new challenges

this is the year that we as a family may be facing new challenges. gabby recently turned two and we had a simple party for her at home...what challenges await us as the year goes by inour parenting of gabby?

another challenge that we least expect is wifey travelling to a new place for work...and i mean a far place. if plans do push through, this will be the first time in that we will be apart, really apart. continents apart...hopefully after a year, gabby and i can be with her there. the prospect of going abroad is thrilling and exciting yet filled with uncertainty, but we can definitely make it work.

my first sbp team

i present my very first sbp team. we have accomplished a lot together for this school year, 4 championships for the school, a runner-up finish in the best center sbp national finals and the sportsmanship award in the same tournament. i can never thank this boys enough for the breaks they gave me during my coaching stint in the sbp but what is very important for me is the friendship we share.getting those championships is a very good feat but the friendship and camaraderie is the best i gained this year.

wishing you boys all the best in your basketball careers.

animo ateneo.

rain and the 80's

it is raining hard as i write this entry. the weather here in davao has been very erratic as of late...hot during the day and suddenly rain clouds appear out of nowhere to drench the earth. everytime itislike this, i feel like the kid i was back in the 80's...staying at home, waiting for the rain to stop so i can be with my friends and play with them. if the rain will continue for the whole day, i would just wait for my favorite cartoon shows in the afternoon and waste my time with my toys or the television tube. these were my fond memories of childhood.

looking back, those trends are slowly coming back. the toys i grew up with are making their re-appearances and catering a new generation of kids who would long for them, just like how we longed for them when we were kids....new generation, same toys...i bet when they reach my age i'm in now, they would also have fond recollections of the days they spent playing with their toys while waiting for the rain to stop so that they can share the joy they have with their friends who also long for the rain to stop so that they can play together.

toy fascination

i have been into toy collecting for a few months now, particularly the gi joe 25th anniversary line. i can say that i have more or less "owned and re-claimed" the joe figs i had and didn't have as a youngster. my joes doesn't total a lot. i'm not a completist, i just buy figs i want. (i have been this choosy in my toys really. even with this new line i'm collecting, i still wouldn't dive on every figure available.i choose.) that is the reason why i still have only eight 25th anniv line joes inspite of the fact that a lot of figures were already released.

it also helped that there is already a local toy community here in davao, organized by fellow davaoñeos. i am part of the group. now, i gained new friends who are into the same hobby as i do. meeting fellow collectors is a real thrill. we did have an initial meet-up that is yet to be followed but i guess each one of us is really looking forward to meeting again.

as for my recent birthday, i got myself a new joe, the 25th anniv zartan fig. i already have my very first joe, duke so i guess i'm done with the singles card and i may move forward to the comic packs to get my missing 13 figures. 13 figures to go and i'm done with this line and i don't care if the 13 figs are mint or not. i already have my mint characters i can now settle for loose figs of my magic 13 figs which i still need (i'll just post them on the DTC wanted list perhaps so i can finish this line by years end.)........movie line up next? depends on the figs,how they look like and if they really live up to the hype of the movie...none the less, i will get me a movie line snake eyes.

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for some strange reason, i can't compose anything for this blog except this piece that i'm writing now. a lot has transpired since my last post, but i can't really organize my thoughts and express them all here. a case of a writer's block (hopefully, it can't get the best of me 'cause i have a lot to write for this year.)

peace out!

artco

i've been thinking of what to write and i chanced upon pyk's blog and saw this image:

it's our images, the artco. pioneers. it's been already ten years since we conceived this group....an friendship among artists who love art. what bound us together was our friendship, love for art and anything that pertains to both. (the art sessions, the planning sessions which ultimately leads to some "inuman" sessions. excluding the female pioneers of course.)

as of this writing, pyk has told me that a chapter in another school has been established.

if somebody was going to interview me about this group which we pioneered and how it has survived ten years of existence...i would be proud to say that aside from our love for art, what really helped artco. through the years is the friendship forged by each batch of artco. members.

as long as the bonds of friendship will continue to develop, i will predict that artco. will live for a lot more years. after all, friendship was what helped conceive and bring our organization to fruitition.

"happy-sad"

haven't blogged in a while due to a lot of things that has kept me pre-occupied for several days until this very day. to sum up the events that has kept me busy, i have tought of categorizong them into the title that i have for this entry: "happy-sad".

happy- had the chance to emcee our celebration of "buwan ng wika"
sad- my team b lost to holy child last saturday during the sbp games
happy- wifey and i celebrated 1 year of married life. she even got me a new fone for our anniversary.
sad- one of our players got hospitalized because of dengue
sad- my former teacher and now, co-teacher passed away today.( gracias, sir tony)
happy- finally finished all of my grades which are loooong over due.

life really can be so short....we have to enjoy every minute of our existence. we need not fret about things that come our way. basically, only there are only to things we can experience in our whole lifetime...."happy and sad".