Chronicles of a Pawtographer

Adventure has always been coupled with images. The next best thing to a good story of adventure and reckless abandon would be pictures of that. For the longest time we had to balance two things when we want to go out and have a great time either in a theme park or the Jungles of Batangas. Do we bring a big ol' SLR so we can capture very good pictures? Or do we sacrifice quality for mobility by bringing a point and shoot 35mm camera. Choices.

Come the digital age. Outrageously overpriced technology that allows you to be trigger happy and waste shots on self portraits where you hold the camera with arms length and, voila a nice shot of you and another friend. Do you want to bring your digital camera when you go on a rented balsa in Nasugbu? Do you want to bring it when you want to reach the peak of Mt. Banahaw during that cold september weekend? What if it rains?

Ladie and Gentlemen. Welcom the Pentax optio wpi. An above average camera for the above average adventures. You will actually find yourself waiting for a typhoon so you can take your pictures with mouths open tasting the sweet rain. You will find nemo and capture him with your 6-megapixel camera while snorkling.

The versatile digital camera boasts of a below market average size and weight for a camera. You can forget about blurry shots on that bumpy jeepney ride to Majayjay, Quezon. The camera fits in your pocket. Imagine a second cellphone. This camera has no moving parts such as a function wheel likeon olympus digital cameras or the telescopic zoom lenses like sonys. Do not worry about dust or sand accumulating in the little nooks and cranys. It wont happen with this baby.

This camera has, get this, ten buttons. Your cellphoone has on average, sixteen buttons. That's it. It also has almost two dozen settings for different situations from action to underwater. All in just a few movements of the thumb.

Here's an additional feature that kills it all. High Quality video and audio recording. (yes, even underwater) So, if your thinking of buying a digital video camera, dont. You get tired of watching long family videos anyways. The small 3 minutes clips are more fun! With this camera, you can take more than two dozen of those.

The Pentax Optio Wpi handles SD cards of all sizes. The larger the capacity, the longer the video, the higher quality pictures one can take. For a decent trip a 512 MG or 1Gig SD card will be more than sufficient. You can use the USB cable to direclty upload your pictures and recording onto your PC without the use of any programs! (although the ACDsee imagecapture program is included in the box, your stanard PC can still do the trick) Travelling and uploading pictures from a public computer is the reason for this great feature. You also have the option of viewing the pictures and videos straight from your TV set via an RCA cable proveded. Your 512MB SD card can record up to more than an hour of 30 frames per second videos or 400 shots of 6 megapixel pictures. (in reality, all you need is a 3 megapixel shot for it to compare to traditional film prints.) The battery can last for a whole days work of more than 200 photos. Charging is easy and simple. An extra battery is always a good back up plan.

Phew! I made the technical part as interesting as I can. Still curious after that? I hope so. You can bring this camera in any type of situation for the curious. That's the Pentax Optio Wpi. The markets first off the shelf waterproof 6-megapizel digital camera.

For a sample video from the writer go to http://media.putfile.com/galera-and-sanmig-lite. Pictures can be found in www.photos.yahoo.com/ph/madsynjabby18

click on the link for videos!

 http://media.putfile.com/Galera-Video

Moving to La la Las Vegas within the next three months. I'm moving up in the company. New department, new people, new job.

Plan to buy a house or a condo - whichever presents itself first as a good choice for investment.

I'm engaged!

Ladies and Gentlemen... the future Mr. and Mrs. Jab Buhay:

I'm older. Im in my mid 20's now. I'll be 24 this 22nd MLA or PST - it doesnt matter. Im still old-er.

Here is my new truck. My very own truck...

Monster V6 engine, 250 HP, 4wheel drive, standard roof rack, smart hill ascent/descent assist control. It just ooozes with the word adventure...

Nice huh?

Nice huh? That's a retired Lifeguards dream. Yeah... Im retired... sigh.

I think I hear the Baywatch theme... Gootta go!

Why can't other people give in to the innate urge to be happy when other people are happy? Isn't laughter, smile, sugar spice and everything nice as contagious as H5N1 in chickens and turkeys?

I have been "with" my Fiance' for a considerably long time now. We have shared quite a bit of ups and downs "together" (the quotation marks indicate pruverbialness due to our proximity from each other; uhm about a whole ocean, but we are really together sill, no matter what). We have share some with friends, some we kept to ourselves, some caused some tears to roll down and some we thought would just go away and die a natural death.

She recently told me that she received a text message from an unidentifiable entity telling her "bad things". Well, to cut it short, someone is out to break us apart. Telling "bad things" about me. Well, that person does not know what waste of time he'she had to go through to send that message, coz plainly, he/she is not going through. Message invalid. I was thinking how that person searched for a free internet service to be able to send an SMS message to my fiance'. Imagine the effort and time spent. This person must really have no life. None whatsoever. I'm assuming this is the same person that sent her messages through Madsy's YM and some on to her Myspace a long time ago. Grow up. Move on.

It's sad how far other people would go just to make other happy people's lives miserable. As miserable as theirs I guess. This person probably makes his/her life interesting by reading pocketbooks wee into the middle of the night, or have several textpals with encoded names and uses a different name as well. He or she probably is still telling herself that all her/his failed relationship(s) in the past is not his/her fault and that he/she is the victim, and that its not his/her lost. Bitter? I thought so too.

This same person is probably wasting precious money-making time by looking at my profile and reading this actual brain fart that I'm having in the middle of the night. To some Hannibalish degree, I feel flattered for the time this person is spending on me and mads, so he/she can do recon work on us and try to clean hi/her tracks so we cannot figure out who he/she is. Dont worry, there is no figuring out. It's obvious who you are, and it's just sad. No, not pathetic, it's... Sad.

I don’t go out to the world and claim that we are happy that we hav the most perfect of relationships that we are invincible. No. Not really, We cry often together and by ourselves. Sometimes even over the phone because we just, well, plainly miss each other. We litter our work and living space with pictures of each other because for every sad moment that we have we have a bigger happy smile to replace that, thanks to the memories we have of each other. We also keep ourselves strong stable and happy by thinking of the other things we have planned and have in store for each other for the rest of our lives together.

So, this is just one brain fart of mine on blog. If that person is reading this; Kudos to you because I actually spent time for you. Aren’t you happy? Isn't that what you want? Well, here you go. But in actuality, I've got more important things to do like wipe the shit off of my shoe, yes that's more important than you. But this one time is an exception. There is no shit on my shoe coz its all in you mouth.

One thing that makes me sleep well at night is that this person tries to be anonymous. If he or she is really concerned, he/she would have come forward, introduced him/herself to establish credibility and actually blurted out her/his "concern". But no. He/she had to be mysterious. Oh well... Sad. I'll go to sleep now knowing that this person thinks he/she is the center of the world, that this person is bitter that people are not talking about her, that this person dwells on the past mistakes and thinks that it is not his/her fault, that this person does not have space in her/his mind and heart for change, improvement, for forgiveness and the possibility of a truly blessed and happy life.

You know who you are. And so do I. And so do our other friends and acquaintances. They would probably also think you are pathetic and boring. They would think more lowly of you now because of all the effort you are pouring onto this very petty thing that is out of your reach and way beyond your understanding.

I wish you a happier outlook in life, I wish you someone who can show you that life can be better than imagined, I wish that you'd realize that you'd rather sleep than waste your time, that you'll know that happinnes is a good thing and that someone who does not wish happinnes to his friends and loved ones do not wish happinnes to themselves. I really do, I wish you freedom from bitterness and that you will finally know that being happy can be, well, a choice sometimes, just like being bitter.

I am not here to prove to everybody how much I love Mads. It's only to her that I need to prove it to every single waking moment and every moment in between.