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. 

Of Sand Filled Shoes & Listening To The Blues: Manila Music Festival 2012

I am probably the last person who will post about the Manila Music Festival that was held last Labor Day haha. I only brought my film camera so after a series of delays in the developing, my dad finally took it to Photoline and had the pictures developed. 

I'm not really well versed when it comes to the local music scene so on the day of the concert, I was really preparing myself for a day under the sun with Chloe, to live out my music festival dreams sans acts from Florence and the Machine and the like and to feed my xenophilia hehe. 

The super super super super duper duper duper wild crowd

Chloe with her float on

Squinty squint squint. Too bad this is my only picture from the concert huhu

 I couldnt really keep track of the set list since we moved around a bit. I liked Nameless Heroes and totally adored June Marieezy. The Nameless Heroes was the band that got the most votes and thats why they were given the first slot to perform yay for them. June Marieezy on the other hand was such a cutie! She gave off this very fairy like vibe hehe and the way she talked to the crowd just goes to show how charismatic she really is.

There were triangular canvases scattered between the main stage and the redbull stage, they were to be painted on by very talented graffiti people

Cotton Candy man hmmm someone should tell Stan Lee to make a superhero with the same name

I think it'd have been nicer if the venue was a wee bit smaller and if there had been more stuff to do albeit it was still fun to spend the day with Chloe milling about, talking, eating and having a kickass background music. I hope to attend next year's shindig with more of our friends tho, I think we've had enough of the questioning glances that came our way deciphering if we were a couple hahaha.

Revisiting Zoobic

I finally had my pictures from the Zoobic trip developed today. My dad called in to tell me that the pictures weren't really that good since my camera got wonky and they only recovered 21 pictures and the rest were too badly damaged. He also told me not to expect much from them. When he arrived though, I immediately went for the package! The pictures are different from my previous batch maybe the fact that I used Kodak on this set instead of Fuji. 

Everything looked vignette-y and dark even though we took them under the blazing sun. Oh welly well well, lesson learned I guess, my camera likes Fujifilm more than Kodak. Good news though, I dug through the boxes inside my closet and found our family's old Pentax camera! Pops is gonna bring it tomorrow and have it checked out and loaded with film wee. 

Meow meow

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Only decent picture of me from this batch :(

Bird feeding!

Baby goats..are they called goatees? He he he

There were so many pigs in zoobic...so tempted to go and just grab one to take home with me

Outbreak Manila: Nuvali

I seriously felt like a grown up while I was at the mall having these pictures developed. These were taken last April 14 during Outbreak Manila. The following will only be a bunch of pictures featuring zombies hehe.