somewhere, i'm not over, the graffiti

i think i'm super enjoying the graffiti effect..i made another one..this time, with my other brother's name not on a brick wall, but on a solar wall! yey! upgraded na! hehe.

of course, i'm a good ate so i also made batchoy one. hehe. he might get jealous if only his kuya had this kind of wall. so...to prevent "sibling rivalry" hehe...

i'm not sure but i think this was the solar wall they made for the Beijing Olympics..see, China's not all bout melamine & bikes! high tech na rin!:)

graffiti effect

yipee! i learned another simple trick on photoshop. the grafitti effect.


i tried to vandalize my brother's name on the wall, without him getting caught by the police. he was happy, making a note that he'd post this pic in his friendster account so that his classmates would envy him.


from now on, i promise myself that i'd learn at least one photoshop trick per week. that would make me know at least 48 photoshop tricks a year!:)

iskolar films

can't wait to watch UPCAT the Movie. i guess it's quite explanatory what this film is all about. can't help but recall my own UPCAT experience. like the character in the trailer, this is the only college entrance exam i took..do or die jud. fortunately, i passed the exam..of course, with the help of pisay's saturday review classes. actually, what they taught us in the review are more difficult than what were given in the exam. but i guess it was a big help, since most, if not all, of us passed the said exam.

the night before the exam, i recalled having a sleepless night, maybe due to anxiety for tomorrow's big day. my mother made me bring cookies and bottled water, thinking that food will make me full that i'd be able to answer correctly. i never ate them during the exam. i was too busy concentrating on the questions, shading the circles, minding the time..in short, i was in panic. hehe. but panic, i guess, was on my side that day. for i answered all the questions, and even had time to review them.

i also saw my high school alma mater's Pisay the Movie with Batchoy on TV last sem break. it was heartwarming, the characters were endearing and it really depicted the essence of being the so called "cream of the crop". though it was entirely shot in Diliman campus, Pisay students and alumni from other campuses can still relate to the stories of the different characters in the film. UPCAT the movie is quite more exciting for me, though, because the film was shot in UPLB! cool noh? surely, i'll miss LB more once i'll watch this film. :)

symbiosis

R and I have been experimenting with taking pictures using his Nikon D60. Actually, i don't have any idea about SLRs until he thought me some basics. I, on the other hand, am learning some photoshop tricks so that i could also teach him how to edit the pics he took. symbiosis. hehe. pics here--his shots, my editing. :)

few of the many pics.

cupcake

goal: aim for clear subject on a blurred background

glow in the dark

goal: draw figures in the dark using slow shutter speed

one more sem.

second sem just started. one more sem and i'm gonna be slaving myself in the clinics--seeing more patients, extracting more histories & doing more  PEs.

this sem is even tougher than the previous one. same clinics time of 7am-11am, but almost all our classes will be till 7 pm. lots of challenges this time, with the addition of 4 new subjects (derma, rehab med, radiology, community med) on top of the previously hard subjects. worse, we now have half day saturday classes in addition to the usual five days. barely a week into 2nd sem and we'll have our first surgery quiz on monday. here i go again, staying through wee hours of morning reviewing anatomy, memorizing cancer staging, surgical indications and thinking of what would be the most probable questions for the long quiz..which are quite unpredictable.

again, i'll unwillingly submit myself to reading lots of chapters in Harrison's and in the end of the sem, get the grade i think i don't deserve. maybe i'm just too lax, or just too confident about myself that sometimes, i think that scanning my books is enough. one more sem..so much things to do in a little time. 

finally, fashionable crocs!

crocs are everywhere! however, many people (including me) do not find some of their designs classy or even wearable. though comfy and long lasting, crocs are quite huge and seem to un-flatter our beautiful toes. but recently, i chanced upon this website featuring unbelievable new crocs style! a complete turnaround from their previous designs, i think. take a peek..

daring duchess

impossible girl

dangerous diva

sophisticated mama