Saturday, November 21, 2009

bohol trip

i finally had the chance to set foot on bohol kahit short vacation lang. matagal ko nang pangarap makapunta dun. first time ko rin sa airport at makasakay din ng airplane. good thing very supportive ang mga izone girlfriends ko that i didn't felt awkward about the fact na first timer ako. the tour was fun though it is very exhausting kse we arrived in tagbilaran at 6:35am tapos diretso nang tour. tapos umulan pa nung later part na ng tour mabuti na lang malapit na kme matapos. so ayun. will post the photos soon. i am still getting familiar with my new lens. nakakapanibago kseng walang zoom barrel and i just can't switch from wide to zoom in an instant.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

i just learned that helping other people has conditions. and that it should go according to the priorities of the giver who has nothing but good intentions. can't it be that complicated? hay...

randoms

finally, i'm back. been busy with a lot of things. serious things. work's been very demanding lately and it's been eating a lot of my time. i even stay up late at night to still work at home. weekends were also spent working. so i still don't get to really rest at all. hay...

i had finally finished the final prints of rio's prenup photos sometime august i think. sorry, i already lost track. thanks to my officemate who is a graphic artist. he helped me finish them. though, rio still has a few demands on the photos which up until now i was not able to do. geez...

then came typhoons ondoy and pepeng which brought too much devastation to a lot of properties and even deaths to a lot of families in our country.

i was too depressed to blog about these unfortunate things that had happened to my kababayans. i was a victim too but we are still fortunate that we still have our house intact compared to a lot of families who lost all their possessions. up until now, mukha pa ring bodega ung bahay namin. nakataas pa rin ung mga upuan. tumataas pa rin paminsan-minsan ung baha sa harap ng bahay namin kaya til now may tulay pa rin.

it has been more than a month and yet my heart continues to break for those who had lost their families and their properties because of those typhoons. i still shed a tear whenever i see the exact same footages i already saw. but we filipinos are resilient and through these tough times, heroes arise. i salute those people who are continuously helping our kababayans. mabuhay kayo.

big brother is back with a new pakulo. yup, i've always been a fan... hehehe...

i have not received any commissions for the past 2 months because of my account's poor performance. yeah, after all the effort, i had exerted. tsktsktsk...

i finally bought a new lens for my camera na hindi ko pa na-testing ng todo dahil sa super busy ako sa work. hopefully sa bohol... excited na ako... first time kong makakasakay sa airplane... sana lang hindi bumagyo...

my internet connection still sucks until now... i hope it gets fixed soon. it's been more than a month...

i had my hair cut and colored and spent a whopping 4k for it. yeah, i know. i hope next time, i remember not to spend too much on this. i hope...

mom's been whining a lot since the floods and all... and it's getting to my nerves...

just when i thought i was doing a good deed to some unfortunate kids; apparently, to someone else, i am not.

ang buhay talaga parang life... hay...

Monday, August 03, 2009

Thank you, President Cory

after more than a year's battle with colon cancer, former President Corazon Aquino passed away last Saturday, August 1, 2009.

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i really had a hard time organizing my thoughts for this blog entry... please bear with me...

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i have always been the type of person who is easily moved to tears. as much as possible i avoid conversations that will make me cry but ironically i still watch tearjerkers. (at least no one sees me cry. hehehe... ) i must admit that the past two days' events made me shed tears. it felt like that there is a part of me that was lost and cannot be found.

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a lot of people tell how good a person she was. how full she lived her life. how good a president she was. i must admit that i was moved with these untold stories about how she handled power. i am surprised to find myself teary eyed. no doubt, she touched a lot of people's lives. even mine. too bad, i just realized it now.

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to president Cory, i hope you get to read this in heaven:

thank you for the freedom i am enjoying right now. i was too young then to understand what you sacrificed for all of these. thank you for sharing your life with us. i hope i could live a life as full as yours and that i can uphold the values that you believed and lived by.


i know you are in a better place right now where there is no more suffering and pain but only bliss.

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the entire nation is mourning for your loss. you will always be remembered madam president. your legacy lives on.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

hair talk

i got bored with my hair and finally got the time to go to a salon and had it cut. please see below:

this was my hair before I've decided that I need to cut it.



this is the new haircut I've got

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

from measles to dry skin then peeling

from catching a viral skin infection without any particular cause (viral exanthem), i experienced having dry skin last week particularly on my hands. to my surprise, it was just the start of it all. my hands and feet are now peeling. it all started last friday. my hands look like that i played with glue... soaked my hands into a bucket of glue and let it dry. and yeah, it looks nasty. hay, i hope it would peel all at once but that was not the case. hay.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

new watermark

i feel like a kid. ecstatic with my new watermark symbol for my photos. i know. it's shallow but ain't kids behave that way?!! and i must admit i must boast it today. hahaha... thanks to kuya raul for the new watermark. now, i will save more time putting this mark on my photos. hehehe... below is the photo with the watermark i am raving about. hehehe...


Wednesday, July 15, 2009

thunderbird poro point, la union

late post of the photos i was able to take during our stay in thunderbird resort poro point, la union. the rest of the photos are here.

















Monday, July 06, 2009

aftermath

got home from la union last saturday at about 11pm. we left thunderbird resort on july 4 at about 11:45am. we went to manaoag church to light a few candles and offer a short prayer to the miraculous virgin and had our lunch somewhere in pangasinan. yup, i don't remember because i started to feel worst again during the trip. i had to take a nap in the van while they were ordering our lunch and went inside the resto when the food were all served. i took paracetamol and after a few hours i felt better again. it was a grueling 7 hours travel going back to manila and i never fell asleep. i tried but was never successful. i've decided to get another opinion about the allergies i've got that actually worsened on saturday morning when i woke up. i thought the reason my hands were numb is i slept on it but i was wrong. i noticed that the red spots that disappeared when i was injected antihistamine last friday were now back in new territories which are my two hands. so there, the doctor said the red spots were not allergies, they were measles. i heard her say to the nurse it's viral exanthem. i'm a bit familiar with it because one of my officemate had it a few months before. so i had to have another blood test and had a second blood extraction on the same spot where the first one was taken last friday. now the spot had turned bluish-black. oh, the first person (are they med techs? i forgot what they are called) who extracted my blood did it with ease but the second had a hard time. just imagine how painful it was. the needle is already in your skin but it did not hit the right nerve so she had to redirect it to the nerve while inside your skin... ouch!... after waiting for the results, i went back to the doctor and found out that the results were all the same. i have a surprisingly high number of platelets for some reasons and she was puzzled where my infection is coming from. i told her of the same blood test results i've got last friday and she just gave me a stronger medicine for allergies. so i went straight home because i am starting to feel worst again. i never realized how heavy my bag was, only until the time i felt my shoulder blades, upper back and thighs ache. i thought i will be able to go to work today but i still had fever last night but my rashes had significantly subsided. however, my fingers are still swollen for some reason. i will need to go back to my doctor and give it one more day of rest. i hope i get better soon. there are too much work waiting for me when i get back to the office.

Saturday, July 04, 2009

day three

it is the last day of our stay here in poro point. i woke up early just like yesterday, feeling a little more better than last night. i missed a lot of things yesterday because they went jetskiing and wake boarding. too, bad i am sick. i could have joined them. i was looking forward to take photos last night but i was not feeling so well that i was not even able to go down for my dinner. i had to request for a soup to be taken up to our room. at this hour, they went to the lighthouse near the casino. i would like to go there since day one but i guess that's the way it is. i am hoping that we can check out earlier than 12nn today so we will arrive in manila early. i need to rest. i hope i'll get well soon.

Friday, July 03, 2009

day two

maybe you are wondering why the title of this post is day two. well, it's the 2nd day of our stay here in Poro Point, La Union. i will tell you why i was not able to blog about day one yesterday.

yup, finally our trip pushed through this time. we arrived yesterday at about 1:45pm. a few minutes before our check in time. it was a long drive from manila going to la union. probably 6 hours because we had to make a few stopovers to pee and for lunch. i was feeling okay in the morning of july 2 while waiting for the last participant of this trip to arrive. i even had my temperature scanned by the guards in our building when i entered. my temperature was okay. was... because when we arrived here in thunderbird resort, i started not to feel well. i thought i was just exhausted of the long drive. so, i just took 2 paracetamols for that day while i was working on my problematic accounts while wearing the striped bonnet abba gave me. yup, i was on a vacation and yet still working. slept at about 11:30 i think. i know i had fever because i can feel my body was hot. i woke up feeling a little okay this morning and forgot about all of these when che and i started to explore the place while taking photos. when we got back to our room, i tried to sleep again then the morning snack was served. my throat had been sore since june 30 i think, i was just gargling it with astring-o-sol but yesterday and today was different. i had a hard time swallowing but i did not pay a lot of attention to it. while i was eating the morning snack, i noticed that i have a lot of small red dots in my arms and also my body. good thing they have a clinic nearby and was advised to consult their company doctor in the nearby hospital and so i obliged. so i was brought to the hospital. che accompanied me there and was joking around with the hospital staff and the friendly nurse who helped us go to the hospital. it was found out that the left side of my throat is swollen and has white spots on it. i forgot how the doctor called it. so there, i was injected with anti-histamine and was made to drink paracetamol and claritin i think. i was drowsy after that. they even extracted blood from me for platelets test. they even said that i might have a h1n1. good thing, my platelets count was okay and i was released after a few hours. i stayed there i think for 3 hours or more. good thing i have an HMO card to cover the hospital bills. i had to shoulder the medicines though and the antibiotic that was given to me was too pricey. i was even advised to do any activities. great. tomorrow we will be checking out at 12nn. another long drive going back to manila. it's just like not taking a vacation after all. hehehe...

Friday, June 26, 2009

new bag

i just realized today that i needed a bigger camera bag that will accommodate my growing gears. the free camera bag which i got when i purchased my DSLR is no longer big enough to fit all my gears. hay, gastos na naman. hehehe...

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

my new camera strap

finally, i got to buy this. i had to settle for this one for now because i don't have enough budget for the double strap.



next on my list is a nikkor 18-200mm VR. i hope i could get this in time for jia's birthday party. :)

Thursday, June 11, 2009

i did it

i've given my d40 its nice airtight home today. i just made it a DIY dry box. will post the photo soon. i hope i don't forget. now, i am at peace that my beloved little gear will be free from fungus. i hope it enjoys its new home. hehehe...

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

busy

i know i've been blogging less than usual. sorry, kids, been so busy with a lot of stuff or maybe there's just nothing worth blogging anyway. hehehe... yup, i am done with those mushy and emo stuff. hehehe...

well, i just want to share what's keeping me busy lately. i hope you are interested. hehehe... aside from working hard to get my commission for this month, i've been busy coordinating with thunderbird resort for our team outing. i know this is already late because summer is over and yet we still have plans of going out of town. well, this had been on the planning stage for months but there are a few factors that affected its implementation that i will not mention anymore. i just hope that this works out now. hehehe...

just to give you a glimpse of what it is to see in thunderbird resort poro point, la union. please see photo below:


i am looking forward to this trip. i just hope that this pushes through and that it will not rain. hehehe...

Thursday, May 28, 2009

updating the list

just updating the list of stuff that i am hoping to get within this year. only if luck is going to be on my side. hehehe...




looking at the price of these stuff makes me think if i should reconsider doing this hobby. hehehe...

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

start of a long time partnership

my highschool batchmate who hired me to be a back up wedding photographer last week, texted me last night saying that he did like the shots i made. i am happy he did because that meant a long time partnership. i hope. hehehe... just posting some of the photos i took during the wedding:





Sunday, May 24, 2009

Pahiyas Festival Lucban, Quezon

i would just wanna share the photos i took during the Pahiyas Festival. Oh yeah, i did go. hehehe...







Saturday, May 09, 2009

another dilemma

i was given a canceled seat reservation to a trip going to lucban's pahiyas festival on friday may 15. it was just confirmed yesterday and to be honest, i am not expecting it. it's just a day tour so i will leave the house at about 3 am to get to the meeting place. so there...

i've always wanted to go there since i was a kid. i kept seeing their colorful festivities in the paintings of the blanco family of artists which made me promise myself that one day i will experience it personally when i am old enough to be there. and now is my chance, but i am having second thoughts because of the super unpredictable weather conditions that we have right now in our country. it is still supposed to be summer but we already had 4 typhoons. the thing is it floods in our place and my mom will be alone if i go. i also prefer staying at home when it rains or storms.

i am still weighing things and i am checking the weather forecast for the week. it seems promising for metro manila but in quezon the weather's a little off. hay. but i don't have any choice. i still need to make a decision soon. i only have 2 days maximum to cancel. hay...

Thursday, May 07, 2009

one year

tomorrow marks my first year in this company. after starting out as an agent and later on transferred to a level 2 post, now, i am in the marketing department. to sum up my stay here, i can say that it was a good one. my capabilites were noticed and i was given a lot of opportunities and room to learn new things. it was challenging but in a good way. i thank the Lord for the opportunity. i could not ask for more aside from some salary adjustment that has long been overdue. hehehe...

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

new design

i want a new blog design; however, i need help on setting up what i want to happen. and my ever reliable friend and officemate was axed last month so our plans did not push through. hay. i hope someone would help me. hehehe...

happy earth day


let's do our share. :)

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

senseless

i am trying to write a new post today; however, i can't seem to figure out what to write. i felt like writing about something but decided not to. i guess i just don't have anything sensible to write. there are a lot of noise and clutter in my head and i just can't seem to organize them. maybe i just needed a break, a long vacation getaway. but odds are, i'll be stuck at home. no budget for out of town trips and i've got an over protective mom. maybe she kept on forgetting that her little girl is already in her 30s. hahaha...

Thursday, April 16, 2009

i hope that it will rain money this month

me want to go ilocos and cebu. hay.

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

and the list goes on...

the list is just getting longer. here is another one of the lens that i would like to get. i hope someone will give this to me out of charity. hehehe...

Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX

Monday, March 30, 2009

happy thoughts

i am not sure whether this can be considered a happy thought because all the photos i posted below are quite a frustration but makes me strive hard to get them. so look below to find out... hehehe...


nikon d90
nikkor 18-200 VR lens
50mm prime lens f/1.4

speedlight SB-800

my happiness... haay...

Sunday, March 22, 2009

stressed

it's been a long time since my last post. i've been busy coping up with stress lately.

the roller coaster ride of emotions since the start of this month is indescribable. i am just waiting for the day that they will tell me "you are no longer needed here so leave now."

The hard work somehow is not worth it because it will not be recognized and appreciated anyway. i must admit,
i am slowly giving in to this evil. to be honest, i dunno where it will take me. God speed.

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

casualty

we just had another casualty today. who will be next? it is for us to find out.

axed

def: In television, cancellation (known as axing in Australia and the United Kingdom) refers to the termination of a program by the network, typically ...

go figure out what happened.

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i lost some friends again from work yesterday. sad is all i can define what i am feeling right now. they are my buddies. we stuck with each other for 3 months. unfortunately, on the forth month, 2 has to go. i am the last man standing but until when? hay.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

for the win!


just posting a photo shared by a friend. most of the people my age will surely recognize him. hehehe... go angus! :)

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

late again

i am hating this trend. i always end up late to work once a week. geez... this makes me feel real bad because i make sure that i wake up early and i allot too much extra travel time so i will arrive on time at work. i've been exerting too much effort lately and i am afraid that one day i will end up not caring anymore. geez... but i don't want to lose my job. and i am trying hard to choose not to be in a bad mood today. seems like the stars are not on my favor again this year. but i refuse to believe that. hay.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

kung hei fat choi

happy chinese new year!


The Horse:
SUMMER is your season.
JUNE is your month.


You are compatible with:
Tigers, Dogs and Sheep

Cheerful and Gregarious, Popular and Loves to Party. Perceptive Warmth, But Hot-Blooded Impatience Leads to Feisty Anger. Independent, Ignores Advise, Skillful with Money. You are Sexy and Tends to Fall in Love Easily.



Friday, January 23, 2009

obama fever


cute

a friend showed me this picture today and i find it nice and very creative. to whoever made this, good job, dude! :)

Thursday, January 22, 2009

addicted

i've read somewhere that it is addicting to take wedding photos once you get to taste it. i must confess that this is true. i am already considering to crash into wedding ceremonies whenever i can... hehehe... on a second thought, would it be more inspiring to capture the moment if the person you are photographing is a friend or someone you know?! oh well, i guess i would have to wait for wedding invitations in the future. i hope they come soon. anyway, everybody's getting married except me. hehehe...

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

changes

i've been into photoshop since the start of this week. i must admit that i am an ignorant when it comes to photo editing and i've realized that i need to get rid of that ignorance sooner. however, i am solely focusing on learning how to make a photo standout. this will benefit my photography hobby a lot. thanks to the internet, i am so pleased that there are a lot of resources on the net about this. i hope i will be good at this. i am so excited to fiddle with my photos. i hope to salvage some old photos from my files. wish me luck... :)

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if things will go smoothly, i will be making some changes on my blog site. i hope that my friend will be able to help me. hehehe... til the next ish. :)

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

new

i know that whatever i am into right now is not an easy feat. however, i shall not falter. i must succeed. God bless me.

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

surprisingly excited

i am a homebody. i prefer staying at home most of the time and watch TV or tinker with something in my PC. i do not go out at night to hang out in bars and get drunk. i don't drink nor smoke. i know, i am boring but that's how i prefer it. i do not like going to events like weddings or baptisms but i am now looking forward to these. for some odd reasons, i am excited that i have 2 events to attend to until march. well, not that much but i am hoping that i will be invited to more events within the year. i know this is not me but maybe the fact that i can make myself busy while taking photos is the primary reason of my excitement. i just hate getting bored in events like this that is why i usually decline invitations. can't wait for the baptism that i will attend on january 18. hehehe... will post pictures soon. :)

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

thirty

this day marks the third decade since the first day of my existence. i have a lot of things to be thankful for. to be honest, i have not yet contemplated on what those are but let me try on writing them down.

first, the fact that i am still here writing this blog entry. hehehe...

the roller coaster ride for those years that made me the person i am today. i had life's ups and downs in all sorts and color of it that you may think of. i would like to think that i became a responsible individual and a person who has a good head on her shoulder because of all of these. though, i hope someone will confirm my conclusion... hehehe...

the good friends i made who are still my friends up to this day. though time and space separate us, we still managed to be friends.

my mom who has always been there for me and the source of my strength.

the angels that were sent to my aid every now and then.

the job that i have right now which i hope to keep for the longest time i could.

i am looking forward to a lot of great things ahead of me. i know that there are still a lot in store for me. i just hope that all of these will materialize soon. :) wish me luck.

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it just feels odd today. it is my birthday however, it seems like any ordinary day. it's the 2nd year that this has happened to me. oh, i think i am just getting older. hehehe...

Friday, January 02, 2009

welcome 2009

another year has passed. to be honest, 2008 was not a really good year for me. i lost my job on the month of january and had a hard time finding the job i really wanted to do. i learned that doing a job that requires less usage of the brain does not please me. hehehe... however, i still have a lot of things to be thankful for, for the rest of the year. i found a new job that i am hoping to be with for a long time. i was promoted twice and currently in a developmental assignment for my new post. we won our labor case against our former employer. i found new friends and i hope to keep them as the years pass.

i hope that 2009 will be more fruitful for all of us. happy new year everyone!