This movie is not about you

The whole idea of a movie is for it to tell a vivid motion story about human interactions with their surroundings in a one-in-a-million chance of happening. Every scene, every episode tells the ultimate what-could-have-been. Gazing beyond the shore, contemplating about life and finally understanding what you must do. Picking up a coin by the gutter, then using it to gamble, and winning the lottery by the jackpot. Tripping on a small rock landing on the arms of your future love partner. It's so easy to believe in this type of movies, falling into belief that someday, somehow, your life will be the same as the last romantic-comedy, or drama, or even horror film you have seen.

Oddly enough, the same in a one-in-a-million chance, the right movie becomes your story too.

If that instance happens, how do you think you would feel? Will you recognize who the main characters are? Yes, it might be your life as the story, but are you really the protagonist who will encounter the greatest lesson of the whole tale? You could be the supporting actor, you could just be an extra as well. Or worse, you could be the enemy of the real star of the show.

In a complexity pattern of life being turned into movies and being turned back into your own story, you can never know what's going to be your part. You can never tell what's the total plot is all about. You can never guess if there will be a happy ending.

Before midnight struck

It was an incredible experience when you listen to music you love being performed live. The night of the 7th of September, before the next day arrived, I was swaying to the beats and rhythms of the songs I never knew will give me a new direction in life.

And that's when I realize, yeah, we have to let chance pass by, so that we can move forward.

Cheers to good music, and good life. :)

Day 29: Project Proton update

I'm in a company of electronics geeks and I'm feeling awesome :D

So we're on day 29 already of Project Proton (a substitute name for what I termed Project X before). So far, certain issues have been tackled, and the design for the whole housing and chassis is near preliminary completion. Modelling in 3D is until the end of this week, and revisions and smaller details will be tackled on next week. Electronic component testing is also being done in parallel. If you can just see how our office looks like today, it's not messy, but every corner has some electronic bits working, humming and lighting up. Pretty awesome, I tell you. Working with my engineer friends was a good choice! And hoping all goes well, by the third week of September, the fabrication of the prototype shall begin.

I'm kinda nervous on how it'll turn out. My first ever automobile design, and the first ever marketable (of course it should be marketable) product of our own ReThink Tech company. Who's not gonna be thrilled by that?

I'm also happy I got my friends as my workmates, and we can debate and argue about things in a professional level and still keep the brotherhood as cool as it should be.

Til the next post! There's still a lot to be done. :)

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Plug it off BMO. Not sad, but that chapter ends here.

Pull the plug off if it ends, BMO

http://chocolatesquaredance.tumblr.com/post/30412144112/my-neighbour-totoro

Just because. I fear a wave of sadness will come in a few weeks' time. I'm someone who'll anticipate the events to happen, and I think I'm half prepared for this. Being a guy who thinks there is no wrong timing as everything is at the right place and moments, I guess we'll see if I am indeed just in the right time. Or maybe not me, but the other character is just too stuck in the future.

In case of emergency, pull the plug off, BMO. If it ends.

On getting a job or just doing your own thing

There is no relation between this pic and this post.

Most people tend to tell me I'm in good future whenever they find out I have no job but is already managing my own businesses. At first, I felt good about it. I feel proud. Just around two years after graduating from a university, I slowly got interested in studying more of business while working on my first job. I went under the  more usual phase: started off reading Kiyosaki books, playing Cashflow, joining an MLM organization, among others. Then things started to get serious; sleepless nights filling up calendars as I plan things I would like to do. Luckily, I found friends who also would love to try bigger things in the world of business with me. Although I was sent by my company to other countries to work at that time, the sense of doing business was already imbued within me. It was part-time work, part-time nurturing ideas during my whole stay abroad. After almost four years in my first job, I gracefully exited from it, and proceeded to work on the ideas intensely brewing in my head. And now, here I am, being my own boss and pulling off my hair on every decision-making episode. People will try to tell me that they want to start their business too, but they don't have any idea yet. But is doing business really for everyone? Is it really the achievement everyone should be rooting for?

Of course, the answer will be "maybe."

The man who thinks too much

I'm a man, and one of the many, who is an over-thinker. I had my belief before that there are no people who over-thinks; just those who use their brain well. Well shut that now, because I finally convinced myself that what I'm doing is abnormal, a very crazy habit. I have no idea on whom to blame with this "disease" I have. Is it because of my complex brain trained in multi-tasking that I tend to think way ahead before a scenario happens? Should I blame the society or the media for the subliminal message about I-don't-know's that get into my brain and silently infects it? Perhaps the ones to blame are the cosmos, the astral plane, the zodiacs and the spirit that guides the Universe even though I had little belief in such ideas? Investigating this current dilemma points to a loads of pros and cons.

Figures it was triggered by imagination in the first place.

Crystal fragile four-oh-nine

Nobody knows, even I don't know in particular, why I tend to chase and return the rabbit in this special cage over and over again. Yet I know the crystal cage can break, can shatter, can disappear anytime. I guess it's worth the third try. Why am I still awake. Oh, work!

Day 1: Project X Design

It's a little stereotype but I'll be calling our first work as Project X for the meantime. And yep, it's Day 1 today, or at least the official start. We've been planning the design development of an electric tricycle (E-trike for short) for a long time. Something me and my colleagues at ReThink Tech Inc, our newly established company, are aiming to promote and contribute to the welfare of our country regarding the green environment stage. Although the project has undergone a lot of phases already, today is the start of the two- (max of three) month project goal to finish the whole product and release it to potential investors, just about the same time the government through Department of Energy will open the market to other e-trike manufacturers as well. Nope it's no child play, it's the dream we were aiming for to become a reality, and almost at grasp.

Also, half of the reason why I started my own personal blog is to somehow document the important milestones of this project. Will we succeed? Are we going to fail? I guess I need to keep readers and enthusiasts updated with the progress and regress of this Project X. Haha. Hopefully everything turns out to be full of fun.

For a little information about ReThink Tech, you can visit our beta site at http://www.rethink-tech.com.

Ohrite, back to work! Til the next post. ;)

Alive in the 90's!

We were so glad to be part of Happy House Entertainment's 90's tribute gig last Friday at Black King's Bar in West Ave, QC. We opened our set with a sound check cover of The Raconteur's Hands, and then played Blur's Coffee & TV as our first song. The next songs were our own compositions: Nais Ko and Biyahe Bagahe. It was a super fun night! Also props to the band who performed Everlong in acoustic setting.

The only sort of sad thing about the event is that, I chugged down three 500ml Red Horse which means I have to burn the calories this week! Hahaha but anyway, at least the beer kept me out of being nervous and had a great time playing! (Or maybe I was the only one enjoying it haha)

Another video after the jump.

Mistress of Art: DIANNE DELA TORRE

In this long overdue post for another Mistress of Art feature, let me treat you to a different kind of artistry, mostly in the field of motion graphics.

I was lucky enough to stumble upon the profile of Dianne Dela Torre on Twitter while I was treasure hunting for artists to feature on our now-hiatus blog Extra Kanin. Dianne, currently based in London, UK is a multidisciplinary artist having done works in the field of multimedia, graphics animation, graphic design and illustration. I may have had a chance to talk to her (I think, I forgot already haha) over on Twitter before, and I kind of got interested to feature her works. What captured me with what she has already done are those character designs which, obviously, are moving. I see it as a combination of surreal and child-like environment, pressed with colors that are not tiring to see. You can see her artistry at play on her personal works, such as Dreams: Dorothie and Me and Numerophobia.


It's been a while since I saw her last works, but I'm guessing what she'll show us next on her portfolio are, it not amazing, really awesome! Check out her portfolio reel from 2011. More videos after the cut.