Well,
I'm not sure if all or some of you have heard of After Effects? well, as a matter of fact there were many imes I've come across it's name and rarely do I have an inkling on how enjoyable and ecstatic I would be, much like what I felt when I frist got my hands wet with Photoshop(it was version one back then) and Freehand was still with Aldus not Adobe. Now I've found myself a more robust software to feast my eyes on. It's basically Flash on steroids, Flash has the hassles of programming e.g. Actionscrtipt which frustrates me alot, although the basic I do understand, but the advanced freaks me out. Unlike, Adobe After Effects, it takes away the hassle of programming, the closest it gets to programming is expressions(tiny alphanumerical parameters that you insert into after effects comps to do the deed more precisely and wonderfully). YOu can focus more on the end results not on the How to get there result thingy.
I definitely will continue discovering After Effects' power. In the near future I'll be posting motion graphics I've created while learning it's powers.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
NINOY'S LETTER TO DAUGHTER BALLSY (1973)
August 18, 1973
FortBonifacio
Makati, Rizal
Ms. Maria Elena C. Aquino
25 Times St. Quezon City
My dearest Ballsy,
I write you this letter with tears in my eyes and as if steel fingers are
crushing my heart because I wanted so much to be with you as you celebrate
your legal emancipation. Now that you have come of age, my love, a voice
tells me that I am no longer young and suddenly, I feel old.
An old poet gave this advice very long ago “when you are sad, remember the
roses will bloom in December.” I want to send you bouquet of roses, big
red roses from my dreamland garden. Unfortunately for the present, my
roses are not in bloom, in fact they have dropped all their petals and
only the thorns are left to keep me company. I do think it is fitting to
send you a thicket of thorns on this memorable day!
I am very proud of you because you have inherited all the best traits of
your mother. You are sensible, responsible, even-tempered and sincere with
the least pretenses and affection which vehemently detest in a woman. I am
sure like your mother, you will possess that rare brand of silent courage
and that combination of fidelity and fortitude that will be the life vest
of your man in the tragic moments of his life.
During my lonely hours of solitary confinement in FortMagsaysay, Laur,
Nueva Ecija last March and April with nothing else to do but pray and
daydream, with only my fond memories to keep me company, I planned a
weekend barrio fiesta for you in Tarlac for your 18th birthday. I fooled
myself into believing that my ordeal would end with the fiscal year. I
planned to invite all your classmates and friends and their families for
the weekends.
The schedule called for an early departure by bus from Manila and the
first stop will be Concepcion, where lunch will be served by the pool. And
after lunch, you were to visit the SantaRitaElementary School to
distribute cookies and ice cream to the children of that public school
where you were first enrolled.
I guess sheer nostalgia prompted me to include Santa Rita. We were only
three then: Mommie, you and I. Those were the days of happy memories
little responsibilities, tremendous freedom, a great future ahead and
capped by a fulfillment of love.. You are the first fruit of our union,
the first proof of our love and the first seal of our affections.
From Concepcion we were to proceed to Luisita for the barrio fiesta. I
intended to invite a friend who could roast an entire cow succulently.
Swimming, pelota, dancing and eating would have been the order of the day.
Sunday morning was reserved for a trip around the Hacienda and the mill
and maybe golf for some of the parents and later a picnic-lunch on Uncle
Tony’s Island. Return to Manila after lunch. I am afraid this will have to
remain as one of the many dreams I had in Laur.
Our future has suddenly become uncertain and our fate unknown. I am even
now beginning to doubt whether I’ll ever be able to return to you and the
family. Hence, I would like to ask you these special favors.
Love your mother, whose love for you, you will never be able to match. She
is not the greatest mother in the world, she is your sincerest friend.
Take care of your younger sisters and brother and lavish them with the
love and care I would like to continue giving them but am unable to do so.
Help Noy-noy along and pray hard that he will grow to be a real,
responsible man who in later years will protect you all.
You are the model for your three younger sisters. Your responsibility is
therefore great. Please endeavor to live up to our highest expectations.
Be more tolerant to Pinky, more accessible to Viel, our little
genius-princess, and more charitable to Krissy, our baby doll, and make up
for my neglect.
Finally, forgive me, my love, for not having been an ideal, good and
thoughtful father to you all as I pursued public office. I had hopes and
high resolve of making up, but I am afraid my destiny will not oblige.
I seal this letter with a drop of tear and a prayer in my heart, that
somehow, somewhere we shall meet again and I will finally be able to make
up for all my lapses, in the kingdom where justice reigns supreme and love
is eternal.
I love you,
Dad
FortBonifacio
Makati, Rizal
Ms. Maria Elena C. Aquino
25 Times St. Quezon City
My dearest Ballsy,
I write you this letter with tears in my eyes and as if steel fingers are
crushing my heart because I wanted so much to be with you as you celebrate
your legal emancipation. Now that you have come of age, my love, a voice
tells me that I am no longer young and suddenly, I feel old.
An old poet gave this advice very long ago “when you are sad, remember the
roses will bloom in December.” I want to send you bouquet of roses, big
red roses from my dreamland garden. Unfortunately for the present, my
roses are not in bloom, in fact they have dropped all their petals and
only the thorns are left to keep me company. I do think it is fitting to
send you a thicket of thorns on this memorable day!
I am very proud of you because you have inherited all the best traits of
your mother. You are sensible, responsible, even-tempered and sincere with
the least pretenses and affection which vehemently detest in a woman. I am
sure like your mother, you will possess that rare brand of silent courage
and that combination of fidelity and fortitude that will be the life vest
of your man in the tragic moments of his life.
During my lonely hours of solitary confinement in FortMagsaysay, Laur,
Nueva Ecija last March and April with nothing else to do but pray and
daydream, with only my fond memories to keep me company, I planned a
weekend barrio fiesta for you in Tarlac for your 18th birthday. I fooled
myself into believing that my ordeal would end with the fiscal year. I
planned to invite all your classmates and friends and their families for
the weekends.
The schedule called for an early departure by bus from Manila and the
first stop will be Concepcion, where lunch will be served by the pool. And
after lunch, you were to visit the SantaRitaElementary School to
distribute cookies and ice cream to the children of that public school
where you were first enrolled.
I guess sheer nostalgia prompted me to include Santa Rita. We were only
three then: Mommie, you and I. Those were the days of happy memories
little responsibilities, tremendous freedom, a great future ahead and
capped by a fulfillment of love.. You are the first fruit of our union,
the first proof of our love and the first seal of our affections.
From Concepcion we were to proceed to Luisita for the barrio fiesta. I
intended to invite a friend who could roast an entire cow succulently.
Swimming, pelota, dancing and eating would have been the order of the day.
Sunday morning was reserved for a trip around the Hacienda and the mill
and maybe golf for some of the parents and later a picnic-lunch on Uncle
Tony’s Island. Return to Manila after lunch. I am afraid this will have to
remain as one of the many dreams I had in Laur.
Our future has suddenly become uncertain and our fate unknown. I am even
now beginning to doubt whether I’ll ever be able to return to you and the
family. Hence, I would like to ask you these special favors.
Love your mother, whose love for you, you will never be able to match. She
is not the greatest mother in the world, she is your sincerest friend.
Take care of your younger sisters and brother and lavish them with the
love and care I would like to continue giving them but am unable to do so.
Help Noy-noy along and pray hard that he will grow to be a real,
responsible man who in later years will protect you all.
You are the model for your three younger sisters. Your responsibility is
therefore great. Please endeavor to live up to our highest expectations.
Be more tolerant to Pinky, more accessible to Viel, our little
genius-princess, and more charitable to Krissy, our baby doll, and make up
for my neglect.
Finally, forgive me, my love, for not having been an ideal, good and
thoughtful father to you all as I pursued public office. I had hopes and
high resolve of making up, but I am afraid my destiny will not oblige.
I seal this letter with a drop of tear and a prayer in my heart, that
somehow, somewhere we shall meet again and I will finally be able to make
up for all my lapses, in the kingdom where justice reigns supreme and love
is eternal.
I love you,
Dad
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Cory Aquino Rests in Peace
By Jason Gutierrez (AFP) – 7 hours ago
MANILA — Former Philippines president Corazon Aquino, whose "People Power" revolution toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos and restored democracy to the nation, died Saturday after a battle with colon cancer.
"Cory" Aquino was propelled into the political spotlight in 1986, leading millions of Filipinos in protests against the corrupt regime of Marcos, who jailed thousands of dissidents during his brutal 20-year regime.
As people across the Catholic nation woke to the news, President Gloria Arroyo declared a 10-day period of mourning for Aquino, whom she praised as a "national treasure."
Aquino's family announced her death early Saturday.
"Our mother peacefully passed away at 3:18 am, August 1, 2009 of cardio-respiratory arrest," Senator Benigno Aquino Jr, said in a statement outside the Makati Medical Centre in Manila, where his mother had been hospitalised.
"She would have wanted us to thank each and every one of you for all the prayers and the continuous love and support," he said.
"It was her wish for all of us to pray for one another and for the country," Aquino said.
Arroyo, in the United States on an official visit, said: "Aquino led a revolution that restored democracy and the rule of law to our nation at a time of great peril."
Former aide and press secretary Teodoro Locsin, who is also a close family friend, openly wept on television.
"The purity, the nobility, never failed. She never asked for anything," in return, Locsin said.
He said more than anything else, Aquino removed the "centre of corruption in government, because she would not be corrupt."
US President Barack Obama "was deeply saddened" by Aquino's death, read a statement from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
"Her courage, determination, and moral leadership are an inspiration to us all and exemplify the best in the Filipino nation," the statement said.
Aquino's five children have opted to bury their mother in a private ceremony next week, and said they have not talked with any representatives from Arroyo's office.
People lined the streets Saturday as the hearse bearing her body made its way to a Catholic school where the public will be able to pay their last respects later in the day.
Military honour guards welcomed her remains, with the top brass pledging to defend democracy "that she has fiercely fought to regain."
She will be laid to rest beside her husband, Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino at a private cemetery on Wednesday next week, the family said.
In Manila's Makati financial district, huge posters of Aquino were displayed while neighbours left flowers at the family home. Requiem masses were held in Catholic churches nationwide.
A former housewife who reluctantly became president, the soft-spoken Aquino rewrote the country's constitution, freed all political dissidents jailed by Marcos, and initiated peace talks with insurgent groups.
Problems in her coalition would later emerge, and Aquino survived a series of bloody coup attempts by the same forces that went against Marcos.
"I realised that I could have made things easier for myself if I had done the popular things rather than the painful but better ones in the long run. After all, in the long run, I wouldn't be around to be blamed," Aquino once said while reflecting on her presidency.
Until March last year, when she withdrew from public life after being diagnosed with colon cancer, she had been active in street protests denouncing corruption in the government.
She had also repeatedly demanded that Arroyo, a former protege whose nine-year presidency has been marred by scandals, step down.
A humble moral crusader, Aquino once famously rejected an offer of a presidential limousine to travel to the inauguration of her successor, Fidel Ramos.
Aquino later joined the Church in rallying the public in a military-backed peaceful revolt that ousted president Joseph Estrada, a self-proclaimed womaniser and former action movie star whose regime was also rife with corruption.
Prior to her death, Aquino was reconciled with Estrada and allowed him to visit her bedside last week.
"She was a woman of both strength and graciousness," an emotional Estrada said Saturday. "Today, our country has lost a mother."
From left: John Cuaycong, Tita Cory Aquino, myself, Robert Perez. We were having lunch when luckily we chanced upon "the"Cory Aquino. So we had a little photo. My officemates and I were all there, well sans the bosses and others, only the tight group at Arc Worldwide.
We miss you so much tita Cory, may you rest in peace! ^_^'
MANILA — Former Philippines president Corazon Aquino, whose "People Power" revolution toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos and restored democracy to the nation, died Saturday after a battle with colon cancer.
"Cory" Aquino was propelled into the political spotlight in 1986, leading millions of Filipinos in protests against the corrupt regime of Marcos, who jailed thousands of dissidents during his brutal 20-year regime.
As people across the Catholic nation woke to the news, President Gloria Arroyo declared a 10-day period of mourning for Aquino, whom she praised as a "national treasure."
Aquino's family announced her death early Saturday.
"Our mother peacefully passed away at 3:18 am, August 1, 2009 of cardio-respiratory arrest," Senator Benigno Aquino Jr, said in a statement outside the Makati Medical Centre in Manila, where his mother had been hospitalised.
"She would have wanted us to thank each and every one of you for all the prayers and the continuous love and support," he said.
"It was her wish for all of us to pray for one another and for the country," Aquino said.
Arroyo, in the United States on an official visit, said: "Aquino led a revolution that restored democracy and the rule of law to our nation at a time of great peril."
Former aide and press secretary Teodoro Locsin, who is also a close family friend, openly wept on television.
"The purity, the nobility, never failed. She never asked for anything," in return, Locsin said.
He said more than anything else, Aquino removed the "centre of corruption in government, because she would not be corrupt."
US President Barack Obama "was deeply saddened" by Aquino's death, read a statement from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
"Her courage, determination, and moral leadership are an inspiration to us all and exemplify the best in the Filipino nation," the statement said.
Aquino's five children have opted to bury their mother in a private ceremony next week, and said they have not talked with any representatives from Arroyo's office.
People lined the streets Saturday as the hearse bearing her body made its way to a Catholic school where the public will be able to pay their last respects later in the day.
Military honour guards welcomed her remains, with the top brass pledging to defend democracy "that she has fiercely fought to regain."
She will be laid to rest beside her husband, Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino at a private cemetery on Wednesday next week, the family said.
In Manila's Makati financial district, huge posters of Aquino were displayed while neighbours left flowers at the family home. Requiem masses were held in Catholic churches nationwide.
A former housewife who reluctantly became president, the soft-spoken Aquino rewrote the country's constitution, freed all political dissidents jailed by Marcos, and initiated peace talks with insurgent groups.
Problems in her coalition would later emerge, and Aquino survived a series of bloody coup attempts by the same forces that went against Marcos.
"I realised that I could have made things easier for myself if I had done the popular things rather than the painful but better ones in the long run. After all, in the long run, I wouldn't be around to be blamed," Aquino once said while reflecting on her presidency.
Until March last year, when she withdrew from public life after being diagnosed with colon cancer, she had been active in street protests denouncing corruption in the government.
She had also repeatedly demanded that Arroyo, a former protege whose nine-year presidency has been marred by scandals, step down.
A humble moral crusader, Aquino once famously rejected an offer of a presidential limousine to travel to the inauguration of her successor, Fidel Ramos.
Aquino later joined the Church in rallying the public in a military-backed peaceful revolt that ousted president Joseph Estrada, a self-proclaimed womaniser and former action movie star whose regime was also rife with corruption.
Prior to her death, Aquino was reconciled with Estrada and allowed him to visit her bedside last week.
"She was a woman of both strength and graciousness," an emotional Estrada said Saturday. "Today, our country has lost a mother."
From left: John Cuaycong, Tita Cory Aquino, myself, Robert Perez. We were having lunch when luckily we chanced upon "the"Cory Aquino. So we had a little photo. My officemates and I were all there, well sans the bosses and others, only the tight group at Arc Worldwide.
We miss you so much tita Cory, may you rest in peace! ^_^'
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Stinky socks
Have you ever experienced a "stinky socks" situation?
I'm sure some of you may have experienced it someway or the other. Let me tell you what a stinky socks situation is, after all I coined it, LOL (insert Thunder SFX).
There are two ways to explain a "Stinky-Socks" situation:
1. Figuratively - A former office mate comes in the office at lunchtime-ish, sits at his cubicle and opens up his lunch box and phoooooom!!!!! there goes the fire alarm, or should I say, nuclear bomb alert siren, whatever they call that thingamajiggy that sounds off whenever a fire or threat is occuring. Smell just crawls up your neck and goes deep in your nostrils until a time it reaches through your brain and it tells you to evacuate the premises at once. Eeeeeaaarrghhhhhhh!!! Maaaahhhkkkkgh Waaaaay!!!!!
2. Seriously - It all started way back 2008 till July 13, 2009. As we all know, World Crisis is the norm for now? hmnnnn...mag-dilang anghel sana ako. Telling you a story about Redundancy is a little redundant don't you think? ^_^'. Well, it sucks but when a company decides to let you go, it's either they tell you to file a resignation en punto, or they will eviscerate you. Nuff said! Gotta catch some Zzzs!
I'm sure some of you may have experienced it someway or the other. Let me tell you what a stinky socks situation is, after all I coined it, LOL (insert Thunder SFX).
There are two ways to explain a "Stinky-Socks" situation:
1. Figuratively - A former office mate comes in the office at lunchtime-ish, sits at his cubicle and opens up his lunch box and phoooooom!!!!! there goes the fire alarm, or should I say, nuclear bomb alert siren, whatever they call that thingamajiggy that sounds off whenever a fire or threat is occuring. Smell just crawls up your neck and goes deep in your nostrils until a time it reaches through your brain and it tells you to evacuate the premises at once. Eeeeeaaarrghhhhhhh!!! Maaaahhhkkkkgh Waaaaay!!!!!
2. Seriously - It all started way back 2008 till July 13, 2009. As we all know, World Crisis is the norm for now? hmnnnn...mag-dilang anghel sana ako. Telling you a story about Redundancy is a little redundant don't you think? ^_^'. Well, it sucks but when a company decides to let you go, it's either they tell you to file a resignation en punto, or they will eviscerate you. Nuff said! Gotta catch some Zzzs!
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