Trying to be a good photographer

Hey! I bought a digital camera and it’s not the DSLR it is only a typical handy digital camera last April 2010 in Singapore, it’s Canon Powershot A495 that cost me around S$199.

I took some photos that make interesting for me and I want you to see it and comment on what can you say about this.

Here are some of the photos:..

This are the photos which I consider good photos taken by me.

ROBOT!!

please let me decide what will I do to my life mom. Don’t control my future! Don’t control my happiness! You do not even know what can make me happy, for how many years I’ve been following you all the time. Let me decide of my own.

I am already 20 years old I know what is right and wrong, supposedly parents at this age of their children are only there to advice not to dictate..

I am not happy with my life anymore I want to go out of this place and find a new place that makes me happy, that makes me satisfy.

Mom I know already my limitations. Please let me decide of my own.

I don’t know what am I going to do with this situation. I am already a college graduate and I want to go out of this jail and find my own happiness, I want to discover my own self.. I want to be me, not because she want to…

I feel like I am a prisoner! I am not hoping already that she will still change because I am already tired of hoping and always understands the situation. I want to be me already. I want to be who am I.

The Lost Phone

It was already my second day in Manila, we (my elder sister and I together with her four years old daughter) decided to go to Quiapo church and to SM North Edsa after going to church.




We were very careful when we went to Quiapo church because of the bad experiences of the people who already went there, such as shoplifting, holdup and etc. It takes us about 30 to 45 minutes inside the church since we attended the mass but we weren’t able to catch it from the beginning. So, after church we headed already to SM North Edsa. I thought that going there will only take 30 to 40 minutes, but I was wrong, it took us almost 1 hour and 45 minutes to go there.



When we were already there I decided to eat first, I saw Chowking (Filipino – Chinese Restaurant) nearby when we were walking so we decided to eat there for around 20 to 25 minutes, after eating we already went to department store to buy something to wear but while we were heading to department store my elder sister realized that her mobile phone that was borrowed to me was missing, she try to find it first to her shoulder bag and pockets in her jeans but she can’t find it so she decided to go back to where we ate, we went back to Chowking to look for it, she went back to the table were we seat and ask some of the staff in the Restaurant but no one knows about it and no one can find about it.



My elder sister said sorry to me since we can’t find the mobile phone, I told her it’s okay since it was only S$45.00 when I bought it in Singapore when I did my on the job training.

I will be crying if my mobile phone will be lost since I bought it five times the price of the lost mobile phone.



I don’t know why of all place at that time she lost her phone in the mall. Imagine we went already to Quiapo church which I describe it as one of the most dangerous place in Manila but we didn’t lost anything, when we went to SM North Edsa which we were confident that we were safe since we were already inside the mall but I was wrong since the mobile phone of my elder sister was lost inside the mall. So it comes up into my mind that there is no safe place in Manila even inside the mall already, or maybe I am just acting like this since I only came from Singapore and it was only my second day in Manila after I arrived from Singapore.



Maybe my decision is right, that I rather work in Cebu than in Manila because it is less dangerous than in Manila. Since I already experience going to Cebu for about two weeks but nothing happens to me, but in Manila, I only stayed there for two days and I already experienced a bad things during my stay in Manila.

Going Back!

It was already 0035hrs on 9th of June 2010 when I depart Singapore after six months of training in a five star hotel. Finally I will see my family already.


The only question right now – What will I do in the school?, after my school, where will I look for a job?, who will I ask for any information about job seeking?.. Though I already have experienced working as a full time employee I haven’t been experience looking or seeking for a job for myself, sigh!, I still cannot imagine myself for being independent already... Am I be able to look for a job of my own?, Am I capable of the stress in seeking for a job? Sigh!

But looking forward in a bright side of it, I know I’m still capable of leaving and seeking the job of my own. Because to come to think of it, since I managed to go to Singapore independently I know I capable of managing my future..

Sigh!.. I hope that my future will be brighter.. But I know it will still depend on myself on how I make it better… I know that God will always give me strength and I know he is always guiding me in all my decisions in life..

Being a BELLMAN

One of the hotel staff in a hotel in front office department is a bellman.

When you we say bellman, what comes into our mind? – is the one that carry bags from the guest, guiding the guest going to the room.

Is this position too small in this department?

I just observe while I was rendering my internship in one of the 5 star hotel in Singapore that they are treating bellman as one of the idiot guys who only work for a money and not by a career, or their attitude is only like this because we are Filipino.

I ask one of the concierge in the hotel which I render my internship that why is it that even if I am doing the right thing the DM (Duty Manager) is always mad at me, he want me to feel like I am an idiot person who don’t know how to work in this industry. You know what he told me?, he told me that maybe because you are a Filipino that’s why he is treating you like you don’t know what you are doing.

I studied for four years in Tourism and Hotel and Restaurant Management, I render my internship in different establishments in my hometown before I come to Singapore, yes I did not study in a prestigious international school for hospitality industry but the knowledge that I have learned from my institution was very helpful in my internship in Singapore.

I am not the only one who experience this kind of treatment in the hotel because my co-trainees who’s a Filipino also is experiencing this kind of treatment to some of the hotel staff, well not all of them but most of them.

Yes Singapore has many prostitute girls and gays that unfortunately my countrymen which we say they doesn’t have a good and descent job. But it is too discriminating in my part that they are generalizing the whole Filipino as idiots and low class persons.

I hope that this kind of mentality of some of the locals and foreign workers in Singapore will be change I hope that they will soon wake up and see Filipino staffs as good and professional to work with.

Because living in Singapore with this kind of discrimination is a very bad moment in my part.