Last saturday night was my first time at Greenbelt after it got rennovated. All i can say is "Wow!"

It's a giant leap from its old design. I can't even remember how it used to look. (It was that ordinary and forgettable.) Now it has an ultra kewl architecture and has greens ad fountains galore. Thanks to Lhala and Cliff for deciding to meet me there for our Show and Tell.

What I brought : The Wedding Pics. A book for Cliff's birthday (which was 4 months ago) - Ireland by Air (Aerial shots of Ireland). A camera.*

What I told : A deja vu story I've told myself a hundred times already. The one with no climax and a lot of sad endings.

The book got a nice reaction. :) As for the photos, it looks like my first ever "client" for this newbie photography stint was unhappy. Or if he did like them, he's good at hiding how happy he was.

We ate at kitchen, and i tried the sandwich this time. Filling and good as it was, i didn't find anything really special about my order. It doesn't have that yum factor that will make me go back to that place just to have another bite of that sandwich. But of course, i'll go back if only for the nice artsy look of the place. And the nice and artsy look of Greenbelt. And the nice and artsy Lhala and Cliff.


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*Because it's easier to upload the photos there than on my site. (Uploading 10 pics at a time! Instant gallery, too.) I'll still put some pics up at the cam page, when the No space Left on Device and Login Failure problem gets resolved.

Today was Meet Eloi and Catch the InK Exhibit Day, and the day went well. (yep, we got to the right exhibit this time ;p)

Sadly, there wasn't any work done by Pepper Roxas or Paolo Lim or Lyra Abueg Garcellano or Jason Moss, but there were still works there that were very much worth the visit. Bernie Sim's Chinatown collage was an instant favorite. Her work, made of labels and maps and doodled with little charaters and meteor garden faces, was so pop and hip and nice. Conrad Raquel's Halabira was great too, very original and fun to look at. The thing I liked most about it was the flame eating guy with the word "fire" inside his mouth. Abi Goy's work was lovely and funny, which featured kids in a playground. (yes, i took pics, but i don't know if it's right to post them here without their permission.)

One little complain: the place was so hot. We were perspiring and wiping our foreheads the whole time we were there. The venue was not air conditioned - that's ok, we can live with that - but it wasn't even well-ventilated.

Anyways, still hoping I'd catch it again next year. :)

One great thing about being a Bulakeña is getting to watch amazing fireworks every year, not on New Year's day, but on Bulacan week. Particapants are mostly from Bocaue, Bulacan's (Luzon's?) biggest fireworks and firecrackers producing town.

The annual pyrotechnic display competition was held last night and i watched it, even if it meant not going back to work city last night and waking up at 3am this morning just to get at work at 6am. It was very much worth the sleep deprivation.

Six fireworks makers competed this year, and 2 of them made us Oooh and Aaah and Wow and clap our hands for the whole duration of their 5-minute slot. I felt sad about the others, i wanted them to make a really a good show too, coz even though their fireworks looked like those used during Santacruzans i know they spent a lot. Maybe they learned their lesson from last night's competition (1. Do a lot better next year, or 2. Save the money for other things. They were probably teary-eyed as they watched their good money shoot up and sizzle in the night sky and turn into smoke before our un-impressed eyes. I hope they choose to do No.1)

I liked the ones that spiral their way to the sky. And the ones that are like spinning disks. And the ones that burst into thousands of lights that move in random directions (so kewl!). And the ones that burst into tiny lights that burst again into tiny circles, much like a huge boquet of small flowers.

dream | 9.11.03

i was riding a boat with another woman, and we were heading to what seemed like the end of our backyard.. no, much farther beyond. there's a construction site that's all-steel. we're heading to the direction of the rising sun. its colors are warm, more like a sunset, really. only that it's morning.

as we were riding the boat the woman asked if i have another pair of slippers with me, something i can wear while i'm there. she's from there, so she doesn't have to bring a pair.

when we got there, she took off her shoes and stepped on the shallow water. at the floor are pairs of colorful slippers, placed neatly side by side. i found this quite ordinary, the water not moving the slippers at the bottom. i used my leather sandals and waded in the water.

while walking, my memory suggests that where we are is a small island with old wooden houses. it was like that for a short while, then the things changed. All i could remember is that i'm wishing i can bring my friends there. I was thinking i'd tell my parents about that place, and maybe in dreams thinking is the same as what's actually occuring, coz after that my parents were there and they were showing me the small property that we own there.

inside a brightly lit structure, with walls only a little better than that of caves, there were shops. in the shop i was in i saw a very nice bracelet with sun charms, its chains antique. the saleslady told me the price, and said it's perfect for baptisms.* she also told me the price of the bracelet another guy was wearing. (it's cheap.)

in "our" property, we have a small shallow indoor pond with lots of huge fishes swimming around. i saw a pair i instantly liked, huge fish with perfect spots on its sides. the fishes become bigger the more i stare at them. i pointed at them to my dad, and he said they were worth 24,000 when he got them.

i looked out the window and saw lots of piranhas. the window was at a level of a small strip of land, and the piranhas were tring to go to the other side of this strip, hopping on the grassy land. there was a man standing on this strip (i can only see his feet) and he was a bit scared of the piranhas. the piranhas look like punk rock fish-types. mohawks on their backs.



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*on saturday i'll be a godmother on the baptism of an operator's son.

I was at a wedding yesterday from morning til the afternoon, and I got only 3 hours of sleep and rest for the graveyard shift. From 10 pm to 5:50 am i was wishing it's 6am already so I could head home and sleep for maybe nine or eleven hours. By 5:50 am i was in semi-panic mode coz the next engineer wasn't around yet.

To make the long story short, a little misunderstanding of the schedules here and there resulted into 16hrs straight work for me.

(Oh, same here, I don't get it too. )

Currently Enjoying:

+ Rikcat's Gallery
+ Granny's Mail Art
+ Collage Artist : Caludine Hellmuth

yummy sites through the Archive of Curiosities.

Kung wala ka ng gustong sabihin
Wag ka ng tumingin ng ganyan
Kung bukas ako'y kalilimutan
Sana naman ngayo'y di mo na isiping ako'y tawagan
At habang may panahon wag na nating hintaying
Lumalim pa at masakit ng tanggapin
Ang pag-alis ng iyong liwanag
Na gumising sa mahabang gabi
Ika'y langit pero baka masanay
At di kakayanin ang iyong pag-alis
Kung wala ka ng gustong marinig
Ako'y aalis at mananahimik
Ang kahapon na nais kong limutin
Sana naman wag ng manumbalik at bigyan pansin


Pag-alis
barbie's cradle

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(yeah)

And Another!




Delight | Delirium was fun to do, so i made another work in that style.
(I always get a semi-heavy feeling when i try something new. It's fun to go a different way, but something in me says that there's something wrong. Maybe there is. Maybe there isn't. Right now what it's telling me is that my solid inking and the flowing watercolor don't go together. But it's just so fun i want to do a lot more heavily-inked watercolory works.)