Finding Nature in Freedom Park- FEU

this blog is slowly turning out to be a diary of my college stay in FEU. this afternoon, we decided to kill time by staying in the leafy area of the Freedom Park, watching students play basketball while on complete uniform, hearing students rehears for an upcoming 'Sabayang Bigkas' contest. this are is also a good place for the UAAP games for a huge flat screen tv is attach on a wall, albeit the tv is only played while FEU has a game.

Having brought the camera with me, i decided to take some pics...


a very colorful insect, whose reddish skin resembles the other side of the leaf





this stone feature becomes a water feature during the night,




leaves hiding the Inst. of Art's Arts Building

it feels so good to know that inside the campus the air is very clean, unlike in its immediate surroundings of the Recto-Morayta area, were the smoke is everywhere. FEU is truly, an oasis of a city. A green lung.I love this place.

Then, Now.......

this lovely space behind the FEU Grandstand, October of last year


was re landscaped ........




and today.......



a smiling face, LOL!

Vehicles of Creativity

Conde Nast Traveler's Annual Hot List and Wallpaper* Magazine featuring Prada's rotating pavilion

It is again the time of the year when the most creative of magazines pile together the very best that the design world has to offer. My guilty pleasures. Enjoy it, i do.

As John Galliano said, we might be sailing through rough times in this financial recession, but what's important is that we're not having a recession of 'creativity'.

I agree.

Covers alone sell!

GQ cover of the David B., by Peter Lindbergh

Thailand Moments:(1)

These are additional pictures grabbed from Dindi's phone during our Thailand trip this summer. I like these photos cuz their yellow-ish, adding the mood of nostalgia to the pictures.
this were taken on our last day in that beautiful country. I wish I could go back.

i miss it all!


kristel and i


with dindi


me with the photo of the Thai King's 60th anniversary celebration with the royalties of the world as background

at the very modern Suvarnabhumi Airport of Bangkok

Additional Spice

I have been consumed, for the last month at least, with my academic responsibilities causing me to totally forgo with the usual,ahem, 'luxuries'(daw!)-that means absolutely doing nothing. And this total consummation of thy self won't be of short I'm telling you!. So you can only imagine how surprised the boring person in me when my brother came home and brought with him an Xbox! yehey! my non-class days wouldn't be as boring anymore,. I hope...haha



the Xbox 360.Arcade

Another Work of Art!

Oh, to be surrounded with so much art! To enter a university on a daily basis and be surrounded with stunning architecture, paintings, sculptures, murals, etc,. by some of the county's most gifted artists.

Well, my last post highlighted my being part of the University Tourguiding Committee (which, as I've heard, is the subject of a major 'debate' in the Tourism department, ha ha *tsismosa ako!*). One very rainy afternoon, a friend of mine who's part of the FEU Dance Troupe, invited me to their dance studio located at the uppermost floor of the Administration building.

Halfway through going the 5th floor, I noticed this recent addition to the 3rd floor hallway. Later did I know this was done by the artist Antonio Dumlao in the 70's and was donated by the family of the late artist in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Dumlao mural in the 2nd floor hallway of the same building( I think I have to post a blog about it soon). It's made of three parts which when combined produces an image of a Sarimanok, the mythical Philippine celestial bird, which is in the official seal of Far Eastern University

Antonio Gonzales Dumlao 's (30 Apr 1912-1983) paintings pertain to the conservative school representationalism. He is essentially a figurativist, his human figures are solidly modeled but softened by a masterful handling of light and shadow.And this elements show in his mural commissioned by FEU.

the stained glass by Antonio Dumlao, with the reflection of the FEU campus






anyways, speaking of the Sarimanok, it appeared during the UAAP Season 72 Opening Ceremonies last July 11, of which FEU is this year's host university.The Sarimanok, which is featured in FEU’s coat of arms, has multi-colored wings representing the different universities in the UAAP.