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Anini-y, Hamtic, San Jose Day Tour – June 2009
Posted by chymera00 in My Travels on 21. Jun, 2009 | 7 Comments
Last week me and my friends most of which I met over at flickr, went photo tripping in Antique province. We visited a few spots in Southern Antique (Anini-y, Hamtic, and San Jose) for a day trip. We first met at Molo Terminal, Iloilo City where a few van drivers were squabbling for our attention, we had to choose between a spacious new looking Mercedes Benz Van and an L300 van, which looked like it had experienced too many trips. We picked the L300 van because the driver promised to leave immediately for us. We were lucky enough because the driver was very friendly and even made a deal with us to take us to where we wanted to go until Hamtic and San Jose and then take us back to Iloilo City.
Bacolod City, Negros Occidental Trip – June 2009
Posted by chymera00 in My Travels on 16. Jun, 2009 | 2 Comments
I was supposed to go to Baras Beach Resort in Guimaras for the weekend with my friend and her classmates. Me and my friend were already prepared to go on with the trip, we’ve already packed our bags and met in the city. Unfortunately, her classmates bailed out on the plan because it was raining and opted to watch a movie instead. We were quite upset about that because the trip was already planned weeks before and the rain wasn’t strong enough to be worried about, there were also no reported storms coming. Wanting to go on with any trip, we decided to go backpacking to Bacolod City instead.
San Sebastian Church at Dusk
Starting a New Blog Mindmap
Posted by chymera00 in Blogging Tips on 15. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
If you’re doing a complex task over and over, one way to help you do things more efficiently and help you remember key steps is making a mindmap about it. I’m currently starting to make a living out of blogging, and experimenting on starting new blogs to make my own little blog network. Starting a new blog takes a some time and effort, and for it to become successful, bloggers have to be diligent to set it up promoting it. So I decided to systematize my workflow in starting new blogs by making a mindmap for it. Here’s how my first draft looks like:
Fort Bonifacio Global City (Highrises, Market! Market!, High Street) Nightwalk
Posted by chymera00 in My Travels on 09. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
I was excited to go to Fort Bonifacio Global City (FBGC) for the first time. It’s one the newest and most expensive bloc in Manila. I was so shocked to see the level of development there in just a short span of time. I liked Market! Market! because I really did feel like it was a market not just a rip-off name for just another mall. High Street is O-K, the place looks really beautiful but it feels very synthetic there, I prefer the organic urban feeling I get in Makati.
UPV Protected Marine Reserve at Taklong Island Pictures
Posted by chymera00 in My Travels on 08. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
Here’s some pictures during my trip to Taklong Island in Nueva Valencia, Guimaras. We stayed there for 3 days and 2 nights last May 1 to 3, 2009 and slept in their large dormitory-type rooms.
View of Brgy. La Paz, Nueva Valencia
Three Years Internet Subscription with SmartBro
Posted by chymera00 in Blogging Tips on 07. Jun, 2009 | 17 Comments
It’s been almost three years actually that I’ve used SmartBro as my internet provider. I pay P999 every month for my unlimited internet at 384kps, which is actually a bit lame and a more pricey compared to internet access in other countries. I’ve hang on with them for so long because their line is, I think, the most reliable IP in Iloilo City. My friends have had experiences with Bayantel, PLDT myDSL, and Globelines, and they said their internet access have hiccups from time to time.
Writer of Philippine Star’s The Freeman Newspaper copies off content from byahilo.com blog
Posted by chymera00 in In the Blog-O-Sphere on 05. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
These people in the traditional media will stop at nothing! First they feed off and make money out of pictures painstakingly taken by us bloggers, now they are also starting to copy/pasting content from blogs. You can read how a writer for local newspaper in Cebu has copy/pasted from Byahilo.com, a travel blog run by my friend Eric D. here: http://www.byahilo.com/2009/05/31/philippine-stars-the-freeman-newspaper-in-cebu-used-my-blog-content-without-permission/
They can juice us for now if they must but there will come a time that these newspaper will become extinct and blogs will replace their outdated and unethical methods. We’ll be on top of search engine results when that happens.
Art Exhibit for Independent Photographers in Iloilo – My first time experience
Posted by chymera00 in My Photos Spread Across the Universe on 04. Jun, 2009 | 2 Comments
An art exhibit is currently ongoing at Red Steakhouse and Gallery in Smallville, Iloilo City (along Diversion Road, Mandurriao District). The exhibit is called “Spectrum: Iloilo,” there are no themes, groups, or subjects just a bunch of independent photographers in Iloilo wanting to showcase their passion for their craft.
Adobe Lightroom – Improve your photographs with the touch of a button
Posted by chymera00 in Photography Tips on 01. Jun, 2009 | 6 Comments
Lightroom is one of my most used tools in my arsenal photo-editing softwares. I’m not the most technical kind of photographer when it comes to taking photos (in-camera), so most of the time, I have to edit the photos I take before uploading them in the internet. At certain times, I have hundreds of photos that I want to upload in a short span of time. Lightroom to saves me a hell of a lot of time and effort unlike editing the photos one by one in photoshop.
My pictures on Amalfi Restaurant appeared in Philippine Star
Posted by chymera00 in My Photos Spread Across the Universe on 30. May, 2009 | 10 Comments
My food shots of Amalfi Restaurant in The Avenue, Iloilo City has just appeared on a national daily, the Philippine Star, on May 28, 2009. Here’s a snapshot of the feature on Amalfi Cucina Italia:
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- Anini-y, Hamtic, San Jose Day Tour – June 2009 - Ambot-ahLast week me and my friends most of which I met over at flickr, went photo tripping in Antique province. We visited a few spots in Southern Antique (Anini-y, Hamtic, and San Jose) for a day trip. We first met at Molo Terminal, Iloilo City where a few van drivers were squabbling for our attention, [...] […]
- 1st Ilonggo Indie Art Fest on July 4, 2009 - Explore IloiloIndependent Ilonggo artists be displaying their works and raising awareness on various social issue this coming July 4, 2009 in an event dubbed as the f […]
- Bacolod City, Negros Occidental Trip – June 2009 - Ambot-ahI was supposed to go to Baras Beach Resort in Guimaras for the weekend with my friend and her classmates. Me and my friend were already prepared to go on with the trip, we’ve already packed our bags and met in the city. Unfortunately, her classmates bailed out on the plan because it was raining [...] […]
