I’m now back in Makati and working today. Whew! Really, I’m still in vacation mode. Would’ve still wanted to just lay down on my bed and let the day pass by. Or go internet browsing and download using bit torrent. Or just having coffee, photo shoot with or without other fllickr members.
Well, the burial was adjusted to last Wednesday and I’m kind of getting over it na.
Saturday and went to Ayala Museum to catch the World Press Photography exhibit. However, while passing through Greenbelt 3, Alliance Francaise was having a photo exhibit also as part of its offerings for the French Spring in Manila event. At the museum, another ongoing exhibit are Spanish era lighthouses as documented nationwide.
At the Ayala Museum, an ongoing exhibit on Philippine Spanish era lighthouses was set at the 3rd floor. Together with a published book, this is good information on history, significance and current conditions of these sentinels of the sea. Unfortunately, I was able to browse the publication and I was just not too impressed with the photography. By the way, a series of stamps were also included to coincide with this project.
Part of the offerings of French Spring in Manila, this is an exhibit of the photos of Juan Caguicla on various facets and faces of that romantic city, Paris. Not only on the familiar like the Eiffel Tower and Louvre, he also includes photos of subways, and the inner streets and shops that are not often depicted.
I was very much impressed and thankful that Makati was one of the stops of this travelling exhibit! Never have I seen such wonderful works by topnotch photojournalists, all winners of this prestigious contest. The photos are very evocative of the struggles of humankind and the simple joys of simple lives.
One is overcome with emotion seeing the image above of the woman wherein the wrinkled handls of her child covers her mouth or the sad face, wrought with emotion of a father comforting his son whose right arm was just amputated after that massive earthquake in Pakistan. With the captions and some photo essays, one is moved on a particular feature of a young pregnant woman getting into grips with the death of her husband who came back already inside a casket from Iraq. Or the series of head shots, wonderful portraits of idealistic young men who see being drafted in the military for Iraq as a ticket to escape the harsher realities of a possible future that might not offer too much. What awaits this men? These boys? One questions.
One should catch this wonderful exhibit which is only until the end of the month. And that is next week. Entrace to the museum is P150.
Early morning just before 0700H and it was a sight to see the top of buildings of Makati City along Ayala Ave. covered in fog! Its just an awesome and not that frequent event that happens here. If it weren’t for the cool and very wet mornings, this wouldn’t have happened.
The Anti-GMA crowd held its largest rally against the president yesterday at the country’s financial district. Despite the large number, the biggest since they’ve started the series of rallies numbering at around 35,000, they failed to muster the originally planned 200,000 bodies. Again, the left, right and some mid forces ranging from ERAP loyalists, FPJ diehards, militants and the so called United Opposition, the were united in this one goal: to have Gloria resign. But beyond that goal, is uncertainty and division on what they should do. Such strange bedfellows that before, they were at both sides of the fence but now, locking arms together. To regal the crowds, showbiz personalities, comedians, plays and dances were staged and at around 1900H, the highlight of the rally, was the speech of the wife of the late FPJ, Susan Roces. but curiously, after her speech, the crowds started to thin out. Did they really come here to voice out their sentiments? Stargazing? Or doing their role after being paid P300.00?
Her sentiment stuck at her back.
Members of a militant group cheering and clapping as a performer was belting out a song.
Trash the constitutional process. This posters also would want that the Vice President resign. And then what?
Another militant group asking for the president’s resignation.
And still another member of a militant group.
Ninoy Aquino’s statue at the intersection of Ayala and Paseo Roxas Avenues sprouting the rallyists’ banners while an effigy of the president (its hideously done), whose whereabouts are unknown, is being paraded.
A TV reporter at the rally relaying the afternoon’s events while the militants at the back, after seeing the reporter, rushed behind her and held their banners.
Tired protesters. But when I pointed my camera at them, gamely posed and did the thumbs down sign.
Hakot (coloquially, rent-a-crowd)? One of the buses lining Ayala Ave. that came all the way from North Luzon loaded with people and sacks of rice and other foodstuff. Looking at the faces of these people, frankly, I don’t think that their there to air their views. Bringing people by the busload and paying them for their participation is a normal activity in this kind of rallies.
On the lighter side, this man was gamely posing while holding an apt ad for Bonamine, another enterprising opportunity 
Just transferred to another place where its much much more quiet, cool and free of mosquitoes! But condo’s not that cheap.
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