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.

House of God

I went to church this morning. Every single time I attend mass, I'm always secretly wishing that I would find a Piolo Pascual there ala 9 Mornings. But being that it's 7:15 in the morning, the chances are always slim. Kaya siguro galit si God sa akin eh, kung ano-ano ang iniisip ko sa loob ng simbahan. LoL.

Werk It

First of all, it has been five six years since I have performed in front of a large audience. How I wish that I'm still 20+ pounds lighter, much more flexible, and my mind is not full of confusion that I can still memorize 8 sets of 8-counts in one day without missing a single beat. Times have changed indeed. However, once a person has learned techniques, they are easy to spot on other people. So for the record, let me just say that the difference between amateur dancers and professional dancers is stage presence.

The basic rules that I think people should know when dancing in front of a large audience are:

• Don't look around at what others are doing
  
• Don't lipsync to the music
  
• Don't look down
  
• Don't fidget with your clothes/hair while dancing

But for me, I know you're goOoOod when you can dance your steps and do one of the following:

1. Make eye contact with the audience.
2. Make eye contact with a single person in the audience and just dance to that person. If you can make that person squirm in his/her seat, baby, you're goOoOod.

For the past two years, I've been attending a hiphop dance showcase once a year. I like to see what's going on and it's good entertainment. I don't even mind going to them alone. The "kids" who dance hiphop these days are awesome and I'm glad that they have the chance to start while they're young. However, since they learn from their peers/tv, I feel that technique is not emphasized enough. It's only bugging me because they are awesome, but they are going to be ten times more awesome if they *perform* rather than just *dance*. Werk it with a capital W. :)

(Let me just ramble on about what happened today)

So it was also during a hiphop dance show last year did I make peace with the fact that Dancing King is "playing for the same team" as I am and it was also during this time did I cross off the idea of wanting a significant other with a hiphop dance background. Well, let me just say that the hiphop hormones are back. HaHa! I saw him last year and I saw him this year also. He's clean cut, as light as I am, and frankly, he looks like a nice boy that I can bring home to mother dearest. LoL. He's not one of the popular guys and he's more of a breaker. But with my luck, he's probably way younger than me. Tsk. Tsk. I'm still searching for that hiphop dancer that's clean cut, in his mid-late twenties, a college-degree-holder, who can read and write, who's roughly 5'10," and...who is 100% straight. The last requirement is the hardest to fulfill. ;P