temporay solution

would you please give me a shout if anybody is having trouble accessing this image post? am trying out the bloggers' image uploading capability.

tired fingers

this is my 2nd day of making facial shapes for a 3d model. anyone who works in 3d animation would know that it is a time consuming job. got stiff fingers from grasping the mouse too tight. all those points to move and adjust...am grateful for the 'snap to points' button. yet still got stiff fingers. must be old age, he,he.

as for my image hosting problem, well i still haven't found a solution yet. i could change my service provider; there are still lots of companies offering freebies in the internet. but i'm lazy (all those pictures to resize and link to this blog). besides i know that, given some time, those companies would start charging for the server space again and i will be saddled with the same problem all over again.

as i used to scream while playing counterstrike: aaaarrghh!!

all about image

i started this blog so that i could post pictures and artworks. but my image hosting site is no longer offering free image hosting services and, even though i am willing to pay the subscription fee, it has to be paid thru paypal. and i found out over the weekend that there are no paypal service here in the philippines. somebody told me that one could receive money from paypal thru xoom ( another internet based money tranfer firm ) but i don't know if xoom accept philippine peso to pay to paypal accounts. complicated isn't it?

so that means for the time being, no pics to accompany my blog posts.

kindness continued

my parents and their friends used to go to tagaytay for 'picnics' ( now that is a word you seldom hear nowadays. 'outing', 'gimik' seems to be more commonly used ). they were still in the dating stage then. in our family photo album, one would encounter sepia toned pictures simply captioned 'picnic grove, tagaytay'. but they won't recognize the present picnic grove today. the covered tables ( for rent! ), the nature walk, the numerous souvenir shops and ( of all things ) the videoke booths. talk about communing with nature with a badly rendered gun's and roses' knocking on heaven's door for background music.


again taal lake seen from our lunch table at leslie's



sunset, picnic grove, tagaytay. knock-knock-knocking on hibenns dooooar. ay-ay-aaiiaaayyy!


the gang by the bridge

we ended the day tired ( and for my part - a bit low on funds, he,he ). but the trip gave us all the break we needed from work. thank GOD, and my fellow adventurers.

kindness part 1

well it seems that God heard my wish to go somewhere and slack off...by giving us the chance to go to tagaytay. it was raining most of the morning, but on our way to tagaytay we came to a part where the road is bone dry and the weather is clear though cloudy.


view of taal volcano from leslie's restaurant

the first time i went to tagaytay was way back in 1993. and due to budget constraints my friend just parked on the roadside overlooking taal lake. if memory serves me right, it was somewhere near the radar station.


'pastor' carlo laying hands on the view


fellow adventurers

custom job

notice the changes? with the help of a friend, i was able to change the text title of my blog into an image file. and if you click on the links, it will now open in a new window. nothing major mind you, but i had fun learning something new in html.

aarrrgh

last night i arranged the paintings i've done along the walls of our apartment. in my desire to finish the whole set, i haven't seen all of it together until last night. it's not all that bad, but i decided to do some changes in tonal value to some of the 'finished' paintings. am also thinking of totally redoing one of it. then again, maybe i'll just let it go as it is. as much as possible, i try to think thru my paintings before hand - the layout, the colors, and such. but i admit that all of these changes during the act of painting. and as much as i enjoy losing myself on the process of coaxing the colors along the canvas, i also need to step back after awhile and ask myself if i am happy with the result.

some weeks ago, a friend ask me if we should pray for the success of my exhibit. i told him sure, please pray for the exhibit. but even up to now ( two months before the event ) i still don't know what it means for an exhibit to be called a 'success'. if 'success' means having all my paintings sold, well, i would rather keep them. hmmm...i guess to enjoy the act of painting and being happy with the result is success enough for me. ha,ha, am not going zen or anything about it. i admit that i also enjoy gathering my friends in one place and showing them my works.

sounds like am rambling on this blog entry. maybe i need a break from the office, spend my time sitting on some coffee shop or park bench and dream...zzzz.


greenbelt park.

imagine

nope, am not speaking about the song by john lennon. 'imagine' just happens to be one of the names we call our former company - imagineasia inc. saw this picture while i was sorting thru my picture cds yesteday. it was taken at the batangas sea port on our way to puerto galera during our company outing a couple of years ago.