These Portraits! // July 31, 2009
I have a backlog of exhibit posts, but I wanted to post about These Portraits, which is a project my friend Gabby has been doing for the past few months. What exactly is These Portraits about?
Here’s the gist, for each portrait I take, I donate P20 to Rock Ed Philippines’ Rock The Rehas project.
It’s super-cool because a) it’s for a good cause, and b) she’s a really good photographer. We were supposed to shoot today, but stupid things got in the way, so I’ll post about the project instead. Here’s a bunch of portraits she took for These Portraits:

One of my favorite photographers, for real.
Since our plans for today, fell through, I ended up drinking coffee and educating myself about current events, via the newspaper. Also, mostly driving around the city with my grandpa. It’s his favorite past-time, aside from watching boxing matches or UFC. Check out his cool digs:

Plaid on plaid FTW.
Today, I cooked my own lunch. // July 30, 2009

And about time, too! When I am home in time for lunch, I usually just open a can of Chef Boyardee Beef Ravioli and call it a day. But I wasn’t in a meal-in-a-can mood today so I called up my mother and asked if I could still reheat the bowtie pasta in the fridge, and she said I probably shouldn’t since it’s been there a while. Long story short, I had a sudden urge to cook for myself, and it didn’t turn out to be half-bad, to be honest.

Sundried tomatoes forever and ever, amen.
Two Things I Learned Today:
- The pasta will not get cooked if you keep on lifting the lid to see if it is.
- You can never have too much sundried tomatoes in your pasta. This is the truth.
OK. That’s basically it. I cooked my lunch and I ate it. Why is this a big deal? Because I’m a lazy-ass and I have no cooking experience at all, except if you count second year high school, when I had to cook, or else I would FAIL the subject. I was so bad at it that I used the wrong end of the knife to slice some garlic — and held the blade against my thumb. I don’t think I need to expound on how bad I really am.
AGH. I really want to eat s’more of those tomatoes. But really, they taste better cooked, and I think I’m all cooked out for the day.
Mariano Ching: Dead Ends & False Starts // July 25, 2009
I’d been meaning to post an entry about a recent exhibit that I viewed (the first in a while), but things kept getting in the way. I’m writing it now, so no mo’ complainin’. Anyway, last July 15, 3/5 of my family, plus me and Pau, went to view Mariano Ching’s solo exhibit in the Silverlens space, SLab. It is called Dead Ends and False Starts and it is amazing!
I’ve been a fan since his solo exhibit entitled We Are Not Afraid of You and We Will Beat Your Ass, which was mounted in 2008 over at West Gallery. Here’s a link so you can view the show. And yes, it is pretty much a Yo La Tenga-centric show, title-wise, at least.
Since I’m probably going to butcher the whole experience by writing about it (as I seem to be particularly fond of affectations when it comes to writing about art), here are some of the pictures I was able to take. Not a lot, since I was experiencing a personal crisis at the time (shush), but here:

The brochure-slash-catalog they gave out.

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