Jun 15, 2021
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ellafarts asked: quality, harry potter and money :D
Quality - Name three of your favourite blogs.
Ohh I was actually afraid of this question because I don't really have any favorites, haha! I like Neil Gaiman's blog though. Mostly because I would like to live in his head and I like the way he deals with ignorant people.
Money - What would you do with 1 million dollars?
1 million dollars is more or less 44/45 million pesos so uhm. wait. *_______*
1) I'll buy a house for my mom, because that's what she's been telling me to do for her since I was five. Let's say that's around 5-10 million? How much does a house and lot cost in a decent subdivision now, anyway. Oh and this house will have the Beauty and the Beast library I have been dreaming of since I was a kid. Yes.
2) Start my own publishing company. There's only what, 5 or 6 publishing companies in the whole country? Three of them are focused on magazines (although I know Summit also publishes 100 pages of chick-lit books), one is for textbooks, one is for Filipino children's books (yay Adarna!) and the last one is Anvil. Oh and maybe the one that publishes trashy romance novels?
No one publishes fantasy or YA or any other genre that isn't a social commentary on life in the Philippines. The only Filipino writers I know who wrote those genres and got published have a common denominator: they were/are based in the US, where companies are constantly looking for writers to publish (or where self-publishing is a lot easier; even 16 year olds can self-publish if they've got enough money), compared to here where they're... not. Published Filipino writers who've achieved a modicum of success either migrated to the US or spent more than 5 years studying abroad. The genres I mentioned, you don't see them as novels here; you see them only as short stories in academic compilations published in university textbooks for your school (UP) or mine (Ateneo), and are usually written by college professors. Oh and if they ever turn up as novels, they're by award-winning screenwriters, who've been in showbizness for more than ten years already.
So yeah, I guess what I'm saying is, if you're new and young and you don't have contacts or money, it's extremely hard to get started compared to our developed country..friends. And I want to change that. I want the Cassandra Clares and idk the Josh Lanyons of the Philippines to be able to come out and write too, and not get stuck in the Communications department of Marketing or writing copy ads or online articles about sperm or ghost writing for politicians (all okay too, but it would just be nice if we actually had a publishing company that published novels and fiction that aren't just by famous and/or rich and/or well connected names/people.)
3) I am going to buy my own dSLR.
4) Add to my brother's college fund (let's say 150k/year) and take a second degree myself (so that's around a million gone, if we take 4 year courses each).
5) TRAVEL. Even if I've got millions, I don't think I can go full throttle with travelling. I'd still stay in my cheap hotels and walk most of the time and shop at the cheap places, but I'd be able to stay longer and go to more places because I'd be able to afford the tickets \o/
6) Send a couple of kids to kinder through college via World Vision.
7) Shove the rest in a time deposit account so I'll still earn money even when it's just lying there in the bank.
Harry Potter: What was the last book you read?
I just finished Professional Portrait Posing.
My birthday shoots are usually just fun things that I don't take extremely seriously, because as a subject, I'm only good for candid and smiley-reunion shots and not really for art, but my former workmate is shooting (she's shifted careers to try and be a professional photographer) and she even got her make-up artist friend to come and do my make-up, and the least I can do is to learn how to pose properly, give her at least a couple of shots that she can use for her portfolio. It's interesting since the book is for a photographer's perspective (which is a lot more helpful to me, tbh, because I'm more comfortable behind the camera than in front of it) and I can definitely use it when I have shoots in the future. I'm an events/capture those-moments-in-your-life photographer, so studio portraits aren't really my thing but if I ever get to help out in a studio shoot, I'll at least know how to help the models create shapes that will flatter them.