Oct 20, 2006

Mini Buko Pies

I accidentally discovered this delicious pastry during my recent travels in Laguna. 

  

The custardy buko (young coconut meat) filling is creamy and the pie crust is flaky. I bought an entire box. The Mini Buko Pie tastes better than each slice of the normal buko pie because the flavor of the smaller version is more concentrated. The size of each pie could be compared to a closed fist. The normal sized buko pie is now obsolete. It is available at the roadside stalls along the major highway after Los Banos Laguna.

Ingrid's Wedding

the end is near

Last three exams this Friday! Can't wait for sem break.

These are the highlights of the last schoolweek for the semester.
Click the thumbnails for bigger pics.

   

Glorietta

Economic Press Inc

Group Photos

Palatiw Immersion

Bagyong Milenyo

Bretchster

http://www.friendster.com/bretch
My Friendster Account

Dubai

Marooned Six Times

http://bretch.livejournal.com
Bretch is also on Livejournal.

Nov 18, 2005

Finals 1stSem 2006

Maam Tessa Rosana's Theo 151 Class

Lets go do something DIRRTY yeah!

This music video is soooo gay!!

This is what happens after SOCCER PRACTICE.

Stolen from a Hallmark Card

You are and always will be 
the most amazing person 
who ever smiled into my eyes. 
Every morning, 
your smile give me the courage to take on the day... 

Your smile gives me a feeling 
of calm reassurance every night. 
So on this day devoted to our love, 
I'm counting the everyday reasons 
you've given me to know that my life is good. 
Very Good. 
In the circle of your arms, 
I feel strong and hopeful.

Time moves on, 
and the world changes around us, 
sometimes faster than we can keep up with it... 
And through it all, 
I know 
I'll be depending on upon your smile, 
loving you more than I can say, 
hoping you'll always be mine. 

Happy Anniversary.

Cebu 2006

Tricia's Birthday 2006

You Get What You Give Remix - Gag Reel End Credits

Haven't got enough of the comedy in the music video? Watch this behind the scenes footage on the parody that rocked Philippine politics.

Works Three Wonders

Infomercial for CS 175 Tran

Speed of Tech

Sci 10 Music Video on Technology and how it affects people's lives.

Coffee's Angels

LS 100 Music Video on an industry study of Seattle's Best Coffee Philippines

Close

Theo 131 Music Video on Homosexuality

Thinking Faith

Theo 151 Report on Thinking Faith for Ms. Tessa Rosana's Class

You Get What You Give Remix

Philippine Politics never danced this good. Funny music video on the song: You Get What You Give Remix by LMC feat New Radicals. Used in Pos100 Report Section S Group 2

Kumpas ng Buhay

Music video on poverty. Account: Theo 151

Bloopers and Crazy Credits

Haven't got enough from the music video?
Watch the behind the scenes footage 
from the parody that rocked Philippine politics.

World Premiere

And now the web premiere
of the music video
You Get What You Give Remix
LMC feat New Radicals
a BRETCH Production
Philippine politics never danced this good.

Just in the time of nick

Fortunately, my tita's house in the same village already had electricity when I got back home. By the time I arrived at my house, power was not yet available so I called my Tita up to tell kuya Al to fetch me so that I could bring my PC back to civilization. Finally, by 11pm yesterday, I was able to render, edit and post-produce a music video for Pol Sci class the following day, err, in a few hours. The video turned out great, with accurately timed lip sync of the characters. The beat of the song also matches the dance movements of the raw footage. Im going to upload it soon, but only until the phone lines are back up.

It was a great show indeed, the video even includes the out takes clip.

Running on Reserve Power

Remember the series called 24? Almost every hour yesterday was exciting and weird enough to merit an entire TV episode.

12mn
 I was lining up for tickets for UAAP Game 2. I was crazy enough to camp out the yellow gate ticket booth with two other 2nd year Ateneans. I only met them that night.

1am
Another Atenean joined us who brought a guitar. Imagine sober people singing in a non-sober way.

2am
Six more people lined up, most of them are drivers and yayas of other Ateneans. Now I'm reduced to such low level. I started out an arrival sign-up sheet for documentation purposes.

3am
Araneta Center closes down, most of the lights were turned off. Weird people started to pass by. An old gay man in a tight shirt smiled at me. Eww!! A trannie was making her rounds. Tambay na lasing people joined in the fun. 

4am
Sign-up sheet was already on its 5th page. Cutie guys started to arrive.

5am
Hard rain and gale force winds started to shower us. Just heard from the radio that its already signal number three in the metro.

6am
Free breakfast from Tita Emy, a lady we reserved a slot at 2am. The perks of having the power of the sign-up sheet.

7am
Games today are cancelled, according to Tita Emy. 

8am
No tickets today! Worthless.

9am 
I went home as the typhoon started to emerge. Trees swayed with the wind.

10am
Dozed after arriving at home. Power loss.

11am
Typhoon gets stronger. A tree branch fell down the backyard.

12nn
Transferred the heavy gas range and oven inside the house plus the LPG tank. We can't cook outside anymore.

1pm
Rain still spurts through the locked windows.

2pm 
Gutter-high flooding in the streets.

3pm
Heard from the radio that a person parking his car in Makati was trampled to death by a giant billboard.

4pm
Took pictures of uprooted trees outside the house.

5pm
Dozed off again.

6pm
Played Super Mario 64 again and again.

7pm
Ate dinner beside the stove.

8pm
Went outside the house. The street was soo dark that the sky is much brighter.

9pm
Cellular phone battery's dead. Can't text anyone right now.

10pm
Rechargable lamp flickers and slowly dims to black.

11pm
Snuggled with my *ahem* 

12mn
Sleep.

How was your day?

Crinkles with Coffee

Not everyone knows about this delicious thing called..
.


Strawberry Crinkles



Ang sarap sarap!

More Bretch Videos!

This video was made for my LS100 class. This serves as an intro for our report on the Gourmet Coffee Shop industry in the Philippines. Coffee's Angels is the title of this video, and Im sure that it will crack you up. :)

All night, I wanna goo-ohh.

Last night was one of the all-nighters for CTK Integrative Project. I played host this time because the venue was my house.

This is my groupmates before we started burning the midnight oil.

So bangag at 2AM. Hey Kids!


Yebah!

Havta doze off pa for a few hours, tomorrow's my grad pic photoshoot and POS100 mtv shooting.

The Festival Continues

Finally, after being shelved for a few months, the Kumpas ng Buhay video was shown to a whole class. Yes, my Theo 151 class saw my heartbreaking social awareness MTV. Maam Tessa was amazed with my work. The entire class applauded after it was shown. 

And now the Video Fest continues with another classic Bretch music video. Close was created for theo 131. The entire video report lasts for 26 minutes and the music video serves as a commercial gap for the news format discussion on homosexuality. The title of the news program is 24 Minuto ng Badap Badap, a parody on Wazzup Wazzup. 

Bretch Video Festival

A good way to celebrate the 4th anniversary of BRETCH online is to have a video festival of sorts. One of my least popular videos I made was this music video remix for Sci10 class in collaboration with Vip. During that time in 2003 when I was editing this video, I really dont know how to maximize the use of Adobe Premiere Pro's transition and color key effects. The result is a primitive but byte-busting slide show rendered on my DV cam. Powerpoint would have done a better job with less the fuss.

its four years of bretch online

September 16, 2002 is the day in the history of the internet where I first posted my online journal through the MG Yahoo! groups.

that big eared dog

I just came home from a music video shoot in school. Its been a while since I staged a medium budget production like this. Unfortunately, some of the scenes were accidentally deleted! Now we have to shoot that first scene again. Oh well, I cant wait to edit it. Maybe I'll start editing now. Hehehe.

social awareness

This is a video I made a year ago for Theo class. It was created during the time of the ultra stampede. Preferential option for the poor huh.

Enjoy!

quote of the day

The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

— Douglas Adams, The Independent on Sunday, 1999

a few hours before September 11

It's weird having the entire bed to myself.

Happiness is...

Ang happiness ay parang latak ng tinimplang gatas,
haluin mo mang mabuti, nasa ilalim pa rin.

(at masarap pa!)

Bonks kung bonks.

Bretch, you scored as Slut. Slut 81% Preppy Girl 75% Popular Bitch 56% Nerdy Girl 44% Hippy 38% Athletic Tomboy 31% Loser 25% Goth 13% What type of girl are you?!! QuizFarm.com

Time flies when hell's just around the corner.

Slowly but surely, September ushers in a hell of a week for me and a for some people I know. The only thing to look forward to is that the BER months are almost here. I really wish that I could survive all of these. 

And like the seasons, there is also a point in time wherein my EXes try to come back into my life. Unfortunately for them, I don't like seasonal love flings anymore, something more long term and transcending physical attraction. Buti nga sa inyo. HAHAHHAHAHA!

Oommpph

Happy Birthday, Alex!

sa ilalim ng puno ng eucalyptus.

Kaninang tanghali, nung nag-aaral kami ng groupies ko sa theo 151 para sa group orals kay Ms. Tessa Rosana, biglang napag-usapan ang future. Ano ba daw ang gagawin namin pagkatapos ng college? Sabi ng isa, magtratrabaho daw siya sa P&G, nakuwento niya na yung friend niya na na-ex-pat sa Singapore ay six digits daw ang starting salary. Well, totoo nga na pag ex-pat ka ay mas malaki ang bayad sayo, at in dollars pa. Pumasok sa isip ko yung prof namin sa Finance dati na si Sir Don Lim, sa P&G din daw siya nagwork. Malaki din naman ang sweldo pero bigla ba naman nagturo sa school na to. Bakit kaya, di ba its all about the money naman sa mundo na to? Yung isang girl naman sa group namin, kinuwento din na may kakilala siya na nasa states na cum laude, ang suweldo ay 500 dollars per month. Whoah, grabe, kahit di ka magtrabaho ng ilang buwan ay buhay na buhay ka pa rin. 

Umentra naman ang Bretchay niyo sa usapan, sabi ko, "pano naman ang happiness?" Natahimik ang mga lolah niyo.

Patay kang bakla ka!

Headache nanaman to. At least quasi-official na ang status namin sa mga tita ko. Friends daw o!

New Color Scheme

Obvious ba? Taray ng colors noh!

Seems like a lifetime

10
diyes

Happy St. Ignatius of Loyola Day!

Wala lang. Gusto ko lang sabihin yun!

SMB: Super Mario is Back!

Just got a new game for my Nintendo DS, and this time, 3D gaming would be rendered unfashionable. Aptly named New Super Mario Bros, this is the newest side-scrolling Super Mario portable platform game since the release of the monochromatic Super Mario Land for the old Game Boy.

Im speaking geek here, so what does all this mean?

Basically, this new Nintendo DS game brings back nostalgic memories of the 80's because of its revival of the old 2-D motion control used by Nintendo's Family Computer and Super Famicom consoles. Since most of the newer Mario episodes out in the market are set in 3-D worlds (except for the select Paper Mario line), the New Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo DS entices both new and old school gamers to go back to the classics.

Other than reverting to the old linear gameplay, NSMB has more to offer. Even though it is 2-D in motion, the graphics, background and characters are in 3-D.  The polygonal treatment gives a refreshing look to classic settings and iconic characters. Mario and Luigi now look more sophisticated but they still retain the fundamental characteristics they possess for more than two decades ago since they first appeared in the arcades.

But wait, there's more,  NSMB also features new powers never before seen in the original Super Mario. The new powers include a Mega Mushroom, which makes Mario giantic in size big enough to occupy the entire screen and trample on enemies, a Mini Mushroom, which miniturizes Mario in a teeny-tiny speck  able to move faster and fit into tiny crevices in the game and finally the Shell Power which gives Mario a turtle suit able to withstand attacks. New characters and enemies are also introduced. Blue jays, walking pumpkins and moving mushroom platforms also make the Brothers' journey more exciting.

I have to admit that I'm getting hooked to this game. Right now, I just finished the second Bowser castle in World 8. Good thing I could save my recent developments in the DS' built-in flash memory card. All in all, the New Super Mario Brothers is an excellent game. The legacy of Mario's classic 2-D motion lives on through this newest installment to the super saga. Speaking of 2-D motion games, I can't wait for the release of  Yoshi's Island 2 in November just in time for my birthday, Yoshi's Island 2 is another new side-scrolling platform for the Nintendo DS.

Photos from themushroomkingdom.net

of rainy days and Mondays

Ang Saya saya noh! 

Today is TGIS: Thank Gloria its SONA.  Salamat sa ulan ni Glenda at sa takot ni Ate Glo na dumugin ang kanyang 6th State of the Nenok Echoserang Address ay walang classes ngayon. Napakadami kong nagawang makabuluhan ngayon katulad ng matulog, mahiga at makipaglandian sa mga housemates ko sa bahay ni Bretchay. Sobrang amazed pa rin ako sa Goggle Earth Plus at nagsearch ako ng mga kilalang world cities na di ko pa napuntahan like Paris and the Eiffel tower, NYC's Chrysler bulding, Japan's Mount Fuji pati na ang pagkaliit-liit na bansa ng Micronesia at ang black gold-rich country of Nauru. Ayun lang naman.

Picture from INQ7.net

2 YEARS of being marooned!

Yes, I almost didn't knew it but this July is my blog anniversary month. On July 7, 2004, I posted my first blog entry in Blogspot. Life has never been the same after that. Thanks to the wonders of blog, I could now remember every stupid thing I did with my life! Everything is documented, and its is archived in the back seat portion of my journal.

Only recently, (two months to be exact) I transfered to LJ. My Blogspot account still works but it directly links it to LJ, somewhat of a simulcast on two channels.

Well, im kinda lazy today to create a 2nd anniversary special but its quite amazing realize that two years of blog life has gone by.

Maybe I'll post some tribute to the past. Soon.

Sakit ng ulo?

My lazy day started when I woke up at 9:30 to roam around the house. Yes, I have less time to do that. Then by 12:00nn I left for school. Twenty minutes after that, when I was already approaching the Katipunan flyover, behold the traffic starting at the foot of the overpass. Damn it. Fortunately, I came to school earlier today. During Tuesdays and Thursdays, my classes start at 1:30 and ends at 6pm, with no breaks. Then, the strangest thing happened. A few minutes into my Philo class, (last class during T-TH) i suddenly had a splitting headache. This is truly the first time in my life that I had an instantaneous headache. And the headache has really painful. I barely survived the 1 and a half hour class with the discussion of Plato. I was so nauseated by the last 30 minutes of it that I almost vomited inside the classroom. It was kind of weird since I never experienced anything like this. I even ate luch just before the start of my first class. Maybe its food poisoning from the cafeteria food. Well, thats an old story. I took two tablets of Biogesic immediately after the class. Product placement huh. Up to this time, my head still hurts. Huhuhuhuhu.

I heard about you back two weeks ago...

Magsisimula nanaman yung mga malabo kong posts about what happened to me. Ganun talaga ako lalo na pag wala kang friend na masabihan. (HAHAHAHA!! LOSER!!)


Paksyet talaga yang radio star na yan! Papatayin ko talaga yan. Napanuod ko na to e. (Sa video ba?) Pero lagi naman ako nadadala ng palabas, as if di ko alam yung mangyayari next.

Sayang talaga, unfairness kasi e. Hayayay, pero shung-shung pa rin ang lola moh. Kailangan tanggalin sa sistema ko to. Study hard, play harder. Pang-ilan na commercial break na yan di pa ko nasanay. At least may major timeline pa rin ako. Yess, sana after ko magawa tong entry na to, mabago ko na yung defective kong emotions. Enjoy lang dapat. Kalma lang.  Andyan lang naman ang tunay theme song ng buhay ko e.

Photo from: http://www.radrowdies.com

Volks of the Day # 3

Its easy like Sunday morning. Nothin else to do but to post a Volks of the Day pic!!
Today is a special day because we have two beetles in a single photo.



Seen in Buendia Avenue, Pasay City.

some chessy video report

I have nothing good to wrtie about today but fortunately I have a new video to share. Nothing grand or evocative about the video but as the song goes:

And now we meet in an abandoned studio.
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago.
And you remember the jingles used to go.
Oh-a oh
You were the first one.
Oh-a oh
You were the last one.
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far
Oh-a-aho oh,
Oh-a-aho oh

Better have it on video than hear it from the radio.

This short three and a half minute clip is a report about thinking faith in Theology 151. Its neither funny nor melodramatic, just a simple scripted discussion on how Catholics should involve themselves in a lively, Christ-centered discussion about recent moral-political issues.

Shux, I sound like some thelogian-freak. I should stop making these posts. Well I have nothing else to post, so there.

http://www.youtube.com/v/dTuWtYUQ-t0
You gotta have faith.

Mang-aagaw ng lakas...

Do you know the song "Narda" by Kamikazee? Its controversial nowadays because of a line in the song which has a double  meaning. 

Nag aabang sa langit
Sa mga ulap sumisilip
Sa likod ng mga tala
Kahit sulyap lang Darna

Sa costume ni Darna, ano kaya ang nasa likod ng dalawang stars/tala na naka-patch sa outfit niya? Hmmm.

But what's more exciting and amusing is that Michael V, the creative genius behind the Philippine gag show Bubble Gang has come up with a spoof version of the song with a matching music video to boot.

Check this out!

http://www.youtube.com/v/cKkr6dhtOTg

Baklang Mamaw!

Travelogue Rewind- Dubai

I remember it was sem break last year when I went to the UK [England] to visit my folks. Since I was not able to blog what happened to my trip, here's a long overdue post.



Here is the view from the tarmac while I was climbing the stairs. Im bound for Manchester Airport, England. Because of the limited direct flights offered by the handfull of airline companies here in the Philippines, I was forced to take a connecting flight to Dubai Airport. DXB or Dubai International Airport serves as the hub of Emirates Airlines. (obvious ba, kaya nga UAEmirates eh)  Ok naman yung serivce nila, each seat has its own LCD screen wherein passengers can watch popular tv shows and movies in the in-flight channel system or view the progress of the flight with the airshow map. Sa channel na ito makikita mo yung nasa ilalim, sa harap at sa gilid ng airplane dahil may live feed galing sa mga kamerang nakakabit sa eroplano. Taray di ba!

  Photo Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org
Dubai Skyline

Pagdating sa Dubai, kain muna tayo sa... Mc Do! San pa ba di va? They don't accept US$ daw, Dhs lang. Dhs? ano yun di ba? Ahh, Dirham, yun yung pera sa Dubai.
 
Photo Credit: http://www.syrialive.net
Mc Donald's Dubai Airport          Bretch Original Photo Copyright 2005-2006

Global Capitalist Mc Donald's, arabian style. Mc Falafel anyone?




Thats me waiting outside the gates of my connecting flight to Manchester. I'm halfway around the world and I only have Php 500 in my pocket!

Kamusta naman, bawal daw ang bading dun. May kakilala daw si Elgin na dalawang tuklesang nagchukchakan sa isang medyo public place ang nahuli at pinadeport pabalik sa Pinas. Hindi ito gay-friendly country like jolly-gay ol' England.

Underground kung underground ang gay community dito. Good luck sa mga gay dance clubs na nagtatago throughout the city. Kaya pala dito naghahasik ng lagim si Uma from PBB. Well rumor has it na botomesa daw siya. Di naman siya exactly from Dubai but Israel  would also has the same policy: BAWAL ANG BADING.

 Photo from http://www.pinoybigbrother.com

What happens next? Visit my blog soon.

Sabado!!

Just another boring week.
hayyyy..

moving on to a new blog!!!

im moving on to a new blogsite!

http://bretch.livejournal.com

Volks of the Day # 2

This Volkswagen Beetle was seen in Bautista Street, Makati City.
Color: Mustard Yellow
I love those banana-type mags! (really looks like a banana because it's yellow)

Volks of the Day

 
This volkswagen was seen in Bautista street, Makati City.
Color: Electric blue

Pilot Post

Testing, 1..2..3