Popeye

1-foot Popeye plushie from the UFO Catcher at Tom's World SM Southmall yesterday.

a good day for plushies retrieval... (lmao)

Tom's World, SM SouthMall. 

Gorilya at Rosas

May nagbigay ng mga rosas kay Migs sa tambayan! Hehehehe.

Pag-akyat ko naman, may gorilyang nasa trapeze sa table ko galing kina Ma'am Iyra at Ms Janine. "GorIyra" daw itawag sa kanya, "Gori" for short. May bagong kasama na sina Illa, Ilya, Liit, Kambal, Kulay atbp. Gori's the largest of my gorillas so far. Next si ILLA. Smallest si Liit.:D

Also took pics of all my monkeys, Ma'am Tin's sudoku, crossword and wordsearch gift (para daw sa madalas kong pagkaka-trapik), the stuffed toy pile in the house (di pa kasama mga hello kitty ni utol, nasa bahay nila naman yung mga yun, our pile needs weeding na), and the Xmas Bear.

Ribbid...

Kero came home with me.
Tom's World, SM Southmall.

Tito Ninong, Fix...

So my nephew Enzo barges into my room while I was watching the WWE with his toy in hand. It was a slinky. A heart-shaped slinky all in a tangled mess. With arms outstretched he hands me his slinky and says, "Tito Ninong, fix?!"

Ganun naman papel ko sa buhay nya, e, "Tito Ninong, fix." Daddy is the "taga-assemble" ng laruan. Tito Ninong is the "taga-repair"... If it's repairable, that is. Some though, are beyond salvation.

So I proceeded to undo the tangled damage done. After a few minutes, as if on cue, he barges in again and asks, "Tito Ninong, tapos na?" I hand it over to him. "Thank you."

God only knows how long it will stay fixed.

More Keyway Doll Exhibit Boxes

Rurouni Kenshin, NGEva, Tonde Buurin, DBZ, etc. in Keyway Doll Exhibit Boxes. Bought a couple of new boxes to house the other stuff I have lying around the house.

Keyway Doll Exhibit Box

Got a Keyway Doll Exhibit Box for my old DBZ figs.

DB figs

These always sit on my table or pc workstation wherever I work. Been jumping with me from workplace to workplace for years. Took them home from UP, where they sit on my faculty room table, last March to clean 'em up.

New Acquisitions

Got some new stuff yesterday. Sigh... It was a good day.

First I got three spin tops from a local tiangge in RFC. I got two plastic tops and one wood top. ^_^ Nice...

I also got some laser finger beams. I'll use them for modding. Maybe I'll fasten them to my tops, yoyos or pois. Very nice...

Then I got this... A Sony VAIO PCG-505SX (Japanese version release). it's old and slow but it will do for me. PIII 300 Mhz, 64Mb ram. Some scratches from wear and viruses but the screen is so clear. Got it cheap from Ebay. Needs a battery, an external CD drive and external floppy drive. So if anyone know where I could get a Sony laptop batteries either PCGA-BP51 or PCGA-BP51A, Sony floppy drive PCGA-FD5 and Sony port replicator PCGA-PR5, please email or message me. Awesome! ^_^

And lastly... I never believed the news that bees were dying until this one flew near my monitor, spiraled down and died between the application and ctrl keys of my keyboard.

Cross-posted at gokitomo.com, gorilla.multiply.com and gorilla.vox.com.

Gorilla Puppet

A gorilla puppet my friends gave me for christmas.

Shrieking Gorilla Doll

A shrieking gorilla doll my friend gave me for christmas. Fone vid's a bit dark, though.

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.

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