Life

It’s been 5 years since I joined the events industry. At first, I was not sure if I can survive being on the other side of the coin. The last time I had been involved with an event is when I’m active as part of the local otaku media. I’ve already closed a chapter in my life, and move on to the next… and then some. Over the last five years, I’ve seen how things changed - like that one corner near our office. It was once a warehouse. It was demolished, and turned into two condo towers. ...

I’m getting too stressed with work these days that I want to distract myself from it. I’ll get back to work tasks once I’m satisfied. For this break, I decided to redo my side project anicredits, which is a tool I may find useful for writers/bloggers/what not who want to properly add copyright text to authorized images, etc. Here’s a piece from long time ago. detailing why I did it The initial site was built using Angular.js 1.3.6 and UIKit, both of which I have cherished so much. ...

Apparently this is my first Desk Diary of the year. I dedicate this post to one person who keeps doing what he does best: Being bullied by Interviewing VTubers. They call him Kevin, most got used to calling him Domo though. This guy helped elevate the best Virtual YouTubers outside of major agencies through his interviews. When he starts streaming, I was ready to clip segments as much as I can. ...

What. A. Year. I started the year with hopes and dreams that I can go to Iloilo or La Union, only to end up stuck in one place and working my ass off. This is definitely not the situation I wanted to be. Imagine having time for friends and hobbies in person, or creating more projects - then all of a sudden, you have no place to go anymore. Can we go back in time to avoid COVID-19, the CCP Virus, altogether? ...

I kept scrolling on my news feed only to stumble upon an interview with Singaporean cosplayer Rea Kami on The Royal Singapore. I was halfway through it when I stopped and wrote another Desk Diary. It was not until recently that I learned of Rea as an outspoken person, and this interview she had is compelling. Best of all, she gives quite good laughs. To summarize, in her days in school, she said “she was just very slow when it came to social situations.” She then pulls up this Japanese phrase: 空気読よめない. Kuuki yomenai. KY. Can’t read the air. Can’t read the atmosphere. ...

Thank you for taking time to read this. I promise this will be quick. This past week, I went on like how Bruno Mars sang it: “Today I don’t feel like doing anything.” Just replace “today” with “this week.” Two weeks of work left my soul crashed, and find myself wanting to just stay in a corner and watch on YouTube. I really don’t felt like doing work tasks. I assume it’s because I haven’t got any time to do what I love. I haven’t figured out how to move forward with producing podcasts at the moment, I’m producing videos for now. ...

If you’re in the field of multimedia, programming or simply a multitasker, having only a single monitor is considered a sin - at least for me. I got used to having two monitors even in the office, which is why it’s hard not to use another monitor to edit. Our office got this small, USB-powered AOC LED monitor of which I believe has been phased out in the country as far as Google tells me. ...

Photo from the NASA Earth Observatory These past two weeks are unusual… Storm after storm, rain after rain, the top part of the country gets drenched so bad that even the mountains and dams can’t handle the water and start flowing to the metro again. They said this is a repeat of Ondoy, but GMA News’ Meteorologist Nathaniel Cruz gave a better explanation about this: Ondoy went in slow, while Ulysses succeeded other storms. ...

We do not believe such a thing like purgatory exists, only heaven and hell. Right now, I’m writing from another desk, far away from the usual. Sure, the internet’s fast and all, but what I’ve been doing all day is to finish a backlog that seemed to be impossible. I’ve never felt a hellish moment like this. I really felt it when Sadvertising pops up a strip (or a series of strips) which takes pages out of the advertising industry. While I don’t belong to the same industry as theirs, I really felt that my work has been cursed. ...

After less than a year, we now have another equipment upgrade in office - this is necessary to speed up the editing process of our online events. After some tweaking, I was able to connect two monitors to a single desktop, just what I need to edit videos and stream well. Now that the materials have been set up, I expect more work to come my way. The events season is not yet over. ...