Solitary Walk: The National Art Gallery

08 March 2013

Pictures taken on: 06 March 2013

I promised myself another solitary photowalk after my deliberations, but then there aren't a lot of areas in Metro Manila where I can't take pictures with a DSLR alone without getting mugged or stealthily robbed (or at least feeling like it). So I thought of cancelling the solitary thing and just taking someone with me. 

Then the Anthropology professor assigned us to go to the National Museum's exhibit on Baybayin, which is the Philippine's ancient script.

So I decided to go on with the solitary walk in the Museum of the Filipino people. But I've already been there.

Once I got to the museum, I saw the building right next to it, which is the National Art Gallery. I realized I've never been there.

So before doing my extra credit Anthro homework, I went to the National Art Gallery first.

I'm super compressing this post because the museum is so big and there's just so much to see. I spent a few hours inside and I was very hungry once I got out.

Ah, Neocolonialism. You so pretty.

Since the building used to house the country's Senate, it was super fancy inside. It made me think of other public buildings in the country, where fanciness isn't exactly a priority. What if it was?

Alive.

04 March 2013

Wow. 

It's almost over. Yeah, there's still a few minor things to do, like the report I'm supposed to be doing for Anthro. But just... wow.

I can honestly say I look forward to graduating.

I'm the type of person who likes having clean slates and finding myself again and again. When the opportunity came to go to college in a university where I know almost no one, I took it. Now endless opportunities are in front of me, and I don't know which path to take yet.

But before I forget myself, I'm going to dump a bunch of pictures that I managed to take during the past two months of blog inactivity.

Arki Vicky's dynamite. Snacks for champions.

Hazel buying siomai

Ate Allie of foureyedwonder sent me these by mail. It brightened up a hectic day.

The badass Aileen F. being grilled by the badass Dean.

Me, dying.

If someone asks why my model is so unruly, I can always tell them these Molecular Biology majors made it.

Claire, despair.

Joan being grilled by an antagonistic prof, a former dean, and a plasma physicist.

And at last, a blurry post-delibs picture.

 There are so many people to thank for this. I am grateful to be a part of a batch who really knows what the word "bayanihan" means. My family was also very supportive, even if they couldn't understand what I was doing, or why I had to totally forego sleep for a while.

After this, I have to complete a bunch of requirements and complete my portfolio (which I will link here once it's done). The thought of actually finishing this excites me.

Before embarking on anything else though, I shall be going to Hungary. (HUNGARY!!!!!!) I'd like to include here why and how, but that's for another blog post. :)