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I gotta hand it over to Mark and Jas, they did a great job pulling off their wedding today. It was really a very inspiring experience and I wish I had the money … err… the readiness to tie the knot as splendid as this one.

Mark and Jas had a well executed wedding. I can safely say that it was almost perfect (since nothing is really perfect ehehe), and it was all worth it. We had a fun time with old friends especially while eating good food. Though I really didn’t like the bland taste of the catering service’s Carbonara. But the lechon de leche was swabe, it got me dizzy but it was swabe. Also, the desert section kicked ass, I was able to make my own Banana Split ala Jologs.

Overall the wedding was great, but there were 2 names that got my attention:

Threelogy Video

I was really amazed at how quick they were able to edit an HD wedding video in a span of like, an hour or so? (basing on the footage taken on the exact same day.) When  I got home I took a quick glance at the site and got surprised to see a whopping  Php120,000 rate on a 25 minute HD video coverage with 3 high end Sony HD camcorders! It was quite expensive but judging from the quality of their output… it was worth it and damn! they are good! check them out, click this link

I have an HD camcorder myself, a Sony HDR-CX100 and I was amazed on how good their video turned out. So now, I have some new items listed on my to-do list:

1. Study how they manage to edit huge HD videos so freaking easy! When I try it on my Clio2(my 2.66 core 2 duo PC with 4gb memory and 256mb videocard), it was a bit slow to process previews and sometimes playback was very chappy. I was able to fix it issues using Pinnacle Studio 11 but still, I doubt that I could edit THAT fast…

2. Research on how I can maximize my HD cam to full potential.

3. Do some market research on how profitable video coverage/editing services are. Damn! these guys are so good, I want to try to do what they do… which basically is the reason why I bought my camcorder.

Pose N’ Print

I find their business innovative, like most Videoke’s nowadays that are available for rent, these guys turned their improvised high end digital photo booth  (not to mention with 2 high quality printers for faster photo printing) into something really interesting. Whats good is that, the well assisted service is good for unlimited photo prints for all guests! with online upload of photos taken. Mark and Jas probably took the 4 hour photo booth service priced at Php 14,500, which, in my opinion, is another well invested alternative for wedding souvenirs.

So far, this is one of the best weddings I’ve attended to. Thank you so much Mark and Jas for inviting me, though sadly Richmon wasn’t able to attend, but it was a blast nonetheless. Best wishes to you both and happy honeymooning. eheh. Humayo kayo at magparami!

Credits to Jhomar “Mao” Antonio for the great image above.

I took a visit at my old DeviantART account this morning and found out that it was supposed to be my 6th year today. January 7, 2010. sheesh! and my last loggin was almost 5 YEARS AGO! damn… 5 years….

I miss the old days of Deviant ART where you get to post your artworks and immediately someone from somewhere would hit you a comment. Could be a random guy seeing random posts of random people or someone having you on their watch list. It was in fact, very rewarding to see someone appreciate your work and even “fav”s it to display on their page. Some would also provide you constructive criticism and tell you flat out where you’ve gone wrong. It was really a very inspiring community, below is a copy of my stat (sadly I was inactive for 5 years).

LASZIO has 4,947 pageviews total and his 53 deviations were viewed 12,426 times. He watches 67 people, while 93 people watch him.

Overall, his deviations received 564 comments and were added to deviants’ favourites 158 times, while he commented 649 times, making about 0.84 comments per day since he joined DA. This means that he gave 12 comments for every 10 that he received.

His deviation with the most comments is Prismatic Orb Issue 2 cover with 28 comments, while his most favourited one is trauma center: blood test, with 25 favourites. His most viewed deviation is trauma center: blood test with 2,971 views.

3 favourites were given for every 10 comments.

Every 14.5 days he uploads a new deviation, and it’s usually on a Wednesday, with 11 (21%) of his deviations.

His busiest month was January 2004 with 15 (28%) of his deviations.

The majority of his deviations are uploaded to the digitalart gallery (19), while his favourite category was digital > drawings with 14 deviations.

Comments per deviation: 10
Favourites per deviation: 2.98
Views per deviation: 234
Comments per day: 0.73
Favourites per day: 0.2
Views per day: 16
Pageviews per day: 6.42

Come visit my gallery some time, I’m thinking of coming back soon… just need to get some time to do more art. eheh.

LASZIO DeviantART Gallery

Things go bad when you lose focus…

Pepper broke a tear again while we were having lunch this afternoon. Something I always feel bad to witness… “I feel so stupid, why do I always make those silly mistakes? It is as if I do not have common sense..” she said.

The thing is, my girl has always been working hard to cope up with work. The long hours of serving booze on a cigarette smoke infested bar, dealing with lonely horny foreigners who always fall prey to hungry gold digging prostitutes forcing their way in the bar, the insecure colleagues, the boring customers and of course the ridiculous overtimes… and despite the hardwork, she would always get scolded for repeating mistakes. Although there isn’t any problem with the staff where in fact she’s friends with, she would always get called to tell her she’s losing FOCUS… I do think she’s on the right track though, it just simply means she’s starting to get mature in the real adult world.

Her problem is a typical work issue for me. I myself, had encountered a lot of similar scenarios especially when I started to stay long hours and even DAYS! at the office. Stress and pressure makes you lose focus and therefore let you commit further mistakes. mistakes that would require you to work on which actually leaves you to do more work than you should actually do. and therefore becoming more stressed and more mistakes will follow. and before you know it… it would become a disaster…

I never mind the problem, since for me its common. What I worry is the fact that my girl is losing confidence.. I can feel her depression.. and if there is one thing that makes me feed bad the most, is to see tears in her eyes.

Cant help but post another random blog tonight… gotta keep myself awake! there’s still a lot of work to be done! tsktsk. but anyways, speaking of work. I realized something odd today at a quick meeting we had with my boss. He’s actually a master of Reverse Psychology!

Reverse psychology is a persuasion technique involving the false advocacy of a belief or behavior contrary to the belief or behavior which is actually being advocated. This technique relies on the psychological phenomenon ofreactance , in which a person has a negative emotional response in reaction to being persuaded, and thus chooses the option which is being advocated against. – Wikipedia.com

among the 5 signs I remember since my employment is that, when we are in a meeting and he wants something done quick. Boss would…

1. mock my work, and praise the-person-who I-couldn’t-get-along-with in front of me.

2. inform me of an unfortunate possibility of travelling for a business trip outside the country with the-person-who I-couldn’t-get-along-with…

3. call me “Champion” in front of the-person-who I-couldn’t-get-along-with.

4. tell other people in secret that he’s disappointed with my work and make sure I get the message directly from the-person-who I-couldn’t-get-along-with…

5. try to come up with a way to get me constantly working togething with the-person-who I-couldn’t-get-along-with

… oh well… some random blog this is.

Hair Ball

Ah yes! its exactly 12:00 am of September 1 as I am jotting this blog out. “BER” MONTHS ARE FINALLY HERE WOOHOO!!!

So what if “Ber” months has started you say? not much in particular…. its just that the countdown has started and in 4 months time, this year of bad luck would soon come to an end! yep, I had a bad year. Hopefully this coming year would turn the tides.

Whats great though is that cold weather is finally approaching, exciting isn’t it? Soon, I wouldn’t worry too much of my hair suffocating me through the heat while commuting to work… yep, i still got that long hair. Its been 3 years since my last haircut and everybody’s asking me… “ba’t ka ba kase nagpapahaba ng buhok!?” well, then it’s time that you get an answer… so here goes:

The reason why I am growing my hair long is because… i like to… i got a couple of special reasons but I guess I can just put it this way, my hair is some sort of a reminder for me to always finish what I’ve started. I had sworn an oath to grow my hair for 5 years and then take a picture with it… probably naked! hehe. Some weird oath but I’ve always intended to accomplish it. Pepper also likes my hair long so… there ya go! You may also think of me as a guy so lazy he can’t even get the time to have a haircut… hehe

Anyways, its great to have September up. In 4 days, my mom would be celebrating her 53rd birthday I would have to prepare for a lot of cooking by then. I simply feel this last quarter would be better that I expect it to be, since I am starting to feel like this year has given me so muck bad luck already.

It also feels great having been able to blog again. As you can see, I had this site up again for that exact purpose. I may also post this on my Multiply blog soon but I guess it would rather stay here first. got lots of things to blog about, but I needed a jump start so I decided to post a blog with a random idea. I basically blogged what came across my mind when I thought about posting. and well… enough talk. It’s great to be back blogging.

I nearly lost my precious cellphone this week… luckily, there are still some kindness and honesty left among taxi drivers around makati…

Yep, I dropped my cellphone on a taxi! when we arrived at the office, I noticed that I could find my cellphone. kimps then tried to call my number to check if I’ve just dropped it somewhere at the office, when surprisingly, a person answered. the guy told kimps that he got the cellphone. The line got cut and it was my turn to call. The driver answered and we had a conversation, he promised that he would return the cellphone but its just that he had a passenger already on board and are on their way to shangrila.

I had doubts that my cellphone would not be returned. I thought of all the wonderful things that happened with me using that cellphone… I loved that phone…

minutes later, after waiting at the entrance of our office building, the taxi arrived. The driver went back WITH a passenger on board and gave me the cellphone i dropped. then I gave him a 200 peso cash reward. (cheap huh? ehehe). the driver was in a hurry since he got a non-filipino passenger, great effort.

I think of a few reason’s though why he returned it despite the fact that he could just ignore my call and keep my phone for himself…

1. he was impressing the foreigner
2. he was expecting a reward (or atleast larger than what I gave.. ehe)
3. he don’t like a crappy old nokia2310 phone…eheh. or
4. he’s just kind and honest.

At any rate, the guy’s an angel. Stuff on my cellphone are vital to me, plus the phone and I had been through a lot! it survived falling on a moving jeepney, got broken when I decided to have it open-line, torture tested with continuous spinning habbit. eheh. and excessive smart sms’s.. but thank God its back… I saved the taxi’s plate number, but I accidentally deleted it when I did a cp housecleaning.. eheh.

oh well, Thanks to you manong driver. you changed my bad impression of taxi drivers… mabuhay ka! ehe.

I got tagged again… and I’m doing it for the third time… why not? It’s Karen who tagged me! (It would get harder though, cause I’ve already wrote 12…!) bwehehe.

before going over the tag thing. here’s a link to the previous two: 12 is Better

and so, the tagging begins….

Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 weird, random things, facts, habits or goals about yourself. At the end, choose 10 people to be tagged, listing their names and why you chose them. Don’t forget to leave them a comment (“You’re It”) and ask them to read your blog. You can’t tag the person who tagged you. Since you can’t tag me back, let me know when you’ve posted your blog so I can see your answers!

1. I easily get turned on with girls who can make me laugh my guts out. Which is why I fell in love with my kittie, cause she’s so pakking hilarious! ehehe.
2. I rarely am on time… admittedly, yes. its something I am struggling to fix until this very moment. but I do come on time… sometimes… eheh.
3. I am good at planning other people’s schedules but not my own… truth.
4. My mom is my weakness. use her against me and I’ll fall… Hear me out though, IM NOT A MAMA’S-BOY
5. I’m a challenge addict! dare me to do something that I can’t and I’ll do it! just don’t tell me to kiss a guy. ehehe.
6. I give names to material stuff that means a lot to me… like my Yukorin (bass guitar), Reca (laptop), Moon (acoustic guitar), Clio II (PC) … and all that crap.
7. I’m fond of making faces. Its just kinda my thing… eheh.
8. I’m a heartless critic. ehehe. and its getting worse… tsktsk.
9. I always like to tie my hair as wierd looking as possible.
10. I like mimicking voices… cause it annoys people… and I like annoying people. bwehehe

So there ya have it… another 10. ehehe. I had fun, and now its your turn…

1. Marky! – blog ka naman!
2. Jerrymiah – kaw din!
3. Marvin – lalo ka na!
4. Francia – at ikaw din!
5. Alex – try lang. ehe.
6. Dorj – bwehehehe.
7. Chelot – para astig!
8. May – iwas stress
9. Mimi – try lang!
10. and Che – gogogo

wekekeke….

im out.

last week, I was getting tired… drive running out.. tardiness becomes a necessity… sheesh. I think its the time where we feel like we are useless… My PA takes forever to  approve… When would I get the adjustment that I long for? When would my family be satisfied with what I give? When would I see the light of day.. (andrama ampotah!) Is this stress? or am I just Craving for attention? KSP? emo? tsktsk… I feel like all things that I do are wasted efforts… cause people don’t notice..

However, the drama between me and my sister really got me up fast. When my heart broke at home, as my family became insensitive,  I thought of leaving them for a few days to realize what I’m worth… but I realized that doing so had only made an emotional scar within my family. Thanks to a new face’s advice, I decided to go home and restructure the house rules..

I then went back home from kittie’s place on a sunday afternoon…

my mother saw me and did a million dollar smile, “ui.. hehe.. bat ngaun ka lang?”

I went inside the house… (if you call it a house)

my sister hugged me…

and then…

she cried…

A touching moment indeed, especially when she told me she missed me while tears falling down her eyes… (she really looks ugly when crying…)

and then…

I felt the guilt…

Kittie has been with me all throughout the emo week, and I thank her for keeping my sanity intact… I just hope that this feeling subside soon. I still need to keep working…

Problems with Old Maid Aunts (later refered to as OMAs) arise once again… and somehow, it is now causing psychological harm to my kittie… why wouldn’t they just let their niece be!? she’s old enough to do whatever she wants for crying out loud…! tsktsk.

Kittie is starting to lose patience, and I am losing mine as well… but what can I do…? The OMAs think they CAN run my kittie’s life since they send her off to school with hard-earned money… PAKKIT! but on the brighter side, they just worry too much for their favorite niece. THEY  PAKKING THINK TOO MUCH!!! and it signals a choke alarm…

Choke factor #1: everytime Kittie leaves home, whether it is for band practice or simply to get some air, they would say: “SAN KA NANAMAN PUPUNTA! NAKOOOOOOO! MAGKIKITA NANAMAN KAYO NI RINGO NOH?”

Choke factor #2: every simple mistake leads to a scolding… with my name in it… “‘DI KA NANAMAN  NAKAPAGLABA! PANO HINDI MO MABITAWAN YANG CP MO KAKATEXT KAY RINGO!!!!”

Choke factor #3: my kittie sees a cute kid on street and says, “ang kyut mo naman, kakatuwa ka..” then the OMAs react: “NAKOOOOO! BAT GANYAN KA MAGSALITA, SIGURO GUSTO MO NA MAGKAANAK KAY RINGO NOH!!?”

Choke factor #4: my kittie would be working at the gateway mall soon and she needs to rent bedspace to cut travel time from commuting to school, work and home… but the OMAs refuse, “PAG NAGBOARD KA MAS MADALAS KAYO MAGKITA NI RINGO NYAN! NAKOOOO! MALALAMAN LAMAN NALANG NAMIN…”

Choke factor #5: my kittie would sleep at the OMAs and they would hear kitties mobile phone keypads tapping.. ” ANU BA YAN! MATULOG NA NGA KAYO. TEXT PA NG TEXT PATULUGIN MO NARIN NGA YAN SI RINGO!”

With this people might think the OMAs hate me… but they DONT! in fact, they like me so much they give me gifts, serve me the best breakfast and meriendas, they even cook me a fine dinner. but they are just too damn annoying…

I know they love kittie so much and are just worried shit about her ending up getting married in an early age, get pregnant and never graduate college. which in fact, had us hiding within the bushes before getting the blessing that I hoped for in the past couple of years. They like me, but they don’t trust me! or even kittie! as if we bang each other to heaven’s glory each time we see each other…! If only they knew how this affects my kittie…

Living with the OMAs is also a huge stress factor for my kittie, imagine the pressure she has when she’s at home. funny cause we experience the same problem years back until we decided to move out.

…relatives are indeed a pain in the bottom cushion.