Have just finished and submitted (tried to anyway, awaiting confirmation if Ma'am Apple received the docu) of latest work.  For better or for worse.  Here's to Rufus, Alicia and sweet little Niña...

I have a confession to make. The manuscript of which the following 'prologue' belongs to is one that I've been working on for almost a year. I fail hard. (It's in Tagalog, btw, not full English).
Oh where, oh where is my Harlequin? And WTF with the xxxHolic 'ending'?!? Come on, CLAMP... T-T

( Rainbow's End: Synopsis, Prologue )

Ciel Phantomhive and Sebastian Michaelis.  Black Butler FTW!  Inspired (kinda) by a certain poem by Edgar Allan Poe.  I.e. the verses were resounding in my head as I drew the images.  That, and Lady Gaga's Bad Romance on endless repeat.  The result...

Still not done with my RL workload, but couldn't help it.  My teen-aged take of Sebastian Michaelis of Kuroshitsuji, people of the world.

Yet Another Plot Bunny Up For Adoption: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol with Ciel as Scrooge?

Currently fan-girling over Kuroshitsuji (watched both seasons of the anime, very much hooked now on the manga). And so, after virtual semi-retirement from mid-twenties otaku-dom, I did a few rough sketches of the main characters, Ciel and Sebastian. Slightly edited from the original pencil sketches (cross-hatch brush effect courtesy of Photoshop). Will color in the far-off, not-so-busy-with-writing future.

Teaser:


( SD doodle, Older!Ciel, Young!Teenage!Sebastian )

You can also view them at my deviantart account.

... the real Dante, and not the weirdo that Ninja Theory and Capcom are shoving down our throats.

So, uh, this is a nice sentimental video that I found when going Japanese mode in youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56gAViuBMe0

It healed me. Along with watching the anime.

I felt so sad after watching the Tokyo Game Show 2010 trailer of DmC. What in the world is Capcom thinking?

... And so is my current bout with writer's block... well, writer's laziness? Problem with plot? Extra-curricular activities (trying to make my own rpg using RMXP, yay. I'm a scripting n00b, btw)?

I've read and re-read my current draft + plot outline of my WIP, tentatively titled Rainbow's End (albeit now I'm leaning towards its Tagalog, more poetic-sounding equivalent, Sa Dulo ng Bahaghari), and I really, really think the story as it is right now just wouldn't do. So I really, really need to rewrite the darned thing.

Ack.

I do have other projects on hand, but I was so looking forward to finishing this current one. *Sigh* *Sigh* *Mope*

... Pretty much sums up my experience with pre-paid SmartBro internet so far. It's been less than 24 hours since I've gotten connected, and I've suffered through abonimably slow connection speed (2 bars of signal, around 1 pm till 3 pm), to reasonably quick (like right now, around 7 pm; 4 signal bars! Yay!). Still way slower than the speeds I've gotten used to as a long-time loyalist of UPlay, a local internet cafe in Batangas City, though.

Well, off to write. Again. Scribble-dee-doo.

Note to Self: Write a story based on the lyrics of Charice's English cover of Mikazuki, Crescent Moon. Definitely. Wattah!

I voted last Monday. The indelible ink's still on my right index finger. As a resident of Brgy. Concepcion, in the second district of Batangas, the polling precinct where me and my family members voted was relatively small. Think around 5,000 or so registered voters.
In my experience, the first ever automated elections in my area was okay. Longer lines, longer waiting period, but that just gave me all the more time to chat or shoot the breeze with other people (hi, Ninang Mahal!) and exchange facebook usernames. I trooped to Concepcion Elementary School (i.e. the ONLY public elementary school in the barangay) around 8 a.m., spent some THREE HOURS waiting in line since there were only two PCOS (counting machines), and finally got to cast my vote around noon.
Heh, the long wait was for it, in my humble opinion, if only that we got to know who got elected as the mayor (Berberabe, finally) of Batangas City by sundown. And, of course, who the newly elected president of the Philippines was, practically the following day.

Still, there's room for improvement, as always. Heads up to COMELEC for 2013! How about doubling the number of PCOS machines, for starters? Although we may need to streamline the process again into ATM-style voting, as opposed to filling in those cute but tiny, tiny ovals that elderly or visually challenged voters may have a hard time to fill out (ask my maternal grandparents, who both suffer from arthritis).

Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!