Scrap Happy

In days when I really can’t stomach schoolwork anymore, I draw out art materials and accumulated “trash” (old paper dolls, torn magazine sheets, flyers, receipts, etc.), and release my so-called angst all on paper.

My oh-so happy, rainbow brite angst.

On one rather recent hectic night of school, I decided to halt my tedious home-working, and take a break. Suddenly I found myself excitedly starting a craft project for my Grandnanay, a picture frame to give to my Lola Ma.

She’s one of those people I love giving stuff to because she displays it on her room. I’m lucky most of my relatives do display the works I’ve given them, which energizes me anew, and makes me super happy to know that they appreciate and support my passion.

The moment I started cutting up paper scraps or digging out small materials was the beginning of a spiel where I felt at ease with the world.. I get to concentrate on what I can recycle, or what else I can create, or whom to give it for… And for these few hours, I’m able forget about everything else.

Some hours and having a paper-scrap littered floor later, I was able to create a priceless hand-made, very ‘Aei’ frame.
^_^

After this, I sort of cooled down and felt at peace with life once again.

I love this hobby.

Fraternal Destiny Twins?

A and A: Aaron and Aleli : Boy and Girl : Brother and Sister : Signature and Thrift-crazy : Socialite and Taong-bahay : Pop and Indie : Designer and Writer : Super-techie and Not-so-but-still-techie : Adobe King and Princess : Ateneo and UP : 21 and 20. 

..are we?

Hide and Seek

On my birthday last week, me and my friend Mai were harrassing two white kittens we found near UP College of Music using our cameras:

Yan tuloy, tinaguan ako!

Hehe, joke only daw! Nakikipaglaro rin sila!

Ang cool rin ng Nanay-Neko nila! May beaded Kitty collar!

I wanted to take the kittens home, as in HOME but Nanay Neko was there and I couldn’t kidnap them on the spot.

I was glad that the kittens had a home of their own somehow ^^

My Mom has a blog!

(But I haven’t read it yet.)
Click here!

This is what CommRes does to you

Nagiging OC ka sa pag-organize/categorize,
caffeine-dependent,
at constantly surrounded by books/readings/sources.

The last picture, is a pile of work to do last sunday… I sort of finished everything already right now.

Three sems plus one thesis sem nalang and I’m freeeee!

(P.S. Of course if you bother to read the titles on the bookshelf, most of them are art books. Poser commres student lang talaga ako haha.)

Shutter Happy

This is how we look like in genuine love with photography.
(even while using a digi-cam that’s not an SLR ^_~)

I use a camera phone for most of the pictures in this blog.

I love whipping the phone out and pretending to text message somebody…when in reality I’m already shooting candidly.

Emo

…in Mcdo colors.

Parks and Wildlife Laundry

Fortunately the canal did not smell like a stinky, nauseating canal from where I was standing some two feet away.

Would their clothes come out clean after that?

Fashionista Mommy

How would it feel if you had a mother who wears clothes like these..

^_~ It’s not mine–she owns that frilly frilly skirt all to herself!

And it feels like we’re back in the 80s-early 90s again when we used to wear matching outfits– All white! All red! All polka dots! All plaid!

Like these:

Anyway

This is the happy happy nanay, attempting to take a picture of her daughter with a point-and-shoot camera (and was unsuccessful at it).

I think I got the more effective photo between the two of us trying to take a picture of each other!

Uy, Acetate Projector!

This is from my CommRes 120, Quantitative Analysis, class. Hello classmates!

Yes, we still use projectors where we use text/pictures printed in acetate/transparency paper…

(But I’m still lucky because we have a working projector (for PCs) to use! Rich ang commres department ng UP!)

Hello Angelo!

Other than that:
Today, nakalusot pala ako from being marked off as one of the delinquents in the class..because of my super nice Commres Curlies friends! (haha, cool nickname!)

Me, flops down on a seat, anxious in having to attend a statistics class I can’t understand.
Annali: Aei, may homework ka?
Me: ….@#$%…HOMEWORK!?>@#$
Annali: Oo…
Me: …@#$%%!!!!!!!!
Annali and Mai: Ok, pahiramin ka nalang namin ng tables, and charts…mag-imbento ka nalang ng sasabihin..

An hour later…

Annali : Mag-pa-cute nalang tayo sa harapan.

10 minutes later…

I pulled it off! I explained some examples of tables and graphs and charts using some leftover trivia from my Economics 11 class last year…

Harhar!

Yay for generous, smart, studious, responsible friends in UP!

Save the Environment…by Drawing!

Here’s something doodlers like us can do to maybe help save our environment!

Draw anything in ‘GREEN’ and send it to us before 7/7/07 to join artists around the world in combating global warming!

Theme: Anything as long as it’s GREEN in colour!
Deadline: 7/7/07
Format: 800 x 800 pixels (72 dpi)

Send all completed entries to:startdrawing.liveearth@gmail.com
and include the following info:
- Name
- Country
- Website (if any)

Send in your entries today!

(post from StartDrawingforLiveEarth)

Just a thought: the drawing doesn’t have to be necessarily green at first. You can just draw whatever, scan it, and then edit it in Adobe Photoshop for the greenery.

I hope we can finish those drawings in time for 7.7.07!

Saturday Lull

Even the security guards take a break on a Saturday.. yet some students like me still have to go to class for the whole day!

I guess it’s too early to decide whether I regret taking these Saturday classes or not. ^^ Maybe I didn’t like the idea of weekend classes so much because I have to attend something as tedious as Media Law class for three hours! Nyyyarg! I just don’t appreciate law/politics!

(Photo locations: in front of UP theater, and CAL building, UP Diliman)

(cross-posted at SunnyHillTrio)

Let’s Sit in the Bookstore

on the floor.

Let’s read expensive books for free.

Some of you guys might think that this is illegal/unfair/unethical/whatever.

I think that the bookstores of our country are earning enough money, that’s why it should be ok to share at least one unsealed book of a title to the public. They do that in other countries, so why not ours?

Sure, those countries are first-world and we’re in a lowly third-class standing. The first-class countries have generally more books, more people who buy books, more income for their books—the Philippines has less of every material thing I just mentioned.

So what?

Well, did you know that some local bookstores earn money by selling “second-hand” or “marked-down” books…which they got for free? Those books were supposedly donated to us Filipinos, but the merchants are depriving Pinoys of resources by putting the books out for “sale”.

Imagine, if there are accessible books, more of us will be able to read.. more of us Filipinos will be smarter!

If the stores don’t make profits, they should be closed, right? Well they’re not…so they’re making money. I thought, okay they can sell those second-hand books…as long as they share at least a tiny portion of that profit to the people..by allowing them to read/browse/scan the other books without buying! (for goodwill and less karma for those stores too!)

So salesladies, please don’t discourage people from reading books up for sale; please don’t shoo away that rare spark of interest to gain new knowledge out of even scanning a book!

Kudos to bookstores that don’t seal knowledge in plastic!
^_~

Dinner with Lola

Honestly, it was the young girl whom I first noticed. I was seated beside her in a Megamall foodcourt bench last saturday, sitting in a similar indian-sit manner. I thought, “What a cool kid!” (parang ako! jk!)

I turned to check out the adult with her, to see if her parent was the sort of artsy/boho person who would allow their child to sit in public that way.

I was happily surprised to find her eating out with her Lola. And just the two of them–no parents, yayas, ates. They weren’t the type who were chauffeured around. I imagined them commuting together to Megamall.

The beautiful thing here was the way they were completely at ease with each other depite their ages, and amidst the noisy public crowd in the foodcourt. My friend and I almost had to shout to understand each other over the noise like we were in a rock concert but these two people beside us were in an undisturbed aura, of relaxed pace and peace.

It’s probably because of my great attachment to my grandparents, or these two’s refreshing contrast from the crowd, or maybe the many things in my mind. Whatever the reason was, I felt strangely illuminated just by being there beside them.