I'm a fan

Yes, I'm a fan. I'm a fan of a lot of things.

I'm a fan of anime.
I'm a fan of yoyoing.
There are times when I actually even get paid for being a fan of both. I perform when I yoyo or write about anime or letter manga. Sometimes, these two things I'm a fan of get to meet in one place. It's usually an anime convention where our group, FlipSpin, performs for the audience. It happened in UNA Kame. Last Saturday, Aug 19, it happened again, this time in CulturEvolution in Marikina.



Seems it's a new group of anime fans nowadays, I don't know the people who went there. The guys who are "seniors" who are now "veterans" were the ones who were active when Meowok and I were in Questor. Now the guys I know are organizers and heads and admins of their own special interest groups. Got to meet and renew acquaintances with cosplay legends (and one time Yuukan Kendoka) Robert and Paul. Also saw Gundam Girl Dice and cosplay goddes Joy / Haruka. One time Yuukan Kendoka Tyran and Jess were also there.

Jeez, on a related note (and I told Meowok about this), 5 years ago when you looked at my friendster account friends list, it was a smorgasbord of anime character pics. Nowadays I'm surprised when the anime pics give way to pics of young ladies (with or without boyfriends). Heck, what caught me unaware was that they are now in or have graduated from college! Heck, dati nakikipag-kulitan ako sa 12 yr olds na  Frances and Marenza (she now goes by Em). Kulitan namin ni Frances nun sa email when our birthdays came (magkalapit bday namin) went something like:

"Happy Birthday! Papa-Fedex ko na lang yung isaw at squid balls sa inyo dyan."

Weird that she ended up in UP... Isaw and squid balls heaven...

I'm a fan of art.
Especially of junk / recycled art. When I finished an OFW Guardian interview last August 17, Thursday, with Mr. Hector Tagaysay of Filway Marketing, I felt hunger pangs and ate at Sizzling Stop (which was in the same building). The ashtrays were made of aluminum cans. I just had to take a pic of it.



I'm a fan of wrestling.
Yes, it's the greatest show on earth. The soap opera for men. I'm actually going to watch the cinematic pay per view of SummerSlam in SM South Mall tomorrow, August 21, 2006.



Meowok and Olan knew how much of a fan I am of the WWE (heck, my tv's glued to Jack TV on weekends because of this). So for my birthday they gave me a WWE vid, The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior. Hehehe, I liked the Disney "Just Monkeying Around" gift wrapper too. I like animals... Well some more than others.

I'm a fan of animals.
Yup, I love dogs. Cats too. Maybe it's the reason why I play UFO catcher too. BTW, got these two ugly Hello Kitties from Tom's World in SM South Mall. The cow's another story.



I'm a fan of family.
The cow pic I took when we went to my inaanak Shuey's birthday swimming party in Los Banos, Laguna. My other inaanak Enzo was there too.



And since I'm a fan of family... It follows that...

I'm a fan of mom.
Mom was always complaining how her TV was acting up. We had bought two Goldstar (now part of LG Electronics) surplus / refurbished TVs from Cavite one day when we visited our house there. Heck, t'was a steal, about PhP999 each TV many years back. So that's one for the sala and one for her room. Anyway, that was years ago, so now with age the TV is hard to operate (Korean markings and all). So I decided to buy her a 14-inch TV from SM after the CulturEvolution gig. It was a choice between a Sanyo and a Sharp. I bought the Sanyo ST-14CE1.



I had it all planned. I'd sneak the TV in when they went to church for the 7pm mass (I'm deist, I seldom go to church). When she got home she'd see her new TV. By 8pm I switched on the TV. My sister saw it, smiled and relayed the news to my brother-in-law Geo. I kept dropping hints for my mom to see it. "Ma, you left your tv on when you went to church!" No dice. When my sister, brother-in-law and Enzo left for their house upstairs, my sister texted me and even called my mom asking "What's new?" My mom was dense... She still didn't see the tv.

About an hour later, while watching a series on Hallmark Channel, she realized she had a new tv when she picked up the remote and realized it was a different remote. Go figure... O_o;;

That's it for today... Too-da-loo...

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Just some of the things I'm looking at right now... Most are greek... Open Source stuff, 2.0 stuff, the others are just plain stuff. O_o;;

Like these ones... Found these in my fone... Damn they're old....

My sister has always been lucky in raffles. Read her post about it in her blog... But in a nutshell, she has actually won a walkman, an electric fan, a washing machine, and even a car... Sheesh... All I've ever won were a ricecooker and a Panasonic celfone... O_o;; Anyway, she won a celfone strap and watch just by scratching off those silver raffle tickets when we bought 7-11 Slurpees, this was when Superman Returns just came out.

(Yup, the pic, it's a month old... I just seem to click and forget nowadays.)

And this one's my fave... and for Kenneth (aka Vince Valvolene, tafka Ryan Rev - Ex)... It's the P3's favorite opening act...

Saver, the Wonder Dog! Saw him on tv and just had to take a shot.

Also, here are stuff I'm currently looking at...

Jahia <- A Java Content Management System.. Am looking at using this for gokitomo, or some place else...
eyeOS <- An Open Source Web Desktop Environment, commonly known as Web Operating System or Web Office. I just lurv this. Hehehe, all you need is a net connection, no need for MS Word, et al. Nice if you're always on the move.
DeVeDe<- A program to create video DVDs and CDs (VCD, sVCD or CVD), suitable for home players, from any number of video files, in any number of the formats... If only I could figure out how to use it... O_o;;
Emdros - The database engine for analyzed or annotated text. I know I have some use for this... but maybe not now...
Griffith <- A movie collection manager application. Hmmm....
Zolow <- A digital bulletin board. Web 2.0, Ajax stuff... or something like that...

Bipolarbears.net

It's not yet version 1.0, I think it's still 0.9, but it's working already. Do visit the bears. :D

Gorilla Scratch (Classic Sesame Street)

Ooga-booga. O_o;;

34 (and it ain't my waistline... oh, wait... it's also my waistline!)

Today I turn 34... I'm about an hour and a half into my birthday when I started this post and I finished at around 3:00am... and I'm sorta sad. Nope, it's not because I'm a year older, it's because I bade goodbye to two of my closest friends. (Gee, I would've thought I'd be good at this, since I'm working at the OFW Guardian and Filproperty,  newsmagazines with people going overseas as the target market.)

John and Abie Principe. Best of friends. It has been 16 years, way back in college at the UPILIS (Institute of Library and Information Science, formerly the UPILS) in fact, since I met this cool, extreme and tolerant pair (think movers and shakers only a whole lot cooler). Cool and extreme since they bike, trek, climb mountains and other stuff. And they also share my love for music and martial arts (John once took up Judo, and Abie's into Aikido and she's actually a black belt!). Heck, with me as a friend they certainly are tolerant. We've shared a lot of fun times together. Probably the turning point was being stuck in the same car for 8 hours on the way home one stormy day in the 1990's (Abie lived in Pasay, John and I in Las Pinas). Abie was in a miniskirt and had to wade in waist deep water... Hehehe...
    We usually rode the bus home together. I actually introduced John to the wonders of street food when we got off at Alabang. "Yuck, Igor," John said when I took a bite out of a tokneneng (fried breaded balut and penoy, duck eggs in diferent stages of development, affectionately we called them aborted ducks). "You actually eat that?" I offered him one and his eyes lit up afer he took a bite. We ate a whole bunch before making our way to the ambulant mami cart. (John informed me that the best street mami nowadays could be found in the CCP complex.)
   I also remember John quite disturbed while listening to a tape of Metallica on a bus ride home. And, ironically, the bus lurched and he dropped the tape beyond his reach and couldn't retrive it anymore. "Divine intervention," was John's attribution to the whole ordeal. I wasn't surprised when John and Abie finally ended up together as a couple and eventually as husband and wife.
    Anyway, Abie has been based in Japan for the past couple of years working and finishing her PhD in Library Science. She visited the country to finally fetch John. They're settling in Japan. We spent the night at Starbucks talking. Nothing much, just about life. And about the people we shared our lives with in college. Arnold was one of them, and so was Rachelle. Rachelle's already abroad (US), so are most of our barkada. Allan and Dang are in Canada, I was able to talk to them and Baby Emma on YM a few weeks back (webcam pic above right). Bam and Veegee are also in Canada, so are Abet and Nigel. Bebs I think is in the US, so are Jean and Troy, and Zyrel and Jho. So of the college barkada only four of us are left in the country: Enteng, Rolly, me and Angie (and you can probably add the Dawn's bassist Buddy).
    Abie had pasalubong for me: Choco Baby, Poifull and Pocky. Abie knows I definitely love Pocky. For the green-minded out there, Pocky is Japanese flavor-covered pretzels, except for one end where you hold it. They're much like Jack and Jill pretzels here in the Philippines. Weird thing was what Abie gave me was "Men's Pocky", bitter chocolate flavor. Sleezy sounding at one end, sooo testosterony on the other... Go figure. O_o;;
   I couldn't help but feel a bit sad when I bade them goodbye, but hey, that's life. I spent the coffee drinking night with them till 12:30am, half an hour into my birthday. They fly off at 7:00am. I'm going to miss those two blokes. Have a safe trip!

    Other than Abie's pasalubong, I bought myself some stuff for my birthday. I bought a Yoyojam Sirius yoyo, TP-Link broadband router, a black keyboard and an optical mouse... All for myself... Well, sorta. And cheapskate that I am, they're all bargains. The yoyo's second-hand from Paolo M. He somehow didn't connect with the yoyo. I did, and I'm going to use it for my upcoming yoyo demos. It's a clear plastic yoyo with metal rims for longer spin time.  Dunno why I'm turning webtechie for the past few months, so I somehow ended up with the other items on the pic. The TP-Link (looks like a D-Link and Linksys rip-off) router allows me to share the net connection with my sister's laptop on the second floor (yup, it's allowed in Smart Bro). It's about PhP1,900 at Compex (Greenhills). The wireless model's about PhP2,800. I have always wanted a black keyboard and optical mouse. The mouse is only PhP180 from CDR King (Greenhills), and it's so cool when it lights up.
    Also, I watched Mel Magno's Oedipus the King at Amazing Philippine Theater, CCP Complex under Se7enth Stage last Sunday morning. Mel is Mom's theater business partner, and we may be having a production soon.
    So that's it. I don't know what will happen today since the day's still early. But I think everything will be alright. Everything will be fine. It always ends up like that. :D

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