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mina — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:36:46 +0000

Moleskine 2011

mina — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:24:26 +0000

My new Moleskine 2011 planner’s side artwork. Did this while bumming around the house over the holidays.

Thanks ate for buying it for me.

Doodles during one of them downtimes at work

mina — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:05:22 +0000

Thoughts

mina — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:56:07 +0000

a page from my miquelrius

The scrournal… and more.

mina — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:40:49 +0000

Having had recently succeeded in uploading all my scrournal entries, I’ve decided to take it one step further and post some crappy doodles from my past (and present) journals. I’m limiting it to mostly doodles though. Regardless of what you may have concluded from all my past posts, I do slightly value my reputation. There’s no point in shaming myself for all eternity at 22 years old. Who knows, I might actually want to live a simple and boring life someday. There’s no use in throwing out useless craps of evidences of my insanity to ruin my possible future dull existence. You’ll never know, I might actually end up wanting to run for president one day, and we all know nobody wants to vote for a (barely?) 5 foot tall girl who has psychotic tendencies… and prominent facial moles… right?

The Blue Pages

mina — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:54:26 +0000

This set is the last of the colored pages. FINALLY. All these uploads have done quite some damage to my non-20/20 vision. It really sucks that the infamous Iba robbers have ruined my glasses to the point that I can not last 10 minutes of computer time until I finally give up and curse them… and the damn glasses. It’s always a good thing to keep your old pair.

“Refuse to be just one of the many statistics”

It’s our barkada yearbook picture! Not everybody was present for the shoot, but there were enough of us to make the shoot fun.

It’s my Montessori school ID! Haha I found it while I was rummaging around my box o’ tricks from my grade school and high school days. I also pasted two neoprints (one I took with my sister, and one I took with my bestfriend Meakon), Singapore tours stickers, a name tag with the name ROW-MINA(?!?????!!!!), and finally an Ateneo Placement Office brochure.

A fruit-by-the-foot paper tape I saved from my first trip to San Francisco for my aunt’s wedding. Used stamps. And one of those papers that teachers ask you to pass around the room for your classmates to answer all sorts of useless questions about you. This was from 3-Borgia.

STAMPS and lots and lots of drama.

Basically this is Cersa 14K. Souvenirs and photos from our spur-of-the-moment EK trip before our college graduation, and after our Puerto Galera trip. Other pictures were from all our other tambays.

After Equitable PCI was bought (?) by BDO, I closed down my ATM account. I couldn’t bear to part with my Equitable card though, because I had such a beautiful love-hate relationship with it during my college years in Katipunan. So here it is… in all its peeled glory.

The Yellow Pages

mina — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:00:08 +0000

I love my first yellow page. I did this when I got back in Manila from the trip with mommy.

This here is the one of the few (two) pages that I didn’t make myself. This is Justin’s page. It’s his “dream home”. Haha It says: “10 Hectares. 4 bedrooms. 4 toilets. 1 indoor basketball court. 1 indoor swimming pool. 1 theme park. 2 dairy queen stations. 1 KFC. 1 Mcdo. 1 Jollibee.

As for the drawing, the one on the uppermost left side of the page is supposed to be the sun. The stick figure painting in the middle of the lawn is supposed to be me. The plane with the crying smiley is supposed to tell me how he feels when I leave him. And the two stick figures holding hands are supposed to be the two of us, happy together. Haha

This was a sketch/collage that I made when I started missing college. It was inspired by Avenue Q’s number, entitled “I wish I could go back to college.”

This is a sketch of the bean-y duck that Justin gave me back in college.

One of those random doodles… It’s a house!

Baggage claim tags. Ticket world envelope. West Side Story tickets from the manila production starring Christian Bautista and Joanna Ampil. A glorietta parking ticket. And lots and lots of doodles using permanent black marker, white out, red nail polish and a piece of plastic.

Justin’s plane ticket to Davao last November 2007. Movie tickets from the movies in the States. A metro card!

The Orange Pages

mina — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:06:51 +0000

The pencil marks actually say “words” while the red pen says “supress.”I was supposed to fill the blank spaces with silver ink, but I never got to doing it because it sounded too tedious.

ADMU vs DLSU game ticket. I don’t think you’ll ever be a full-fledged Atenista (or La Sallista for that matter) if you haven’t watched an Ateneo-La Salle game. That being said, ONE BIG FIGHT! GO ‘TENEO!!

One of the plane tickets I saved from my second trip to San Francisco. From Manila we had to stop over at Hong Kong for an hour or so before flying off to Sanfo. I remember seeing the city’s lights from the plane.

New year 2008. I wrote “this will be my year” but I’m not sure if it turned out that way.

I got this from my 18th birthday surprise party, the one Justin organized back in 200…4? My friends wrote messages for me on a paper pasted onto an illustration board with a photo of my head pasted over an FHM calendar (I think).

The kitchen cupboard in Paranaque.

This here is my favorite orange page. I pasted photos from our Borgia-Bellarmine-high-school-classmates christmas party.

The Purple Pages

mina — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:49:08 +0000

The Purple Pages. I don’t know why each color page set seems to have similar themes, but apparently they do.

This first page I did while I was in San Francisco. The materials I used were black permanent marker, pencil and my reliable white out correction pen. If you try to make sense of the sketch/project, the four middle boxes actually spell “F-E-E-L”. The four outer boxes say “nuts”, “cry”, “uneasy” and “scared”. This was just during one of my emo homesick moments.

My 1504 family. My lurrrrrrvvvvvssssss. OF COURSE I HAVE TO SCRAP ABOUT YOU GUYS!

This was one of those random posts I did just because.

My 1504 welcome: A MERALCO Disconnection Notice. AND AND AND Samantha’s shower post-it! I couldn’t resist. I just had to keep it before we completely vacated the condo. Spam, this one’s for you!

This page is basically a hodgepodge of ticket stubs, metro cards, receipts, fortune cookie fortunes from my US trip. Oh, and an out-of-place SM Advantage card. I had nowhere else to put it so I pasted it here.

Vintage photo booth. This was taken back in ’94 in an arcade somewhere around San Francisco, or I think it was Vallejo. It’s a polaroid of my sister and I with Auntie Aida. I love this picture.

This was the page after our polaroid. I cut off a square relatively the same size as the polaroid to show the page before this. Then I “stitched” up the hole using needle and thread. Then I pasted this navy blue ribbon I found at home. The black stains are from stamp pad ink. AND the silver stuff are glitters.

Materials: an Esprit tag, paperclips, blue highlighter, staples, silver metallic pen, scotch tape.

The page behind the Esprit tag. I inscribed a poem written by Pablo Neruda:

Each day I learn something,
combing my hair everyday
I think what you think,
walk
as you walk,
and eat as you do,
I circle my love with my arms
As you circle yours,
And then
when all’s known
and each is made equal,
I write
I write with your life and my own.

Another page filled with Neruda. This one’s a poem entitled “If You Forget Me”

The Pink Pages

mina — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:04:40 +0000

The pink pages are THE photo pages. It’s not intentional. I just ended up covering whole pages with all sorts of papers/paperclips/tapes/etc.

I covered the two pages with black permanent marker. I didn’t know what to do with it until I saw a picture of Auntie Char, and a gift card she gave me for my graduation. The bookmark on the left’s not pasted onto the page. The left side’s just plain black. I keep it so I won’t forget. Not that I ever will.

This is a page I dedicated to two thirds of our trio—for Trina and Chuchay. Some of the pasted papers/slips are: ACLC Soul Tasklist, my French oral exam slip, the calendar Trina gave me for 2006, and a Mocha Blends claim stub.

My sister’s and my page. These were photo stickers from back when we were BOTH still in college, and the closest cinemas were in Eastwood.

Tickets. Immigration cards. Boarding Passes. These were all from the my sister’s and my Singapore Trip after my college graduation. I love this page. I pasted our favorite Sing pic together.

A page dedicated to moi. I went crazy with the masking tape, but I love how it turned out. I also taped multi-colored paperclips onto the page, just because I can.

A tribute to our Puerto Galera Summer 2007 trip before we marched for graduation. I miss everyone. I miss the sun.

And finally… something I wrote when I was probably pissed off.