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Dusted off an old camera I was ready to dispose of almost two years ago. Thank you to my college photography course for incentivizing me to use it and take shots like I've always wanted but was too lazy for. (Hah!)

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#if i'm not wrong this is from one of the Boys Smoking videos #that's literally the name of the studio #Boys Smoking #edit #photography #black & white #balintataw

Cavite City and Escolta for today. I would've roamed around Cavite City more if it wasn't for the sweltering weather (when is it not?) and if I had planned places to go beforehand. My trip was spontaneous; I hopped on a jeep with one objective in mind and that was to capture artisans but I wasn't even able to accomplish that, lol. I alighted on their public market but I hadn't worked up the courage to snap yet so I just breezed through aisles. There weren't anything that piqued my interest either. I walked some more and encountered a church that was seemingly normal until I walked further and realized it didn't have a back...?

There were not much to see a couple of meters forward so I said fuck it and saw through the entire road. I ended up by the bay and the college campus I had considered before (I'm now realizing I made a wrong decision).

I went to a park nearby and saw some kids playing catch with a baseball and a glove and I had never seen Filipino kids do that before so I stayed for a bit. My biggest accomplishment was probably finding the bus terminal that goes to Parañaque instead of listening to my dad's instructions that are oftentimes unreliable. I walked about two kilometers under the heat and along the way I could feel the soles of my boots peeling off. The hamsa ring I recently bought from last Saturday's Hola Escolta brought me luck today. Thank you for not making me relive the trauma of my shoe soles melting and peeling off in public.

I got to admit - the trip was pretty pointless. Anything's better than doing nothing but tirelessly shifting left and right on my pillow at home anyway. For a first introduction to a place, it wasn't so bad. You can get around easily since it's a relatively small town. I'll be back soon with some kesong puti.

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Forcing myself to go. That is the way out.

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23-10-25

To Ortigas

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Some snaps from my solo Binondo trip last November. My very first photowalk.

Hailed from Cavite to UN Station, then made my trip from National Museum -> Intramuros -> Binondo entirely on foot.

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Favorite shots from a photo essay by yours truly.

For my Photojournalism class.

I wrote about my old neighbor's daily life as an on-call housekeeper.

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10/11/23

Pero seryoso, sobrang saya last Saturday. Everything went seamlessly during my commute. Thank the gods for the existence of the r/HowToGetTherePH subreddit, whose purpose is pretty self-explanatory (the internet isn't a cesspool of profit-hungry users and AI bots, after all). I often wonder how commuters in the Philippines used to fare back then under these hellish conditions without the use of internet, but it's essentially just the same principle of asking strangers for directions if you think about it???

From Imus, Cavite to Quezon City: I had a tricycle take me to the bus terminal, took a bus to the MRT, rode from Taft station to Araneta-Cubao, then walked to Cubao Expo for about 900 meters with a phone in hand, reading a step-by-step instruction how to get there written by a redditor (backbone of society, ika-nga). Then, I booked an Angkas to Mow's in Matalino.

'Di ba nga kasi ang motto ko, "wala akong pera, wala akong kasama, 'di 'ko alam ang papunta don, pero pupunta ako." So that's what I did. Charot. Sa mga ganitong sitwasyon lang malakas ang fighting spirit ko. 'pag may gala, laging may gana. Charot x2. Huy pero sa totoo lang, 'di naman ako basta-basta lumalarga nang walang plano. Sinisikap ko talaga munang pag-aralan 'yung ruta ko bago ako pumunta sa isang lugar, which honestly has been part of the fun for me (or have I successfully manipulated myself into thinking of the horrific Philippine public transportation system as a fun little challenge?).

This tweet pops into my head every time my friends ask me to go out with them 😭 As a non-NCR girlie, ganito talaga ang pagdadaanan mo kung gusto mo maka-gimik mga Metro Manila friends mo 😔 Sabi nila nung nakaraang taon, magkakaroon na raw ng extension ang MRT/LRT hanggang Cavite sa taong susunod na rin agad. But Filipino math means 1 year na ang nakalipas sa pangako = 'wag ka nang umasa.

Oh well, na-enjoy ko naman ang commute ko kahit palipat-lipat. I'm not romanticizing it or anything; alam ko naman pakiramdam ng mga taong nakikipagsapalaran mag-commute araw-araw. Masaya lang ako kasi tuwing umaalis ako (which is napakabihira), pakiramdam ko para akong ibon na nakalabas sa hawla.

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