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My Tito Jay in Canada recently emailed about that big black-out that put everyone in panic mode again.

Yo bros!

The power went out at around 4:15 pm EST, Thursday afternoon, and I was in a conference call with our biggest wholesale customer. Thir head office was 10 km away from ours and their power went dead and before I can even react to their cursing cuz they were building a spreadsheet during the course of the meeting, our systems went down as well. In short, we all left the office pronto after making calls to all our branches across Ontario and had the same problem.

The traffic was bad due to people leaving all at the same time and all subway and streetcars (running on electric power) went dead. Complete chaos as people started walking like 5 to 20 km to get home as all the trains and buses were filled up quickly. I managed to drive home without a hitch. All the gas stations shut down but the few that opened had cars line up like a half a kilometer away. The gas station at the corner from the house was crazy with line ups along the block non-stop. Friday was declared a non-working day after power was still un-available for the most part.

I had to buy ice(which sold out quickly) to fill up the fridge as I had quite a few steaks in there. We got power back after 30 hours on Friday night I heard, unfortunately, we were the last ones to get power as this is a newly developed area. The Prescillas got their after only 12 hours or so at Pictorial st. We had no problem cooking as I have a double burner propane stove which I used for camping. Gloria is so used to blackouts anyways and it's a good thing that we had some cool nites so opened windows was the best solution.

I guess it was a Noy-Pi who caused all these hassle from Ohio? hehehehehe! All's back to normal.

JG

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My Saturday BLAH BLAH


The talk was supposed to start at 9:30am. Of course I was late. I’m really not a morning person. Whenever I have meetings at Globe at 8am, I definitely cannot survive that without Coffee California’s Perkins Perk-up, which is brewed coffee with a shot of espresso.

Anyway, finally found Room 215 of the SEC building at 10:30am. So, because I ran (well… walked really fast) to the SEC Building (which didn’t exist when I graduated from Ateneo) I ended up doing my talk panting and sweating like a pig. (Not a pretty sight.)

I flubbed some of the jokes in my talk. (Lesson… never ever read the punch lines of your joke.) I just hope the kids picked up something from my little talk.

Anyway, I picked up a few tips and words of advice from Dean and Kensai. Will now start using Pantene PRO-V! Dean, should really turn that into a self-help writing book and I’m sure Pantene will sponsor it.

Forgot to ask the students questions about what they thought of local comic books, what they read, what they wanted to see. Will try to attend this Saturday’s session and maybe get the chance to ask them then.

After the talk, we all went to Enconium for lunch. Nice place. Bad service. Took forever for them to serve our food. Guess they’re not used to big crowds.

Finally got to meet Andrew Drilon, this artist I’ve been trying to track down ever since I saw his works at the C3 CON last December. Turns out he’s a freshman! He can write and draw his own stories! Lucky bugger!

Hope to collaborate with him on some project… now, where did I put that script? Hmmm…

Talking about collaboration, this series of talks in the Ateneo is a put together by Comic Col and UP Grail. I’m glad that the two orgs are working together to promote the comic book medium. They’re trying to get in touch with other comic book orgs in other universities. Hope they succeed because it’ll be a good way to keep the interest alive and make more people aware of the potential of the medium.