On Nametags and Retirements

I took Visual Design in hopes of getting something substantive out of my photoshop skills. I normally don't take criticisms well so I say this has been a humbling experience to say the least. @_@ I learned that if I'm designing something, I should always put my best foot forward. I have to juggle a lot (creativity, function, recall value and the like), and seeing how design is always made for "someone else" I have to work with differing tastes, which do not always agree with mine. Believe me, a lot of clients will be clods with no sense of design but you have to make it work somehow. ^_^

Our first assignment was making a nametag.


I got a C because 1) it wasn't legible enough, 2) the material sucked, and 3) the design was, I don't know... lacking. I see that Ali is difficult to please here. I have to pull all the stops now if I'm to complete my cuatro sem. Haha. I love challenges. ^_^

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Chong kicked me out as Know Your MEAn columnist because I was too lazy. I said, "You can't fire me, I quit!" Haha, I guess I couldn't hack it anymore, and seeing how MEAns are so accustomed to keeping deadlines, I guess I simply lacked the initiative. @_@ I know there are a lot of unanswered requests and whatever, but I guess it was a good stint all in all. I just hope the new columnist would be less lazy. Haha.

Powered by Tsinelas

We made lots of moolah in Powered by Paint. ^_^ Unofficially, the total net would be P50 thou. That would be a P140 thou improvement over last year's Siklab. I'm the man. No not really, much of the credit really belongs to Nati. @_@

Havaianas sold like hotcakes (but if you think about it, selling hotcakes is not really in our collective experience so we can't really tell how they'll sell, if they ever sell at all @_@). Anyway, point is, we all had a spanking good time. Ryan is P50 thousand richer and Chong has one successful project under his wing. I, on the other hand, shall take joy in the merits of having made new friends (or enemies in the administration) and having nurtured meaningful relationships. Bottom line is it was all worth it. ^_^

I made this poll in the hopes that somehow, tsinelas will win. But no, sneakers are more popular, or so it seems. I just wanted to illustrate a point. Well, anyway it's this: Ang tunay na pag-ibig ay parang tsinelas. Sa dinami-dami man ng sapatos, pag-uwi tsinelas pa rin ang hinahanap. ^_^

Going Guerrilla

I suddenly felt like eating something grilled. ^_^ Well anyway, Powered by Paint is doing fine if by fine we mean breaking even and earning profit on the 1st day of business. We could use more painters in the event though. Nobody seems to know how, and my first futile attempt to paint a shirt turned awry, thanks mostly to Nati. @_@ Well anyway, tonight we decided to go guerrilla in promoting the event. I asked almost everyone on my YM list to change their status to "Powered by Paint!" which was linked to Meaonline.

By the way, Tria wrote this for us (cosarocks.com). Haha. Thanks Tri. Oh ayan, special mention ka na rin.