catching up

i've been using this site as an example for my class on website design and the last entry was still way back december of 2009.  a lot has already transpired since then so i'm just going to recap events i have missed via photos.

to kick things off, i present our new bundle of joy: mico gabriel samante

(with ate gabby)

he was born on may 20th of this year, just in time before we left for the batang pba national finals

(batang pba team)

(regional championship trophy)

we were not successful in our batang pba stint but we all had fun.  the organizers treated us to free pba games and an ocean park tour and i finally got to greenhills.

(i got buzz & woody at greenhills to update our toy story collection)

now, it's the start of the basketball season, i'm not into a head coaching stint now but our teams are very successful nonetheless.  we are currently participating in four local tournaments.  the best center sbp-passerelle, the gaisano south cup, the 1st royal mandaya cup and the dacs tournament.

(addu team a warming up @ woodridge gym)

(addu team b)

(mandaya cup team)

this weekend, the mandaya cup team will be playing vs uic for the championship.  god bless to us.  go blue knights!

dtc september meetup

our meet-ups are becoming a monthly thing dtc members look forward to. last saturday, we had our october meet-up at mts.

(taken during the ice cream break.(thanks for the ice cream lex!) )

(group pic this time, since it is my camera, i'm not in the group pix)
some toys present during the meet-up

"daddy!"

(paeng's hml cap and squall and rinoa's minimates cap)

(pikot's armored core)

( aj's crocmaster and paeng's firefly)

davao toy community

presenting our very own davao toy community.
photos were taken at the meet up during the amk anime event last sunday at metro avenue...thanks to bro squall for the pix.

(l-r rowil, tamtam, kaervek, me, pikot, aexstatic, the aj(seating), ralphloris, galaxy_ram,squall, m.e.n)

(same guys this time with bro deadpool taking bro squall's place)

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.

toys update

after 20 years, dad bought me a gi joe figure again. i still remeber my first gi joe, it was duke. it was back when i was in grade 1. last saturday, i finally saw the first available 25th anniversary singles here in davao. i immediately asked dad if he can buy me one.( i wasn't really hoping he would get it for me but i tried.hehe. and it worked, after lunch, he asked where the gi joe was located in the toy department and he brought it for me. i felt like the grade 1 student again. literally, my heart was pounding and i cannot contain my excitement of owning my first 25th joe. thanks dad. i'm very lucky that after all these years, dad still can buy me a toy..hehe).

here are a few pix of my very first 25th joe: dreadnok buzzer

while i was taking pix of my new toy, i also did a few pose shots of my marvel figs,

and of gabby's toy stack which is long overdue:

a laptop, a house and toys

wifey has long been planning to buy a laptop for her own. since em-em, my sister in law, is coming home from singapore, wifey asked her if she could help her buy her laptop. lo and behold, here comes the most nifty gadget i have ever seen, the asus eee pc.

this seven inch wonder of a laptop immediately caught wifey's fancy. we already saw one for sale in a few computer stores here inthe city and i can feel her excitement in owning one. (sister in law, agreed to help her get a unit when she arrives and it will be another week away from now . she arrives on the 29th and everybody in the family is getting their "pasalubong" from her..hehe. i hope it includes me.)

our classes officially ended some two weeks ago. we are on "summer mode" as i write this entry. aside from our summer work, what kept me busy was the processing of all the paper works for our house. the utilities and the finalization of the details of our house really is taxing. fortunately, the utilities are halfway done with the water utility to be followed up this friday. after the water utility, the house can be livable already which we hope to do on may 11th. (if we finally occupy our house, it will really be a fulfilled dream for wifey and i. we have longged for the house for sometime and we can really live in "our own place".)

another thing that has caused excitement aside from our house is that, 25th joes are already here in davao. i've been longing to buy one for myself. in fact, i have been tempted many times to purchase form e-bay but i decided to just wait for them to arrive and last monday, i finally got word that they are here. (i immediately asked wifey, if we can check the mall if they are really there, but unfortunately they weren't. as i write this, i'm waiting for my lunch break to be able to check on those toys again if they have been displayed on the shelves already. for my first 25th joe, i plan to buy snake eyes and storm shadow if they become available. i really can't resist buying these toys. i wil just endure what wifey will have to say if she finds out i bought joes again. she understand my passion for these toys although i still get reprimanded for getting them.)

to close out this entry, i present to you, two people i love most:

gabby and wifey!

(cheers to 20 months of being with both of you! )

pre-valentine gift

got wifey this as a pre-valentine present. she has long been looking for this toy and finally i got her one. she was so amazed and surprised when she recieved it.(i gave up part of what i'm saving for my gi joe to get her this.luv u mee, hope you like the new toy you have.) i am just so blessed that the family i have likes toys. collecting these things are something we can enjoy together. (even gabby has her own toy collection.)

my gi joe collection

a few months back, i spotted several gi joes on sale at the local mall. i had a sudden rush to buy the figures and i did. after 3 months, i have this collection i can finally show off. i returned the previously loose figures to their cards and displayed them together with my recent hauls.

what really got me into collecting these figures again? i really can't say but it's more of the nostalgia of owning these classic figures again. i used to collect them when i was still in elementary and now...i can literally own them again.

( my recent hauls, comprising of the cobra forces.)
(the gi joes)(all of my gi joes, that's my reflection on the mirror...hehehe)

our holiday photoblog

gabby playing with mr.potatohead, she's holding his arm

playing with the camera

playing w/ momee

"smile"

media noche

w/ lolo on new year's eve

tito von @ the christmas tree

first media noche

my christmas haul (thanks hon for the gi joes)

joes

update below.

these are my new joe's from the comic 3-packs general abernathy, tunnel rat and flint.

update: a pix of the cards of my joe's. the last card is my recent haul, a dtc major bludd figure. i'm looking forward to this weekend when i can hopefully purchase my dreadnoks.

new toys and our trip

shopped for my fbl win toy trophy yesterday. after 2 weeks i was finally able to buy my first comic 3 pack joes. i bought the pack with general abernathy, flint and tunnel rat. i almost missed on them because the last time i checked, i couldn't find the set, luckily last night, i saw one set so i decided to really buy it even if it would cost me some money....(it did cost me money.but i'm happy with my growing joe collection...it also cost me a lot because i was able to buy a loose fully poseable degeneration x triple h figure. now i'm in the look out for a fully poseable dx shawn...damn toys.so hard to find.hehehe.)

tomorow, we'll be leaving for iloilo for the milo-sbp national tournament. we are the defending champs in the sbp division so we will be defending our national title. hopefully, after this tournament, i will be able to buy another set of trophy toys. i plan on buying something from my allowance and i might end up buying the remaining comic 3 packs. (the one with zartan, fred and zarana, the dreadnoks and breaker, scarlett and hologam cobra commander. it's just a shame that these toys arrive here in our city late. all the good stuff are already sold out before we can get our hands on them. but this fact will not dampen my hopes of giving my joe collection another try. with all the figures available, i can more or less come up with close to 30 joe pcs both from the comics packs and the dtc's they've already released.)

will just post pictures of my new toys, hopefully with the other set i can buy when we arrive from iloilo. will also update on what happened there in the tournament once i get back.

the time of year

it is the time of year again wherein new titles for the different computer game consoles are being released week after week. one of my awaited titles this year is the annual smackdown vs.raw 2008. i've been reading about it since information about the game was released after wrestlemania 23 last march.

can't wait to get my hands on them.

update: finally got my copy yesterday (november 14, 2007) just had little time to try it out but it is really worth it.

toys and gadget

wifey and i recently purchased our very 1st television set.(our early christmas gift to ourselves since our old set won't turn on anymore....thanks tita sev for the old unit. :)) a samsung flat (reviews of the brand which states that they are the best producers of screens in the market today made us decide to go with the brand.)
because of this, my toys were displaced...the toys were previously atop the old unit but now, the new unit cannot accomodate them anymore that's why they were displaced. i took the liberty of arranging them on top of the divider and took a picture of them until i find a more suitable place for them. hopefully, when we transfer to the new house, i can place them on a nice display case.( a display case where gabby cannot reach them.)

(picture summary: pix 1-wolverine, cpt.america and eric draven action figures, pix 2 (l-r)-tallgeese gundam, elite forces figure, voltron, sandrock gundam, pix 3 gabby's mr. potato head, rasta man figurine, astroboy)

last saturday, i purchased my fist g.i.joe to start my new joe collection. i bought the spirit dtc which is from the wave 1 set of the g.i. joe dtc. only a few of the wave 1 figures is available here. i will just buy all the figures available for my collection. unfortunately, i was not able to take a picture of it. i will just update this post with the pix of my new joe. (wifey allowed me to collect them. she promised to buy me another figure at month's end. can't wait for that time to buy my new figures.) together with my joe, i bought gabby two new plush toys, tom & jerry. they will join gabby's other plush toys. (will just create a post of all of gabby's plush toys one of these days.)

as promised, here are the update of the pics of my spirit joe: