awesome travel related link!

here's a link for the restless souls out there!

wanderfly

As much as i am a spontaneous wanderer, this site is pretty cool. It does help out those who really need a PLAN and can't function without one.

indicate where you will be coming from and which part of the world you'd like to explore. then, money matters! budget travel starts at 400USD to 10,000USD! then you indicate which month you will be traveling and for how many days. pick your interests(art, outdoors, extreme, shopping, etc.), then click get going and the site suggests places that fit your own personalized trip!

although, i wish when i click get going, i magically transport to these places. :) but that's just me. cos then i'd click all the interests, get an infinite amount of money for me traveling in every month of the year forever!
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in other news, i have been busy with school and a special project. thesis and all that. but i have opened my couch already to surfers landing in Manila. hoping to travel from the comforts of my place through interaction! it's still on a maybe stat since i want to my workload to stabilize first though.

will try to write more, blog. don't you worry.

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a new place to call home

since, my camera is held hostage, i will post this. my host's flat in oslo.

i can only dream to have the view he has from this flat. see next photo.

i am in my new flat using up my neighbor's internet and im really hoping they never put a password to their connection while i am inhaling noxious fumes from the newly painted walls and ceiling. i have a pullout sofa bed from sabs as my only furniture. its 35+ degrees and i badly need to get a fan amongst other things. this is my new home! at least it's on the way to being a home. a sofa here, a chair there, a table here and a little bit of everything everywhere. soon, it'll be ready. for now, i'll stick with what i can get. :D update: i bought a fan already which will probably eat into my whole month's budget. which reminds me, i need to get a job soon!

you can see the whole of oslo from his place!

in other news, school starts today. can i get a thesis topic already so i can finish it as soon as possible, please!

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ps hopefully i can start hosting couchsurfers soon! pictures of my place will follow! :D

yesterday: long and hectic

i met ed westwick/chuck bass yesterday when we shot him for Penshoppe.

all the pictures i took were taken by the Penshoppe people though! security was real tight although i wish they told me i couldn't take photos beforehand. as usual, the people behind the scenes were the ones going around as if they were the stars while ed was really nice. him and his cool brit accent. he never smiled for the shots though. it was as if he was still playing chuck with his schemy look.

darren was really quick though. what was expected to be a full day shoot turned out to be half a day! he got his shots probably in 20 clicks. and it would've probably been quicker if it weren't for the styling, escorting ed around the service exits, chitchatting of the feeling important people, etc.

we shot at manila pen for the whole shoot and coincidentally, my former officemates were there for a meeting too! salon de ning was awesome! i regret not getting the complimentary drinks we had for that place when we checked in for christmas last year. me and ed were even talking about how cool the rooms were. haha. i wanted to ask who was playing romeo in the remake of romeo and juliet but i was kinda sure he wouldn't spill.

and then at night, had dinner at sabs' then watched them play frisbee at ultra. i really miss doing sports. i need money to do that though! :(

anyway, this is a pretty useless post. just an update to what happened yesterday.

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a random wandering

i just came from the beach. my first one for the summer. my second since i got back. sad.

it was a random beach trip composed mostly of people i didn't know but it was fun, nonetheless! at the very least i knew the owner of the house! haha. my body is aching so much from jetskiing though. i think i went too fast! also did some cliffdiving which is one of the highlights of Tali beach in Batangas. the weather was not as cooperative as we would have wanted it to be but it surely didn't stop us from having a good time! a much needed break from the city.

also got to drive to and from manila. there's something about long drives that calms me. as long as there is no traffic, i'll be your driver. :D sadly though, not enough pics were taken! the pic above is taken by chinette on our way back to manila from their car. the silver SantaFe of Chix in the picture was the one i drove.

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i've been putting off updating here since nothing really is happening. i've been jobless for a month now. i've stopped looking for my next one until i have a set schedule. i hated declining that job for kish because i had other things pending. i also have this pending job to house sit in boracay which i probably will decline too. this week and next week should hopefully help me in my next move. also, i need a better thesis topic. or a good creative angle to approach the RH bill. maybe tourism, culture or environment? i really cant concentrate on working on it even though i really need to finish it as soon as possible.

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help me win

to whoever comes across this blog, i apologize for this plug but do try to help me win by liking my photo on facebook. just click on this link and like it! thank you!

http://d5100.nikon-asia.com/submissions/11002

its of this photo from the Church of Gesu in Rome! i immediately thought of this photo when i read the theme of the contest is Extra Ordinary Angles.

as miguel, my friend from mexico puts it, the picture is ironic in the sense that you get the feeling that as a viewer of the photo, someone else is taking a photo of you while you are admiring the beauty of the ceiling. or something like that. you get what i mean right? or what he means. :) it's too early.

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forget about the ones who don't

"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets,
so love the people who treat you right.
Forget about the ones who don't,
and believe that everything happens for a reason.
If you get a chance, take it.
If it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said that it'd be easy,
they just promised it would be worth it." - anonymous

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eurowandering 2010

so obviously i have had this plan in my head for so long but never really got the chance to work on it until yesterday. it is rather vain and really just for my memory's sake so brace yourself for a lot of my face which i rarely post here. :)

i got the peg from christopher rehage, the man who planned to walk from beijing to germany. he didn't make it but he made was able to cover 4646km in one year! he took loads of photos and did this video. i thought it was a cool way to document the eurowandering i did.

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