Missionary

Tanong ko lang mga kabayan, kamusta naman ang mga chinese dyan sa bansa natin? Takot ba sila na baka gulpihin sila pag malamang intsik sila?

Andito kasi ako ngayon nagtatrabaho sa China, medyo sineseryoso nila masyado itong isyu na ito. Kaninang umaga lang, kalahati ng morning news tungkol sa pag-acquire natin ng Hamilton class na barko galing sa US, at iba pang military "buff". May mga "eksperto" pa silang ininterview na galing sa US at mga university dito. Tapos pinapalabas nila na nanganganib daw ang buhay ng mga kababayan nila jan sa pilipinas kasi nagngingitngit daw sa galit ang mga Pilipino. Isip ko lang...hindi naman ah, andami kayang mga Chinoy na pwedeng mapagkamalan! Tsaka kakakagaling ko lang sa bakasyon sa Manila, wala namang galit sa mga Chinese nationals...todo bati pa nga yung mga attendant sa PAL hehe.

Sa tingin ninyo, may dapat ba silang ikatakot kung pumunta sa atin ngayon?

What's wrong with that fight? Hatton's strategy...obviously he didnt expect a lot of things from Pacquiao, he didnt expect him to be THAT fast, and he never expected the right hooks which wore him down. You see that in the first round when he started trying to counter Manny's combos and failed miserably....then he panicked and lost all his defenses. Shame. In the end I think even if Hatton and Pacquiao are on the same strength levels, It's Pacqiao's smarts, speed and discipline that won the day. Hatton needs to learn that if he hopes to come back to the ring.

As for this "Gayweather" - he's a nuisance and Hatton ought to have fired him! Obviously, he didnt do his homework and didnt "drill the strategy" in (Ricky's) head enough to last more than a shameful 2 rounds.

Kudos to Manny. This is what Filipino is known for around the world - disciplined, fast, silent, but will exceed ALL expectations. Its a day we're proud to be in his side.

Sign Up Sheet for April 1 2009

10pm @ Metro Pioneer

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10. m&d

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hehe last na naman ako. sunday pa sana ako magsign up.

april fools day? may dadating kaya? :upside:

mga idols, anggagaling nyo pala hirap nyong habulin lahat hehe. nice seeing everyone kanina. pasensya na kayo nagkalat na ako sa last game sobrang pagod ko na. anyway, hope next week ulit if my sched permits...kung nagtataka kayo kung sino ako, newbie lang po dito - ako yung nag-mop ng tubig sa court hehe. salamat m&d for inviting me and signing up for me.

by the way, galing din ng varsity team ... buti na lang di ko sila nakalaro :upside: MTC TEAM: Coach Wanted!

dear student,

pag di ka sumunod sa specifications, bagsak ka!

magbibigay ng 5,

prof

*loko lang hehe

Im in the process of transferring to a local company counterpart. Previously based in Dubai, UAE:

Job: Architect - Construction Management & Documentation

Salary: AED 14k/mo

Benefits:

28 days annual leave (working days not counting holidays, weekends), no tax, medical insurance, annual return airticket, project completion bonuses, world-class training and exposure to euro/standard construction.

Disadvantages:

On-site works had to deal with harsh environment, a bit of discrimination, in construction i meet the same people all the time (nakakasuka) and no ladies, really Homesick (I negotiated my company for a year to put me in our Manila office), harsh competition sa work and pressure from clients.

spaghetti portrait

I would like to share my observation and opinion...

 

1. Is it possible to be a successful (famous?? saka na yan..successful lang muna) photographer without turning pro? Why?

2. If not, then what's the best way to go about it on your spare time?

 

1 Yes you can be successful, even famous without turning pro. You can be a pro but starving and unknown.

It's been a habit by most Filipinos to say "chamba lang" or "mahusay lang chumamba" when praised for an exceptional work or body of works.

It doesn't follow that If you're famous then you're good (photographer, actor, artist, writer, dancer, etc.) and vice-versa. You can be famous kahit chambero ka lang, even if you don't have "what it takes". Kahit nangongopya ka lang ng style ng iba pwede kang sumikat. On the other hand, you may be the best yet die a nobody.

Medyo nakakalungkot nga. pero somehow sa mga nababasa ko, that's reality. Just a related article I want to share:

Maybe you can't make money doing what you love

The thing is, it's far easier than ever before to surface your ideas. Far easier to have someone notice your art or your writing or your photography. Which means that people who might have hidden their talents are now finding them noticed...

That blog you've built, the one with a lot of traffic... perhaps it can't be monetized.

That non-profit you work with, the one where you are able to change lives... perhaps turning it into a career will ruin it.

That passion you have for art... perhaps making your painting commercial enough to sell will squeeze the joy out of it.

When what you do is what you love, you're able to invest more effort and care and time. That means you're more likely to win, to gain share, to profit. On the other hand, poets don't get paid. Even worse, poets that try to get paid end up writing jingles and failing and hating it at the same time.

Today, there are more ways than ever to share your talents and hobbies in public. And if you're driven, talented and focused, you may discover that the market loves what you do. That people read your blog or click on your cartoons or listen to your mp3s. But, alas, that doesn't mean you can monetize it, quit your day job and spend all day writing songs.

The pitfalls:

1. In order to monetize your work, you'll probably corrupt it, taking out the magic in search of dollars

and

2. Attention doesn't always equal significant cash flow.

I think it makes sense to make your art your art, to give yourself over to it without regard for commerce.

Doing what you love is as important as ever, but if you're going to make a living at it, it helps to find a niche where money flows as a regular consequence of the success of your idea. Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it. Go find a job you can commit to, a career or a business you can fall in love with.

A friend who loved music, who wanted to spend his life doing it, got a job doing PR for a record label. He hated doing PR, realized that just because he was in the record business didn't mean he had anything at all to do with music. Instead of finding a job he could love, he ended up being in proximity to, but nowhere involved with, something he cared about. I wish he had become a committed school teacher instead, spending every minute of his spare time making music and sharing it online for free. Instead, he's a frazzled publicity hound working twice as many hours for less money and doing no music at all.

Maybe you can't make money doing what you love (at least what you love right now). But I bet you can figure out how to love what you do to make money (if you choose wisely).

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

(And the twist, because there is always a twist, is that as soon as you focus on your art and leave the money behind, you may just discover that this focus turns out to be the secret of actually breaking through and making money.)

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original article here: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/20...e-you-cant.html

At this point, I dont know that yet.

oh but you will...hehee... :boo:

anyway sabi nga nila

...bodies come and go, but lenses are forever...

congrats po!

Hey there -- thank you for the feedback.

Yes ive gone out and "handled" the D40. Its okay ... but im still thinking a bit more.

Kasi yun lang po ang kaya ng aking budget...

A bit more? hmm...why not make the jump and go with the Nikon D90

--- twice (or more) the price of the D40, but once you get it....you'll never regret it!!

Hey guys/gals-

I have a question I'd like to ask everyone, especially yung mga professional photographers dito. Even though Im a relative newbie to photography (but been doing digital imaging since high school), Ive often wondered how I'd do If I could jump on and do photography full time..or will it be better to do it just as a hobby / sideline...My question is

1. Is it possible to be a successful (famous?? saka na yan..successful lang muna) photographer without turning pro? Why?

2. If not, then what's the best way to go about it on your spare time?

Hope to hear from all of you...cheers!

Ive been a casual picture taker (not a photographer) using a digicam for the past 2, maybe 3 years.

I feel that at this point, im ready to graduate to a "real" camera, much like one graduates to a big school after kindergarten.

I use the school analogy because I am basically a student of the art of taking pictures. One that aspires to take photographs at some point.

I was thinking of buying the Canon Rebel EOS Xs. Its reasonably priced and seems easy to use. I was also looking at the Nikon D40 basically because I cant afford anything more than that.

Someone told me to go out and try holding these 2 cameras to help me decide.

May I get some feedback from y'all about these 2 cameras?

This is one of the pictures ive taken -- using a Casio Exilim, no edits, no Photoshop, just a resize using the Preview function of my Mac. I want to take better pictures than this.

Thanks.

As a nikon user, I'm biased to point you off to the nikon d40. Check out Ken Rockwell's site for useful advise on everything on photography gadgets. He's also biased for the nikon d40, and has written a good article espousing the joys of using the little thing. happy shooting maam!

… sure, take on its own, there is nothing wrong with rare unique pictures you don't know how you managed to take. Except in a thread where you might be DREAMING TO BE A FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHER in which case, you will have to know because you will have to be able to repeat your successes if you are to realize your "dream."

agree. i had some pictures i got years before with a simple casio exilim that i keep trying to do again with my newer dslr...somehow i never managed to do it again. i checked and matched whatever specs i could, but never did manage to duplicate the technique ... yet (i'm still trying). Though in retrospect, I did learn a lot while trying to take that original picture apart - i studied the lighting conditions, i got into the nitty gritty of how a casio exilim processes images, and had to compare that with the nitty gritty of how a nikon dslr processes images. its tough complicated stuff, just to find that technique and i believe i'm not even halfway there.

so, i guess to further explain my point that is what's priceless in that first photo "that you dont know how you got" - the sense of wonder and curiosity you get that would keep you going and going for decades. that's why i raised that point.

How can you say there is a fine line? The two ideas are not even correlated. There can be a world of difference or there may be not (in which case there might be a fine enough ine). Elitist and exclusivist? That can also be the province of someone who is artistic, not necessarily refined. You are the one you attached the labels as in "elitist/exclusivist."

I apologize if I rattled nerves...I wasn't labeling sir boomouse. Hear me out....Id like to explain how these two "labels" are related. I have been in the arts and education industry for a fairly long time (not necessarily photography though) and to what i have seen, there are people who truly know their medium, maybe painting sculpture, dance, acting, etc....and they bring their medium to an extraordinary level when THEY are performing. In this respect, how they approach their art does not matter, their motivations and biases are not relevant to the outcome(at least, to those who are looking - to them of course it is).

However, when given the opportunity of passing on the knowledge, or teaching others (with talent, of course) some of their attitudes become a hindrance. Some are so competitive that they see their students as competition and try raise unnecessary levels of tests and social platforms that would exclude those students from being at par with them. This is what I meant by the term "elitist/exclusivist". So these "masters" are artistically refined given their knoweldge and achievement, but given another objective - to teach, they become exclusivist to the disadvantage of the poor hungry talented souls of their students.

A point was debated years ago that this kind of environment, however unfavourable to the student would only lead him (if he is truly passionate enough) to excel more and exert more effort in trying to meet the master's requisites. Out of that debate there was no consensus. I was on the side that these were unnecessary emotional and mental pressure that should be better focussed on other more constructive efforts.

It may seem that knowing something, it would be easy to pass that knowledge on to someone else, but as said, there are attitudes to be considered. This is the fine line I was referring to.

… sure, take on its own, there is nothing wrong with rare unique pictures you don't know how you managed to take. Except in a thread where you might be DREAMING TO BE A FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHER in which case, you will have to know because you will have to be able to repeat your successes if you are to realize your "dream."

 

Besides, this thread is not about art appreciation. Go somewhere else for that. This is about discussions of how someone might realize a dream of being a famous photographer someday.

Apologies for another different point of view. Does this mean that to be a "Famous Photographer" you don't need to appreciate the art of photography? Now this is new and shocking to me...because to me "appreciation" doesn't necessarily mean "praise" but a deeper understanding of what is going on behind the artwork. I guess...yeah one can be famous by being friends with famous people and media personalities...but i dont think this is what we came here for....

If you think I was trying to put anyone down, read my post again and concentrate on the comprehension and then perhaps post another reply. Something that would be worth two cents this time. Please.

With all due respect sir, your previous post was so condescending to the point of insult, well, at least to me. I felt that I belonged to the "tragedies" you labeled as pseudo-talents - and I wasn't even the one you were replying to! Now I understand and respect great artists like you (photographers included) but I truly do not appreciate that kind of attitude, and so does a lot of people. So, please, I dont want to reply to this again. Ive said my point as respectfully and explained my side as plainly as I can. I don't really care what my post is worth to you, but if you really care about not stepping on other people, you would at least give it two cents worth. With all due respect, sir....

This is just an excuse for not understanding how a camera works. A camera is a tool. To take good photographs, you must understand how the tool works. This is because a photographer must be able to take consistently good pictures. Otherwise, the good pictures you have taken are simply flukes. Strokes of luck. Chamba.

 

Do you know why a lomographer insists on using a certain color of filter on a certain kind of camera? because he needs to understand--if he doesn't already, how the filter will exaggerate or dilute the color of his subject. And if he likes the output, he makes a note of it so that he can repeat the effect in the future.

 

Who cares if you cross-process or not? Your audience does because a knowledgeable audience will want to know how the photographer got there. That is why you have a thing called "exif". By the way, every photograph that is printed is POST-PROCESSED. That is a generic term and there is no escaping it.

 

A photographic work is always about the photogrpaher working with the camera. It always is and always will be. A picture-taker would not care about the camera only about whether he or she was able to capture a pretty picture. It would have to be a rare and unique picture because he would not know how he managed to take such a picture if he did not care about the camera. And that is the tragedy of pseudo talent.

I think she meant "it doesn't matter what kind of medium was used" not "i don't care about the technicalities..." ... at least that's how i got it. One can still be a master of one medium and appreciate all media...pwede naman diba? And in IMHO, there's nothing wrong with "rare unique pictures you dont know how you managed to take"... such "tragedies" are actually what got us into photography in the first place. Maybe master boomouse was born talented, but most of us who love photography started out as this ... "pseudo-talents"...tama ba spelling saer? wala po sa vocabulary ko to eh.

There's a fine line between artistic refinement and elitist/exclusivist attitude. I think those of us who know better should teach others to be better, there are more constructive ways of teaching than labeling derogatory terms to others who are obviously trying to appreciate the art. let's try to help each other out, not try to put each other down. my two cents lang po....peace!! l

I believe this is a very complicated case and will take lots of time to resolve. Even you succeed, I don't think you will be able to recover what you have lost. To get even with this person, know his/her whereabouts, hire a hitman then finish her/him. People of this kind should be eliminated in this world.

As much as possible po kasi we want to exhaust every legal means at our disposal. Next probably is to contact media. Media pressure could be very effective.

1. In order for Philippine courts to have jurisdiction, some aspects of the crime must be performed or executed here in the Philippines, or inside Philippine territory. Hence, if the documents were notarized by the Philippine consulate, or the banks where the cheques were drawn, or your depository bank are Filipino banks or branches of foreign banks here in the Philippines, then your criminal case may be filed in the Philippines.

 

2. Interpol may be tapped if the crime has international consequences, involving states, or various nationalities are involved. Since the parties in your case seems to be all Filipinos, then interpol might not interfere.

 

3. You have to file the case with the DOJ first and then if they find probable cause and file it in Court, then you can ask for a Hold Departure Order with the Court where the criminal case/s have been filed.

Salamat po sa reply....kung pwede pa po ng follow-up question...kinukulit ako ng kasamahan ko:

1. If the post-dated cheques were from an international bank here in uae, and we try to cash it from the philippine branch, would it then be more valid case in the Philippines?

2. There are other nationalities involved. How can we then tap interpol? Sino po ba ang aaction yung interpol dito o yung nasa pinas?

3. Usually po, how long will that take? (file in DOJ, get a hold departure order...)

Missiosnary:

 

1. if the loan is documented you can file it here in the Philippines even if it was contracted abroad, if not then leave it to the merines... it will be very difficult for you to recover your money.

2. NO. You cannot file a criminal case against him the criminal act itself was not commmitted here in our jurisdiction

3. He will just hide and nothing more... after 10 years it will be impossible for you to collect that amount

 

To get even:

1. locate his where abouts and let him sign a promissory note or mortgage his property if he has any...how you will let him sign thats another problem may be you can adopt some metalegal or extra legal means...

So next time:

Dont be fooled... if ever a kababayan requests a loan be sure to have a full security for your money. real estate mortgage of property here in the Philipines will do.

Sir Salamat po sa reply...follwup questions lang po:

1. The loan was documented, we have contracts & post-dated cheques. Does that mean we can file it as a criminal case in the Philippines?

2. If the loan exceeds 300k USD wouldn't interpol be involved? How much amount is needed for them to be?

3. What about a hold-departure order...can we avail of that just from preventing him from leaving?

Thanks po again in advance...oh one more thing

does anyone know a good private investigator who can track him down? good pay.

we need to find this guy desperately.

Hello Legal People,

I just want to ask if you can help me with my situation:

I'm an OFW in Dubai, UAE where a person loaned a large sum of money from me and promised to pay it back in 8 months, with monthly interest paid every month. Now, after 6 months, I found out that the person who loaned the money has gone from here to the Phils, and is now in hiding. He also owed a lot of money to other people.

My question is:

1 - How can we get him to pay us back?

2 - Can we file a criminal case against him in the Philippines?

3 - What can he do to counter our legal strategy?

A few pointers to the right direction lang po...Right now, I'm really lost on what to do. Thanks!

Honestly, the only people who insist that you HAVE to learn film first to be a professional photographer are the oldies who resent the younger generation for having it too easy. I started getting interested in photography while in college, and back then it was mostly film as the high-end digital cameras only had 2MP. And I nearly quit because as college kid, i didn't have enough money to buy and develop the many rolls of film needed to learn the craft. If it wasn't for digital, I think I would have given up soon after. Not everyone has the time and money to waste on several bad rolls of pics before they learn what works and what doesn't. On a digital camera, you can instantly see the exposure and cropping, allowing you to immediately see where you went right or wrong. On film, you had to wait several hours to see if you got the picture right, and more often than not, you'd forget the settings you used for that particular shot.

 

BTW, you forget that most SLRs in the 90s already had an "automatic" mode that decided the settings for you. It was always the person's choice whether or not one would use the "A" setting or switch to manual mode. The same applies to DSLRs.

 

My first job was working for a magazine publication. Our oldest and best photographer used either a Leica rangefinder or Hasselblad for nearly all his commercial work. But at the end of the day, he'd be using a Canon G3 to take different snap shots. He loved film, and the quality and detail it gave. But he loved photography even more, and with a digital camera he knew that he could take as many pics as he wanted without worrying about wasted shots.

Agree. At the end of the day, at least for me (non-pro) what matters is the quality of the picture I got, I really dont care if a film camera or a cutting-edge dslr took it. To me, subject is prime... comparing hardware is manly and ego-boosting, but photography ought to be about the art aspect - light, color, composition, expression and how they all come together in a frozen picture. These things are learned quickly when using dslr. I think once one learns these things, one realizes that film photography can offer the leap of quality that no dslr can yet get to. Digital has a long way to go before it compares to medium and large format film. So learn with digital, then if youre good enough (or rich enough)...go film. At least...that's my plan hehe.

try hidalgo st. in quiapo ...madami dun new and second hand stuff...everything youll need in photography

Thanks kingarthurII, I will definitely check it out. mabuhay po kayo!

Hello Guys,

Pauwi ako ng pinas ngayong oktubre, gusto ko sanang magtingin kung saan ok bumili jan ng camera equipment/accessories. Sabi ng sis ko marami daw mabibilhan ng 2nd hand stuff na mura, pero di ko natanong kung saan. Baka alam nyo, paturo naman.

Tenks! :thumbsupsmiley:

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Martilyo Man and Friends....

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Tawa Tayo Please!!!

umaabuso na ba?

kelan ka kaya lalaban? hmmm

hayaan mo muna

kaya mo pa yan.

Q,

I'm so happy to see you again.

Cant help thinking what if it was OUR wedding we were talking about.

That would be the day. :thumbsupsmiley:

F

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Location: Dubai, UAE

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