Anyway, I suck for not getting there early enough for Ang Bandang Shirley. A bunch of Tumblr people were there and I kept to Mogwai and Futurecafe, only going near the stage/crowd during Taken By Cars’s set. I had fun, Penny got drunk (hrhrhrhrhr), and I should have taken more photos of the people I knew. I used my 50mm lens that night and I found myself wishing I brought my kit lens instead.

Photos! Of people! No bands! Oh hey, what’s a cell phone repeater?

Ade took this one. I didn’t have time to properly set Baby Girl’s white balance to even out Halo’s yellow lights.

This be Fiel.

And this is Belle.

Shinji.

Penny and Charls.

I spy Spy!

Vee/V/Hala ka, Vera.

Fiel, Ade, and Shinji.

Drew.

Random person taking a photo of Penny for her fashion blog.

Apol!

Sam and Apol.

Stephan.

Tin. She and Belle are roommates and the three of us are neighbors. I met the both of them on Tumblr.

Francis and Shinjikeh.

Shinji giving me the stink eye.

IDK WAT. Geekfight’s Paolo. I remember telling him to lose weight.

Tin and Shinji dancing.

Penny and Joey.

Passed out Penny and Nan.

Francis.

Elyoo and Peter.

Random hot girl.

The photographer’s name is Aliver.

Michee’s hand. Joey probably took this.

Michee and her guy. I don’t remember his name but I remember accidentally stepping on his foot.

Nan and Joey.

Drew.

Last Friday in a nutshell: solitaire on my iPod, Kate hiding from the camera, Allah’s vintage low-rider bicycle, my breaking a bottle for the second time, Kel in a dress, and Michee and Nan trying to make me awkward at Tapsi ni Vivian (where we seem to end our nights all the time).

BIKE RACE!!!! Except Allah went up against a motorbike. And lost.

K, that’s enough.

Most of these songs are about cities— New York and Los Angeles, specifically. Some are just songs I like listening to while walking at night and some, songs I love but haven’t listened to in a while. I wanted whimsical yet upbeat and songs that make me feel giddy.

My iPod’s poppy-happy “In the city” playlist:

1. Nolita Fairytale – Vanessa Carlton
2. Free Fallin’ – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3. Everywhere – Michelle Branch
4. Hey Jealousy – Gin Blossoms
5. Black and Gold – Katy Perry (Sam Sparro cover)
6. Seasons of Love – Rent OST
7. Downtown – Petula Clark
8. Generation – Emerson Hart
9. First Train Home – Imogen Heap
10. Santa Monica – Savage Garden
11. The Boxer – Simon & Garfunkel
12. London Rain (Nothing Heals Me Like You Do) – Heather Nova
13. Better in Manhattan – Casey Dienel
14. More Than This – 10000 Maniacs
15. When The Stars Go Blue – Ryan Adams
16. Big Yellow Taxi (feat. Vanessa Carlton) – Counting Crows
17. Nowhere and Everywhere – Michelle Lewis
18. The Camper Velourium I: Faint of Hearts – Coheed and Cambria
19. Sunken-Eyed Girl – Mike Doughty
20. Wish I Stayed – Ellie Goulding
21. Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered – Silje Nergaard

Rapidshare, ZIP

Aaaand some photos:

Eh, I meant to draw mouse ears on this photo and call it “country mouse” but I forgot and I’m too lazy to do it now. Anyway, I wanted to wear this today but the dress’s fabric was too hot. I got really sweaty (you’d think I just had a go and worked out on refurbished fitness equipment) just taking photos out in my balcony. So I changed into this:

The pink shirt is really, really thin. I bought it as a beach cover-up but I find it very comfortable for sweltering city weather.

Claudia Schiffer photographed by Erwin Wurm for Vogue Deutsch (November 2009):

Erwin Wurm is an Australian artist. Since the late 1980s he has developed an ongoing series of “One Minute Sculptures,” in which he poses himself or his models in unexpected relationships with everyday objects close at hand, prompting the viewer to question the very definition of sculpture.

The usual people:

~*~My Famous Friend, Miss Elyoo~*~

~*~Kel~*~

~*~Drew~*~

~*~Nan~*~

Lala ~*Allah~*~

~*~Helga~*~ (+ some random dude Kel wanted a photo of).

Just a bunch of photos and they’re mostly of Elyoo. Posting and publishing because I need to do something with these photos and not just leave them in my hard drive (I’m too lazy to post and tag people on Facebook).

I’ve been thinking: it would do me a lot good if I, maybe temporarily, stopped drinking/going out every Friday. I may or may not need a new laptop (I have my eye on a pink and white Acer Aspire) and I could put the money I spend on alcohol and cigarettes towards that. But, oh, beer. Too good.

Dhon Jason

Joey, Drew, and Allah.

Elyoo is the dancing hipster.

Michee and Stephan.

We haven’t seen Joey since she turned 30 last year.
She’s turning 31 this week.

One of them’s a vampire and one’s a werewolf.

Chatty, Kel, and Kate.

Sup with all the teeth, Helgr.

Michee is so kyot.

Sidewalk culture.

Ken from Mangored on the left. He took the photos with the trippy light streaks.
I tried to do it but was too tipsy.

I cropped out Kel’s abdomen.

I don’t think Nan likes me hugging him.

I went up to Stephan and went “God, your skin is super nice!”

At the end of the night, Futurecafe ran out of my beer (San Miguel Light because I am a wuss who doesn’t like the taste of Red Horse).

Every once and a while, our very domesticated friend offers to cook for us (sometimes, she offers to clean our houses, too). She had her apartment all to herself last night so a few of us came over for chili-cheese sticks of doom, chips, beer, and a cheesy horror movie.

It looks like salsa, yeah? That’s actually the chili that I had to pick out because the cheese sticks were too spicy! I made a mess.

2) My lovely aubergine loafers.

I’ve been jonesing for a pair of loafers for the longest time and I finally bought a pair. I imagine wearing them with white lace tights, heh. The one thing I kinda don’t like about this pair: they have half-inch kitten heels. A bit hard to walk in.

(Yes, I have veiny feet and veiny hands!)

3) Bubble tea!

I can never have enough of bubble tea! <3

4) The Acer Aspire.

In pink and white! Looks like candy.

5) My morning skin stuff.

Left: no makeup. Right: with a bunch of skin goo, sans makeup.

If you think I’m ugly without makeup, you’re not the one who has to wake up next to me for the rest of your life, k.

6) This day:

Got to talking about Hanson on Tumblr so I went to look for this photo. November 30, 2004, Aliw Theater backstage. Taylor’s hand on my shoulder! <3

7) Taking a bazillion photos of myself for no reason at all, yey.

Here, kitty kitty.

My hair’s brown again and is obviously (:P) itching for some blonde highlights.

For the first half of this year, I’ve decided to grow my hair and keep my bangs. This isn’t as easy as it sounds as I have the tendency to ask for more inches off whenever I find myself on a salon chair. I guess I’ll have to learn how to say “Pa-trim ng bangs lang” and then restrain myself from saying anything else.

This is my ~*~dream hair~*~:

Emily from Skins! I don’t watch the show (I hear she’s a lesbian and she has a twin sister?) but I saw this photo on Tumblr a couple of weeks ago and fell in la-la-love with her hair. That’s such a nummy shade of red! I don’t think it will match my skin tone, though.

In other news, the lover is sending me a care love package! It ships out Friday PST and will travel the seas for seven days hrhrhr. I am so excited! In the package are: a lens for Baby Girl, Crest Whitestrips (we actually fought about this. My fault), a tube of Mac lipglass, a brochure for IT Jobs (loljk), jeggings (in XS/S, what the heck. I have 1.5 weeks to lose weight), and a bunch of other surprises. Kee, I can’t wait!

My neighborhood is ugly but I love it. My bedroom window doesn’t have a view except for walls walls rundown walls with the paint peeling off but sometimes when I am lucky, I can see the moon from where I lie before going to sleep.

When I wake up and stand next to my window and look up, this is what my camera sees:

This is what you look like through my eyes:

Oh, Tindalo Street. The dull colors with the occasional pops of gaudy yellow (Angel’s Hamburger, what’s up) and rusted ornaments never bothered me. The jeepneys that pass, speed, and roar through (quite rudely!) this largely residential area are something I have learned to live with. I am no longer wary when I walk home at night. The lady who does my nails and her co-workers recognize me. I used to get cat calls when I first moved here over year ago; often from someone on their home’s second floor. The lover would tell me: “I’ve got to get you out of there!” and “hemorrhoid cream!” But they have stopped and I am glad; I am one of them now. But cuter.

(I still miss Katipunan, though.)

I have a lot of photos of myself, on my bed, this morning. When there’s nothing interesting outside your windows…

Hello.

1. I wish I had an Eyedropper to capture the color of your eyes.

2. Has anybody ever told you that your teeth have perfect kerning?

3. If you were a logo, it would be for a really premium brand.

4. I’m just like a global nav; I love to be on top.

5. Come back to my place and I’ll show you a really naughty way to fill up some negative space.

6. Would you like to lorem ipsum dolor sit on my lap?

7. If I went to a stock photography site and typed in the keyword: “sexy”, I bet there’d be a picture of you.

8. I couldn’t help but notice your eye path went right to my smudge stick.

9. First I think I’ll stroke your curve, then I’d like to fill you.

10. Is that Content Aware Scaling or are you just happy to see me?

11. You look perfectly put together. Do you display this well in IE?

12. I like my fonts sans-serif, and you sans-pants.

13. You know the hotkey to my Magic Wand Tool

14. I dig your look and feel.

15. If you like what you see now, wait’ll you look below the fold.

16. Let’s “Skip Intro” and just go find a hotel room right now.

17. When I serve you breakfast in bed tomorrow, would you like your coffee with cream and sugar, or do you prefer it #000000?

18. Do you want to touch my Bézier curves?

19. What if I told you the fly on my troussers opens quicker than a 500k JPEG file?

20. Mind if I take you for a usability test?

I passed by Saizen (Japanese store where everything is 85 pesos) for the first time last night during my lunch break and bought this. According to The Internets!, these are the benefits of using charcoal soap:

Charcoal soap is believed as it can provide more moisture to the skin as it absorbs purities that sometimes can make the skin speckled. Speckled skin will make the overall performance ugly so that people try many ways to eliminates and avoid it. This soap removes all dead cells over your body and retains newer cells. Moreover, charcoal soap is also good in order to make the skin lighter. When you think that you want to have a lighter skin, this soap can be a safe way to help you promoting lighter skin. Furthermore, you will also have refreshed skin everyday. As a conclusion, this charcoal soap will be able to give you healthy, more moisture and lighter skin.

I just want and am desperate to get rid of my pimples and my regular face wash for acne doesn’t seem to work anymore.

Morning stuff on my table.

I bought the ashtray from Saizen, too; that striped thing on the edges is a kitty!

Today’s outfit. I am finally wearing my pair of jeans from the Levi’s Modern Vintage collection outside the house. Sorry for the cat; I look sleepy and just plain ugly in the photo.

Are you a Globe Tattoo user? Good for you because you have a chance to get free tickets to see The Killers live in Manila this January! Here’s how (from the Globe Tattoo blog):

The promo started January 15, 2010 and ends January 28, 2010. Non-Globe Tattoo users can still buy a broadband stick and join =p

1. Take a picture of yourself with a Globe Tattoo Broadband stick.
2. Post it on the wall of the Globe Tattoo fan page.
3. The top 95 most-”liked” photos will get one (1) ticket each!
4. At 9PM, of January 28, 2010, the contest cuts off. We will no longer accept submissions or count the “likes” past January 28, 2010 at 9PM.
5. We will announce the names of the winners on this blog on the evening of January 28, 2010.
6. Winners must confirm by texting their names and contact details (landline number, cellphone number) to 0927-3890762.
7. Winners can claim their tickets on January 29, 2010 at 4th Floor, Globe Telecom Tower 2, Pioneer St., Mandaluyong City. Look for any Digital Marketing representative. Or at the concerts grounds, January 31st. Again, just look for Globe representatives.
8. Unclaimed/unconfirmed tickets will be given away in another contest on January 30, 2010.
9. In case there’s a tie, the pic that was submitted earlier will get the ticket.

Visit the Globe Tattoo blog for more details.

So many upcoming events, best to invest in zit creams for those late nights!