Saturday, January 1, 2011
the year that was and the year that will be
1. July was when the wife finally got pregnant (yay!).
2. August I met my new friend in misery Mr. Diabetes hand in hand with Mr. Hypertension and I think we get long just fine for now. Always at bay.
3.September I participated in the 1st Cebu Comics Convention with my artist friends and I launced Boy Sipok comics there.
4.September also was my late start to the running (or jogging) craze because of list no.2.
5.November I get to launch another Boy Sipok comics at the Komikon 2010 Manila but I wasn't there only the comics was, brought by my artist friends to peddle with.
6. July we started on our future house's mortgage.
7. In relation to list no. 1, October we knew we were expecting a baby boy.
8.December I enlisted on a 5k Run for a Cause Race because my good friend forced me to even without much preparation and finished it with an embarrassing record mostly with a walk/run strategy that comprised mostly of walks heheheh...got to make up for it next time soonest when I think I can finally have a decent time.
...and a slew of significant and other not so significant things that's happened in the past 12 months that comprised of my at the least colorful 2010. It was a blast and I learned and matured as a person this year and I think its good over all. Here's wishing for a better, brighter and more challenged filled 2011 to all of you. :)
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Introductions, jogging routines and the pursuit of wellness
Not Me |
Not Me Again |
update/correction/change of mind/whatever:
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
All I want for Xmas...I got in advance
Avia A5341MBS a.k.a. Sharkee |
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Run for BB2: The aftermath
Proof of Life: Race Bib with race organizers pen slash |
Me and DeathMetal Drummer Extraordinnaire/Buddy Chuck |
Friggin' Jollibee in tha hauz! with a PR of 14 mins. at 5k, much respect to tha bee! |
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Running or When the S@#$ hits the fan
Yesterday, a friend of mine, on the fly, invited me to join in and register to a Run for a Cause gig called "Run for BB2". Proceeds to the event will help 7 kids with cancer. Being the guy that I am, soft hearted and all gave in and with a what-the-hey attitude proceeded to register and somehow felt good about it being that somehow, in some little way I get to help them. When I handed in the registration form and the guys there gave me a receipt, then it hit me like a friggin' hard brick hard down the back of my head, how can I possibly finish the 5k race? I can't even do a lap without straining my muscles to up. I even half jokingly told me friend that we just register and cough up the fee and just get the freebies and never show up on the event day and in which my friend whole heartedly felt that we should try it or die trying to finish the run by hook or by crook for experience sake which both of us, by the way, never in our natural born lives ever participated in a running event and in which he triumphantly said that there's always a first time for everything. Gotta hand it to him on that one.
To make a long story short, I am not prepared to do the 5k run this Sunday and by golly its fast approaching and all the running angels can't help me even if I prep up every early morn (which I do for the past 3 months now reasons being another post altogether) treading down the old Cebu City Sports Center Oval. So, anyone reading this, wish my friend and I luck and hope we pull this thru to the end. I was really planning on joining a running gig or a marathon even when I feel that I am well equipped body and mind to doing so, a year or two maybe and joining this Sunday kinda feels like premature but its just me really because I was born a premature baby so I do things prematurely often times but like a good soldier I tread on to the uncertainties and eventually enjoy/suffer the consequences that awaits me. That's life really and maybe running is the same, join in and learn from the experience and the next time be more readily prepared or something. Wish me luck.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Failure for gods
Whew, November is over! and the whew bit is not that I have actually made an effort to participate in the National Novel Writing Month for 2010 but a big whew to the fact that I didn't even made an effort to have a word count whatsoever in the pursuit to the challenge and the spirit of Nanowrimo to make a novel for about a month. A have a lot of reasons for that and I won't even make them visible in this here blog post for I will tire and bore you readers surely. One thing's for sure though, I failed big time. What was I thinking when I signed over a month before? Well, lesson learned and now on to the next as they say. I won't promise to participate next year but I know I will keep tabs on it every now and then...here's to the brave men and women who fought a good fight on the 50,000 words in 1 month challenge, I salute you.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
I don't know what came over me Pt.2
WTF! Its November 2 already and National Novel Writing Month has already started yesterday and I haven't even written a single word and updated my NanoWriMo.org Counter. Oh, joy! Panic all over. That's 1,667 words wasted yesterday and an addition to the 30 day 50,o00 word marathon count on my part. Geez. In all honesty, yesterday, I did not have a laptop ready on hand to crank up the daily word quota and to top it all off, I have homely chores to settle and being that it was November 1, All Saints Day, we had to go to the cemetery to pay respects to our loved ones. So, by the end of yesterday I was spent and submit myself to oblivion, i.e. sleep. And now, I am at the office and making this blog entry instead of doing the word count thing. Reasons, reasons, reasons, piling up. Should I back out on this?