"LIGHTS, CAMERA & ACTION!"

| Director shouts |

Likas Teatro, a socio-cultural club or might as well a theatre club in my school, Notre Dame of Dadiangas University here in General Santos City started doing theatrical plays since before our moderator/director resigned. Before we started acting, we were doing mash-ups and operatic performances w/ the help of our violinists and cellists in our school celebrations. Then came to this point were we have to shift from pure musicality to the core of theatre acting. I was a member of this club for 4 years but unlucky my last year was our first performance in acting. Our first performance was entitled "The Dancers" in which I was the master propsman (I can't find the poster I made). Then we took our big break with our next play "Behind the Sin" which I played as a very irritated Director.

After I graduated, new batch of actors/actresses came and another play was done entitled "Halo-Halo", which was adapted from a dessert Halo-halo. A play about 4 different stories yet connected to each other. Each story is a different flavor for the audience to taste to.

Months went by and institutional celebrations came, The Intramurals. Every Intramurals and University Week of the school, Likas Teatro always prepares a play for the students and might as well the students are waiting for this. This years play is entitled "Patalim" ("Knife"). This was a remake of our latest play Halo-halo. In this play we changed the last story to something for intriguing, to something more striking and mysterious. This was really a good play for which it has been always the Star Performer of our club, Tessa Mae Alejado, who breaks the monotony of the play.

I will surely miss doing this stuff while studying. Theatre played a big part in my life and as well as in my career. Long Live Theatre! ^_^

Credits to: LIKAS TEATRO, Notre Dame of Dadiangas University
                 General Santos City, Philippines
Posters: Roman Gerard Podico

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Babies on Bubble Bath

When I actually had the chance to borrow Kuya Cha, my friend who was actually a photogrpaher in our previous studio, I took the opportunity of using it when my nephew, Rei-Rei and my niece, Angel had their bath time and this time they had their "Bubble Bath".

This was my first time to take photos of children/babies, and so it was a bit hard for me to capture some photos of them but then because those kids became aware that I was taking photos, they actually became an instant actor and an instant actress. It was also a hard for me to be alert and also be "quick" whenever there are some moments and actions happening. Yet I still had some wonderful outputs out of my unlimited trial shots.

These memorabillas will be some memories of my nephew and niece, and will also be included to my photography portfolio.

Thanks Kuya Cha! :D

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These photos here are some of my outputs of photography. These were stocked photos in my laptop and I had only found them before I posted this. Some of the photos here were taken during our Samal Vacation while the other were taken during the Christmas Party of our studio.

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I love taking pictures especially when the model is me. Well it's part of my part time job as a part time editor in a photo editing company and also I had always loved to edit my and my friends photos in the way I like. I had always been with our main photographer whenever he shoots Pre-Nuptials but this time it was my first time to shoot and to choreograph in my own way.

Merian, a friend of mine, celebrates her 18th birthday and she asked me if I could conduct an outdoor pictorial for her (this pictorial would serve as my gift to her). It wasn't that hard for me to do it but it really took us hours to look for places, think of poses and shoot those poses for us to achieve what she and what I want. And these were the output of our photos shoot.

(I would like Kuya Joppet for letting me borrow his D60 DSLR)

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Hitting two birds in one stone!

Upon arriving at The Farm, I never anticipated that the destination will be as cool as what I am expecting. The place just fits to the possible events that will soon happen.

The first part would be the Workshop and Seminar of Ms. Jojie Alcantara, a very famous and devoted photographer of Davao, in photojournalism to her most invited participants, the Soccsargen Bloggers from General Santos and Koronadal City. She shared her ideas and thoughts on photojournalism as she starts to show her photography-inspired photos and many more. Then ends up discussing the pro's and con's of blogging and photojournalism. After discussion an application of what she shared happened, in which best photos captured will be awarded as Top 5 and Top 10. I've borrowed some of my friends DSLR like from Frances and Kristan and also I had to borrow the digital camera borrowed by Ate Hana. It was even more fun when we had to take photos at night where the entire location was decorated with Christmas Lights and decorations.

At the end of the day, I really learned a lot of things which will help me.and my hobby. Some of these are: patterns, reflections, perspectives, lines and curves and many more. I'm so glad that Ms. Jojie was there because she was such a cool mentor.

( Some photos are captured by Kristan and Frances: thanks to them )

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Yesterday, it was April 8, 2009...

Now, it's June 8, 2009...

It's been 2 months since I had my last post here in my blog. Maybe I was busy lately with my "summer class" at school and my "summer class" thing in somewhere out there.

So far, in all the things that happened to me these past months and days, the best part was that it became my Summer Get Away 2009.

March had already ended and tomorrow would be the fisrt day of my Summer. March 31, 2009 I already started my Summer by having a 2-day trip from Gensan toDavao with my Aunt and some of the CMRE Staff. First, we stopped at Digos to eat some breakfast. Digos was just like Laguna in Manila because the houses I saw there were like old Tagalog houses I also saw at Laguna when I was still having my vacation there. While we were on the road, I saw a lot of beautiful areas until we reached Davao.

Upon arriving at Davao we had a little stop over in a "mini fastfood chain" to cover up our hungry stomachs. My Davao Get-away was very amazing. We went to a the den or to the place where Philippine Eagles were located and taken cared. We strolled around the big and wide setting until we had the chance to visit the Butterfly Sanctuary. When we reached the so called sanctuary of butterflies, I really expected that there would be a lot of butterflies which will fly around by me but unfortunately there was no butterfly at all. Because there a wedding where they would need a lot of butterflies. (They rented for the time and effort of the butterflies (LOL), I mean they rented the butterflies for the wedding whatever... ). There I saw a big crocodile, a couple of owls, the different types of eagles and many more. ( I can't remember anymore...) It was a very long day for us since we had the main agenda - to stroll around at Davao. Also I had the chance to visit Ateneo de Davao University and the Crocodile Farm. Since the strolling was a bit tiring, I mean very tiring, it's now our chance to go to our rooms in a resort. The resort was a very creepy for it had few postlights( poste) only and the rooms were very too far from each other and another problem was that no signal in my mobile phone. But fortunately, I found a spot were I spent my time texting with my friends.

(Left to right: owls in a cage and a big tree beside the cage)

(a philippine eagle staring at me while taking a pic)

(sunset at Lolengs Resort)

(stolen shots during my vacation at davao)

That Davao get-away was very fascinating which was the main event in my summer but... but there's a big but in my summer. I also had some experiences and one of those were...

I also celebrated my Semana Santa or my Holy Week just in our house with my family and some of my friends. Well, I also celebrated it literally rather praying for my sins a nd my big and small mistakes.

(palaspas in a crucifix shape)

Sadly, our pet dog Pethina died. It was a long story but maybe the reason behind why she died was because of not eating. She wasn't eating because her newly born baby I mean puppy just died after she labored. Sadly, we found her with her puppy at the garage which was really a dark place that would definitely be the reason why we can't find her. Poor dog, she died several days after she bore her baby. I miss her very much because she was a very lovely and very cute dog.

(she was pethina: our dog who been with for 6 years)

My cat Little, my 1 and half year old pet, was done with her pregnancy because she already gave birth to her 3 little kittens. The first one was Sai, the white one with black spots. Second was Wadala, which was the orange one with white stripes I think and lastly Latto, the all black one and the only girl in the group. Actually I got their names from numbers. Sai from "isa' which is one or the first, Wadala from "dalawa" which is two or second a nd Latto from "tatlo" which is three or third.

(Wadala: while playing with her mother Little)



(Sai: having a great time with that plant)



(Three of them - top to bottom: Wadala, Sai and Latto)

(Latto and Wadala: while sleeping on the rag in the kitchen)

April was the month when we graduated and left high school and so, when I was watching my old high school photos at friendster and my files at the PC I remembered some of my stuffs and moments from high school. And I could still remember my barkada and my high school batch "Einstein" at that moment.

(memories I've seen at my cabinet)

Also, one of my barkada celebrated her birthday. On that day I mean night, we had our Barkada Get Together which made it very special. We roamed around the city, ate at a Barbeque House, spend the night at a public beach and walked through the streets of GenSan.

My first Summerfest at NDDU. It was a bit or quite boring I think. Thank God, a savior came to end up my boring moments at that time. A friend or should I say Kuya Cha came with his camera that made my day so special. Well, we were in the paparazzi mood at that moment. The breeze from the beach was a bit hot and somewhat average temp yet I could still feel the hotness of the sun to my skin as we stroll to shores of that beach. The day was hot but I wasn't in heat maybe because I wasn't satisfied with the people of NDDU (LOL).

(popcorn vendor on a rest after roaming around the beach)

(Maui, a friend of mine while having a post in the beach)

And lastly I changed my blog... I entirely changed my blog. ^_^ (i hope so...)

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