House Warming

Went to my friends' house in Pasig for a house warming which was a year late. Yup, they settled there last year, but all our skeds only gelled this year for a get-together. Same old culprits, my group of friends in publishing who hold sway on what we read in some popular printed monthlies (*cough* scantilly clad women and showbiz mags *cough* US-based manga *cough*). I won't post our pics here since we all want to relish our anonymity, editorial guys are like that (kuno). Hehehe. Nice to be able to see Cherry, Bambi and Olan, Art, Bebert and Donna, and Aris again after a long while. Still miss Cecil and Nick though...


Now supposedly there's a printed pic floating out there with me in a Harlock costume which they say I haven't discovered yet after all these years. Jeez, gotta find that. See, we play tricks on each other. Somehow wherever / whatever publication we find ourselves in, we tend to get content from each other. So we usually write for each other's publications and share contacts.
 

Of course with this "bond" comes the inevitable... we play practical jokes on each other. Practical jokes in web content, photos and articles range from photoshopping a third hand for a co-worker holding a magazine coming out of nowhere (only a few people saw that), pasting a co-worker's ID pic repeatedly in a gallery of contest entries ala Where's Wally (jeez, we have way too much free graphics layout time), using a lesser known nickname for a comic book sound effect, repeatedly linking a word in a website to a stupid pic of a co-worker or Friendster profile and inserting each others names in articles and fiction for no apparent reason.


Heck, I still do that. I still use my friends' names for major characters in things I write (see guys, I'm not the only one). For me it's a tribute, being able to immortalize your friends in web and print and graphics. (Yes, Marj, Jen, Dan, Chad and Iyra... Am still tempted by the possibilities of having scantily-clad women surrounding me while I work... but nah... Nothing beats scholarly pursuits... right? Right? O_o;; Agree with me, please, before I break down and cry.)
 

Anyway, my friend Cherry has a very sick sense of humor. She finally gave us our 2007 Christmas gifts (yup, 8 months late... Talk about very bad skeds for all of us. Mine was a knapsack I can use.. Thanks Cher!). And guess what... Imagine alpha-males having to lug around... in August... big Christmas gifts wrapped in pink Sarah ang Munting Princesah Christmas wrapper! Anyway, she also gave me a Maxim baller ID, which is weird since I quit playing basketball decades ago. O_o;; Another freebie! Heck, how come we don't get movie premiere invites anymore? Huh? Huh?


Birds of a same feather flock together...
It's such a sick, sick world.

Miscellaneous Photos - Feb 2008

You think you're in control? Hahaha! Bless Ur Soul... UPDil graffiti on a drainage pipe.

Yup, am sick. Cough and colds. Stuck at home and had the chance to sort miscellaneous photos taken February 2008. Playing with B/W and an old lens assembly from a betamax cam stuck to the end of my cam lens. My sick dog. Cash and Carry.

The Gorilla is Sick...

Yup, trinatrankaso ako. Since this morning. I felt the soreness in my throat, the onset of cough and colds na yun. Pero tuloy pa rin. Minsan lang pasko, e. Ayun, had to cut my stay at the SLIS Christmas party short since I felt bad already. Tinapos ko lang talaga yung sayaw nina Dawn, kasi talagang hindi ako makapaniwala na dancer sya dahil antahimik nya sa klase. Sayang, would have wanted to see Faye dance as well. Kaso tutumba na ako pag pinilit ko pa. Kakatakot nga mag-drive pag nabibingi at woozy. Basta andyan pa rin ako sa SLIS bukas. Posting pics after this, then tulog na. Zzzzzzzz....

Mixed Feelings: Komiks, Sick, UFC, Flat Tire, Cibo and Busted Pipes

It's been a rollercoaster of a week for me.

Been sick for a week, cough, cold and flu...

Yesterday was great. Ate at Cibo, Alabang Town Center, for Grandparents day. Mom was there with me, my sister and brother-in-law and with my two pamangkin-inaanaks. Hats off to Cibo for being a kid-friendly place.

Also saw the UFC on Solar with light heavyweight champ Quinton Rampage Jackson winning over PRIDE welterweight and middleweight champ Dan Henderson.

Today started bad. We woke up to a pool of water in the kitchen. Mom was stressing out, we thought it was a busted underground metal pipe. It turned out to be a busted overground pvc pipe. Done and repaired already by the plumber when we got home tonight.

Today turned worse. Had a flat tire on the way to Mendiola to drop off Mom. Hard to change a flat in blistering heat. Had the busted tire vulcanized too this night.

Lastly, I am currently watching Carlo J. Caparas and Donna Villa on Manoling Morato's Dial M on NBN 4. Caparas is trying to revive the local komiks industry. A bit of controversy, though. His latest large komiks strip in the PDI (Philippine Daily Inquirer) displaced  6 local comicstrips. Why the local guys and not the foreign ones? That's a question I was wondering about.

Mixed feelings, really...