I am Moving....

I am moving and posting newer, but still crappy stuff at The Pencil Pushing Area for now and for all those still interested do check it out. There's not much posted, not yet, its a start. Something new to tinker with. I was always interested in using wordpress to power my blog and finally I get to do it there. So thanks for all the fish and see you there. :)

For archival and sentimental purposes I am not going to delete this blog, its better that way I think.

Hellfest 5 gig

Just want to shamelessly plug yet again a gig to be held (yet again! is there an echo here?) at the Boss Grill @ Mango Ave, Cebu this coming March 14, 2009 . My lousy band will (yet again, sheeesh!the band : AGNAS, we are a deathmetal cover band)be taking part again hopefully, if all goes well and we get to actually jam and practice again, last time I checked was from the last gig we did a month ag0. Check out the poster (I was asked again to do the poster so as with the other 3 gigs that came to past even if I sucked at doing it, FYI hehehe) for more details and stuff:

Outlet Humor pt.1

Had this one posted up at Twitpic (ah, the latest craze) like Twitter wasn’t enough for some people. I’ve been meaning to post this one and finally got the chance when I happen to drop by the office restroom today with my camera-enabled cellfone in hand and clicked away at this fairly unobtrusive little outlet situated right above one of the toilets and every time when I happen to use the john I always come across this one and it always never failed to amuse me. The outlet kinda looks like two shocked faced individuals don’t you think?

Sadly...

Sadly...I have been neglecting this blog for quite some time now and it doesn't mean that I have nothing to post also. It has been a year since I kept this blog and much have I learned about blogging. In fact, I've been active mostly now on my work-in-progress art journal The Pencil Pushing Area which I feel more inclined to update because as of the moment I'm into my drawing itch again and it has been almost like 10 years since I was crazy about drawing/sketching comic book characters and the like and I'm riding on to it for now. As far as I can assess, I'm not really good at posting interesting topics and as much as I wanted to say what's on my mind (and I've got a lot of interesting things running round me head) I just can't organize and put them thoughts on digital paper and make this blog more interesting with interesting post. But all in all, I am not closing this blog, mind you. More of a sabbatical and maybe, just maybe I'd find the spark or spank that I need to get these gears going. So, that's it people, if anyone's interested still, look for me on the left hand sidebar and have a click at it. Maybe I updated some things elsewhere...I'll be back!

All I want for Christmas...

We passed by this weird toy at some local store here the other day and I quickly made a video of it via my cellphone. Its really hilarious and a weird toy at the same time. Laughed my a$$ out watching it rock its head and do the dance, it really grabbed everyones attention there. Makes me want one for christmas just for kicks..hehehe... 

The Great Whilce Portacio's message to Pinoy Komikeros

I've always been and always will be a comicbook fanboy and this video blog for the coming Manila Comicon produced by Azrael of a video interview with the great Whilce Portacio, one of the founders of Image Comics in the States and an awesome artist to boot is just so inspiring that I just wanna spread the word and link to this blog (thanx to komikero John also), nuff said...here you go:

Random Thoughts-Scene 1

Imagine yourself sitting comfortably somewhere private, remote and nature laden like an oceanic view. The soft glare of the early morning sun warming your skin and the gently, intoxicating sea breeze sweeping all around you like an after thought. Now you are staring into the vastness of the ocean and instantly feel minute and insignificant to the world around you and the feeling of discordance and meaningless comes to mind as you keep on staring. Amidst all this you come to a glaring conclusion that no matter how insignificant you may be, you are in awe of the life and the world around you and no matter what the cost you must have the will to carry on and see what the future holds for you when you snap back into civilization. Remember that you are far away from the bustling city life. The urban jungle is but a memory now. You are almost in trance, save that you still feel the comfort of you sitting somewhere remote and alone with some drink in hand, preferrably a can of ice cold beer. Then reality kicks in... Imagine an ugly boot forever stomping on your head on the pavement of the future.

The Week in a bun

I have'nt been idling really for this past week, the usual suspects such as work and personal stuff that needed to be done all added up to my time as usual and made me not have some time to post something. Anyways, that doesn't sound like a good reason for the absence of post here. Nuff said.

During those times, other than the usual, me and my wife last Friday went on an island hopping trip via Alona, Bohol. Sorta like a romantic get up and stuff courtesy of my attorney bro as a gift of sorts. We went dolphin watching and Balicasag fish sanctuary snorkeling. We stayed at some resort which was way out of our price range and we have to find some reasonably priced place to eat out, luckily there were some but still steeply, however. The fish sanctuary I think was the highly of all the trips, unfortunately we were unable to do underwater photo shots with our meager camera. It was like swimming inside a huge marine aquarium. Lots of thriving colorful fishes in them coral communities. I even got the chance to feed them which was awesomer, them fishes nibbling at me hands. Dolphin watching was kinda like hide-and-seek though but lucky for us we had many moments where them elusive dolphin pack (are dolphins in a collective called packs?)would show their fins or even glide near our boat. It was a relaxing and unique experience for us city dwellers.

The Thursday before that me and a friend of mine recorded at the House of Indies recording studio(@ Mango Avenue, Cebu)a couple of industrial laden songs that were originally composed and released ages ago by the infamous Sodom and the Gahd Machine, a local avant garde-industrial laden progenitors of the Cebu local scene. It was our rendition their songs, "Then You'll Die" and "Christianity Syndrome". A tribute to the progenitors of this brand of music, Industrial Metal (from Wikipedia: a musical genre that draws from industrial music and heavy metal. It is usually centered around repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals.Founding industrial metal groups include Ministry,Godflesh,and KMFDM)). An homage even. We haven't got a name to our outfit yet so I can't download the songs here or on Myspace music just yet, maybe these coming days when we finalize things, planning on making an E.P. as soon as we record some original material which my friend will be cooking up. I am actually just a hired hand, my friend, we'll all just call him ECPFlesh for reasons undisclosed just yet, does everything else except for the bass parts which is what I'm asked to do. It was his idea in the first place. I have my own industrial laden tunes but are put on hold as usual, uhmmm..heheh...nuff said.

Thrash Metal Rules!!!! \m/

Took this quiz...it was fun...its almost accurate...cool.

You Scored as Thrash Metalist Thrash metalist, you like thrash as much as anything else. Thrash Metalist 53% Death Metalist 48% Heavy Metal/Old School 48% Black Metalist 47% Progressive Metalist 45% Power Metalist 40% Funeral Doom Metalist 38% Non-Metal 33%

The Anime in me

I've recently got the anime fever again much to my dismay. I've admired them since I was hooked with the Voltes 5 mania in the 80's when me and the other snot driven neighbor kids would watch the episodes on RPN9 on a lazy afternoon (?!) and sing to our hearts amusement on cue to the japanese theme song to god knows what they really meant. Since then I was hooked on anime and cartoons in general and geez I'm in my early 30's now and still watch them with gusto. From Hayao Miyazaki's master works to the anime series that come and go as the years went by like dragon ball, samurai x, ghost in a shell, gundam wing and recently naruto and bleach. I'm currently finishing off the Gundam X series (6 more episodes to go, wahooo) and I really like it so far. I'm eagerly awaiting on Gundam Seed Destiny which I both have on DVD. Makes me wanna start again on having them Gunpla's (Gundam Modeling Kit)----geeky me!, I used to have one and tried constructing the kit, it was a gundam gp03 1/144 model if i recall correctly. I gave it to friend after I was finish constructing it. Anyways, anime fever is up and fueling the child within me.

Im Not that Evil...goshdarnit!

You Are 36% Evil

A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil.

How Evil Are You?

I'm back...I think!?

I'm back. Its been awhile since I've updated this blog. I'm now part of the got hitched crowd and it has been 9 days since. Everything was 50% according to plan thanx to our  dumb coordinator who acted like he knew what he's doing, fooled us.geez. Well, of all the wedding stories and advices I've heard from recently, it all went out as expected and terrible in some way or form. But atleast its finally over and done with. The important thing is now I'm a married dude and as everyone will soon expect me to be responsible and steer the course of my life and all that sh@#. Another chapter closes and another is starting to get written and all that crap. hehehe. Part of me not updating this blog was because of this and when I got back last Tuesday I was dead tired and spaced out (!?) and work was waiting for me like a bad MF. Now I'm just taking a cruise ride at the back seat and looking at my, or shall I say both of our future outside the dashboard of a dark and fast world, kinda like looking at gotham city by gaslight...updates will be posted soon, no pics yet...nuff said...     

Single Blessedness Countdown

Hey, been awhile. Right. Usual suspects. I've been pretty closed mouth on me getting hitched 21 days from now. Mixed feelings all over. One moment, excited, then dread and the things in between. Me and my to be partner for life did all the preparations almost single handedly. From the documentations, seminars, venue bookings, give aways and invitations, we did it all from the ground up and all of these things will culminate not from where we are residing now but from my GF's hometown as tradition dictates. Its quite a learning experience and rewarding, I guess. But it stressed the hell out of the both of us and the clock ticks louder by the day and as stated, 21 days from today the chapter (kinda like chapter 1) of our single lives will end and another chapter (kinda like chapter 2 as we will be treading life together) would begin anew from the glorious (tormenting, I hope not) ashes, metaphorically. I don't know what I am muttering about anyways. Well, I formally let the countdown begin tomorrow and geez, I even am losing sleep over things nowadays. Stress, my dear old friend, frequents me. As they say, nothing goes according to plan, but hope that everything would somehow come out right. I'll keep my fingers cross.

Finally Home

Finally, just got my copy via mail of the Watchmen graphic novel along with Batman: The Long Halloween from Comic Odyssey-Robinsons. It surely made my day. Can't wait to really read come this weekend.

Its been a long wait, for the Watchmen that is, I ordered one from KitchenSink Press (stateside) way back 2001 with some other stuff from Wally Wood that I never got hold off even if I already paid for it with the help of a friend's credit card which I saw the billing statement and all and I even emailed them about the status of my order and said that it was already been shipped to the Philippines. After reading stuff on the net and on some magazines about all the hype that this book took, I was pretty interested by it years before and really took the time to order one. Yup, I even downloaded a copy of it digitally together with some other comics but nothing really beats the real thing, paper, color, print and all. Nothing like having the real stuff to hold and feel. Its special, its part of your collection. Its hard earned s@#$ and not some digitized version of it thats just good for a back up file.

Days went by and gradually evolved to weeks and then to years and no sign of the package ever coming home to me. I was really pissed off by the local Postal Office then and I have little or no trust to them now. The guy I spoke with then said that my package maybe stacked somewhere with a ton of others awaiting for some government honcho ready to inspect them all and I don't know why won't they just deliver the damn things to the recipients in the first place and let them stack up and rot waiting for some honcho to sign up the release form, geeeez. Now I know better, I think. It never occured to me back then to just order it from some comic book specialty store like Comic Odyssey. Well, its been almost 7 years and finally I got one just in time before the movie comes out next year. Oh, happy, happy, happy.Joy, joy, joy.

Attacked by the Dreaded Bugs

Im really pissed off this past week because of one recurring house problem: BUG INFESTATION!!!. 

I really thought we already rid of ourselves of these pest months before. Kissing Bugs or Assassin Bugs are a pain in the butt or pain in any part of the body for that matter. I don't know where they come from, they just attacked my sister's bedroom. She got an allergic reaction to its bite like swelling on the affected part to a point that she can't even move her arm. At first we thought it was just cockroach bites but we found this weird looking creature under her bed which I whacked with my slippers on instinct and then came splat!! Blood and guts of the thing spread out on the floor and I realized that it wasn't its blood but blood meal. F@#$ gross. I googled any info I could get about these critters and found out that they were the one's responsible for my sisters' agony and we immediately made sure to track and kill every last one we could find by insecticide and death by slipper whack. That was before and now they've comeback somehow and from who knows what origin and the funny thing is that my sister is long gone to some foreign land and her bedroom is empty and you know what, the f@#$ decided to infest my measly bedroom now. The moment I began to have welts and bite marks, dread finally caught up with me and only one critter responsible came up to my mind, the freaking Assassin Bugs are back with a vengeance. Paranoid that I was, I immediately checked under my bed and what do you know, the f@##s were there hiding, bloated and hiding for crying out loud! Caught and killed seven! geeez, seven of them in less than a damn week. Everytime I sleep I get paranoid that somehow I know that they are waiting patiently in cracks and crevices awaiting my deep slumber for them to attack and suck the life outta me! From what I have googled, they are a deadly pest to some parts of the Americas and carry deadly diseases. So far, nothing came up on articles about them in the Philippines though. Maybe one of you has a damn solution about this and help me get rid of them shits altogether. I periodically check under the bed now and shit.  

MySpace Music

Wow, how cool is that?! I've decided and finally accepted the potentials of MySpace for my band. Almost all of my friends who happen to have bands have a MySpace Music accounts and so I was tempted to give it a view and all I can say is that its way cooler than Friendster (I rarely visit my Friendster accounts, sometimes its just out of habit to check it once or twice in a week) and its really tailored for the bands be it international, local, indie, unreleased or bigwig metalgods. I have had a MySpace account before, way back before Friendster but got bored with it. Now I'm viewing it with renewed interest. Hope I can update it from time to time though if theres band related events and such, aside from updating this blog and my Multiply, geez, I think I've got my hands full now. A place where bands can really connect and stuff.  You can even download our song from there. RakenRol!!! I've updated this blogs sidebar so you can click and have a visit there if you'd like or just click here.

The La Parola

Hey, its been a while (yeah, what else is new!). Today we had an oppurtulity to do a little on site pre-nup photoshoot with me and my gurl here with the help of the expertise of iStudio Photo Services (all the way from Valencia, Bukidnon). Don't get me wrong here but I'm not the dramatic romantic dweeb effect kinda guy with me having a metal band and all and donning black shirts all the time and mostly favor the darker side of life (heheheh), I did this at my partners persistent request and much to my amazement, I yielded to her whims. Actually, just between you and me, its always 99% of the time, shhhhhhh. What the hey, its always a first time for anything, right?!. We did it hastily at La Parola, Liloan, Cebu based on a friends suggestion to do it there because of the unique view plus I like lighthouses. It was all in all a first hand experience doing all the drama of doing a little photoshoot. Here's a quick pick of the La Parola and by the way, it is taken from my meager point and shoot camera that I happen to have at the moment and not the expensive and elaborate ones' that the iStudio team was using during the event. Mebe I'll post the ones' they did when I get hold of the file copy. Soon enuf.

The Watchmen is Coming

I am also excited when a movie adaptation of a comicbook series or character comes along like them Batman, Xmen, Spiderman and Hulk franchises and some one shots like 300 and V for Vendeta or the Crow even. And from watching this Watchmen trailer awhile ago it gave me goosebumps all over. Wow, so true to the comic book and so cool was it even this early on I can say that it will be a winner. Im looking forward to it, although its still on 2009, good things come to those who wait, as they say. A classic just like its original comicbook version. Hope so. Watch it and tell me what you think. If anyone one wants an ebook version of the comicbook to go read and enjoy, I can gladly pinpoint you with the appropriate download links (is this legal?!!). Hehehe...

Im Hacking Again...

Thats right, Im up to no good again. I was bored, pretty bored to the extent that I wanted to buy another Motorola to hack and modify but the voice of reason, i.e. my fiance, reminded me that I have obligations of a more pressing matter to do and that buying another phone would capsized my already meager savings. As for the one's who read my previous post, the fate of my still bricked (dead)  Motorola L7i was still bleak and am still hoping to revive it someday when I have thorough knowledge on how and the financial capabilities to do so. I was guilty of hacking and modding it to death and the repercussions are still felt. But yes I was bored, and then their's my still soft modded P1i which was still under a warranty and still has 4 months to go till it expires which made me apprehensive to hack and mod its file system and which eventually, I did a hack what I have always wanted to do since I bought the phone and reading from SE-NSE and IPMart Forums (their forums for the hacking mobile community, specially to Sony Ericsson Users) and Sony Ericsson blogs here and there. So far, I have only done some soft modding to it, like changing the CDA to Generic World 1 so that I can make the SEUS Update my phone to the latest software or do some themes or changing the font of the phone or installing new applications, small stuff actually. And only recently, I had the courage to succesfully port the Walkman v3 player which is only available in Sony Ericsson Walkman Phones lineup which my P1i is not a part of. Its really a cool application to have. Makes me wanna ditch my Ipod. heheh. Ive also ported updated versions of QuickOffice and PDF+ and the Torch application which is originally from the newer Sony Ericsson G900 and did change some of the Menu Icons . All in all, my interest is reinvigorated. If someone is interested on how I did these things (thanks to supermodder SWMail and other active modders in the UIQ community for sharing the files and the know hows) just email me and I'll provide you with the links. I'm a UIQ3 and Motorola hacking fanboy, I can't help it. hmmmm.

Article: Blood Mutants

Just want to share the link to this very informative blogpost by Sunstar Columnist Insoymada, one of my favorite columnist, click here and read the article and help spread the er, uhmm, love?!.