My parents, Melvin Montes Oloris and Maria Angeli Novals Rafols-Oloris, will be having their first church wedding after more than 20 years of being together. Just a brief storytelling on how they got to know each other: my mother’s family used to live in Talisay, Cebu while my father’s in Manila since birth. She earned a degree in Accountancy at the University of San Carlos and, after graduating, went to Manila to work for LBC—a courier company. My father, who wasn’t able to finish his degree in Mechanical Engineering at Mapua Institute of Technology due to financial problems, also worked for LBC that time. At that very office, in those times, they blossomed and exchanged love to each other. I don’t know if I must treat it seriously but my father related [to us] that they got married after almost five months of being in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. If that may be validated true, then WOW! Now, they’ve got four children (and can never be added!) to which I am the second oldest.

The wedding will be at Sto. Niño de Molino Parish Church at Bahayang Pag-asa. The reception will be at a garden resort inside our subdivision of Springville City. Wait, did I mentioned that it will be on April 4?

Cheers to both of them! :)

The UP Painters’ Club, a student organization in University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), is calling entries for their open art exhibition OPUS ELBI: Isandaang Sining—Salamin sa Isandaang Taon ng UPLB from various UPLB constituents.

Current students, faculties and staffs, and alumni may join together with constituents of establishments and institutions housed inside the campus premises and in affiliation with the university is eligible to join.

Participants can submit up to three artworks ranging from drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, mixed media, digital art, to sculptures with sizes limited to 10 inches by 10 inches to 3 feet by 3 feet and 50 cubic feet (for sculptures).

Submitted artworks must have necessary information at the back and be submitted from August 4 to 7, 2009 at Makiling Ballroom, SU Building, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM.

The exhibition shall feature 100 artworks and will be open from August 25 to September 18, 2009 (weekdays and Saturdays), 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the two Sunken Lobbies of the Student Union Building.

The show is in cooperation with the UPLB Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts and the UPLB Office of Student Affairs and is in line with the centennial celebration of UPLB.

For complete mechanics of participation, follow this link: Mechanics. To see its mechanics poster, click here.

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Opus Elbi official website at Multiply.

Because of reasons that time limits me in updating my weblog and that subjects that point my interests are wide-ranging, add it the fact that I have more than 10 drafts of unpublished blog entries which I cannot, anymore, post, I have decided to change the nature of my blog entries from this point in time. Much time had I spent to think about what will appear of my weblog until finally I came to a result which is as follow:

My weblog will be limited to these subjects:

1. Visual arts – particularly visual arts scene in the Philippines but with strong emphasis in the soon-to-be “Art Municipality” of Science and Nature City Los Baños.
2. Civil Engineering – advancements in civil engineering throughout the world with strong emphasis on construction updates in the Philippines—particularly in the National Capital Region.
3. Architecture – flamboyant designs by big-time individual architects or architectural firm that limits on low-rises.
4. UP Painters’ Club – activities and updates from my organization at the University of the Philippines Los Baños.
5. Travel and personal updates – tales of my travels and personal accounts.

My weblog title, Convivial Recluse: A Hermit’s Egress, shall not be changed.

Each entries shall have headings in 778 x 50 pixels as follows:

Entries shall be provided with sources complete with links and proper citation.

The official font style is still Arial in size 10.

Music feeds shall be removed for formality.

Please be guided, accordingly.

Wooh! It’s good thing I was able to update my Windows Live. My oh my, the new update literally left my mouth drooling. Windows really captured what I want—they’re setting a new brand of cool web designs. Their first set of Windows Live template or layout or interface or whatever you call it have captivated my high standard and now that they have updated their interface, they’d even captivated my higher-than-before standard. Wow.

The Internet Explorer 8 is also phenomenal. I love it.

As for my weblog, I have not much leisure of time to update it. Man, I am currently preparing myself to paint artworks for entries to GSIS and MADE painting competition. That three since I plan to also join the non-representational category of GSIS.

Good luck to me. :) The pot money’s too big and would be a huge help to our upcoming exhibition this August. :)