March 31, 2009 • 11:00 pm 0
I have been absent online for quite a few days since I was busy with other things…things like change and new beginnings. From my 27 years in this earth, the most important thing I guess that I have learned is that nothing is permanent except CHANGE!!! So embrace it and go forward with life in the hopes that tomorrow will be better than today….
P.S. I will write more about my most recent encounter with CHANGE soon…
XOXO
EV
Filed under: Uncategorized , random musings
March 18, 2009 • 6:55 pm 2
I have a new route ever since last week, courtesy of my workmate J who taught me that I can save more by doing this route. Instead of me stopping at Coastal Uniwide mall everyday and catching a bus going to Washington, she told me to just stop at Buendia where the crossroad is. From there I walk about 5 minutes and then catch a jeepney going to my workplace and it saves me around 7PHP everyday. So I decided to take this route because it would amount to around 70PHP per 10 days. Not bad at all. I can use that 70 for other stuff. Anyway, as I was walking going to the jeepney stand, I had to pass thru all these empty and old buildings and in my walk an old guy stops me. He is well dressed, not that old and I think he was a foreigner but the biggest stamp that he has on my memory is that his head was actually bleeding. Super bleeding red, bleeding blood and he asked me to stop and look at him while he was wiping it to make sure that there was none left after he wiped it all off. I was backing off as I was looking at him and I was up and about and ready to run. You can’t be too sure these days about how crazy people are and I was just so scared at the fact that he had a gash that was around 4 inches high and obviously needed stitches but that he was just ignoring them and wiping the blood off. Luckily it was daytime and there were a lot of people around to help me if ever…
Filed under: Daily Travel Diary , all about the philippines, Daily Travel Diary, scared
March 16, 2009 • 6:45 pm 0
I was supposed to attend this bloggers meet and greet event for BB Gandanghari when some virus slowed me down Saturday afternoon. In the morning, I brought Z to her doctor and she had her flu shot. Then came afternoon. By the time we had gotten back to the house, I was already feeling a bit sore and then came the headaches and then the fever…Yes, I walked around the house with fever for the next 2 days (Saturday and Sunday) and I wasn’t feeling too good. So when I woke up early this morning, I thought that the fever had vanished…Took my usual shower because I don’t want to get out of the house without taking a bath and then went on to the office and then while still on the way, I was still feeling off what with my cold, dripping liquid from my nose. I had fever all throughout the day and my office mates told me to go home but I wouldn’t. One thing that I really hate doing is being absent so I am still here, nose all stuffy and still battling with the fever that is leaving me really weak. I want to go home…See you at another time BB! Sorry for missing the event…
Filed under: Bloggers Event , philippine showbiz, philippines
March 13, 2009 • 6:55 pm 2
I was fortunate enough to be invited to this event by SexyMom aka Dine Racoma of “the D Spot”. She organized this event together with Noemi Lardizabal-Dado of “About My Recovery”.Dine Racoma aka SexyMom invited me to the event via PLURK. Plurk has become a very interesting addition to my life as well as to my friends’ life. I am excited about the event to be held tomorrow, March 14, 2009 from 3:00PM-5:00PM at Mag:net in Bonifacio High Street. Only 80 bloggers are expected and I think quite a good number have signed up. I am very excited and looking forward to meeting Ms. Gandanghari. I am trying to figure out her persona and am very interested in it. I do not know if I will like her since I don’t know her personally nor have had any personal interaction with her so come Saturday I will try and get to know the BB Gandanghari that everyone is so enamored of. As of this writing though courtesy of Boy and Kris’ SNN show, I know that BB is still in Bohol at the Eskaya resort with girlfriends Pops Fernandez and Gretchen Barreto.
Excited to meet you tomorrow BB! Thanks to Noemi and Dine for organizing the said event.
Filed under: Bloggers Event, Features , all about the philippines, philippine showbiz
March 12, 2009 • 2:40 pm 0
The world is small and it is getting smaller everyday. I happen to know Clifford (kuya cliff to me) through a very good friend of mine, friend L. I never thought that when she introduced Clifford that we actually belonged to the same alma mater. Another UP Cebu graduate of Fine Arts. He has been a good friend together with friend L that I am so grateful to have made their acquaintance. Clifford is such a silent guy but beneath the silent facade runs the heart of a true artist and a musician at that. But wait, there is more he is also into website design and so many other things that with him his talent just overflows. Very, very talented and good person. He is my artist feature for this week.
Name: Clifford Remolador
Lives in: Lapu-Lapu Cebu
And here is our Q&A part…
Where do you get inspiration for your art?
Clifford: My art is inspired by the conditions of the people, as well as their struggles and triumphs.
What do you hope to do or inspire with your art?
Clifford: As an artist and activist, it is a responsibility to ignite the consciousness of the people – especially the masses – regarding the country’s economic conditions. I hope to organize fellow artists – not only from my lines of expertise (visual arts and music) but also from other artistic disciplines – and inspire them to use their creative talents as a medium to encourage people to become more aware, conscious, critical and progressive.
Which artists influence/d your art?
Clifford: For visual arts, my style was influenced by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van Gogh, and Munch. From our local artists, I also like the works of Malang, Botong Francisco, Martino Abellana, Romulo Galicano, and Raymund Fernandez. As for the theme, I’m more influenced with works of social realist painters like Diego Rivera.
For music, my influences include The Beatles, Rolling Stones, U2, Antonio Forcione, Carlos Santana, Slash, Gary, Granada, Joey Ayala, The Jerks, and Yano.
All of his website design projects are still in construction and I will post the websites later on after they have been finished.
Cartooning, Animation, & Caricature client:
Original Music Compositions:
bekah
http://www.sendspace.com/file/y52thz
closing_ salarin
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ob5aem
death of pablo
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jkgxh6
kawawang tupa 2
http://www.sendspace.com/file/cqzqyt
kawawang tupa
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bfs1js
opening_salarin
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4vlmwa
tanda monologue
http://www.sendspace.com/file/nyr59o
tiya chedeng_salarin
http://www.sendspace.com/file/sh1z6o
vida1
http://www.sendspace.com/file/9gsl3j
vida
http://www.sendspace.com/file/84kqro
wedding_salarin
http://www.sendspace.com/file/gwl824
BANSIWAG (band) with Kyra, Owen, Joan, Jun-Jun, Isidore.
Hilum
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ha42hl
Kinsa Pa Ba
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5ybyha
LUMAD NOMAD (artgroup) with Vic, Rainville, Pikoy, Jeffrey, Alfred, Chucel, April
Cebu Normal University 1st vertical mural
Such a long list of activities. Whew! He did not give a picture of himself so instead I will put in one of his caricature artworks. If you want to get in touch with him, please contact me and I will gladly get you in touch with Kuya Cliff….
Filed under: Features , all about the philippines, art and artists, friendships, local artists
March 11, 2009 • 5:43 pm 0
What we have been doing to mother nature for the past hundreds of years is coming back to haunt us. Today right here in the Philippines we see an increasing rate in our temperatures over the summer. Just these past few weeks we have had temperatures rising to 34 degrees and Summer seems to be starting early. Well I see these as effects of global warming because of what mankind has and is doing to our mother Earth. All over the world, the sea level has been rising as what I heard and saw reported on TV earlier today and also a part of Mauritania is turning into a desert that their government is already alarmed and is making plans to return the greenery there once was. I hope that we all realize the bad that we are doing and start saving our Mother Earth for she is one and only and she needs to be saved in order for us to be saved. Somehow I see that floods wiping out entire civilizations might come to pass and we might be building a bad future for our children.
Join hands everyone to make our Earth cleaner and greener. Let us do our part however small it is. Big things start small. Let us start to recycle and be mindful of our trash. They might come back to haunt us…
Filed under: News , all about the philippines, global news
