Little Bit by Lykke Li

I can listen to this song all day.

Color Blind

It’s another day at work. “Thank you for calling Sprint together with Nextel, this is Cara. How can I help you?” While saying the same old spiel, I heard myself and the rest of the team help people with their bills, fix mobile phones, and try to sell more stuff to those lucky callers until I heard one of us make an offer.

“By the way, ma’am, did you know that you could get a free phone today?”

Oh yes, if he can make that successful sale the lucky guy gets an extra thousand pesos on his paycheck. But wait, there’s more.

“Yes, that’s true! In fact, if you order it today, I can even give you additional 100 free text messages and a month of free mobile internet. An x dollar value absolutely free.” More upselling. “Okay, so you want a black flip phone? I apologize ma’am but the black ones went out of stock last week. The only colors available at the moment are brown and pink.”

Pause. Customer must be insisting on a black phone. “Actually the brown one is so brown it’s almost black.”

Blag. I fell off my chair.

On Project 52

A new year.
A new camera.
What else should a girl do?
Make a Project 52.

I got my Canon 1000D on the second day of this year and believe me, I have thought of creating a Project 365.  However, I am busy (as always) so I’ve put the thought aside and focused on other things (ergo, work). After putting much thought, I’ve finally decided to create a Project 52. Less pressure and I get what I want at the same time.  So why the heck did I decide on pushing through with this project?  I realized, this is a very good way to track my progress as I learn more about photography.  I want to see how I will grow in 52 weeks.

Week 1

You can call this my exploration week.  I was fiddling at the buttons on my camera, trying to figure out what settings to use until I came up with a photo of this cute teddy bear.

Week 2

I took my C# (yep, that’s the name of my camera) to the beach!

Week 3?

To be honest, I am still contemplating on what to put for week 3.  Last night, I enjoyed playing with the long exposure function on C# and I managed to take a good picture after several attempts.  However, I am going to UP Manila later so I might see the Oblation again or prolly take a couple of snapshots of the busy streets of Padre Faura.  We’ll see…