

so what has been happening:

-- im frustrated that i didnt see Gaiman last sunday -- blame my fear of getting swept away if ever the storm would suddenly drop by manila and i also had to attend an event that i just couldnt say no to, else my head will be served on a platter. hehehe! i love you, annie. it was great seeing you again.

-- im gald i was able to change my blog template. i still have to tweek at it but its all good at least im getting somewhere.

-- i havent started my christmas shopping. yet. i have no idea what to get people

-- i was thinking... sometimes people you think you know surprises you by pulling a stunt that you think they are not capable of. like using their position or power as leverage. tsk. sad that they change just because of some little power that was given to them TEMPORARILY.

-- "just because you rank higher than me, doesnt make you better than me." - AMEN.

-- i miss someone who works in san juan and lives in kamias.

-- i want some good coffee.

-- christmas came early. absolute sandman vols. 1 & 2 is mine. hahahaah! *pictures to follow* will open it on tabs' bday.

-- looking forward to saturday...

exposed top

tagged by dodo ^_^

just because the 2 day vacation is hours away and my boss is nowhere to be seen i decided to work on this. hahaha.

my desktop usually gives the viewer what movie just i saw or a book im lusting on or what i feel at the moment. ages ago, i used to plaster a current crush's face (erhm, orlando bloom) across my desktop. hahhaa.

i try to make my top neat. but when im get swamped with work, it gets crazy. O_o

now, im lusting at the Absolute Sandman, hence Death's appearance on my pc plus i like the artwork.

im tagging tabs, kitty, 3sha, rache and you.

Rules:

1.Upon receiving this tag, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop. It is best that no icons be deleted before the screen capture so as to add to the element of fun.

2.Post the picture in your blog. You can also give a short explanation on the look of your desktop just below it if you want. You can explain why you preferred such look or why is it full of Icons, things like that.

3.Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a Free View of their desktop as well.

deamon ko

nicked from trisha

grr

ayan. para sayo yan.
thankies to lette for sharing the site. ^_^