step 1: be yourself regardless of who's around




step 2: remember to feel free and make the weirdest faces possible




step 3: finally take note of your audience





step 4: give love to your audience




yey! noah reappears in my gallery! hehe.

photos taken...a long long time ago.

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yes. insert english accent right there.

My brother, JB, and I are 10 years apart. He was born June 20th in 1974, and I was born in September of 1984. Therefore, out of all my three brothers, he is THE older brother. I mean, sure, I love 'em all, but with Kuya Tim taking on the role of my twin, and Kuya Ace going for class (family) clown, Kuya JB is everyone's Older Brother.

The responsible one.
The "leader".
He was Red 1.
The one who called the shots...
...yet also the one who took the blame.

And, as the youngest (and only) sister, I am the one he treated as a baby. Seriously. He took care of me (yet he also bossed me around) and he's the one I run to when my "twin" makes fun of me. He taught me a lot of things. From math to history, from riding a bike to skateboarding, from HTML to "artistic" photography, from blogging to chatting to loving all the books i can get my hands on...

Yeah. That's Kuya JB. MY Kuya Jabes.

photo taken on April 7, 2006@Mocha Blends Matalino

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with the arrival of summer comes... summer pics! this one's pretty old, and i rediscovered it among the many, many (manymanymany) photos in our computer.

jumping, posing, and having fun (all at the same time!) is my cousin, David Joshua...otherwise known as Badê. don't ask me why.

i SO love this shot because of the colors: the bright blues of the pool, the bright green of the trees, and, the white droplets of water suspended in the air. argh. looking at this pic makes me want to dive into a pool. (not that i don't want that all the time, but that's not the point)

photo taken by my brother in Baliwag, Bulacan. March 2005.

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this is my goddaughter, Star. ain't she so cute? she's gonna be a supermodel someday... i can see it now...

taken during our family reunion on Christmas 2005

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presenting... Chelsea~! this girl is a model in the making.

first of all, she detects cameras pointed at her within a 3-meter radius.
secondly, her smile is as instant as you can make 'em.
third, she will do anything i tell her to do, and she does it perfectly.
fourth, she even puts in her own twist into her poses.

a model, i tells ya.

this pose, by the way, she did on her own. she loves yelling "ROCK ON!" holding that hand signal, and she bangs her head as if there was music playing. and her rocker facial expression is just priceless.

here, she didn't do her rocker thing, and just did a sort of angsty, smirking-type face. which is good. otherwise, her face woulda been a blur on my shot.

i'm taking advantage of her skills while there isn't a talent fee yet

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wheee~ that there is Noah. a 3-year-old bundle of energy. this kid is so fun to take pictures of! on the day we went to Intramuros, i was practically following him around. i've got a dozen of pitcures of him, and they make me smile everytime i look at them. i had wanted to upload a series, but... i dunno. maybe later.

here here's following Rizal's footsteps. I mean, he followed the footsteps from the jail cell to the entrance of Fort Santiago to...well... until they disappeared. it was so cute how focused he was on doing it, he didn't seem to notice me clicking away from different angles. hehehe.

(if you're not Filipino, or if you've never been to Intramuros, then you probably didn't understand a thing in the last paragraph. go research on Intramuros, Fort Santiago or Jose Rizal if you wanna know what I'm talking about)

photo taken in Intramuros, Manila, Philippines

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i guess you can never be too young to be looking out the window and being sentimental about life.

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we had a medical mission in June. there were a LOT of kids there, whom we kept busy while the doctors examined their parents. most of the kids followed me around because of my handy-dandy camera, getting as much into the photos as they can.

these two girls, though, were at the back of the pack, and they just followed me quietly, waiting to catch my eye, and then smiling oh-so-demurely. they never really asked for me to take their picture, but they just smiled there, in case i decided to take a shot. and so i did.

it's just so endearing to see them. the older sister ALWAYS had her little sister under her arm: i can imagine that their mom told her to take care of the little one. and the younger sister, in turn, always followed without protest, the sparkle in her eyes never disappearing.

it's just WAY too cute.

Bagong Silang, Muntinlupa City, Philippines

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we had a medical mission in June. there were a LOT of kids there, whom we kept busy while the doctors examined their parents. most of the kids followed me around because of my handy-dandy camera, but these three boys are my loyal followers. i mean they trailed behind me wherever i go, and, at the slightest hint that i was going to take a picture, they bolt into the camera's view and pose like crazy.

clean them up and polish their act, i'm sure these kids are gonna make it into the modelling industry before long.

Bagong Silang, Muntinlupa City, Philippines

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The first word that would pop in my head when you say the name "Nekoda" would be "balance". Seriously. He behaved when necessary, yet he's active like the 8-year-old kid that he is whenever he can. He's a pretty silent worker, but he always did his best behind the scenes. He took care of his sisters even if he wasn't the eldest. He had the capacity to determine when it was time to just smile quietly or laugh like there was no tomorrow. He could content himself with waiting and standing by his parents and wait until he could run around to his heart's content.

For me, Nekoda represents balance.
But, more than that, he represents a kid really livin' the life.



For Nekoda Holeman
October 22, 1997 - September 6, 2005
We'll miss you, kid. See ya on the other side.

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