Desiree

My personal Celestine Prophecy of finally visiting Machu Picchu I always envisioned the very thought of standing high on the peaks of the Andes captured by the spiritual history transcending upon me as my feet carry my soul across terraces through the lost city of the Incas. Since the day I learned about the Machu Picchu during elementary years in world history, as a child I knew, that was a place I needed to fully experience in my lifetime with body, hands, eyes, soul, heart, thoughts, and to accomplish yet another journey on my bucket list. There is something spectacular about ruins, the shear magnitude of manpower to achieve these modern marvels during the times of ancient wonders. Machu Picchu was one that stood out to me for a particular reason; lost, ancient, elevation, self-sufficient, ... read more

Finishing blog the following week recapping. Well, it is now Monday again and I have to really take the time to remember everything I did within the last few days. Time flies faster the speed of light once you cross a certain time in your life you know the quarter century old mark? Yes that’s where it suddenly goes 0-950 mph in .5 seconds and then you stop to reflect after the fact that it’s too late. That is why I definitely take each day more seriously conjoined with not taking myself too seriously. Who should take themselves too seriously? Just do your job well, don’t hurt anyone around you and have fun. Being interns here at Bigfoot, part of our job is to be prepared to shoot even if it’s last minute and last Wednesday ... read more

It’s more then half way through my internship here at Bigfoot and things seem to be slowly getting underway. Well, I have to admit as of this point into this week; I can’t really recall much of last week in chronological order as my previous blog. So as I write my story which seems to be an endless supply of impulsive and random moments that have accumulated over the years, I continue to document them all and laugh about it along the way. So to start off from my music video shoot dating back nearly two weeks ago already, I start off by saying I’m terrible at remembering what I did last week but seem to master long term memory as if I’m a scholastically inclined prototype that can recite the entire dictionary from A-Z ... read more

Last Friday night after work, I took off on a weekend getaway trip to another regional island south of Cebu called Mindanao. I packed my backpack for the weekend to see one of my best friends for roughly 36 hours of non-stop fun. My friend Mike, who used to live in Los Angeles last year, moved back here to the Philippines for his corn milling business in an area called Initao Beach. I haven’t seen Mike since last year prior to him leaving nor have I had the opportunity to take time to go visit him since I’ve been here. I did tell him before he left that I would find a way to come visit him here in the Philippines no matter what. Thankfully, with the internship here at BigFoot I was able to ... read more

Philippine Adventure # 2 The temperature in my room is humid, strictly humid with the just the fan on, if I were to put on the air conditioner, it gets too cold. There is no particular number the Celsius or degrees needs to be when you feel sticky regardless. I’m starring at my computer writing my fifth installment of being here on Mactan in the ‘PI’ as it’s known. It’s half past 5 pm on a Sunday afternoon, it’s turning into night with the wind dancing around the island and the trees parading along with the tropical weather here in Mactan. I just finished listening to Telepopmusik in my itunes library and that song never seizes to bore me with its melody. It’s one song that is emotive with it’s calmness and vocals, so describing ... read more