Jerri's GONE! I can't believe it! Annoying as she was, I'm gonna miss her. Although she was really bad to Kel, I think she wasn't really as bad as she was made out to be. I actually liked her when she and Colby went beach walking and swimming. And by the end, I really felt sorry that she's gone.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's just as well. Take it as you read it.

I still haven't worked the past few days, still recuperating from that damned flu. The first thing I'll do is finish that Galactus drawing, do one more Dr. Who drawing (and this time I get to actually draw the doctor!), and finally start Ochlocrat. I'm inking more of Leinil's stuff soon so I gotta do everything I need to do. Can't be lazy.

Gad, I feel so bad. Damned flu. You're thinking I may be better off in bed but damn, I've been on that bed for so long today that my head hurts. Watched Mir crash and burn on TV (what a stunning sight). Nothing better to do, I started watching Survivor 2: Australian Outback. I can't believe I like it. Read Essential Thor. My eyes hurt. Coughed. Sniffed. Sweat. Slept. Checked mail. Talked to my doggie. Called Ilyn. Told me to go to bed and turn off the TV. 'kay.

I could never be a lawyer. I could never be a debater. It's for this reason that I'm slowly shying away from arguing with people on the net via mailing lists and message boards. I guess I'm too emotional. I can never look at anything quite so subjectively. Emotion is always involved and more often than I want to, I find myself blowing up and regretting the manner which I said it later on.

I got the FLU!! Again!! Darn it! Inspite of that, I'm still working on a Galactus drawing commissioned by a friend of mine, although I'm not drawing it as fast as I normally would. I've long wanted to do Galactus so I'm quite excited about it....

I saw Flowers for Algernon on HBO earlier today. It stars Matthew Modine as Charlie Gordon, a retardate who is treated to an experimental operation which hopes to make him smarter. The operation was a success. Too much of a success when it makes him a certified genius. I really liked it. I was crying by the end. This story made me sad when I first read it years ago. Yes, the movie is an adaptation of a 1959 Hugo Award winning short story by Daniel Keyes, but I believe this movie to be an adaptation of an earlier movie.

Hmm. It seems I'm getting transparent with my likes and dislikes. Yes, I'm a hopeless romantic and I like movies like this. So sue me.:)

I saw a French Film today on TV5. I was able to understand it because it had english subtitles. I've gotten sick lately of American movies and with Seven Samurai fresh in mind, I've got a craving now for non-Hollywood movies. I wasn't able to catch the title of the french movie. Actually, I got hooked onto watching it only because the lead actress was very pretty. Not Miss Universe beautiful, but the kind of pretty that you fall head over hells in love with. And the story was just the stuff of sappy tragic love stories. Girl has heart condition. Girl falls in love with guy. Guy dies and without Girl knowing, she gets Guy's heart. Still, watching it really moved me for some reason.

Leinil lent me copy of his Time Bandits DVD. Awesome!! Terry Gilliam rules!

Current comics faves see me returning to old favorites Barry Smith and David Mazzucchelli. Barry Smith's Conan: Red Nails still knock the socks off me every time I see it. Each page of my copy is so mangled from intense studying. This was the stuff I was looking at a long time ago when I was starting out. Looking back at my art samples back then I see a vitality that seems to be lacking in my work now. Jonas, a friend of mine, commented that the difference was probably due to the fact that I used quills more frequently back then. Aside from that, I let my instincts draw for me then unlike the studied methodical approach that I do now. It looks like I'm back to school.

WOLVERINE

Check out this page on EBAY! These are 2 of the pages from Wolverine #125 that I had inked. I'm not the one selling it though. In fact, I don't even remember getting a share of the original art from this particular issue. If I remember correctly, I think I inked 10 pages from this issue and I didn't get a single page back. Oh well. I'm just showing it here because these are a couple of pages that I actually liked after I had inked them.

SEVEN SAMURAI 2

Ha!! I got to get the Seven Samurai Criterion DVD after all. Whoo hoo! Fedex just delivered it to my front door. It turns out that the guy who outbid me at the auction backed out and the next highest bid (who was me) got it instead.

Happy boy. Happy boy.

I just finished inking several Xmen pages. I wish I could show it here, but I can't. Check it out when it comes out in Xmen 113.

WASTED was in a little article in the Philippine Star today. I don't remember exact details about it because I stupidly left the newspaper at Leinil's place earlier today when I went there to pick up some new Xmen pages. I think it's in the newspaper's Tech section. The article is about Wasted, and how it has also found it's way into the Internet via the Alamat site.

SEVEN SAMURAI

Damn! I could almost smell it. I could almost feel it with my fingers. A new unopened copy of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai Criterion Edition DVD. It retails for around 35 dollars in the states and I had a chance to own one after I made the highest bid for a copy at eAuctions.ph. The bid started out at 1,100 pesos which was insanely inexpensive (relatively). I had bid 1500 for it which was beaten by a bid by a friend of mine, Raymond. I then bid 2000 for it which stayed that way for a couple of days. Then someone came in at the last minute and bid 2600, and he won it. Man, I was so disappointed. I could have fought for it and bid higher. In fact, I was on the bidding page with 2 minutes to go. I could have won it, but as much as I love this movie, I won't pay that much for it, specially since I could get it for less ordering it from Amazon.

I guess I'm nevertheless happy with the DVD that I had actually won, a copy of the 2 Disc Special Edition Highlander: Endgame DVD. Not exactly a movie in the order of Seven Samurai, but I'm a fan of Highlander so I guess that's OK.

It's official! I've finally gotten my hands on actual Xmen pages to ink! XMEN!! Whoo hoooo!! It's only a few pages but damn, it's just so cool.

Leinil handed me some pages today. I've only a short time to finish them so I guess the next few nights I will go sleepless, but I will no doubt be too ecstatic to care.