Hot Air Balloon Festival

Went to the Annual Hot Air Balloon Festival in Clark with Marie and my friends. Despite leaving Manila at 4am, we were still late, thanks to the long line at the ticket booth. Nevertheless, we still had an hour of hot air balloon show. One fun day, this was.

Upside down

Since we're late, most of the balloons were landing already.

One up

Abominable Snowman on it's way up

Abominable Snowman

  

Wendy and Lee

  

The balloons were up only until 7am,  but the event lasted the whole day so we stayed for a while. We watched a car drifting on the runway, which was actually crappy. Kite flying was nice too, though we didn't fly one, hundreds of people did, and it was nice to watch them get their kites tangled with others. Too bad I haven't got a photo of a single kite up in there.

Marie

 

Beep beep

    

 

Chloe and Jem

Wendy, Chloe and Marie

They had souvenir shops so we got this miniature hot air balloon 

I enjoyed taking photos of kids around the place, and it was fun watching them gaze upon those flying objects.  I hope to come back here next year!

Jaymee's Beerday

Some shots during my cousin's beerday celebration at Malabon. I knew I wasn't nearly drunk when I took them but most are just out of focus. Actually, you can say all of them are. I think I have to avoid shooting while drinking.

This one was taken by Kuya Paeng with his flash device attached to my FM2 

The beerday boy Jaymee Talag

Wut?

Shot pa!! 

Taken by Jaymee

"Who cares" - cat.

Jowen AKA Neo

I promised my self I'll have a better roll next time.

Feast of the Black Nazarene

Three weeks ago, out of nowhere, Gino (aka Mr. Pogi 2011) and I realized that we didn't have anything to do on a Sunday. So we decided to ready our cameras and witness ourselves the Feast of the Black Nazarene.

We found a spot  with a superb view of the procession, which was actually on top of a waiting shed in Lawton, there we watched replicas of the Nazarene and devotees en route, while waiting for the Black Nazarene to pass through.

We were told by some devotees that the procession was moving slowly. And they were right. We waited for roughly 2 hours until the Black Nazarene arrived at the scene, and it was worth every second of it.

Rope fight

Let me out

Circle of friends

It was really an overwhelming experience, especially when the Nazarene was in front of us and everybody was cheering "Viva!" while they wave their white towels.

It was hard to get a good shot of the Nazarene since it was surrounded by the precession's marshals, who's task  were to eliminate those who dare to climb their fortress, catch towels thrown at them, then throw the towels back to the wrong people.

After that, we were in for a treat at Golden Fortune's eat all you can Shabu-shabu which Gino said was a bad thing for it's a kind of drug... Nevertheless, thank you Sam for this very heavy meal.

And that's about it.