I don’t really have a lot to say for this blog except I started my semester with this:

Thats Me and Aila, Tara and Migna, Say and Mea dancing during orsem

The GUIDON EB race started a few weeks back which prompted me to put training into a hiatus while focusing more on webdesign and press rather than dancing. I still love dancing but I really have to put it on hold, graphics and web design are still of course my first love.

Speaking of graphics on the web, Tata made a post about this a while back. In the good old days when PHP was just starting to creep its ways to the regular filipino web designer as a helpful tool and Wordpress was still called b2. Back then we seem to all worship and adore sites like Aethereality.net, Blinding-light.com and Daydreamgraphics.com. I wanted to reminisce and take a look at them and well I sort of saw that many of them have become stuck in the past.

All three of the sites mention above have not been updated in more than a month. Two are still using the sort of fan-girlish anime type layouts we all used to use when we started out. Daydream graphics has embraced wordpress as a CMS and let go of its home grown database of tutorials and layouts but well I no longer worship the layouts that are posted there. On the sidenote, the only premade layout I did and submitted to aethereality is still the last updated pop-up layout available.

I’m planning on sending a sponsorship letter to Supadance though I’m quite doubtful they’ll respond but I’ll keep trying though!

It’s not just the ADSC that needs sponsors, ACTM as well. Specifically, wired our magazine needs sponsors so we can have money for printing. Life is just so hard now.

So to anyone who might be reading who’s from a large company, if you have any gill or zenny to spare please contact me

Though I haven’t gone through the entire book again, I do remember enjoying this book quite a lot. It’s weird how the first image that pops into your head when you here the title “Animal Farm” is Sesame Street simply because having animals as main characters sound so kiddie. Though this was my initial impression, I loved animal farm because I like reading about dark shady government conspiracy stories (which is probably why I like Metal Gear Solid so much).

Though Animal Farm is the only actual novel I need to read this summer, I am planning to read a couple more novels when and if I get the time. College academic life usually makes it impossible for me to read for pleasure during the regular school year and summer is just that right time of year to pick up a book while sitting next to the pool on a hot summer day.

Here are some of the novels I want to, at the very least, start reading this summer.

• Atonement
  by Ian McEwan
  Actually, I did get to read this before but I never got to finish and the release of the movie really made me want to find my copy again.
• Gathering Blue
  by Lois Lowry
  The Giver was one of the best required school readings I ever had to read. I simply love the whole conspiracy and dystopian/utopian future setting but the ending has always made me want to know more. Gathering Blue is the 2nd part in the loose-knit trilogy that starts with The Giver and ends with The Messenger.