I am, slowly but surely, moving towards having my own site. I have spent the past weeks populating it with content (mostly to prepare my portfolio and resume - Blogger handles its pages differently, adding a /p/ before my pages' aliases).


Some of the pages might not be working well yet (improve the responsiveness of the site to mobile devices), but it's viewable and functional. I also registered a free domain so I can design the site first before I buy a domain and update everything. Check it out!

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What is success?

It might mean a lot of things for different people, but I think we can agree that success is surviving stormy Valero street at 6am

Is it the attainment of material things and enjoying experiences that exemplify the very meaning of being successful? Is it the freedom from financial woes and the stability and security of one's lifestyle that define it? Is it having a handful of people you let inside your walls and keep constant contact with?

Is the idea of being successful (whatever it means for each one of us) what drives us further? It drives us to greater heights, to greener pastures and better lifestyles, but is it the real meaning of success?

Perhaps we see success differently. We can only argue what we think constitutes being successful.

I've read a blog from five years ago. I've never read something that has that many swear words making so much sense, but the meaning goes way beyond the language. It was the expression. The intent of writing. The meaning beyond words is what mattered and what hit me is the awful truth that life, well, it isn't easy. You gotta know what you want in life, work hard for it, and accept the shit life gives you in the pursuit of what you want.

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Why I think working harder than everyone else is necessary to succeed.

Working hard is, what I think, the main ingredient of even surviving in life. Cultivating great ideas allow you to succeed. But working hard is necessary. Especially in a workplace that grinds the faint-hearted and rewards the exceptional.

There will always be people who know better than you. Who know a lot more than what you know. Who can always kick your butt if they were ever so willing to do so. That's why you have to put in more hours than them to learn what they know and master their craft, build your own set of expert-level skills, and trump them in the arena called the workplace.

I can't say my work is always pixel-perfect (on the contrary I commit mistakes often), but persistent learning and hard work will push me to a level that I commit less mistakes (in life and in work). What I can say for sure is, I push myself further and farther to achieve my set goals.

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I've been training Muay Thai for quite some time now. I've gotten stronger, I think, and endured cuts and bruises in the process.

Let's connect through Instagram. I post there more often

I was asked by one of the trainors what my reasons are for training. I told him I wanted to learn the martial art. I will probably move on to another once I'm confident of my skills - probably Pencak Silat, Kempo or if I have the money to buy a katana (which I really, really want) Kenjutsu. It's only recent that I've acquired the love of seriously learning martial arts, for they are indeed art forms.

Hello earthlings!

I'm so thrilled to be back online. Not that I am not always online, it's just that it's been so busy these past few weeks and I want to remind people reading this blog (if they exist) that this blog is still alive. This may yet, in fact, outlive me. Haha!

Recently, we filmed some footages for a tv commercial we're doing for our marketing efforts. It kind of reminded me of how we did stuff during college, and in some ways, how having a decent budget is better and where can a lot of money for production take you.



I haven't been able to continue with my illustrations but I have been doodling a lot. I want a new tattoo so bad but I can't decide on a design. I'm still working on a rework of a past design - with the hannya mask and flame-y stuff.

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It gets depressing sometimes.

Disclaimer: This will be a series of blogs I will write about how I think about work - mine and in general. Over the previous months I've come up with a lot of ideas about how work should be regarded, how we should be working and why we shouldn't be taking work lightly.

Enjoy.

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I enjoy work.

I think I am passionate about work, among other things. We can go overnight in the office continuously working except for the 2-3 hours of rest in between long shifts. Not that I'm complaining. I enjoy having the opportunity to make myself bigger and the chance to be given work to do and accomplish something.

I've seen a motivational video on Youtube that said something similar (I wasn't able to bookmark the video but I will probably post it in the next blog of this series if I chance upon it). It said that in order to be successful you need to need it as much as you need air.

It's as if you're struggling to survive - that's how it's supposed to be. That sounds harsh but it's true. Half-assed people never made it in life. Half-assed efforts never achieved anything worthwhile.

After all, there's beer waiting for people who deserve it after a hard day's work.