It feels Valentine’s Day last night as me and my co-blogger Rommel enter this place in P.Tuazon in Cubao. The place is full of red gorgeous motorbikes.  Well why not? it’s the place of the prestigious Italian motorcycle, the Ducati! And we were lucky we got an RSVP invites to grace the soft launching of the latest Ducati to hit the Philippine road. It’s the “Ducati Monster 795”.
“Ducati is like a Ferrari on two-wheels” I’ve heard from one of the marketing staff, and I can’t agree more. Not only that they’re both red and Italian made, but the craftsmanship and performance as well, that owners and would be owners have attached to their passion and lifestyle.
Rommel of melardenio.com inspecting the Monster 
The grand launch of the Ducati Monster 795 with the theme “LIVING THE DREAM” will be held this coming December 10, 7:30pm at the New Eastwood Mall Open Park Ground.  I have asked about the Ducati Monster 795 SRP but they said it’s a surprise and will be revealed only on the said event, so watch out for it Ducati fans because the price is connected with their theme. 
Be there to see and feel the newest monster of Ducati. The Monster 795!
Yipeee! I’m in 3rd place finally!!!! Its actually my first time being third at dpreview and I’m really very happy, although there’s regret that I missed 2nd place by two points only (3,464 and 3,646 points). Nevertheless, I’m still proud of my photo being on 3rd place out of 71 entries at the “Portrait shot using HDR” Photo Challenge at dpreview.com.
This again was a milestone for us point and shoot users, specially my club at PnSers.com! It just proves that its not the camera but the photographer! Or the tagline of our camera club, we say “its not the bow, its the Indian!
Some comment I have received from this photo is that he looks like Moses with a tablet on his hand. Â I haven’t thought of that, but hey, he sure do look like Moses.
Kudos to all my friends and colleagues for their votes, and for inspiring me to shoot more quality photos! Maraming salamat po sa inyong lahat! And lastly, thanks to the old man at Quezon Memorial Circle for letting me capture his portrait. Hope to see him again and thank him personally.
See the results here:Â http://www.dpreview.com/challenges/Entry.aspx?ID=541395&View=Results&Rows=4
Every ride I made, I make sure I documented all the important statistics along the way. Odometer reading and gas mileage are the two most important. That way, it will be informative for other riders when I post it on my blog. They’ll have an semi accurate data of the length and gas consumption just in case they’ll planning to go to the same place i’ve been.
Okay, so here’s how what I do before. I usually brought along a pad paper and a ball pen whenever I’m on a long ride. Jotting down all the details when we stop for gas, eat or rest. I suppose to do that religiously, but sometimes I simply forgot about it. Nevertheless, what matter most is that I got the departure and the arrival reading of the odometer hehe.
And so, on my last ride, I made a kind of upgrade from my paper and ballpen strategy. I now used my Samsung Corby mobile phone. Its 2 megapixel camera is just enough for me to journal my ride and got the stats that I want more easily. Of course if you have a much nicer phone, much better, as long as it have a handy-dandy camera.
Instead of my usual style of writing it down, I now have the power to get the data I want with just one click on the shutter. Isn’t that amazing!
Not to mention I can still shoot some nice photos of the surroundings. There’s only one mistake that I made, and that is I forgot to adjust the time on my cellfone to GMT+8H. I only found out about it when I got home. Next time it would be perfect for sure hehe!
By the way, all the photos here are captured during our Halloween Pagudpud Ride
