Qu'est-ce que tu deviens?

Here's a redmark self-portrait taken last month as he steps on Boracay's fine sand beach for the first time. His job brought him on the same spot on earth two weeks later.

Looking back, he was born in Sta. Cruz, Manila and was raised in Antipolo. He has shuttled in different places around the metro for work (and play): Sta. Mesa in Manila (as a journalism student), Libis (as a Jollibee crew), Ortigas (as a Newsbreak intern), Ayala CBD (as an eTelecare calll center agent), Araneta Center (briefly as a BPO employee), and Morato and Katipunan as photographer-writer.

He still loves to be on the streets.

Now based in Krus na Ligas for almost two years, he is setting his sight up north as he pushes on his 27th year.

Young and restless?

This year alone, he went to eight different locations he had never been before. He had seen the terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras and sunk one foot onto the sacred soil while framing a better angle of those golden Ifugao grains. He had seen parts of the Philippines up from a plane-a far better experience than seeing the Philippine Relief Map in Rizal Park. He photographed events and met people whom he had only known in memory-and virtually. He even breached his fear of waters by learning to swim all by himself. Thanks to Phelps, Amoranto and YouTube's JimmyDShea.

And oh, he just bought his first ever cellphone, a Nokia 1661, for a song in Greenhills. Talking about moving up from borrowed ones and hand me downs hehe.

But then some doors closed. But windows opened up to infinity. Things have to be even.

So what could be next for redmark? Doesn't he love elipses?