Second Pre-nup Photo shoot
Friday, October 29, 2004
PRE-NUP PICS PART 2!!!
As if the first pictorial isn't bad enough, we decided to go for it again. This time we are armed by our own tripod! At 7 am we headed out to the nearest stretch of beach, THE OTHER SIDE OF SEASIDE! (I actually don't know what it's called. So pardon me for making up the name. Heehee!) The weather is actully nice and sunny...blinding-freaky-sunny! Compared to the last shoot, I felt like we are directly on the suns surface. Our pictures turned out like were chinese.
Anyhow, we were surprised to see a lot of pinoys fishing in beach area of the park. We felt embarassed to take pictures because we can understand what they'll be whispering about. Imagine the two of us possing like superstar telenovela stars. Like Kristine Hermosa and Jericho Rosales. Claudine and Rico Yan....wait! he's already dead! Claudine and Raymart. Mahal and Jimboy. The other funny part is, there is no photographer! =< Our first location is the pier. We really don't know what it is but it looks like one. We possed, and in a matter of seconds we are prey to the fish folks! Everybodys face are turned to us. As if all the fish have all gone on our part of the beach. But who cares? I just told Lany to pretend to speak chinese when we got near them. So that they won't say that we're baduy, and not throw up!
We noticed that the first shoot was far better. We had more unique ideas. And our first location doesn't have an Indian guy lifting his skirt up as he goes into the water. But to be serious, the park has limited attactions to offer, other than the beach.
In our last hour of shoot, we found a small spot and our sense of humor to end our session. It is really hard to focus when people are looking at you. I could only imagine our pre-nup pictures with Chito Vecina. I'm beginning to be very nervous! But the park bench, the odd looking tree and the other odd looking tree was enough to entertain us. We got a handfull of good pictures to show everyone. And eventhough the sun almost blinded us, I guess it's important that we had fun preparing for the one big day of our lives...our wedding!
Anyhow, we were surprised to see a lot of pinoys fishing in beach area of the park. We felt embarassed to take pictures because we can understand what they'll be whispering about. Imagine the two of us possing like superstar telenovela stars. Like Kristine Hermosa and Jericho Rosales. Claudine and Rico Yan....wait! he's already dead! Claudine and Raymart. Mahal and Jimboy. The other funny part is, there is no photographer! =< Our first location is the pier. We really don't know what it is but it looks like one. We possed, and in a matter of seconds we are prey to the fish folks! Everybodys face are turned to us. As if all the fish have all gone on our part of the beach. But who cares? I just told Lany to pretend to speak chinese when we got near them. So that they won't say that we're baduy, and not throw up!
We noticed that the first shoot was far better. We had more unique ideas. And our first location doesn't have an Indian guy lifting his skirt up as he goes into the water. But to be serious, the park has limited attactions to offer, other than the beach.
In our last hour of shoot, we found a small spot and our sense of humor to end our session. It is really hard to focus when people are looking at you. I could only imagine our pre-nup pictures with Chito Vecina. I'm beginning to be very nervous! But the park bench, the odd looking tree and the other odd looking tree was enough to entertain us. We got a handfull of good pictures to show everyone. And eventhough the sun almost blinded us, I guess it's important that we had fun preparing for the one big day of our lives...our wedding!
Sunday, October 24, 2004
PRE-NUP PICS & WEDDING RINGS
We are a very hands on couple. As much as possible we try to make our wedding as personalized as our own beds. We spend our free hours thinking of ways to make the wedding unique by trying to incorporate our persona in each items such as the invitation or the misalette or the cake. (Hi Alex Franco! Your dates are in safe hands! ; }
Through each day that I spend with my Hunny during the preparation, I can see so much excitement in her. SHE'S A WEDDING JUNKIE!!! My sleepy fiance is experiencing catatonia and euphoria as she spends most of her time surfing the net rather than sleeping. Considering that the wedding day is about 3 months away. I wonder what happens to her when we only have a week?
Her focus on her w@wie yahoo group is immense! She reads everything that that group sends her. Its not bad I know. But she spends more time with the computer now a days than me. Makes me feel jealous! Anyhow we made some progress over the course of the week. Such as:
PRE-NUP PICS
My enthusiasm and frequent experimentation with my shiny old Sony Digicam finally paid of last Thursday, as we shot our first pre-nup pictorial. We can't wait any longer for CHITO VECINA to do our pictures, so we made the initiative to do it ourselves.
So at about 6:00am, we brought our early morning grumpiness to MANAMA SEASIDE PARK. With only our digicam in hand, we tried do our best to shoot our own pictures. First up on our time table is to shoot short clips of videos of us doing our thing. No story board here! We only played it by ear. And I tell you, its not easy to think in these early hours. We can only come up with the stereotypical VIDEOKE type mtv. We suck! But it was fun!
We took pictures of ourselves only by the use of the timer mode of the camera. We didnt even own a tripod! So we have to use any surface to put our camera on it. First, we used the bench. This is difficult since the bench doesnt have any 45 angle plane. I have to place it very carefully so as not to scratch the cam. After focusing I will time it, and then run towards Lany before it snaps a picture! Just like lighting a firecracker on new years day! It was fun at first. After the 5th time I can feel myself sweating and out of breath. The distance of the camera and Lanys location is several meters away, (it only looks near because of the cameras zoom). Its a helluva shoot man!
We took ourselves to different locations. One of my favorite place is under the short tree infront of the building near Sheraton Hotel. I mounted the camera on top of the grass. The image was gorgeous! The flat ground looked like a hill on picture! Something like the background picture of the Windows XP. the critter cam was really something! I posted a sample last night. Just scroll down and you'll see it.
There were 3 other locations the we shot at. The grassy park, the seaside, and the pathway bench. During the grassy park shoot, I used the Date tree branches to mount my cam. After the last picture the wind blew the branch and down came my digicam, craddle and all! (like a lullabye) In the next few locations I tried mounting it on a safer spot. The trash bin (that looks like a logged tree), and my hands (I make excellent photos shooting it this way. I never go out of focus or out of frame!).
At about 9am or 10, we called it a day, and went home to upload the pics on my pc. And they were all great! I wish I could show you all of it. The whole day, I made a home video of our movie clips. I thinks its terrific! There weren't so bad at all. With the music, its like time stood still while you watch it. COOL! I used PAUL WESTERBERG's DYSLEXIC HEART as the background score. Not much for the lyrics but the melody is cool!
Next time well by a tripod!
WEDDING RINGS
Its high time that we had it made. We went to GOLD SOUQ to have it forged. We picked an unconvetional design for it. We found a shop, with a nice Catholic Indian guy named John to forge our wedding bands. He is no Frodo Baggins but he was kind enough to give us a reasonable price and a good deal for it. "If you don't like how it was made you wont pay for it!" I will be finished in 10 days. We are crossing our fingers that it will look exactly the same as the one in the magazine.
We had a busy day. And there will be more busy days ahead. We just hope that the wedding will turn out the way we want it to be. I'm still worried about the requirements that has not been submitted to Paco Church. I'm crossing my fingers and my toes that our plans to get married wont be spoiled. GOD HELP US!
Through each day that I spend with my Hunny during the preparation, I can see so much excitement in her. SHE'S A WEDDING JUNKIE!!! My sleepy fiance is experiencing catatonia and euphoria as she spends most of her time surfing the net rather than sleeping. Considering that the wedding day is about 3 months away. I wonder what happens to her when we only have a week?
Her focus on her w@wie yahoo group is immense! She reads everything that that group sends her. Its not bad I know. But she spends more time with the computer now a days than me. Makes me feel jealous! Anyhow we made some progress over the course of the week. Such as:
PRE-NUP PICS
My enthusiasm and frequent experimentation with my shiny old Sony Digicam finally paid of last Thursday, as we shot our first pre-nup pictorial. We can't wait any longer for CHITO VECINA to do our pictures, so we made the initiative to do it ourselves.
So at about 6:00am, we brought our early morning grumpiness to MANAMA SEASIDE PARK. With only our digicam in hand, we tried do our best to shoot our own pictures. First up on our time table is to shoot short clips of videos of us doing our thing. No story board here! We only played it by ear. And I tell you, its not easy to think in these early hours. We can only come up with the stereotypical VIDEOKE type mtv. We suck! But it was fun!
We took pictures of ourselves only by the use of the timer mode of the camera. We didnt even own a tripod! So we have to use any surface to put our camera on it. First, we used the bench. This is difficult since the bench doesnt have any 45 angle plane. I have to place it very carefully so as not to scratch the cam. After focusing I will time it, and then run towards Lany before it snaps a picture! Just like lighting a firecracker on new years day! It was fun at first. After the 5th time I can feel myself sweating and out of breath. The distance of the camera and Lanys location is several meters away, (it only looks near because of the cameras zoom). Its a helluva shoot man!
We took ourselves to different locations. One of my favorite place is under the short tree infront of the building near Sheraton Hotel. I mounted the camera on top of the grass. The image was gorgeous! The flat ground looked like a hill on picture! Something like the background picture of the Windows XP. the critter cam was really something! I posted a sample last night. Just scroll down and you'll see it.
There were 3 other locations the we shot at. The grassy park, the seaside, and the pathway bench. During the grassy park shoot, I used the Date tree branches to mount my cam. After the last picture the wind blew the branch and down came my digicam, craddle and all! (like a lullabye) In the next few locations I tried mounting it on a safer spot. The trash bin (that looks like a logged tree), and my hands (I make excellent photos shooting it this way. I never go out of focus or out of frame!).
At about 9am or 10, we called it a day, and went home to upload the pics on my pc. And they were all great! I wish I could show you all of it. The whole day, I made a home video of our movie clips. I thinks its terrific! There weren't so bad at all. With the music, its like time stood still while you watch it. COOL! I used PAUL WESTERBERG's DYSLEXIC HEART as the background score. Not much for the lyrics but the melody is cool!
Next time well by a tripod!
WEDDING RINGS
Its high time that we had it made. We went to GOLD SOUQ to have it forged. We picked an unconvetional design for it. We found a shop, with a nice Catholic Indian guy named John to forge our wedding bands. He is no Frodo Baggins but he was kind enough to give us a reasonable price and a good deal for it. "If you don't like how it was made you wont pay for it!" I will be finished in 10 days. We are crossing our fingers that it will look exactly the same as the one in the magazine.
We had a busy day. And there will be more busy days ahead. We just hope that the wedding will turn out the way we want it to be. I'm still worried about the requirements that has not been submitted to Paco Church. I'm crossing my fingers and my toes that our plans to get married wont be spoiled. GOD HELP US!
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
OLD FRIENDS
Just a while ago I recieved a mysterious call on my mobile. I was apprehensive to anywhere it 'coz the number doesn't show on screen. It only reads "Private Number" on it. It might be a wrong number, I keep telling myself. I'm phobic of obscence calls for everybodys info. Because there was a point in my life that my ex-girlfriend gave my number to hired stalkers (her girlfriends) to get back at me...HEY! HOLD THAT THOUGHT! I didn't do anything bad to her! She just cant swallow the fact that I broke up with her.
Anyways, I answered the phone. And to my surprise, its my old friend ADONIS SAMPANA! He's an old buddy of mine from highschool. And after HS we really didn't see each other. 11years man! I guess its really my fault that we didn't see each other. I drifted away from them because I got stupid... But I'm glad that he called. He said that he is trying to trace his old friends. Maybe trying to revive our old barkada. But I'm weelly weelly glad that he called! Thanks to his wife's unlimited capability to call toll free! You're an angel madam!
Don-don (Adonis) is now currently living in Milan Italy, and working as a bartender at a strip club. (Sorry I have to call it that. Its way too cool to call it that rather than a night club) He's living my alter ego as this macho-cool-bartender-at-a-strip-joint! Really cool! Now I'm asking myself why am I working at an embryology lab. Working in a confined workplace such as a laboratory sucks!
It's ironic that from the 11 years that we didn't see each other, we still can talk the same as when we were kids. For 30 mins all the memories that we had together flashed before my eyes. I still remember those afternoons when he would just drop by my house to pick me up. We would spend joyous hours riding his mini-bike all around Navotas and Malabon while we chit-chat. We would visit our friends and hang out. These are my fond memories of those carefree times. (sigh)
I'm still optimistic to find the rest of the gang. And maybe someday, somewhere, sometime I will get to see all of them. Especially Gigi (what's your surname na nga?), Agnes, Jay Cupcupin, Emerson Salientes and Bernardo Vasquez. Wherever you guys are, I want you to know that you still have a friend in me.
--Dennis DC
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My honey-curred is hibernating for the day, trying to save her energy for her night shift duty. The life of a nurse is not easy. I'm just glad that I spent my time with her. I love you honey! Call me later when you're free!
Love,
Dennis DC
Anyways, I answered the phone. And to my surprise, its my old friend ADONIS SAMPANA! He's an old buddy of mine from highschool. And after HS we really didn't see each other. 11years man! I guess its really my fault that we didn't see each other. I drifted away from them because I got stupid... But I'm glad that he called. He said that he is trying to trace his old friends. Maybe trying to revive our old barkada. But I'm weelly weelly glad that he called! Thanks to his wife's unlimited capability to call toll free! You're an angel madam!
Don-don (Adonis) is now currently living in Milan Italy, and working as a bartender at a strip club. (Sorry I have to call it that. Its way too cool to call it that rather than a night club) He's living my alter ego as this macho-cool-bartender-at-a-strip-joint! Really cool! Now I'm asking myself why am I working at an embryology lab. Working in a confined workplace such as a laboratory sucks!
It's ironic that from the 11 years that we didn't see each other, we still can talk the same as when we were kids. For 30 mins all the memories that we had together flashed before my eyes. I still remember those afternoons when he would just drop by my house to pick me up. We would spend joyous hours riding his mini-bike all around Navotas and Malabon while we chit-chat. We would visit our friends and hang out. These are my fond memories of those carefree times. (sigh)
I'm still optimistic to find the rest of the gang. And maybe someday, somewhere, sometime I will get to see all of them. Especially Gigi (what's your surname na nga?), Agnes, Jay Cupcupin, Emerson Salientes and Bernardo Vasquez. Wherever you guys are, I want you to know that you still have a friend in me.
--Dennis DC
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My honey-curred is hibernating for the day, trying to save her energy for her night shift duty. The life of a nurse is not easy. I'm just glad that I spent my time with her. I love you honey! Call me later when you're free!
Love,
Dennis DC
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Burdado
This is the second time that we went to the designer. And this time its for the burda. The stone is an important part of a wedding dress. It can make the bride shimmer like a star or make her look like a BelleStar Dancer. She got to see a part of her burda. And the stones really shine like a crazy diamond! They will also set a nice looking ruby like stone...what the hell! its better than adobe or hollow block.
At home we browsed on our entourage and decided to redo the whole thing. I dont want to cross anybody out, but we have to do it. Wish us luck!
A million thanks to my very good friend and Best man... Dr. Philip Lopez for his valuable assistance and tireless effort to get us to the altar. Another million to Ria Ramirez, my cousin for her total support. And to my fiance's parents, thank you very much for everything that you are doing for us. (salute)
At home we browsed on our entourage and decided to redo the whole thing. I dont want to cross anybody out, but we have to do it. Wish us luck!
A million thanks to my very good friend and Best man... Dr. Philip Lopez for his valuable assistance and tireless effort to get us to the altar. Another million to Ria Ramirez, my cousin for her total support. And to my fiance's parents, thank you very much for everything that you are doing for us. (salute)
Monday, October 11, 2004
Sunday, October 10, 2004
Virgin Post
Hello World!
We are so excited to make our first blog posting! My dear fiancee turned out to be a blog addict, and it gave me an idea to post our own crap online. Cool!
So what is this blog site all about? Duh?! Of course its all about us! We will also be sharing our day to day experience with our wedding preparations, random thoughts, irrational behavior, and irrelevant issues. So visit us and know what the "Honeyspot" is all about.
Ciao!
We are so excited to make our first blog posting! My dear fiancee turned out to be a blog addict, and it gave me an idea to post our own crap online. Cool!
So what is this blog site all about? Duh?! Of course its all about us! We will also be sharing our day to day experience with our wedding preparations, random thoughts, irrational behavior, and irrelevant issues. So visit us and know what the "Honeyspot" is all about.
Ciao!
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