ETERNITY

ETERNITY is the title of NUI Bodypainting Awards 2010. As NUI Bodypainting Competitions’ (NBC) 10th bodypainting presentation since 2001, ETERNITY is about life when everything on earth has been over used and over consumed; how Man survives after the extinction of his kind; how animals and plants adapt to a new wasted world different from their past environment. Can man adapt or evolve when his power to rule over flora and fauna become mere history?

This year’s bodypainting event will be the biggest ever, since three major events comprise ETERNITY:
The International Photoshoot which will be participated by over 90 photographers from 8 Asian countries on November 21 followed by the ETERNITY Prequel Dinner Presentation at the City Auditorium at 7:30 pm.
The ETERNITY Photo Exhibit,
and the Grand Presentation Night on December 4 at the City Auditorium.

Fifteen models and artists will be presenting their talents to win the title of Grand Champion, Model of the Year Award, and 2 Photographers' Choice Award.

Viajerro, San Julio Realty, Inc., and the newly formed San Carlos Digital Photographers' Assn., promises one night of passion, concern, art, and music which will be performed by one upcoming band from Bacolod, Pedro's mind.

In behalf of the presentors and artists, we would like to thank the City Government of San Carlos for their big support in making the International Photoshoot an event to behold. Thank you.

For all interested photographers who want to join the Photoshoot on December 4, Saturday, please email me at nui_cabales@yahoo.com. We would love to share with you the beauty and talents of San Carlos.

FAMILY PORTRAIT

I wanted to post many weeks ago but there is nothing worth writing about. Would I react about the freedom of speech of the youth today as evidently written in the Facebook account where my niece was tagged or would I react about the news of Police harassment seen lately on tv? There are many things that should alarm us, there are many things to speak about, and there are many more things that we must not overlook.
I wanted to post and I looked for an inspiration. Scanning the images in my laptop’s folders, I happened to come upon the images during my pre-nuptial photoshoot with Weng and Jay. I took some photos of a family who were about to go home after gathering firewood along the river in South Villa.

I want to write more but I guess these images could tell their individual stories and their story as a whole. I am out of words because these images have words written that will haunt me for a long time.

We are luckier we have cellphones yet we ask our parents for ones which are newer for friends to see and be envied; we have computers and internets and FB accounts where we have the freedom to speak what we want, befriend whom we want, shout our hatred about anything; we have food on our table what we ask for something that has not been there since lunchtime; we have curly hair but we want what is advertised as “in”; we have clothes but we like a color our friend wore last time and we would lock in our rooms for our parents don’t have the extra for a new dress but still we win because no parent wants to disappoint a child and would drive extra miles for that dress.

We are luckier, right?

I have placed aside in my files, a program called “Art for the Streets (A4DS)” which should have happened one year ago. This is about giving back what we have, giving out some clutters in our walk-in cabinets, sharing our little ideas to those who have less or none at all. If Facebook is so full of non important shout outs, writings on walls that cannot add to the society’s needs and unfinished sentences wanting for others to comment and thread until the 190th comment when all was said was “hehehe” then maybe we could turn this social networking medium to help and let others be helpful to society. We just cannot rely our government to solve the problems all together but maybe, just maybe, in our “own little way” we can touch lives, feed souls, and make someone else’s life better.

Let us work together, make the A4DS program a reality.

For those interested to volunteer and support, please email me at nui_cabales@yahoo.com.

Aren’t we luckier we have email ads?

OF BREEDING & BEING A "SWINE FLU" By: Arl Cabales

This is a CALL to all MOTHERS: Kindly read all comments posted against Alexa, who happens to be my niece.... would you, as a Mother, allow other kids to lambast the dignity and person of your child just because she happens to be "fat & ugly" and "eew, "subak" "swine flu" , "salot", etc.? Me? I won't allow it!! And, I won't take these snides and mudslinging "sitting down"! Facebook used to be fun, for me at least, and when down-moments happen...we share them here and then friends send suggestions, and voila! Somehow, they brighten my day! But look what happened now, this became the avenue of kids' bad remarks, unaware that when they do so.... they reflect the kind of upbringing they have at HOME and the kind of EDUCATION they get from COLEGIO DE STO. TOMAS-RECOLETOS!!!! So, ATTENTION too: ALL PARENTS & TEACHERS OF CST-R. Our FAMILY do not want to think that these are indeed so. i hope parties concerned can do something.... we abhor to think that respect for other people has gone awash with this generation. An old adage come to mind: "The YOUTH IS THE HOPE of the FATHERLAND", but how can this be so when this group of kids do not yet know the rights of any individual? That NOBODY, and ABSOLUTELY NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO PUT PEOPLE DOWN, and HURT SOMEONE, whenever their whims strike them. DO NOT EMULATE PLEASE.

Everyone has PRIDE and when you hit that pride "below the belt", you know you are walking on quicksand!!!

ADULTS: Do comment on this blog, our family would appreciate that.... it's time people would LISTEN & BE AWARE. THANK YOU.

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DERANGED

As a tradition, in every special occasion that VIAJERRO is part of, like the Pintaflores Festival or the Bodypainting Competitions, we create our own personal remembrance to commemorate the event. The 50th Charter Day Celebration was no exception and we took the moment to show the public of our new logo, the dragonfly.
All the VIAJERRO crew were given shirts as a sign that we have done it and we are going to soar high like the dragonflies who fly swifter and more aggressive. But one shirt came back and flew at our back gate. This time the dragonfly came out tattered, wounded and vandalized.
I cannot help but laugh and shook my head for it has proven my hunch that it will come back like one dragonfly who has strayed away from its pond...I was right.
This deed is a very desperate one, it might be very inhuman for all of us but it is a natural action for those who have too much in their hearts. People who have great burden and loads that they cannot carry because they do not want to share their loads to anyone else to be supported and helped by friends and families.
I cannot build any grudge or think negative thoughts about this person for "she" deserves to be redirected to a happier life, she needs to be loved and understood because maybe all her life "love" is a word that has been translated to "sex" and nothing else.
In these new times, moral conduct and good manners have been deleted in many. It seems that most think that one's family name is so easy to be edited in Photoshop or maybe ignored like you want to ignore one person who wants to befriend you on facebook. In our younger days, when my mom was still alive, we are always reminded that we have nothing to be proud of but our family name which is the only legacy we could leave our children. As gays, my brother and I have have been accepted by all our family and relatives, and we are always reminded not to do anything shameful to the name we have been given.
In these days, one's family name is not important anymore. But for us, me especially bearing my mom's complete family name and my father's as well, we are always very careful not to step on our names, our dignities as Estampadors and Cabaleses. This deed (the harrassment of the shirt) might make many furious and angry but let us not let our emotions run over our sanity. Instead, we just have to understand the doer and pray that may the light shine upon her and her heart too because I strongly feel her heart has become so hard that the blood cannot pump anymore beauty into her soul.
As educated and human beings, let us just try understanding the one who are not blessed with education, with right guidance and breeding.
Let us help them see the beauty of life instead blocking them the sunshine we have been enjoying. Living in the caves and no creativity can be hazardous to those outside.