Going Up!

How I wish I could go back to ANAWANGIN again so I could enjoy the breath taking view of the mountains and the cove again. I am probably going to ask some of my photography buddies to plan out this location so we can take landscape shots like the professionals. There is no way I could ever forget the trip we had a few years ago. It is a good thing we enjoy outdoor adventure gear, tent poles, replacement tent poles, char cloth, fire piston, trekking poles, camping tarp, camping, backpacking, hiking to name a few. I guess it is because some mountaineers who are part of the team influenced us in enjoying this fun climb that turned out to be horrific in some parts. Everyone still enjoyed the conversations in between, the food and the camaraderie we developed along the way. It was really fun even if we were often grimacing in pain. It was more than everyone had ever dreamed of when we got there. I'm sure with the new people I'm with now, they will also enjoy the things we did on the cove. Not to mention the white sand and the pristine beach we swam in when we stayed there.







I want to go back there!

FASHION WEEK 2010 NEWS: CRISSA FLUNKED!

Crissa Jeans... and Me at Fashion Week

It was a fabulous night of cute girlie clothes that were RTW and lots of awesome Brazilian models when I went to Fashion Week last Friday. Judging from the clothes they wore on this set, it looks very promising for Crissa to concentrate on shirts, blouses and pants this season but they did not veer away from the usual earth tone palate that they think is still in the trend. If you ask me, this was not really a good thing, they should have pushed the edge with regards to design and not line up with RTW fashion. They will be coined to the same genre they had last year and would not be in the lines of Plains and Prints or F&H. They will still remain in the masses taste which I hate. I mean why launch a fashion show when all you are going to show is non edgy clothes, they should have at least given designers freedom to do avant garde and make their simple clothes look more fashionable. It looks like they will still lag behind, its too Chinese to put it simply. It's cheap looking even if they had foreign models. I guess their market is still going to be the INDAYS and DODONGS this year. Pardon my language, no pun intended ladies and gentlemen! The concept of the show was also cheesy... it was not enough to entice people in the fashion industry. Just let me know if they get rave reviews someday!

As with the photos, I was lucky enough to be able to get a good spot because I did not stay astray when the program started. Good thing I was in front center so I had my telephoto lens Ziggy do his work. =)

We Could Have Solved It!

Garbage has been a perennial problem in the metro and obviously after the typhoon we had in the country, one asks; "how would you solve disaster relief when the problem is disaster relief itself?"

I was moved by the numerous heroic stories by ordinary Filipino citizens and how they were able to help others in this time of crisis. There are a lot of places in the Metro where flooding was up to neck deep but you would not see anyone lose hope and they are still eager to survive no matter where it takes them. I tried to help as much as I can but this has got to stop. If no one resolves the root cause of the problem, then the thousands who perished may haunt us for the injustice. Let us start by just mentioning how many creeks, rivers and lakes are full of garbage. Oh wait, I'm sorry but that would take a while to even think about. I guess those who forced our ears to listen about global warming a few decades ago are laughing at us now.

Where do we put our garbage with so little dump sites and no environmentally friendly incinerators? Experts say we have a lot of land available, but it is just not properly managed. We already have a lot of resources wasted on people with fat pay checks since the fall of dictatorship. Where did we go as far as resolving that? Nowhere! There are standardized and tested systems elsewhere in the world and why should we not employ the same in our land? Software packages are available at Waste Edge and it could have been simply resolved by following a simple system that can be monitored even on line. The Waste Management Software could have saved us millions if someone already thought about this in the first place. Technologies for garbage trucks and personnel that use RFID tags, Mapping, Mapping GIS, GPS Truck tracking should have been used on these savings. I hope they do something soon to resolve this and discipline the citizenry too since urban dwellers often mistake themselves for people who do not learn from their past. I am still optimistic that we can handle change and soon be better.

North Cemetery Photo Walk 10172009

It has been a week since I went out with the D60 KREW which I think specializes in Photo walks and street photography. It was a nice thing to do because since Halloween is coming it was but proper to do photography in a cemetery. Yes ladies and gentlemen, we did it in North Cemetery.

I was thinking how creepy it was to do it but when I saw some of the famous people who were laid to rest in that place, I think it became more of a historical point of view than a horror flick waiting to happen. Let me share some of the images I captured during that day.






Our Late President Ramon Magsaysay's Grave



How about President Manuel Roxas?



Claro M. Recto too...



Do you remember PIPOY of Okay ka Fairy ko?!



The Great Boxer before Manny Pacquiao, Pancho Villa



See why I said it was a history lesson?! =)