Poi, UP Sunken Garden

Poi Spinning, UP Sunken Garden, April 28, 2007. Librarians poi spinning! Carina and Troy were there, we missed Clair. :( We're still learning... Hehehe.

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.

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Poi Spinning, UP Sunken Garden, April 28, 2007

Poi Spinning, UP Sunken Garden, April 28, 2007. Librarians poi spinning! Carina and Troy were there, we missed Clair. :( We're still learning... Hehehe.

Cross-posted at gokitomo.com, gorilla.multiply.com and gorilla.vox.com. Bigger pics are at my flickr.com photos or here at my multiply photo albums.

 

Poi: Starting Out

Poi Spinning, UP Sunken Garden, April 28, 2007

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.

Hello Kitty Pilipinas

http://pinoyslovekitty.wordpress.com/
Join in the search for the mouthless little kitty! :D

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
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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.)

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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.

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