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Last night I won BEST PHOTO BLOG at the 2011 Philippine Blog Awards.
I was actually late for the event because traffic was gridlocked in our area due to the Azkals & LA Galaxy. I couldn’t help but think that David Beckham probably passed by my street, hehe.
When I arrived, it was barely 15 minutes when they were already announcing the nominees for the Best Photo Blog. RosariOko was called and I was flustered & all I could think of was that in their email invite we are asked to prepare a speech! I didn’t have any prepared since I got home from the Red Horse gig at 530 that morning!!!
All I remember saying is that our local musicians are a treasure and they deserve to be photographed and I dedicated it to all the other photographers who use photos as a means to inspire other people through the world wide web.
Thank you to the Philippine Blog Awards for recognizing the importance of blogs year after year. :)
AND TO Erick Dantoc, who has three awesome nominations in this year’s Blog Awards which includes his music photography site, thank you for this picture!!!
A special mention to party master Jay Server, who forced me to celebrate last night which ended at 6:30 in the morning!!! It was just right being surrounded by all my friends in the music industry who kept on saying they were really proud of me. I’m so so so blessed!!!
(Source: rosarioko)
I was really taking a picture of the hotel. But after I’ve taken the picture I notice there’s a lot of motorbikes that was parked . :))

What You Need To Know
If you’re a nice guy, don’t fake the bad-boy thing, but be sure not to be Mr. Agreeable.
Nice guys are beggars. Great guys are catches.
Women want a man to own his identity and lead — something even nice guys can pull off.
Mr. Agreeable never gets the girl. He never gets the second date after the first because he’s boring.”
You hear this over and over again: Nice guys finish last. Women just don’t want a nice guy; they want the jerk, the bad boy. So you think to yourself, “I’ve got to learn how to be a complete player. I’ve got to learn how to put women down. I’ve got to learn how to not call her, how to make her want me. I’ve got to play games. I’ve got to create attraction that way — that’s what’s going to work.”
Guess what happens when the nice guy starts to do that? He can’t make that work either. Because it’s not authentic. He doesn’t own his words, he doesn’t come across as that type of person and a woman can read right through it and know that he’s just playing a game.
So what does he do? He does the right thing. He treats women with lots of respect. Women always seem to say to him, “I just want to be friends.” Well, do nice guys finish last? It’s partially true.
Women don’t really want the nice guy. They always say they want a nice guy, but what they really want is a great guy. A guy with principles. A guy who really understands and respects himself. Nice guys respect themselves in a way, but they always agree. Whenever they’re out on a date with a woman, they’re always agreeing with everything she says. She may say, “I love to eat eggs while hiking up a mountain.” And while the nice guy knows doing something like that will give him indigestion, he’ll say, “Sounds great! I love to hike mountains while eating eggs, too!” She may tell him, “I really want to take a skydiving vacation.” The nice guy might have acrophobia, and still he’ll say, “Me, too!”
The Nice Guy Defined
While the nice guy is an agreeable person, he’s got no control over his life. He allows women to come into his life, he agrees with them on everything, and hopes and prays that these women will like him for being so agreeable. It’s so important for women to like him, so he’s Mr. Agreeable.
Mr. Agreeable never gets the girl. He never gets the second date after the first because he’s boring. What being so agreeable tells a woman is that you do not have enough self-respect to stand up to your own values. You don’t think enough of yourself to own your identity, so you become accommodating, inoffensive and boring. You become the boring nice guy nobody wants to date. When you’re attracted to a woman, you do everything you can to please her. She’s got a cold? You’ll bring her cold medicine. She tells you she’s got a headache tonight? You drive her home. She tells you that she can’t see you this weekend, you’ll say, “Oh, that’s OK. We’ll get together whenever you’re ready.” You don’t have a plan. You’re wishy-washy on everything you do. You’re Mr. Whatever-You-Want-To-Do.
Women want to be with a guy who knows he can actually get laid by other women but chooses to be with her.
The nice guy is actually giving up control over his life to the women he wants to date. He’s too scared to live his own life, too scared to do what he wants to do. Women don’t want power over a man like that. What women want is a man. They want a leader — a great guy who will lead them. A guy who, when he dates them, takes them places and takes care of things his way, who stands up for who he is and will debate her on topics if he doesn’t agree with her.
Nice guys never stand up for themselves, because that’s what nice guys do — they don’t believe they can get women. They’ve got this fear that they can’t get the woman they truly want, so they take whatever they can get. They literally beg their way into a relationship. And a woman knows that from there on, she basically has him by the balls.
Be A Great Guy, Not A Nice Guy
f you’re nice, that’s great, but what you really want to be is a great guy. You want to be a man who treats people well and also stands up to his own principles. You want to be a man who stands on his own two feet and isn’t afraid to stand up to a woman just because he’s attracted to her. You want to be a man who leads, a man who decides if he wants to pursue the relationship or not, not a nice guy who tries to conform to her wants every which way and puts himself in the beggar’s role. Nice guys are beggars. Great guys are catches.
To get there, you have to truly believe it. You have to live your life in a way that you truly want and not give it up just to make your date happy. You have to know that you are a great, interesting person to date, that you can get the women you want and that you can get laid when you want. Women want to be with a guy who knows he can actually get laid by other women but chooses to be with her. Women don’t want to be with a guy because she is his only option.
If you’re nice at heart, you’re nice. You treat people well. Embrace it — it’s a great quality to have. Don’t hide it by playing games and trying to be a bad boy. But what you need to do is be a great guy. Don’t be nice just to get a woman to like you. It never works.
Credit To David Wygant
“The True Meaning of Sleeping Together”
Nothing dirty. Nothing Naughty. Just sleeping. It’s just sleeping with that someone and knowing that they’re in your arms and you’re in theirs. They want to feel close to you. They want to know they are the closest to your heart. They want to hear you breathe when you fall asleep as they sleep next to you. As you fall asleep, you want to cuddle with that someone and just the hold them close. It’s that moment where you don’t want to let go and that moment where you don’t want them to forget that this is a special moment.