DAY 16: Scarlet Letter

I decided to write my boyfriend a letter today (very old school cheese, I know), and realized how much I miss all the handwritten letters I used to send and receive back in the day. Although it required a bit of effort--I thought long and hard about what to say, carefully choose my prettiest stationery, tried out all my pens until I settled on the one best suited to the occasion, then meticulously wrote down every letter of every word until the message in my head fully materialized on the paper--I was always sure that it would result in something very special and personal.

DAY 15: Baby Doves

I don't win a lot of things mainly because I don't join. I'm one of those people who keeps on wishing to win the lottery, but I never actually buy a ticket. Heh.

The first ever online contest I've joined was Chuvaness' Dove soap giveaway. I don't know what made me join this one since I don't even use Dove (as you can see by the many unopened boxes, although these soaps are perfect for traveling). Ah yes, I really wanted the bag accessory (which I don't use either cause I'm afraid to lose it, boo)! So imagine my surprise when I saw my twitter name posted on her page about the winners! Why couldn't I have joined when she was giving away, oh I don't know, a cellphone or printer?

DAY 14: Frankenzombie

So my 6 year old cousin has this faux-obsession with zombies. I don't know if it's because he knows my uncle, my brothers, and I are a big fan of zombie-themed first-person shooter games; or if it's because he sees my aunt watch zombie shows/movies; or anything else. Basically, he's probably fascinated because he sees that everyone else seems to be interested in them.

One time while I was watching TV with him, he kept insisting that we watch an episode of The Walking Dead. At first I was convincing him to watch something else, since I know this kid gets scared easily, but he was so persistent and adamant about it that I agreed. The show starts and my cousin gets all excited telling him mom and dad that it was on. He was glued to the TV screen all giddy and smiling... Until the zombies came out and starts going after a guy--then my cousin starts freaking out. He hides under a big throw pillow screaming, "Change the channel! Change the channel! CHANGE THE CHANNEL!" the loudest he can to drown out the zombies noises. I guess he didn't like the show after all.

So early this evening, when he asked me to draw him a zombie, I tried to make it as not scary as possible. This is perhaps one of the worst drawings I've ever done, but I like how I managed to create the most unusual-looking undead: part boy band member (hair), part farmer (clothes), and part bum (shoe). Also, let's not ignore his zombie accessory du jour, a decapitated head that looks like it used to belong to a female clown or maybe stolen from an Amazon head shrinker village.

Having said that, this drawing was a complete waste of good Parker Penman Ink.

DAY 13: God is in the details

Couldn't they afford to splurge a wee bit more on the soap dispenser?

DAY 12: Old Comic Book

Isn't it just wonderful when you have something that's older that you are? Oh, the stories it could tell! Above is a September 1980  Star Wars comic book, one of my favorite things. Although I doubt if this particular item has much of a history as it was in near mint condition, never read when I got it; my guess is this was just a duplicate, thus stored somewhere and ignored.

I generally prefer the current specials when it comes to comic books, but this was just something I had to have. If you're going to have just one Star Wars comic book, it's got to be The Empire Strikes Back (for me at least, that was my favorite out of all the installments), even if it's just for the bad-ass cover art.

DAY 11: Charlie

Meet my boyfriend's Belgian Malnois. This four-month old "puppy" is about 3-4x larger than any full grown dogs we have at home. As you can tell by the blurry photo, he's cannot stay still even as my boyfriend tried to turn Charlie's head to the camera. He's extremely sweet and playful, I'm just not used to puppies that are as big as he is.

DAY 10: Sanosuke Sagara

I used to be a huge anime fan back in high school (although I was extremely picky about which ones I followed). This is what opened me to the world of J-Pop & J-Rock, and eventually K-Pop because Korean artists penetrating the Japanese music scene, like BoA (yes I liked her, don't judge me!). I was thankful I went through that phase during the time when Korean music companies were nurturing a few great acts as opposed to churning out random groups every week. But I digress.

Apart from my broadening my musical world, watching anime also helped me a lot in my Japanese foreign language class and my Asian history class. The show that was most useful and enjoyable was Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X, whichever you want to call it. Great story, well-developed characters, and I learned a lot. Plus I had the biggest crush on Sanosuke--he was tall, brooding, good-looking, and funny. I was dead set on finding someone who looked like him (and this is probably why it took me so long to get a boyfriend :D).

Almost a decade later, still no real Sanosuke. Although I did manage to find someone who is tall, occasionally broods, is good-looking, and extremely funny; he gave me that Sano plushie.

DAY 9: My Office Cup

I got this as a door prize from my office Christmas party last year (the only door prize I've ever kept). The whole thing looks like a Grande Starbucks drink but the body is ceramic and the top is rubber.

This ties with my long retired 3D Mickey Fantasia mug, which I got from Disney on ice way back, as my all-time favorite drinking vessel. Too cute.

DAY 8: Wallpaper Wisdom

I am extremely behind on my photos, I know. Fuck it, I'm bombarding tonight with photos I took the past days I was unable to post. Previously, I deemed these not worthy to be uploaded since they were of silly little things I liked. Well this is my silly little project and I started this to just bond with my camera, nothing more. So from here on out, expect more photos of seemingly trivial things that I really enjoy. I'll stop "trying" to post everyday, I'll just do it (Master Yoda said it best).

DAY 7: Shoendelier

This is a cheat post in so many ways:

1. This wasn't actually taken on what was supposed to be Day 7 (March 8);

2. I took this using my iPhone and not my camera (the battery died, boo!); and

3. I'm posting this two days late

I blame the dullness of work (for the lack of interesting things to photograph), the lure of sleep (so hard to resist once you plop on the bed), and so many other things, but I'm just making excuses. I suck, plain and simple.

This photo was taken yesterday, as I was walking to meet my friends for mass at Greenbelt. I was walking through Landmark from Glorietta and these amazing shoe chandeliers were hanging from the ceiling! As a lover of craziness, shoes, and crazy shoes, I couldn't help but take a photo.

I will get back on track very soon (hopefully today), I promise.

DAY 6: Mushroom Kingdom

Today was a bit disappointing. I tried taking a good shot of the outside while it was raining but was unable to take anything I liked. So instead, I'm posting my beat-up Goomba, Mushroom, and Yoshi, which are duplicates from my Mario collection. Totally random, I know.

I'm thinking about doing a Goomba 365 blog in the future, perhaps when I make it to my 100th day with this one?

DAY 5: Opulence

My uncle saw me wearing it and asked why I had a wall clock on my wrist.

(As I post this, I realize that I didn't remove the second plastic cover on the watch's face. My bad.)

DAY 4: Birthday Cupcake

So yes, it is my birthday. I was never used to celebrating my birthday since it usually fell during finals week. Today, I spent a good half of the day sleeping (oh how I've missed you!). The only reason I finally had to get out of bed was because I couldn't hold my pee in anymore--this was at around 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

I met my boyfriend for dinner and he surprised me with a LOT of cupcakes. You see, I'm a sucker for cupcakes; I love love LOVE the stuff. I love it so much that when I'm irritated, a sure fire way to get me to calm down and be happy would be a cupcake.

Afterwards, we went to a karaoke place with my friends where my best friend gave me another birthday cupcake. Woot.

Needless to say, it turned out to be an amazing song- and cupcake-filled night.

DAY 3: Hideo Muraoka

Okay, so early during the day I was set on posting some meaningful photo regarding the environment and how costly it actually is to try to "save" (i.e. to save on plastic, buy reusable eco bags; to save on gas, get a hybrid car; to save on electricity, get energy-efficient appliances; etc.) since I had a talk with my aunt about that on my way to work. The whole day I tried to capture that one scene that would convey that message--no such luck. So I was getting extremely worried about not being able to post anything (back-ups were just really petty random photos I took out of desperation).

Then I bumped into Hideo (for those of you who aren't familiar with him, he's one of the Brazilian-Japanese models who's a frequent face in the local fashion scene; I first heard about him through my best friend who loves him). I figured that if I can't have a meaningful photo, might as well post one of a pretty subject.

DAY 2: The Pre-shot

My best friend, being the cam-hoebag that he is, asked me to take a picture of him using his Instax camera in front of this vacant lighted ad box which was huge (now that I think about it, perhaps 'huge' isn't an accurate description of it--it was actually closer to gigantic). Not wanting to waste his film, I decided to take a test shot of him first.

Just so you know, the resulting Instax photo turned out completely different.

DAY 1: Dusty Vader

So I'm going to be posting the very first photo I took today, after sticking in the camera battery I had charged (fun fact: last photo I took with my digital camera was dated December 20, 2010) after two months of non-usage. Thankfully it was still okay.

There are two things that will always remind me of my dad: The Simpsons and Star Wars. But my photo is of Darth Vader (and portions of Yoda & R2D2) so I'm just going to write about the latter. He made me and my three younger brothers watch the original trilogy in probably every format that has ever existed ever since I was born: Betax, VHS, VCD, & DVD (just need a Blue-ray set and I'm good). My dad was pretty successful in raising children who get giddy at the sight of Star Wars anything. I personally get a warm fuzzy feeling inside every time I see good-looking and/or well-made Star Wars merchandise.

The items I pictured above, I bought from my 5 year old cousin (who got them from McDonald's Happy Meals). It went something like this:

[Peeps into cousin's room and sees him playing with a bunch of toys. Looks around. IS THAT DARTH VADER I SEE?]

C: Hey Appy (his name's Rafael but he couldn't pronounce it when he was younger), is that Darth Vader?

Appy: Yes.

C: Can I have it?

Appy: But I'm playing with it.

C: I'll give you P20 for it [takes out money]

Appy: Okay. That comes with a white one!

C: A Stormtrooper?

Appy: Yup. [looks for white one] Here. [hands me R2D2]

C: This is Artoo! Thanks! [big ass smile]

[My aunt--his mom--peeps into his room too. Appy shows her the bill I gave him.]

Aunt: Oh, where'd you get that?

Appy: From C, she bought my Star Wars toys

[Aunt goes through Appy's toys, grabs something and hands it to me]

Aunt: Here, you can have Yoda too.

I'd say this was a pretty good buy for P20.

Why, hello there.

In an effort to revive my ignored digital camera, a couple of friends convinced me to do the whole take-a-random-photo-a-day and post it online thing. I've seen a lot of people do it and it does seem like something very fun to do. Hence, here I am!

I am not using a DSLR; my camera is a no fuss, tiny-lensed, relatively affordable, run of the mill point-and-shoot digital camera so I'm not expecting anything phenomenal.

Another thing worth noting is that all the photos I will upload will not be edited as (1) I bask in the beauty of imperfections, (2) I want to be able to hone my ability in taking naturally good/interesting photographs, and (3) I already foresee that laziness will not allow me to fix every single one of my photos.

Now enough of that. Let's begin, shall we?