After months of planning, my Malaysia trip finally pushed through. Along with it came my newest, most sought after and most expensive gadget yet, my very own Nikon D80! Talk about good timing! Of course, acquiring this new toy entailed one small problem: post-processing tons of photos — one of the many reasons why I wasn’t able to blog everyday during the entire trip. But hey, I’m not one to complain, am I?
I left for Malaysia last week, July 9, taking a Philtranco bus going to Clark where an AirAsia flight would take me to Kota Kinabalu and then to Kuching the following morning. But not before bidding my office friends farewell. Poor things, I thought, they’d be stuck with work while wander off in another part of the globe. Haha.
There were a lot of firsts on this trip, the actual trip being one of them — taking connecting flights; spending the night in a lodge with only the knowledge of it being run by a Filipino; binge eating a lot of Roti Canai and Nasi Lemak (bear in mind that I haven’t been eating rice lately, but I made this trip an exception); eating dimsum with ketchup (Yup. Not soy sauce and calamansi); walking around a town I haven’t been to before; taking photos in public where one would normally lose his camera (and his dominant arm, sometimes) the moment he takes his eyes off it; going to the rainforest music festival and getting to toy with an Angklung; among many others. I plan on going into detail of each day I spent there sometime this week on a daily basis (I hope).
More photos of Day Zero can be found here.
Something I did in-between comps a few days back. Everybody in the office suddenly wanted to send me their kid headshots afterwards. Unicef, please don’t sue me. Hehe.
Top photo taken a few months ago on Egan’s exhibit’s last night on Black Soup. Click photo for more.
We were all lounging under a makeshift tent in front of Mogwai one Friday night when Egan spotted Bodjie Pascua eating inside Black Soup. He was ecstatic. He wanted me to take a picture their picture. I told him that somebody told me he partly owns the place. Then, everyone began sharing childhood stories of how they would delay taking a bath just to hear what Kuya Bodjie had in store for the kids that day; or finish breakfast early; or treat the show’s theme song as an alarm clock - each account slightly differed from each person, depending on how early the school bus would arrive at their place. Someone even recalled having seen reruns on a Sunday morning right after the Chinese variety shows.
Me, being the occasional trivia geek, shared what I recently found out about every kid of my generation’s favorite TV show, its puppets, its side characters (and the lives they lead off cam)… oh, just click the link! I’m too sleepy to recall everything I said that night.
Then somebody told us about having seen him in an indie film recently. In the film he remembered seeing him stab a boy to death against a wall because he didn’t favor the poor teenager for his daughter. He claimed, even for just a few moments, that shattered his image of our favorite storyteller.
Of course, we all knew he was kidding… on the shattering image part. And Egan still had his photo taken with him.
Fast-forward: Top photo.
Suddenly, even for just a few minutes, everybody was a kid again.
View Hi-res version here.
I saw Apple’s latest post, so I thought I’d do myself favor by having a reason not to get a Horizon Kompakt anytime soon. It’s just a rough photo-stitch, but I had fun in doing so. Finally, something I’ve done for myself and not some stranger selling houses and barren land to rich people who don’t know what to do with their money.
I want to go back!
A weekend thingie featuring an event in Cubao Expo; artsy fartsy stuff; some indie bands; street art; a town fiesta somewhere in Bulacan; a lesson in alleviating alcohol intoxication; a few (READ: 11) house dogs; noisy kids; a lot of good food; door-to-door binge eating and a whole lot more.
Starring (in order of appearance): Egan, Peachy, Angela, Mark, Remi, Fran, me, Jaja, Benjie & his bestfriend Gino, Anton, Ate Shai, Ate Maan, Aling Vigie, Ka Tony, Kuya Arvin, the artsy fartsy crowd of CubaoX, and the food-and-beer-hungry townspeople of San Vicente, Paombong.
I’m too lazy to repost the pictures, so just check the rest here.
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