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i was MIA for quite sometime now. i want to say sorry for the lack of update, but, to whom?! i don't even know if there's a single soul who still visits this page. hehehehe.

anyway, i want to write the story behind my last post Doing Something Extra for Christmas. 

so, we have this photo contest and the manager (the biggest boss) who happened to visit our department, who happened to be one of the judges of our 'parol-making' contest, saw our photo entry that was converted into tarpaulin and was hanging amongst 4 other entries on the wall and [can i just say this] was so impressed (okay, 'so' is a strong word, maybe without it) that he wanted it to be published in our company's blog that was shared worldwide. the moment those words came out from his mouth, i know i was in trouble!! see, i'm one of the only two girls in the team of 15 and my other behalf is just a little girl (shaneen, will kill me!). so, needless to say, we're often the targets of bullying and are assign to do extra kuri-kuri works that doesn't define masculinity - writing is one of those. and boy was i wrong, coz they were pointing their [masculine?] fingers towards me. and they didn't even know that i write things here! tsk!

so much for rambling, i made a post that is descent enough for everybody to read. i can't do my usual antics for my other thousands of co-employees around the world to read can i? so, i re-read and edited it countless of times until i'm sure that what i had written couldn't cause damage to my career or dignity for that matter.

so, i had it ready and sent it to the point person assigned for the blogging and it's been 5 days and i still didn't receive notice for that.. so might as well post it here! hehehehe.

Doing Something Extra for Christmas

We have this Christmas photo contest in our department and every group is busy doing their props but us. It's a day before the deadline and we still couldn't think of a good theme. Since, everyone in our team is too busy to be bothered by props-making, we decided to just do an impromptu photoshoot outside and just give gift to random street people and take a photo out of it. Boom, lack of creativity and budget solved!

We saw this elderly couple outside the IT park (Cebu), asking for money. We think of them as a good subject for the photo contest. We choreographed a gift giving out of them and did the photoshoot. It's just so sad that we used them for props and that the scene was all staged up. Pretensions aside, we just give them something for us to get something in return.

So, we're thinking of giving them gifts, cameras aside. And if you want to join with us, please contact me for a little help you could lend. We hope it wouldn't be too much to ask for a little help to give them a merry christmas for what a short life they still have. For once, we wont let them bother of thinking how they'll be able to stuff their stomach to get a day going.

After all, Christmas is not about oneself. It is doing a little something extra to someone. Look under your couch or check your pants that's been in the laundry basket for quite sometime - there might be change/coins that you've forgotton you have, or a little extra on your budget for the week. 

Note: photo by Dan Garcia

And by the way, we won!