Smile

I tried to make a blog out of smile long time ago but cannot find the words. I am a happy man but I cannot express thoughts from it. I went to Australia and found something that made me smile a lot. I smiled more as I already saw how I will make the blog that I thought long time ago, a month to be more specific.<>

On 27th of December, I bought a Sony Camera. The model is Cyber-shot DSC-W150. I chose it because, first, I like Sony when it comes to electronics. Second, it is the most that my budget can buy. I also like black colored gadget (I have a slim and black PSP.)

The handbook is in the CD and I did not bring a laptop then. I have to read all instructions from the gadget itself so I am not able to know all the features that day. I just took the pictures and changed all parameters that I understand. It is not my first Sony camera.

Going back to PNG, in the plane, I checked the other features such as editing. Looking at it, I saw a Happy Faces feature where I can modify people’s face to appear smiling. I tested it in one of my own picture and smiled after seeing the result. I shared it with the person beside me, and told him about the feature and he also smiled after viewing the original and the edited picture.

After a while, Genes invited me to sit at the back (not much passengers then) so we can check the features of our cameras. He bought an Olympus camera. It has more features that mine, but we are both happy with what we have. Looking closer, we saw this Smile shutter feature and checked what it does. It says Automatic shooting for capturing smiles. I really did not mind what it says until I pressed the shutter and it automatically captured a picture. We experimented and saw what smile shutter meant. For people who don’t know it yet, it means that it automatically takes pictures when it detects someone smiling. We were happy taking pictures while having our smile to click the shutter. The pictures below are taken while we are moving the camera on a smile shutter mode. Smile!

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i go, you go

Jahn, 4 years old, is just more than a year younger than Gio. Whenever we are together, he would usually be at my side. Coming back to PNG last November 15, 2008, my wife and my two kids accompanied me to the airport. Jahn insisted for us to stay home as he knows where we are heading to and he doesn’t want me to leave. I had no problem with Gio as we have great plans when I come back – buying his favorite toys.<> Jahn was left with no choice when he saw that all of us are already in the car. As he can do nothing for me to go, what he did is just tell us that he wants to come with me all the way to PNG. I and Joecy tried to make excuses so that Jahn would let me go willingly and one of them is telling him that he cannot go because his passport is at home. We thought that he would surrender with that but Jahn told us that we should go back (while at the expressway) to get his passport. Jahn has a cute voice which makes the scene funnier. More excuses from us again. After half an hour or so, he got tired of his excuses and settled down for a while. When Jahn recovered, the struggle continued until I hit the right button. I mentioned that I don’t want to go anymore and he can go by himself. Surprised of what I said, he said “Bakit ako? Bata pa ko! Ikaw na lang!” (Why me? I’m still very young! go by yourself!) I then looked at Joecy, with eyes that says “gotcha!”. After that we just repeated to Jahn that I really really don’t want to go anymore, and he should go. He then made all the excuses he can generate for him not to go to PNG alone until they dropped me at the departure area.

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