Belated Birthday Video (Warning: Less than Sober Annotation)

Robin can't sleep so she once again takes over. Myke and I have yet to develop the habit of immediately transferring image and video files from our respective phones to the laptop for uploading, hence the delay in sharing this year's Clawie birthday escapade. It was one of our quieter celebrations, and we'll just blame the occasional hiccups on tequila and the sudden bursts of laughter :)

After buying his gift (more on that later, eheh), I lead him to Sakae Sushi at the ground floor of SM North Edsa. I'd eaten at their branch at the Mall of Asia before and found the eat-all-you-can-sushi-on-conveyor-belt a fun test of wills between the diner and the restaurant management. One has to grab all the good tasty stuff before the chef starts churning out endless permutations of fried tokwa skin stuffed with rice balls.

It was Myke's first eat-all-you-can sushi experience and he was at first daunted when I plunked down six saucers of sushi from the get-go. He soon enjoyed munching on raw salmon, cream dory, tuna, and even squid. Before long, he was standing to take things from the conveyor belt himself, keeping an eye on each new offering even as he chewed.

The chef eventually caught on and after a blitzkrieg first half hour, the taro balls started to come out. Myke decided to wait it out another half hour before resigning himself to a final saucer of tamago sushi as his encore. At P399 per person, though, with free miso soup and unlimited hot or cold green tea, Sakae Sushi had a good deal going. We promised ourselves we'd go back... and park ourselves at a table as early as 5 or 6 o' clock in the evening, hehe.

Not having seen a movie together since Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, we bought tickets to see Clash of the Titans. Having both grown up though remembering the 1981 movie starring Sir Laurence Olivier and LA Law's Harry Hamlin, we were sorely disappointed. Zeus in frikking armor??? Perseus not marrying Andromeda??? Black Pegasus????? Sacrilege.

I'm not even going into the absence of Hermes, the unnecessary liberties with the story, the everyone-has-to-have-a-moment storytelling...

Hayz. Just about the only highlight was seeing Mike "Boy Ipis" Ignacio and his girlfriend, Ailyn, as we were stepping out of the movie house. We often bump into the couple on the weekends we do our groceries. I swear we're each other's fans :p

Disgruntled and still way too chatty after the movie (well, I was :P), we decided to wind down at Agave at the Sky Garden. There was a nice acoustic band that night that seemed to be made up of kids who were fresh out of college. As soon as he heard them play, though, Clawie let his hair down and menaced them with his aura :p

I had my first strawberry margarita, didn't like it so much, then ordered my first pineapple margarita. First margaritas apparently make me a whole new level of chatty and Clawie spent the latter half of our stay convincing me why it would be unwise to order a third. When the band ended their set, we headed for home as well. In the cab, he had the smile of a young boy looking forward to trying out his new toy.

Which is what he did as soon as we got home. There were a few glitches with the installation though and I recorded the process in a 12-minute video. Those extra last two minutes however have made the video impossible to upload here or on YouTube so I'm afraid we'll never get to show you his Cookie Monster intro to How Not to Install a Wacom Bamboo.

Oh yeah, the Wacom Bamboo was my gift to him this year and in the vid below he happily gives his brand new pen and tablet a test drive. Fair warning: There is evidence of my two first margaritas in the quality of my videography.

Next year should prove to be even more fun. Among other things, I hear Agave offers bottomless margaritas :D

It's Myke's Birthday Tomorrow!!!

And Robin once again briefly takes over: I hate to say it, but Myke won't be donning a feathered mardi gras headpiece this year. He says he's on to me and I can't pull the same stunt as last year. Phooey.

Which isn't to say I don't have something else planned *giggle, giggle* He'll find out soon enough and there may just be a video sequel too, heehee.

For now, though, I'd like to share this excerpt of a meme I made for him last Valentine's. Its gooey entirety can be viewed from my Deviant Art page, but I think this first part pretty much says it all about the man with whom I now share all my dreams :)

We can squabble like nothing else on this planet (suppressed chortle), but in the end we always come back to being each other's best friend, and each other's partner in all things.

We've got a lot planned this year and we hope we can tell all of you about it soon :) There are even a few trips out of town in the works (and Lord knows we both need a vacation), including a return to Samal Island later in the year.

Lookie, I made a slideshow of our Davao trip last year! Not only do I delight in such things, but I've once again downed a tumbler of coffee!

Eheh, thanks for visiting our page and I do hope you can leave Myke a little birthday greeting before you go.

Here's wishing you and your loved ones an awesome long weekend ahead!

ROBIN's Minor Operation

Yup! Last Thursday (March 11, 2010 at 3:15pm) Robin went to a minor operation. It'll be the first time for both of us in different manner. She being operated and Me having so close and very dear to me to have gone through that kind of operation.





Waiting feverishly for her operation to be over, and after an hour, the operation was successful and it all went very well. She was heavily sedated. She was complaining that from her hips to her toes we're numb. And she will talk to me in just 5 minutes and she'll go back to sleep that last for 15 to 20 minutes.



But after an hour and a half, she was okey. talking as if nothing had happened (which is very fine by me, coz' I know that she is now back to normal). Ohh yes. She started complaining yet smiling. I like it when she smiles at me. Makes me wanna hug her tight (is hubby feelin' when I is wit her :D ).



Five days after her operation, she was back to her normal self, although she was complaining of some minor pain, but she is fine. The mefenamic acid that was prescribed to her was very good at releaving the pain. But just like me, she also get some sort of hyper acidity or tummy spasm. But like I said, she is okey and the medicine is I think a normal reaction even if you drink it with a full stomach.


So yeah...I wanna share you some of the picture I took when we were at the hospital.
And both of US want to thank each and everyone who prayed for her. Thank you guys and gals! You know who you are.

We also wanted to thank her doctor, Dra. Cabalza and the nurse named Mike who patiently help me when we we're there. Both of them took care of my baby very well. Thank you so much.

Big Hugs!



Now who said that she is in alot of pain?
Rock on baby!
~or could it be the anesthesia's effect?~

Gio Paredes Going International

I guess by now everyone know who this man is. He is a legend, a great comic book artist and a great father...we will miss him...Nyaaah! Joke.

Kidding aside, Gio's hard work with his original creation KALAYAAN comics will be hitting the international market this year. To know more check out his blog GIO PAREDES BLOG

His Website that I designed.



Congrats Parekoy... from me and Robin.



Robin's postscript: There's a reason I call Gio "Kuya" (big brother) -- I look up to the man. In the time I have known him, he has earned my deepest respect and endless admiration because somehow he manages to successfully juggle his creative passions with just about everything else life throws at him.

I keep telling people, here's a man with a full-time day job, a wife and small kids. And yet he manages to release his independent title _without fail_ every four months. He delivers his books to bookstores all over the city and attends every single convention there is. He does this not because there's any profit involved, but because he genuinely loves comics.

He's a man who knows how to dream and knows what it takes to make the dream come true. I adore him to bits for it :) Kuya Gio, you deserve all the success that comes your way; you have in us friends and fans for life. Cheers!!!

Robin's review of his title KALAYAAN #4

All Artworks created by Myke A Guisinga
KALAYAAN is created, © and ™ by Gio Paredes

15th Monthsary and counting

And I am on a roll. Posting another one. I made this couple of days ago. Post it on her Friendster. The place: The newly built underpass at Quezon City Circle connecting Phicoa.

The time: Almost 2a.m. on a Sunday. I forgot the exact date. :D





Thene here, she made a photo manipulation/layout using some online template. I already posted the edited version on my Deviantart account. She's learning to play with photo editors now. And she knows how to pic the right photo and right size to crop for a certain templait.

Now SHE ROCKS!