Happy Birthday, Trish!

Celebrated Tricia's 21st at her place last night. Part home-made, part take-out dinner, drinks (no shots - stay classy, folks) and awkward card games. That was fun. :)

First Week

Blogging about the start of year 3.0 at UBC in November becaaause...?

..It's Friday night, I was literally instructed to have fun, and this is all I could come up with.


September 4, 2012

Imagine Day 2012 was a blast. One complaint - we poor Science and Engineering folk have to walk about thrice the distance travelled by students from other faculties. My knees were giving way at the end of the day, and I looked like shit with sweat and blue paint dripping down my face. Cool beans.







September 8, 2012
Science Frosh 2012

Is that not the sickest group shot you have ever laid eyes on?!

Tears for Fears: Live in Cebu!!

August 12, 2012

I FINALLY got to see one of my all-time favourite bands live!! I honestly thought I wouldn't get a chance to see them play live..ever. What are the odds that they would play in a city as small as Cebu?!

They opened with 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World,' which I thought was absolutely perfect! I nearly lost my mind screaming when the first note played. I'm a little sad that they didn't play as many of their old songs as I thought they would (no Woman in Chains...*tear), but it was still so much fun. A lot of my parent's friends were there, and they were all surprised at mine and my sister's excitement, and concluded that we were probably born in the wrong decade.

Majority of the fans have aged and no longer exhibit wild concert behaviour, but come on, this is an exception! They are, after all, Tears for Fears! There were a handful of younger kids dancing by the stage, though. I did manage to squeeze past them to the centre aisle and take some photos with my film Canon AT-1. I swear, Roland smiled when he saw the Asian kid with the vintage camera at the foot of the stage (me), I swear he did.

It's been so long since I've hung out with these girls!! We were schoolmates for the longest time, but only really got to know each other during a study tour to China in 2006. Best roommates you could ever ask for. Candy and Natalie from the room next door were at lunch, too, except I failed to take their photos. :(

A Day in the Life

Flew home to Cebu for a month's vacation before a new school year starts. Life here is quite laid-back relative to other cities.

We spent the afternoon La Marea, a cafe nearby. Their Warm Brownie Cup is amazing. I can't say the same for the Irish Cream, though I was never one for alcoholic beverages. I initially thought it was just really, really terrible coffee until my younger sister told me what was in it! #facepalm

Film Log: AT-1 v.4.0

4.2 A reflection of the Empire State Building, shot from The High Line. This shot took forever to get.
06/27/12


4.3 The type you would expect to find in a concrete jungle.


4.4 An apartment in Chelsea, as seen from the High Line.
4.5 Flowers.


4.6 Mural on a building.
4.7 Flowers.


4.8 A New York subway car.
Date unknown.


4.11 A tourist attends mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
07/01/12


4.14 In meticulous detail.
4.12 In prayer.


4.22 Yellow cab.
4.18 Atlas, The Rockefeller Center.


4.21 5th Avenue.


4.23 The next subway car. I can't remember what I was trying to focus on.

All photos shot with ISO 400 Fuji film, 24 exp. Somehow it was all they had at J&R.

Film Log: AT-1 v.3.0

3.1 Columbia University Subway Station.
07/27/12



3.2 Subway tracks.



3.6 Low Library.



3.9 Earl Hall.



3.14 A New York City hallmark on the upper west side.



3.20 Caged in by the Empire State.



3.21 Central Park, surrounded by giants.



3.22 Macy's department store.



3.24 The iconic Chrysler Building.



3.26 The High Line elevated park, Chelsea, Manhattan.

Twenty-six exposures in a roll of film supposedly for twenty-four. Not bad, not bad. I'm proud to say I regularly exceed expectations this way. All photos shot at 400 ISO, despite it being a very, very sunny day.

Speaking of sunny days, I've been getting recurring headaches likely caused by the intense brightness of rare Vancouver sun. It must be Vancouver's lack of smog.