Yesterday, the 21st, was my 26th birthday. I feel old and maybe wiser. I actually cried because I felt old. Don’t laugh! Hahaha! Anyway, after hearing mass at noon, we went to Eastwood City Libis to celebrate my birthday. We ordered a lot to feed 7 of us. Ryan took our family photo. Dencio’s food were amazing. We ordered Krispy Sisig, Smoked Squid, Pinakbet, Dencio’s Pancit, Chicken, BBQ, Calamares, and Kare-kare. I spent a lot, really, but my mom and dad paid half of the bill. Yay!

These are the gifts I received for my birthday. A Fossil watch from Ryan, a book from my sister, Chicka. The blouse I am wearing was given by my sister, Juvy. My friend, Harold, gave me a Multiply Premium Account upgrade; Fe sent me clothes money; My aunt from California sent P500. Well, I wasn’t really expecting gifts, but all I wanted was cake and ice cream. I didn’t get the cake, I got the ice cream. So all was well. :)

Matt Mullenweg and Miss Dre

Today, a lot of Filipino bloggers headed over to College of St. Benilde Augusto-Rosario Gonzalez Theater to attend the first ever WordCamp in the Philippines. I arrived with Lexie and Rex, and Aja joined us. I was excited to meet Matt Mullenweg, so after lunch time, we ambushed Matt to autograph our WordCamp t-shirts and pose for photos with us.

We attended three breakaway sessions during the WordCamp. The first talk was from Gail Villanueva, “Creating WordPress Themes & CSS Power”. It is quite interesting since I, too, make WordPress themes and I like the power of CSS. The next one I attended is “Building A Blogging Community” with Blogie Robillo. The last one is by Danilo Arao who tackled “Blogging & Journalism”, which is quite interesting. The speaker really knows what he’s talking about and welcomed our questions about the topic discussed.

Matt discussed the future of WordPress and he demonstrated what bloggers should expect from WordPress soon. It is actually exciting, the many changes, and I can’t wait for it to happen. Matt is a really pleasant individual and he took time talking to us when we ambushed him for photo snaps. He made us feel like he’s not the rockstar of the blogging industry.

Basically, WordCamp is a success. I would attend again next year, if there is one.

Oh, and Matt said he is voting for Barack Obama. :D

More pictures after the jump.

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I love my new camera. It has been producing really great photos. I have been reading photography stuff online at dPS and the articles are really helpful. I don’t want to be a photographer, but it is good to at least be knowledgeable since my camera is not for newbies. Really. I was a bit overwhelmed because I was used to another point and shoot camera that allowed me to select settings then shoot photos. Unlike this one, there different settings. I want to learn how to manually set the lighting, which ISO to use and things like that. It’s just a hobby but I want to be good at it, at least.

Here are some test shots. I am severely afraid of spiders, so when I saw one inside our bathroom before I took a bath, I’m sorry, but I had to spray Baygon on it. So it died. Now it’s a test subject.