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Flickr Pro rocks my socks

I’ve been a flickr member on December 2005, that’s almost 2 years since that I’ve remained a sub-user of flickr. While my basic need to have a place to host images has been satisfied, the limitations of being able to see just the most recent 200 pictures has made it quite hard to manage my gallery.

Fortunately, someone has noticed my dilemma too and out of generosity told me that I was going get a account as a gift. Thank You Wilnora! This will help a lot, as in!

You could just imagine the excitement I had when I was about to open my pro account for the first time. OK … I was able to open it successfully and as I opened the my gallery I found out that it contained “1,751 photos / 31,683 views“. I was shocked to find out that I’ve uploaded that many pictures of Iloilo these past few years. I was worrying about how long it would take to organize them.

At first I made an intricate classification process but after hours of getting into it, I barely organized 100 photos. So, I settled for a simpler classification system, which is to just sort them by location. I’ve managed to finish organizing btw, you cancheck out my photostream here.

Finally, we’ll be able to see all the photos I’ve uploaded in flickr ;p

Another issue why it was important for me to get the pro account was the ability to replace the photos that I’ve uploaded. My photos have been stolen a lot and used without my permission. At least now, I can update the watermarks of the older photos.

Heritage Conservation Society member

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It’s official I’m now a member of the Heritage Conservation Society (HCS) – Iloilo Youth Chapter. It came about during Ivan Henares‘ recent trip to Iloilo. There we’re no formal induction, were still in the process of organizing ourselves into how we want to shape the group.

Other members include: Gian Carlo Alvarez (Chairman) of Central Philippine University, Bernard Arellano of UP Visayas and me of the West Visayas State University.

I guess we were chosen to be members of the local arm of the HCS because we were already involved in the promotion of the heritage of Iloilo in the internet through numerous websites and forums. We’ve made a name for ourselves in this focused niche.

During the infancy of the Iloilo Youth Chapter, we would like to start first with the promotion of Iloilo’s heritage sites. We would like to raise the awareness of what we currently have because many of our heritage gets destroyed because people generally don’t care about them. I believe that if people learn more about our heritage then people will start knowing how important they are and therefore would be more resistant to any plans to destroy them.

Thus we’re starting a blog for this very purpose:

Explore the old world charm and the rich cultural heritage of the city and the province of Iloilo and Guimaras by visiting “Panubli-on: The Iloilo Heritage Blog”

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Planning for trips on September

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These past few weeks, life has been quite busy especially due to school. My viewers at exploreiloilo.com surely have noticed that I haven’t updated it for a long time already. Well, things are going to change come September. My “school schedule” will start clearing up since our clinical duty would already be finished for the semester. Thank goodness for that!

By then, I’d have more time to go around Iloilo and collect more content for my posts. I’d also have more time to visit other places besides my hometown. In fact, as a requirement for our Management Class, we (me and my groupmates) will be visiting Bacolod to make an organizational study on the Regional Hospital there (named Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital). I’ll probably be staying in Bacolod on September 2 – 4 (even longer if time permits).

I’m no stranger to Bacolod. When I was too young to go to school, I spent my childhood there with my lolo, lola, and other relatives. My last visit to Bacolod was April of this year, just in time for the Panaad Festival. I was actually more interested to visit the newly opened SM City Bacolod. I have already been to the Panaad Festival before. My trip was fun but medyo bitin because I only spent one night there.

This time, we are planning to spend 3 days in Bacolod. It’ll be a new experience for me because I’ll be staying at my friend’s house and I’ll visit more of Bacolod’s hangout places aside from the usual tourist destinations. I’ve already fulfilled some of my “TO DOs” in Bacolod like:

Eat at Calea (the blueberry cheese cake, as eric recommended, was just heavenly)
Go to the top floor of Bacolod’s tallest building (PNB)
Visit SM City Bacolod

But there’s still more unchecked in my list like:

Nightout in Goldenfield Complex
Eat at Cafe Bobs

I have to think of more things to do so my visit will be more worthwhile. If someone out there knows of things I can add to the list, by all means do so!

After the Bacolod trip, I might be hitching a ride on another group in our section, who are planning to go to Aklan … BORACAY, here I come! I’ll post more about that later, hehe.

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The Beginning

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Greetings,

I’m Marcos Caratao, a 19 year-old nursing student. You might have known me through Explore Iloilo, a website that I founded a year ago.

So what up with ambot-ah?

Ambot-ah.com is my way of consolidating my online life and open up new opportunities for personal growth (daw medyo dalom bah ^^).

I decided to use “Ambot-ah” for lack of a better name. I cant decide what appropriate term to name this site so I decided to use the term, which means “I don’t Know” in Hiligaynon.

What will you expect to see at ambot-ah.com?

The topics will be in broad spectrums and can be about anything. Most posts though will be centered upon the place where I live (Iloilo), my travels and adventures, photography, blogging and monetizing, electronic gadgets.

Well I guess that’s it for now …