Disclaimer : there are two parts for this entry : one mundane and one reflective. You can forward to the 2nd half if you want.

I’m a guy and I find shopping to be therapeutic (and also depressing after I check my wallet at the end of the day) and was browsing some blogs and saw that Topman Philippines had an off-season sale the whole of March. I find my clothesbuyingfetish to be really excessive since I’m ’sponsored’ by my aunt with preproduction reebok, vans, 2be, solo shirts among other brands, haha.

I TOTALLY MISSED IT. But I didn’t miss out on F&H’s off season sale yay. I’m going to work later and I promise I won’t sidetrip to the Ayala malls. I promise. I also won’t buy at Team Manila today, sorry Kuya Mon and Jowee! I NEED to save up for that RAM expansion card while my online revenues will be for my dSLR (or my car) lol. I love my mom’s Paypal account since it’s full-featured so I can receive payments. I just hate the 3-6% charge Paypal deducts from the transactions but it ain’t bad at all.

Also, while I was browsing some thread at PinoyExchange I suddenly remembered my friend An-an’s shirt from VV:

lol, that was so random.

As for Philippine Men’s Magazines, i was amazed to find out while browsing through Summit Media’s magazine offerings that they ‘own’ all of the three main Men’s magazine brands locally, FHM/Maxim/Uno. Talk about monopoly. Speaking of which, I really find Maxim’s graphic design team to be slightly (sorry for the use of the word) ‘inferior’ to FHM’s and Maxim’s, no offense. I have never seen too much blatant use of Comic Sans in my entire life. Plus, the ‘2.0 look’ doesn’t really suit the magazine well. But that’s just a personal preference. I’m extending my usual post length na, haha.

Which brings me to my final point for this entry. I think that I have a lot of potential with regards to the progression of my graphic design skill, not being cocky and all. I have a lot of concepts and ideas stuck in my head that I couldn’t project properly because of my ugly computer/laptop specs. As much as people tend to say that ‘it’s not in the equipment, it’s in the talent’ or whatever, it isn’t necessarily true for all scenarios. I mean, if you don’t have the taste and the eye at all to begin with, you would never be it but I personally find that I work better when my equipment’s better. The shift from windows to mac really has improved my aesthetic sense and my work ethics but I think I could make some stuff flexibly and fluidly if I had totally upgraded specs because some of the actions/rendering things I want to integrate with my work just doesn’t load at a reasonable time. For example I wanted to do this certain effect, it would just take too long (3-5 minutes) and sometimes the result isn’t what I really wanted because there’s some option that’s obstructing it which just makes me depressed about it.

Online advertising’s really giving me money - I’m expecting by June that I’d earn more money than all my design projects combined. I LOVE MY MOM’S PAYPAL MWAH (okay, that wasn’t intended to be posted here.)

Thing is, one can’t help but get intimidated specially when there are talented 13-year old whizkids like Carl. At a young age, he knows a truckload of online marketing jargon than I do - haha, I’m a late bloomer in this SEO thing anyway. How I wish blog advertising’s been available during ‘my time’ so I could be a bloddy millionaire now but noooo. I was playing Pokemon and bloody videogames during that time and got rejected for Ateneo high.

OMG I EXPOSED A LOT OF THINGS.

Anyway, I enjoyed high school in Claret so no regrets. The biggest regret in my life would probably my pokemon-playstation-ragnarok phase because it was such a waste. There was no progression and I was all otaku and whatever. No offense, but I really despise my ex-life.

Blah, I’m going emo again. Tama na nga!