I got robbed!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Being a perennial ‘tambay’ in Facebook, I take quizzes left and right. Lahat pinatulan, even the crappy ones like what age will I die, how many kids will I have, what the first name of the love of my life, etcetera... as if anyone could tell my future based from a 10 question quiz. When I saw the TAGA PACITA COMPLEX KA BA???? quiz from another contact about a week ago, I felt thrilled. This is something I MUST take! Been living in Pacita for more than a quarter of a century, I am certain that I would pass this quiz 100%.
I logged in to the quiz and answered the questions effortlessly. As expected, I got a perfect score!
However, when I looked at the thumbnail photo, a shot of our parish church, I felt something odd. I was not certain at that moment, but I have a feeling that the photo was mine, or at least looks like a photo that I took sometime in the past.
When the sister came home that night, I exclaimed, pointing at the thumbnail photo on the computer screen “tignan mo, picture ko ‘to!”
The sister sarcastically retorted “baket, ikaw lang ba ang may camera sa Pacita?”
Oo nga naman, how conceited of me to think na ako lang ang may camera sa buong Pacita who would take a photo of the Sto. Rosario Parish.
I let the issue pass, leaving behind my presumptions.
Last night, I was randomly browsing photos in my Multiply account when out of the blue, the photo! Oh yes! The photo!
Eureka!
I almost fell on my seat!
Sabi ko na nga ba! Akin nga yun!
Below is the enlarged photo from the thumbnail used in the quiz
Below is MY shot
Merely looking at the angle of the church proves that it’s mine! Mine! Mine! Add the cloud formations above the church and the position of the lights with the same hue and contrast. It’s mine!!! Mine! Mine!
I took the photo on September 8, 2005, it was Mama Mary’s birthday. A Marian devotee, Lola went to the church to participate in the activities and to hear mass later in the evening. I tagged along and brought my rebel to take snap shots.
The whole set of photos are posted at this link:
http://riccicutie.multiply.com/photos/album/123/Mama_Marys_Birthday_September_8_2005
Then I remembered, I posted the photo in my Flickr account. The THEIF must have stolen it from there. (Flickr used to be my photo tambakan 2 years back since I purchased a Pro account. When the Pro account expired, I transferred all of my precious photos in Multiply, thus making Multiply my official photo tambakan from then on).
Here’s the link of the photo from my Flickr account
http://www.flickr.com/photos/riccicutie/1296303682/
Kaya naman pala, I tagged the photo with several keywords, aside from making it public.
I don’t have any problems with anyone grabbing my photo. I actually upload photos in Multiply in high resolution good for 4r prints so family and friends could just grab photos from there (saving me time from searching from gazillions of photos in my external hd) .
Hindi naman ako madamot, my photo bin is like a carinderia na bukas sa lahat ng gustong kumain! But grabbing my photo without my permission and using for something else… I feel cheated on. Nakaka-inis… anyway, why would I complain? I made the photo public, didn’t I. But then, the author of the quiz could have just sent me a note that he/she’s use my photo.
