Babbling Point

WE HAVE SUCH SITES TO SHOW YOU For those of you who don't know yet, Gerry has moved to a new blog... http://gerry.alanguilan.com/ Jonas Diego also got a new address... http://www.thecomicblurb.com/ Meanwhile, David Hontiveros has finally moved into his blog... http://iguana5legs.blogspot.com/ ...which currently contains an avalanche of movie reviews and TV show reviews. So, if you want the latest about HEROES, LOST, THE DRESDEN FILES, then go click on the link please. Leinil Yu has set up his web home at: http://leinilyu.com/ I recently read DE:TALES and Eli pointed out to me that the creators of that comic book are blogging (and drawing) at: http://fabioandgabriel.blogspot.com/ Okay? Have a happy weekend everyone :-)

I wish my phone-cam could’ve taken… Photo that was never taken #1 On my way to work, at the corner of our street and EDSA, I stopped and clicked on the right-turn signal-light and slowly tried to merge into that historic avenue. That’s where I saw him standing against the vast white wall that separated the rails of the MRT from the traffic on EDSA. He was a “taong grasa”; dressed in tattered military green shorts and not much else except his dark, grimy skin that was wrapped taut against his skeletal frame. He stood on the sidewalk-that-wasn’t-a-sidewalk. Even though I was all across on the other side of the four-lane traffic of EDSA, I could imagine the heels of his feet trying to find footing on that slim side of concrete. He looked across the street, as if meaning to challenge the 10am traffic of buses, trucks, and cars. The skeletal man seemed to shiver as the steady stream of vehicles caused this great wind to rush southwards. Seeing his dark figure against that white wall made me...

(G)ood Old Days I had this grand plan to upload a new story for today. (But I didn't get to do it.) So, here are some old pictures / ads from Globe's (G)moment days. It still seemed relevant for today's occassion.

romance(G) (click photo to see larger version) I found Shiloah's blog via a link from Mark's blog . I think it was one of her 2002 entries when she wrote about her love and longing for her boyfriend who was studying in the US. I cut-and-pasted it because it was such a wonderful entry. Couple of months later, we got a Job Order to make an IDD ad for our client. I dug up Shiloah's entry and presented it to my boss, but for some reason I now forget, we didn't get to present it. Cut-to: January 2003, we go another Job Order and this time it was for an IDD ad that was going to come out in Valetine's Day. I presented the idea again and my boss said okay. When we presented it to client, we showed the the usual IDD ads first, which showed couple talking on cellphone and had the usual price of the IDD call in really large font. I presented the Shiload ad last. I didn't show them the ad at first. I just read the copy out loud. I read it slowly and paused before I read the...