Alex @ August 19, 2008 | | Photos, Politics and Society | Comments (0)
Now this gives me something to write about. It has been six years since I was involved in an on-road collision. And I’ve never been involved in anything more than bended fenders and crack headlamps. Being the defensive driver, I’m confident in saying that I might just even be partially responsible for one (out of the three). Being through the experience means that I’ve been through the hassles of trading words with the other party, filing statements and police reports, appearing in preliminary judicial investigations (where you just affirm that you’ll settle outside court), then mooching the insurance company to shell out money.
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Tags: driving, Morality, Tricycles
Alex @ June 11, 2008 | | Life, Lifestyle, Personal, Photos | Comments (6)
My friends are a bunch of smart people. You can mess with the permutations but to sum it up, we have four cum laude, two magna cum laude, and one summa cum laude graduates (of UP Diliman at that). We have a math professor, two discourse analysts, a software engineer, an EC engineer, a web developer, an award-winning digital artist, a painter, two law students (soon to earn their LLBs), a med student (soon to be an MD), two published writers, a systems analyst, a project coordinator, and two people who can speak Nihonggo fluently. An impressive roster, indeed.
However, we, as a barkada, have one basic flaw. We tend to be brainless when together. Give us a spot where we can congregate, whether it’s over iced coffee or bottles of beer, and every hint of intellect would then slowly fade into obscurity. Then out come the evil monsters spawned by repressing lifestyles and demented childhoods. Next thing you know, you’d think that you’re not seeing what’s supposed to be a bunch of decent young professionals who have respectable careers. Pretty much like how Bruce Banner turns into the Hulk, only with less physical mutation but pretty much the same level of insanity.
So is the tale of our trip to Bolinao.
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Tags: Beach, Boliano, Friends, Solomon's Paradise, Sugoi
Alex @ May 28, 2008 | | Photos | Comments (4)
I haven’t really tried using my camera for anything else than a few test shots here and there. But so far, I’ve clocked around 424 shots already and most of them are crap. Here are a few of my attempts at using this contraption. And yes, I suck. At least that means I still could get better. I hope.
Now on with the crap.
Some random vegetation from the backyard.
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Tags: Canon, Photography, S5 IS
