Happy Birthday Marius!

January 31, 2009 (Original date: January 27, 2009)

Chopsticks and Drinks!

Chopsticks and Drinks... Literally

Snapshots #10

Food and People on a Sunday

A Head Full of Candy

January 24, 2009
Big Fish : Hed Kandi

Pyschotic run...

Where am I headed? Saan ako pupulutin?

All through out a quarter of a century of my life I never felt my life amounted to something. This is not me being emo, mind you. I am way past that stage. It doesn't suit me anyway. All this mumbo jumbo post is me expressing this disconcerting feeling within.

Everything that is happening within me, I couldn't understand it. All jumbled up within my heart and mind that I just would like to burst it all out of me. But, I can't do that. And after all.. nothing will happen if I do that.

Younger, I always believed that I am slated to do noteworthy things that could move a lot of people. Years and years later, the only thing I moved was my butt from one work to another. Wihout a measly penny in my bank account nor a feather on my cap. And now my thoughts and emotions are so unstable that I drift within... and this is not just your ordinary quarter life crisis.

I should be at least happy right now. I'm not even content. Am I being impatient? After seeing everybody around me doing their thing and being recognized as one of the best, knowing that you could even do what the other does twice as great, makes me think if I am going the right way and path. I hope I know what I am looking for.

Perhaps, I'm just psychotic.

Happy Birthday Ivan

A belated Post to my near-blood brother! (January 13, 2008)
I send you Love and Peace.
May you always get what you need and get what you deserve in life.

The Gift

January 10, 2008
A January Jam for a cause.

Welcome 2009

Stuff made of shiny pretty things...

The Lost Eden

Ang Pinakamagandang hayup sa balat ng lupa...

The Nifty Fifty

Old things can be really nifty...

SQ Christmas Party

Where's the Parteh!?!?

December 25, 2008

Christmas with the critters we call family...

Heypi Berthdey Tessa!

Click! Click! Yehay!

Find Your Bliss...

Xialen's Nuptial

True to the personality of my friends... their wedding ended up looking through the bottom of a wine bottle.

Click on the Image for more photos...

Saan ba natatagpuan ang kaligayahan?

Sa Langit ba? Sa lansangan? Sa piling ng mga tala ba o sa yakap ng imburnal? Sa totoo lang... hindi ko alam. Wari'y sa kahit saang sulok man ng mundo at sansinukob, ito ay nagkukubli sa mga naghahangad ng panatag na sarili. Marahil Diyos lang ang nakakaalam.

Sabi ng iba, ang pagbabago ay nanggagaling sa puso...

Paano kung ito ay nagsasara sa maya't mayang pagbulong ng mapait na nakaraan? Isang nakaraan na ayaw magpayakap sa limot at malumanay na sumasampal sa iyong mukha. Nangungutya sa iyong pagkatao...

"Do your own thing, wherever you have to do it and whenever you want. Drop out. Leave society as you have known it. Leave it utterly. Blow the mind of every straight person you can reach. Turn them on, if not to drugs, then to beauty, love, honesty, fun."
-The Hippie Code-

November is in

November has come once more and finally I am starting with my new job. The pay is not something I would go for, neither would most of the people who has put in a lot of the hours of their waking life in work. But hey, I am loving my schedule. I can go to work as late as I want or leave as early, depending on my project schedule. The rest of my time usually is taken up by chatting and bantering with people in the office. I think I can manage for a while here.

I hope nobody bursts my bubble any time soon.

Jack TV's Boombox Live 2

I trooped off to Eastwood Central Plaza last October 11, 2008 to be the official photographer of Jack TV for the event. It was fun being silly with my former mates again after such time. There were free flowing Margarita Kings and SMB Pales that really loosened us up and made us red to the skin. To top everything off, good music was in the air to give that oomph to the event.

The bands were:

• Lala
• Sinosikat?
• Stonefree
• Markus Highway
• Join the Club
  
• Rivermaya
• Taken by Cars
• Typecast
  

During the half of my stint, I assumed that I will only be covering the event for their post collateral and stuff. But, then the events manager approached me from behind while I was in between shots of Kat of Sinosikat? then whispered into my ear, "galingan mo ni... gagamitin yan photos mo para sa CD design" (make it good... we will use your photos for the CD design). Then a voice in my head said "Can you feel the pressure right now? Yes, I can feel the pressure right now!"

You see, part of the event is the live recording, and afterwards they will be producing and publishing the event in a CD featuring the hit songs of the artist as it was performed live. Never have I expected that I would be commissioned to provide the images for the CD design. It made me excited and scared at the same time since I never handled anything major like this. Though I better get ready if I want a career in photography.

Please click on the image to see more of the shots that I submitted for their use. Tell me what you think on how I did. Yes, I am open for criticism, I am open minded. Now, let me just fix some additional compensation since they did not tell me that this project included this...

So it is indeed a bit tight...

Weeks into braving the job market and now I find myself in the middle of a job-hunter's hell. I am selling myself too much and still I haven't found anything.

I guess like looking for a good apartment... looking for a job is like falling in love. You don't have control over it and things will fall into place. Yet, sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and still you fall short and get dumped for prettier faces attached to godlike bodies. It's just isn't fair. But, when did anything in life got fair?

Some will just suck you dry as you put everything into it. As you give in to every request. And yet will leave you hanging not as much as giving any hint of any good future. Just enough to mess with you and making you clench your teeth tightly. Leaving you in turmoil and driving you at your wit's end and still not so much as a single call. Then you find them with someone else.

All you need to wait for is a perfect match. If indeed it will come. Or just settle for something that is just there without sparks flying around you. Or go with anything that pays for the rent... life is a little bit tight these days...

Let it not be contrived...

Dusk has risen into the skies clad in a cloak of raging red. Slowly crawling into the vast expanse of the heavens. Engulfing everything that is blue. I see myself entranced, as if the skies are telling me divine secrets of my destiny. I let loose and let go... and let myself be swallowed into the wraith of my ominous future.