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shrek the musical
pics taken from nytimes.com. shrek has been made into a musical on broadway last month. i dunno if it is any good but perhaps the costumes are cute. will it become a lion king? time will tell. shrek the movie was one of laya’s favorite movies. i especially remember the dulac song and fiona’s aria. we’ll soon see if it’s included in this version. the broadway cast album will be released in march this year.
year ender survey
picked this up from rick.
1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
go solo as designer
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
i didnt make any new years’ resolutions. that way i wont break any hehe
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
a colleague from the garden of good and evil did. i stood ninong in the baptismal (that’s toby in the photo below). another fine arts friend also fathered a child. havent seen the kid though. is that you, suri cruise?
4. Did anyone close to you die?
a good friend died, PK (pastor kevin along with wife belle in a freak car accident on valentines day). press release here
5. What countries did you visit?
none this year. but i did get to visit bohol and baguio. does that count?
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
i’d say there’s always room for improvement 🙂 id want an improved work ethic, work organization, controlled temper and a better diet haha
7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
nothing in particular, everything in general
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
going solo as prod designer and scoring some pretty impressive projects that will hopefully help get more projects next year 🙂
9. What was your biggest failure?
i could have done better hehehe
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
i have a weird thing obstructing my esophagus. it comes and goes. and i havent had a check up.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
luna, my 15in macbookpro 😉
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
our service driver, roger. probably also our setman, buboy. very level-headed people
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
id rather not say. most of these behaviors (umm, persons) affected me much at the end of this year before i left for mindanao. hahaha
14. Where did most of your money go?
to Luna, my dad’s medical needs, food, unnecessary purchases, pirated dvds, underwear hahaha
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
a planned vacation in subic then in baguio for carlo and me that never took place hehe too busy
16. What song(s) will always remind you of 2008?
for now, disturbia
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? — happier
ii. thinner or fatter? — Fatter
iii. richer or poorer? — richer financially, richer in relationship
18. What do you wish you’d done more?
done other things aside from my day job
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
not exercising
21. Did you fall in love in 2008?
since 2007
22. How many one-night stands?
none. yey !
23. What was your favorite TV program?
programs! project runway, ugly betty, fringe, top chef, a little bit of pushing daisies
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
there have been moments of irritation and inconvenience with people at work but none to merit a trip to the hate list 😉
25. What was the best book you read?
do graphic novels count? leinel yu’s superman birthright, (maybe) arnold arre’s martial law babies and (definitely) budjette tan’s trese.
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26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
id say re-discovery. the eraserheads
27. What did you want and get?
having my own laptop and getting all hooked up 🙂
28. What was your favorite film of this year?
dark knight
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
i went home to mindanao and celebrated it with white water rafting and food. then i came back to manila and celebrated it again with carlo and friends. im… 19
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
im grateful regardless 🙂
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
a little bit of color to the wardrobe. towards the end of the year, i went back to black
32. What kept you sane?
God. the family. carlo
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
daniel craig.
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
the anti-pornography bill. im affected as an artist and a filmmaker
35. Who/what did you miss?
more time with the family in mindanao
36. Who were the best new people you met?
a handful of people at work. i appreciate sincerity and some stood out from the rest.
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
Trust in the Lord your God.
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
“i love the mountains, i love the clear blue sky/
i love big bridges, i love when great whites fly/
i love the whole world, and all its sights and sounds…”
eco font
this is going to be my printing font for the year. at a large size (like the photo above), you’ll see these little holes on the letters but at your regular printing size of 9 to 14, it’s hardly noticeable. a group developed this font face to help save your printer ink by 20% because of those holes (this works better on a laser printer). you can download this font here
it’s a new year. we all need to go greener (earth conscious) more than ever. carlo and i have been aware and started to follow green practices (with a save-the-earth slogan to boot) last year– like switching to CFLs and reducing paper and plastic bag waste. this year we should be putting in more effort. and that will be my year’s resolution and advocacy. 🙂 yey! wish me luck
new year photos
we had our padero family pictorial at home after the new year. we were supposed to dress up in black and red but it turned out everybody just came in black. we would have looked forlorn in black but everybody was enjoying the pictorial. and im enjoying adobe lightroom hehehe cheers! and happy new year!
photos by benjamin padero
for the rest of the photos, click here
post christmas
back in manila yes for another year of slaving off and enjoying everything that life offers. i had a great christmas vacation of course, went home to cdo and visited bohol. was able to attend two weddings (cuzin ace’s with jing and idol butch with vida in bohol) and was able to eat from a total of 8 lechons. the christmas parties were all great and i was able to buy that big E.T. stuffed toy displayed for 3 years in ketkai.
when i was about to leave, the cagayan river flooded and overflowed, wiping out the homes of thousands of people living in the lowlands and riverside. my flight to manila was also cancelled that day because of the weather and i flew the day after. now back in semi-daily grind, im currently working on pon’s magazine layout while catching up on things i missed: 47L wi-fi, katipunan food fare, carlo and nuk. life is great.
will be posting more photos soon. for more padero pics (dec24), proceed here.
at the airport
finally got myself checked in at the centennial airport. while waiting for boarding, im having lunch (at the overpriced delifrance) and doing layout work for amillah’s tao newsletter. had to pay p558 for excess baggage as i had to do most my christmas shopping in manila rather than buy them in cdo. ingong tootsie luod daw ko kay ga-wifi wifi kos airport haha welcome to the future
unique churches
forwarded mail from my dad. here are ten unique churches. cheers!
Ten Most Unique Churches
Harajuku: Japanese Futuristic Church
This futuristic protestant church is located in Tokyo and it was first unveiled by the design firm of Ciel Rouge Creation in 2005. The ceiling is specially made to reverberate natural sound for 2 seconds to provide a unique listening experience for worshipers and tourists.
Saint Basil’s Cathedral: The Red Square’s Colorful Church
The St. Basil’s Cathedral is located on the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. A Russian Orthodox church, the Cathedral sports a series of colorful bulbous domes that taper to a point, aptly named onion domes, that are part of Moscow’s Kremlin skyline.
The cathedral was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible to commemorate the capture of the Khanate of Kazan. In 1588 Tsar Fedor Ivanovich had a chapel added on the eastern side above the grave of Basil Fool for Christ, a Russian Orthodox saint after whom the cathedral was popularly named.
maria
for those who havent seen this, it’s a video of my sister mamati (maria cristina) during Christian Bautista’s concert in cagayan de oro. the vid’s taken july 2008 back when he was preparing to do west side story in manila. at the concert, he called out for anybody named maria and my sister stepped out of the crowd. the rest, as they say, is history. haha
in september, the family came over to attend cuzin ej’s wedding and to watch christian in west side story. cheers! photos were taken outside the meralco theater after the show. photos with christian (tony), jake macapagal (chino) and gerald salonga (musical director).
benjamin padero 