Happiness is a Luxury

my PR has become zilch and so my paid blogging days are over. Oh well did make 6k out of four months of blogging...and its only articles. anyways I am surprised that my experimental art blog has a PR of 2! even though its has only 3-4 entries. So for the moment do check it out.

http://yartblogi.blogspot.com/

I still have not bought a digi camera so I am stuck taking pictures with my Cell Phone. I was playing with the effects when I found an effect that I really liked. With my favorite model I just snapped away while waiting for my Father to come out.

A graphic designer (also known as a graphic artist and communication designer) is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and advertising. They are also sometimes responsible for typesetting, illustration and web design, or take a teaching position, although these specialties may be assigned to specialists in various graphic design occupations. A core responsibility of the designer's job is to present information in a way that is both accessible and aesthetic.[1]

When I am asked what is my work I automatically answer graphic artist. But what is really a graphic artist? It's a very vague job description. Today there a LOT of graphic artists in all shapes and sizes. The competition is very high. The skills of graphic artist range from basic Photoshop knowhow to all around knowledge of print, web and motion graphics.

My company is in need of graphic artists. There a lot who apply, there are a lot who try out but in the end only a few really gets hired. There are some who immediately claim they are graphic artist just because they know how to Photoshop. I had seen a lot of sample works and I only seen A FEW good ones.

That makes me think about being a graphic artist. I really have to update my skills in order to cope up with competition. I live in Davao and rates here are way lesser than my Manila counterparts. I definitely envy my peers who earn thrice of what I earn now. Sigh. A year in my company and I still have an empty portfolio.

What I really want? My Bf seems to know what he would do next...get certified, earn a Masters degree... I on the other is on the road to nowhere. I feel like everyone has left me standing under the stop light.

Creativity and inspiration has packed their cases and went to Boracay and left me here dumbfounded.

A lot has happened since then. Now I went with a new set of people (still somehow connected to the office). Unfortunately I don't have pictures from the trip because I haven't have the pictures developed and printed. I went with Lelit, Dennis, Donnie, Mico, Dani, Maco, Omar, Joy and Uly.

I didn't really spent that much time in the water but still I had loads of fun. I ate a lot since Lelit cooked food non-stop. We drank the whole day but I didn't feel that I got drunk. We talked anything under the sun.


Lelit brought her Terrier puppy Dintsu who definitely made an impression to everyone at the beach. He befriend everyone. I guess he ate a lot (he used his charm to get people to give him food) because by the evening we could see he was sooo bloated. He could barely walk. hehehehe



I also spent time with Uly. I kinda sad because he will no longer be my officemate. Today he will be starting at his new company. I will definitely see less of him...sigh

I will definitely post more pictures when I get them!

When I was in college my classmates told me that I looked like their crush from San Beda. I never really met the guy. I only saw his friendster. Actually friend ko pa nga siya sa Friendster. My sister always freaks out when she sees his pictures. Freaky daw kasi kamukha ko. You decide.

(By the way his name is Charles)

I got 45 minutes to go and I'm super duper bored. I made the artwork (actually its just trash pretending to be art) above because I got nothing else to do. Sigh

Today was my office's Dedication day...it's some sort of blessing. I had to go to the office early but it was worth it since the FREE breakfast was definitely a treat. I didn't actually attending the whole program since I had my pilates schedule. When I came back there were still lots of food. It was round two at buffet table. hehehe (later I did another round but I was more focused on the cupcakes and soda).

Yesterday I realized that I have been lazy with my coding task. Instead of just asking for help...I actually tricked my nice officemates to do the nasty coding for me (I had to cast a charming spell! hehehe). How could I learn CSS with lots of helpful nice officemates around. But Uly said bluntly that I was not doing any progress. That made me think the whole night about my task. So I decided that today I will try to do my task myself...I still did asked Uly's help but I did most of the work myself (it was only a few lousy div anyway). Now I'm proud to have finished the home page and the product page. Two stars for me! hehehe

After the nasty business of coding I was left to staring at blank space. So I put on my Explorer cap (not Dora the explorer mind you) and played battle stations (did I say play??). It's kinda addicting well till the part when you consume all you actions. hehehe


*This nonsense post was brought to you by your bored blogger Melissa.

Me and an officemate had a conversation about applying for a credit card. He had just resigned from my office and is already accepted at another company. Since he has a bigger salary there I asked him what would he do with salary. He said that he would definitely apply for a credit card.

It reminded me of a friend who can't seem to be approved when she was applying for a credit card. I knew she earned well. This officemate I mentioned earlier said that maybe she had bad credit record. It could be a possibility since I knew she was a shopaholic. So that me me think "Could One still apply for a credit card when already have a record?"

Well there is definitely hope. As I found there a company who offers bad credit credit cards andbad credit loans to people who already have records. Today are hard times and so one can never really avoid to have a clean record (except if you are born rich). It would definitely be sad when your record is smudged for a lifetime.

I don't have a record of some sort but I also don't have a credit card. Maybe it's time to get one.

I haven't been posting anything in this blog because I have been posting more at my Mulitply account. Unfortunately it's blocked in the office (also the yahoomail [crap]). So I am back posting stuff here.

The office is getting sadder by the minute. Tons of new rules. Everyone I am close to has already resigned. The reasons I am still staying are getting less and less everyday but still I have not made any actions in looking for a new job. I am going to celebrate my one year in my work next month. Yehey! I can finally say I had one year job experience! hahaha I did have a couple of jobs before this (i was a clerk, an art teacher, a layout artist, a flash animator) but I only stayed with the job for a couple of months.

I am still hopeful for my company. But then again I can never say...hehehe

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On other matters I REALLY REALLY want to buy the Day watch book by Sergei Lukyanenko. I am currently reading book one in the Watch Tetralogy the Night Watch. I am almost finished in downloading the movies Nightwatch and Daywatch. I know I do tend to obsess sometimes.

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