What are metal dreams?
Check it out:
http://myvespa.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/10-greatest-ever-motorbikes/#more-282
The article is based on Discovery Channel's The World's Greatest segment talking about the Top 10 Motorbikes according to experts and bikers alike.
In a nutshell:
10. Harley Davidson Knuckle Head
9. Moto Guzzi V8
8. Vespa (PX 125)
7. Brough Superior SS 8
6. Britten V1000
5. Triumph Bonneville T100
4. Y2K
3. Honda 750
2. Ducati 916
1. Honda Cub50 (What? yeah, I hear ya)
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Friday, January 26, 2007
Challenge 1 WINNER
What are metal dreams?
Alright models, it's judging time...
The Deliberation for the winner of Challenge 1
The fate of the models lies in one mystery judge invited by the blog author. Since the judge is familiar with the models, s/he was asked to be as impartial as he could be. Thankfully, he lent his expertise for free (woohoo) allowing for the winning model to receive two prizes. While deliberating, the judge was quarantined from the models.
With that, let's start with the recap of Challenge 1. As we have close interaction with our clients, it was important to look cheerful even when s/he do not feel like being lil miss sunshine. This challenge was designed to test the skill of the models' ability to appear happy in the photographs. The models were asked to convey their most happiest smile without looking directly at the camera resulting in a "candid" shot.
The Models
The challenge was to "look happy". The positive thing about this photo is that it conveys peacefulness. Unfortunately, we are looking for top-of-the-world happy instead of calm contentment. Her aura was too calm. Although Kaye is naturally classy, she ought to have found a way to appear ridiculously happy in a classy way.
According to the judge, the model doesn't look happy... just cute. It seems that he didn't give his 100% on this challenge. The judge appreciated his effort to show the "teasing" side of him. But sadly, it didn't pay off.
The judge feel that the smile is too unrealistic as if "someone made her smile". The model's forced smile didn't sit well with the judge. Amazingly, it was cartoony leaning to sexy. It seems actress-y in a way that didn't win her the vote of the judge.
It's the same case for this one, her smile didn't reach her eyes. "She looks scared!" said the dismayed judge. Nery felt self-conscious about her dentals that she was half-way between a toothy grin and a toothless smile. The judge suggests that even with bad teeth, the model should have played up her other assets such her skin and eyes.
The Winner
Loraine is the winner of our challenge. Her smile looks natural and her eyes sparkled as if she was truly happy when the photo was taken. Even if she wasn't, she totally fooled the judge. "She showed us what happiness is," said the judge. This was the only where the happiness shines beyond the photo and into the real world.
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Stay tuned for Challenge 2 "Window Shot"
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Loraine will receive one free lunch next week and a trinket from the blog author. This photo will also be featured in the FRIENDSTER bulletin board for all to see.
Alright models, it's judging time...
The Deliberation for the winner of Challenge 1
The fate of the models lies in one mystery judge invited by the blog author. Since the judge is familiar with the models, s/he was asked to be as impartial as he could be. Thankfully, he lent his expertise for free (woohoo) allowing for the winning model to receive two prizes. While deliberating, the judge was quarantined from the models.
With that, let's start with the recap of Challenge 1. As we have close interaction with our clients, it was important to look cheerful even when s/he do not feel like being lil miss sunshine. This challenge was designed to test the skill of the models' ability to appear happy in the photographs. The models were asked to convey their most happiest smile without looking directly at the camera resulting in a "candid" shot.
The Models
The challenge was to "look happy". The positive thing about this photo is that it conveys peacefulness. Unfortunately, we are looking for top-of-the-world happy instead of calm contentment. Her aura was too calm. Although Kaye is naturally classy, she ought to have found a way to appear ridiculously happy in a classy way. According to the judge, the model doesn't look happy... just cute. It seems that he didn't give his 100% on this challenge. The judge appreciated his effort to show the "teasing" side of him. But sadly, it didn't pay off. The judge feel that the smile is too unrealistic as if "someone made her smile". The model's forced smile didn't sit well with the judge. Amazingly, it was cartoony leaning to sexy. It seems actress-y in a way that didn't win her the vote of the judge. It's the same case for this one, her smile didn't reach her eyes. "She looks scared!" said the dismayed judge. Nery felt self-conscious about her dentals that she was half-way between a toothy grin and a toothless smile. The judge suggests that even with bad teeth, the model should have played up her other assets such her skin and eyes.The Winner
Loraine is the winner of our challenge. Her smile looks natural and her eyes sparkled as if she was truly happy when the photo was taken. Even if she wasn't, she totally fooled the judge. "She showed us what happiness is," said the judge. This was the only where the happiness shines beyond the photo and into the real world.
Loraine's winning shot
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Stay tuned for Challenge 2 "Window Shot"
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Loraine will receive one free lunch next week and a trinket from the blog author. This photo will also be featured in the FRIENDSTER bulletin board for all to see.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
My Place
What are metal dreams?
Snippets of my new pad at the heart of a fairly unfriendly neighborhood.
My bedroom...
The stairs of doom...
The living room...
The small dining area and the doorway leading to the kitchen and bathroom...
The kitchen
The bathroom... my second fave place...
The facade... my fave colour - PINK. It is also my favorite place in the pad (well, still technically IN the pad), coz it's the only place where I can smoke. hehe.
My ashtray...
The neighbor seemed to think that just coz I don't park any type of vehicle in front of our house then he could park his. Well, what can you expect? They even watch their laundry on the street.
The neighborhood pets
Our doggie... the neighbor's doggie that is. He loves us.
Our fish... I don't even know which neighbor owns this fish. I don't make nice to the fishy.
Our kids... yeah, they're not really pets but, just like cats, they're everywhere!
Snippets of my new pad at the heart of a fairly unfriendly neighborhood.
My bedroom...
The stairs of doom...
The living room...
The small dining area and the doorway leading to the kitchen and bathroom...
The kitchen
The bathroom... my second fave place...
The facade... my fave colour - PINK. It is also my favorite place in the pad (well, still technically IN the pad), coz it's the only place where I can smoke. hehe.
My ashtray...
The neighbor seemed to think that just coz I don't park any type of vehicle in front of our house then he could park his. Well, what can you expect? They even watch their laundry on the street.
The neighborhood pets
Our doggie... the neighbor's doggie that is. He loves us.
Our fish... I don't even know which neighbor owns this fish. I don't make nice to the fishy.
Our kids... yeah, they're not really pets but, just like cats, they're everywhere!
Korean Man Hunt?
What are metal dreams?
Being the show off that I am, other clients had a looksie of the new Korean Heart throb Mike. After a generous amount of laughter and insults combined, they too wanted to have a "foolish" photo taken of them.
Admittedly, some of our clients have male model figures with a higher I.Q. than Zoolander. It is the policy of the Centre to keep the clients happy so we had an impromptu photo shoot. Albeit we have really bad lights, the photos still conveyed the model wannabe look for our client.
Roy has a more "model" aura than heart throb Mike. Lets put it this way. Mike is the multi-talented superstar one who is as hot as Brad Pitt. While Roy is the "male model of the moment" such as Gemma Ward.
ROY'S PORTFOLIO
compare and contrast
Sell it to me!
Calvin Klein model?
I wonder where I left my phone...
Being the show off that I am, other clients had a looksie of the new Korean Heart throb Mike. After a generous amount of laughter and insults combined, they too wanted to have a "foolish" photo taken of them.
Admittedly, some of our clients have male model figures with a higher I.Q. than Zoolander. It is the policy of the Centre to keep the clients happy so we had an impromptu photo shoot. Albeit we have really bad lights, the photos still conveyed the model wannabe look for our client.
Roy has a more "model" aura than heart throb Mike. Lets put it this way. Mike is the multi-talented superstar one who is as hot as Brad Pitt. While Roy is the "male model of the moment" such as Gemma Ward.
ROY'S PORTFOLIO
compare and contrast
Sell it to me!
Calvin Klein model?
I wonder where I left my phone...
Korean Heart throb
What are metal dreams?
My lil client claims he doesn't like girls. Me thinks it's on account that he couldn't talk to the girls in his class (ESL impaired) and has a bit of confidence deficiency. But that was before he got his fancy new haircut.
Awesome! His hairdresser totally knew what to do with the lil tyke. He was even taught how to use hair products (will be introducing him to hair putty soon).
He is a Korean Heart throb in the making. Move over Won Bin (Autumn in my Heart, Endless Love 1)! Eat dirt Lee Dong Wook (My girl)! Get a new job Jo in Sung (Memories of Bali)!
Make way for Mark*...
Poster Boy
Product Endorser
*Real name witheld for privacy reasons.
My lil client claims he doesn't like girls. Me thinks it's on account that he couldn't talk to the girls in his class (ESL impaired) and has a bit of confidence deficiency. But that was before he got his fancy new haircut.
Awesome! His hairdresser totally knew what to do with the lil tyke. He was even taught how to use hair products (will be introducing him to hair putty soon).
He is a Korean Heart throb in the making. Move over Won Bin (Autumn in my Heart, Endless Love 1)! Eat dirt Lee Dong Wook (My girl)! Get a new job Jo in Sung (Memories of Bali)!
Make way for Mark*...
Poster Boy
Product Endorser
*Real name witheld for privacy reasons.
The Centre's Next Top Model*
What are metal dreams?
*The Centre is what I call my work place. Loosely based on ANTM
The Centre is a competitive non-television segment in my blog created by yours truly. Every week (I hope) will feature a new challege for the models (my co-workers) and the results will be featured in my blog. The winner for the week will receive a prize from yours trully of varying degrees of cheap-ness.
This segment promotes company unity and friendly competition among my co-workers. And of course, it also propagates my personal favorite mantra... beauty is in the workplace. We interact closely with our clients, therefore, it is important that we remain fabulous.
Here are the models...
(l - r) Kaye, Myrrh, Reyna
Loraine, Boni, Robert (Cloyd and Nery not in picture)
The Challenge - Look Happy
Since this is the first challenge, we retained the models' natural beauty maximizing on their natural talent. The task is to "Look Happy". Ok, there's being naturally happy and extraordinarily happy. But the task today was to look happy (not crazy) on digi photos. There's a catch. It must look a tiny bit candid. No looking at cameras for this one. And for some of the models this is indeed a challenge. What's a photo if you're not looking at a camera!
Wait and see...
Kaye's Photos
Long neck + high cheeckbones = glamour
Kaye has a natural goddess quality to her and really fine white skin that whitening product commercials only dream of. The downside is her dentals. For a lot of the models, smilling is what brings out the laughter in the eyes (rightly so, even for me). The challenge for her is to look happy without showing canines.
Gloss it up!
Primping, of course, is the other of her natural gifts.
This is Kaye's best shot...
Goddess Quality
Cloyd's Photos
Pose for me!
Cloyd lurvs photos. He has a jovial nature that shines through all of his photos. This challenge is a piece of cake for him. This boy has the versitility of a seasoned model. His photos are just precious. Since his smile brings out his eyes, we are looking for that x-factor quality that would just make the audience coo at him... even with that face (joke lang hehe).
Tease me (so adorable!)
Cloyd's pic really takes the cake for this challenge. This is the teasing side of him that is rarely seen in a strict corporate environment. I am seriously blown away. Top Model talaga!
Loraine's Photos
Loraine is also shining of all happiness in the world. She has a ditzy glow about her that just infects everyone with happiness. This challenge should also be a peice of cake for her... This is her initial test shot...
Smiles all around
There was an unforseen problem with Loraine, however. She wouldn't stop looking at the freakin camera! We, and by that I mean ALL of us, wanted to just nail her eyes steady lest it starts following the camera again! After a while, and I mean a while, and a help from Cloyd ("Tingin ka sa 'ken. Sa akin lang!"), we finally got a shot we wanted.
Pretty and Perky - Just the way we like it!
Myrrh's Photos
Sweet-safe-cutesy Myrrh
Myrrh is a wholesome person. She is also happiness-all-around type but not as much as the previous two . But this isn't a challenge for nothing. We wanted to see another side of Myrrh, apart from the sweet -safe-cutesy side of her. We love her yes. But she can be more sexy.
This is a much harder task to pull... had I told her that it's what we wanted hehe. She had no idea what we wanted from her apart from deviate from certain cutesy poses. That way, she wasn't intimidated at all. She was cooperative and everything went smoothly. We were very satisfied with her best shot...
Move over Alec Bovic/k
Neri's Photos
Nery's kinda cranky.
She is the most photogenic of all my co-workers, says the HR/IT head's second. He has uhm fairly decent taste so I didn't bother to check it out for authenticity. But it seems he has a point. We didn't have much time for her as she needed to work (unlike me? hehe). She also came a lil late so the entire concept of it wasn't explained to her as well as the others.
Kagagahasa-lang look.
It didn't bode well that she's didn't wanna participate on account that she hadn't gone to her stylist yet. But it worked to her advantage in a sort of kagagahasa-lang look. heehee.
Angelic (virginal? joke lang)
The Boys' Photos
The boys prefered to have their photos taken in the spot that makes them happy. I must admit that I agree completely as this place also gives me happiness...
Boni's happy day (without the plant)
This is Robert. He is happy. Walang kokontra!
Robert's happy place. Reminds us of the rehab days, don't it?
Visitation Day - Sharing a lil happy!
Boni's special spot, away from second hand smoke. I'll kill myself, thanks.
Sadly, Reyna was busy so she wasn't able to participate. The photos shall be deliberated upon for a few days/hours. The winner shall be announced on Friday. Stay tuned...
*The Centre is what I call my work place. Loosely based on ANTM
The Centre is a competitive non-television segment in my blog created by yours truly. Every week (I hope) will feature a new challege for the models (my co-workers) and the results will be featured in my blog. The winner for the week will receive a prize from yours trully of varying degrees of cheap-ness.
This segment promotes company unity and friendly competition among my co-workers. And of course, it also propagates my personal favorite mantra... beauty is in the workplace. We interact closely with our clients, therefore, it is important that we remain fabulous.
Here are the models...
(l - r) Kaye, Myrrh, Reyna
Loraine, Boni, Robert (Cloyd and Nery not in picture)
The Challenge - Look Happy
Since this is the first challenge, we retained the models' natural beauty maximizing on their natural talent. The task is to "Look Happy". Ok, there's being naturally happy and extraordinarily happy. But the task today was to look happy (not crazy) on digi photos. There's a catch. It must look a tiny bit candid. No looking at cameras for this one. And for some of the models this is indeed a challenge. What's a photo if you're not looking at a camera!
Wait and see...
Kaye's Photos
Long neck + high cheeckbones = glamour
Kaye has a natural goddess quality to her and really fine white skin that whitening product commercials only dream of. The downside is her dentals. For a lot of the models, smilling is what brings out the laughter in the eyes (rightly so, even for me). The challenge for her is to look happy without showing canines.
Gloss it up!
Primping, of course, is the other of her natural gifts.
This is Kaye's best shot...
Goddess Quality
Cloyd's Photos
Pose for me!
Cloyd lurvs photos. He has a jovial nature that shines through all of his photos. This challenge is a piece of cake for him. This boy has the versitility of a seasoned model. His photos are just precious. Since his smile brings out his eyes, we are looking for that x-factor quality that would just make the audience coo at him... even with that face (joke lang hehe).
Tease me (so adorable!)
Cloyd's pic really takes the cake for this challenge. This is the teasing side of him that is rarely seen in a strict corporate environment. I am seriously blown away. Top Model talaga!
Loraine's Photos
Loraine is also shining of all happiness in the world. She has a ditzy glow about her that just infects everyone with happiness. This challenge should also be a peice of cake for her... This is her initial test shot...
Smiles all around
There was an unforseen problem with Loraine, however. She wouldn't stop looking at the freakin camera! We, and by that I mean ALL of us, wanted to just nail her eyes steady lest it starts following the camera again! After a while, and I mean a while, and a help from Cloyd ("Tingin ka sa 'ken. Sa akin lang!"), we finally got a shot we wanted.
Pretty and Perky - Just the way we like it!
Myrrh's Photos
Sweet-safe-cutesy Myrrh
Myrrh is a wholesome person. She is also happiness-all-around type but not as much as the previous two . But this isn't a challenge for nothing. We wanted to see another side of Myrrh, apart from the sweet -safe-cutesy side of her. We love her yes. But she can be more sexy.
This is a much harder task to pull... had I told her that it's what we wanted hehe. She had no idea what we wanted from her apart from deviate from certain cutesy poses. That way, she wasn't intimidated at all. She was cooperative and everything went smoothly. We were very satisfied with her best shot...
Move over Alec Bovic/k
Neri's Photos
Nery's kinda cranky.
She is the most photogenic of all my co-workers, says the HR/IT head's second. He has uhm fairly decent taste so I didn't bother to check it out for authenticity. But it seems he has a point. We didn't have much time for her as she needed to work (unlike me? hehe). She also came a lil late so the entire concept of it wasn't explained to her as well as the others.
Kagagahasa-lang look.
It didn't bode well that she's didn't wanna participate on account that she hadn't gone to her stylist yet. But it worked to her advantage in a sort of kagagahasa-lang look. heehee.
Angelic (virginal? joke lang)
The Boys' Photos
The boys prefered to have their photos taken in the spot that makes them happy. I must admit that I agree completely as this place also gives me happiness...
Boni's happy day (without the plant)
This is Robert. He is happy. Walang kokontra!
Robert's happy place. Reminds us of the rehab days, don't it?
Visitation Day - Sharing a lil happy!
Boni's special spot, away from second hand smoke. I'll kill myself, thanks.
Sadly, Reyna was busy so she wasn't able to participate. The photos shall be deliberated upon for a few days/hours. The winner shall be announced on Friday. Stay tuned...
Happiness
What are metal dreams?
If you need to spread a lil happy amongst your co-workers, do what I did -- BRING A DIGITAL CAMERA in the workplace and have a PICTORIAL with your co-workers.
Needless to say, my co-workers were very pleased about it. But compared to my academic organization back in college, it took some time for them to warm-up to the idea. Well, they haven't seen my new found skills in photography (hehe).
Although I was rather demanding with the girls and guys, they were as professional as they can be. The lights weren't that good in our office, so we had to make do with what we had. It's a good thing my people were always primped and perfect that retouches weren't necessary cutting down in prep time.
As you will see my people were born models and with a bit of couching, we were able to churn out pretty good shots. I feel like Tyra Banks in America's Next Top Model heehee.
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In other non-happiness sections, I've reconsidered trying to get an invite for the blog parteeh. My friend strongly disagreed with my plug (It's sooo NOT you!) and that I wouldn't FIT IN anyways. Whatever that means. Still, those were merely unsolicited advice and I still would go if only I had all my appendiges working.
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As usual, I woke up late this morning. Well, I slept around 1am so go figure. I spent the night talking with a severely stoned friend who kept on about wanting to date my mother (who is hotter than I am, I must admit). It got really gross that I had to hang up. Good riddence.
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I haven't spoken to my family in a while. It must be because I did a bad thing which I shall not mention here lest I see momma (not genetic) bangin on my door demanding that I get reprimanded for my less than wise actions.
My roomy might be back tonight so I wouldn't have to spend the night alone... again... for the nth time.
If you need to spread a lil happy amongst your co-workers, do what I did -- BRING A DIGITAL CAMERA in the workplace and have a PICTORIAL with your co-workers.
Needless to say, my co-workers were very pleased about it. But compared to my academic organization back in college, it took some time for them to warm-up to the idea. Well, they haven't seen my new found skills in photography (hehe).
Although I was rather demanding with the girls and guys, they were as professional as they can be. The lights weren't that good in our office, so we had to make do with what we had. It's a good thing my people were always primped and perfect that retouches weren't necessary cutting down in prep time.
As you will see my people were born models and with a bit of couching, we were able to churn out pretty good shots. I feel like Tyra Banks in America's Next Top Model heehee.
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In other non-happiness sections, I've reconsidered trying to get an invite for the blog parteeh. My friend strongly disagreed with my plug (It's sooo NOT you!) and that I wouldn't FIT IN anyways. Whatever that means. Still, those were merely unsolicited advice and I still would go if only I had all my appendiges working.
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As usual, I woke up late this morning. Well, I slept around 1am so go figure. I spent the night talking with a severely stoned friend who kept on about wanting to date my mother (who is hotter than I am, I must admit). It got really gross that I had to hang up. Good riddence.
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I haven't spoken to my family in a while. It must be because I did a bad thing which I shall not mention here lest I see momma (not genetic) bangin on my door demanding that I get reprimanded for my less than wise actions.
My roomy might be back tonight so I wouldn't have to spend the night alone... again... for the nth time.
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