APHS 2013

I went back to my high school grounds last February 7 and 8 for a pageant, where my cousin joined and won 2nd runner up the photos are on her Facebook page .

I will not spam photos from the album but I got photos that I never uploaded on my facebook or anywhere else. I just want it to be here on my blog. selfish much? yes. lol

A little introduction, I don't know who will be the judges but I know that it will be some celebrity and since I do avoid being addict on a certain local TV show lately I don't do fan girling over local celebrities. I'll be more starstruck if I saw these bloggers in person. Rich Asuncion appeared and I didn't do anything I just stared at her for a second then I don't care anymore if we are on the same ground. BUT when the emcee called the HOSTS, I STARTED FAN GIRLING AS IN WHO CAN STOP YOU WHEN DIVINE LEE AND VICTOR BASA WAS ON STAGE???? SERIOUSLY.

I suddenly remembered my good friend Rachel who introduced me to read Divine's blog and ever since I followed her on Tumblr . I think that was 2010. If I knew Divine and Victor will be there I should invited Rachel because I know that she love them dearly.

Good thing my uncle let me borrow one of his lens and gotcha. I got decent photos.

D + V

and some of the photos will be posted on http://capturedbyaeivrynrv.tumblr.com/

I just want them in this post. Good Vibes . :p

Here are some more photos from that night.

sisters

with our Ms. APHS 2nd runner up

with the proud baby sister, Apples 

with Mae!!!!!

Mae was a good friend of mine way back in high school. We might not be as close as we are before but its really nice to see some familiar faces that knows you when you are still on stage of innocence. I suddenly miss Judy and Anne ... 

with Ma'am Alvea

Meet my adviser when I was in 4th year high school. She's one of the best teacher and she love me because I'm behave in her class. HAHA She even told me (in front of my mom) that she didn't recognize me (almost). *blush*.

Maybe I really left high school in the past but it was one of the best experience of my life. There was good and bad experience but that's what that stage is all about. Believe me, if there will be a time machine, I will choose to go back to high school. I will not change everything about my high school life I just want to make some more memories because some people are not the same after we left high school and that makes me sad.

"The world is changing" - Eli David (NCIS S10E11)

Family Day . Part 2

Continuation of my Enchanted post ...

So you saw my after space shuttle face and it was a little embarrassing but not when no one is reading my posts. haha

After the ride on the Space Shuttle, I'm super lost and it took the rest of the day before I got myself back in shape at least my inner self . I rode the mini roller coaster and it makes my inner self go round and round again.

No more major stories here just pictures... Some of the pictures are from another camera so there are still some that was taken earlier that day.

see how our faces fresh? unlike the last photo on the part 1

with Apples :))

Our favorite! Flying Fiesta!

me, mom and sis

Models?

I love that hoodie! I will buy that if you can wear hoodies in this country anytime of the day but it's always sunny in here so ....

After riding the mini roller coaster, the only thing that kept me going was taking pictures and be a guardian to the kids. The next batch of photos are when we are on a face painting / henna tattoo shop because Alaine, Apples and my sister want some face paint again. 

After the face paint thingy there is this store where they sell some frozen fruits and you can choose whether it will be dipped on a chocolate or strawberry syrup and maybe add some toppings like a chocolate chips or what ... 

It was a total fun day with the family and what a way to start 2013. It was a bipolar weather that day since it was literally rain or shine day but as I said in my earlier entry, as long as the kids had fun it tops everything. :)

Enchanted Kingdom is a theme park not like Disney Land but when you are there, you will always be a kid again. ughhhh why we don't have a Disney Land in this country .... oh well, I know the answer. kbye. lol

I promised myself that I will never ever try Space Shuttle AGAIN. that one life time experience was OKAY ALREADY but dang, I want to try The Swarm. hahaha 

" It's not bad to have a day with family and enjoy every single moment laughing and forget the problems it will not hurt, i guess, if you put it on the side while spending time with your family".

Family Day at Enchanted Kingdom

Last January, my cousin wanted to go to Enchanted Kingdom and since its still vacation of the kids we scheduled it and we went there last January 3, 2013. I remember that the last time we went there was 2010, for Alaine's birthday. We don't usually have family outings maybe because we are living in the same town or maybe we are busy with our daily lives and we are seeing each other almost everyday and if we do out of town trips it's always the best. I mean just to forget something for couple of hours is not bad.

Whatever the reason of my personal stuff, we enjoyed that day and even if I was killed by Space Shuttle the kids did had a great time and that's all that matters. :)

me, Alaine, Apples, Bok and Dap while waiting for our tickets.

before entering the theme park .. Oh well, I think you should always have a photo out here. lol

Flying Fiesta - one of my favorite!

I know my limitation when it comes to extreme rides and that one behind us was new, its called Disc-o-Magic (if I got that right) it spins like a CD. Crazy ride, maybe next time I'll have a guts. haha!

Actually, I planned to try that at night but ... the reason will be revealed later! keep reading. haha

Sometimes, its good to be above everything

Here it is .... it reminds me of the day I was just ...

I'm the 3rd from the back on the left . . .

Still the same position and just a few seconds before we rolled!

Just after riding "THE" Space Shuttle

Here's the story, it was my first time to ride that freaking super extreme ride and it killed me! As in I wasn't able to ride another whatever ride there after and oh my good thing you wasn't able to see me after that ride. oh wait I'll post a picture haha shameless picture of myself after Space Shuttle ... 

my after Space Shuttle face

I'll end this post here.Part 2 up next . :) 

February 1st . Random update

Hello! I've been so busy lately and almost got no time to be online ... its good sometimes but maybe bad for my dying blogspot. lol

anyway, I haven't edited our picture from Enchanted last January 3rd and its now February! Well, there will always be backlogs on blogging (you can't avoid that).

A little update ... I've been watching some movies for the past week and I also read a book series and a book (awesome stories, I can't even move on most especially on books than the movies). I prefer books over movies if they have book but if they are not based on book then I prefer the movies. I'm also update to the my favorite series! Oh no, you don't want to know how I'm so connected with those series and books.

There are few things that I'm looking forward to this month, just to mention the anniversary of APHS, where you'll see bunch of familiar faces from high school and will be on that school next week where mostly I'll imagine what happened to that ground when we are still there; High School Grand Alumni, in which I'm not planning to attend; and  Paramore live in Manila 2 where I'll stalk for them and to be watching with some friends.

I'm still a little broke from the holiday season but I'm still looking forward to see some college friends although we planned to see each other last month but most of us are busy so no final plan about that.

Last night, my "ex - best friend" was in my dream, I don't know what that means and maybe tonight I'll forget about it already but when a close friend of his asked me one question, I only answered her with "seriously?".

Earlier this week and last week, I hang out with my birthmate/babes/sister/cousin, Nikka. We might do simple things in life but we're happy. We actually should be hanging out one of these days but we unfriend the guy who will be celebrating his birthday tomorrow (Happy Birthday to you btw). Belated Happy Birthday to Nikka's boyfriend and to the "ex - best friend".

After visiting Enchanted earlier last month, I haven't got the time to shoot or just do some photo walk.

I miss my friends ... Seems just like yesterday when we are just fooling around the university corridors. I always missed those days when you don't have to think complicated things just thesis, quizzes, exam .. but now we are in the "real world" where everyone seems to be your enemy and everyone is trying to put you down, where you will be only with no one but yourself.

Its Friday night and I'm confused again with movies and e-books. I guess creating my own setting in my head is better than the movies but sometimes I can't see the right characters ...

"The things you do means something to people --- Gibbs (NCIS S10E13)"

Typical Hangout

This is so overdue post ... and so 2012.

It was my birthday last December 27th and I'm happy to be celebrating it with a close friend / true friend / sister / cousin or whatever you want to label my birthmate, Nikka. 

I really don't have any plans for my birthday because, I don't know ... hehe but if there will be no plans at all I'll just stayed home and do the usual lazy day but since Nikka and I planned to see each other that day, you know just to celebrate our birthday and we decided not the day before because we don't want to experience that bullshit we got last 2011. So we celebrate as simple as we can as in just the typical hangout we does every now and then. We just got some pizza and spaghetti (my aunt send me a cake the day before .. Thanks for that!) and she got this cocktail drink.  

It rained that night and that sucks because we can't walk outside but maybe it was a blessing after all. We invited a friend good thing he showed up and I gave him an A+ for effort on buying us ice cream but earlier this year Nikka and I dumped him to his circle of friends (he's part of that bullshit we experienced last 2011 but we are still in good terms but earlier this year something happened. I thought last year was the total opposite of it but the result of that invite occurs earlier this year) but on the good side, Nikka's boyfriend was able to stay even for a while.

It was a straight 3 birthday celebration with this girl and I'm happy that we are sticking to each other when everyone around us is so confused with their lives. We might not see each other just like the past year but we both have a simple goal. :)

Thank you to everyone (family and friends) who never failed to remember my birthday. I'll send you billions of virtual hugs and kisses :)

Next Level

I always wanted to try photography ever since 2, 3 or 4 years ago and I got my Sony TX5 that time. I have a little regret from it but what can I say I still enjoyed my camera so much and she is there for me for the last 2 years. And my little problem about it was its zoom button having that problem for a year now and last year I planned on getting a Canon DSLR as a Christmas and Birthday gift and I know I deserve to have one. It's not just because its "IN" but I do believe in myself that I have a little talent when it comes to photography (yeah, I know myself like that).

I got a Canon EOS 600D right now and so far so good still learning some techniques and I think I'm doing good at it. Though I want to attend some workshop or something, I also want to do like doing a concert, sport photography (but I think that's too high for now) or maybe just captured what I really want to be captured. I'm not good at shooting people, I like shooting the natural movement of people, stolen shot as some called it (something like concert and sports photography thing), I'm weird like that. I still got my TX5 and no plans on giving it out or something because it also take good quality photos and it feels good to have a point and shoot, where you can have with you in your purse all the time and a DSLR.

 It comes with a 4GB memory card and I got so stupid that I copied almost all my test shot on my laptop (over 2000 photos) and I just deleted most of it and I didn't delete it on the memory card and the next time I tried to transfer the photos on the laptop again, it got corrupted. SMH . 

So here are some test shots that left from my first batch of photos from 600D.... 

I almost thought of getting a 60D but considering myself as a starter, I got contented with 600D and maybe the next thing will be some lenses HAHAHAHA! 

Youtube has been my friend when it comes to some tips and stuff and I've been a subscriber of DigitalRev on youtube for a while now and I make sure that I got the right tips from Kai, Lok and Alamby and my favorite was "Impress no one but yourself" from the 50 Photography Tips. 

For now I'm alright with my 18-55mm lens and I created a Tumblr account to post some shots that I took on random days, if some stranger will be reading this post, I mean you, you might want to check my photographs at http://byaeivrynrv.tumblr.com/ .

btw, I bought the camera at DB Gadgets , they have cheaper price compare to the mall but make sure the product you want to avail is available. :)

A Day with Marielle

Last December 17, 2012, Marielle aka Gem had a sleepover at home since her laptop needs to be reformat and my uncle just know someone who can do the work and we planned to watch a basketball game the next day so, its a perfect timing to catch up or at least just hang out together since we haven't seen each other for a couple of months then. We planned to watch PBA D-League where our good friend (naks) had a game that day and just another basketball game after UAAP because we miss watching live.

Venue: EAC Gym - their gym was super nice I hope FEU will have some kind of this in Manila. There's a swimming pool at the ground floor too! 

Cagayan vs JRU : it went Overtime and JRU won

saw this guy again

Hello there controversial Arvie! I hope we'll see you play nicely next UAAP season and still with the Tams

After the 1st quarter of the 2nd game we already talked to Ping for a little while and we also left after that mini talk. We are so hungry and we also planned to eat at Shakey's (one of our favorite place to eat). We headed to SM Manila. I studied in Manila but that was the first time I'd been to SM Manila because I think SM are just the same from each other and I can't see importance of hanging out there way back. 

such a nice place to hangout

just to make clear, it was just me and Gem who ate at Shakey's

Having a problem on how we can finish all of those? HAHAHA

We ate everything and never left some for dogs or cats or rats. HAHA I think I carried those in my stomach for a week and convinced myself that I'll be in a food coma until the Christmas Eve. HAHAHA

It's always a fun day with Marielle. See you this year dude! <3  

Sorry for the crappy photos

New Year .

This photo was taken last December 26, 2012 before I turned 23

Hi readers (if I have some),

Who said that we will not passed December 21, 2012? Look at this post date people its January 1, 2013! Happy New Year guys!

I don't know how will I do some year end post or something like a recap from January to this day (or its just the same? Lol) going back on the past 365 days is hard there are some highlights but of course we treasured every single day (at least I do) and 2012 is so yesterday when it comes to 2013 so this is not a recap post.

Most people have lots of new year's resolution but I refuse to promise or to say somethings that usually don't happen for the whole year but at least every single day I try to change simple/little things on my everyday routine, I try something new or at least not to mind the bad vibes on some days. What do I'm trying to say is we can change every little detail on our everyday lives its not necessary to change something just because its a new year, change it because you know its bad, you know it will never do good to you or on people around you but never change the good most especially if its for bad, as one of my favorite TV show says: Rule no. 5 Never waste the good and the other one was a qoute from the same TV show: You have to focus on the good.

There are so many unexpected and expected things that happened to each of us every single day every year so that's 365 days, sometimes we can't remember what happen on the 217th day but we know what exactly happened on a special day just like your birthday, your wedding day, the day you gave birth, the day you got a dog or the day you bought something special, some days are good and unforgettable but there will always be the bad ones, there are days that we feel fucked up or wasted but there are days that we feel its the best day ever since we were born. Every single day is different, its unique on its own and we need to appreciate those good and bad days because those days helped us to be who we are right now.

We don't need to be advanced and think about next month or the summer. Most days we need to focus on what's happening right now but of course you can plan a summer getaway with friends but don't go beyond it, be on earth most of the time don't take every thing for granted, don't fast forward on something because when it passed you can't have a rewind button on this life. Most of us wished that but as we all know we can just move forward but please never push the fast forward button, you don't want to regret something on the near future.

2012 taught us some life lessons, as I recall all of the things happen, it just gave me headache lol but I wish I got it on taped or at least record all of the days on my head so I can look back on some fucked up days of my life or be on the day when I didn't think of the consequences that I might meet next time, the days that you wish not to meet its ending but as I said we must move on but be sure to treasure those moments because it will never be the same next time.

Let's welcome 2013 with open arms, let's change the bad to good one, make yourself happy, eject those negativity/bad vibes around you, stay positive and let's have more patience in our system, appreciate everything, be nice to other people, never take anyone for granted, don't run a truck on someone's life, be contented, don't compare, most especially appreciated every single moment. Those are the usual things that I keep reminding myself for the last months/year. You don't need a new years resolution because its new year, a rule in your own life can help you to change something little by little, changing is a process. You can start a simple/crazy rule like "Rule No. 1: No soft drinks and junk foods on weekdays" and maybe you'll end up cheating on some weekdays but you can change it and just enjoy a junk foods every weekend. I'm not saying do a stupid rule book and control your life but it will be a big help if you want to change something and you will never need to wait for another new year, a year does have 365 days its not just a single day.

Happy New Year :)