tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505327290127946252024-02-18T22:33:02.035-08:00The Outdoorsy GeekChronicles of an indoorsy geek who suddenly decided to be an outdoorsy geekUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250532729012794625.post-52484979472265523962015-04-06T18:32:00.000-07:002015-04-06T18:37:07.779-07:00Pinto art museum<div class="MsoNormal">
When people think of summer getaways, they usually think of beaches, places where people go out to have fun. But there are people who prefer quieter alternatives to those places. For those people, there's the Pinto art museum, a 1.2 hectare property inside a private subdivision in Antipolo.This was supposed to be the first stop among
many in our itinerary. We realized that it was gonna be a full day affair when
after walking around for 4.5 hours in the museum, we still had not explored it
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<i>The art museum, where you pay the entrance fee of 180 pesos</i></div>
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<i>The artwork is everywhere, inside the galleries also in the museum's many gardens</i></div>
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All the while I was calling it the “pintow” museum. Apparently
it’s pinto –as in door in Filipino. Must've sounded like a male Kris Aquino. Unlike
most museums, photography here is allowed. Also, unlike most museums or
galleries which are mere vessels for the artwork displayed within them, the Pinto museum integrates so well with its art that it's sometimes hard to tell where the artwork ends and the museum begins. The gardens make you feel as if you fell into a rabbit hole; Sculptures are everywhere,
inside and outside the galleries. The placement of furniture has a surrealist feel.
There are rocking chairs with hands on the handrests in the gardens; Beds with impossibly white sheets are everywhere they shouldn’t be-in the gardens, next to the
pool, in the cafe. (I think it’s pretty awesome that you can lie down on them while
ordering your food. ) It’s as though the entire museum itself is extension of the art that's on display. It seemed like the idea was not just to view art but be immersed in it.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<i>beds are everywhere</i></div>
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<i>A sculpture of a naked couple lying on the grass. Oh and there's also a bed on the far end of the pool</i></div>
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<i>A couple lying on a bed while ordering food. Not a sight you see everyday</i></div>
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After paying the 180-peso entrance fee, you’ll be given a map which will come in handy because there really is a lot to explore. The pinto museum has multiple galleries, gardens and a lot
of open areas in between them. When you're not busy checking out the artwork, there are plenty of places to lounge around. There’s a pool but as you might expect, you can't swim in it. There are two cafes. We tried ordering food and drinks at the Ta-naw café. Food was a bit on the expensive side. The minimum cost of a dish was somewhere in the vicinity of 300 pesos. I'd write about how the food was but it took them 20
mins to tell us that the food that we ordered was not available. Rather than
wait another 20 mins to find out if our next order would be available, we just
paid for our drinks and decided to eat outside. The mango shake was good
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The other cafe which we didn't get to visit</div>
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The Pinto museum would definitely appeal to the art lover but I think it would also appeal to those who are looking for a
quiet place where they can unwind, relax and just be away for a while while enjoying the aesthetics of their surroundings. A place that’s not too far away from the city but also not too close. Since most
people who go there are probably also after some tranquil time, you can expect some peace and quiet even if there
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Entrance is 180 per head for adults, 150 for senior citizens
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7500 for photoshoots<o:p></o:p><br />
The Pinto art museum is only open until 6pm<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This was not the initial destination that we had in mind. We were supposed to go to Mt Romelo but then Kenji's GPS led us to a section of road that was unpaved. My car was so low that it could only negotiate paved roads. The bottom scraped pretty badly on one section of the road. And then for the first time since I've had him, Xander overheated. Upon closer inspection, his auxilliary fan gave out. That would've been ok if the sun wasn't in full scorch mode but on that day, you probably could've cooked an egg if you left it on the ground. Looking for alternate routes and waiting for the car to cool down ate a lot of time. Since it was already geting late, we decided to go to wawa instead which was closer (less than 2 hours away from manila)<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Xander is <span style="font-size: small;">usually a pretty re<span style="font-size: small;">liable car but this was not his finest moment</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the most difficult hike/climb i've done in my still very short stint as an outdoorsy person. Climbing the steep jagged rocks was actually the easy part. My rock climbing skills were quite sufficient for the climb. The difficult part, at least for me, was walking for more than an hour on a trail that consisted of nothing but inclines. There was no level ground at all. It was uphill all the way. If you're as heavy as I am, stamina's gonna dwindle very quickly. The entire climb lasted about 2-3 hours. (We had a lot of breaks. If you have more stamina, you can probably do it a lot faster)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Photography can be as simple as just pressing the shutter button for some but it can be more than just that. In this guide, i'll be giving you 10 tips on how to better document your travels through photos. Some of these tips will also be useful for general landscape photography. Note that while you don’t need a DSLR camera to take good photos, a camera with a "manual" setting would definitely help you get the photos that you want. I'll try to make this guide as beginner friendly as possible. Emphasis on try. (If you don't see all 10 tips, click on "<a href="http://outdoorsygeek.blogspot.com/2013/03/basic-guide-to-travellandscape.html">continue reading</a>")<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"><br /> </span></span></div>
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<b>1.) Avoid white skies if possible:</b>
A picture with a white featureless sky usually looks unattractive, especially
if you have a detailed foreground. To bring out more details in the sky, you'd usually have to lower the exposure of the entire image (make it darker). This can be done in a number of ways but the simplest way is by
lowering the exposure compensation of your camera (check your camera’s manual
for the instructions on how to do this) The goal is to get the exposure just
right so that you’d get enough details in the sky without making the ground
look too dark. If you have people in the picture, you’d want to expose for the
sky and use your flash to illuminate the people. Note that the flash is useless
for illuminating things that are too far away from you. Don’t expect it to make
an entire mountain range look brighter. If either the sky ends up being
overexposed or the ground ends up being underexposed, as a last resort, you can
use an editing program like photoshop to either brighten up the ground or
darken the sky. Try doing research on HDR editing as well. If it really can't be avoided and you don't like editing so much, just fill the frame with the ground or try to hide the sky behind foliage. If you’re more serious
about photography, consider getting <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduated_neutral_density_filter">graduated density filters</a></i>. These will allow you to darken just a part of the image
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<i>A very uninteresting photo. The white featureless sky is so barren
compared to the mountain range below that it looks like one half of the photo
is missing. This photo was actually taken at sunrise but it was so overexposed
that the sky just looked white and the clouds are not visible<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="text-align: center;">I adjusted the exposure so every cloud in the sky would be visible. As
a consequence, the ground looks a bit dark (the trees are just silhouettes). I
compensated for this by using my flash to illuminate my subject, the street
signs, and making the sky occupy more of the frame.</i><br />
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<b>2. )Use your flash</b>:
Most people think that the flash is only useful when there’s not enough
light in a scene. But there are more uses to the flash than just making a dark
picture brighter. Using your camera mounted flash under
direct sunlight will soften up shadows and it can actually make your subject’s
skin look smoother because it eliminates or softens up the shadows created by facial
imperfections. In photography jargon, it’s called “fill light”. Note that the flash only acts as a fill light if there's another light source that's stronger than it, such as the sun. Usually it’s
possible to adjust the power of the flash. The ideal amount is when some
shadows are still visible but they’re very soft. By using your flash, you can also
adjust the exposure of the background independently from the subject. You can bring
out more details in the background by making it darker without making your
subject look darker as well. It also freezes motion so if you’re subject is
moving, motion blur can be minimized or eliminated. One downside of using a camera
mounted flash is that it will practically remove all drama in a scene by
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<i>This photo was actually taken with a flash but the camera was too far
away for it to be effective (it was on the other side of the road). As a
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<i>This photo was taken with a flash but the camera was much closer. As a
result, there are no harsh shadows on our faces even if the sun was at a very sharp angle to us. We also stand out against the background
better making the picture look sharper.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b>3.) Minimize flare:</b>
Flare is caused by unwanted rays of light hitting your lens. You usually wouldn't know how much contrast you’re losing from flare until you put your
hand over the lens and see how much the contrast improves. If you have a DSLR,
try using a lens hood (yes, they’re not just for show). If you don’t have one,
try using your hand to shield the lens from the light the way Hillary Clinton
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<i>Hillary Clinton, either measuring her own height with her hand or
showing us how to improve image quality by shielding your optics from flare.
Photo’s not mine of course. Credit goes to the intornets</i></div>
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<b>4.) Increase your
depth of field: (</b>warning possibly confusing analogy ahead) I’d like to
think of depth of field as an imaginary wall that runs perpendicularly to the
lens of your camera. Everything outside this imaginary wall would be blurred
and everything inside it would be sharp. If the wall is thick, your depth of
field is deep; If it’s thin, your depth of field is shallow. I’m not sure if I was
successful in my attempt to make your brain explode but I tried my best. For
the sake of simplicity, let’s just say that it’s the blurriness or sharpness of
the background. A shallow depth of field
(blurred background/foreground) looks good for portraits but if you’re travelling
you'd probably want the place to be in the spotlight as well as the people so
you’d want everything to be as sharp as possible. You can adjust the depth of
field by adjusting the aperture and also by “zooming in”. Use a smaller
aperture (The higher the number, the smaller the aperture) to increase the
depth of field. Try to set your aperture to f11 or higher and adjust the other settings
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want a photo with a deep depth of field. You can see how focused everything is
from the rocks in the foreground to the farthest ripple in the ocean.
Equipment: Sigma 24-70mm f2.8, one 580ex off-camera. Settings: 1/250, <b>f13</b>, ISO 100</i></div>
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<i>Again, not a snapshot but a fine example of a photo with a shallow
depth of field. The background is completely blurred and the subject is sharp.
Equipment: canon 70-200mm f2.8, one 580ex flash mounted off camera. Settings:
1/125, <b>F2.8</b>, ISO-100<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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5.) <b>Adjust the color
parameters of your camera</b>. Most cameras give you the capability to change
certain parameters like saturation, sharpness and contrast. Increasing the
saturation generally would make your photos look more colorful which is good
for travel or landscape photography. If you’re using a canon camera, go to the
menu, then parameters and then select landscape For Nikon, go to
optimize image and the select vivid or more vivid. If you have another camera,
you can check the manual if your camera has the capability to do this.<br />
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angles.</b> The general rule is if you crouch down and you point the camera upwards, you make a person’s legs
look longer and head look smaller and if you stand up, the opposite happens. You
can increase this effect by using a wider lens or by getting closer to the
subject. The sweet spot would be somewhere near the middle. Try squatting when
taking photos of people or getting down on your knees depending on the
proportions of the person you’re taking pictures of. This technique is not only applicable to people, it can also be used on trees, cliffs, rivers etc. Whichever part of the subject is closer to the camera will look longer/bigger</div>
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proportions of your subject. I used an ultra wide angle lens, I crouched down
and pointed the camera upwards. The result: the model’s legs look especially
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<b>7.) Experiment with the
shutter speed.<i> </i></b><i> </i>Shutter
speed controls the amount of time that your sensor is exposed to
light. Motion would cause blurring in a photo if you have a low shutter speed. Using a higher shutter speed would minimize or
eliminate this blurring effect. If you have a tripod, you can use slow shutter
speeds to create beautiful images of running water. You can use a fast shutter
speed to take sharp photos of jump shots, people running on the beach or water
splashing against rocks.<i> </i>You can also use
a slow shutter speed so you’d have motion blur in the background and then use
your flash to make your subject look sharp. (the flash freezes motion, as
I mentioned before.) One question that beginners usually ask is "what settings should I use" There is not always a straight answer to that. Photography is a matter of trial and error, a lot of times. Usually photographers would take a lot of test shots before they arrive at the settings that they want.</div>
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<b>8.) If you have a canon
DSLR, install Magic Lantern!!</b> This one’s for the more advanced photographer/videographer.
It’s a program that you install on your
memory card that adds functions to your camera like timelapse, HDR, manual audio
controls, programmable rack focus, more frame rates, higher bit rates, zebra
pattern and so much more. Based on the amount of functionality that it adds to
your camera, it should be worth thousands of dollars. The fact that it’s free
just makes it an absolute must to have. As of the moment, it only supports the
canon 5Dmk2, 50D, 60D, 500D, 550D, 600D but support for future models should be
available in the future. <a href="http://www.magiclantern.fm/">http://www.magiclantern.fm/</a></div>
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<i>This is all that I bring with me when I hike. A canonI 600D and an 18-55mm kit lens. I also had a tripod in this picture but I regretted bringing it. I was tempted to leave it among the rocks at one point.Photo grabbed from Julie.</i><br />
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<b>10.) Tell a story using
your photos: </b>Sometimes it’s not just
about taking beautiful images. Travel photography is sometimes also about what
you did, what made the trip special for you. A picture of you holding chopsticks may not be meaningful to everyone but if it was your first time to use them, it would be meaningful to you.The story doesn't even have to be about you. It could be about the people you see around you. If you see something that triggers a thought in you, take a picture of it and then maybe write about it later if you have a blog or a travel journal.You
don’t always have to follow the rules of composition. There really are none,
only guidelines. When you take too much time setting up a shot, you end up losing the moment and that spoils that travel aspect of your travel photography. The photo below was completely unstaged. It was a random couple sitting under the shade and looking out towards the horizon. They were there for just a few minutes. If i had been a little bit late, i would've missed the shot. People are drawn to photography for a variety of reasons. For me, one of its more personal uses is capturing brief moments before they pass by completely</div>
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<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I met Fredda, nancy and two new travelbuddies, Sarah and Christian, at Sm north. We departed for San Miguel, Bulacan at around 8:30am. Continuing the trend of underestimating the distance and the difficulty of my trips, I expected this to be a shorter drive than my last trip to rizal/quezon. It turned out to be almost twice as long (3.5hours). To be fair, the drive wasn’t without its share of obstacles and they were some of the strangest road obstacles that I’ve encountered so far as a city driver. Water buffaloes almost as tall as a grown man, herds of cows walking casually in the middle of the road and, least amusing, tricycles that travel very casually at a maximum speed of 15kph on a 2 lane highway. They’re pretty common in the towns leading up to San Miguel. If you’re stuck in slow moving traffic, try overtaking and there’s a good chance that you’d find a tricycle holding back traffic for few car lengths.</span><br />
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<br />We got to the park at around lunchtime. My initial thought when we entered the park was “We’re not gonna be roughing it today”. There was a proper parking lot, restrooms and stores that sell food and memorabilia. They were all near the entrance of the park though. There were no such conveniences along the trail. We got a tour guide for 300 pesos and proceeded to explore.</span><br />
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<i>We had crackers, tuna, fruits and veggies for lunch.</i></div>
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<i>watching the sun set from this vantage point would've been amazing</i></div>
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<i>Bulacan is home to some of the largest water buffaloes i've seen in my life</i></div>
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<i>Photo grabbed from Nancy</i></div>
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<i>With my travelmates, Julie, Fredda and Nancy.</i></div>
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More than 90% of the trail involved walking through level ground. The difficulty hiked up significantly near the end of the trail. There was a series of very steep and quite high inclines that couldn't have been negotiated without using all 4 limbs, unless you’re one of the locals who could probably do it bound and blindfolded with an adult goat strapped to their back. We almost turned back when saw the first steep “cliff”. I'm glad we didn't.<br />
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<i>The white rocks are made of marble</i></div>
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We didn't see any other tourists/hikers that day. The very steep inclines made it practically unreachable to amateurs but the whole trek was probably too short and unchallenging for the too advanced. You only go there if you have sufficient rock climbing skills or if you don’t know what you got yourself into and you couldn’t turn back anyway. I belong to the latter group.<br />
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<i>scenic scene is scenic</i></div>
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Treks usually end up not being what I thought they’d be. I was expecting it to be an hour long trip to a place near Marikinia. That’s why I brought my gas guzzler of a car. The trip turned out to be a 100km (guesstimate) drive to the borders of Quezon. I was almost out of gas when we got there. I didn’t expect a hike so I didn’t bring water. I had to ask my good old friend, Julie, for one of her water bottles. I need to bow my head in shame now.<br />
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<i>We parked my car Xander at this gas station and took a tricycle to the beginning of the trail</i></div>
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We left Manila at around 8am, got to rizal at around 10:30 or 11. The hike to the falls was between 1-2 hours long. We stayed at the falls for around 4-5 hours. We paid the guide 300 pesos (+100 tip). Lunch cost almost nothing since we, or more accurately, the girls cooked our food and we divided the cost among us. The tricycle from the town to the start of the trail cost us 50 per head and 75 per head on the way back. It was a very reasonably priced little trek.<br />
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<i>with Fredda</i></div>
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Maybe I am getting used to hiking already and only on my 3rd hike. What I used to call difficult, I now call challenging. There is happiness to be had in communing with nature. I can imagine myself doing this more often<br />
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<i>Photo of the Sierra Madre mountain range taken en route to Tanay, Rizal. One advantage of bringing your own vehicle is you can stop anytime you want to take photos.</i></div>
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<i>I wasn't the only photography enthusiast among us. Too bad her camera fell into the water</i></div>
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<i>Resting and enjoying the view. If anyone's wondering why my entire lower leg is covered in mud, that's how deep my foot sank in some of the muddier portions of the trail</i></div>
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<i>Buntot Palos falls: To give you an idea of the scale of this photo, those small dots that you see beside the falls are people</i></div>
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<i>Exotic food restaurant. They served us snake, stingray and adobong baboy. </i><br />
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<i>A poisonous snake hanging from a branch</i><br />
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Hi I’m Alex. If I had
to enumerate everything about me, this would be a very long post so I’d just
enumerate facts that wouldn’t put my target audience to sleep. I’m a
photography enthusiast, a freethinker, happily single for almost half a year
now, straight; I’m 25; I’ve been 25 for the past 5 years and will continue to
be 25 until I no longer fancy myself as the Filipino incarnation of Peter Pan. </div>
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I fall under many different classifications of geek but for
the sake of brevity, let’s just say that I was a very indoorsy geek until just
recently., the complete opposite of Bear Grylls, the antithesis of Steve Erwin.
My feet never touched soil or grass until I was an adult. I also didn’t see the
sun very often.</div>
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I’m a late bloomer of
sorts. I was already in College when I first went to a mall unaccompanied. The
first time that I went to Binondo, I felt like I was in a different country.
And that was just a 20min train ride from my place. Embarrassingly, that was
also just 3 years ago. </div>
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When I was ingradeschool (early 90’s), me and my family used
to go to Matabungkay beach every summer. And then that stopped and I don’t remember
travelling for leisure again until 2010 when a friend practically forced me to
join 2 photography related trips. An act that I’m still very thankful for since
it forced me out of my shell.</div>
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Those trips weren’t followed for more than a year. People
have been asking me what made me decide to start travelling all of a sudden. I’m
not really sure either but I suddenly felt like catching up to what I’ve
missed. Maybe it early-onset mid life crisis. I’ve decided to make travelling a
more frequent occurrence in my life, at least for the next few months. I
created this blog to document my progress as well as to help those who want to
get into budget travelling. Since I
believe that experiencing something without having a record of it is a waste, this
will be a very photo heavy blog. My apologies to dial up users, if any of you
still exist.</div>
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Join in me in my attempt to be a more outdoorsy geek. Try to
suppress the urge to call me a wuss whenever my lack of outdoorsy skills become
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250532729012794625.post-56543125956616549182010-04-26T01:51:00.000-07:002013-02-26T01:52:41.220-08:00Taal Volcano (My first hike)<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">It’s official. Jaywalker is an outdoorsy person now. He just went on two out of town trips within two weeks!<br /><br />It had only been a week since I went to zambales when a friend invited me again to a trip to taal. The word “trekking” was mentioned but for some reason, images of steep, death-inducing inclines didn’t cross my mind. I wasn’t quite dressed for the occasion. Wearing slippers and shorts when climbing a volcano isn’t very ideal, apparently.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The trek started off easy enough and got progressively more challenging as we went on. Men on Horses followed behind us, hoping to extract money and, maybe, sexual gratification from stragglers. I didn’t intend to be one of their victims. So I tried to trek on, all the way to the top, driven by nothing but Manly fervor.</span></div>
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<i style="background-color: white;">Do you risk life and limb by trekking all the way to the top or do you ride a horse and sacrifice your manly dignity. Not a very tough choice</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br />Before I left, my father said that I was risking my life for a hobby. I disagreed of course. I didn’t think that there was risk involved at all. While I was on the steepest part of the climb, all I could think of was that his words had never rung more true.</span></div>
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<i style="background-color: white;">Bloody but unbowed. I may have tripped a few times but my manly dignity remained intact. Pay no attention to the hat</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">My memory of events gets a bit muddy near the top. I was half delirious. Childhood dreams of riding on horseback flashed before me. I saw chuck Norris wearing a straw hat, riding on horseback…<br /><br />After about 45mins, our reenactment of the bataan deathmarch came to a pause. We finally reached the peak. I bumped into a deranged man spouting unsubstantiated claims. He was ignored, as was appropriate.[/inside joke] I didn’t actually realize that we were climbing the actual volcano until I was at the top and saw the crater. Throughout the entire treck, i had very little knowledge of what we were doing. Someone mentioned that we'd be swimming, hence i brought shorts and slippers. It was either an innocent mistake or someone's idea of a joke.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">We didn't stay at the peak for long. We didn't even get to shoot the model who was so exhausted that she just slept. After a few minutes we had to go back down the same treacherous path again</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br />The sand felt like sandpaper –hot sandpaper. The sun was scorching. The treck was more than an hour long. The trek was so taxing and so perilous that I felt about 30% manlier when we finally got down. My farmer’s tan also looks about 20% more awesome. I display it proudly. It’s physical proof that I’m more outdoorsy now.</span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white;">My Farmer's tan, i disp</span><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6;">lay it proudly whenever the opportunity arises</span></i></div>
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