Wednesday, January 2, 2008

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Mendicancy in 2008.
Went out awhile ago to take some pictures around fuente circle. Took a shoot of the Xmas tree (which happened not to be a tree) and city night life but was disappointed by the result. I need to have my Tripod. Blurring has been my constant nemesis. It just pisses me off. The lens I have does not have a stabilizer, so, I'm thinking of having a new one. Oh, well. I was on the skywalk near Robinsons to get a full view of the bustle of fuente ground. My dismay was further heightened when i saw this mendicant and her brother (or was it sister, i dunno). She did not know that i was taking pictures of them as, i suppose, she was knocked down to sleep. Perhaps, too tired after the day's routinary begging of alms. Her brother(Or sister) was sound as sleep despite of the dissonance of the place, the hurly-burly underneath the bridge and the noise of the people passing by. She was holding a plastic cup for people to drop some coins. I did. Unfortunately, I only brought a couple of coins. Wished it helped them, somehow. I was dismayed with this sight as it projects poverty in the Philippines. This is a microcosm of the biggest bane the country is facing. If mendicancy continues to creep in 2008, how can we achieve a strong republic?


This time, i wish the picture was a blur. and Poverty is blur.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

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Just seconds before 2008.
This is my first pic of the year and there are a lot more to follow. Family and I had Media Noche at my aunt's 3-storey house. I spent the whole evening taking pictures on their roof deck over looking the whole city of Cebu, 360 degrees, panoramic view of the city.

On this day, I am launching LITRATO. This is a project of yours truly that just aims to satisfy his interest-nothing much to expect though. LITRATO is a showcase of photos taken on a daily basis. One Litrato a day, that is. This is idea was ripped off from an Afghan Photog. You can visit his blog site through this link - http://onepicaday.blogspot.com/. Guilty of exploitive imitation, you may then accuse me, but i would prefer to call it as an inspiration. Naks. Besides, an idea is not a monopoly of one mind. So, here it goes. LITRATO. This is my first upload of the year and again, there are a lot more to follow.

Monday, December 31, 2007

Happy New year!

Currently, it is 11:45 and obviously 15 minutes from this very moment it'll be 2008! yoohoo! Boy, how time fly so fast. The year was so great for me.

Gotta get my ass off here and embrace Jan 01, 08. Yeah, right. I'm, actually, going to take pictures. I'll be posting those soon.

Happy new year everyone!

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Thank You!

Hey you, yes you, i Thank you!

Saying Thank You is an expression of appreciation, gratitude and delight. And they say that this season is a perfect time to thank someone. And before this spanking year ends, I would like to pour my heart out and give my warm and big Thank to those people whom I've shared my 2007 with. Boy, did you make such a noise in my 2007... and I helluva Thank you for it. You know who you are, i mean, all of you from my PeopleSupport to CPSS to St.James to my Family. Please don't push me to make a list because that would be a crap. I mean, that's too long. But for those whom I have shared my time with even just awhile. I am referring to you. yes, you! From drinking spree, to eating binge, laughing jag, hilarious orgy, camwhoring (well me as the pimp daddy), sentimental bouts, to the exchanging of thoughts (stupid thoughts, that is), the battling of the unknown, the adventures of the Wired, during crisis and animosity(whatever your mind tells you), to brainstorming then to the overindulgence (and the lack of it). You. You made up my year. My 2007 was a total geedeeyap because i was with you guys. Though the year may not be at all smiles but, for sure, had clutched some lessons from those (I dunno, but saying this makes me feel like a goner.oh well!) Still a reason for me to say TA!

Triple Special Fully-loaded thanks to:
Bjorn, Ginarosas and my family especially Pangit! You three deserve a special mention! You guys are great!

May you all have a Fantastic 2008!

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Holden that is not


Finally, got bald!

Chrissake. Could not believe im freakin doing this. Yes, It is helluva dopey and all. But I know it is way cool than doing other stuffs. I really have a big bang out of this. Nevertheless... (me contemplating on starting a blog post)

Holden - I always have a hang of him. I have to admit, im still on the 140th page of the book and take note the book has been with me for a year now. For some reasons, i read Catcher only when things seem a royal pain in the ass. Holden can channel his angst to you and you to the goddamn world you are in. In other words, an outlet of my disgust and angst. A rebellious overture to the cold admonition: F*ck you World! My fascination with books bewilders the hell out of me for I always end up not reading those. I am really crazy. Well, i do read them but i could expect myself not to reach the conflict part of the story or even not reaching the 11th page as what happened to the Dan Brown's prelude to Da Vinci book (aha naman tuod ning libroha). I hardly read books, i tell you. Especially those bounded with thick covers and having 300 to 500 sheets, dude, those are killing me.
I swear to god. They really do. The, Oh Hairy Pota series ( the british twang-laced pronounciation of course of the famed Harry Potter) does not excite me. It sucks. And I include Lords of the rings. Before you fans out there fume to death and plan for my demise, please people it just doesn't interest me. Even the movie adaptation of it. I am book lover who is not. A worm who is not. Definitely a geek slash nerd who is not. I remember once when was still a newbie in a call center account, a supervisor who was a madman asked me at point blank, "Are you a geek? nerd perhaps?" Trying to keep my disposition as professional as possible, I managed to reply only a word but took few minutes for me to say- of course I said a timid and single, "NO." With a period though not with exclamation. His face puzzled. Darn. Do i look like Napoleon? hell, no. Of course, oodles of other thoughts came to my mind that i wished i would have said to him that... that i just have the passion to know... that it is only a facade (well, thanks to my glasses, these helps to that perception, damn)... that I am not intelligent. I don't possess the stereotypical labeling of geek and.or nerds! I am not into Science and all! Chemistry sucks! I was almost doomed in Math! Though i read comics and have a bunch, but seldom does my mind worship those sheets! I really don't know about computers and all! I swear to God! Haha. I am a geek that is not. But had i said this, i would be subjected to guillotine. It was an intelligent question though and that prompted me to give him an xmas gift last Xmas 06- a Catcher in the rye book. We all did though, all of his agents gave something. Now, i'm recommending the book and other JD Salinger's literature to people who excites me (this does not necessarily mean, that im liking you though, hihi), to the Superbads and to the insurgents and those who are apparently and destinctively rebellious (even without a cause or without a clue). But don't get me wrong, as i have previously said i was just up to the 140th page and i have not read Salinger's other lits, you might find my recommendation uberly useless. But people, these books keep you sane. i know. i just know.

Pardon, this is completely unrelated, It is 4:41 am and sheeps jumping over the fence do not even have the slightest of trance to let myself go to slumber land. That's why im blogging. Saying "blogging" annoys the hell of me but that's what im doing. Who knows a better word for this?

Chrissake. Could not believe im freakin doing this. Yes, It is helluva dopey and all. But I know it is way cool than doing other stuffs.I really have a big bang out of this. Nevertheless...(me contemplating on how to end this blog post)

disclaimer: I know, i know Catcher in the Rye is like way too shallow and all.
Who gives a damn? Not me. It is your time to rant ( did i? hihi). pls comment.