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dear friends, watchers, artists, comrades, and gilla-monsters,

if you are reading this, i'll have you know that you've just made me happy by doing just so. i am at a fit of smiles (which i don't actually take to doing). but anyways, i've been off for a awhile due to my surmounting study demands and to a whole bunch of things with the family, especially with the flooding and super typhoons at my hometown.

Irish is safe, along with our other relatives there. i am very relieved after all the shitty weeks i went through envisioning a funeral with nine caskets. i've had enough of people dying around me, i just lost two of my family last year already. the whole time, until now, i think of nothing but hugging Irish and playing guitar with us singing. Our house over there's gone, i mean there's been a lot of stuff that went with the flood. i think she's still sheltered by the local church or somethin'.

i can't go to the philippines at anytime soon or even at christmas, due to my work, studies, and exams later on. but i somehow wish, i trade my life for some of them people over there. i'd rather be miserable with Irish than be complacent here.

...complacency...it's a big word.

but anyways, as for my art, i've fucked around with color markers , inks, and some oil pastels and just realized, i still wasn't getting anywhere. so now, i've made a conscious decision: I'M GOING BACK TO BASICS! i'll submit somethin, but in pencils of different calibers and all. i've just found that i may be no good at coloring or may also not be best at inking yet, but my pencil work is as natural to me as scratching my ass! i won't give up yet at coloring and inking, but for the sake of submissions, i'll pencil somethin' up for puttin here.

thank you for hanging around and finishing until this last line! drop some lines of your own!