MEN

Two of my favorite fictional men.=)

MICHAEL CORLEONE of The Godfather. This happens to be one of my favorite scenes in the trilogy.

Cute Cappie of the series Greek. <3

The world deserves real-life versions of them (except for the violence part for Don Corleone).

HALLO..

..win! Happy Halloween!=)

I know it's too early for this greeting but hello, everybody is excited with Christmas already! Before we deck the halls with boughs of holly and go fa la la la la, la la la la, let us not forget other colorful occasions which give us an excuse to wear silly costumes.

My previous Alabang job is so full of crazy yet happy events and I miss skipping the daily desk job for that once-a-month event when we can be whoever we want to be.

This was halloween a year ago:

Miss Jaycee, the trooper aswang and our pseudo scared faces.

 

More kilig than spooked.=)



My PG3 family is love.=)

Last night, my friends and I went to Malugay street and found a shop where I can fulfill my Disneyland dreams with lovely costumes, I hope to wear this one in one of the future costume parties (kahit anong klase!)/trigger happy pictrial session I hope to attend:

SNOW WHITE COSTUME. Kahit di ako kasing white ng snow. haha!=)

Be excited always kids!=) Yay!

HELLO BATAAN!

travel back in time...=)


The talented Alan David took all of the photos here but one (the pic with me and Aica by the Jai ho door..=p)
Jai ho because it looked Indian to me..=)

Thanks Travel Factor!=)

UP OPTICS

...we don't just click, we also develop - UP OPTICS


written on: April 17, 2009
source: my now inactive multiply account


I was an active applicant of the UP Photography Society not because I have so much interest in their form of art but the org has the most colorful group of people in Diliman.

Future film makers.
Professional Photographers.
Summit Media Magazine Editors.
Beauty Queens.
Kapitbahay ni Ronnie Ricketts.
Masscom Students.
Athlete.
Dreadlocked kid in a McDo Print ad.

The kind of personalities I daydream for myself but which I never had the guts to be. I regret my inactivity to the org after my formal acceptance because of stressful Dr. Edita Tan-related events (Dr. Tan was my thesis adviser) and my, uhum, katamaran.

Kung maibabalik ko lang.

Anyway, here are my few attempts to taking photos ala master Dan Cercado albeit the really amateur version. Unlike the Canon and Nikon DSLR shooting Optics kids, I took these photos with a point and shoot 3.2 megapixel, AA battery-powered, lowtech canon camera straight from the land of Hello Kitty courtesy of Tito Jeng.

Good thing the UP Econ sidhi editors thought they were still worthy of space in their lit folio. *wink*

PULANG-PULA. Dave, Neris and I went to Liliw, Laguna for our Anthro class assignment
and filled our bellies with these 'rambutan's'. Ano ba sa english ng rambutan?=)

DOE EYED. My little sister, Patis. Big eyes run in the family.

BIG BROTHER: This photo was taken during one of UP OPTICS workshop on the "rule of thirds".
Yun lang yata yung naalala ko pa hanggang ngayon!=) Sorry teachers!

SPIRAL

I want to eat all I can as much as I can!

See the happy faces made 'busog' by happy food!

Sometime in August last year, Spiral announced 50% off for their buffet for a minimum group of 4 people and who can resist their invitation to "tour the entire world through food" in one buffet?=)

This was the time of our lives when we still had a lot of free time and climbing up the corporate ladder was not our immediate plan so it was easy to just call on anyone for a weekend of lunch. I am importing something I wrote from my multiply account (which I don't use anymore) about our Spiral date:

"Before we drank our champagne, we each made a toast. Myrella for love. Bernard for more sex, err, love din pala (haha!).  Tin for love din. Me for money and the chance to see the world beyond the 4 walls of my office (it was a subtle work-related ranting..hehe). Abby for money din. Oh diba? Grabe sa values! But Paul had the best and most selfless toast of all: for friendship. Aaaaawwww."

I so miss my college friends.

HELLO SUBIC!

Subic happened last year when I got so excited with my new camera, I thought it had to take photos of the many places I wanted to see. My ate Ay's best friend Ate Joanne (now based in Singapore) was working in SBMA before and we got in the many must-see places for free. Our old desktop crashed and here's a collage I made which I was able to salvage to immortalize our Subic 2009 trip.=D I especially enjoyed the tree drop (free fall from a 70 ft tree) from the Tree Top Adventure, I want to try Bohol's version, the Danao plunge.

Bohol, anyone?=)

WORDS

Found this copycat of UP Architecture's first ever building in Manila - IN BATAAN.
Thank you Mr. Alan David for this picture with my fellow iska, Miriam!=) 

...I am a proud Econ major!

Prof. Winnie Monsod quoted Edward Everett Hale in her last lecture in UPSE Audi this semester. No, I am no longer a student in the School of Economics and though until now I can not believe I have taken and actually finished the course, I am a proud alumna.Always and forever.=)

I am only one, but I AM ONE.

I can't do everything, but I can do SOMETHING.

The something I ought to do, I CAN DO.

And by the grace of God, I WILL.

-Hale

...I am a Hollywood reject!

Since, we're in the business of quotes, let me share with you the words Hillary Swank of Million Dollar Baby fame uttered which made me fall in love with her:

I don't believe in boundaries for people.

I think we live one life and it is so short and fleeting.

So if you are not pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy, then what's the point?

It's our birthright to come into the world and experience life in whatever  way we feel best suits us.

Can't Hillary get anymore swanky?=)

I am a sucker for words which touch the heart. Thus, these quotes.

Whatever happened to love letters? =p

PILAK

...young enough to believe that anything is possible, old enough to make that belief a reality - Niequist

In one of our sleepovers (so high school di ba?), my friends and I found ourselves discussing about our generation’s favorite subject: AGE. Those born in the same year as us will be turning 25 years old next year and though some might think of that as still young, especially our parents who will forever consider us as pre-schoolers on a leash, for us 1986-born-people-power babies, we look back at our childhood days and think of them as part of the Jurassic era.

It’s kind of scary, especially for me, because I have moving on issues. I haven’t moved on from my uncombed-not-fit-for-corporate UP college hair. FYI, I love Meg Ryan because of her crazy hair in forever disarray and just-got-out-of-bed look which make her oh-so adorable. My hair is as crazy and is forever in disarray that I need to constantly remind myself that I am not Meg Ryan and I’m not really oh-so adorable.

I haven’t moved on from my Paulinian way of speaking.  The nuns who looked after my 11 years of Catholic education made sure that I won’t forget bamboo is pronounced as ‘beymbooh’, cocoa as ‘kokeyo’ and ‘the’, ‘these’ and ‘that’ are articulated with the‘t’ sounding like ‘z’.

I haven’t moved on from the glorious feeling of being the youngest and yet, am entrusted to play a significant role in an organization. I get thrilled when I am mentored because in the near future, I want to be the mentor. It’s my not so secret dream to become a teacher. =D

So moving on from this inability to move on, Bes (our barkada’s resident genius), brought up the concept of time lines – that stressful chart which dictates that one should have been a rock star by 26, with master’s degree or PhD by 27, married by 28, with kids by 30, millionaire by 32 and a lot more deadlines to becoming a responsible and fulfilled member of society. I told my friends I refuse to make such time line as I’d rather go with the flow and not stress myself so with these deadlines. Spontaneous is not one of my 5 favorite words for nothing (the other 4 are wanderlust, serendipity, thoroughbred, and kindred). But really, though I hate to admit it, at the back of my mind, I refuse to lay down a timeline because I am afraid – scared that by 27, I’m still not Mrs. Brad Pitt or by 28, I’m still not the number 1 in FHM’s list of the sexiest women in the world. I am afraid that I will not be that someone I set myself to become at some certain age and that might (and I know it will) frustrate me.  I know myself so well; I am so protective of me.

Bes retorted that drawing a time line is a person’s way of saying, “oh hey mister universe and mister destiny and mister fate, I will rock the world on the 25^th year of my existence because I said so and no amount of your intervention will stop me from doing that”. It is sort of announcing and conditioning all elements in this world that something needs to be achieved by me at a specific time and these forces better help or if not, keep out of the way.

So I am turning 25 next year. Big deal. I still refuse to make a time line, but sooner or later, I know I will. But for now, I am making a list. A list of things to do before I turn 25. My Before-I-turn-25 resolutions. Because I want to announce to the entire universe that though I have not figured out my big-time plans in life yet (and I apologize for my cluelessness), at least I have goals, no matter how plain and simple they may be:

Before I turn 25:

1) I should have been to Batanes.

2) I should have worn my two-piece bikini in Boracay. weh.

Batanes is my ultimate travel destination in the Philippines. I think it is the purest place in this country and it would make a lovely escape from the city. I want to experience Filipino culture in its most unadulterated and most unpretentious form (whatever that means).

As for Boracay, while I would rather be somewhere I can surf, I want to see the Philippine’s most popular  beach because it would suck to be the only 25-year old who has not been there.

3) I should have learned the basics of surfing. I could stand easily on the surf board but that’s just about it. I don’t know how to paddle nor know when the next wave is coming. I am so dependent on my instructor, I’m helpless.

4) I should have done something with my hair.

5) I should have gone diving. I don't care which site. As long as it is under the sea. hehe. =p

Under the sea happens to be the only Disney song saved in my phone and Ariel, the little mermaid, is my favorite Disney princess. (pambata!=D) Gusto ko lang isingit.

6) I should have started saving up for my retirement fund.

7) I should have finished a semester in the Language and Literacy Education course I will enroll in this semester and have at least written an appeal that I be directly admitted to the university’s Master’s program.

8) I should have gained a few more pounds to put the ‘ter’ in hot – hotter, gets? Haha!

9) I should have at least tried belly dancing/strip tease lesson. =p

10) I should have started learning how to drive. I’m pathetic, I can’t drive. My 12-year old cousin zooms past EDSA behind the wheel, while I stay on the sidewalk waiting for a taxi to take me wherever.

11) I should have made someone genuinely happy.

Good luck to me!=D

ALEX

I am crushing on Alessandra da Rossi. =p