I mentioned to you guys before that I’m this sort of a “human compass”. I would frequent places as far as I could go and I have a pretty good, if not always perfect, sense of direction.

    Take yesterday for instance. I was on my way to this place called “Clique n Snap” found in Strata 2000 in F. Ortigas Jr. Ave (formerly Emerald) in order to print my portfolio for Fotogra. With me was Raymond who also want to have his printed as well.

    From the Vito Cruz LRT station, we dropped off in EDSA station then went straight to MRT Taft en route to Ortigas station. From there, we walked passed SM Megamall, crossed the street in St. Francis Square and turned left to J. Vargas. And from J. Vargas, we finally arrived in F. Ortigas.

    At first, I though CnP was in Strata 100, that building whose name is printed in bold at the front. Turns out, we were mistaken. The guard called CnP using the number saved in my cellphone. What’s weird is that after making that phone call, he asked a high 5 from me.

    Realizing it was, in fact, Strata 2000, we crossed Emerald and walked straight inside that pinkish building with a “cherry” tower on top.

    The building has really weird elevators: You press the number of your preferred floor, a screen will show you which elevator should you wait for (A, B, C, D, E, F).

    At the fourth floor, we finally airrved to our prime destination. Armed only with our best shots, we had them all printed into two solid portfolios, one for me and the other for Raymond.

     I was grossly surprised to know that my portfolio alone cost me about ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY SEVEN PESOS!

    Yes, hard to believe but its true. My mom only gave me Php1,200 but good thing I had some extra hundred-peso bills in my wallet, with a lot more to spare for merienda.

    We were there until around 5:30pm. Raymond and I had merienda at McDonalds, found just inside Strata 100. Afterwards, we went back to MRT Ortigas to ride home safely.

    I’ll have pictures of my best shots posted really soon.

PS: I wanna die because I failed to notice the wrong grammar in the “About Me” page before I had it printed…WAGHH!

a.k.a. “Moneymaking Tactics in the Streets” and formerly known as “Things People Do to Make Money in the Streets”

It’s been a while since I photoshopped an artwork.

This is for the cover of my portfolio, available in large and medium size. 😀

The last one…

Pretty disappointed on how these turned out. A lot of them were blurry 🙁

Well anyway, still got a few good ones 🙂

Location: Ilang-Ilang St., Baritan, Malabon City
Models: Irish Santos and my baby niece

         Another repeat of past events occurred to me last Saturday. History tried to lay its hand the 2nd time on retconning (retroactively continue) a recycled storyline upon me.

         If you’ve been following my R&D series for the past 2 years, you may have already read about two entries with similar plotlines: The first happened in Hulo, Malabon back when I was still a high school senior. I was on my way from violin practice in SJA when a seemingly lost foreigner in a car asked me for directions going to Bayan and I showed him the way. The second happened several months later when I’m now a frosh in CSB. I just came home from school early in the evening when an Indian man riding a car approached me while I was walking across M.H. Del Pilar Street towards the subdivision. He asked me for directions going to Mercury Drug-Polo, thus I also showed him the way.

      And this one was no different except for a few things: 1)It happened in an LRT station, 2)The foreigner was not driving a car, but he was about to ride a train. But the same old things remained.

    I was now on a rush, trying to hitch a train ride home North after a toiling 3 hours of NSTP. Just when I was about to go past the ticket gate, I was approached by a Chinese-looking foreigner (based from his accent, he’s probably Chinese). He showed me a map of the LRT-MRT system and was pointing to some stations.

    He pointed to the MRT-Ayala Station. He then pointed to LRT-EDSA station. He wanted to know how he would be able to get himself to the MRT line. I told him that he take a train going south and stop by EDSA station. I further followed, “There’ be a bridge linking EDSA to the starting point of the MRT, which is the MRT-Taft Station. From there, you’d be in Ayala in no time!”. He thanked me and went on his way.

Lapitin talaga ako ng mga humihingi ng tulong, sa tingin niyo?

It’s no longer “Jeepney DrummerBOY!”

Well, anyway. This set of pics were taken on the same days as Tiangge Lady, March 19, 2009.

ISO: 200

Location: The Sibucao-Roque-Qoquia Family Compound in Ilang-Ilang Street, and General Luna Street, Baritan, Malabon City

Models: Mary Louise Vito and Ciara Santos

Jeepney courtesy of Kuya John Pab Santos

Need your critique and suggestions really!

Sorry for the less quantity of pictures, may biyahe pa kasi ‘insan ko gamit ng jeep kaya kailangang mabilis laang to. 🙂

(Kasawa’t katagal maglagay ng labels sa Flickr!)

a.k.a. The Search for the Best Tiangge Lady in Malabon City!

For most of the pics, they were taken using ISO: 200

Shooting location: Malabon City (Concepcion, Baritan, Hulong Duhat, San Agustin/Bayan)

Model: Tiangge Lady of San Agustin/Bayan

Bodyguard/Companion: Ate Jade

Fun fact: For those commuters who would frequent the Araneta Square area of Monumento, you’d be very much surprised to know that the old lady beggar-in-a-duster has moved her base of operations in Bayan.

Critiques, comments, questions and suggestions are welcome 🙂

Courtesy of Flickr:

ISO: 800

Ang daming magagandang models sa Capiz Challenge ng Project Runway (Benilde) na kinuha ng mga FDM students 😀 (Actually, apat lang sila).

Heto at iba pang kaganapan kahapon nung C-Break 😛