Snapshots

     With having your first camera, you can't really resist the urge to take a picture of something, whether it be the most irrelevant thing at home or just anything you find colorful that definitely would look on a photo.

     Here are some snapshots from my Canon EOS 550D :)

my iPod nano splattered with mud 

while dancing in the rain

in painting, the first stroke is always the hardest

an unfinished business at home

I miss playing the piano

sister took a picture of her phone while i'm sleeping. caught you

my sister's abstract painting using poster colors

my overflowing luggage for Korea x_x

my lip balms for winter. sissy took this photo

ballerinas, angels and little girls

a good book I found in Fully Booked 

     The last photo is a book titled Lonely Planet's Guide to TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY by Richard I'anson. Ever since the JTA application and our spontaneous Palawan trip, I'm having this feeling my future income will allot a big chunk for travelling since I really love doing it and I'm itching to go to other places and take pictures myself :)) Of course I'm aware that such an activity's pricey that's why I'm determined to make my first millions in my 20's hahaha wild dreams :)). And to link travel to photography, whoah this really makes much more sense, especially since I already have my first ever camera. Aside from taking my barkada's vanity photos (haha), I would really like to try out something more than just pressing the shutter a gazillion times. And my flight to Korea (which is in three days) would be a great opportunity to practice. Creative juice, please!

     And I always wanted to create my own photo blog with photos decent enough to be shown in public :)

     As for the choice of book, I guess that investing on this kind of book would be more practical and worth it rather than buying a travel guide for Korea. At least I'll get to learn something. Aside from native Koreans that I bet would be happy to tour me around their country, I'm sure there are a lot of websites in the internet that will help me spot Korea's most anticipated events and festivals. In addition, the internet's more updated and I bet the published travel books for Korea will have little to say about Korean Pop Culture like the artists BigBang or SuperJunior (concert dates!) or even shooting places for some of Korea's television series :P

     And I'm not expecting to apply and remember all the techniques and tips I will get from this book as soon as I'm done reading. Photography is just like swimming where you'll learn by doing it and not just by reading a book. I'm reading this book out of leisure and not out of pressure. :)

     Hello to my newfound hobby and cheers to more photos and memories! 

An Identified 19th Birthday Wish

"what do you want for your 19th birthday?"

I've been musing over this question for quite some time, because honestly, i don't really know what I really want to get right now. And now that my Junior Term Abroad (JTA) dream is soon to be fulfilled (2 months left!) makes it even a bit more harder for me to think of something that I want for my 19th birthday. I'm not really crazy about gadgets, like i'm not a bit interested in upgrading my 2-yr old cellphone nor dumping my old laptop which is quite a b*tch if you ask me yet has been with me through all these years, helping me write all those A papers (HAHA) and letting me watch TV series (yes, one of my guilty pleasures) online.

so after months of observing my friends, people and everybody around me, thinking about what could possibly be missing in my life right now, I have figured it out. well, I think this is what i want at the moment.

a camera <3

no no i'm not a photographer to begin with but realizing that in 2 months i will be all by myself in Korea, and that i have this lust to explore and travel the world someday, (Asia first, then Europe, then USA haha), i guess a decent camera would be a good company.

if ever i do get one, then these three things would seem enough to sum up the scenes/things i would like to preserve on an image: motion, nature and art.

on a side note, i actually envy my other friends since they seem to know what they actually want in life and definitely never runs out things on their wish list while here i am still struggling for at least one potential wish, haha :))

but whether i would get this for my birthday or not, either way's fine with me. but i would also love to get myself my own camera with my own savings hehe well that's malabo since i don't really know how to save well :D

yeah, ONE DAY TO GO TILL MY 18TH YEAR ENDS :O NICE.