Reality TV on the blog

Reformat

10 HOURS BEFORE REFORMATING:
All words and pictures. Such a "not-so-art-related" blog since it is owned by a group of self-proclaimed Ilonggo animators...like somebody said. I wish he was right but I beg to disagree this time. This blog is our online diary that chronicles our life's journey as dreamers and unique souls. Read on how we define our life today by reformating the Kuris laptop. My laptop is the also the group's property since it has been there to help us fulfill our dreams in the past. Until now, even in its difficult times already, this useful thing has been vital in ensuring we can move mountains not only a few months ago but almost everything we do. We already to abused its healthy state during the making of Lapis trailer and The BEQUEST by installing some heavy 3D programs. A month before our Dinagyang short film was shown at SM, i pawned it in a nearby pawnshop just to cope up with our draining meal budget of the group. We can't survive the storm and the challenge if we don't lose it for a while. But I promise to myself that if we got the money, we will get you back again. 35 days after, we got you back through Janelyn's sacrifice. She borrowed money from her sister just to get hold of the poor thing again and let her take care of it. When I already got the money from my bro who was so generous, I instantly paid Janelyn. Now, here you are in my arms. A little bit stressed and drained from overwork but still helping us finish our task and fulfill our passion. You were like Marx's laptop that was always there to help us get through the day and impress our clients, friends and admirers during lectures or special request presentations of our animated projects. You were like us--drained, struggling, hoping, believing and trying to do your task you were programmed to do it. I think our passion and dream have already been programmed by fate to show us what to do with our gifts---inspiring other dreamers and the world around us. So if someone said this blog is so wordy, they should think again--it's about our life's journey and it's sentimental sometimes to chronicle every step of the way.
Today, I visited a generous man and his family who offered me a little part time job that would make use of my artistic talent. He was supposed to be contacted by the group a few months ago for some part time commission-based projects but I lost his number. Last weekend I found his number isomewhere in my old crappy bag and so I called him...Now I’m here hoping to pick up some sideline projects that could help the group. He houses an artist who was a member of another team that scattered due to lack of leadership or its leader move somewhere else. Familiar reader who knew us can eventually get the point of my riddle now.
Anyway, this lone artist is doing good so far and we remain good pals amid the team-rift in the past. As for my part, I was coping badly with the photoshop techniques I forgot when I focus in writing and marketing stuff away from my supposedly graphic-art-training. I'm back in the fold again, I guess. Meanwhile, the Kuris "special-project" boys (Marx, Bryan and Jaylord) are free from work load until Monday since their finished modules will be submitted by their project heads to their clients. Lyndon who celebrated his birthday last night with another birthday guy, Kyle visited Marx today. I think he's going to sleep in Marx' house tonight. Bryan and Jay are going home to take a break from the pressure. I never heard anything from Janelyn, Racil, Dads, Elson or Aladin but I guess they're all doing something with their lives. When the next project in school opens, probably the team will see each other and et busy again.
I got home tonight from my new sideline job bringing some exciting and surprising news. I think I'm going to get drooling with these thoughts: the new boss asked me to make hentai, hehe. Was it because my art porfolio folders shows some sexy superhero-looking girls? I scratched my head and laugh at myself silently. In the past, I told my self that I won't do this coz it's not my thing. But it seems my artworks are actually seductive for other people. Give me a break, I won't do it! But I guess, Marx and Lyndon would be the one who will do the task for me. I got their interest and confirmation when I called Marx in their landline phone. Marx's hands are itching to do these stuff (but who knows I might do some few pieces tonight, hehe). I remember the boss was telling me earlier that these stuff sells like hotcakes in the cyberrealm. Okay, I can't argue about the internet's moral standards anymore. The cyberzone is a democratic parallel world that plays god right under the nose of the outside world's laws or morality.

5 HOURS BEFORE REFORMATING:
All the best words and pictures (music videos, downloaded movies and programs) are going to be erased. I have to write everything in the blanks CDs or it's gonna be forgotten for the rest of our lives, hehe. Well, the very reason that we are going to erase everything, the collective data I treasured most for the past few months including the lethal virus in my laptop is because we will reformat it. We need to clear the overloaded Kuris laptop so that Marx and Lyndon can work for the commission job I scrapped away. "Kanugon man sang kwarta kon mabato pa sa sobra ko kapisli sa project!", hehe. Okay, you win this time guys and I must say goodbye to my favortie stuff in my laptop. Let's do this together and start something useful to earn. After all, we are artists and art is boundless in its real sense. See you guys at exactly 11AM in Marx's house.

P.S. (again?): I wish we could post our Big-Brother-inspired article one of these days. We know that it's gonna be a mind-blowing story for those project mates who were evicted by the group after a heavy votation, hehe. I heard that we did the real thing---namedropped those who passed the test and those who we're emotionally evicted. Sometimes we don't want to be honest but that's reality TV tradtion, hehe.

Old K-pal returns!

Kyle, Lyndon and Sir K having a good laugh at the Computer Dept. with some Kuris guys.

Stop and stare

I think we're getting better these days. Not that we are capable of acheiving all our aspirations and plans as a team of creative artists. But we realize that respecting each other is the best thing that could ever happen in a circle of friends. Yes, we are not perfect with everything. In fact, some of our plans are going down the drain and might be scrappped due reasons that we can't avoid. We somehow understood our limitations and weakness. But I still know that Kuris animators are keeping the faith. Along the road, we lose someone or something but we truly know that we will get something in return. Patience has always been part of our journey as struggling artists, animators and creative souls. Somewhere along the way, we know how to stop and stare for a while then figure out where we are going.
Today might be one of the best days in our journey because no matter how we try to avoid each other, fate has its own way to bring us back to where we should be. Lyndon was one of the most misunderstood trainee in the second batch of animators. He was often misjudged by people who don't understand what it feels like to be an artist who live his life only to express his soul and passion. But that's the way he is--brutally honest, expressive, less pretense and seriously funny most of the time. He came back today from Negros to meet us and join the special project team in WVCST Computer Department. With the impressive performance of Marx, Bryan and Jaylord, the project instructors and staff somehow realize that Kuris has some talent-factor that needs to be harnessed. We are grateful for Sir Karlo who has the final say of what we are capable of and how committed we are when it comes to passion. I'm glad that Lyndon will be joining the team with Kyle, Amado, Elson, Aladin and me to provide our artistic talent in making sure the project would have a big leap. Listening to Lyndon and his stories when he was away for the past few months is something admirable.Doing freelance art jobs and travelling to find himself again was an uplifting story to listen. At least the man is sincere to tell that he lived a simple and frugal life. We know that once being part of Kuris is something he couldn't find somewhere else.
Sir Rolly, the project head somehow knew that we will be doing good for their endeavor. Furthermore, before our sensible converstation ended, he asked me to submit a one page testimony how animation changed my life and what good it did to me. So, I instantly suggested that we already have those kinds of stuff here in our blog. I've been writing about us and everybody in this blog to prepare the team for a much wider challenge in the future. I know for sure that there will come a day that my wordy, overdramatic posts (according to nega peeps) will have its vital use to tell our stories with more realistic approach. Yeah, I heard he's going to submit our stories to TESDA and GMA (I just can't figure out if he was referring to Pres. Gloria or GMA network, hehe) after he gave me his email. It's up for him to choose which story deserves to be given attention.
Earlier, we met in school at around 11am, Marx and Lyndon just had their little chit-chat whe they saw me. After talking to Sir Karlo who instructed us to come back in the afternoon to meet Sir Jun who will put our name in the list of graphic artists that will join the project, we decided to go to Marymart Mall. Lyndon is going to meet with his old pal who has a gothic shop at the third of the mall. Wow, the place totally rocks. I mean, we saw lots of cryptic and gothic stuff from tattoo designs to macabre artworks (after all the shop is named Macabre). Later, we go to San Agustin to help Marx impress his beloved GF who asked his assistance in processing the dropping and widrawal form because she wants to transfer to CPU. Well, talking about love stuff, I think it's something I refuse to define.
Since we didn't get lucky to fulfill what we came for in San Agustin, we decided to go back to WVCST hoping we could catch up for the meeting with Sir Karlo and Sir Jun. We waited for Amado and Kyle at Grecels before going inside the school. Gosh, Lyndon was persistent to buy me a bottle of Redhorse, the same with Kyle and Amado who were late. Well, it's another one-bottle drinking session first before going to the meeting (just another Lyndon's way of taking easy with life). The meeting went fine and we are assured that our project heads will not regret in getting us for the task. But before we leave, I showed Sir Karlo what our blog looks like in his laptop connected to the internet. He was amazed it was indeed true that this little blog in cyberspace picks up good readership and comments (and bad ones as well, hehe). I think the good start of our blog convinced him to make his own blog that evening (I taught him how to do it). So, Mr. Sira has his own official blog now linked to our own.
But the best surprise before we bid bye-bye to each other was when Lyndon and Kyle announced that it's their birthday today. So that's the reason they invited us for another round of drinking session at Kyle's house. Well, sorry guys maybe later coz' I've got lots of stuff to do for our blog. Anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY guys! You deserve to be happy and earned our respect for having admirable talents.

Postscript (not again!): I have to tell you "T" that this is not another manufactured story in the blog. None of any older posts are manufactured. Everything is genuine. We write our heart in every post, period. And yeah, I like the way you play "cat-n-mice". Sir K was right, I have take it easy on you and the rest of nega peeps. My premonition is quite clear and vivid even via SMS. I might have Jean's TK tickling inside my head for real. Enjoy the day without backlash coz' after all you've been civil even with your comouflage charade.Let's be realistic: you still love to read us even if you don't want to, hehe!