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November 4, 2012

Outbreak Manila: Enchanted Kingdom

Last October 31, 2012 Asia had its first ever zombie run inside an amusement park. I don't know how much I've said this before but I really love zombies so when we first saw the teaser trailer for Outbreak Manila: Enchanted Kingdom, Zombieland came to my mind and I almost creamed my pants in delight.

To prepare for this run which was held on halloween hehe, Twinkle and I evolved from our MMDA selves, went back through time and becometh people from the olden times. More specifically, the medieval period which we just took up in school last quarter hehe. We planned on going as the Powerpuff girls and the Professor but we lacked time in buying a decent PPG costume so we decided to just forget the whole theme thing and buy costumes on our own.

But something happened, while I was browsing through the halloween costumes on sale, I came across a ton of nice costumes for only 500 pesos each! Long story short, I got the medieval velvet taray gown for Twinkle and this black witch dress thingy for myself. When I got home tho, I remembered that I had a sort of medieval looking dress in my closet so the idea of going as a medieval set was hatched. I returned my costume and in return got this set on sale. I can't really describe it since it looks like a cross between a female version of Christian Grey and an executioner and a gladiator and a medieval butcher. But the description in the bag thing says that it's a Scorpion Vixen so... let's stick with medieval executioner instead HAHA.

The day of the run, we hung out at Twinkle's place, watched The Walking Dead's 3rd episode and hung out at high street. After walking around and stuff we went back to Twinkle's and dressed up wee.

Twinkle m'lady, Bea the court jester, Nath the pirate who looks like a prince and me yay

Awesome live art!

I was expecting that a lot of people would be in costume since it IS halloween but although the number of people in costume was higher than in BGC, it still quite wasn't enough for me hehe.

At first I was expecting the run to be as easy as the one in BGC but maaaaan was I wrong! We died instantly when we came to the super infested plaza part. I swear it's like an endless wall of red-flag-hungry zombies huhu.

Pretty pretty

Since we were already dead, we just took our time and had fun hehe. Especially with the gorilla below. He's now my best friend hihi. We felt super duper giddy whenever random zombies would growl and compliment us on our costumes hahaha and in return we'd compliment the other pretty zombies as well hehe.

Super cool Sparta guy

The start.......................................of..........something........new......................?

Schmiderman schmiderman

After we crossed the finish line, we were approached by a few officials saying that we were eligible to win best in costume! They then took down our names, our costume description and took pictures of us. We were also told that the announcement would be at 10:30 pm, seeing that 10:30 was not that far away, we hung out for a while and roamed around a bit. We got sidetracked by the games and Nath tried to win prizes but alas we failed HAHA. After playing, we headed over to the huge tent and waited for the announcement. When the Sparta guy from our wave was announced we seriously thought we wouldn't have a chance then so we were quite disheartened but then another announcement came on and..............WE WON!! WEEEEEEEEEEE!! We got on stage and maaaaan did it feel good hihihi.

I reallllllllllllly had a great time. That day was one for the books, I must say. I serrrrrrrrriouuuuuuuuuuusly can't wait for the next outbreak here in Manila!!!!!!

P.S. We used expired kodak disposable cameras that we bought for only 2 for P500 and I am so so so so so pleased with how they turned out hihi. Will definitely do this again next time!

June 27, 2012

This May Well Be a Petition for Jeremy Renner to Come Back

Life in Taft can be tough. My previous sentence, on the other hand, can be a tongue twister.

I can say that technically I grew up in the said avenue since my dad has worked in the Supreme Court for a long time, I finished elementary in St. Scholastica's College, Manila (I missed saying St. Scho's 'full name' okay haha) and I'm now in my 3rd year in Manila Science High School. I have always remained indifferent to Taft though. In the past, whenever someone would mention it, nothing significant comes to mind save for a flash of blue. How's that for irony? Haha!

Anyway, unknowingly Taft has wormed and flooded its way into my heart. I can say the same for the raw, humid-looking and wildly in disarray Manila that seems to capture every foreign film maker's eye though I haven't explored it thoroughly. Yet. I don't know why, but I can say that if someone asks me about Taft or Manila in general now, the first thing that would pop in my head is leather; worn and whatnot. It's like I've gotten to know the place more.

Whether it be from my schoolmates' tales of adventure, my non-monumental first hand experiences or from simple observations. I'm glad that I feel rather nationalistic and that for once I understand why Bourne Legacy and other movies decided to film here hehe.

June 21, 2012

Smells Like Teen Spirit

I decided to try and use my camera in school last Wednesday. Here are the pictures. It sucks that a couple of pictures were too damaged to be developed but on the bright side, I got my first ever legit light leak haha! I'm still unsure weather film would be accepted in class but I hope it will be since my dad feels uncomfortable about me lugging the slr with me all day in school huhu.

Masci looks like an all boys school!

June 13, 2012

Analog Thoughts

Finally got these developed today; I was expecting a ton of warbled pictures but I'm pretty satisfied with how these came out hihi. Here are some pictures from the last days of my summer vacation! Included are the ultra tiring ukay ukay adventure my sister and I had, pictures of Perry my model (duh) and random shots of the place outside my window + our insignificant dyeing session.

Tried my hand at tie dyeing shorts........................flop

Ironically this image is named cats.jpg

Paints we used in painting the wall outside my window white!

Of course

I'm on my 2nd week of school and I gotta say it's been okay...nothing too dramatic lately and I can't say if that's a good thing or a bad thing haha. I feel like I'm sort of waiting for the other shoe to drop! I'm not itching to be cussed at or to be publicly humiliated but oh well mehehe.

By the way that's got me thinking about this question I've seen before: Would you rather be severely humiliated or super duper terrified? My automatic response was to be humiliated but then again the more I thought about it, the more the thought of getting ousted in public or realizing a bit too late that your skirt is tucked inside your underwear got scarier, I came to the conclusion that they're just equally traumatizing.

Hmm, just gonna throw this out there in case you've got nothing better to do than answering this question. Which would you prefer, to be humiliated in public or to be spooked almost to death?

May 23, 2012

Flash Flash Flash Photography

I was flipping through my 6th grade sketchpad when I came across this unfinished compilation of cameras that I coveted at that time. Not much has changed tho, I still dont possess most of them :( It's such a coincidence because lately I've been craving to get my hands on a couple of film cameras. My small 'obsession' first reared its head when I got my first prints developed. From then on, I've gone downhill and I keep falling in love with cameras heehee. All my searching for online camera stores here in the Philippines has led me to unearth these super beautiful cameras. I hope by the time I turn 16, I can get my very very very eager paws on these babies!