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.

for the win!

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

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.

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.

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! :)

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...

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. :)

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.

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. :)

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...

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!

blog leave for the holidays

i'll be on blog leave for a few days. making sure that i will take full advantage of the holidays. hehehe... happy holidays guys!!!!!!!

teaser

posting one of the photos i took last saturday on yoshie's wedding. i am still in the process of editing the others. err... my friend was the one doing the editing. yeah, i do not know how to use photoshop so i had to ask a friend to help me with the editing. please feel free to comment on the photo if it still needs editing. :)

tale of two weddings

i had a long day last saturday (12.20.08). two of my good friends tied the knot on that date and i had to be there. to be honest, i am not so fond of attending weddings because i do not like the fact that you have to dress and put up with something uncomfortable for the day. the last wedding i attended was my brother's a few years back.

i dunno why i agreed to be there in the first place even if i hated dressing up. maybe i just felt that i had to be there for these 2 special people who had been part of my life. drama... hehehe... yoshie, i kept my promise even if it cost me an arm and a leg. hehehe... ;D

to almira and yoshie, two of my good friends, congratulations and best wishes! i hope that your marriage will be showered with God's blessings! i love you both!

ohhh... i just remembered... welcome to my clan. hehehe... what a coincidence... both of you are now mrs. reyes. hehehe...

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i would like to confess that this is the first time i enjoyed being in a wedding... maybe because i have a new toy. it kept me busy and i realized that it was fun taking pictures in such an event. i am deeply considering jumping into serious photography soon. maybe do weddings or food photography. i just need to practice and still need to learn a lot. i hope i get good at this. will post the photos soon. i just have to ask a friend to edit it first before i can post it. :)

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just posting the paintings i recently made. these were given as gifts to my friends who just got married. :)

got it! finally

finally, i got my first dslr last tuesday. after 3 years of striving to save so i can get one... finally, the long wait is over. it was a nerve wracking travel going to hidalgo, quiapo because it was my first time to go there alone. it was an experience looking for the camera shop alone, too. i am glad that everything went well and i've been excitedly fiddling with my new toy since tuesday night. though, i have not gotten too familiar with it. i still need to sleep and go to work you know. hehehe... i hope i'll get used to it and be able to capture good pictures at my friends wedding on saturday. wish me luck. :)

just imagine

i just fell in love with this movie that was not shown mainstream maybe because it's a gay movie. it caught my attention through a newspaper ad. the story was simple and yet i still love it. i am a sucker of romantic films. oh yeah, i am a hopeless romantic. this is the first time i got to watch a movie like this and i am surprised that i love it. i suddenly became a lena headey fan. hehehe... just makes me wonder how i will react if this thing happens to me. finding love in an odd way. i hope i dont get judged by people i love. :)

cute

cute photo. the wonders of photoshop. hehehe...

twilight

i just felt the need to post what i have in mind after watching the movie twilight last saturday. yeah, everyone's raving about it but honestly, i like the book better and i was disappointed with its movie version. well, first i would have preferred someone else play the role of Edward Cullen. i know that you might disagree with me but unfortunately the Edward that i saw on film did not meet my standards of the Edward described in the book. second, i feel that the movie could have been a lot better. the story could have been presented in a much better way. if you did not read the book first before watching the film, you may like it but if you did, chances are that you will agree with me. :) if the folks who made the Harry Potter movie were able to give justice to the book in its film version, i honestly would have hoped the same for twilight. but if i will be asked if i will still watch the sequels, i will. for the hope that these will outbest its previous sequel. but of course, this is only my two cents. :)

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it just happened
dark secrets had been revealed
everyone's sitting on the edge of their seat
intently watching, listening
heart beats intensifying
confusion and fear overlooms
so many unanswered questions
is this the end of these all
we can only hope