Woof! Pikipimped New UPLSAA Officers!

Congrats to the new UPLSAA President Eimee "sexy prexy" Lagrama (Groucho Marx). Also to the new members of the board: Carina Samaniego (Viking Helmet), Nathalie De La Torre (Bunny Ears) and Heidi Dizon (Blue Hair). They're shown here with Abbie Cruz (Cat Hat) and Harriet Santos (Golden Hair). (Hirap ko maging kaibigan, ano? Tsaka grabe ang Web 2.0, maraming magagalit pala sa iyo. :D)

Made it at pikipimp.com. :D
Cross-posted at gokitomo.com, gorilla.multiply.com and gorilla.vox.com.

GIO

First there was Enzo. Now there is GIO.
My sister gave birth to their 2nd baby yesterday.
ELIAN GIOVANNI ORTHA.

 

Details from my sister Tanya's multiply.
Video from my sister Tanya's multiply.
(Grabe, ano? Kapapanganak lang may post kaagad. She posted via fone email.)

Crossposted: gokitomo.com, gorilla.multiply.com, gorilla.vox.com.

 

Poi, Poi, Hello Kitty and Maya

Finally got myself well-balanced poi from JR. They come with free lessons, too.

With that I found my way to the UP CHK last Saturday for a poi session with JR. Philip of FlipSpin and Clair joined me there for the poi spinning. Two girls who had previous poi lessons joined us. I think their names were Jane and Arlene, I'm not sure though, O_o;; forgetful me (sorry ladies...). Oh, and it was like a reunion of sorts since JR, Clair and I all come from the UP School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS, formerly ILIS, formerly ILS).

The poi I bought and the practice poi we all used were different from the poi we were used to. We use balls on ends of rope at home for practice and though soft they still hurt when they hit us. The pratice poi was of the beanbag-type so the force is dissipated. Of course hitting yourself in the nuts (beanbags hitting beanbags :p) still hurts a lot but we can manage.

JR said that the more the merrier. So if anyone is interested, why not join us every Saturday? Just message me and I'll text you the details.

Anyway, Philip and I think this is a nice way of cross-training for those like us involved in skill toys / arts. The move set and basic actions are similar to 2A (double yoyos) style of yoyo play so we were a bit familiar with the movements. Can't wait to learn more and try it out on the fire poi. :D (Jeez, this despite JR showing us his burns for moves gone awry.) But heck, we all only live once so I'm definitely going for the fire play!

It was tiring, ngalay we call it. Arms hurt like hell. But I found my way to Greenhills after that. My old Questor officemate Tak (Takako Takimoto) is in town. Her husband Joel Gammad (now Atty. Gammad) shuttles back and forth between Japan and the Philippines, but for the first birthday of their daughter Maya the whole family took the trip to the Philippines. Maya looks so much like a mini-Tak. The birthday party was held near our old office along Ortigas, near Roosvelt St. Some of our old kendo clubmates were also there. It was nice to see Ralph, Patrick, JM and Joan. Patrick's bigger than all of us now since he's 2nd year high school. He used to be the smallest at 3-ft tall when he was just in grade school. Now he could beat the crap out of all of us.

Tak and Baby Maya

Ralph and Patrick

Ralph getting a Tekken tattoo from the face painters

Jolibee... without the scandal...

Tak, Joel and Maya

Tak and Baby Maya

Ralph with Baby Maya

Ohhh... And I got this cute Hello Kitty plushie from the UFO Catcher at Time Zone in Glorietta on my way to the regular Saturday yoyo training camp meet of FlipSpin.

Crossposted: gokitomo.com, gorilla.multiply.com, gorilla.vox.com.

Fire Poi at Buboy's Place

File this under things you shouldn't do when drunk. I'm learning fire poi and brought my homemade poi to a drinking session of my barkada at Buboy's place. Pois hit me a couple of times because I was woozy after a couple of beers. The drunk guys in the background were asking for "Rock the Baby". O_o;; JR's teaching me poi every weekend. I need to work on my transitions.

Flickr photos of above fire poi pics

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File this under things you shouldn't do when drunk. I'm learning fire poi and brought my homemade poi to a drinking session of my barkada at Buboy's place. Pois hit me a couple of times because I was woozy after a couple of beers. The drunk guys in the background were asking for "Rock the Baby". O_o;; JR's teaching me poi every weekend. I need to work on my transitions.

Fire Poi at Buboy's

File this under things you shouldn't do when drunk. I'm learning fire poi and brought my homemade poi to a drinking session of my barkada at Buboy's place. Pois hit me a couple of times because I was woozy after a couple of beers. The drunk guys in the background were asking for "Rock the Baby". O_o;; JR's teaching me poi every weekend. I need to work on my transitions.

Of Hardware, Linux and Sleepy Pigs

Before I start, here's a pink sleepy pig with an outie belly button I got at Tom's World SM South Mall Las Pinas.

Anyway,
I wanted to set up my second hard disk with different Linux
distributions. SO I did the usual formating, partitioning and adding an
OS loader. In this case it was GRUB. Things were going great, I had WinXP, Nimblex, Ubuntu, Damn Small Linux and Geexbox
up and running then WHAM! Blue Screen of Death... WinXP or Linux. Seems
my PC was overheating, the processor temperature was reaching the
auto-shutdown point set at 60 degrees celsius. I suspected that the
culprit was the lack of cooling air reaching the processor or lack of
contact between the processor and the heatsink. I was right. I replaced
the power supply a couple of months ago and had to remove the processor
fan to get at it. Back then the grease was already drying up. The PC is
a year old so I was half-expecting it to dry up already.

I
took the fan and heatsink apart and I was right. Damn things were dirty
and air wasn't reaching the processor. Plus the thermal grease was
already dry. I didn't have any thermal grease around. The stores in SM
Southmall didn't have any in stock as well. So I had to make my own.
The grease is important since it allows contact between the heatsink
and processor so heat is conducted from the processor and makes for
easier cooling by the fan and heatsink. So I googled for alternatives.
I found Homemade Thermal Grease! at overclockers.com and Thermal Transfer Compound Comparison at dansdata.com
very helpful. Hmmm... Seems toothpaste plus grease could do the trick,
so could Brylcreem, but I couldn't find that particular page again
since the PC hung before I could bookmark

I cleaned the dirt off the fan and heatsink with alcohol so they
would dry fast (couldn't use water, WATER BAD!) Ditto for getting the
dried thermal gunk off the processor. There were different recipes for
homemade thermal grease, one suggestion was 75% toothpaste and 25%
grease. I experimented and came up with a 50%-50% mixture using
toothpaste and joint grease. The green gunk I lathered on the processor
and slapped on the fan and heatsink. Well... So far so good. It's been
a week now and no trouble yet. The processor temperature is down to 48
to 51 degrees. it's been a week and it's still going strong.With the PC
in fighting form, I was able to finish the updates on FlipSpin.org (the Summer Swimming Party) and TeatroSanJose.org (Salubong)





Crossposted: gokitomo.com, gorilla.multiply.com, gorilla.vox.com.

John 18-19

I was chatting with Clair the other night, and we talked about our blog problems and a little bit of fire poi (which we both dream of doing). Then our conversation drifted to where we were going or what we were going to do this Holy Week. I told her I'd be staying at home to perform in Teatro San Jose's annual dramatization of the Good Friday gospel. We both found it weird that I perform for a Catholic theater group despite my beliefs regarding organized religion. Live and let live, I always say. Much like Juned, I take long walks when I disagree with the ramblings of the officiating priest. Anyway, I've been a part of Teatro San Jose (TSJ ) for 7 years already and we've done this gospel dramatization many times. The most common interpretation we have is the straightforward re-enactment of the events up front near the altar. Last year we deviated from this by staging a "radio play" at the side of the church where we were hidden from the view of churchgoers by black curtains. This year we went visual, but hidden from view this time by white curtains. We did a "shadow play" and all they could see were silhouettes. I'm particularly proud of John19:32-34 when the soldier pierced the Christ Jesus' side with a spear, though some people said we could have elevated the crucified Christ a bit more so that he wasn't on the same height as the other actors. Oh well, there's always next year.

Flickr photo links below:
1. gospel07, 2. gospel04, 3. gospel05, 4. gospel02,
5. gospel11, 6. gospel08, 7. practice05, 8. gospel14,
9. gospel13, 10. practice06, 11. gospel15, 12. gospel17,
13. gospel01, 14. practice08, 15. gospel03, 16. practice04,
17. practice01, 18. practice07, 19. gospel10, 20. gospel09,
21. gospel12, 22. gospel06, 23. gospel16, 24. practice02

Stations of the Cross, St. Joseph

Stations of the Cross St. Joseph the Worker Parish Church

Stations of the Cross, St. Joseph the Worker Parish Church

Teatro San Jose, Good Friday Gospel

John19:32-34 The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. - Teatro San Jose Rehearsal, Good Friday Gospel Reading, St. Joseph the Worker Parish Church

Last year we did the Gospel Interpretation for Good Friday in the form of sounds like a radio play. This year we decided to make it visual, but to be different from the usual drama presentation we decided to utilize silhouettes. Teatro San Jose Rehearsal, Good Friday Gospel Reading, St. Joseph the Worker Parish Church

Gorillapods

Link
Eimee (SuperEmang) talks about Gorillapods. :D

Dang and Baby Emma

With Dang and Babby Emma at Allan's House, April 3, 2007.

Gorillas in My Midst

Over the years I've amassed a small collection of monkeys, all stuffed toys mostly given to me by friends. Why gorillas? A bit of history, when I first became a net regular, the name igor was already taken in most email and web addresses, so I had to choose another screen name.

My solution: move the "i" in "igor" to the end and add "-lla". The result: "Gorilla". At about that time the anime "Slam Dunk" was being shown locally on Channel 5 and "Gori", short for "gorilla", was the nickname of Akagi, the team captain. Some people assumed that that was the reason for my name, but it wasn't. Until today, some of my friends call me Gori. So, I introduce to you my gorilla family... Yes, gorillas are in my midst.

One of my very first gorillas was this multi-colored huggable from my then girlfriend Jocelyn a little more than 10 years ago. It got lost one time, our maid took it home, thinking I wouldn't miss it. But I raised so much hell that it reappeared the next day. It meant that much to me.

A couple of years later, when I was working for Questor, the Uy brothers (DJ and Bryan) gave me this Mojo Jojo for my birthday.

Two years ago, for my birthday, I met the Questor / CV5 / P3 guys (Bambi, Olan, Cherry, Cecil, Bebert, Nick and Kenneth) for a night out. That day, the biggest member of my gorilla family "ILLA" came home with me.

In March last year, I bought a whole bunch of these clingy monkeys. Some of them found their way to my nephew Enzo's pram. I kept one of them for some monkey love.

This one I love a lot. This is "ILYA", a gorilla puppet given to me last Christmas 2006 by Bambi and Olan. He has since seen action in a puppet show during Enzo's birthday.

See him in action. Isn't he adorable?

Another gift gorilla, this one was given to me by Nick. I named him "NOGNOG". It's a shrieking gorilla doll.

Yup, he does sound like that when you push down on his tummy.

Just last Saurday, I passed by Vente, a Php20 store in Glorietta. I found these multi-colored orangutangs. I didn't let them go. They're the newest additions to my growing gorilla family.

So that's my Gorilla Family, and rest asssured it will keep on growing and growing. Thanks for looking.

Crossposted: http://gokitomo.com, http://gorilla.multiply.com and http://gorilla.vox.com