Here we are again in Highlands…

Slideshow

..just hanging and goofing around. Cable car wasn’t operational due to strong winds.

Thanks to Melai for the invite again!

Some various photos from church events:

MJ’s dedication and Master’s Voice Choir Christmas Presentation

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!

YES! I have succumbed to the pressure of friends. Time has proven yet again that peer pressure works even you’re old.

Mr. Spaceball.gif is now disabled and you may save to your liking. Please go to flickr in order to save the pics.

Friends, Please don’t forget my link back request!

Boracay Day 1

Boracay Day 2

Boracay Day 3

Boracay Day 4

Lastly, thanks to dear friends.

Photo by Ben Zvan

I feel like some sort of experimental concoction.

Opportunities coming in, slowly letting go of what was once in my grasp.

Can’t say I’m doing it without tears.

Attachments.

You open up.

You let them in.

They go out.

You let them go.

You know you have to.

For their sake…and yours.

Feel the pain.

Ask.

Was it worth it?

Yes. Definitely.

November 28, 2008 – was a day everyone would wish never happened.

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened

Grieve.

Stand.

Move.

By God’s grace, we’ll move again…as if this day never happened.

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.

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

HOW TO SAVE

Instructions after the jump.

My flickr account is protected, meaning by default, you can’t save any of the pictures unless you have do screen captures and some manual grabbing.

I’ve created a LINK BACK page detailing what I would like to see from your page or wherever you decide to use your picture. It’s a friendly way of reminding you, “Hey, I took your picture”.

If you don’t want to read it, just paste the code to wherever you would like to use these pictures:

<a title="music, photography, internet - neil.lolin.net" href="http://neil.lolin.net" target="_blank"><img src="http://neil.lolin.net/images2/camera_neil.png" border="0" alt="music, photography, internet - neil.lolin.net" /></a>

Which would put this:

To simply put, I would like to get credit for the pictures I’ve taken and need the traffic in my site. =)

All pictures in this set is now under a Creative Commons License. Thank you all.

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!

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.

Just a  mini gathering of high school friends here at home and we went out to Gerry’s afterwards.

Ciselle, Zieg, Sophia, Karen, Jeffrey, and Ann did not make it. Boohoo.