Pinch Me!

Photography - Sniper Mode

2011-02-17T15:26:00.003+08:00

Hello Blog world! I'm back and bored, went thru my old bookmarks and bwala! I saw my blogspot account digging its way to its grave under the digital webspace of the WWW. Well, this blog was created for one reason after all, escape from boredom (ennui breakout!).

I just got a new way to escape boredom during weekends and sometimes during busy work days... photography. I got my DSLR at last, actually a year ago, which I had been wishing for during my college days. I was hoping to have one to use it on our own little business, an online automotive magazine. Now, having one, I will maximize its capability to deliver WOW images. I go out and burn my shutter from time to time just to kill time and boredom.

Check out some of my collections at Flickr and Picasa. Also, did a little exploration in Blogger, damn this blog site has a lot of new plugins! now I got my own photo stream added under my blog site! How cool is that!

If you need it, you should show it
'Cause you might play so monastic that you blow it
'Cause everybody wants some hope
Something they can barely know
And though my heart will break
There's more that I could take
I could never let it go

It's in the photograph

Blogging and Microsoft Office 2007

2009-02-16T13:51:00.001+08:00

Testing. Im bored, just checking out if my Microsoft Word 2007 can publish this post.

Quote for Miserably Bored People

2008-07-22T21:21:00.000+08:00

"Goal in life is not to eliminate misery, its to keep misery to the minimum."

And so it is...

2008-06-28T19:30:00.000+08:00

Its been a while since I posted a blog update, why? mainly because I'm not bored. 6 months has passed and a lot changed. Before I had time to surf the net, have my quick naps on the office and write blogs. Now, I only get to sleep and surf the net during Saturdays and Sundays.

Saturday, after sleeping the whole day I decided to open my laptop. I was exploring my desktop and folders and try to get something going to kill the time while waiting for my wife. No mails, no clients on my IM's and no nothing I can do. Basically, Im bored! My baby is out with her grandparents, so, I decided to download some music and revisit all my bookmarked sites. Now Im trying to write my mind out to kill boredom, rearranging my sentences to eat up time and hopefully finish this post.

So life goes on like this, bored.. busy.. bored.. BUSY (the past 6months) and hopefully I get to relax. We will never know...

New Headquarters

2008-01-23T12:16:00.000+08:00

The long wait is over, we are now on our new HQ. New building, new table, new office setting and the best part is, it is located at the other side of our old office, Matina! Now I can say that this is an OFFICE! No reason to be hungry, we have dozens of canteens and food stations near the office not to mention Matina Town Square. Night shifts won't be so dull, when you look out the window you can now see people walking and cars! real cars I say! real cars not trucks!

Lots of reason to be scared though, the other side of our office wall is a dark blank unoccupied space. Night people started to share their experiences with our new resident white lady. New rule of the night, have a buddy beside you for different purposes. One is you can have someone to share your fear of dark places, another is so that you can have someone to sacrifice in case our lady in white shows up. By the way, I don't have a night buddy, want to apply?

Real R&R

2007-12-10T07:12:00.000+08:00

Work, work, work, drink and work again. It's been a while since I had real R&R (Rest and Recreation). My last break was when I went to Samal with my wife, baby and barkada. Luckily, Melissa our bday girl decided to have a third episode of her week-long birthday celebration.

Waterworld was the first plan, but we decided to go to Seagull for "tamad" reasons. As far as i know, no one had regrets our last minute decision. We had fun on the beach. We got to bum around and drink our cold beer on the sands of Seagull. This is the life, escape from boredom and work, beer and sand all over!

PS. di tinuod nang mga pictures. scandalous tendencies took over after some beer and somersault swimming.

Atik lang ni!

Hmmm....

Fun with the Group

Dark Rain

2007-11-01T00:27:00.000+08:00

It started out as a clear and sunny day. A good day to plan for a night out to greet Halloween. Soldiers are ready to have their long waited RandR, looking forward to the taste of cold beer and the feel of Honolulu's sun. Then suddenly the camp was bombed by large droplets of rain. Skies was filled with giant black clouds. Dark rain has fallen, all hopes were gone. A trip to the balcony with a cup of coffee on Master Yoda's wisdom cup and a little smoking stick named Marlboro. Another boring night.. will I go home after my duty? It depends...

"Where are you going? where do you go? Are you looking for answers to questions under the stars? If along the way you are growing weary, you can rest with me Until a brighter day and you're OK"

D-Day + 18: Old Habits

2007-10-18T23:05:00.000+08:00

Its 8 o'clock. I just used my last nicotine stick. No more coffee. Reading and reviewing our Business Process given by Kiara or jetskier. Remembered "JARHEAD", like a soldier waiting for action I was staring at the bubbles on my foxhole.

Then a familiar "kring", YM window popped up. Its my old aw2spec buddy. They just opened a new forum for all Davao car addicts, not on our old aw2spec.com domain but on a free site. The old aw2spec died cause the GLD's (good looking dudes) don't have time to maintain it. All work no play really makes GLD dull dudes. Now after a year we are reconditioning our engines to start the forum craze again.

Another escape from boredom, elpatatas is back! Is this a sign for Davao's automotive scene to boom again? Does this mean more beer, more chicks?(atik lang), and going home at 5am? Everyone come back to Davao, "bawal sablay ulit"!

"Into the sun we climb, Climbing our wings will burn white, Everyone strapped in tight, We'll ride it out, I'll be coming home next year"

Join our forums! click here

D-Day + 15: Ambushed

2007-10-16T11:15:00.000+08:00

Reporting for duty, I sat on my table and opened my drawer. Im suprised, speechless and shocked. I was ambushed and had no time to react, just gave in and smiled. I thought it would be another boring night, guess im wrong. It feels like today and Im beggining to see the sun light on my coming days. Thanks for the cup!

D-Day + 10: Soundtracks

2007-10-11T18:25:00.000+08:00

Again its 3:00am. Nothing to do, enjoying John Ottman and Hans Zimmer's compositions. A nice way to kill time listening to Black Hawk Down and Superman OST's. Approximately 2 hours and 1 minute Ill finish the playlist and I'm flying home.

"In the dark shadow of rain towers, You will see me waiting forever"

D-Day + 8: Fallen Soldier

2007-10-10T18:29:00.000+08:00

After 6 hours of straight work, finally I had time to take a break. Went to our sleeping quarters to get a quick nap. Almost having a good dream, I heard a scream.. Paulow! call for you!! Instantly I stood up, heart beating so fast. Who wouldn't be awakened by Staff Sergeant Emma's wakeup call.

After answering the call I went back to my laptop and surfed the net. I visited Nina's blog, then I saw her latest entry. "Last day of work! adieu.." Damn, just realized people are moving away from my life. First I was moved to night shift (goodbye A Group), my "darlings" were moved back to morning duty, and now this. Gonna miss seeing Nina's comic grin everytime I go in and out of the office door. Im alone. Alone means boredom, boredom means more blog entries. Sheeesh!!!

“By the end of six weeks, one of you will be gone. As will twenty-eight more of you. Wear a cup.”

D-Day + 7: The Longest Day

2007-10-09T19:46:00.000+08:00

Feeling tired
By the fire
The long day is over

The wind is gone
A sleep at dawn
The embers burn on

With no reprise
The sun will rise
The long day is over

"Birds chirping, bad sign. Im heading home. By home I mean a place you go where they have to let you in."

D-Day + 4.5: Lost Company

2007-10-05T18:14:00.000+08:00

Like a lost soldier on another country, I found myself talking to one of the locals. My Skype window poppedup, someone from Brazil wants to talk and connect with someone from the Philippines that has the same surname as his. Nothing to do, i replied to his questions.

Paulo Saravia: Hello. Welcome to Hubport. How can I help you?
adels.net says: que tal
adels.net says: vos sos de brasil
adels.net says: voce fala espanhol?
adels.net says: bueno sucede que te añadi por el apellido saravia
Paulo Saravia: english pls
Paulo Saravia: from pilipinas
adels.net says: haaa ya
adels.net says: ok
adels.net says: my english dont'n is good
Paulo Saravia: no problem
adels.net says: yo don't speak spanish?
Paulo Saravia: I speak english.
Paulo Saravia: su apellido saravia?
adels.net says: si
adels.net says: si Saravia y con v baja
adels.net says: y me puse a indagar al respecto aca en el skype
Paulo Saravia: entiendo yo menudo espanyol
adels.net says: que gusto conocer a alguien con el mismo apellido, en un lugar tan lejano como filipinas... es hasta insospechado
adels.net says: si tenes duas me preguntas, y sino me hablas en ingles, yo compremprendo el ingles mas o menos bien, pero hablarlo eso es una cosa fatal
adels.net says: que gusto el conocerte
Paulo Saravia: gran abuelo saravia from Espanya
adels.net says: jajaja si
adels.net says: bueno mira te tengo que dejar por el dia de hoy
adels.net says: hablamos un poco mas tarde. vale
Paulo Saravia: despacio por pabores
adels.net says: sinceramente gusto de conocerte
adels.net says: ok
adels.net says: god bye... have a nice day
adels.net says: good bye sorry
Paulo Saravia: im traductor que usa para entender usted escribe a máquina despacio. haha
adels.net is now offline

Here is the translation of our unusual conversation:

Paulo Saravia: Hello. Welcome to Hubport. How can I help you?
adels.net says: how is
adels.net says: you from Brasil?
adels.net says: You speak espanyol?
adels.net says: good it happens that I added you for the surname saravia
Paulo Saravia: english pls
Paulo Saravia: from pilipinas
adels.net says: haaa already
adels.net says: ok
adels.net says: my english dont'n is good
Paulo Saravia: no problem
adels.net says: yo don't speak spanish?
Paulo Saravia: I speak english.
Paulo Saravia: your surname is also saravia?
adels.net says: yes
adels.net says: yes Saravia and with v goes down
adels.net says: and I started investigating on this matter here in the skype
Paulo Saravia: i understand small spanish
adels.net says: that liked to meet someone with the same surname, in a place as distant as Filipinos ... it is even unsuspected
adels.net says: if tenes duas you ask me, and but speak English to me, I compremprendo English more or less well, but to speak that is a fatal thing
adels.net says: that liked to meet you
Paulo Saravia: My great grandfather is Saravia from Spain
adels.net says: hahaha yes
adels.net says: good sight I have to leave you in today
adels.net says: we speak a little later. it costs
Paulo Saravia: slowly please
adels.net says: sincerely I am desirable to know each other
adels.net says: ok
adels.net says: god bye... have a nice day
adels.net says: good bye sorry
Paulo Saravia: speak slowly, im now using a translator just to understand you. haha

D-Day + 4: Leave No Man Behind

2007-10-05T17:31:00.000+08:00

Here's a toast to all those who hear me all too well
Here's to the nights we felt alive
Here's to the tears you knew you'd cry
Here's to goodbye
Tomorrow's gonna come too soon

"Thanks. I was running short on platitudes. You can leave now."

D-Day + 3: Good Eye Sniper

2007-10-04T17:40:00.000+08:00

Another threesome... Thunder, lighting and rain! I win darling. I did my rounds around 2:30am, saw that it started showering. I decided to get my camera and moved to the smokers balcony. Like a sniper on top of the French Cathedral, i locked and loaded. Not my Mosin-Nagant M91 but my digital camera, i locked it in to Manual setting. Im waiting for the lightning to strike and get a good shot of it.

I maintained my position for 20mins to get a perfect zero shot on the lightning. Unfortunately I didnt have my sniper bipad, sorry my tripod with me, the images i took where all blurry because of my unstable hands. Bormann got away this time, so no real pictures for this blog entry tonight. Another mission failed, well there is always a next time.

D-Day + 2: The Crave

2007-10-03T18:18:00.000+08:00

Bored? Get a beer, but not during your work shift. A new lesson learned.

Drinking a sip of beer just enough to reach my stomach and mix with my acids without doing any chemical reaction is a torture. Im like a soldier on a humby waiting to go home craving for a Bigmac. The worst part is I have to wait for Saturday to get a descent bottle of beer.

She was happy, I was aching.

"Have I told you I ache, Have I told you I ache for you (beer)?"

You are one evil, cunning woman. It’s a massive turn on.

D-Day + 1.5: Bombs Away!

2007-10-03T06:34:00.000+08:00

While looking for something to do and someone to annoy, my YM window popped up. It was my past significant someone from college. We had our hi's and kamustas. After some chat lines, we were talking about the changes in our life. One part is the music we are listening to. She likes "emo" songs, me in the other hand hates the persona that goes along with the genre.

I let her read the lyrics of the EMO SONG from Adam and Andrew. Before I knew it, she was bombing me with her words of disagreement. It was like dodging bombs and bullets during the Mogadishu war. Specially when I pasted the line " Me and my friends all look like clones, I must be eemo". I had a hard time changing the topic, I didn't know she was so into Emo. Luckily she sizzled down realizing there was no way ill be affected by her good old screams.

Sorry. Didn't mean to offend your specialty. Whooooh! What a new way to wake me up!

D-Day + 1: Realizations

2007-10-02T17:30:00.000+08:00

Eating my tuna sandwich with hot coffee, I found myself smiling.
Another escape to boredom, Q and A portion and a nice conversation.

"Singing, I never meant to cause you trouble, I never meant to do you wrong, And I, well if I ever caused you trouble, Although I never meant to do you harm."

Its our own little secret.

I thought I would be laughing myself off my chair, turned out i was wrong. My curiosity backfired!

I was curious. Since I'm not a cat, that's not dangerous.

D-Day: Ennui Breakout

2007-10-01T18:11:00.000+08:00

I'm writing nonsense
Trying to bring life to my senses
Eyes drooping its 3am
No ones to blame
Im growing fake plastic trees
Lethargic?
Pinch me!