if not now, when?

whooaa! ive been missin alot of music news lately, and i mean "a lot" since NU signed off :-|, dont know if its official yet but rumors has it that I.N.C.U.B.U.S. will perform again here in manila!!! Wohoooo!!!! :D i've missed the first two ones and im not plannin to miss this one agaiN, i hope :D

so what have we been up to? well to start it of, ive crossed upon yoga, :D hehehe yep, and how you might ask, coz its part of a routine in an exercise that im trying out, anyhow, doing yoga make me realize that i do really have flexibility problems :P in the program, there are some poses and salutations that are easy, and some are pretty hard like that crane pose, and that kneeling, while twisting while grabing the other hand pose! and it makes me think, will i ever master those poses, well i hope so :D

and also its officially summer!!!! wheW! we went to Baler the other week to do so light chasing at Bunga point and had breakfast at Bay's inn, noticed some kid on the shore surfing doing a headstand while surfing! hahaha asssteeeggg!!! and that what made me decide that i should try out and learn how to surf! in BALER! hopefully if time permits, hehehe :D



enjoy the summer everyone :D SURFS UP!!! :D
ingatz to all :D

on pain killers, but sometimes we need the pain to see if we're not still dreamin...

both my arms are still sore, today was a little bit ok than the other pain, but still its akward that i can eve properly eat with a spoon and fork during meals, cant put my favorite choker on my neck, having a hard time to put my glasses on, IT HURTS! what did i do you might ask, just an exercise program, it i think my arms did really take a toll, considering it was only day 1 at least i can still type comfortably to shout out my rants :-|, hope the pain killers take effect!. ANYHOW.... ill stop whining..... April's here, at least i dodge an april fools joke on first day of the month. also had a last ditch effort to experiment on my tokina UWA lens in IR, tried all possible equipment combinations that i have and that i can think of... and sad to say.... tokina on IR is an EPIC FAIL :-\ oh well, just have to do with what we have :D

photo above is a shot of Hotel de Ville in Paris during our short roadtrip to France :D

from wiki: The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) in Paris, France, is the building housing the City of Paris's administration. Standing on the place de l'Hôtel de Ville (formerly the place de Grève) in the city's IVe arrondissement, it has been the location of the municipality of Paris since 1357. It serves multiple functions, housing the local administration, the Mayor of Paris (since 1977), and also serves as a venue for large receptions. The Mayor of Paris is Bertrand Delanoë, since 2001. He was reelected in 2007 for a second six-year term.
It is located near the metro station: Hôtel de Ville.

waiting

this shot was taken with a camera phone while in the metro of Paris, Etoile (e-twah-ley )station. :D

the weather seems to be wacked this days, as i was expecting it to be summer already, the climate change factor again cane into place, its raining! again? in march! kind of unusual to what we are accustomed in the past...

well, the week has been ok, sort of backing up the files ive accumulated in the past.... astonishingly... ive accumulated (with some of jpeg file albums copied from friends on trips and vacations) more than 80 GB of jpegs and RAW files since 2006 up to now! WOW! so it'll take 20 or more DVD's to back up these :-|, but, i dont mind :D, i love the hobby and it's whats keeping me sane and stress free :D

seriously now, i need to make time to EDIT THOSE TRIP PHOTOS..... @_@

Have a great week ahead!

Ingatz to all
pislabRaken'rol! :D

i think its summer already :D

this shot was taken a year back, kicking of my trying hard Infrared Days, anyhow, I decided to re post process the shot again to a different color, summer yellow color!

I wish i had a 2 week vacation, just me, and the sand, and the friends, and the sunrise, and the sunset, and the camera, and just chillax under the summer afternoon breeze while drinking to a cool fruit shake....... Life :D

cant and donot want to sleep, because when i do... it'll be Monday again :-|

6 elements of Mt. Pulag

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well, this is my first post of the year on this blog :D, the past 4 months, ive been really engaged in travelling to different places and using my gears, camera tools and hoping to hone my skills in taking good photographs... photographs of landscapes...

i still havent posted the past trips that we had, but i will have to post this first as this was a memorable and longest stay in the outdoors yet...

so our trip this past week was in Mt. Pulag, the summit of Mt. Pulag is 2,922 MASL, there were 14 of us in our journey to the summit. the weather was cooperative with our group not to mention that we were lucky than the other groups that have gone up the summit. we stayed in Camp 1 ( Babadak Ranger station on our first day ) after going to the breifing at DENR, the ride was rough, very rough... it was so rough that it was the first time i got a headache during rides. anyhow, we settled and make camp for the night at camp 1, it was raining that night, and our tent was having moisture control problems :D anyways, morning came, and i survived my first camping experince in a tent! wohoooo!!! hahaha :D

and so after eating a heavy breakfast, packed our things, got our strong porters, then we break camp and the long trek started, it was the longest trek i ever had, i think it was more than aprrox. 8 kms climb from camp 1 to camp 3 with no lunch stops in between, just rests and frequently munching cloud 9 and trail food, enjoying the view of Mt. Pulag and endless laughtrips and stories along the way.

so along the way to camp 3, we were greeted by climbers descending the mountain, and locals passing us by while we were trekking (newbie climber here :D) we passed by the mossy forest, then passed by the grasslands and alas! after several hours of trek, Camp 3!!! we settled our things, maked camp and got some rest... there was an optional sunset assualt, but due to bad lighting conditions, we just rested from the long trek we had :D

Fastforward to day 3 sunrise summit assault >> at the summit, it was FOGGYYYY!!!! :( anyhow, i did get some sunrise shot, but not that grand due to the fog... also, we did not get to see the sea of clouds at the summit due to the heavy fog, on the brighter side, we made it safe up to the summit and made it home safely also, and i survived my first Mountain Climb! hahaha :D and survived my first camping :D

The climb was a great experience for me, while descending Mt. Pulag, i was recording in my mind how granduer natures design was, i was thingking how few persons only see the beauty of that mountain, how one needs to slow down things in the busy stressful urban life, that you get to share these things and experience with friends and exchange exoerineces with them.

I salute our Team CL11 for conquering Mt. Pulag, and the fact that we were prepared to endure all that for the passion and the addiction to landscape photography :D

Till the next adventure guys and gals

Ingatz to all :D

PS. well... As for the 6 elements, its the grasslands, the mossy forest, the mountains you see, the sea of clouds, yourself, and your compainions during the climb :D (it's the 6 elements as per Me! :D have a nice Climb :D)

Year Ender notes for 2010

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Year Ender notes for 2010

the days of the year 2010 are numbered, as we count down its just less than 2 days and 2010 will expire, but the memories of it will remain as usual hahaha :D

i remember, it was a slow start at the beginning of 2010, as recession was still crawling all over the region, but i think, we held on well, for us Filipinos and for most of my colleagues and friends, i think we did a pretty good job making it thru 2010, were resilient, what can i say more :D

for my side of the story... i started with a new company... again.. and the trend of my tenure in a company is getting shorter and shorter, hahaha, although my bosses that hired me migrated to another work... but that's ok :) got to meet new friends at work, expand my network, also met new early waking late sleeping addiktus laugthtripping trek and nature loving and adventurous landscape photographer buddies (you know who you are! ) nice to have met and shoot/shot with you guys, got to discover new places in EU for a span of two weeks namely Brugge, Belgium, Paris, Amsterdam, Ghent (still backlogged on PP'ing photos for this EU trip) of course never forget the Crashing waves at Aurora and the amazing sunrise we had in Quezon!.... hope we can keep this up guys! :D good to see also good friends tied the knot! and having little versions of themselves :D... to cut the story short... all is good in 2010 at least for me, i do also hope you had a good 2010 year to.


i would like to propose a toast...

for the Man Above that always provides (Thank You!)
for a good year to come
for the new friends that well meet
for the hardships that we'll overcome
for the new places that well discover
for the increase in our salaries that we'll recieve (hopefully....)
for the new opportunities that we'll have
for the memories that we'll create
and for a Great 2011

KAMPAI!!!!! :D

*drinks bottled water in office* :P

Happy New Year!!! :D


I'm Having good vibes for this coming 2011 :D


* photo above is taken at Mag-asawang Bato Pagbilao Quezon in Monochrome... and hopes we can be resilient like these when problems arises*

Euro Trip: Part 2 Ghent, Belgium

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well, lets continue the misadventures that happened during our trip, lets go to Ghent! :D

ok t'was a cloudy afternoon when we went to Ghent, i was expecting the whole day to be sunny but as we went there thru train, we can see scattered dark rain clouds in the horizon towards our destination :(... oh well, lets just make the most of the trip :D

Link on Album in Facebook

after exiting the train station, we took the local tram, which was operated by de lijn, dropped off near Veldstraat st. and just wandered around, it was noon time, so we headed for a local sandwich shop for our lunch. There's a lot of Architecture you can see in Ghent, old buildings, facades, old beautiful churches and a castle, and some choclate shops too :P it was drizzling that afternoon as we have assumed it to be, clouds were gray all of a sudden as we were wandering around Ghent.

The main landmark in Ghent is the Graslei and Korenlei, they are the two main quays in Ghent, they say in the olden times, the houses and buildings that can be found in those quays are used for trading. Boat rides nowadays can take you along the canal.. but we did not try one. on the food trip side, we tried the Amadeus restaurant in the Patershol near the Gravensteen ( which was also know as the castle of the counts ) which serves eat all you can Ribs! after two full slabs i think.. i refused the third offerings of more ribs of the waiter :D also tried a local pub there... forgot the name, but it located near the underground parking in the Center of Ghent, we tried the large humongous glass of Kwak beer, and before you can try it, you must give them 1 of your shoes that they will hang it somewhere so that you will not run off with their special large glass of theirs. :D

another first experince in Ghent is the hail.. it hailed and we took cover under st Michaels bridge Graslei side, the hail was twice as large a a rock salt :D

Ghent's a great city,.. lots of history in it... you can actually wander around the and cover the whole city within a day... Anda colleuge of ours showed that Ghent is ranked number 7 in the lonely planets best cities for 2010 :D lucky me! :D


Ingatz to All! :D