Just recently heard that one of our juniors at 3dsense, Eugene just passed away. So sad to hear that.
Here are some of the pics Eugene gave me before my batch graduated, it was actually 3dsense’s moving day from Paradiz Centre to Mount Sophia.
Just looking at these picures, reminded me of how much I miss Singapore, my crazy school hours in school, our experience with crazy Auntie, Pandu’s weird outrage and many more…
After thinking about it for awhile, I finally purchased my Memospa from Urban Addiction. The package also includes 2 sets of memo pads in light blue and light pink.
I first saw this adorable memo holder from a Taiwan Industrial Design book in the National Library in Singapore. And eversince then, I have never forgotten about it.
Initially I wanted the Dark Grey color, unfortunately it wasn’t available on the site anymore, so I opted for Light Grey instead.
There are a lot of imitations in Blue, Pink, and Green that are being sold cheaper, but I just opted to buy the original Taiwan version instead.
I’ve read some comments that the imitation version uses cheap plastic, and getting the memo pad is hard to find because it doesn’t fit the standard memo pad size.
I’ve also noticed that the imitation version has some seams on the head and the arms of the character. While the original version has no noticable seams anywhere.
The only major difference of the two is the imitation version can rotate the head from left to right, while the original version just slides up and down.
But for my case, I don’t necessarily like it rotating because it is easier to misalign the head from the body.
The original version also fits perfectly with standard Post It notes, as shown below.
I’d like to thank Maggie of Urban Addiction for the great support and customer service, and for finding the best alternative shipping for me.
Recently watched this movie called Overheard and I have to say this is a must see movie, period.
This is unlike other Hong Kong movies I’ve watched. This is such a serious drama and you do feel compassion for the characters involved especially the guy with the family.
I like the story and the pace. The ending is unpredictable. I don’t even have anything bad to say about this movie.
The story revolves around insider trading frauds, and how the police is doing a 24 hour surveilance to get enough evidence to convict the criminals involved. The story revolves around the 3 night shifters of the surveilance team and the decisions they make to either get personal gain or do the right thing when they get hold of valuable information.
I actually don’t have any idea about stock trading, but I don’t have any trouble understanding this film. I’d say this is so far the best Hong Kong movie I’ve watched in years.
My brother recently borrowed me a copy of this audio book “The Five Love Languages” by Gary Chapman.
This audio book is made for married couples, and how to make marriage bonds stronger.
Basically, it’s telling us that most troubled relationships are the cause of miscommunication.
Each person has different love needs, and we have to identify which is which for us and our mate. And give the attention each person needs.
Here are the 5 Emotional Love Languages:
1. Words of Affirmation
-verbal words which are mostly compliments.
2. Quality Time
- Turn off any distraction (like TV, etc.), and give your undivided attention. Make eye contact when making conversation.
3. Gifts
- Doesn’t be expensive but it’s the thought that counts.
4. Acts of Service
- Household chores, running errands for the other person. Needs to be done with joy in order to be perceived as a gift of love.
5. Physical Touch
- Stroking the back, holding hands, kiss in the cheek, etc.
This audio book is short and very easy to understand. I didn’t have trouble listening to this while doing other things.
There are some interesting facts that it stated. It claims that based on research study, in the US, 40% of the marriages ends up in divorce, from that, 60% of the second marriages end up in divorce, and finally, 70% of the third marriages end up in divorce.
So it basically just says that you have lesser chances of success in your succeeding marriages. But as you all know, there are always exceptions.
Another interesting fact is, when a couple is on an emotional high in love, they’re blinded by reality and could not see each other’s fault. This is the stage they feel they are so perfect for each other.
Unfortunately this phase is only temporary and usually lasts for 2 years, or lasts a little longer with secret relationships.
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Due to Popular Demand:
Great News, this movie promo is extended until Nov. 30, 2009 and movie tickets can be redeemed until Jan. 31, 2010.
I’ll be able to watch Twilight New Moon after all…
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Citibank Philippines has a free movie ticket promo starting from July 24 to September 30,2009.
For a minimum single receipt purchase of P1500, you can get a free movie ticket of your choice in some designated cinemas.
I think that’s really cool, David and I already accumulated 1 movie ticket each but still haven’t decided what movie to watch.
These movie passes are redeemable until November 30, so still lots of time to think about what movies to watch.
To know more about the promo, check the Citibank website.
Update:
-Unfortunately there is some catch. You still have to pay P40 in the cinema, if you’re planning to watch foreign films. Your P1500 receipt is just worth P130 and most movies cost P170. Just think of it as a discount and not a free promo 
-If you have one receipt costing P3000, it’s still considered only 1 ticket, so better plan for splitting your purchases to avail 2 tickets.
It seems like I’ve been doing a lot of digital painting lately, and to think that I don’t know how to paint digitally 3 months ago.
I’m still definitely learning as I go, this is actually the fourth head I’ve worked on.
I was really getting pissed with the current digital sculpting project I’m working on, so I’m taking a break from it.
As promised, I bought and tasted the 2 flavors of Oishi Marty’s Cracklin.
This is a vegetarian version of pork skin rind, made of dehydrated green peas. Of course, it will never taste like the real ‘chicharon’, but it will make you less guilty of eating all that cholesterol. Unfortunately this has MSG.
Here are my thoughts on it:
1. Salt Flavor
This is sooo addicting. I can’t seem to stop grabbing for more, and seems like I’m not the only one…
2. Salt and Vinegar Flavor
I didn’t like this because I find the vinegar flavor too strong for my taste. That’s odd because I really like the Ribbed Cracklings salt and vinegar snacks from the Beer Match series, also from Oishi.
Painted this yesterday using DSi. I was actually doodling and wasn’t really thinking of anything, when I painted this. I guess this was inspired by the recent typhoon.
The original painting is half the size of the image posted here. Wow, its weird to paint in a small screen and see your image blown up.
Words cannot describe the devastation caused by Typhoon Ondoy. Many people rich or poor lost their homes and even their loved ones in this tragic event.
We were also one of the unlucky ones who got our homes submerged in the water until waist high.
Here’s a photo outside our homes last Saturday. It was raining continously, the electricity was off, the phone line was dead, and our celphones weren’t working. The worst part was, we we’re not prepared for this.
Here’s a picture outside our main street the next day, where water level reached already head high.
The rain wasn’t that heavy but it rained continuously for more than 6 hours. It was the first time we’ve experienced water this high. The flood was due to the fact that the Angat dam was opened to release the excessive water of fearing it might explode and cause more damages.
Many factors are to be the caused of this, first too much garbage undisposed.
Second, the government blames climate change, but didn’t hestitate to create precautionary measures to prepare the country’s changing climate.
Thirdly, urban planners blame government for ignoring their previous recommendations before developing areas which are prone to high floods, this can sometimes be controlled by constructive planning.
This is probably the fastest DIY kit I’ve done. I think it took me 4 days to do everything. I didn’t make this kit for 4 consecutive days but I think it was 2 days last August, and 2 days this September.
I used a lot of the beads I got from Saizen. I’m so happy with the diamond looking necklace because I just got it free from Saizen, but it was so hard to lock the necklace into a circle because it was small, and couldn’t use any tweezers because I need to put some force to lock it. If I used tweezers I wouldn’t be able to add force into it.
I got stuck doing this because I ran out of my favorite Loctite glue. Apparently I went to different hardware stores and couldn’t find my favorite glue.
I opted then to buy a Scotch Super glue, because David kept insisting that all super glues are the same… Big mistake, I was furious and wished I didn’t listen to him. I had the worst horrible results with it.
Sticking it with wood gives fair quality, sticking it with plastic makes it cloudy as if there’s fog in it.
I’m not confident that this kit will be strong enough, if just in case it falls off the ground.
Anyways, lesson learned, never let anyone talk you into doing things when you have strong convictions about it…
