After I graduated, I made sure that I wouldn’t lose my own identity. Not that I was really distinct from other people, but I knew that I was a little more fearless back then. I’d still run away screaming like a girl at the first sight of a cockroach, but for everything else, I was open to trying anything once and take risks.

However, when I finally got a job, I failed to notice that I was starting to lose myself. I became a little more reserved and quiet, unwillingly stopped drawing because of my busy schedule, started wearing plain clothes. Day by day, the college kid was fading and started conforming to what society wanted me to be.

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I’m very picky with the movies I watch and make sure I lurk around the internet to get a mild idea on what a film is about before willing myself to purchase a ticket. 95% of the movies I have seen so far were decent, some brilliant… at least, in my own opinion. The remaining 5% were results of bad judgment or because my friends wanted me to come see the movie with them.

In this case, for 2010 movie Legion, it was the latter. The moment I saw the trailer, I knew immediately that it wasn’t my cup of tea simply because it had 3 things that I don’t like seeing in movies.

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Work In Progress, or simply WIP, is a weekly webcomic done by a good artist/lawyer-in-the-making friend of mine, Teddy Pavon, and his friend. To be honest, I don’t quite know what the story is yet since it was just recently launched a couple of days ago. The first 10 pages are a cliffhanger though, so I’m hooked and curious.

It updates a few pages every Wednesdays so I suggest to bookmark it and keep checking back. So whattaya waiting for?! Click on the image to visit the website!

For 2 consecutive years, I’ve tossed in the towel and quit my job right before the holidays. Was it a smart move? Financially, it’s probably the most idiotic step a fresh grad could make. Holiday season is the most expensive time of the year and you push away the only income generator you have. Yeah, you deserve a medal. Good job!

“I stand on principle where other people stand on money.” said Paula Abdul.  I’m not gonna be all self-righteous and say that I don’t give a rat’s ass about earning money but the former Idol judge does have a point. Heck it would be nice to get as much cash as I can but there are just some things that would push me off the bandwagon.

I may not have a lot of experience yet, but I thought I might share some good points to consider when it is time for you to move on. At least, these were MY reasons for deciding a full-on freelance life.

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Ooops. I’ve been so busy with so many things that I forgot to greet everyone a happy friggin’ new year! 2009 sucked so much so I’m hoping for a better 2010.

By the way, I’m part of a group exhibit by InK at 1/of Gallery, Serendra at The Fort. Exhibit is open until January 9. =)

Emmanuel Malin has always been a big inspiration for me. If there was such a thing as ‘love at first sight’ then it’s what happened to me the moment I saw his works. Something about them that was enchanting and made me stare longer than I usually do with other people’s work.

Take a look at his website and browse his works. =)

I don’t really take pride of my photo-editing skills but if it’s vanity we’re talking about, I get very OC. The photo was taken by my good friend Karla on her recent photoshoot where she desperately needed a model for her class. I sort of forgot to wear my glasses when this picture was taken so I decided to just digitally put it on. Fixed the angle, and added an earring (I wanted to see how I will look like with one =P)

I’ve been having problems logging on to my entire website the past week because of some shitty error in my laptop. Thus the lack of updates recently. The worst part is I forgot my passwords so I can’t log in on other computers. But it’s working now, and I’ll post new updates tomorrow.

After 2 weeks of hiatus, episode 9 of Glee finally aired this week! And one of the good things about this particular episode was Artie’s solo. It was nice to finally see the episode’s focus on him and Kurt and the wheelchair group performance was great.

Another big plus in this episode was the diva-off of Kurt and Rachel singing Defying Gravity. Haven’t seen the actual broadway perf of Wicked, but it’s one of my favorite songs because of the cheesy, hopeful lyrics. Haha.

Now all I need is Tina’s backstory and this season would be complete. I’ve had enough of the baby mamma drama.

Dear Santa,

If you can’t give me a steady career for 2010, at least give the new The Little Prince Deluxe Pop-up Book. We took product shots last week and I saw this book and wanted to steal it for myself. I’ve been as good as I could and I didn’t get banned anywhere this year and I didn’t give anybody the finger.

Love, Robx