Babbling Point

Since it is Friday the 13th, I thought I'd give all of you a TRESE treat. I've uploaded the complete first issue of TRESE at: http://tresekomix.blogspot.com/ If it's your cup of black tea, then you can get the dead-tree version at Comic Quest , Megamall. Trese #2 is also available there. (By the way, thanks to all the 10 people who bought #2. It got sold out in just two weeks! hehehe! So, I recently brought new stocks to CQ.) Trese #3 should be available by the first week of February. Sorry for the delay. The holidays (and work during the holidays) just got the better of me and Kajo. (Artwork shown: one of Kajo's intial cover designs)

. It is an hour away from Tuesday. I'm looking at the workload-list in front of me and I am already tired. Funny, I thought having no Globe assignments would make the load lighter. I guess they never really promised that. Ha. Ha. Ha. (sarcastic laughter) I found this Xeroxed page when I was cleaning up my drawers: Violinist Itzhak Perlman, stricken with polio as a child, has braces on both legs and walks with aid of crutches. Gaining the stage, he must reach his chair, set down his crutches, and undo the clasps on his legs before he can play. On 18 November 1995, during a concert at the Avery Fisher Hall in New York, one of the strings of his violin broke. Undaunted, he closed his eyes and signaled the conductor to continue. Recomposing the piece as he played, changing and compensating note after note, bar after bar, he coaxed sounds from the remaining strings that they had never made before. Finishing the performance to screams of applause, he waited a moment before saying quietly