Desperados + Dos Equis

Beer options over at B&T Mexican Kitchen, our latest dive for a quick mex fix

Timog on the 9th

We'll say hello again to this view soon enough.

Intramuros

TV Static

KOSMOS

KOSMOS is this series of photos that I shot back in 2008 and I'd like to include them in this photoblog. I can't seem to find the original hi-res images, since this was still shot using my very first cam, a D40.

To compensate for the small size of the images, I remixed some of them into diptychs and triptychs.

Manila Mania

Eleksyon 2010

Voting Day 2010, where our current president, Noynoy Aquino, won his seat. I went with my mom and sister to the local public school to take some pictures. This was incidentally the first time the automated voting system was to be implemented, which explains the long lines amidst the hot afternoon sun.

Outside the school you can see a lot of vendors peddling their wares, which is good enough because the long lines will make you stay there way past lunchtime. I had to fetch something for my mom and sister while they were in there waiting for their turn to vote.

Some kids will just play wherever you put them.

I like how all kinds of people turn up for voting day. It means there are still a lot of people who believe in a democracy, and that the faith they put into their candidates can translate into a better life for them. 

Gasan, Marinduque

From the years 2008-2010 Pauline, my fiancee, and I have been going to and from Gasan, Marinduque to spend Holy Week there. This set is from our last trip, Holy Week 2010.

It won't be Marinduque without the Moriones

These images are of the Pataraka Boys, named so because of the noisemaking instrument they have called Pataraka.

Manong Hilton, my uncle, who drove for us to and from every location that we went to around Marinduque.

A young Morion enjoys mamon & Zesto juice drink

Those who practice self-flagellation wash their wounds down at the nearby shore.

This woman practices penance by doning a headdress of pupua leaves.