Little Jinx

Today is a big day for the UP Fighting Maroons as they will be going up against the UAAP defending champions, the FEU Tamaraws. A win will give UP a better chance to enter the Final Four while a loss will bring the team back to normal. Mwehehe.

The Maroon fans are ecstatic about their four game winning streak, the first since 1997 when Paolo Mendoza, Ogie Gumatay, ChuChu Serrano, Bryan Gahol and Alan Gamboa raced to a 4-0 record in the first round. Since this is a big deal for UP fans, a lot of them have become superstitious.

"Wag batiin baka matalo."
"One game at a time..."
"Please Lord kami naman!"

So as to put the jinx on FEU, I will leave you with a photo of the Tamaraw's main man Arwind Santos showing us that FEU is number one!


Arwind Santos flashes the "We're Number One" sign after winning last year's UAAP championship.

Anak

I haven't been online much this past week. My mother had a Japanese house guest and she was the one staying here at the condo. Anyway, the original plan was my mom and her sewing circle would be spending most of the week in Baguio with the Japanese teaching them Totsuka embroidery.
That plan didn't push through because a member their group got into a car accident. It was all over the news, she was the wife of Undersecretary Ponce. An SUV allegedly driven by a Jason Ivler "flew" across the center island of the C5-Ortigas flyover and rammed onto the SUV being driven by Mr. Ponce. It's a very sad story. Tita Angie was in the passenger side, the door pinned shut by the flyover railing. She was drenched in her husband's blood and by then she knew her husband was dead. She was conscious all through out the ordeal and was able to call her brother and sister for help.

Jason Ivler it turns out is the nephew of Freddie Aguilar and is a Fil-American studying in Hawaii. He was on the news again last Tuesday as he was caught in Zamboanga on a boat to Malaysia. He was being "escorted" by two police officials who also tried to bribe the immigration officers with $5,000. Isn't that just sickening? I caught the TV interview of Ivler's mom saying that her son wasn't escaping because he is not guilty. Hello?!?!? Or in Korean... Heller?!?!?

Anyway, wouldn't it be appropriate for Freddie Aguilar to dedicate his song for his nephew? "Nang isilang ka sa mundong ito..."

Ok now on to the photo part... (the whole post above was a long introduction, hehe.) We will be having our monthly camera club contest later and the theme is "Children". This is one of my entries. Mimi's entry is way better than this ;)

Mimi's cousin, Gio.

Breakable

Just wanted to announce that I have a Philmusic.com photo account where I'll probably upload all my music related photos. For my first album, I uploaded behind the scene photos of the Twisted Halo video, Breakable.

name game

When acquaintances learn that I'm a photographer or when I meet new people in the photography circle, I always get asked if I'm related to Jun de Leon. Well I'm not... but I am related to one talented photographer.

Anyway it got me thinking, what if I drop my surname and start using my second name for photography related endeavors? Para kasing mas-astig ang Karl Emmanuel kesa sa Karl de Leon. Tingin niyo?


Karl Emmanuel :D self portait at Enchanted Kingdom. Off camera slave flash with yellow gel, Canon D60 on tripod.

Font

I didn't think using a font can bring back so much memories. While photoshopping the previous photo, I decided to use the "Temple of the Dog" font which I've always associated with music. You see, that font is based on Jeff Ament's handwriting. Jeff being the bassist of Temple of the Dog and Pearl Jam. His handwriting was used in the Temple of the Dog album cover, on Pearl Jam shirts and in the sequence titles of the movie "Singles", my all time favorite movie.

Singles came out in the US in 1992, the year I graduated from high school. I remember watching and getting blown away by Pearl Jam's Evenflow video on MTV while in Seattle for a cousin's wedding. It sucks that I was in Seattle during the peak of the grunge era but never got to see any of the bands.

1992 reminds me of watching the Eraserheads for the first time as a Pisay senior with around 20 batchmates at our first UP fair. Their album Ultraelectromagneticpop wasn't released yet but you could feel that they would make it big. Incidentally, Ebe's band Cambio came from the ashes of the now defunct Erasherheads. Galing no, may connect. Hehehe.

Anyway, I think I'll be using that font more often :D

Ebe

Para sa original na Dramachine! ;)

Ebe Dancel of Cambio and Sugarfree at the Guijo Cafe, Makati. Sugarfree's 2nd album "Dramachine" is now out.

Liga

Kung UP kaya sumali dito, manalo kaya sila? Hehehe...