March, 2008

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Who’s that girl?

new girl on the block?

I met up with Nina last Saturday and thanks to her, I got more insights about Pinky:St and I think that I won’t regret getting assimilated. ;) Nina brought two of her girls with her. Forgot their names but they’re adorable. We were in one of the areas with fake grass in Trinoma and this picture was taken by the plant boxes.

I love the poses. It’s as if the two girls on the left were talking about Mikimiki while she’s passing by. It’s as if they’re wondering “Who’s that girl?”

Mikimiki is technically my first Pinky. I have yet to receive Arc and Sacchin in the mail. :)

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Seasons and creativity

There are seasons in a person’s life.

Though I don’t think they come in cycles similar to the ‘typical’ seasons we have like chilly, spring, summer and monsoon. (We don’t really have winter and autumn here, I think.) I think that the seasons come and go in varying durations and cycles.

These days I can’t help but think that I am in the season to just explore other creative stuff I haven’t really been exposed to or wanted to try before but didn’t have the resources. That or I didn’t have the courage to try them out. Maybe it’s because I think I ‘missed out’ on some other things because I focused on particular interests I had/have.

Some things I am interested in right now didn’t appear to be this interesting before. While other interests I have, I still like them but I don’t feel like spending so much time on them, if you know what I mean. Like technology, I am still interested in technology but it’s not the same as before. I don’t think it has died down. It’s probably just taking a bit of a backseat for now. Maybe I’ve tried too hard to keep with it more than what was enough for me. Maybe right now, I might be saturated with the technology because I work in the IT industry and I just feel the need to keep work and play as different things.

Sometimes I wonder if it’s because I don’t feel that there’s a tangible thing to work with when it comes to analysis. I mean, the situations are there, the people are there but I can’t hold it physically and I can’t mold it physically. I noticed that I’ve been fascinated with personal projects that give me something tangible or at least immediately visible and the ‘high’ I get from that is something I missed a lot.

Like poi. I have the poi in my hands and I could spin them in directions and learn new things to do with them and it’s nice. I could see the results of learning and practicing poi.

Blogging. I could easily see if my blog’s layout sucks, or if my writing is terrible or too verbose.

Now I am getting fascinated with PinkySt dolls and the thought of modding some. That’s something really tangible. But I have yet to research on materials.

My creative side is itching to do something different, something I could say is my work and physically see it. I want myself to be reflected in the things I do. Maybe I spent so much time on working with other people’s template documents and submitting analysis of other organizations’ systems that I am now wanting to just express things in a different manner than before. I don’t really know yet because I don’t understand what’s really going on with me either.

I am just letting all this be part of the season I am in right now. It might pass quickly or it might not. But I am sure that I’d learn a thing or two, somehow.

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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Sir Igs, the pyromaniac

One of the people who I really look up to when it comes to developing all sorts of skills is Sir Igor. When I was in college I thought he was one of the cool profs who didn’t make his students feel bored to death. He was my prof in at least 3 major subjects. I am not sure if I was his student in more classes. I might have to ask Trebs, Marj or Tyran about that. From the classes to his love for anime and J-rock, now I look up to him because of his poi skills. He makes his own fire poi and apparently, even his own LED staff. (Waaah! Inggit ako. Seryoso.)

Anyway, check out his new videos. One shows off his use of the fire staff and his LED staff (both are homemade) and the other shows him using his fire diabolo.

I haven’t mastered the poi yet and I have to practice my reverse weave and overhead weaves. I am still sloppy with those two moves. :( And yeah, all the reverse butterfly moves kill my arms too. Waah!

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Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Fixing up the domain

Site maintenance time. I finally put up an index page on the root folder of craftyneko.com — nothing fancy. I haven’t been able to bug my sister to draw because she’s been really busy.

Things I’ve been working on this afternoon:

  • Subdomains and the respective blogs – I have to set up multi-author plugins in the blogs. Also, I am looking for themes to use and/or tweak for these blogs on the subdomains.
  • The index page on CraftyNeko.com so that you at least have something to read. :P
Monday, March 17th, 2008

Personal projects for the summer

There are several things I want to accomplish this summer. I will list them down so I won’t forget.

  • Create a room for the Pinkies that are coming my way (and my sister’s way too!)
  • Make new poi with colorful ribbons at the tail.
  • Get new clothes.
  • Make my custom blog layout.
  • Spin fire.
  • Jumpstart the group blogs JM and I planned out.

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