DIY Gift

• Buy canvass & acrylic
• From bed, jump on this piece and work on your project
• Don’t eat your breakfast
• Spend one and half hours
• Slap the acrylics, the black white red and yellow
• And somehow, hope something “edible” will come up
• Frame it and present your artwork to your loved one
• Congratulations, now you save P2000.00. Less P500, cost of canvass, acrylic and frame, you’ll have P1500.00
• That P1500 you can use to buy furniture then.

Dad I AM

Yahoo!

Happy Birthday!

Conti's @ Nuvali

we ate some cake

we sipped some shake

to conti's we went

quality time spent

also practice my photo shots

seventy percent of which are palpak

along came my lolo thunder

who's still quite a lover

Acrylic Painting, A Sis Gift

10 FACTS...

1. this is a gift for my sister, i made this afternoon of saturday, july 25
   
2. the canvass i bought from national bookstore is P160 per framed canvass
3. coz i dont do this stuff as often as i would want to, my first try was a mess, sayang ang P160.00
4. for the successful version, i spent 3.5 hours, for the unsuccessful version, i spent 2 hours
   
5. the toughest part to make, the lips area
6. this is not the best paint job in the world but im sure this is better than a "mango" blouse or shirt.
   
7. the photo was shot in boracay using fuji point & shoot camera, shot by my nanay
8. at the office, doing this thing, i had tabo & timba by my side to wash the paint brushes
   
9. my sister shown in the painting, she's pretending to be an expert photographer. she got same camera set as mine (canon 450 + kit + nifty fifty + 55-250 telelens)
10. because my sister loves the painting so much, she told me the P50,000 i owe her, I can forget all about it. =P
    

Matt

Another shot at using Adobe Photoshop. Another software I am trying to learn on top of myriads of software/applications that I am trying to be familiar with (like cadd, sketch-up 3d, short movie edits, etc.). The kid is Matt by the way, a godson.

Charcoal Memories

I made this charcoal baby portrait March of 2007. I gave this as birthday gift.


And, I made another baby charcoal drawing on September the 29th of 2007. I remember finishing the portrait inside 3 hours 'coz my nephew is celebrating his 8th month birthday that afternoon of 29th.




...and you'll feel getting old if in a snap (some 2 years), the babies in charcoal are now two kid-cousins, all grown up. Both not yet ready court little girls but surely quite a handle for their lola and two yayas.

2007 Family Reunion

Last January 2, while almost all are heading to their offices, we were on our way to our yearly family reunion. That's the luxury of not being employed and on a 8-5 job. I could always run anywhere I want even if it's non-holiday.

My MP3 player was busy all throughout the trip. Its small 256MB was more than enough to cover the NLEX and more. R.E.M, Greenday, Gin Blossoms, Chili Pepper, U2 tracks were on it. Along with the "You're Beautiful" track, the singer of which I can't recall now.

Nice driving along the NLEX nowadays coz the road is smooth. But why not, they are charging P150 per entry/exit. I was easily hitting 130 kph and run it up to 145kph when people on board were sleeping. The P10,000 or so header/muffler upgrade was worth it. Downside was, the ride was so loud, the engine/muffler was rumbling so loud, people in the backseat uttered, "are we in a Tora-Tora"?

We were planning to hold an 8-Ball tournament amongst cousins but the venue was one village away so the plan was dropped. We just enjoyed the games (oh well, we did not enjoy the "deal or no deal" replica game. Like only 7 souls understood what's going on with that game.) The game that got the most attention and the most laugh was the 'Pinoy Henyo'. Where, the loser will be doused by a glass of H2O. Yours truly was the Berdugo. I successfully dowsed one time when my cousin failed to get the "Datu Puti" answer. To which, he shouted, "It can't be! It's a proper noun!". He has a point.

The highlight of the day was, while we were drinking San Mig (i drowned, err, downed 5 bottles of beer and cupfull of Buko Salad), we looked back at yesteryears and discussed our misadventures, fistfights and masturbations.

Me - That I was crying while engaging someone in a fist fight

Cousin 1 - In a fight, that after being hit and dropping on a Santan plant cluster, he stood up with Santan flowers in is mouth.

Cousin 1 and Me – Famous for picking up rocks when the going gets tough and about to rumble.

Cousin 2 - That he was almost beaten to death by two guys right at a lobby of his condo. A long ten minutes of a one-sided rumble.

Cousin 3 - That he begged off to fight the fellow who slapped him at his nape. Reasoning, that he didn't sleep well the night before.

Cousin 4 (brother of cousin 3) - When asked to fight for his brother's behalf, he said, that his body is more suited for romance.

Cousin 5 – After the Videoke singing was done and everybody just having chit-chats, my cousin blatantly said, (talking to me and every body listening)… So you are not masturbating anymore? (this, after learning that I brought my GF on my last trip there) WTF!

After singing Rivermaya's Bring Me Down in 2005 edition of the Family Reunion, I picked Julio Iglesia's "To All The Girls I loved Before" as my one and only performance of the day. How good was my singing? No one noticed that I even took the Videoke floor.

I am P4000 poorer because of the trip (gas, gifts, aguinaldos, etc.) but it was worth it.

Can't buy me fun.