The Cost of Friendship

I am here to declare that there *is* an amount of money that can equal one's friendship. It is $302.40. If you want proof that this is true, please check back in one month's time. =)

PNW Connection

I'm stressed. Hence, the slight layout change. Hence, my clean bedroom, too. I won't dwell in my misery, nor should you (for now, hahaha), so moving along...HeHe.

Pinay Pie was shown last week on TFC. Someone said that she found it funnier than Tanging Ina, so I taped it out of curiousity. Let's forget the fact that I was able to sit through the whole thing when I watched it last night. I wouldn't have if I didn't get a glimpse of Dale Villar towards the latter half of the movie. I had no idea he was in it. I even rewound to make sure it was indeed him and it was!

First of all, I wasn't in Manila anymore when Dale started his career so I never saw him in "Ober Da Bakod" or in his Pepsi commercials. I only knew of him because back in the 90s, there was a Saturday kids show on our local NBC station called "Watch This!" and it featured Dale once because of the Pacific Northwest connection. The storyline was how "Dalebert Ace Villar was a high school nerd" and how "popular he was in the Philippines." Ever since then, I've entertained the thought of my going to Portland and running into him (Portland is only 3 hours away from Seattle). Anyway, I had no idea he's back in Manila. See? I'm not the only crazy one around here who wants to make a career out of being a balikbayan! =)

Giant Scissors

We're using my "witty" ad. Hooray! If you're going to be visiting Seattle after November 1, let me know, and I'll direct you to where you can get the publication with my ad on the backcover. Naks! LoL.

Actually, I shouldn't count my chickens just yet. After submitting the ad to the publishing coordinator, she asked me to change the ppi of the file. She needs it in 300 ppi; I gave it to her in 96 ppi. LoL. So that's why it was looking ugly when I printed it out! I thought it was just our printer. HaHa! Anyway, so when I changed it to 300 ppi, everything looked much better when printed out. However, I had to change the image to 300 ppi also, but when I did, it shrunk the picture to three-fourths of its original size. No! My witty ad needs those giant scissors! So, I don't know what to do. When I resized the picture using "Pixel Dimensions" under "Image," the scissors looked crappy. Holy mother of pearl. I hope I can make this work by noon tomorrow.

Aside from that, I have other problems. Today proved to me (yet again), that there are people who get it, and there are people who don't. We're using this ad without the approval of those on our Board who have seen it. They just don't get it. They're thinking inside the box, while I'm thinking outside the box. Those people who get it can appreciate eachother's work, but we always have to get our work approved by those who don't get it, those who just don't understand. Ahh, have I discovered what the real world is about? LoL.

And So I Want to Work in Advertising

I spent the last 10 hours (no joke!) creating an ad for work. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to "beautify" the ad while I was at the office, so I took the files home in order to work on them. Now, my head hurts and my eyes feel like they're cross-eyed. This isn't the life of a workaholic; more of the life of an incompetent Adobe Photoshop user. LoL.

This is my first ad and I wanted to make sure that my boss will ask me again to do another one in the future. HeHe. I ended up doing two ads to present tomorrow. If I were to make the decision, I would go for the witty one instead of the "normal" (read: uber boring) one. Regardless, both are going into my pseudo-portfolio.

The graphic designers who are reading this are probably laughing right now because of my using Photoshop to create an ad. Patawarin po, Adobe PageMaker is a pain in the *bleep to use as far as I'm concerned. And no, we don't have Adobe InDesign or Quark in the office, so it's either PageMaker or Photoshop.

I don't think I need a second opinion, but is it time to get a graphic design tutor? LoL.

No Excess Packaging

I feel like telling a story, but I have none to tell so excuse this senseless entry...

I just went on MySpace to check out my 7th grade crush's picture again (because the weather is getting colder, folks, hahaha). I just want to say that he's pogi talaga. I can't get over that little fact. LoL. If I think about it, I haven't come across any guy who looks better than him after all these years. Ewan, maybe it's true that first love never dies? I would love to post his picture on here to prove my point but I don't want to re-live my 7th grade stalking skills. HeHe. I just firmly believe that if you're pogi, you're pogi. No amount of cars, clothes, or hair gel can help someone that isn't. That's probably why I like the simple guys because I know that they're not trying hard to increase their pogi points. Mukha talagang anti-metrosexual ako. HaHa!

Since I'm on this topic already: Richie Ticzon of San Miguel All-Stars, married with children na ba? Anyone know? Google isn't helping me much. HeHe.