November 12, 2008

Well, another year older, but you don’t feel it. At least not yet.

Zea, Jhellai, and Karen are good friends from the office who gave a piece of dark chocolate and stuck a candle to it for me to blow. Aaawww…

Thanks girls!

I also bought myself some presents that day…well, expensive presents rather. It was totally out of the plan, but because you have fellow photography enthusiasts who somehow possess the power to entice you to purchase gadgets beyond your budget, you will be left broke but happy. Aaah, the agony.

GEAR

Bought a Nissin di622 flash, macro extension tubes, camera IR remote, and the Energizer 15 minute charger. Once again, I am broke..but happy.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE

Jannette surprised me when I got home. She arranged a surprise party for me when I got home. Visitors were mostly churchmates. She also arranged for my HS friends to come, but everyone was busy with their respective jobs. Ok lang. It was a weekday anyway. Thanks Jannette! =)

Lo and behold, around the end of evening, Danny Javier (photo from www.apohikingsociety.org) of the APO Hiking Society called me to greet me. He’s my godfather. He invited me over at his home for lunch the following day. I happily agreed. After 15 years, I’ve never been back at his home. This was another surprise. I’ll write a separate post on it.

Thank you Lord for another year. Once again, you’ve proved yourself to be faithful, even when you didn’t have to.

Ninja, Ghost, Hitman, Geishas, Cowgirl, Indian Lady, Bonjing, She-devil, Hot Beotch, and Hollow Ichigo

I’m not so sure if I’ve covered everything up my title.

We held a small gathering of people in Caleb’s place to have a costume, post-halloween party. Everyone was game.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to take a solo picture of Sheryl, who is as enthusiastic in photography as anyone who has an addictive trigger syndrome. She either played a car show model or a varsity player. I could be wrong though.

The Girls

The Boys

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GadgetPhilippines.com is now open

I have recently opened an online business, www.gadgetphilippines.com

I hope to bring my customers gadgets for their geeky needs at a price that they can afford.

I will be putting up more items as they come. My product line ranges from cheap macbooks, dslrs, ipods, and many more.

I do hope you drop by the store.

Danrey and Grace - Wedding

After much conviction and counsel, Danrey and Grace has finally agreed to tie the knot knowing and sanely aware that there is no turning back from this moment.

Congratulations to the two of them. =)

Of course, this is my share of photos for the event.

I came out with a self-proclaimed cool wedding quote whenever I am asked about weddings and imprisonment:

Ideally, you get married 3 times in your lifetime…

to the same person.

Hopefully, all the weddings I have participated in will be just like that.

Cheers!

Faces

Photo by Jannette

I have just created an album featuring just faces - closeups or otherwise.

These here are pictures of friends and people I have come across with one way or another.

Bear with the Album cover. I personally think it’s a nice shot. It’s a rare moment I did not distort my own face.

SEE? She cannot obviously keep me in place.

Zoom lens mug

I want one.

Source: gizmodo.com

Link Back Please

I have finally posted instructions on what kind of a link back I want.

No, I do not need a poster of myself in your site.

READ HERE!

Model Shoot

Had the opportunity of shooting 3 models in UP Diliman Campus along with 2 of my officemates and their photography buddies. I’d like to thank them for tagging me along. And I think 2 or 3 weeks have already passed since then.

Thanks to Jobad for the organization and the contacts.

Photographers:

Chris
Rej
Jobad
Jhellai
Myra
Neil
Rundell
Jerome
Photog 1 (sorry forgot ulit name niya hehe)

And now, the models:

Emma

Rose Ann

Julie

Simply click on the pictures to view the sets.

Baguio City Trip

Our good friend Stephen invited us for a weekend getaway to Philippines’ highest city. We stopped over at Thunderbird Resort La Union before proceeding to higher altitude.

Baguio looks congested already. I am not really the most reliable guy to comment since I don’t go there much myself. It’s still cold though. Dark skies usually covered the city during our stay. It must be the weather, or it must be me. I prefer to think the former.

The whole stay was fun thanks to the great company of friends and family.

So thanks again to Stephen and the Caasi family for having us over. I have to thank Mr. Danny Caasi (Stephen’s dad who we celebrated his 1st year of passing away) for nurturing my mom’s spiritual health in her early days as a Christian. Indeed the seeds he has planted has grown thanks to his decision of allowing God to do great and mighty things through him. God is indeed faithful.

There are some other photos of different subject during the trip, but I’ll make a separate post for them but the entire album is available here:

Baguio Outing - July 2008

Manila Hotel Musicians

We were in Manila Hotel and these guys graced us with their music.

And I wasn’t talking about our band.