Livin high and takin it easy

I missed Top Junk’s performance in Ten02 Bar last year during Roma’s birthday party so this was the first time I got to see them perform… and boy did I love them! They got themselves one more fan (so much so that we are going to see them perform this coming Saturday, Sept 3 at 70s Bistro. Flush and the Toilets are also playing so that’s one more reason to go!)

I have uploaded the videos of the Top Junk performances from Amrei’s 30th birthday celebration at Route 196 last Saturday videos on the youtube account that I had to make just so I can have a place to upload videos to and share them. I’m new to this video-taking/video-making (like I’m new to “fashion photography” or the semblance of it), so it took me a while to make the videos brighter on iMovie. I re-uploaded the videos. They are now brighter but they are less sharp (which makes me a wee bit sad). It took me at least 3 hours each to upload the videos. I already took down the previously uploaded original videos.
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We’ve been looking forward to this event for quite some time as we knew it was gonna be one great night of celebration of life, friends and music. We had a blast with friends we get to see often and friends we don’t. Nothing like good old friends and wonderful music! (Watch out for videos of performances from Diwa de Leon, Top Junk, The Discoball and of course, Flush and the Toilets, to be posted as soon as they get uploaded on Youtube)

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Our very talented friend, The U.P. Repertory Company alumna and two-time chairperson, the person behind VitalStrats Creative Solutions and the lead vocals of Flush and the Toilets, celebrate her birthday today with music and friends at Route 196!

We have to admit that we’ve been looking forward to this for more than a month!

Lia, fresh from her visit at the Luneta Park and the Japanese Garden, came to see me at CCP, right after I was done shooting VLF6′s Set D. We decided to have dinner at Harbor Square before going home. Katte and other friends were also there to hang out and have dinner.

Lia and Katte were instant friends.

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I actually do not have the right to write about these photos. I know nothing about them except..

… they were taken sometime between 2001 and 2003 when I was still in college
… they were taken for my friend Lorie‘s B&W film class

We were hanging out at the U.P. Association of Biology Majors (ABM)‘s tambayan and she said she needed someone to take photos of for her class. I was not doing anything so I told her I’d do it. (At least that’s how I remember it)

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The 2010 Travel Factor Olympics started at eight in the morning, but since it’s Ryan’s last day before a week-long business trip abroad, I thought it necessary for him to spend the morning playing with our daughter as well as catching up on sleep. We missed the Frisbee and Tug-of-War games.

The schedule said volleyball was going to start at two o’clock so I thought it was safe to leave the house after putting Lia down for her afternoon nap and catch the first volleyball game. The rain started pouring really, really hard as we were closing our front door and getting into the car. We got to the Marikina Sports Park sometime past two o’clock, just in time for the second round of volleyball games: UBBE vs CONQUER. We had missed our own. The SURFVIVOR vs PHOTOHOLIC volleyball game started at one o’clock, Tikoy said. I had really wanted Ryan to play volleyball. I don’t play any other sports myself, and I am especially disinterested in anything with balls like basketball, volleyball, football, billiards, tennis so on and so forth. I just really suck at sports and I get tired really easily. Anyone ever noticed how I do not have a category for sports?

While the other teams played, Ryan, Ver and I had a food trip inside the complex. I have been especially addicted to siomai the past days and have been looking for lugaw or goto the past weeks.

Ryan got to play volleyball in the game for third and fourth place, UBBE vs PHOTOHOLIC. 15-weeks pregnant Sheila and non-sporty me, along with a couple of other Photoholic team members had a grand time cheering on our team and I really must say that I was absolutely entertained.

Cheering team members, photo by Jetters Natividad

I finally finished my blogs on Lia and I’s trip to El Nido, Palawan last April. It took a long time but I finally finished! One trip crossed out (or checked off) the travel blogs to-do list …and yet more to go!

I had a lot of pictures so I had to separate the entries.

• A Short Visit to El Nido Part One
• A Short Visit to El Nido Part Two
• How to Get to Caalan Beach, El Nido, Palawan

I can do this. One little blog at a time.

Here is a photo of me with my Potter’s Place family, taken at the mess hall right after graduation. You can see some of the togas hanging out in the back… and I still have my long hair…

Get busy with your cardio routines and stock up on the energy drinks. The Travel Factor Olympics is back!

Travel Factor is proud to announce the 2010 Travel Factor Olympics to be held on July 25, 2010 (Saturday) at the Marikina Sports Park.

Come out and play!

PACKAGE RATE
Php 650.00 per person

PACKAGE INCLUSIONS
Participation in Travel Factor Olympics Events (Ultimate Frisbee, Volleyball, Fun Games)
Use of Marikina Sports Park Amenities (See itinerary)
2010 TF Olympics Event Shirt
Travel Factor ID and lanyard

ITINERARY
July 25, Sunday
07:30AM Assembly and Registration at Marikina Sports Park
08:30AM Game 1: Ultimate Frisbee
09:00AM Game 2: Ultimate Frisbee
09:30AM Fun Games 1
10:00AM Fun Games 2
10:30AM Semifinals: Ultimate Frisbee
11:00AM Finals: Ultimate Frisbee
11:30AM Lunch and Free Time at the Swimming Pool
02:00PM Game 1: Volleyball
03:00PM Game 2: Volleyball
04:00PM Semifinals: Volleyball
05:00PM Finals: Volleyball
06:00PM Awarding

For more details, please visit the Travel Factor event site.

I don’t think I’ve ever been a party person and I would never describe myself as an extrovert, but I think, for Lia, I will go to parties, kiddie parties that is, because she loves people and she finds parties fun.

The Mayfield Park Residences clubhouse where Kria was having her first birthday party was jam packed when we got there. For someone who only goes to family kiddie parties, I’ve never seen so many kids and adults of all ages at a party. It was just Lia and I and we didn’t see anyone we knew when we got there so the first thing we did was look for Abet, Hash and Euan.

Euan, whom we fondly call “anti-social”, was already enjoying himself, playing with his mom at the playground by the pool.

Little big boy Euan looking like his mama in this photo

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I took Lia, who was exhausted and fell asleep the minute we got into the cab, home from Astoria to nebulize her and put her in her crib – then off we went to Leia’s send-off party at Bahay ni Juan in Kapitolyo, Pasig Friday evening, July 16th.

Blaise, Leia and Ayla

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