Not so Random Things

Grr... it's been a long time since I put up a decent post. After the wedding, I had to catch up with my subjects.

Then, this NBN-ZTE thing with Jun Lozada... hay! To make the long story short, my organization joined Youth ACT Now (Youth for Accountability and Truth Now) and all its members have been busy with press conferences, forums, meetings and other activities for the past 2 weeks. To our Youth ACT Now friends, congratulations to all of us. We did well at the interfaith rally yesterday. Sa March 6 naman! ;)

I met Jun Lozada at Baclaran Church. Youth ACT Now went there for the "Misa Para sa Katotohanan" and we gave him a Youth ACT Now shirt. He was supposed to wear it at a forum but the organizers didn't want him to. Boo! What did Jun Lozada tell us?

" Dapat kumilos na kayo (Youth). I believe in the goodness of your hearts."

Thanks, Mr. Lozada. We also believe in you.

Went to the Interfaith Rally yesterday. Ang daming tao! The PNP estimate of 20-000-50,000 was so insulting. I was at the front and center of the stage with the photographers and we were packed like sardines; it's impossible to fall over. It took me about 30 minutes to be able to get out of the crowd. That rally was 80,000 people at the very least.

I took pictures of the rally but I have yet to develop the film. Yes, I use a manual SLR. Sue me. Better yet, click on my ads or donate some money for my DSLR fund so I can buy a second hand Nikon D40 or a Canon 400D. Oh please, please pity us and donate. My husband is desperate for a DSLR that he makes clicking noises with an imaginary camera tooooo often now.

While walking along Ayala Avenue when the rally ended, we saw a black labrador from the Explosives division of the PNP. He looks just like my Bebong, I couldn't resist. Jhann and I played with the dog and asked a few tips from the PNP how to take care of a lab. When I asked what shampoo they use on their dog,

"Palmolive. Yung pink."

How macho. Make the dog muy gwapito! Today I bathed Bebong using 2 sachets of Palmolive.

By: Diane On March 01, 2008

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Sorry, I've Been Busy

Oh, you know how hard it is to be wed. :)

By: Diane On February 06, 2008

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Calling all Stellans! Help Mang Tero!

Calling all Stellans past and present! A member of our Stella Maris Family has fallen ill. Manong Tero our beloved (in my time, Cambridge) guard had a stroke and was discovered that he has brain tumor. He is in dire need of our help and we are all in the position to help.

There will be a fund raising gathering/ open mic on December 22, 2008, 6pm at Barko, Kalayaan Avenue, Quezon City. It is near the city hall. Tickets are sold at P150 each and all benefits will go to Mang Tero for his treatment. Please pass this on to your batchmates.

See Agnes Fondevilla’s blog for more updates and information.

Mang Tero is one of my favorite people in Stella Maris. I would remember every morning when I am almost always late I’d ask him “Nag-second bell na?” and he would reply “First bell pa lang. Takbo na!” and see me running wa-poise from the Cambridge gate to the high school building. He would also let us buy our afternoon snack of flying saucers in front of the school. He would also sometimes chismis to my Tita all my kalokohan in school that he knows (Tomboy daw ako? Haller? Heehee). Christmas time our family would give him gifts of chocolate. One time my dad gave him shoes. That’s how much we love him. 7 years out of Stella and all of my family still remembers him.

So please, please help our Manong Tero. If you don’t happen to be a Stellan, please still drop by at Barko on December 22. We hope to see a lot of people there!

By: Diane On December 12, 2007

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Gun Show @ Megamall

These are some pictures from the Gun Show held at the Megatrade Hall last November 19-26. My uncle convinced me to check it out. I went there on the 25th and for 60 pesos as entrance fee, I got to touch and pose with all these guns. I saw some really weird modifications there such as a baby 12 GA with a plastic butt and a baby AK 47. Makes me wonder how stable will those things shoot especially the 12GA shotgun. My favorite guns are the baby M16 and the chromed Uzi. I remember the days when I was in high school and I wanted to enroll at the Philippine Military Academy. Ha ha.

By: Diane On December 11, 2007

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First Try at Rebel 2000

These are my first attempts of using my brothers SLR. Expect ugly pictures. But I'm reading about photography and yes, I'm practicing my composition. I actually shelled out 2 rolls of 36 shots in Pangasinan last weekend. I'll show some of those in another post. The pictures below were taken last October 19 at the National Peasant Mobilization at CM Recto.

Flags

Speech (That's Lengua speaking actually. I was just too far while taking the shot.)


Youth group discussion

By: Diane On October 23, 2007

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