Last Christmas

Paalam na Kachorra, AKA Popoy. Ikaw ang first love ko. Lagi kong maaalala ang matatamis nating pag-arangkada.

Last Christmas,
I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away.




This year 
To save me from tears,
I'll give it to someone special.



Ano kaya ang bagong name ng new car ko. Any suggestions?

X-mas Decor 2006

Josef's B-day 2006

Tita Perla's B-day 2006

cheers to a very long weekend

Walang pasok sa Friday. Yuhoo! Sana maayos na itong nilalakad ko. Dahil palapit na ang pasko, ang aking pangarap ay sana maging masagana at makabuluhan ito. Kung walang masyadong aberya, matutupad din ang mga nakapila kong mga aguinaldo. Ayan, nasabi ko pa tuloy dito, baka mamaya hindi na mangyari ang mga ipinangako sa 'kin.

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Hindi ba medyo halata na bored ako ngayon. Hahahaha.

Sabi ko nga noon, nakakapag-blog lang ako kapag masyado akong maraming oras para magpakatamad, o kaya kapag may dinaramdam ako. Wala naman akong dinaramdam. Ngayon kasi nasa community immersion siya ngayong semestre na ito. Kaya ayan, panay ang blog ko ngayon. Kaming dalawa lang ng katulong ngayon sa bahay. Buti na lang sa Thursday andyan na siya.

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Buti pa si Philipp, magiging British citizen na, kasama ng tatay ko. Burgundy ang passport ng British national, taray di ba. Mag-aral na lang daw ako dun. Pero sa tingin ko mag-aalaga lang ako ng kapatid ko dun! Kamusta naman ang karera natin di ba? Pero siguro sa katapusan ng aking pinahabang buhay sa kolehiyo, magbabakasyon ako dun! Ngayong pasko naman, dito lang ako sa makulay na pasko sa Pinas.

sa pag-ikot ng mundo

Ang bilis nga naman ng panahon. Sa loob ng isang taon, marami ng drama ang nangyari sa buhay ko. Marami na ring bagay na akong natutunan tulad ng pakikipaglaban para sa tama, sa hustisya at sa tunay na pag-ibig. Pero meron ding mga bagay na hindi maituturing na natutunan pero nakakatulong sa pagyabong ng pagkatao ko. Sa buhay ng tao may pagkakataon na nagkakaroon ng pinapapili ka sa dalawang bagay o sitwayson. Hindi ito katulad ng pagpili sa tama o mali dahil maaring maging tama ang bawat landas na maaring tahakin. Sa wikang Ingles ito ay matatawag na dilemma. Pero dahil likas sa tao na pumili ng isang bagay na mas makakabuti sa kanya, dito papasok ang pagiging relatibo ng salitang "mabuti." Ang isa ay maaring makabuti sa aking karera sa industriya, ang kabila naman ay makakabuti sa aking pansariling kaligayahan, ano nga ba ang mas matimbang. Sa huli, pareho ding magpapayabong ito sa aking pagkatao, at ang pipiliin ko ay babago sa takbo ng aking buhay. Ang kinakatakot ko lang ay wala nang balikan kapag ito ay napili na. Napakasakit para sa akin na magkamali, pero sa totoo lang, lahat naman ng bagay ay may mga bahaging mabuti o kaya naman ay masama. Napakabilis nga talaga nang panahon, parang kailan lang ay nag-uupisa pa lang kami, at ang karera ko ay binigyan ng panibagong pagkakataon, pero ngayong nalalapit na ang araw na kailangan kong magdesisyon muli. Hindi mo nga talaga makukuha ang lahat ng mabuti. May paraan ang mundo upang balansehin ang lahat ng bagay. Kung puwede nga lang tumigil ng sandali ang pag-ikot ng mundo.

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Maiba naman ako, maraming salamat sa mga taong bumati sa 'kin sa aking ika-21 na kaarawan noong Pambansang Araw ni Pacquiao, Nov. 19, 2006. Ito'y sina Elgin, Dick at Janjan! Hayaan niyo, babawi ako sa inyo ngayong pasko. Abangan na lang ninyo.

All I want for Christmas...

Dear Santa...

Dear Santa,

This year I've been busy!

Last Sunday I gave a kidney (1000 points). In March I turned in for eating carbs (3 points). Last Friday I put money in 's expired parking meter (14 points). Last Saturday I signed my organ donor card (28 points). In April I gave a Dutch Oven (-10 points).

Overall, I've been nice (1035 points). For Christmas I deserve a Wii!

Sincerely,
bretch

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Oo nga, gusto ko nang Nintendo Wii! The newest Mario platform game, Super Mario Galaxy out this holiday season na!

Life is a Highway...

I want to ride it all night long.

If you're going my way,
I want to drive it all night long.

Palatiw Project

Perya 2006

MG Classic Pictures

2002-2005

Halloween 2006

It's a real pumpkin.

I carved out this jack-o-lantern for last year's halloween in Stockport, England. 



Cool huh. Trick or Treat!

Quote of the Day

Let me ask you this, I live in New York City. Eight million people in the city. And only thing that separates us is chance. Do you think anyone of them can walk in to your life and change it, forever.    
                                                                                    --- Carlos played by Jay Hernandez 
                                                                                         Six Degrees (ABC)

Oh my...

I was talking to my mom in England over the phone when I spurted out the words:

Happiness is having a good paying job, getting a husband and starting a family.

What am I saying?

Time Capsule

Since my recent travels to Sta Cruz Laguna had given me tons of church-related footages, I sent two of my best photos to Yahoo's ongoing Time Capsule contributions. Fortunately, both of my pictures were chosen to be shown on the site. Lucky me! The first photo is an altar, the second one is a stained glass panel.

Click on the thumbnails to see the images.

 

You could visit the flash site at:

http://timecapsule.yahoo.com/capsule.php

My pictures have the catalog number 84,857 and 84,888

Game Over

Time Capsule

What a mess!

Since I'm soo bored this sem break, I tried to cook lunch today.

At the back is my kasambahay assisting me with my latest creation, Mushroom Soup with Carrots and Corn. The finished product turned out to be delicious.

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!