Icecreamlove!

For the love of sugar and everything cold and colorful

Oreo ice cream cake

 

My choco-mint Ganouche (a kind of puree with secret stuff in it)— not for the kids ^_~

 

The Ice Cream Man serves!

 

The Nestle Creamery, formerly the Magnolia House, is located in Aurora Blvd., corner Gilmore avenue– you won’t miss it when driving through that place because it has a playground front and a huge happy Nestle sign hung up to the skies.

Bike in the rain

 

Save gas, save our resources– ride bikes, even when it’s raining.

 

 

 

(Near Della Strada Church, Katipunan)

 

What’s “sexy”?

A 2-page spread Quicksilver women’s line ad in Sept 2008 Nylon magazine highlighted this one line that could’ve very well turned me to an advocate of their brand if I were in the US maybe :D:

“You are never so sexy as when you make me think.”

 

 

:)

 

 

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I think it’s a smart line and it promotes Quicksilver in a fresh perspective for me– among all these ads selling “bodies” and “faces”, this one sticks on my mind because they picked on the “brains” and provided a teaser to the website portal their consumers could follow :P

We’re all in this together!

…Kahit na bang @#$%ing na-extend ang deadline ng one week! and kahit na may presentations, papers, pop quizzes peppered over the week, and kahit na may student conference featuring most of use the day AFTER teh deadline..

Go go guys!

UPiktyuran Na! Isa pa?

UP PRAds members goofing off as UPiktyuran ushers =D

 

Co-organizer's organization president signing some...n numbers of certificate of appreciation for ALL participants in the event.

Coursemate/entrepreneur Ervin Temporal is as HOT as always! (nyehe!)

The UPiktyuran workshop seemed like a success– to have our college’s auditorium filled with students. A lucky girl won a camera-phone, but what’s better was that all participants get their pictures flashed among this sea of people!

From the back of the auditorium--some 100+ registered students listening to Mr. Erik Liongoren, commercial photographer

 

Admittedly, I wasn’t able to join the workshop ^^;; I was on the registration booth right outside it, my determination willing-unwillingly fixed on to something more academic.

UP OPTICS Hotshots Workshop 1 – Design in Photography

UP OPTICS Hotshots 1 - Design in Photography by Nestor Abrogena

Learn about Art Direction in Photography! Join us in our Hotshots series! Click on the poster for more information, or read below:

The UP Photography Society Hotshots series offers workshop sessions on special contemporary topics in photography and art. This event series is free and open to all enthusiasts.

Workshop 1: Art Direction in Photography

Speaker: Film art extraordinaire Mr. Nestor Abrogena

August 29, 2008 (Friday) • 4-5:30 PM • Palma Hall 211 (PH 211)

Contact Flori (0916-629-55-81) for more information.

 

 

 

About the organization:

The UP Photography Society (UP OPTICS) is a duly recognized university-wide organization of the University of the Philippines-Diliman, committed to the promotion of photography as an art and the establishment of training grounds for the continuous development of its members’ skills. Established six years ago, it continues to be the leading photography organization in the University.

For the rainy days: cement-block footbridges

Loose cement blocks layered on each other made up these shared make-shift footbridges in the pedestrian lanes near the Trinoma mall. The rain wasn’t that horrible– it’s probably the drainage system working mismagics again!

Either way, people wouldn’t dare get their feet/shoes wet as seen here!

Kitty watches TV!

After PRSP-ing, there’s the sunset

I’m all “sabaw” and tired and ready to plop down after a day of multi-tasking in school today– my camera didn’t capture the 6:14 pm Quezon City sunset that was comforting me when I was walking home. It looked gorgeous– visible light streaks of violet, blue, white, yellow, orange, pink, red on top of each other!

Stretch to de-stress

For a rare moment here–after some 4 or 5 hours of sleep, a mug of coffee, and an floating accumulation of readings about consumer-generated media and related communication theories in my head–I was in epiphany while working on my thesis proposal! Scary! Before I went to class, I had these pages of notes about my proposal. I haven’t progressed on any official writing though (and I’m so delayed already!), but I’m glad I got somewhere good in it :D

“Who am I to you?”

While reviewing e-commerce literature for my thesis proposal, I let my highlighter drag across this phrase which struck me so out of the blue:

“…who people are to each other.”

Really, when was the last time did you evaluate the presence of someone in your life?

If we sit down for a few moments and just think about these, we could easily answer the gravest of issues in our lives already.

But when was the last time you set time aside for these?

 

For me, these are moments when I write (be it in a diary, this blog, on an obscure part of a notebook, the back of a receipt, etc). I might not be able to get other things done, because I spend so much time writing for myself. But this is the only way I can make sense of what’s happening, and the only way I can do things as I do now. Rid me of my writing time, and I’m.. mush.

 

 

[Credits: line by Gutek, B.A. & Welsh, T. (2000), The brave new service strategy: Aligning customer relationships, market strategies, and business structures. NY: American Management Association; in Diane Johnson (2001) "Is this a Real Person? Communication and Customer Service in E-commerce", Management Communication Quarterly 14(4), p 663]

Kitty cozy

We’re having the gloomy-rainy season in the Philippines these days. Rather than disliking the uncontrollable sheets of waterdrops, we could welcome it as “cozy weather for camping out in beds” as my friend Aissa said.

I wish I could camp out in bed right now.

Calm After Nuri

Two days after the Typhoon Nuri hit Quezon City, this is what we’re seeing in our college area UP Diliman:

…glorious blue skies, and soft-rays of the afternoon sun.

As typhoon Karen (or Nuri) as it gets

Jeep commute

Almost umbrella-wall

Despite the cancellation of classes because of Typhoon Karen (Nuri) this wednesday, many students from my department (Communication Research) still had school in their minds.

The general mindset in our lobby was like this: “Uy, ayan walang pasok! GROUP MEETING!” Storms and calamities are never considered excuses to stop working for midterms and papers.

It’s so fortunate that hardly any of us were plagued by graver problems usually brought my calamities, like flooded homes, loss of livelihood, or family. I feel guilty, sometimes: at times when we’re “stressing out like hell” for schoolwork, others out there are fighting off for their lives in highly-threatening scenarios.