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Sun Cellular CTU Subscriber-Turned-Crank-Callers

dodongflores — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:24:29 +0000

For those who are clueless, CTU stands for Call and Text Unlimited, a call and text unlimited plan offered solely by Sun Cellular. As for the word crank call, it may not be exactly the word to describe it but it is already enough for me to know that the generosity of this call and text unlimited had fallen to abuse by a few, if not many irresponsible subscribers. I and my wife were never exempted to be victimized by those I’d like to call here “crank caller,” or more appropriately, people-who-have-all-the-time-to-waste. I’m disclosing the number of those two most recent callers who disturbed us. That’s my only way of taking revenge for the annoyance they’ve caused me.

Tanay Photo Essay

dodongflores — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:00:07 +0000

Taking a break posting for my Cubao photoshoot, I wandered through the highways and mountains going to Tanay to send my co-workers for a religious workshop. Needless to say, we enjoyed our trip by making several stops for photo ops. The gang gamely posed in front of my camera while a shutterbug like me enjoyed clicking the shutter button. Unfortunately, I didn’t bring with me my SLR so I ended up utilizing my Samsung mobile phone camera to take all the photos in this post.

Summary:

Our group left our head office after lunch time. The weather is fine and the skies are clear when we head to Tanay via Marcos Highway.
Past two in the afternoon, the group start the photo ops along side the road.
At three o’clock in the afternoon, we arrived at the International Youth Leadership Training Center.
We rest for awhile in the fish pond area.
From the fish pond area, the group climb up to the holy ground to pray.
After the prayer, the group scampered for another photo ops.
After the photo ops up there in the holy ground, the groups climbed down and hopped in to the car. The group would like to visit Sierra Madre Hotel.
We could get inside the hotel though. The group were getting hungry so I recommended Mang Vic’s Bulalohan adjacent to the hotel.
After that sumptous meal, I had to dropped the group to the workshop area and had to make my way back to Manila.
The sky was getting gloomy on my way back though I had spotted rainbow along the highway.
Finally, the rain fell.
The road was getting so slippery that I had to focus all my attention into the wheel. I had to slipped my cellphone camera back into the pocket to avoid accident.

This photo essay started with summer blue skies and ended up with a slippery road on a rainy late afternoon. There are also few rainbow photos as bonus.

A few points to be considered in viewing this blog entry:
All photos were taken using a cellphone camera (Samsung E590) so I hope you can bear with the inferior photo quality.
Downloading this page into your computer may take time to finish. Please be patient.
Most photos are clickable for the hi-res photos to be displayed on top of this page. There’s no need to right-click.
Please enjoy..

Marcos Highway

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View the photo gallery here: http://dodongflores.multiply.com/photos/album/76/Tanay_Photos_2009

Farmers Plaza Live Band Performance

dodongflores — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:50:42 +0000

After our shoot in Farmers Market, Dennis Villegas, Sidney and I proceed to the food court of Farmers Plaza. It was already past seven in the evening and a singing band already started to perform live on stage. The three of us quenched our thirst with a single mug of San Miguel to each of us.

This entry is the fifth installment of myCubao Photoshoot series. Close up photos in this post were taken using 300mm telephoto lens and handheld. No flash were used in the following photographs below. Photos were composed right from the camera so cropping would no longer be necessary.

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Angels and Demons: Book vs. Film

dodongflores — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:05:53 +0000

My wife and I finally made it for our first movie date for this year. Last Sunday, we watched the movie Angels and Demons, the movie adaptation of Dan Brown’s novel of the same title. While there was not much hype about the movie, I was really excited to watch this so as to see how the movie creators were able to put into action what I had read from the book. My wife didn’t read the novel yet so the movie isn’t that a big deal for her.

While the opening of the movie is that of the death of the Pope in the Vatican City, we were then brought to CERN research facility in Geneva, Switzerland where a physicist succeded in creating the antimatter.

In the next scene, we were presented with the main character, Harvard scholar Robert Langdon being summoned by a Vatican Police to go to Vatican City to investigate a long-extinct secret society called the Illuminati. A murder of a physicist at CERN research facility had just taken place and the disappearance of four Preferiti (cardinals who would likely to succeed the Pope), all of these incident pointed to the said secret society as responsible of doing such.

Robert Langdon also discovered that the antimatter is being stolen by the Illuminati and hidden somewhere within the Vatican City to threaten and blackmail the Roman Catholic Church.

Robert Langdon is partnered with Vittoria Vetra, the beautiful Italian daughter of the murdered physicist. Together, they set off on a wild hunt through antique cathedrals, perilous catacombs, ancient crypts, and even the most sacred vault in the world, in an attempt to decipher markers and codes which could possibly be the Vatican’s last hope of survival.

My wife Jovy while falling in line for the single screening of the movie Angels and Demons

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Cubao Republic: Composed Right From the Light Box

dodongflores — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:25:00 +0000

Farmer’s Market Photoshoot

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Previous posts of this series:

Cubao Republic: Composed Right From the Light Box

dodongflores — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:03:30 +0000

Farmer’s Market Photoshoot

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Cubao Republic: Composed Right From the Light Box

dodongflores — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:28:23 +0000

Farmer’s Market Photoshoot

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Cubao Republic: Composed Right From the Lightbox

dodongflores — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:03:40 +0000

I haven’t had blogged for quite some time due to hectic work schedule. I didn’t even finish yet my North Cotabato Adventure series. But now that I already have my own wireless broadband at home, I am now determine to continue publishing my travels and adventures in life.

I messed up my files when I get so busy at work. To resume with my most recent series would take a tremendous effort. While I am trying to organize my North Cotabato photos, I am momentarily running this photo essay of Cubao.

One eventful night of March 24, my friends and fellow bloggers Dennis Villegas and Sidney of My Sari-Sari Store wandered around Cubao to capture noteworthy happenings that can only be witnessed after daylight turns into darkness. As Pareng Dennis puts it, Cubao assumes a different personality comes night time. If you’d been to Cubao during the daytime, the photos to be featured here would be a different and colorful Cubao of the night time.

As the title of this photo essay suggests, the photos are composed right from my digital SLR. Other than resizing (for faster web display) and +10 color saturation (for deeper color enhancement), I will avoid cropping, noise-reduction, and overly post-processing for I believe that visitors/readers/viewers of this website deserve to see what I’ve seen. Simply put, “what I see is what you get” (from the WYSIWYG concept).

Hello World!

dodongflores — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:39:13 +0000

Test post!

Hello world!

dodongflores — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:37:14 +0000

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