Rough Groove

Mini Contest winners

SAN RAMON This photo won in the colored portrait category (Left photo)
LADY OF THE SEA This photo won in the b/w portrait category (Right photo)

Originally uploaded by manu_antigua.

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Wifi at Gloria Jeans

Its almost 2 am and we’re still here in Gloria Jeans Glorietta, surfing, going online thru the EYP free internet. Well, not bad. This time its working. The reason that it didn’t work before was that a local login address needs to be input for it to work.

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Dreamgirls - Bill Condon, (2006)

Whew! What a movie! I thought that I have already missed this in theaters but when we arrived in Glorietta 4, we were a bit surprised that it is still showing. Curiously, it was not being screened yesterday. Anyway…

Wow! the songs, singing and acting and the movie itself is really something that one cannot easily forget. After Chicago, here comes a movie that should be watched again and again.

Pedicab at Angeles

A rather unusual foot driven tricycle (traysikad in the Cebuano vernacular) which is also the same as what I have seen in Malolos, Bulacan. Its not the usual bike and sidecar that is quite common in the rest of the country.

In Pampanga and Bataan

0215H and my slumber was interrupted as the now familiar alarm tone of my W850i broke the silence of the night. Well, other than the whir of the electric fan, that is. Just less than three hours sleep and I have to get up, take a shower and leave for Pampanga and Bataan to take photos of the facades of three churches: San Fernando and Angeles in Pampanga as well as a reshoot of Orani, Bataan. These are busy places, cities (those in Pampanga) wherein even before the break of dawn, the streets are already coming to life with jeepneys already abuzz to take passengers to their destinations. Places wherein if I have to wait for that specific time of the morning when the sun is at a beautiful position to cast its warm light at an angle, I won’t be able to provide a full frontal and solitary facade with nary a soul or a machine in front, unless I do post production work via Photoshop. While I can confidently say that I am very much capable doing this, there are limitations with doing this kind of work.

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