Easter Breakfast

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On the morning of Easter Sunday right after work, I invited my friend to have breakfast with me at IHOP. I had my favorite big steak omelet and pancakes while my friend got his quesadilla & salad on the side. I work extra today to cover a co-worker on vacation, so I decided to go to church for the 11:00am mass at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church which is just 2 blocks away from our house. There's nothing else being planned for today because again, I still have to work tonight. After posting this blog, I'd probably be hitting the bed.

Black Saturday Lunch

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After a day of fasting (I only had an avocado smoothie), I felt super hungry. Right after work, I went to the gym to work out and after my session with the gym I still felt the pangs of hunger. I called my friend who is always my partner in crime in terms of food tripping. Unfortunately my friend could not answer the phone for some reason so I decided to go ahead to my favorite Panera Bread café alone. I had my Mediterranean Salmon Salad which I enjoyed very much.

I cant help but take a snap shot of the food that I had so here it is, my meditarranean salmon salad in all its glory.

Good Friday

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I'm home alone for several weeks now since my parents went home to the Philippines for a vacation. Since its Good Friday today and being alone, I just have to imagine all the delicacies that they are eating during this time of the year. Supposedly all the Christians around the world observing the Holy Week will be doing lots of prayers coupled with some fasting. Fasting is not like a hunger strike but to skip full meals for the day but we Filipinos instead eat some boiled sweet potatoes which we called in our dialect a "dinuldog". I cant well describe what goes into the "dinuldog" but I know there are some other root crops in it. Back to my own self today, I will still skip full meals but instead I'm creating my own "avocado smoothie". I know some of my Mexican friends will cross their eyebrows upon hearing this but I've been telling them ever since that we consume avocadoes in the Philippines as a fruit. Bottomline, since I cant have a dinuldog today, I might as well have my avocado smoothie.

DIY Lens Filter

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One of the last learnings I got from my online photography lessons is the use of lens filters. Unlike its big brothers with sophisticated & expensive filters, the phone camera or the iPhone camera in particular just rely on the various filter effects from its apps or applications. But if you use your resourcefulness and creativity you can find a lot of tools that you can use in order to improve your photos. Sunglasses is a good start to use as a Do-it-Yourself filter. It eliminates glare from the sun and it acts as a polarizer. Just put the sunglasses over the lens of the phone camera and viola you have an instant and inexpensive lens filter. You can use anything that can add some artistic effects into your photos. You can use colored cellophane, even see-through clothing like lace, stokings or anything that can capture your fancy.

The picture for today was already submitted as a project to my online classes through Instagram but I still wanted to post it here in my blog. I used a piece of glass panel, sprayed a little cooking oil on it and then wet the whole thing with water. Because of the thin layer of oil, I was hoping that it could hold some water droplets that can be visible in the picture but I guess it only added some haze on the image. Nevertheless the haze was good enough to blurr the background images and focus only on the main subject.

Hello Vegas

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My flight yesterday from Ontario, California to Las Vegas was at 8:00PM. Even if I was running late in going to the airport, in fact I was the last to board the plane, I was still able to get a seat next to the window on the left side of the aircraft. An hour later during the flight, our plane was turning left for its final approach to the runway and as the plane tilted on its left side I saw this amazing bird's eye view of Las Vegas. It was full of lights and I remembered the first time ever that I arrived in this city coming from the Philippines. The city lights below was overwhelming.

The Mustang

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When I arrived at the Ontario International Airport, I immediately went to pick up my rental car to drive to Temecula, California which is about an hour drive away. I got the Ford Mustang and drove it from Ontario to Temecula to Wildomar to Fullerton & back to Ontario the next day.

I was kind of awkward driving the Mustang specially on the freeways because I'm used to driving my Highlander which is an SUV type of vehicle. I felt buried down inside the Mustang but eventually I got the hang of it and I was a bit comfortable on the driver seat.

Endeavor

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Since my return flight for Las Vegas was at 7:55PM yet, I have some time to spare. Me & my host Stella decided to go to California Science Museum in Los Angeles to see the "now-retired" space shuttle Endeavor.

To take this picture of the whole body of the spacecraft, I used the panorama feature of my iPhone camera. The image could have not been distorted much if I had used my wide angle lens attachment.