the kabog

Sunday, January 9, 2011

bad mistakes are waiting in the trunk

don't look back for a second now
we're not suppose to feel this way
but god it's so sweet of you

photos by judd.

music fix: the fashion's solo imperia

Friday, January 7, 2011

my mercury's on retrograde

i woke up past 11am today and felt that something was off. i texted my friend kit if she wanted to meet up and by 6pm, i found myself in teachers' village.

we had tea at moonleaf while discussing a "project" i'm doing for her, well her brother, and plans for our elementary class reunion.

we walked back to her house after two rounds of beer and oysters at delish.

this is kit. we've been friends since we were in grade 1. that's more than half our lives!

i haven't been to her place since september last year and was surprised to see this on their gate. she told me that this was painted by the same guy who did the dolphin/the cove murals in ortigas and that he's planning to paint a particular number of dolphins around manila to raise awareness for the documentary the cove. kit said that he was able to paint 58 dolphins for their two gates.

we went inside and found tala, her niece. she was only a couple of months old when i last saw her. she just turned one two weeks ago.

i persuaded kit to take photos of my outfit while the barangay tanod at the outpost behind us watched.

i seriously wouldn't have survived winter in the us without that hat.

i consider these my gym shoes.

i found this makeshift wall made out of galvanized corrugated metal roofing (aka yero) near ministop maginhawa.

i couldn't resist it. i was already wearing their tee, so why not?

even though i'm already home, i still feel that there's some force in the universe that's bringing me down. hmmm.

music fix: block party's mercury

Thursday, January 6, 2011

today my heart swings

yesterday marked a huge step in my friend kaye morales's career - the opening of her atelier.

kaye started her clothing line schizo while she was still studying at sofa. we were both part of sofa's first batch of graduates last may 2010. since her days as a fashion student, a lot of her clothes have been featured in local fashion magazines and tv shows. she's constantly being featured in local magazines as one of the young designers to watch out for.

i got there just a few minutes before the blessing started.

sofa owners, ms amina aranaz-alunan and ms loralee baron-soong, were there for the ribbon cutting.

(left to right: models leo miranda and ervin david, cai, chamcham, cassie, ms loralee, kaye, ms amina, gabbie, mel, nino, noelle, and eunice)

and of course, the whole gang was there to support her.

my friends all wanted a photo-op with bekimon. cassie and chamcham even played a game of paper-rock-scissors to determine who was gonna ask him for a photo.

our friend marchie tamayo arrived a little later and catered the event (we kid).

cai (who i see on a weekly basis), noelle, mel and marchie (all of whom i haven't seen since september!)

pieces from kaye's graduation collection entitled queen of the octopodes.

amazing wall art, which shows kaye's fascination with octopuses.

the most amazing bathroom sink in the universe!

gabbie and darr... dave!

the peg for this photo was korean telenovelas, but kaye didn't get the memo, haha!

caption this.

i leave you with kaye's most exquisite mannequin.

congratulations kaye! your atelier is truly amazing! this is just the beginning of what i'm sure is going to be a very fruitful career. we heart you!

visit kaye's atelier at 8862 madrid building, sampaloc street, san antonio village, makati.

music fix: interpol's the heinrich maneuver

Monday, January 3, 2011

3-1+1

the first two weeks of january is gonna be very busy for me. i'm rushing a lot of stuff before the 17th. sigh. here's my worried pose.

judd came back from olongapo last night. this is our first technohub brunch of 2011. sam, you were missed!

my mum wants the starbucks planner, but she doesn't like any of the holiday drinks. so being the good son that i am (ha!), i volunteered to finish the required number of drinks to be purchased. after about two weeks, i finally completed her promo card thing.

as with most of our technohub brunches, massive amounts of nicotine were consumed.

our friend gian abrahan followed after having his passport photo taken.

he read us several poems by anne sexton who committed suicide in 1974.
"as for me, i am a watercolor.
i wash off."
(for my lover, returning to his wife by anne sexton)