Cebu Bloggers Society April 09 Meeting

April 5th, 2009

The CBS FAMILY without me, LMAO

Once again, the ever growing group which I am proud to call myself part of had a general meeting covering very important topics. As for our members, please refer to our forums for the minutes of the meeting.

As you can see now, I am speed blogging cuz I have so many other deadlines to finish, and I know people aren’t gonna read what I write so I’ll just skip to the part where everyone is waiting for… the pictures.

Jerry Discussing important matters

Listening to Kevin’s talk

Jerry: “Exactly!”

Ang mga wala naminaw kay busy papicture! (joke! hehe)

Sleepy na?

Tsk tsk, sayop ang gifocus

Me, Markoy, Kevin, and Miong

A blurry Shot of the CBS family with me.. tsk tsk, ako dapat mu take sa pic

Ahia and me, tsk tsk wong focus again.. someone from behind is the focus.tsk tsk

Me and the president… where’s the first lady? hmmm

Cebu Bloggers Society General Historic Meeting

February 23rd, 2009

I know, I forgot to blog about this, I’ve been putting this off for quite some time, so here it is.

Anyway, right after that Bea TWiST Accessories shoot, I immediately made a run for Enovlink training center where we had a major meeting concerning very important matters.

And important matters were thoroughly discussed, but a most noteworthy part of meeting was the election of officers. Congratulations! And I am very honored to have been appointed as head of the membership committee meaning anyone who will want to be a member of CBS shall have to go through me.

Anyway, the meeting turned out pretty well. It was rather disappointing that I wasn’t able to join the group for their dinner out.

Here are the pictures:

Thank God, Allah, Buddha, Shiva, Zeus, or whoever you worship, cuz ITS FRIDAY!!!

February 19th, 2009

One nice Friday afternoon. Every student loves this day for it marks the end of a terrible week! (with the exception of those who still have classes on a weekend, boohoo for you!)

So I’m with friends and I have absolutely nothing to do. So where do I go? I go back to my roots! Yep, the one place where the photoblogger was born. In a Coffee Club! And what’s new? Nothing much… except for the fact that Ria keeps stalking security guards.

Anyway, Bo’s has to be one of my favorite coffee shops. They offer affordable delicious drinks at the same time they have internet for free! Gawd I love free. And yes, they also have an electrical outlet for those electrical energy challenged notebooks such as the one I’m using. For free again!

Wow. Free is basically what keeps me coming.

I ordered a Grande Caramelo for 120 php. A nice cool, sweet drink to go with my favorite past time, blogging!

And if you take a good look at the screen, you can see I am tuned in to my personal blog mode. But then I just reblog this anyway in my Blogger.

As for those who are curious who I am with, I am with my three good friends who I don’t always hang out with but then, I was really bored. And the thought of using the internet aside from our office really perked me up! So here’s a pic of the trio ogling the laptop of Ria. And as for whether they were watching porn or not… I don’t know anymore since I am on the opposite side of the set up.

So, aside from the constant.. uhmm.. obsession of these three ladies over the screen.. (im still wondering up till now what they were staring at), they devoured a luscious brownie ala mode, which you can purchase at 80 php.

(I didn’t even have the chance to shoot it before it got devoured.)

Amidst all the eating, laughing, devouring, and, erm, staring… (I’m telling you those ladies were stuck on the screen!) I was still feeling kind of depressed. Still missing someone. So I decided to do something rather unlike me. I decided to shoot myself! (Not literally, though I wish I did)

As I am looking at this picture of myself, I am rather happy that my skin has improved. Last time I checked, my face was like the many craters of the moon.You could easily call me moonface!

Anyway, that’s it for this idle afternoon. Here are the highlights the for the coming days.

1.Product shoot with Bea of Twist Accessories http://twistaccessories.multiply.com/
2.(probable) fun shoot with friends
3.Major General Historic Meeting with Cebubloggers Society http://cebubloggers.com
4.Dog photoshoot on a saturday
5.No classes for 4 Days! Woot woot!
6.Major Blog improvements.
7.Back to my sweating off, since I am now Amoeba-free!! (woot)

Guys, thanks for reading, always keep updated with my blog please!
http://focalglass.blogspot.com!

Black black black Valentines….

February 14th, 2009

It’s past two days and I am still sick to the bone..(brb, stomach is declaring war again)

Okay, I’m back…

Gawd this is horrible! Two days, two friggin days of Kawasan falls gushing out of my ass, except what comes out is Bambi cooking oil.

(this is no joke, i’m loosing half of my electrolytes and almost all the nutrients I supposedly eat. If I didn’t force myself to eat more than normal and constantly drink water, I’d be dead right now)

I talked to dad over the phone about my symptoms (he’s currently in Manila) and he suspects Amoebaiasis. Big Sis on the other hand focuses on my watery stools, if you even call it watery stools. It’s more like water gushing out. So suspects Cholera. Eitherways, both very dangerous if not treated very well.

Anyway, I’ll blog about my sickness some other time. As of now, I’ll blog about what happened today. (Note: No shitting happened throughout the day, Thank God!)

Morning, I woke up and found out that only one car was gonna go down to the city and send me to school, so I decided to hitch with sis and bro quite earlier than expected.

I waited in the pharmacy with Dalmatian Puppy, and brought him to the Vet at 11am for his 3rd Leptosirosis, Parvovirus, Parainfluenza, Canine Distemper, Hepatitis shot.

Around 12 noon, my shoti and I decided to go eat lunch in McDo. There I bought:

And let me tell you, it was like that KFC commercial, when I bought the the Crispy Chicken Burger, it was lesser in the inside than the picture! Anyway, I spent 93php for that. 43php for the large fries and 50php for the Crispy Chicken burger with reg Light Coke. After that, My brother decided to leave so I was left alone and I was still hungry. So I bought:

This time it was a lot more satisfactory. The chicken Fillet did look more like the one in the picture! And I spent 50php only. McSavers rocks!!!

The whole time after my brother left, I kept watching the Huling El Bimbo Love Story Commercial in McDo Jones’ Flat Screen.. Ahhh.. True love..

And I’m eating in McDo on Valentines Day all alone.. Isn’t my Valentines Day great or what?

And can it get better? Hell yeah…

Our Biochemistry Teacher:

Decided to call for a make up class and merge the two sections together in one cramped up class.

But I don’t blame him since I know we have a lot to catch up and Velez does demand quality education.. Anyway, I also got the opportunity to be seatmates with BSMT prodigy, Sherry Mae Mondido. It was great being her seatmate cuz she readily teaches me what I do not understand during the discussion. (sorry sir, I wasn’t 100% focused anymore cuz I’m sick and my ass is ready to shoot out Niagara falls)

After the class I wanted to go to mass in the VC Chapel at 4. But there was no priest so I decided to wait in the pharmacy. During that time in the chapel, my mom called up, and it wasn’t to ask how I was (she was in manila) or even to greet me Happy Valentines, it was merely to shout at me for not keeping up with my sister on where she was.

(and my Valentines is officially perfect!)

So I got home after the 5:30pm mass in Redemp.. (no offense on the choir, but i felt like you were making everyone drowsy, even your entrance song was dying!)

And there was a blackout. Now there goes your Black Valentines. Since there was no electricity to pump the water, there was no food. So I decided to cook my old fashioned Chicken Noodle soup with white onion and egg.
Normally I would like this, but recently, with my sickness on going, I absolutely had no interest in eating this. So did I finish this? Yes I had to. Or else this virus/parasite/disease is going to consume me.

After the oh-so-heavenly Valentines Dinner, my sisters, brother and I had to practise for tomorrow’s charity event. And we had to practise three songs. I wasn’t entirely worried about the performance. I was more worried of me suddenly gushing Mantayupan Falls out of my hole of ending.

Here’s a final shot of what I call my Black Valentine, as I end this day, expressing everything about how I feel about Valentines Day.

Happy Valentines Everyone.. Hope yours was better than mine…

Self Portrait- The Black and White Blogger

February 13th, 2009

Recently, I got sick, and was really depressed by I still wanted to something, so I decided to do a little shoot.

Yep, photography is therapeutic.

The theme for the shoot is Black and White Blogger

Some people have asked me if I had this done in a studio or if I have studio.
Now if you take a closer look at my pictures, they’re rather blurred. This is because I have no focal glass in my camera. And the tone of the picture isn’t good. Well, what do you expect with me using field lights? Yup, no softboxes, or strobes or whatever. Just White blankets, and a field light.

Despite the whole color madness with HDR, and saturation and stuff, Black and white is still cool!

Happy Black Valentines Everyone!

Best of Vanjhnn Photography, The Genesis

December 30th, 2008

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the launching of Through the Focal Glass .

It is my pleasure to present to you my ten best sets from the genesis of my passion for photography. Please click on the image thumbnail to redirect you to each photoblog post.

Best of Vanjhnn Photography #10