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1.10.10

My First Time to Cash Deposit

I had to rush to BDO Los Banos earlier today because I had to pay for my website coming soon. So what happened was when I entered the bank, those paper we needed to fill up for any kind of deposit was there. i needed to do “Cash Deposit” so I picked up a form and filled it out. Now at the bottom, it’s where we can write down how much will we deposit, there was a table with denominations,pieces and total. Surprisingly, I didn’t know what denomination really is. The definition in my mind’s dictionary was it was how many something is but I wasn’t sure. Fortunately, there was a girl beside me and I asked her what it was. It was embarrassing but my site’s so delayed already it was suppoused to be launched the end of this week. Then at last after filling out the forms, I had to fall in line with different people and I even saw my English Teacher,people with LOTS of coins which I don’t know why and for what. And then it was my turn, everything went well, payed 50PHP for the charge since the money was to be deposited in a BDO Branch in an SM Mall at the Metro. But for a little something before it was my turn, I had to ask the woman I spoke earlier if there was a charge when depositing money to an account based at Metro Manila, she said “Nako meron ata, 50Pesos pero sa BPI walang charge kahit san.” Nag advertise pa! Coolness.

Linkage: Digital Photography School

Another great site I’ve found is Digital Photography School which offers a lot of digital photography tips for an amateur or a professional photographer. The guy behind the site is Darren Rowse who previously owned a camera review site. The site has an atmosphere of a cyber learning environment since the way the tips are presented almost gives me the feel of being in formal training only, I read the lesson and I teach myself that way. They not only give you tips on general photography but they have some tips on a more specific level like how to do Food Photography. I have personally read their basic training while still dreaming for my Canon EOS 500D and even without the camera yet, I still have what I learned on my head right now. For me the best tip I got from the site is a very simple tip in photography called the “Rule of Thirds”. Well, this is it for now and watch out for the next linkage! :)

3 Things Blogging On WordPress For The Past 7 Months Taught Me

• Formality

I realized on my walk with WordPress that we can be crazily formal. Because when all is just crazy, no one would understand you anymore and it is very important to keep in touch with who’s reading your blog.

• You don’t need a lot of money

Before considering blogging on WordPress I have tried a lot of times to have my own website FREE. But now it’s clear to me, that’s never gonna happen without letting out some cash off my wallet. Though, there are free stuff on the net that allows you to blog what you want(e.g Multiply). And FYI, social networks are different from blog sites. There, so from there on WordPress was the practically best thing on my opinion that offers you to just blog out what you have in mind. Besides those social networking and micro-blogging sites.

• Patience+Creativity=Sucess in the blogosphere

In my blogging experience, I’ve learned not to be KSP (“attention hungry”) on the internet, desperate for page views. You’ll just get burned out if you do otherwise. Draining your creativity when it pops out freshly isn’t going to help, you’ll notice after a few days you’re coming up with non sense blog posts already and then soon you’ll lose your readers. So that’s it for the patience part, for the creativity part, it’s pretty self-explanatory. We can come up with anything with our brains, it’s using it wisely that’s a challenge. ;)

Linkage: CreativeMYK

CreativeMYK is one of the websites I encountered with a podcast I watch and it has a great and extensive collection of artworks created by church media designers all around the world. They also offer free downloads on some of the artworks here, some are in .psd,.eps,.ai or so… Their search engine has the capability to analayze what file type do you need for easier acess to their files already so you won’t have any trouble in finding artworks which you can download. You can even get your own account and be a contributor and share your creativity with other church media designers. I am also a contributor and so far I am enjoying another feature the site has where you can critique other’s artwork constructively on how they can improve their designs. You can even rate them with stars! So enjoy this “Linkage” And tune in next time for another one. :)

Video Copilot’s 100th Tutorial!

Video Copilot, a known site for VFX and Moti0n Graphers headed by Andrew Kramer has released their 100th Tutorial already last December 23 and they are covering how to make Glass Orbs entirely made with After Effects alone with no plug-ins. It covers a great overview on how to use the CC Sphere effect because with the tutorial you will be able to learn how to  build a proper spherical map and utilize its raytrace capabilities. On a personal note, this tutorial could also help you achieve how to make a 3D illusion.

To watch the tutorial, you can click here.

Linkage

Hi everyone! I’m launching a new segment on my blog site called “Linkage”, in this segment i’ll post a lot(hopefully) of cool links suitable from photographers,graphic designers to an average joe that may help you in some way. So stay tuned! The first Linkage will posted on The 1st Day of the year! :)

Worst Birthday So Far…

So let’s make it quick, it’s December 27 already and my birthday is over. First of all, I would like to thank everyone who greeted my on my birthday and to those who still didn’t remember… Well yesterday we were at MOA and frankly, it was just a normal day. Now, i’m not expecting anything but those normal birthday things weren’t even there… I didn’t even have a birthday cake! Then we ate lunch at this certain restaurant, there were 2 of us having our birthday, some waiters were suppoused to sing this special number for birthday people but when they sang to me, they thought I was the other celebrant and even shouted the wrong name… And the most dissapointing of all, I know I have a lot of plans but this was the masterplan; I was suppoused to buy a DSLR. There, I was just suppoused to… The only thing that made my day is when we watched Avatar in IMAX and it was tremendously amazing! Oh well, thank God we can still count those seemingly little nice things when we think that everything’s trashed out now… For now, let’s see what happens next year. :)

Nothing Much

That’s right. There’s nothing much happening lately besides that I always feel wasted and invisible in school. A lot of things just passed by and I think I’m just wasting time right now and I don’t know why. Im bouncing back while losing my own purpose. Oh well, being invisible is something; something that’s happening just this week for some reason; it’s like i’m a social outcast or something at school. I don’t feel like I belong already. This is all for now. :)