Four months has passed since I gave my heart to my Beloved One. After all those time, she has taught me to grow and hold on. She has taught me to be strong in her times of weakness and to hope in times of distresses.

Even four months may seem so short but for us, it's like we have spent years with each other. She has faithfully loved me and I have been devoted to her. We learned to appreciate the meaning of love, sacrifice and commitment. But even though we see each other for almost everyday, it pains us even to miss a day without each other's company.

We had been celebrating our love faithfully every month. But we observed that everytime we did, we lack the funds in such a critical time. Now, something new has come to break to cycle:

I found a long-term home-based job in webdesign and development. Actually, three of them: Two on web design and development and one on graphic design.

I started working on the first one. They asked me to develop for them a flash-based web site, complete with form submission. It seemed a daunting task at first, knowing that I just learned basic flash in the third week of August. Now, I'm tackling advance actionscripting using flash.

I was amazed at the things my mind could do. A little bit of diligence and you could surprise yourself at how easy things can be despite how they look. I'm not trying to brag, but it's moments of personal eureka's like these are indeed worth cherishing. 

Now I am truly able. Now I can design and develop websites at a better quality and better rate. This truly helped me get the guts to pursue things that I could only dream of in the past.

Because of this, my mission to develop another site at a much different platform (xhtml/css, javascript and php) is less daunting than ever. I have been requested to create an account at a certain bank so as I could receive my payment through there.

I also have a graphic design job. The best thing is, I get to select my schedule. It's pretty neat. However, the last month of August called for a time out because another new event was about to commence:

My sister, Cindy, had her debut last 31st. A lot of preparations were made for the occasiion. It got me to exercise quite a bit in helping prepare and set up the place.

It was a first for the family. My older sister didn't have such a party on her debut. It was a merely simple celebration. But at least, my younger sister was blessed enough to experience one. It marked a new promise on her life. It's turning point for her I suppose, to realize that she has grown up and must start to become more responsible.

It was also a first for me to introduce my Beloved to my family. It was also her first time to come to our house. I was proud to present her to my parents. They all seemed to like her, even though the introduction was short (because of the ensuing debut party).

It was when I looked at her eyes that night that made me realize that I have a responsibility to keep. If I wanted to give my Beloved a good and happy life (by God's grace), I must learn to do my responsibility. I then made a promise to myself that night. Now I'm grateful I found a good job.

Therefore, the cycle of not having funds for our monthsary was broken. Because of the account I had to setup, I was able to reserve a few dough for us to have on our monthsary.

We had a nice monthsary that night. We've been and are in love with each other and our love for each other is still growing (thank God). We've been blessed.

Although there are still problems around us, our love for each other has helped us see us through. Because just beyond the horizon, lies the promise of our love. We then look forward to a newer and brighter tomorrow.

Okay, I don't typically write like this...

I'm not simple. Everybody knows that. I'm complicated, as what most of my friends would say. But am I normal? Am I average? Am I just another brick on the wall? This article will help me find out if I qualify as somebody who stands up among the crowd.

Brennan, tagged me for this friend meme. Of course, such a scheme does cause one's curiousity to spark toward the person being tagged. Everybody is curious about the other. It also gives us a better picture about who we have been friends with for a long time after being given the chance to glance onto the person's other less-known side.

So here are six things that I think are not what many people do very  often:

1. I spend 50-70% of my time everyday in front of the pc monitor.
2. I average two (2) dreams EVERY night.
3. I think better (and sing better, if I may) sitting on the toilet inside the bathroom (ala "The Thinker").
4. I don't have a good sense of urgency.
5. I don't have a good sense of direction.
6. I am allergic to eating chicken, but I like eating it.

Those are just a few of the not-very-normal stuff that I do or have. Still there are more but they just get weirder. But fear not they aren't tantamount to insanity, I assure you, hehe, isn't that right, Mr. Goomblepuff? ... Mr. Goomblepuff, where'd you go...?

If you're a blogger and you're reading this, you're tagged dude.

"I have just learned Flash! Owmegawd!!!"

How it started:

I was looking for freelance web-design and develoment jobs online. I came across this potential employer who was disappointed with their company's website. I came to check their website and to everybody's horror, it was, well, --horrible. It was made from a very simple html/css website (I think there was a very simple form submission script somewhere...). Anyway, that company, after looking at my meager design samples, decided to take me to work on their problem. At first I thought they were looking for another website design using html/css with a few javascripting and some php/mysql backend. So after a few email conversations, they gave melink for a design that they were looking for. To my horror, it was in FLASH!

Oops, I... ugh... didn't know flash (back then). So I got to surfing the internet for a solution to my dilemma. I thought that combining some banner animations with a script-based website might convince them to take the idea.

I was looking through some freeware flash animation tools when I suddenly had the urge to understand how the animation works using flash. I didn't have much hands-on experience with the original Flash 8 program where an authentic flash designer works. I had some basic tutorials downloaded though but they were all in animation. I wanted to design a website in flash-- but I only got flash-animation tuts.

Suddenly, while doing a hands-on animation design in Macromedia Flash 8, I came across basic actionscripting. So put 2 and 2 together and there was it! The solution suddenly came up into my mind and I couldn't rest until I could get to test my theory in mind and-- VOILA!!! A fully-functional Flash website!

I'm sooo into it right now. Gotta go, I'll DEFINITELY post some images of some website designs that I've made, that means both flash and non-flash (static or dynamic)-- but later. Right now I have some cool work to do.