something i learned last night from watching the season 4 marathon of "house" on DVD:
the moment you stop questioning
would be the moment you stop hoping
inip
all i wanted to do today was look at photos from my trips to ilocos and la union earlier this year and post-process them -- crop them, change their hue, saturation, tilt them -- and then upload them to flickr and check to see if someone has made any comments on them or favorited them. here's a photo taken from my ilocos trip. there's more in my flickr account. old photos. newly edited.
hay.... i guess im still very much bummed about the cancellation of that travel photography class which we were organizing and was supposed to have been an overnight trip to bolinao on the last weekend of june. we were supposed to stay at puerto del sol and take pictures around. i was soooo looking forward to that. and then it got canceled due to budget constraints which we only learned about two weeks before the planned trip.
hay.... bakit ba ganon??? i wanted to see nature and get out of town. i wanted to take photos of those fishermen and the low tide and the lighthouse...
i wanted so much to do anything with photography that i asked the tricycle driver earlier to stop in the middle of the road so i can take photos of children on my way to work this morning. i had the camera mounted on the tripod before i made my unusual request and i had made several tests already while the tricycle was running to make sure exposure was somewhat alright. the photos turned out well. ill try to upload them soon.
hay... kelan na kaya uli ako makakalabas ng maynila at makakapag-shoot ng kalikasan, ng kapaligiran, ng pamayanan, ng mamamayan?!
hay... nakakainip.
estudyante slash opismeyt
tatlo sa mga naging estudyante ko nung isang taon ang nandito na rin sa avanade ngayon. yung dalawa sa kanila ay kasama sa larawan sa itaas -- eto yung dalawang lalaki mula sa kanan. kahit alam ko na natanggap sila sa kompanya, nagulat pa rin ako nang husto nang makita ko sila dito sa opisina kaninang umaga. akalain mo... parang kailan lang ng kinuha ang litratong ito. parang kailan lang ng naging titser ako. parang kailan lang nang turuan nila akong mag-billiard. ngayon, gradweyt na sila at may trabaho na! sana naman mailibre nila ako sa unang sweldo nila :)
nasaan na kaya yung iba... halos 20 kasi ang mga estudyante ko dati. naka-gradweyt na kaya lahat? yung isa raw nasa HP... e yung iba kaya?
this song was brought to us by the letter Q
this musical was full of surprises from start to end. no one wonder it has won a Tony for Best Musical.
you would think as an adult that you wouldn't want to watch any more of those silly muppets especially grown-up muppets. i must admit, the idea seemed a little bit corny at the beginning. however, you would be missing a lot if you dismiss the musical just like that. the characters of AvenueQ are nothing like the muppets and monsters from their Sesame Street counterparts. they do more than eat cookies all day or play with their rubber duckies or count sheeps in bed when they could not sleep. they do what many of us adults do: they work for a living, struggle to pay the rent, they lie, they cheat, they pretend to be someone they're not, they curse when they get mad, they surf the internet for things other than news or the weather, they go on with life even without purpose (ouch!), they hope and they get disappointed in the end, they go on following their dreams even when they dont have a clue how to get there.
you would think as an adult that you wouldn't want to watch any more of those silly muppets especially grown-up muppets. i must admit, the idea seemed a little bit corny at the beginning. however, you would be missing a lot if you dismiss the musical just like that. the characters of AvenueQ are nothing like the muppets and monsters from their Sesame Street counterparts. they do more than eat cookies all day or play with their rubber duckies or count sheeps in bed when they could not sleep. they do what many of us adults do: they work for a living, struggle to pay the rent, they lie, they cheat, they pretend to be someone they're not, they curse when they get mad, they surf the internet for things other than news or the weather, they go on with life even without purpose (ouch!), they hope and they get disappointed in the end, they go on following their dreams even when they dont have a clue how to get there.
before the playdate, i have listened to some of the songs from the soundtrack (more than a few times) and i thought i would be prepared to see it live on stage but i was sooo wrong! nothing could have prepared me for gary coleman's entrance, those uber kilig moments with kate monster and princeton, nicky and rod's "LQ" scenes and definitely nothing prepared me for that "puppet nudity" act. ugh! all my efforts were futile.
i wish you could have seen it if you werent able to... almost every song from the musical was every bit entertaining, both funny and wise at the same time. some are truly unforgettable and you can't help but relate to them. in fact, i think you should watch this musical if only to hear the muppets sing the song, "it sucks to be me" -- if you can not identify with this song, not even for a tiny bit... then you're not human!!!
here's the lyrics of the finale song, one of my personal favorites... an apt ending for the musical -- pregnant with truth and wisdom and meaning that when i heard them sing it, i did not know whether to laugh or cry!
Avenue Q cast, Manila production
Soundtrack: Avenue Q
Title: For Now
PRINCETON:
Why does everything have to be so hard?
GARY COLEMAN:
Maybe you'll never find your purpose.
CHRISTMAS EVE:
Lots of people don't.
PRINCETON:
But then- I don't know why I'm even alive!
KATE MONSTER:
Well, who does, really?
Everyone's a little bit unsatisfied.
BRIAN:
Everyone goes 'round a little empty inside.
GARY COLEMAN:
Take a breath,
Look around,
BRIAN:
Swallow your pride,
KATE MONSTER:
FOr now...
BRIAN, KATE, GARY, CHRISTMAS EVE:
For now...
NICKY:
Nothing lasts,
ROD:
Life goes on,
NICKY:
Full of surprises.
ROD:
You'll be faced with problems of all shapes and sizes.
CHRISTMAS EVE:
You're going to have to make a few compromises...
For now...
TREKKIE MONSTER:
For now...
ALL:
But only for now! (For now)
Only for now! (For now)
Only for now! (For now)
Only for now!
LUCY:
For now we're healthy.
BRIAN:
For now we're employed.
BAD IDEA BEARS:
For now we're happy...
KATE MONSTER:
If not overjoyed.
PRINCETON:
And we'll accept the things we cannot avoid, for now...
GARY COLEMAN:
For now...
TREKKIE MONSTER:
For now...
KATE MONSTER:
For now...
ALL:
But only for now! (For now)
Only for now! (For now)
Only for now! (For now)
Only for now!
Only for now!
(For now there's life!)
Only for now!
(For now there's love!)
Only for now!
(For now there's work!)
For now there's happiness!
But only for now!
(For now discomfort!)
Only for now!
(For now there's friendship!)
Only for now (For now!)
Only for now!
Only for now! (Sex!)
Is only for now! (Your hair!)
Is only for now! (George Bush!)
Is only for now!
Don't stress,
Relax,
Let life roll off your backs
Except for death and paying taxes,
Everything in life is only for now!
NICKY:
Each time you smile...
ALL:
...Only for now
KATE MONSTER:
It'll only last a while.
ALL:
...Only for now
PRINCETON:
Life may be scary...
ALL:
...Only for now
But it's only temporary
Ba-dum ba-dum
Ba-dum ba-dum
Ba dum ba-dum
Ba-da da da da
ba-da da-da da da-da
Ba-dum ba-da, ba-dum ba-da
ohhhh-
PRINCETON:
Everything in life is only for now.
-ooo-
of course, i still believe that there are things in life that are eternal and not just for now... and although there is something comforting about the temporary nature of things, there is also comfort in knowing that some things will never change and they will last more than a lifetime.
nth phone
this is my new phone as of 11am today :) its a nokia 2600 and was around php3400 in Greenhills. aside from its cheap price, some of the other features which i love are the FM radio, Expense Manager, camera and bluetooth. the games are not so bad rin. meron itong Sudoku at Galaxy Balls, hehe. its also a very slim phone which makes it ultra pretty. i also like this feature that allows me to assign a photo with a certain contact para makikita ko ang litrato nya pag tumawag sya sa akin -- haha, ang babaw no! wala kasing ganito yung dati kong phone. all it had was a flashlight :)
what i dont like about it is that its dual band (hence, i cannot use this if i go to US or Japan.... as if naman di ba... ) also, it does not have a card slot and the kit did not come with a USB cable so i dont have an idea yet how i can upload the photos i have taken so far :) anyone here who has a bluetooth-enabled laptop? i want to see how decent the photos are when uploaded. sana naman its not so bad.
for more information about this camera, you may go to: http://www.nokia.com.ph/A4803396
ayun lang folks. happy long weekend and God bless!
what i dont like about it is that its dual band (hence, i cannot use this if i go to US or Japan.... as if naman di ba... ) also, it does not have a card slot and the kit did not come with a USB cable so i dont have an idea yet how i can upload the photos i have taken so far :) anyone here who has a bluetooth-enabled laptop? i want to see how decent the photos are when uploaded. sana naman its not so bad.
for more information about this camera, you may go to: http://www.nokia.com.ph/A4803396
ayun lang folks. happy long weekend and God bless!
maybe someday
this little girl was looking at the bride almost the whole time their group photo was taken. the bride looked really pretty and this little girl must have thought she was a princess and the groom was her prince. awwww.
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