Eight.

I love you, Rocky.

HAPPY PRIDE you all!

Rocky and I are celebrating Pride at O Bar Ortigas this weekend!

See you guys there!

Signs Point to Yes

Can I handle it?

I guess we will find out this week.

If I can't, any friends out there in Singapore who might be okay with me crashing over for a few days this week?

Gun Ban Over!

Bang bang bang!
That's all.

Six months in our Journey

Life is geekily good.
Happy Sixth Monthsarey, Rocky!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

To my Mom, who has always been supportive and loving.  Whom has taught me to trust in my talents, to hone my instincts, and to embrace my interests, I love you Mom and I hope that I always make you proud.

 

To Yaya Bebie, who is in many ways my second mom.  She has helped take care of me ever since I was one year old.  And even until now, she is with us and watching over our family.  We love you and know you are part of our family.

Happy Mother's Day!

Your Blog Does Not Exist

Woke up today and tried to log in to discover my blog was not existing.
Tried to log into Gmail and was told the same thing!

Freak out moment, eh?

After attempting to contact Google, the password started working again, so I logged in quickly and changed all my present passwords.  Gah, it was definitely a scare.  I cannot imagine how I'd function if someone had successfully hacked and deleted all my emails and blogs.

Thankfully, whatever that glitch was is over.

Right?

Even Google Just Greeted Me!

Thank you so much, Google!  This means a lot to me.
Woot!

I am now Thirty Six.

Thank you everyone for your greetings.  Thank you Rocky Sunico for reminding me to look past the stress of the day and celebrate the night as my birthday comes along.  Thank you Prince Poi Heinz Angeles for making me feel even more special today, with all the fan signs, and the beautiful wonderful flowers.  Sad you couldn't join us, but I guess life has such moments.  Here's hoping you'll be able to next time we go to O bar, or next time you have free time.   Thank you to Kyle Sy for bringing his friends to O bar and baking me such a delicious chocolate cake! YUM!  Thank you to MicioNero HijoLuna for surprising me and joining us! Thank you to Ramon Papa and Rupert Acuna for letting me have such a wonderful night at O bar.    Thank you to the O Divas for such a wonderful show and making me smile.  To Zymon de Guzman for the awesome Kylie mixes and lots of my favorite songs.  And to the staff for making sure I felt comfortable and got the stuff I needed with ease.

Thank you also to all the friends and family who sent in their greetings.  It feels very good to be remembered and to be appreciated.  Thank you and my apologies to the Geeks (especially Niki Yarte) who showed up at Home Depot, hoping to greet me but I arrived too late to see them.

Thank you to my parents and family for being part of my life.
I am now thirty six years old.

God.  I'm four years away from forty.

(photos to follow)

Just Another Week.

Birthday coming up.
Mixed emotions.

Remembering Poy-poy.
Remembering last year, spending it begging and pleading on the cellphone.
Remembering feeling tired.  Sad.  Angry.  Frustrated.   Confused.  Afraid.  Weak.

Lots of memories surging through right now.
Some clear.  Some vague.
Some, an absolute riot.

Each year had its themes.  Each year had its moments.
Shattering glass.  Spilling fluids.
Smiles.  Cheers.  Fires burning.

Living life proud.  Shameless.
Crazy.  Geekily.  Free.
Sharing the joy with the ones I loved.
Celebrating them with friends I no longer see.

But life goes on.
Life that challenges you. That provokes you.
That welcomes you.

You can embrace it in many ways:
By living it as one where others judge you and state how right or wrong you are.
Or by living it knowing only certain opinions matter, as others will always have something bad to say about you - out of jealousy, out of misguided religious feelings, out of political views, out of spite.
Definitions are important.
That is true.  Sometimes we embrace them to help center ourselves.
But you can define yourself.  Or be mastered by one.

And my words will always be used against me.

But life goes on.
Life endures.

As does love.
Pure, true love.
Love born from am honest urge to take care of and bring happiness to another.

So yes, life goes on.
And I am happy to have Rocky in my life, who always reminds me to embrace my geeky gay side.  He's at work right now, but I can always feel him in my heart.

And Yoshi who is related to Poy-poy and now carries Prince and Poy-poy's legacy of having broken my fear of dogs.

Wait...

What are these marks on my skin?

Did I do these to myself?

Is there someone else in the house?

April 23, 2013.

A Pleasant Snail Mail Surprise

Woke up today to a letter in the mail

The last time we got a snail mail message was a post card from our good friend Dekya who is now based in San Franscisco.  This was a beautiful envelope with a wax seal on the back.  A real literal wax seal!

Opening it, there was an elegant letter M on the front, which for a moment made me wonder.
Having just woken up, I must confess to thinking it was a message from either Madonna or Magneto.
Yeah, gay geeks.  Hahhaha!

 

Finally opened the letter to find...

Thank you so much Monica Valentinelli!
And yes, more writing and reading for all of us!

Thank you Mayfair Games

Finally got the missing White Road piece for my Settlers of Catan game.  Thank you so much Mayfair Games for being very awesome and cool.  Most companies I know of would merely apologize and leave it at that.

And because of that, I promise to expand on my Catan collection in support of your coolness.

Making Another Run for your Heart.

Yes, I remember that night.

  

Netrunner.

:-)  

Mayfair Games, you are AWESOME

So Rocky and I, on our last trip to Singapore, got our very own copy of Settlers of Catan.

It took a few days before we actually opened it, and it was then my friend Jovan discovered there were only fourteen white wooden road pieces in the set, while the rest were fifteen.

At first, I resigned myself to just accepting the fact it was missing a piece.  But Jovan and Neek insisted I try writing in to at least check if there's a place to find replacements or anything.

I wrote my email to them a few days back.
This is their reply.

I love companies that try to make their customers happy.
Thank you so much Mayfair Games!

And yes, I've just purchased the 5-6 Player Expansion for the game.
Up next, hunting down Seafarers of Catan, Cities and Knights, and finding that Frenemies rules thing.
And to look for Catan: Oil Springs.

2012 December Christmas Gifts

So, here are the gifts I received this Christmas.  Not all of them are just for me (and yes, that is a bottle of ID Glide in the corner), but these are the gifts that I happily count as the stash for this season. Oh and notice the small white bowl with doggie biscuits!  Tee hee!

Merry Christmas to you all!

Loving It

Spent some time with the family and ABBA today.  We went to Villa Escudero. Such a lovely place with so many memories and happy moments.  Just wanted to say, I am truly loving my life.

Two Cubed plus Three Squared

A long delayed beginning.
An anticipated reunion.
A new journey.

Commitments are reaffirmed.
Promises are exchanged.
Passions are released.

Love.
It is all about love.

Geeky love.
Crazy love.
Honest love.
Fair love.

But ultimately it is not about fantasies
or wealth, or comfort zones, or familiarity,
nor is it about trophies, or debts,
or dominance.

It is about two people who realize they deserve such happiness
and that such happiness is because of love.


I love you, Rocky.
I never stopped loving you.

11/17/2012

It is a Journey indeed

Shared a box of J.CO donuts with my officemates.
Tomorrow is Pride 2012.  Happy Pride!

WE3 absolutely is worth it!

Rocky saw this on the shelf while we were at Fully Booked today.
I just HAD to have it.  The back states there are 10 new story pages and 25 additional pages of behind the scenes stuff.  Simply AMAZING.  I can't wait to open it.

:-P

This does mean I have a WE3 trade paperback now for sale.  Hmm...