A sad day for Kevin

Kevin Yue is my favorite contestant from day one. I am so sad for him because he was recently voted out of The Biggest Loser Asia. And I am also very angry at the former blue team. Specially to David because of his arrogant remarks during the elimination table. Carlo is right when he said to David that he will vote a fellow blue team eventually.

All of the former blue team just DO NOT HAVE ANY HEART.

Just by looking at all of the contestant, it is very obvious that Kevin is the one that really needs to be there because he has so much more body fat to loose. He simply needed more to be there compared to Martha.

Carlo Miguel is the last Filipino and the last former Red Team in the game. I really hope the he wins this all the way. Just like Kevin had said to Carlo "Bring hope the bacon".

Commercial nga naman

Kung ano ano ang ang naiisip ng mga company para lang makagawa ng commerial.

My Joyce

My daughter Joyce Nicole just gave me this valentines card. She always does this when ever there is an occasion such as birthday,fathers day ..etc. That is why I love her very much.

Kalayaan goes to Summer Komikon

Kalayaan will be going to this years Summer Komikon in UP Bahay ng Alumni, UP Diliman Quezon City this April 17. I hope to see you all there.

Kalayaan site update

I just recently updated the Kalayaan Comics Official Website . I just uploaded a total of 65 Kalayaan Fanart. And I am not finished yet. I still have a lot more fan art to upload. But for now, please do check it out. And thank you very much to all that have created these fan art of my character. I very much appreciate it. :-)

Thanks also to Myke Guisinga for designing this site on the first place.

Gilas Bro.

GBS are a bunch of young comic book artists / comic book creators joined together that offers quality artworks at a very affordable price. Click here to view the gallery of Gilas Bros.

What we offer:

Comic Book Pencilling
Comic Book Inking
Digital Coloring
Digital Lettering
Character Designs
Character Pin-ups
Logo Creation
Storyboards
Web Designing
and the list goes on and on.

For inquiries, please contact Omi Remalante at omiremalante@gmail.com

Indie Animation

Being a Maskarado fan. I was very surprised when a friend of mine pointed me to this video which I have no idea that existed. This was done in Photoshop and edited in iMovie. Original post - > CLICK HERE.

Gener Perdina also did some motion comics with his Sandugo team. I really wish I have something similar like this with Kalayaan.

Chuck VS. Manny V.

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Mock Election

I really commend the commission on election for having a mock election today on some parts of the metro manila. There were a lot of hiccups during the process today which is very much expected on any transition. Being a computer programmer, I had a lot of experiences about this. Most of my clients on my younger days as a programmer had to have a transition from manual (Inventory,accounting or payroll... etc.) to computerized. And those transition took many months, some others even years. So when the comelect have announced that the next election would be computerized. I was very thrilled and a little sceptical. But I know that this is the way to go. There is no turning back from technology. I am sick and tired of manual counting that took months to find out who would be the next president. And during those months of manual counting. Most of us know that there is a 'dag-dag bawas' being done.

But having a computerized election would also present many problems. And one of them is trying to familiar the majority of the people who are mostly computer illiterate to use a computerized automated voting system. So I am very much happy that today, they have conducted a mock election. I hope that everybody would learn from today's experiences and try to correct those mistakes when the time comes to do the real thing.

I also hope that there would be another mock election on a much wider scale before the May election. And I hope that they would announce it so that more people would be familiar with the system. For this is very crucial to eliminate more of the mistakes.

Oh Yeah

I was pretty optimistic on this coming year. But even I was surprised about what recently happened.

I just came from a lunch meeting with the top people behind a big company that is willing to republish my comics abroad. Yup, you heard it right (or read it right), ABROAD. As in outside the Philippines. They said that they will be starting at the east coast of America first and later on to other places. This company first took notice of my comics more than a year ago when two of the board member approached me during the U.P. Komikon 2008 (I think). After a few months from there, we had our first meeting in quezon city that went okay. But after that, I never heard from them again. Until yesterday. The secretary of the CEO told me that the big boss himself wants to talk to me personally while he is still in the country.

Before going to our lunch meeting, I already had a deal in my head. I wanted a royalty type deal. For each copy that will be printed. I will have a small share. And I also wanted to have a copy of a certified circulation report, those are the exact number of copies that will be printed. And of course, I wanted a control of what is the final printout of the comics. Since I know that they will be inserting an advertisement on it. Which is very typical.

I was so glad that all of these are very much acceptable to the chairman (which I may add a very cool dude for an old guy. :D). It is almost a done deal when he reach out his hand and shook it while saying "Can we have a deal on that?". I of course took his hand and said "Yes sir". With a big smile on my face.

They told me that hopefully next week, their lawyer would be finished with the contract for me to sign with all of my conditions listed for my protection. And it also happens that they own a local newspaper (Pinoy Herald) in the east coast that has been circulating for quite some time now. And they wanted me to be featured on that newspaper. The cool CEO even told me to send my best picture to them.

This is a HUGE opportunity for me. Not only that this will be an extra income for me and my family. It is also a big exposure for me and my comics, since it will be printed in thousands of copies and would be distributed to thousands of new readers abroad without me spending a single centavo. That is a hard deal to beat. :-)

All in all, I just want this project to push through. Just like any deal. Anything could turn out bad. That is why I always expect the worst, but always hope for the best. So, from this moment on. I am keeping my fingers crossed. :-)

Karate Hand

Kalayaan: Black Lantern

What if Kalayaan became a member of the Black Lantern?

This would be very much plausible if he would live in DC Universe, since (technically) he died in the last page of issue #4 and later on revived in issue #5. This would make him very susceptible to the black lantern/ring.

Biggest Loser Asia

Carlo Miguel
Christine White
Kevin Yue

Only these three member remains in the red team of the Biggest Loser Asia, and they are all FILIPINOS. They are going against the formidable six member blue team., which has been on a winning streak with the challenges and weigh in. The red team really has their work cut out for them. They must prove to the world that Filipinos are very resilient people.

I have been following this show since the beginning. But the last episode was just to hard for me . The Red Team almost won the weigh in if not for the colossal 10 Kilo weight loss of Tony of the blue team. It was heart breaking because all of the red team have worked their ass off. They have lost 4 Kilo each of them.

But never quit red team. I will be rooting for you. Go Pinoy. Kick those blue team asses.

Dancing Inmate again

The Cebu dancing inmates, who first became an online sensation with their rendition of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," are still moonwalking with the late King of Pop. Jackson's longtime choreographer Travis Payne and dancers Daniel Celebre and Dres Reid paid a visit to the Philippines to teach the inmates routines from "This Is It."

Is this cool or what? If all prison could be just like this, life inside would be much better. It is nice to know that the choreographer of Michael Jackson himself took an interest on teaching these inmates some dance moves. If only the late Michael Jackson could have seen this.