today was unusual, i received calls/text/IM about one news. i don't normally receive text messages or calls regarding a single subject in one day. the typical call i would get in a day is from swit, from time to time, i would get calls from mama, john or ate aj and much rarer is kuya ombet, ate neng, kuya jo, sheila, and daryl. for text messages, it's about the same as the calls, but sometimes i would get IM regarding this diet pills (spam), otherwise, it would be the usual hi hello from chatters like maureen or mimie (yes, ga chat nasad mi sahay) or even yakmags (jymer).

today, i got a text from jo and roseanne, a call from silvia, a call from twit, an IM from jeanette and savoeun. bob went around and told me about it, bill didn't care, but still relayed it. arni also sent me a msg through ym about it too.

make a good guess what it is about.

michael jackson.

i, on the other hand, sent messages to a few people about it. lol. talk about redundant information. hahaha. almost always, by the time you tell someone of a hot story, there's a huge chance that they already know! i sent a message to mimie and ros. lol.

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okay, for some reason, i just want to rant rant rant. i can't seem to put my head together to concentrate for my school stuff. i love teresa's reaction to the "sample" photos i sent her. i can't wait to finish editing the photos, but i also really need to concentrate on my school since i've brushed this aside for two days now (two days can easily push me behind). so far so good, it looks like i would be able to post the photos by Monday.

rant rant rant. save the world, don't eat beef or pork. just eat chicken so there's less beef fart that causes the ozone to thin out.

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i drag my feet out of searching
my soul and mind are breaking
inside a conflict of pain and happiness
to be with the sky and hell
as the anger rages on

the apocalypse is coming
my arms and legs are creaking
in a cry of depression and loneliness
all i do is rot in my shell
and let my thoughts creep on

salvation fast disappearing
my veins and nerves are all tingling
seeking higher ground from the emptiness
done upon the toll of the bell
do you understand me son?

hate is what i feel
from the longing that disappear
hate is what i feel
from the wounds that must heal
hate is what i feel
hate is what i feel

go and listen to my bearing
my temper and blood boiling
i desire for my life to redress
and gather myself as the night fell
and live through the humiliation

i am strong with a meaning
i trek even to the darkest evening
and weave through the tightest tress
let the angels guide me through hell
and let me be at peace with my recollection

hate is what i feel
from the longing that disappear
hate is what i feel
from the wounds that must heal
hate is what i feel
hate is what i feel

i passed through hell
i heard demons sing
i scream when baal chased me
But i fought with angels by my side
i fought hard
i fought with everything i have
i can see myself winning
But it’s a never ending battle

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I am so sleepy. Why?

I slept so late. Why?

Considering that I just completed my finals and I was trying to wind down for the next class tomorrow. There’s this game called F.E.A.R. 2. I started playing around 11:30PM and stopped playing at around midnight. Not so bad right? Well, for some reason, the game scared me to death and took me awhile to sleep. I will not play this game at night, AGAIN. Lol. It’s a sort of mix between the exorcist, counterstrike and resident evil.

WARNING: If you are easily scared, stop reading now. You’ve been warned. Spoilers are below too, stop reading if you don’t want to know.

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The GAME starts with a premonition, you are a special ops person and your first objective is to extract a director out of a facility. The premonition is a short walk, in which you are following a little girl in a red dress. She fades and you go where she was. She reappears in another area and you keep following her. You then last see her by a deep tunnel in which you fall. You wake up and your superiors (don’t ask me their rankings, I have no idea about those – I think one is a Lieutenant and the other a Sergeant). You and your comrades are talking about the mission. Took me awhile to figure out that my name in the game is Becket. Lol. I went ahead and played it and it was interesting – I think I was sort of war freak because my preferred weapon is a shotgun and if I see those flame thrower guys, I use my submachine gun to shoot their tanks (which explodes and kills him and anyone close to him). The game is too graphic even for me.

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On lost:
I used to love the character kate, but now I hate her. They made her character to such a slut. Don't get me wrong, I love evangeline lilly, shes really hot! But her character kate is such a lost woman, very indecisive and had weird reactions to things.

In any case, lost is interesting, but annoyingly confusing. I am able to follow to some extent, but it pisses me off when the story became so spread out. Boohooo


On Disney's California Adventure
Overall experience is very good. I insist on anyone getting the 2fer ticket instead of just for California Adventure. I just wished I had more chances taking both videos and photos (sux that video's battery only lasts 99 mins!).

Alladin is in my top list, they made the musical really well. The genie's lines were also updated with modern references, albeit very funny! Too bad they can't do Abu, but oh well. Carpet was great too, her "lines" were written really well even when she's a carpet who doesn't speak. Grade A

The concept behind Soarin' Over California is very nice. I loved it! They did the simulated "flight" very well that it really felt like you're flying. My complaint? Can't Disney make the video with iMax? It felt so real, but I can see pixellations, which ruined my experience. (sorry, luvd imax/hd). Grade: could have been an A, but because I was disappointed with the video, so I'm making it B.

California Screamin' is fast, but not too fast to make it last less. I love the weightlessness feel, but I wish the loop was not on the inside, but rather to the outside - where you'll feel less g force pushing you down and gives you more weightlessness feel Otherwise, the entire coaster was awesome. I am giving it a B+.

I gotta say though that for a "kiddie" ride, Mulholland Madness is pretty awesome. No loops, but the feeling of being suspended in the air is enough for me to get a high from adrenaline. If you ask me, it's an A, because it surpassed my expectation for a "kiddie" ride along with teapot thing in Disneyland.

The food? Its an F. Aside from the jawbreaking prices, the food could not compare to those burgers priced at 80% less Lesson? No lessons, the food at theme parks will always be expensive and you can't do anything about that but complain. If you "baon" though, your food will be cold (i don't like cold lunches btw). I recommend eating a big breakfast from McDo or JitB before going in. Downside to this is that my stomach gets messed up when I eat in the morning. Lol.

Random thought:
I gotta learn Adobe Premiere.

Ron
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Its supposed to be victor and sarah, don't really know where I got hector from! Got to edit that later. Lol. Doesn't help that I was drunk. haha

Ron
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i know i am not as vigilant on the updates on this blog as i used to before. i know it's been ages since i have posted somwthing on my personal opinion. yesterday, we celebrated my wife's birthday at the "happiest place on earth," the photo attached is my attempt to create a higher resolution photo. the photo is in a total of 27.3 megapixels (and it will take some time to download due to its sheer size even at 50% JPEG quality). my next goal is to make a 1.5 gigapixel photo - this though, remains a question of whether my desktop can handle that or not (it's about 13.5GB). i have yet to find out.



so far, so good, life is going well, aside from the fact that my head started to suddenly appear some bald spots - most likely due to stress (fuck, and i thought that was not real).

in the past several weeks, we've shot a couple of kids, a male model, a pregnant woman, and in the other times, a wedding and a baptismal.


kids above - victor and hector in our "studio."


oh well, i will have more photos to publish and showcase. currently, i am working on the pregnant shoots, tep's birthday images, and LACMA. I am also trying to revisi images I took that I have never published - mostly from experiments on the settings. well, i am about to pass out - i am drunk like hell.

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test

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from twit twit (i thought this was fun)
1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
be a homeowner

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
almost kept it. i manage to lose weight, but missed my mark. i'm trying again this year.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
none that i know of

4. Did anyone close to you die?
no, i don't think so

5. What countries did you visit?
not really.

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
i lack freedom, but i don't see that happening until 2012 or something.

7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
august 20, 2008 - the date guns were pointed at me, my mom and my wife

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
feeling like a photographer - the experience i have under my belt as well as my knowledge in photoshop was greatly accelerated in 2008

9. What was your biggest failure?
feeling like i am sinking in my own endeavors.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
yes, the last day of December 2008, i caught the flu

11. What was the best thing you bought?
$4 high quality colored laser printer (worth more than $400)

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
the cops, for mistaking my car and pointing guns at me (sarcasm)

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
that person at work who drives me nuts

14. Where did most of your money go?
bills. most of my savings went to the condo

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
strangely, i got excited about how fast time flies 2010 is almost here you know, and when Tep and I got married, that seem like a long time to go.

16. What song(s) will always remind you of 2008?
open arms by journey (arnel pineda version), i'm yours jason mraz (waking up to this song during the summer), don't stop believing (couldn't shake off my head steve perry's mashed balls in his pants in the music video),

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? — happier
ii. thinner or fatter? — thinner, i think
iii. richer or poorer? — emotionally, physically and mentally richer. financially? erm, do i need to answer? lol

18. What do you wish you’d done more?
take more photos

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
drive, i am so sick and tired of driving the same route every freaking day

21. Did you fall in love in 2008?
been courting everyday and falling in love everyday

22. How many one-night stands?
none, does masturbation count?

23. What was your favorite TV program?
mythbusters, destroyed in seconds, planet earth

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
i don't hate anyone, i simply do not like SOMEONE, and that hasn't change since 2007

25. What was the best book you read?
how to say no.

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
every year, i discovered that i have no talent whatsoever to play the guitar and sing.

27. What did you want and get?
i wanted a house and we got a home.

28. What was your favorite film of this year?
Young People Fucking and the Dark Knight

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
poker game at mama's place. i was 26

30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
wamu hitting $1

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
all black, what else?

32. What kept you sane?
tep and my family

33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
she's not a real person, but i'll say shani, i still believe they patterned it from a real human being (who knows). if not, i LOVE to photograph odette yustman NAKED (or not). haha

34. What political issue stirred you the most?
california going broke really annoys me - it is supposed to be one of the more powerful states in the US. it also annoys me that the gubernator is jacking up the california atmosphere. it also sucks that prop 8 succeeded in the california constitution - which voided many persons' happiness.

35. Who/what did you miss?
pinas. hehe

36. Who were the best new people you met?
a few visaya friends

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
dress like a ganster and cops treat you like shit - even if you didn't do shit.

38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
this song sums up what i saw in all the united states industries (i can do everything type).
"I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome
I can see your face on the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone
Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it's good to be
ALIVE
In such a small world
All curled up with a book to read
I can make money open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine sixty four
Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a business
And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
I can split the atoms of a molecule
Of a molecule
Of a molecule"

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