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The magic of imagery.

I’ve been told time and time again that if you want people to notice you, you need to stand out. My best friend told me before that images really help in drawing readers. I lack that. Severely. Thus, I will start by having one image. I snagged this one from I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? and I found it pretty cute and amusing. Plus, it’s related to my course!

It’s cute, isn’t it?

The magic of imagery.

Towards the Sky

I’m just going to blog on more about Azure Skies. Haha! Well, I managed to get some parts of the roleplay up. If you will, please give it a read as the link is somewhere to the right side of your screen. There are only three pages so far but I will continue to update that whenever I get the time to transliterate the original scripts that I archived. It can be a bit tiresome because of the cliché conflict of rewriting it without losing its ’soul’. Rewriting it is inevitable since not everyone who joined had the best writing style, grammar, etc. I’m not saying that I’m all that good. But I am trying to maintain a certain level of consistency throughout the story.

But it is something I want to do badly seeing as it is one of the best pieces of collaborative literature I’ve ever participated in. It’s something I’m really excited about. So I hope that I can share the excitement with all the people reading this, too. I’d also appreciate it if people would comment, too.

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Honor thy father

It’s been a while since Father’s Day. I wanted to make a post about it but I faced some inconveniencies. The holiday wasn’t really all that special. The fact of the matter was, it never really meant much to me at all. I grew up without a father figure. Adopted at a very young age and was raised by a female-dominated household, I just never got around to recognizing anyone as ‘dad’. I don’t think I ever will. I’m not being bitter, okay? I just can’t imagine myself calling anyone ’dad’ any time soon.

Moving on, I read an article on the paper about a guy who just became a father. He wrote that it was not so long ago that he barely came from a Lord of the Rings toy collectibles phase. Now, he was going to become a father. His hard-earned collection would eventually become but teething tools for his prized child. His mind, heart and soul would become focused on that little bundle of joy.

I’d normally just pass this off as another article on the paper. This time however, it was a bit different. No, I am not going to be a father soon. Not by a long shot. But someone in my large family who is around my age is going to become a father soon. I was a bit surprised but at the same time, I kinda expected he would be a father before I would. I just didn’t expect that it would be this soon.

Then came the question: What about me? I don’t really expect to be one soon but it made me wonder what the hell was I going to do when the time comes that I would be a father myself. I had absolutely no idea what having a dad was like so how was I to know what being one was all about? Do I just mimic what the stereotypical fathers do on the media? Or perhaps I should just try to experiment with my own strategies?

I’m just curious. Sometimes too curious. Being a parent is something that I always hear as something wondrous and heartwarming. I just hope that I can become the kind of father that I wanted for myself.

On the job

Squash Canton Noodles. Farmers. Agrarian Reform. It’s not all very exciting, is it? But it will be something I will be concerned about in the next three months. I am having my OJT at the Philippine Department of Agrarian Reform – Bureau of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development. Yep, in the office right now. Haha! I’ll post something meaningful next time. I promise.

Remembering the skies

A mild-mannered intern at a fashion magazine. A stoic part-time photographer. A reformed delinquent. An heir to a multi-national company. A broody gamer. A bratty high school girl. These are only some of the characters contained in the forum roleplay ‘Azure Skies’. I have high hopes of being able to post it up here.

Now why am I suddenly blogging about Azure Skies? No, I’m not bragging. Although I have to say that I am damn proud of how the story turned out. Yes, it was cheesy and all but hey, it was a romance roleplay. For reference sake, it was the first of its kind back in the old days of roleplaying in the GSG clan forum. The trend was adventure roleplaying and the sorts during the day and then came the idea from Nicole to start a romance RP. It was something that had a high probability of failure if it didn’t start right. But if there was anyone who could, it was the GSG Ultimate Roleplay Duo (Me and Nicole)!

Okay, so I kinda bragged already. Haha! Forgive me. I was carried away by the moment. But I was just remembering the story and how each of the characters developed. Honestly, I grew attached to them and I can’t say that I’ve gotten tired of them at all. Sure some are more memorable than others but it’s really unavoidable. I really hope that I can put up the full Azure Skies here so I can share the excitement.

Cinderella Kou

I know it may be uninteresting for many people who might read this but yes, this post is going to start with Audition. My first time in acquiring items via EP. I realize that the actual price for items to stay permanent is ridiculously high. I mean, 150EP( 1EP = PhP1 ) for perma hair change? Wow, my pockets can’t handle that kind of… luxury. However, I was impulsive today and well, I couldn’t help myself and splurged a bit for my character. No, I didn’t acquire the 150EP hair. I got a full outfit that would last me a week and the messenger to last a month. Total of about 93EP. For one week, my character ( Kou ) will be dressed very well. It’s quite amusing that his current outfit looks like a revamped version of his original outfit.

I wish I could show you all screenshots but I don’t have any. I play at shops and I can’t really avail of screenshots. Anyway, it’s surprising what a change of attire can do though. I was playing in a club dance and it was surprising that during the final selection of partners, I was the choice of the three girls during that dance. That pretty much adds to the feel of being a ‘cinderella’. Is image really all that important? I was even asked to be added up on Friendster by one of them. It’s amusing really. A little make-over can do wonders even in the virtual realm.

Anyway, it’s going to be a wee bit more amusing to play Audition these days. I look forward to dancing on the moonlit dance floor until the stroke of midnight.

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Questions

Have you ever been betrayed? Not in the most obvious kind though. In the sense that you feel that there was something or someone you believed in but it turns out that the trust was misplaced? Trust is now the topic I would like to dabble on. As usual, my approach to this will be ‘write as I think about it’. So in short, I may or may not come up with new insights as I write this. Good luck to me!

Betrayal and trust has been quite the topic of numerous stories and whatnot. It’s also a naturally occurring phenomenon.  We trust, we get betrayed, we trust, we get betrayed or not. So when exactly do we trust people? And what affects this trust? Why do we trust people? How about people with trust issues? How come some people are more inclined to forgive a betrayal while others are not?

These are questions that can only be answered individually because the answer would vary from person to person. So is this trust then a matter of preference? Is there a way to earn trust without a knowing a person very well? Can I trust you if I opted to reveal a secret of mine?

So many questions. And not a single answer.

I think this post was not very productive.

Not at all.

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TriNoma

The new mall constructed by Ayala in front of SM North EDSA. It’s not really finished but it’s actually open and provides decent amount of shops. Gon wanted to go and eventually the ones who went were the 3 Sison brothers, Kuya PJ and Tita Cherry. It was pretty fun. We explored the area and obviously, it resembled Glorietta in a number of ways since they’re both Ayala Malls. Along the way, I found out Gemma was over at the mall, too. We eventually ran into each other and went along on our merry ways.

We didn’t really have much time to talk or anything because we were both with a bunch of people. It was funny that we were sending each other SMS messages to each other about where we were. It’s too bad that I wasn’t able to check out the garden at night. We stopped by the place when there was still a lot of daylight.

I saw a neat gundam kit over at Toys ‘r’ Us. It was a SD Verde Buster Gundam! So cute! Plus, it was just PhP500! I am so going to buy that thing eventually. Since TriNoma is just a train away, I can run over and buy it one of these days. Probably after I get my next allowance. I’m not exactly a huge Gundam fan but I just happen to like the design of the Buster Gundam models from the Gundam Seed series.

Just chronicled my little adventure at the newly opened mall. I hope no one minds my little rave. There were so many people there despite the fact it wasn’t fully opened.

For a more critical view of the new mall, the place itself was okay. Well ventilated and still clean. The layout of the mall was pretty convenient and it wouldn’t really get you lost much. The parking area was horrible. Traveling there with a car is going to be very difficult once the place opens up completely.

I hope to have future adventures there in the future. Included would be to hopefully bring a girl I like to the garden for a romantic dinner under the moonlight.

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Audition Raves

Oh joy, oh rapture! This WordPress actually makes blogging fun for me again. Although, yes, it’s very user friendly, that’s actually something that makes it worthwhile. Plus, the CSS doesn’t seem too difficult to understand either. I probably just need to get more time to study it. I think I’ll need that Firefox plug-in that lets me dissect the CSS labels of the site as I see it. If only I could remember what plug-in that was exactly.

 

Anyway, for miscellaneous matters, I’ve been getting hooked on the online game called ‘Audition’ which is basically ‘Bust-a-Groove’ but much cuter and… Korean. No, I don’t really hold a grudge against Koreans. In fact, I happen to like a number of things that came from them. I just find it rather odd that there’s a very large influx of them in the recent years. It’s almost like an invasion. My firsthand experience with so many of them was when I was at Baguio some weeks ago. We took a trip to SM Baguio and boy were there plenty to see.

 

Back to Audition, I’m currently at a mere level 6. My avatar is barely customized with the ridiculously high priced items in the shop and minimal earnings from each game (I get a rough 100 den per match and the neat items cost about 10,000 den or more!), I have a long way to go before I get a nice looking one. Although I could always use EP to get some good items, but my current budget probably says otherwise.

 

Gee whiz, this is a pretty long blog post I have. I say this because I haven’t really blogged in a while and I do believe that this energy may be short-lived. I’m usually like this. Bursts of energy then it suddenly just fizzles out. Hopefully, this will be different. I shall make no promises. But this is pretty fun, really. The features of this place might actually be enough to keep me going though.

 

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Renewed Life

This is a pretty nifty place. I kinda life the design more than some other places. I’m just kinda concerned for the amount of customization I can actually get out of this place. But hey, it’s a start so I’ll just start feeling how this works and I’m sure I’ll be able to master its controls. I just hope that I still have what it takes to run this new fangled blogamajig.

I have a great idea! I’ll turn this into my literary journal! Since an idea of getting my normal thoughts on the web is getting pretty tiresome, I’ll just use this place as a means of getting my story into gear! Now this technicolor monochrome might start getting a little bit of real color.