support filipino cg artist ron sapinoso

I received an e-mail message from Ron Sapinoso, a CG artist who, I believe, could potentially bring great pride to the Filipinos by his marvelous works in the animation industry.

Please click on the link to support our "kababayan." Artists like Ron is a proof that we, Filipinos, are truly talented and the possibilities of making the world aware of such potential are endless.

I have embedded the video below for everyone's convenience. Leave a nice comment on his page and give his video a high rating. His work is really worth it.

Link: http://www.aniboom.com/video/284194/connect-ed/



Also, visit Aniboom.com to view his profile and watch other 3d movies this great Filipino CG artist has made.

(or click on this link: http://www.aniboom.com/boomzones/ronsapinoso)

Cmon, watch the video and click on the links above and become an advocate for the great Filipino talent!

lessons i have forgotten

Thanks a lot for your blog post, Fer. Below is an excerpt from her post on
October 28, 2008. Makabagbag-damdamin.

Pero nalaman kong hindi pala ganun. Minsan, when you have given all the things that you can give them, dun mo lang mare-realize na parang may kulang. Pagkatapos mong pagsilbihan lahat ng tao sa paligid mo, pagkatapos mo silang pasayahin, you’ll realize na may isang tao ka palang nakalimutang pasayahin — ang sarili mo.

Nalaman ko na you don’t always have to depend on other people. Kasi it’s like a gamble when you depend your happiness on them. Pwede nilang ibigay yun, pwede ring hindi. Nakahanda ka ba kung sakaling hindi? Somewhere along the way, you’ll realize that they will be needing other people aside from you to satisfy their needs. At ikaw, kapag wala ka nang ibang inasahan kundi sila lang, maiiwan ka. And eventually, you’ll feel like a loner.

Happiness, I guess, is a state of mind. It can be obtained not from other people, but from your own self. The first thing is for you to love yourself. Because you can never expect other people to do that for you. One of the greatest lessons that I’ve learned from life is this: learn how to value yourself, coz if you don’t, no one will.

Though we have people around us who always tell us that they love and value us, at some point, they will fail to let them feel that. If that happens, the only thing that will remain to us is the love that we have for ourselves.

Para maging masaya ka, umasa ka lang sa sarili mo. Kasi ipagkait man sayo yan ng buong mundo, kapag meron ka nyan sa puso mo, hinding-hindi yan maaalis ng kahit sino. I know I don’t love myself that much. But I know that life is a process. I know it’s not that easy, but I know I can always start. =)

~ by vingt-huit on October 28, 2008.

I learned from our professor in our journalism class when he quoted the great Walter Cronkite (I think), "History doesn't repeat itself. It rhymes." Indeed, Professor Sillcock, and people have the tendency to travel along the same stream or current or flow of mistakes they did in the past.

And it's one of those lessons I had a strong hold of, before you came. Now I've forgotten them altogether, but I will learn them again. I just hope I could start soon before the rhyme catches up to me again.

worst Lss so far

I was watching the news and they had this feature story about a house made out of cookies and a familiar song was playing on the background. Ever since then the song is stuck on my head and you could just imagine how I need to get it out. This LSS is really killing me. Ghad. So, why not share it with everyone else? Maybe that will give me some relief. (Or maybe this song will get stuck in your heads as well and you'll join me in my misery. Haha.)

slip of the tongue

I wasn't aware of this Youtube video till I stumbled upon it looking for something. Maybe everyone had seen it except for me.

This is a slick video on a poem written and performed by Adriel Luis entitled, "Slip of the Tongue." It tackles race and ethnicity. If you haven't seen it, see the video below and forward the link to your friends. It's worth seeing.

to the tune of "no air"

When I saw this segment in ASAP '08 two weeks ago, I can't help but remember a particular dance in an episode of "So You Think You Can Dance."

I am really not an avid fan of "So You Think..." and at first I even thought that it was just a simple American Idol-style contest that you have dancing instead of singing in the center of it all. You will gather up all of these amateur dancers and they'll dance and you'll vote them to stay and whoever ends up the last wins. However, when I saw the semi-finals show I was just amazed at the choreography (not all of them, but most are truly exquisite especially the contemporary pieces) as well as the contestants. I don't know if it's just the frustrated dancer inside me who's talking here (Yes, I am a frustrated dancer and I would like to take dancing classes someday to shut it up :p). The dancers in this contest really can dance, and they can knock everyone out.

Anyway, so again I saw this segment in ASAP '08 featuring Sarah Geronimo and Rayver Cruz (Filipino celebrities), which made me want to look up for that video again from the "So You Think..." show. Let's see, who do you think made a better dance interpretation of the song "No Air?" Is it Sarah/Rayver or Katee/Joshua?

**Okay, I would like to think that they are just dead even in the choreography since Sarah and Rayver are not really full-pledged dancers, but of course there's no doubt they can dance very well. Katee and Joshua, on the other hand, well, you'll just have to watch the video and see what they are capable of.

Sarah and Rayver (ASAP '08)



Katee and Joshua (So You Think You Can Dance?)

yes we can

If elections were like TV shows analyzing their episodes with the highest rating, I bet this particular election is in the top 3.

I wasn't able to vote during this election since I am not allowed to (I'll get deported if I did! Haha!). And I was kinda devastated since this is the kind of election where if I had the chance to vote, I know that I am not merely voting the "least likely candidate to ruin everyone" unlike the past years.

Yes we can. And when we say it, we must mean it but most importantly, do something about it.