It has been raining the whole day. Darn! I can't stand the cold. I
wish I could nestle the whole day over my blanket and stay asleep just
like Mimi (my cat). I wish I could fondle onto somebody's arms he heh...
Cold. Which reminds me of the end of the summer season. Darn again!
Well, aside from the upcoming rainy season, another school year to come.
Which made me more excited, but not with the rainy season. I remember
one time, I was terribly shaking because of the cold weather while I was
on my way to the university and ended up staying to the clinic for
several hours.
I thought I could withstand the cold that day so I didn't bring my coat. Hah ha! Dare you, cold! Fail..
Since that rainy days will be coming to bring cold to my sexy anatomy (yey!), I'm planning to make some good coats inspired by my favorite anime characters.
Hope I could do that later, but for now I'll be here at my bed cuddled by my soft and warm blanket...
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
Project Dogwaffle: Amazing paint program
While searching on the web I found this amazing Paint software where you can practice and show your artistic side specially of your fond of landscaping and nature.
It took time to practice painting using this program, but, as they say "practice makes perfect".
I'm not a computer tech type of blogger so I hope I could share my PDW software experience the way everyone could understand ^-^.
When you open the program, this is the first thing you will see: the BUFFER SIZE window (Fig. 1)
Here, you can choose the size of the canvass where you are going to do the painting thing.
After selecting the size, the CANVASS window and the TOOLS will be shown. (Fig. 2)
BE CAREFUL: Be careful about the tool window. I had a problem with the tool window before, it was gone out of the blue and took me time to reformat my PC to recover another setup of PDW.
Tool panel (Fig. 3)
Optipustic Control (OC)- It's like a particle brush that able you to add particles such as Pine branches without saving the setting and just put the particles right away. I would suggest not to click the save button to avoid problems with the OC settings.
By selecting the Settings button, you can choose any particles to add on your canvass. ►►►
◄◄Filter - Same as the functions of the filter panel used in any photo editor programs.
There's a lot of things that I have to learn about this program, but I can say that I could be terribly good at this thing in time that I mastered it, ha hah ha.
Anyway, you can be good at any paint program. Just practice a lot, be eager to learn and show the artistic side of yourself.
I'll share to you one of the picture that I made from PDW.▼▼(The nova looks perfect!)
It took time to practice painting using this program, but, as they say "practice makes perfect".
I'm not a computer tech type of blogger so I hope I could share my PDW software experience the way everyone could understand ^-^.
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| Fig. 1 |
When you open the program, this is the first thing you will see: the BUFFER SIZE window (Fig. 1)
Here, you can choose the size of the canvass where you are going to do the painting thing.
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| Fig. 2 |
After selecting the size, the CANVASS window and the TOOLS will be shown. (Fig. 2)
BE CAREFUL: Be careful about the tool window. I had a problem with the tool window before, it was gone out of the blue and took me time to reformat my PC to recover another setup of PDW.
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| Fig. 3 |
- Natural paint tools (right click)
- Simple
- Airbrush
- Pen
- Pencil
- Oils
- Tempera
- Pastels
- Watercolor
- Effects
- Organic effects
- Brush settings
- Rectangular Fill
- Ellipse Fill
- Fill tool settings
- Lasso to Alpha
- Rectangle to Alpha
- Ellipse to Alpha
- Custom brush selector tool
- Linear tool (right click)
- Line tool
- Linear Gradient tool
- Circular
- Warp
- Linear Alpha Fader
- Nova
- Curve tool
- Text
- Pan image
- Zoom
- Turkey Baster
- Fill and gradient settings
- Color selector
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| Fig. 4 |
Optipustic Control (OC)- It's like a particle brush that able you to add particles such as Pine branches without saving the setting and just put the particles right away. I would suggest not to click the save button to avoid problems with the OC settings.
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| Fig. 5 |
(This panel is so awesome! I could make a good landscape out of this one.☺)
◄◄Filter - Same as the functions of the filter panel used in any photo editor programs.
Animation - Yes, you can do animation in PDW. Alt key do the all trick at this one so don't be afraid to experiment all the way. ►►
(I'm still on the process of learning on this one and I can say that this is pretty amazing.)
There's a lot of things that I have to learn about this program, but I can say that I could be terribly good at this thing in time that I mastered it, ha hah ha.
Anyway, you can be good at any paint program. Just practice a lot, be eager to learn and show the artistic side of yourself.
I'll share to you one of the picture that I made from PDW.▼▼(The nova looks perfect!)
Friday, May 18, 2012
Filipino snacks: Kutkutin
I have been on the web looking for a site that is about Filipino snacks,
unfortunately I haven't seen exactly what I've been looking for. So, I
made a list of the foods that I've been craving for a long time.
This list is all about Filipino snacks that mostly Filipinos always bought while they're on their way home as a pasalubong or gift for their family or loved ones, specially if they came from a long trip or have been to a vacation.
Barquillos - A thin rolled cookies, mixtures of milk, flour and egg. Iloilo, a province in western Visayas, is a well-known province for making barquillos and other sweet delicacies. It's like the Champola wafer sticks and Stick-O's. Good to eat with a hot chocolate and/or along with a scoop of your favorite flavor of ice cream.
Kamote (Sweet potato) Chips and Cassava Chips - This two chips may look like the same, but they differ from the texture and taste. Sweet potato or Kamote are sliced thinly to ensure the crunchy texture after frying while the Cassava, which is also sliced thinly, may appear to have a bubbly-like appearance on the layer of a thin-sliced cassava due to heat pressure while cooking. Kamote chips are best if they're flavored with honey and Cassava chips goes along with cheese flavor and barbeque. You can go and visit Market Manila for their recipe of Kamote chips.
Shingaling -I've been eating this food since I was a child and it was and is the best snack ever. Made out of Thick noodles, dried over night and deep fried with seasoning and red pepper until it reaches it's golden brown color. Visit Loqal.ph where Marjorie Gorospe shared her story of A snack fondly called ‘shing-aling’.
Banana Chips - Sliced thinly and deep fried with sugar, banana chips is one of the classic Pinoy snacks.
Ampao - From the word itself Ampao or hollow, this food is made out of sesame and a thin wafer-like filling or sometimes is made out of puffed rice and coated with sugar caramel.
These sweet delicacies and snacks are mostly found in Pasalubong stores, bus stops and or supermarkets.
This list is all about Filipino snacks that mostly Filipinos always bought while they're on their way home as a pasalubong or gift for their family or loved ones, specially if they came from a long trip or have been to a vacation.
Barquillos - A thin rolled cookies, mixtures of milk, flour and egg. Iloilo, a province in western Visayas, is a well-known province for making barquillos and other sweet delicacies. It's like the Champola wafer sticks and Stick-O's. Good to eat with a hot chocolate and/or along with a scoop of your favorite flavor of ice cream.
Kamote (Sweet potato) Chips and Cassava Chips - This two chips may look like the same, but they differ from the texture and taste. Sweet potato or Kamote are sliced thinly to ensure the crunchy texture after frying while the Cassava, which is also sliced thinly, may appear to have a bubbly-like appearance on the layer of a thin-sliced cassava due to heat pressure while cooking. Kamote chips are best if they're flavored with honey and Cassava chips goes along with cheese flavor and barbeque. You can go and visit Market Manila for their recipe of Kamote chips.
Shingaling -I've been eating this food since I was a child and it was and is the best snack ever. Made out of Thick noodles, dried over night and deep fried with seasoning and red pepper until it reaches it's golden brown color. Visit Loqal.ph where Marjorie Gorospe shared her story of A snack fondly called ‘shing-aling’.
Banana Chips - Sliced thinly and deep fried with sugar, banana chips is one of the classic Pinoy snacks.
Ampao - From the word itself Ampao or hollow, this food is made out of sesame and a thin wafer-like filling or sometimes is made out of puffed rice and coated with sugar caramel.
These sweet delicacies and snacks are mostly found in Pasalubong stores, bus stops and or supermarkets.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Goth enlightenment: The light side if the dark chasers
This is Philippines. No Goths around. . .
How weird to hear that there are just few here in my country who knows about the goth genre. They know punks, those people who do Mohawks and black muscle T-shirts and nose piercings and head banging concerts and esophagus tearing noises (that's how non-punks understand the way punks do). They know Emo, those kids who do literally hurt themselves to say they are one and wear bondage over it and wear black and white sweat shirts or stripy polo's under 28'C temperature every day(Again, that's how non-emo's understands the way the Emo's do). But they know no goth.
I was in my high school days when someone notice my everyday get-up attire and asked me if I were a goth. I thought he was talking about the architectural designs of the late era. I never wear any dress color aside from the color black unless it is my uniform which happens to be all white and partially green. After having a small conversation with that guy, I wondered, am I goth?
But the dress is not the issue.
I've been reading for almost many blog sites including goth blogs. And what catches my attention are these questions: "Are you goth enough?", "how to be a goth?" etc. It's the typical questions from the baby bats (referring to a newbie goth) and confused and those who are having issues being one. Some preferred to show they are one by the way they project themselves to others, some to fashion and some... They just do it the way they wanted.
This time, I'm not going to answer these questions, but I'm going to pull the light side of the thing they called the dark and the GOTH. (I hoped my pre-med psychology course background will help)
For non-goths who are aware of the goth culture, they say it is a satanic thing that we kids (did I say 'we'?) shouldn't follow. For some it is a deep, dark culture that we must explore. For my parents, it is a "just-do-what-you-want" thing. And for me, it is the greatest, so far, challenge that I encountered.
Challenge. Why did I called it a challenge? Let's just say that being a goth is a trait, and this trait is definitely the opposite of me.
I got fascinated over these gorgeous lady goths who wears Victorian dresses and those state of the art make up by Adora Batbrat. But I can't do that. I can't make myself look like that. Not because I can't, but I'm not able to.
Now I see, confidence. Goth, not dark at all
It takes courage to make yourself goth enough, confidence to say you are goth enough.
There is creativity because every goth shows their uniqueness through their cloths, make-up accessories etc.
There is FREEDOM. You heard it right. Freedom. I always thought that Goths are free souls. They do what they wanted without hurting anyone even themselves. They are free to express their feelings in a way--in any way-that only themselves can do. Though they seem like they are always so deep and dark and creepy or... what words they used to describe themselves, they always seem so free, free to do all the thing they want amidst the critics they get from the people who can't appreciate the art of being a goth.
You just don't have to be goth outside, but also inside. Being goth (for me) is how this trait shows the real you and how you feel inside, without hiding or concealing the real aspects of yourself.
To be honest, to realize and internalized that I (and everyone) possessed this trait taught me to come out of my shell (yes, I thought of it as a trait) and say what I feel inside without actually saying it. Everybody possessed this trait unknowingly same as the other traits you can find in the dictionary. But the question is are you able to pull this trait out of your hidden self and confidently say: "I am that one".
How weird to hear that there are just few here in my country who knows about the goth genre. They know punks, those people who do Mohawks and black muscle T-shirts and nose piercings and head banging concerts and esophagus tearing noises (that's how non-punks understand the way punks do). They know Emo, those kids who do literally hurt themselves to say they are one and wear bondage over it and wear black and white sweat shirts or stripy polo's under 28'C temperature every day(Again, that's how non-emo's understands the way the Emo's do). But they know no goth.
I was in my high school days when someone notice my everyday get-up attire and asked me if I were a goth. I thought he was talking about the architectural designs of the late era. I never wear any dress color aside from the color black unless it is my uniform which happens to be all white and partially green. After having a small conversation with that guy, I wondered, am I goth?
But the dress is not the issue.
I've been reading for almost many blog sites including goth blogs. And what catches my attention are these questions: "Are you goth enough?", "how to be a goth?" etc. It's the typical questions from the baby bats (referring to a newbie goth) and confused and those who are having issues being one. Some preferred to show they are one by the way they project themselves to others, some to fashion and some... They just do it the way they wanted.
This time, I'm not going to answer these questions, but I'm going to pull the light side of the thing they called the dark and the GOTH. (I hoped my pre-med psychology course background will help)
For non-goths who are aware of the goth culture, they say it is a satanic thing that we kids (did I say 'we'?) shouldn't follow. For some it is a deep, dark culture that we must explore. For my parents, it is a "just-do-what-you-want" thing. And for me, it is the greatest, so far, challenge that I encountered.
Challenge. Why did I called it a challenge? Let's just say that being a goth is a trait, and this trait is definitely the opposite of me.
I got fascinated over these gorgeous lady goths who wears Victorian dresses and those state of the art make up by Adora Batbrat. But I can't do that. I can't make myself look like that. Not because I can't, but I'm not able to.
Now I see, confidence. Goth, not dark at all
It takes courage to make yourself goth enough, confidence to say you are goth enough.
There is creativity because every goth shows their uniqueness through their cloths, make-up accessories etc.
There is FREEDOM. You heard it right. Freedom. I always thought that Goths are free souls. They do what they wanted without hurting anyone even themselves. They are free to express their feelings in a way--in any way-that only themselves can do. Though they seem like they are always so deep and dark and creepy or... what words they used to describe themselves, they always seem so free, free to do all the thing they want amidst the critics they get from the people who can't appreciate the art of being a goth.
You just don't have to be goth outside, but also inside. Being goth (for me) is how this trait shows the real you and how you feel inside, without hiding or concealing the real aspects of yourself.
To be honest, to realize and internalized that I (and everyone) possessed this trait taught me to come out of my shell (yes, I thought of it as a trait) and say what I feel inside without actually saying it. Everybody possessed this trait unknowingly same as the other traits you can find in the dictionary. But the question is are you able to pull this trait out of your hidden self and confidently say: "I am that one".
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Songs that makes me float
These are the songs I always listened to in times that I'm not in the
mood or I had a bad day. These songs are the ones that isolate my mind
from reality and makes me feel like floating in the sky and makes me
forget about the negative vibes around me. Most of it are ethereal songs and OPMs and I want to play a bunch of it!
Only time - Enya
Kissing the Christmas killer - Maaya Sakamoto
Dango - Clannad opening song
Luha - Rivermaya
Muli - Bamboo
Only time - Enya
Kissing the Christmas killer - Maaya Sakamoto
Dango - Clannad opening song
Luha - Rivermaya
Muli - Bamboo
A letter to the best person in the world, MOM
She was the light to everyone’s heart
A guide to the heart of my childhood
And give wisdom for my own good.
She never fails to flatter me
She’s the inspiration to me and my family.
She always made us feel loved,
And give us things more than what she had.
She’s a queen that cooks,
Don’t have a crown but a castle
Of love, dreams and hopes.
She’ll make you laugh but never let you cry.
She’ll mend your heart with her sweets
And will make your mind with her dish.
She knows what’s best for you
But always let you to choose.
She’s the best of the best
The best and very first best friend I could ever have.
Love you ‘Ma.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Songs that remind me of my long time friends
I want to share my list of favorite songs that reminds me of my long time friends. Every time I heard these songs it reminds me of our friendship and all of the times that I had spent with them, all the laughter and sadness, the adventure and even the most embarrassing moments we had. I also hope that these songs reminds you of your friends. ^_^
Graduation Friends forever - Vitamin C
Little Wonders - Rob Thomas
Pare Ko - Eraserheads
Fix You - Coldplay
Fight together (one piece opening song)
Graduation Friends forever - Vitamin C
Little Wonders - Rob Thomas
Pare Ko - Eraserheads
Fix You - Coldplay
Fight together (one piece opening song)
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Avid radio listener
Nakakatuwa na minsan yung makapakinig ka ng mga tugtugin sa radyo. Iba yung dating compare sa makinig ka lang sa I Pod.
Sa radyo, may commentator na sobrang jolly or joker talaga na kapag napakinggan mo na eh hindi ka na mapapalipat ng ibang station. Makikitawa ka na rin at magko-comment sa mga hirit ng DJ at makikisimpatya o maiinis din minsan sa mga caller nila.
Minsan swak sa mood ang mga songs lalo na kung trip mo ang mga pini-play nilang kanta. Yung tipong nasa duyan ka lang and nakikinig sa mga love songs nila.
Naayon sa panahon ang mga nakalinyang kanta, mauuna ang oldies, blues then rock, RNB naman ang isusunod nila. Depende narin sa arrangement ng station. Merong scoring ng opera ang mga pinatutugtog, yung iba naman puro English songs lang.
Pero kahit anong station pa ang trip mo o anong klase mang genre ang pinakikinggan ang importante marunong kang makinig at hindi ka iba sa mga nakalimot na makinig sa nakagisnan na ng karamihan.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Blogger's new look
Nagulat ako nang makita ko na iba na ng layout ng Blogger home ko ng muli akong magbukas ng Blogger. Sa umpisa, medio nangangapa pa ako. Pero madali lang pala na i-operate ang bagong design na nilabas nila ngayon.
Mas accessible sa lahat ng kailangan ng mga blogger, organized at malinis kung ikukumpara sa dati. nagustuhan ko din ang layout ng pagpo-post, parang Microsoft word ang dating at mas malaki na ang space ng lugar kung saan ka maaring magsulat.
Sa ngayon, nagwa-wonder around parin ako dito sa new look ng Blogger at sana, gaya nga nang sabi ng iba, eh, makatulong ito para mapa-bilis ang pagba-blog ng mga users na katulad ko.
Far far and away from the net... Good things happen after the disconnection
It's been a month since the last time i get in touch with the web again. Bukod sa pagiging busy, nagkaroon pa ng problema ang desktop ko, Kainis! Pero sa mga panahon na wala akong connection sa internet, nagkaroon ako ng maraming panahon para gumawa ng mas maraming bagay kaysa sa humarap sa computer sa loob ng limang oras kada araw.
Mas nagkaroon ako ng panahon para mag-isip ng mapagkaka-abalahan katulad nga ng mag-exercise at sumulat ng mga bagay na binabalak kong gawin sa darating na pasukan. Natapos ko na rin ang isa pang corset na binabalk kong isuot sa tuwing papasok ako sa university, magandang tulong ito para maayos ang postura ko sa tuwing aatend ako ng klase lalo na sa Personality Development subject na binabalak kong i-take ngayong darating na pasukan.
At dahil wala akong masyadong pinagkaka-abalahan, mas napaganda ko pa ang mini-garden ko sa tabi ng bahay namin. Sa kalagitnaan ng taon, nagbabalak ang mga magulang ko na mag-laan ng budget para ipaayos ang front yard namin at binabalak ko na isama sa bucket list ko ang pagbili ng mga naggagandahang halaman para doon.
At gaya nga nang nasabi ko, nakagawa ako ng bucket list ng mga Must-do at Must-Buy ko ngayong taon. Binabalak ko na mapasama sa scholarship o maging athlete ng OLFU ngayong taon.
Minsan masaya din pala na walang internet connection dahil mas maraming bagay ang napagtutuunan natin ng pansin. Pero syempre, mas masaya din kapag naka-connect ka sa net para maging in touch sa mga taong mahal mo na malayo sa at syempre para mai-blog at ma-share mo ang mga bagay na gusto mong maibahagi sa mundo.
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