Sample Page

Kalayaan #1 is schedule to be released this June. Just right for ''Araw ng Kalayaan" (Day of Freedom). But before that, here is a page that is included in #1.

So, I hope anyone that could read this blog would grab a copy of my long awaited first comics. This is like a dream come true to me. To do what I always like, which is to draw comics and see in print and being sold comics stores.

So I hope you like it.

He backed out

Its all over the news paper today. Every tabloid news paper that you could find, he is the front page. The peoples champ Manny Pacquiao backed out from his candidacy for conggressman.

I can only say THANK GOD. As I just said from my previous post, It is better that he leaves politics for the politicians, and boxing to boxers. Maybe in the distant future, if he is still interested at age 40 or so,
when he is retired in boxing. He could run for office.

But for now, it is just better for him to concentrate on his boxing carrer.

Aparently Mayor Lito Atienza is the one who convinced him to back out from his candidacy. It's good that there are still people around him that gives good advice.

Boom - He did it again

I just have just watched the recently concluded "Battle of Cebu". And all of it, My favorite was the fight of Rey "Boom boom" Bautista against the Mexican Marino Montiel Gonzalez. I realy think that is guy is the 2nd Many Pacquiao. With an age of only 20, he is already a title holder. And with an impressive record of 22 wins, 0 Loss, 0 draw, 17 K.O. This guy is next Philippine boxing superstar.

I also liked the fight of Z 'The Dream' Gorres V.S.
Fernando Montiel of Mexico. Even thoe Z did not win, it was still a great fight. That Mexican fighter is a one though son of a beeeeeep. I realy like him. He received many solid punches from Gorrez but was not staggard at anytime. He was super strong, lots of stamina and a power punch to match. Gorrez is a tactical fighter and loose gas on about the end of the fight. He was constantly hugging Montiel on round 11 and 12(the last one) . I was a little bit disappointed with the scoring of the judges. It was clearly on the 1st to 10th round, Gorrez landed many many solid punches. He was way ahead in score (at lease in my count) with even the 2 points deduction. Which also deducted immediately by the referee which I think he should have given a warning first before it was deducted.

Bert Batawang was also very very impressive when knocked down Indonesia's Sofyan Efendi twice in the fourth round to score an impressive TKO win at the 2:12 mark. An old guy (Bert at 35 years old) kicking the butt out of junior (Efendi at only 19 years of age)

Jimrex Jaca also won against the monkey style of Simson Butar-Butar from Indonesia. Which I think that the gaming commission should check if this guy is on drugs, coz it seams that he does not care about the title belt that he is defending. He is also kinda show off which pissed me off. It was a disapointing win for me coz it looks to me like Jimrex just tripped him on purpose and Butar-butar was just too high to get up. He wasn't tire at all coz I was him leaving the ring running towards the locker room. He was just wasn't interested on the fight.

for more info you could check PhilBoking.com

Ultimate Avengers

A friend of mine came to our house last weekend. He was carrying 2 DVDs with him. And to my surprise, It's an Ultimate Avenger Movie 1 and 2 which was released last year. I was exited and surprise at the same time coz to tell it frankly, I did not know that there were an Ultimate Avenger Movie. I was only aware of the comics but not an animation film. And I only know about the recently released Invincible Ironman, but not the Avengers.

I was stunned by the two films. The animation was very clean and the movement of the characters (specially during battle scene) are amazing. For the longest time now, I was getting worried that Marvel are being left-off and stamped by DC when it comes to animation. With their Superman, Justice League Unlimited and The Batman series I was saying Marvel is getting a little bit left behind on animation here. But when I saw the Ultimate Avengers I said to my self, sooo this is what they are up too. And They really come back hard on this one.

I ask my friend, If I could borrow the two DVDs for a while so I can watch it again. It's a good thing that he agree. Coz I really don't want to beg him for it. :)

Why Manny, Why?

 As I was preparing to go to office this morning, when I saw the most bizarre thing that I could imagine on a Philippine morning TV news interview. Manny Pacquiao is RUNNING for a government office. At first, he was saying he hasn’t decided yet. As I listened more. He said that he hasn’t decided yet if he would run for MAYOR or CONGRESSMAN???!!!

Ohhhh my Gulay.
Shigabay golly wow.
Hooooly politics Batman.
By the power of Grey Skull!!!!
Baket pare ko. Baket? (Why Manny, why?)

Let me just digest this for a few second and as I catch my breath…
Don’t get me wrong folks, I am a BIG fan of Manny Pacquiao. I have been cheering for him for about 9 to 10 years now. I have been watching him in blow by blow in channel 9 even when he was starting at a very early age. He had made many bad decisions in the past, but I just let it go like choosing a bad manager, signing two contract from two rival company at the same. But I said hey, that ok, maybe in the future he would learn better.

But those are peanuts compared to this one. And even more disturbing, he said that, even if he wins for Mayor or Congressman he will not stop fighting in the ring!!!
He will still continue his career as a boxers and perform many fight as he can!!?
What? A Mayor / Congressman boxer?

He has been very versatile with his career. He has been an Action Star, Commercial/ Product endorser Icon and even pursues his interest in music and creates an album and becomes a Singer. Those I can accept, but politics???? I really don’t know.

Maybe if he waited a little while, he could run on a lower office when he is retire from his boxing career. Maybe, just maybe. He would have less criticism and negative feed back from many people.

I’m also very afraid for him that he would loose all of his money. Coz I know how much money flies during and before elections. My mother was one of a campaign assistant in the old days. Even though how much money you have, every thing goes during campaign. And lots and lots of people will take advantage of him. And not to mention loosing your very own life. Many corrupt politician will not think twice on killing their political opponent who ever they are, just to remain in power.

If he really wants to help other people. There are so many ways to do that without going to politics.

I only hope that he would still change his mind and not to run for office.

Cell Phone and Bible

I received this email a few weeks ago from an old client.

CELL laging hawak at ipinapakita.. BIBLE laging nakatago at ayaw ipakita.. CELL binibili kahit libo-libong halaga.. BIBLE ayaw bilhin kahit isang daan halaga.. CELL laging binabasa kung may message.. BIBLE hindi binabasa kaya hindi makita ang message.. CELL ayaw magasgasan.. BIBLE ok lng kahit maalikabukan.. CELL mahirap ipahiram baka masira.. BIBLE madaling ipahiram kahit mawala.. CELL nauubusan ng message.. BIBLE laging full of message.. CELL ay mahalagang gamit.. BIBLE mas mahalaga kung gagamitin..

JLP 2

Recently, I had another itch on drawing another JLP (Justice League Philippines) . Coz I wasn't quite statisfied with the first one. I had a real blast out of this one. 
I realy enjoyed drawing this one.

From the bottom left to right and up are the characters -> Panday, Captain Barbel,
Berdugo, Kapitan Kidlat, (my very own)Kalayaan, Darna, Maskarado, Palos,  
Lastikman and Zsa zsa Zaturna.

I'm baaaack

I came back to our office in ortigas this january after having a leave of absence for 4 months because of a health issue. But I'm well now and feeling stronger. It was also just the right time when I came back because one of my office mate was celebrating her birthday.

It's a little bit funny coz, I have been with this company for over five years now. And this is the only picture that I have with all of the staff.

Maybe because I am with them only three times a week, since I am only part time employed to them. My other free time, I spend it with other clients of mine.

I consider my self as a freelance programmer/analyst. That is more convenient for me because I have more control over my time. But this company have been so much attached to me that I consider my self as part of their family.

Learning New Things

I just updated this blog site. I have just added those little cute icons on the right side of the panel. Little by little I am learning new things on simple html coding. Up until now, I haven't got around on learning html code. I am used to look at Visual Foxpro code, because that is what I primary use for work and when I was in collage I used Pascal and C.

I also added a clock just below it. Cool huh. I got that idea from Reno Maniquis.

It's sure is fun playing with html page.
Now, what else could I modify next time? Hmmmm. :-)

Toys of our lives

I recently bought Captain America and Red skull action figure. This is the first time again for many many years now that I have bought a toy for myself. Last time was I think, 9 or 10 years ago.

I was planning to buy this for the longest time now. I was really impress how detailed of the craftmanship for this toy. Specially on the part of the face of Captain America, it is very life like, specially for its small size.

My wife doesn't have anything against it. In fact, a few months ago she even encourages me to buy Superman and a Batman action figure when she saw Julius Babaw on TV showing off his StarWars collection. How nice is that huh. I’m so glad I married a person that could understand me. Coz when I was in highschool and college I used to collect alot of G.I.Joe action figures and vehicles. I would save my lunch money for months just to buy Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow.
But my Mother doesn't approved (for my Father its just ok). She said "Ang tanda tanda mo na, naglalaro ka pa ng robot-robot". That really irritates me. But I just controls myself and humbly says that "Hindi po ito robot ma. G.I.Joe action figures po."

And my brother and sisters doesn't helped too. They often teases me when they sees me thinkering with my collection. "Para kang tumatanda ng paurong ah. College ka na naglalaro ka pa nyan." I just keep quite and continue on what I was doing.

Most of the time, if I bought a new one, I would hide it on my backpack as I pass along our sala. And opened it inside my room. That also goes to the comics that I buy. My sister says its a totally waste of my money, specially when she learned how expensive they were (kuripot kasi yung ate kong iyon.).

For me it was not a waste of time or money. On the part of comics, I consider them also as an investment. I said to my self, if I buy an ordinary comics today, maybe in the future I could sell it higher than what I bought it. Specially if it is very rare and in mint condition. Just like the death of Superman issue. I also told to my sibling back then that the first issue of Superman was hundreds of thousands dollars now. And on the part of Toys, aside from being fun to collect, they give me inspiration in life and on my work too. And that is one thing you cannot buy.

iPhone - Beyond iPod

It's January again and it is time for another MacWorld keynote from Steve Jobs. Every time I see him do his stuff on stage and present a new product(that could be either software or hardware) I always get inspired on my work as a programmer. And this time Apple company did it again. Last January 9 they have presented the most advanced mobile hand held device in the world (well that is at least my opinion).

It's the new iPhone.
It is beyond than just a Phone. It is the next big thing happened since the ever popular iPod, coz it is an iPod, a Phone and a internet device roll into one. It also has a built-in google map, widget, safari browser and it all runs on top of Mac OS-X. How cool is that.

You can go to www.apple.com or www.youtube.com (and try the keyword is MacWorld 2007) to watch the video.

Cover or Pin-up?

This is a drawing I recently created. At first, this was intended as the front and back cover of the second issue of Kalayaan comics (I already finished the first issue.).
But now I am having second thoughts on making it just a free pin-up poster inside the second issue.
Or maybe It could be both. I dont know.
I will just make up my mind sooner or later.

Bad guy

Here is Vorgon, one of the Villains that I have created during my collage days. This character is also one of the main character of the comics (Kalayaan) that I am working on.

Happy New Year

First of all. Happy New Year. I hope 2007 will be better to us all than last year.

Here is another old drawing that I made when I was still a student of Gilbert Monsanto at LEARN in SM Megamall. They are called SANDIGAN, a characters created also by Gilbert Monsanto.