busy day

i went to a two events yesterday. it was a fiesta and novena. this month is the month of novena and fiesta in my country. so can expect that every municipality and province has this events.










this was at our chapel, we have a novena last night.





















































the action during fiesta at Colon, naga. well they did enjoy the food... i think?

unkown fruit

fruit that is totally unknown to me... i happened to pass by in a local area where i saw these plants...

at the market

i love to go out and be with different types of people. so i went to a market and love the shots i have.

my life on music

this is the thing that i love the most other than photography. yes your right i love music too and also graphics design. if any would want to comment and suggest any thing with this work i'm open to it. i know it's not the best out there but i hope that i give you something to smile with.

night of thunder

i just wish i could have done better... with my lame camera... this is how i capture thunder.

me at the beach

the temperature is rising but i don't care. one afternoon i just drove and explore the area. i never thought that i will find something like this. a place that is quite and i can enjoy the beach with sands on my feet. it's been a month since the last time i set foot on a beach but now i did it again. here are some photos that i took to share to you guys i hope that you are going to love them.

life on the line

many times we might walk pass through them. may be we just don't see them or even ignore them. but the truth is they are still part of our society and they are the reflection of what society has become.

starting point

it's been a while since i put some thing in here. but i was very busy with photography lately that i have no time for writing anything in my blogs... most people think that i just live my life like a party but it's not even like that. most of the time i'm alone and has no one to talk to. i love to talk to different types of people but i am not doing it anymore. most of the time you will just see me on the street or corner of a street with a camera on my side.
well though my life seems to be like lonely or something because i often click than chat but i find something to do with it. instead of being sorry to myself i decided to make my own online magazine. well it's not like what you think i still going to use this site but i will share to you picture that you will love to look at... this will be my first but i hope that i can keep up with it... so starting tomorrow you will see me here with more and more pictures on this blog...

i go manual with light

ok i bought this lame camera last February and since then i was starting to practice with it... but then again it's not the camera it's the person behind it... may be i am good for i have finally did a light speed shot with manual settings... yes manual, no shutter priority setting just manual...

this is the setting that i use.
f-stop: f/8
exposure time: 5 sec.
iso: 100

simple lamp post

f-stop: f/3.2
iso: 100
exposure: 1/320 sec.

i took this photo at local park in Naga, Cebu. simplicity does work every time. just remember when taking a picture consider the lights and the background of your subject to have stunning results.

i turn off my light

last march 28, 2009 i only use my phone as my light for 1 hour. yes! i participated at the earth our and i vote for earth. my switch light is my vote. i know that we need to make a step even if its small.
and yes in stead of using a candle i use my cell phone's head light. it is like a tiny flash light at the back of the phone function as a flash for the camera of my phone. i do want to use a candle but i just couldn't find one. i guess i for got to place it on plain sight before i turn off the lights. lol
at first i thought that we were the only people in our municipality that turn off the lights. but i was surprise to see that the whole people in our compound turn off their light. some houses too in the next compound. and then my cousin came home at 5 minutes before 9:00 pm local time and report to me that that town's plaza turn of the lights too. remember the colorful lights post that i post at dA? yes that it! they turn off them all too for about an hour.
i am very happy that there are other people besides me that are concerned about environment and global warming. i hope that some of you here turn off your lights too.
i post my photo at flickr. the link of my photos is http://www.flickr.com/photos/12872431@N00. hope that you will drop by to see them.

Admin's black propaganda: TC funds used in holding a forum of Jose Maria Sison

It’s the funniest thing I have ever heard! This time the school administrators has definitely exaggerates things…

First thing about school administrators and students is that they are two opposing forces that collide most of the time. They have separate interest and this thing keeps them divided. Guess you will have hard time if not impossible to blend water with oil.
And I can say that it is very normal to hear admins’ barks the same line over and over again. Considering that Today’s Carolinian is one of those students’ critics that lurk and expose anything that is anti-students policies of the school.

But if we are to believe what the admin said abut the funding of Sison’s forums, may be the TC is very rich. Well try to imagine, they need to print magazines, tabloid, and other alternative materials for like 10 thousand students. Well that is not included the office supplies, trainings and other expenses of a publication.

It is to outrageous to actually tell people that TC finance Sison on his forums. And if ever TC will sponsor a forum and Sison is one of the speakers well they have a very good reason for it. We can not deny Sison’s expertise when it comes to literature and politics. I believe that he is one of those few who can mix politics with literature well.

To the admin’s I am challenging them to show any proof if there are any. Show it to the alumni and new Editorial and staff of TC in a public hearing. Don’t bark TC behind their back.

It has been a long struggle for students to up hold their rights. We as students should join hands to defend ourselves. Who else will stand for us if we don’t act for our fellow youth and student? We did it once and we will do it again. To those who say we can’t face Goliath, we will face them and tell them Oh YES WE CAN!

Long live the students! Long live the Today’s Carolinian!

at my lap

my cat munskins...
location: cebu
camera: 5MP-9BE
Shutter Speed: 1/446 second
F Number: F/3.0
Focal Length: 6 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Want to hear something cool!

i just discover an artist with a true talent and has potential to make it to the top. all it takes is support from people like us to appreciate their music. and what better ways to that is to listen and buy their songs (well if you have cash).

yeah i just stumble at Mr. Charles' at slicethepie and from there i google his site. it is one of the best that i have reviewed so far. the caleber of his music is something that can land ones name at the top of the charts.

i hope that you will visit his site and find yourself the treasures that i found. i hope that you will enjoy his music.

this is the link.
http://wedelstudios.com/charlie/mrcharles/index.html

i can cook at Associated Content

this is my very first AC published article and its about cooking Halang-halang.
i love cooking and so is writing fuse them together and you will have this... please click the link...

check out my recently published content on AC:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1073698/halanghalang

cycle of life

Life in past two months is been that predictable. If somebody plans to kill me surely I won’t give them a hard time.

I wake up and starts my breakfast. I open my computer and starts going online. Then check my emails. Starts doing something at photoshop. Before eleven I will cook our lunch.
Then before 1 pm I start posting something not worth reading for mylot. By 3 pm I check my deviantart and after wards I check my emails again. Then I will cook diner by 5 pm. Eat diner around 7 pm and watch tv which has only one clear channel.
After watching tv I will take my bike, go around the block. And finally after a boring day I will take a bath and once again I will start to journey the world of dreams.

Sounds like that movie I saw once but forget the title. But lucky him, he had a chance to wake up one day doing something he don’t usually do. I too, is waiting for that day to come to finally wake up one day and not doing these predictable things.
I just want to break free from this curse of cyclic predictable life. I am floating in nothingness and decay.

Now after these few words I will once again will journey to the world of dreams. And tomorrow I wake up and starts my breakfast. I open my computer and starts going online. Then check my emails… once again.

thanks for the sunshine

Now after two long months I finally had the nerve to show up to people I have been hiding all these months. I shall say it wasn’t easy for me, but manage to do something about that fear. A lot of questions raised by those do not know anything. And some answers were shed but still I will never know for I will or may not be there to face them.

The finish line is way too far. A lot of things will happen and still happening. I still sense that the people I have faith in will not be there to support me in this journey. Some were as cold as the pigment where I have fallen. But I never blame them for that. Who would have guessed that after three long years I will just throw it all right out in the window? Who would have thought that I will just stop running when I was leading in the race? Even I was surprise as events unfold to something that we never plan.

To hell with everything I was just happy with those who have faith with me. May be they are trying to understand the complexity of somebody’s mind like mine. They took a minute to breath with me. And I do appreciate that. I am happy to see my kuyas, ates and my sister. It took a smile from them to lighten up the load that I am carrying for seven long months. I will never ever forget this day that I saw sun shine again after a long time.


guys i didn't leave, i just stayed where you left me

they make life a hell

Thursday we drag our asses on a isolated parts of Cebu. Endure a three-hour bumpy ride, hike on a muddy road and cross a wild river to find out the truth about what had happened to those peasants in the area.

Nov. 9, 2007
a team was assembled to go to Barangay Gaang, Tuburan, Cebu. Objectives, first find out what had happened to the people in Gaang after the first fact finding team (they recovered the 8 yrs. old girl who was kidnapped by the 78Th infantry battalion of the Phil. Army) left. second document any harassment that the Arm Forces have done to the people. third give human rights orientation to the people in order for them to protect themselves from the abusers. target day to start the mission was Thursday Nov. 15, 2007.

Thursday came
we are all ready to go. we already prepared everything, from the equipments to our personal things. all system was go!

when we cam to the town that was the start of the agony. the mayor didn't gave us an endorsement that left the team no choice but to wait for it on the next day. so the members of the team went to Marmol barangay to spent a night there. the other two members went back to the city and will return to the mayor's office on the morning.

evening came
the team leader gathered the team and told the team that we will give a human rights orientation on the people of Marmol on the next day around 9 am while waiting for the endorsement letter. people were given topics that they will discuss on the next day.

Friday Nov. 16, 2007
two members went out to the barangay get the endorsement letter while another to went to the barangay captain to ask permission to use the barangay hall. while the rest of the team prepared the breakfast. 9:45am the Human Rights orientation begun and ended around 5 pm. four members of CAFGU was among the participants. the endorsement letter was still out of sight, because the mayor went to the city that day according to his secretary. they told the two member to return on Monday.
after the Human Rights orientation the team gather to update the rest of the team of the situation and decided to go to the houses of the members of a local organization in the area to check on their situation.

Saturday Nov. 17, 2007
the team broke into two team and went on the houses of the people.

Sunday Nov. 18, 1007
around 8:15 am a local spotted a number of AFP climbing their way to our direction. the team immediately gathered and planned what to do. we find out that they were with members of PNP. around 8:40 am while we were interviewing them what they were doing there, they called the owner of the house who was Arcenia and immediately when the owner faced them they serve the warrant or arrest.
to our surprised they have a warrant... qualified thief was their case. but what we have know is that it was dismissed last march but it was appealed to the higher courts.

the history of the land in question
actually the land in questioned is owned by the government (timberland) and not to a certain Verginia (land Lord) who filed a case against them. that's why the case was dismissed because in the first place the farmers who till the land was given power by the government to use it for farming. they were given certificates to prove it. so how come this people became thief if the own the products of the land? that is clear harassment to the people by a certain person to extract money from the poor farmers.

team followed
as soon as the farmers was handed by the warrant, we followed them all the way to the police station for moral and legal support. we stayed there for two night and two days until they were transferred to the provincial city jail.

part three
another fact finding team is now being assembled to finished the objectives that we have left out. as of the farmers we are now doing all legal papers to get them out of jail as soon as possible.

help
we are needing financial aids and equipments to continue our advocacy. to those who are willing to help us. pls call ian belle 09064964572 or email luntian.grace@gmail.com

canvas

Sadness is again at my doorstep
Now all alone in this empty room
I wait for your coming

Into the darkness
I draw your canvass
The perfect shades and shape of your being
A perfection that I will behold

I mix different colors that will bring you life
Thinking that you will be the most beautiful
That everyone will gaze at

And then I stare in the dark
As I thought that I will have you
Feel you and smell you breathe

Then light flashes before me
You, my perfect creation

Remains in the depth of my soul

The canvas

I will forever behold

the boyfriend that i never have

A look that gives mystery into my soul. I have never seen someone with such expressive eyes, though your soul is speaking into my heart. You have these soulful blue eyes that I want to dedicate Pablo Neruda’s poem; leaning into the afternoons. And to sing you this song that is repeatedly playing on my site (you rise me up by Josh Groban). You have this charm that can make everyone’s heart melt like butter. You are too playful in your entire photograph. You have the gift that transform picture in a masterpiece.



But I know that you will never see me the way I see you, for all I know you are just a guy that I have bump on to when I was browsing to art pictures in the net. May be, I did fall for the guy I saw on the web…