01/31/2013
Cebu was lovely. I was there for a week to celebrate Sinulog. But I’m not posting festival photos. I’m sure, with the hundreds of people present (and snapping photos) at the festival, you won’t miss out anything if I don’t post any. I’m posting photos of Colon instead. Colon is that market in Cebu where people are most scared to take their cellphones out because snatching was not theft but art. Don’t get me wrong. It is a lovely place to be however if you are one helluva-paranoid, I suggest you take your xanax before visiting the place.
People are not scared to get close (but HK people are winners in privacy invasion. They breathe in your neck without batting an eyelash–as if it’s the most natural thing to do) and vendors likes to engage in cheerful conversations.
Karen was supposed to take me somewhere to see the parade but I tugged her to go back to the market after we passed by it. I was skipping and singing–and yes, harassing people (they could always harass back) and even popped by the flower section of the market. I may be the more feminine looking between the two of us (with my b/w geometric dress versus karen’s shorts and rubber shoes) but it is Karen who likes to adore and sniff effin flowers. Note to everyone, if you send me flowers, I will tolerate it (I am, in many ways, polite) but I sure won’t be sending you a thank you note.
Send me broccoli instead (I can’t eat ice cream for now as I am in a rigid detox program –sucks right?) and I will scribble your name in my secret diary with an elephant drawing beside it.
07/15/2012
Some of the photos I took during the Winter Fashion Show in Hong Kong.
Note: All these photos were exclusively taken for and therefore are proprietary of HKTDC. These images cannot used used in any commercial publications without HKTDC’s expressed consent.
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07/12/2012
Half of the time, when brothers wrestle, it’s just an excuse to hug eachother – James Patterson
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05/22/2012
The Fringe Club in Lower Albert Street (Central) in Hong Kong is an open art platform that provide rent free services to engage the local community in cultural works.
The picture is actually the back of the building (Wyndham St). It’s a sweet building that everyone walks by but hardly notices as they stagger towards the bars in Lan Kwai Fong. The building used to be an ice and dairy plant and the Hong Kong Fringe Club, a non-profit organization, acquired it in 1984 after the building was abandoned by the business owners when their company headquarters moved to London. Read the rest of this post »
05/15/2012
The people from this little village in Sheng Shui is celebrating their deity’s birthday. It is part of their cultural tradition to hold “Bamboo Operas” to honor their gods and goddesses. Cantonese Opera have two varieties. The one held in a permanent theater and another in a temporary bamboo shed made by the villagers.
Bamboo theater artists wear elaborate costumes and make-up — takes them two hours and one costume assistant to get ready for their performance.
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03/31/2012
Posting work from last quarter where I learned to shoot glass. These babies are so hard to light! I had it lit underneath which resulted to random overblowing of highlights due to it’s shape —well, random, is a word used by the inept still struggling to control the strobes (that’s me, hehe). Read the rest of this post »
11/18/2011
Cellphone photos I took when I visited Batrang, Vietnam.
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