My cousin Isabella is a sweet kid from New Jersey. Despite being 10 already, I always seem to picture her as that little toddler forever being pushed in a stroller. So you can imagine how surprised I was when her dad, Uncle Dean sent this email attachment out to the whole family ( Read more... )

manila is an oven.

  Paranaque People-- I want to start something! - user bealoca

"I like to travel, but my real love is staying home in my garden and exploring the empty lots and etc. nearby.

I've lived in Paranaque my whole life (except for a brief period that I don't remember, before I had full consciousness as a person). Over the years, I've come to understand it.

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Guys, instead of buying wrapping paper that's just going to be torn up, why not use newspaper or pages of old magazines forgotten in your bodegas to wrap your gifts this year? At least for the ones meant for your close family members? So much waste every year! Oh and don't rip open those presents.. peel off the tape caaarrefully and reuse those ( Read more... )

First Academy is working me to the bone! It's been fun taking up digital arts, and now I can say with confidence, I'm a certified Photoshopper. I got the highest grades with In Design (magazine lay-outs) but I've found my Waterloo with Flash~ it's just so tedious!
Anyway, here's a sample of one of my works from my Character Illustration class.

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I got a free t-shirt and a certificate that reads:

"CERTIFICATE OF BORDERLINE INSANITY
On this glorious day on a tropical island
A M A N D A L A P U S
Has finally come of age, claiming this rite of passage.
Some may state that the aforementioned would cower at such a feat,
but on this day of Sunday August 12 of 2007
We bear winess that INSANITY ( Read more... )

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I'm not working right now. I'm studying, taking up digital arts in a school in Makati and so far, it's been good. Corporate life, as brief as it was, was not for me ( Read more... )

Come one, come all ( Read more... )