Preachers of the Streets

"Shout to the great crowd is what they do! Convincing people to turn away from all the evils. Bibles, they have. Banners, they got! People, they posses. Together, they untiringly utter again and again bout the ones who'll be saved and the ones who'll be not."

This is the scene in the downtown city of Cebu called COLON. Almost every night, every daylight, these people of whom personalities are not known by me, gathers in the later. Armed with their Bibles of life, posters and banners that picture out humans suffering in hell, they endlessly shout to everyone about the coming of our God. I think being tired in not part of their vocabulary by doing all of the shouts, standing in the middle of the downtown, holding those banners and posters the whole time they are there.

People cross the streets of COLON, some ignores them, and some listens to them. I would not deny that I deny them more than I listen to them. But just last night, the night before the posting of this article, when I cross the same street, the words of these people really get my attention and I come to think of how tiring their job was or shall we say profession. I can’t really recall those particular words, but it just got my mind thinking about what they do. I pity them. That was what I felt. And somehow, my heart felt like its being squeeze thinking about it. Thinking about the reality of what they are uttering, thinking about the people sacrificing their time and efforts just to be in that particular place to utter their words again.

I am not a very religious type of person, but I can recall, if my memory serves me well, that I heard from the Holy Bible that says, "If the people you are preaching to does not listen to your words, take your sandals and wipe your clothes of the dirt from that place and go..", well, these are not really the exact words, but these is what I can always recall when I see those people in the streets. Why are they convincing so much? Maybe their answers would be because they want to save many lives. That is the best answer indeed. But considering the fact that they are well inclined with the Bible, they should have read about those words that I mentioned above which makes us question again, "Why are they convincing so much?"

Can they really be saved? Can we really be saved? We might as well ask ourselves, "Am I saved?"

Kageron D' Animation

This is the pilot episode of Kageron. It is a compilation of real life stories re-told using flash animation. Follow the adventures and misadventures of K as he becomes a full pledge Kageron.

Watch for more episodes to come.

The episode was short... I only made it in a day so there was no time for concept and character design. Hopefully I'll have enough time on the second episode.

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Sinulog 2008

Although it was rainy, our Sinulog getaway sure was memorable. We started to roam around the city at 1:00 pm although it was planned at 7 in the morning, all decided to skip it and rested for a while. Ever since I was a kid our daily routine was to attend first the Procession, which is always a day before the Sinulog Mardigra.

As we got out of the house, we were welcomed by a line of passengers and jeepneys stuck in the traffic. Watching jeepneys and passengers waiting for a chance to move an inch made us decide to walk. Walking along the empty high way made me reminisce about the things I had done during my elementary days. Back in those days, me and my friends used to walk a kilometer away from school just to enjoy arcade games. I save almost half of my daily baon so I could play Dragon Ball Z on a coin-operated supernes modified arcade, or in our term "Hulug-hulug piso".

We arrived at our first destination, the Basilica del Sto. Niño. Like all fiesta it wouldn't be complete with out offering a candle so we decided to do it first before everything and walked from Panganiban to Magallanes. I remembered last time, Jade and I almost suffocated due to the number of people crowding the streets near the entrance of the Basilica. Although it was the same, we managed to find a good route towards the Main entrance. Getting towards there was easy, but getting out was a challenge. After we offered candles we head towards our next destination Colon St.

Colon St was full of vendors, all kinds of stuff was there. I even got myself a buckle and a couple of anime DVD's which was only Php 10.00 each. The most beautiful part of it was food. Yes, all kind of street food was around. If you are on diet then don't ever come to there because you'll just give in to the temptation.

After a countless kwek-kwek balls consumed, we head to our next destination, Fuente Osmeña. But before getting there, we must cross a barricade of crowd watching the Street Dance starting from High-Way on towards Ramos St. We managed to got around that part easily, (hint: there are less people on Ramos St and you can easily get across).

Fuente was our last destination, we mana Although tiring, the atmosphere there was pure fun. We stopped by at the park to eat someged to get snapshots of the thing happening there. Barbeque. We also got ourselves freebies.
After a tiring event, we started to walk our way home, but before our adventure ended we got the chance to see the fireworks display at abellana.

We are Kageron

One of the most memorable events in my life was College. Ah, those were the good times, can't believe that we could create that bond together.

You might be wondrin why or what is "Kageron"? Well, actually that was the favorite expression we used to call one another. Though the word means "scab" in English we didn't hesitate to use it because for us it sounds funny and it takes out the pressure that was on our minds. Listening to that word puts a smile to our face.

I guess every barkada out there has their own set of words to describe them, for us... it is the word Kageron

Here is video dedicated to the batch BSIT Batch of October 2006