Since last year, when I decided to drop loyalty and accepted the position offered to me by my new employer, I have been drawn to work even more, renewing my passion for architecture, eventually opening up the doors to web design again. Since my new office never really demanded 200% of my time for a project, my free time is divided between my wifey, rest/sleep/eat, video games, and web design, also recently that time is sliced up once more when we recently got a dog, as of this writing, a two-month german shepherd-chow chow breed of a cute dog we named Mojo.

Work is good, helps to pay bills, working for a great boss, office is small but I like it that way. Working with some of my college friends and meeting new officemates is an added bonus. Majority of the work I’m in caters to interior design, not far from what I did before. At home, I’ve been trying to re-study the art of WordPress, I think I kinda lost my way into it but I am again getting a hang of it. That re-studying paid off (I think) when I re-designed this website. And with this, I am already working on new themes for freelance. I am also trying to help out my colleagues by providing consultation on what to do or how to do things, which is kinda fun.

I think that’s keeping things up to date around here for a while. Hopefully in the coming weeks I can already post something useful here.

Thanks and have a good day!

I came back here with yet another set of changes, and hopefully I can jumpstart it this coming April.

‘Til then, just follow my everyday woes on twitter.

Last September 27, Philippines, mostly Luzon, was hit by tropical storm Ondoy, international name Ketsana, left Manila and 25 provinces submerged in water, Ondoy dropped a one-month worth of rain in just 6 hours. Our shop was submerged in waist deep flood in Manila, my parents were trapped overnight because of that, an officemate of mine lost everything because of the massive flood in their area. You can see it on Boston.com how much damage it did to my country, Cambodia and Vietnam.

When Ketsana (Category 2 typhoon) hit Manila, it’s not as strong as Parma (Category 4 super typhoon), who hit the Philippines a week after, but the damage is almost the same.

What caused it?

Some argued that the reason for the massive flood it’s because the dams around Manila gone critical and they released water to relieve that, others stated it’s because of poor urban planning that lead to this event, the rest blame it on how we treat Mother Nature which would result to climate change.

I, too believe that today, the effect of climate change is upon us, just spend a day reading articles on the web and you can read a lot about how our planet is changing in a span of months to one year. Here in our area, there was a day when it will rain and the sun will shine, in 10-15 minutes intervals; Weird and scary.
I attended an event at Taguig where Bella Gaia is featured, and you can see how beautiful the earth is, and there was a portion on the backdrop video where it shows how we, as people, affected the earth with our everyday lives, it was not elaborated on the program but if you do get the chance to see it, a simple 3-4 minute part of that can make you realize how our individual lifestyle can make a difference to our planet.

So what can we do?

I am not a scientist, but it took us a long time to end up where we are, and I think it will also take us a longer time to change it. And it should start with you.

Change your lifestyle, even at home you can help out. Change regular light bulbs to energy saving ones, shutting off electrical appliances if not needed, use public transport or walk instead of driving your car if your point of destination is very near. Recycle and buy recyclable materials. Plant a tree, it can help lessen the carbon dioxide emitted in our atmosphere.

Last Note

My post will not matter if we can’t even accept the fact that our earth is suffering, we tend to drop the topic since we can live our everyday lives the way we always do, not knowing that in the big picture, we are to blame for all of this. So we must act on it.

I can blog about this all day, but what can we do for our lifetime to save Mother Nature? That’s the challenge we need to face.

QUICK UPDATE!

It’s official! My website is one of the finalists for the Best Blog Design!

I don’t know if I can win it, since I am a minimalist and the other websites are mode decorative. I don’t mind, being in the finals is more than enough for me, and winning the award is a super plus! Thank you again for the recognition!

Yes it’s that time of the year again, when bloggers like me get the chance to win and gain recognition for the work we did for our websites. Haha!

Yet again I entered my website to this event, hopefully I’ll get nominated this year. Cross your fingers!

Philippine Blog Awards website got a facelift!

I think after all this, I really need a break.

Work remains the same, have all the reasons to keep me busy. Almost finish with the drawings needed for the project, hopefully me and my team can finish it by the end of the month. I know we can, it’s just that we have a lot to consider and I too, sometimes get overwhelmed with the stuff that needs to be done. Thank God that I have my team to depend on. I failed more than once in leading this team, I hope that I can do better as weeks pass by.

Life has been good, Yas’ been great supporting me with work. I too am proud about her achievements. In a few months she’ll graduate and hopefully she’ll stay here. Keeping my hopes up!

I already announced on Twitter that I won’t be accepting web design for now, since my work is eating up most of my time I can’t allow myself to be congested with more stuff. I already failed to provide WordPress themes to a client and I am so sorry for that. After that incident, I decided to stop accepting sidelines and concentrate more on my day job.

As for this website, I am trying to create a minimal design layout. Eliminate stuff that is not really needed and concentrate more on a cleaner layout. I’ll post a draft image soon.

It was a recording of an abusive adult to a small girl, where she kicked her when the child entered the frame, then drags her kicks her again, on the head! Are you serious?!!

I got angry when I finished this video, I have a niece, who if I compared height with the little girl on the video, and make it as a benchmark on the age, is younger than the girl being abused. If that ever happened to my niece, I’ll be mad as hell and beat the crap out of the person who will do that to her.

I don’t know if that’s a maid or the mother, but then you are dealing with a child, who might still not understand what’s happening, and with an adult being abusive, is something I can never forgive.