Two weeks ago my dear friend, July, called up and was bantering about my one and only copy of Pugad Baboy compared to her a dozen (if my memory doesn’t betray me).

I told her that I was only beginning to collect and asked her, instead, to give me her collection as a Christmas gift.

I hope she reads this. Hehehe (i-pressure bah ang amiga?!)

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Julz, naa na koy PB 15 ug 19. I brought the latter yesterday, har har! Na pressure pud ko sa imung binuang…hayuf! Ihatag na sa ako imung collection kay mag Singapore bitaw mo!

it’s official! i finally decided to start collecting the pugad baboy (pb) series, yesterday.  wo hoh!
for lack of budget, i bought only one, which means, i have to save money for the remaining 18 pb series.  aargh!

the available copies left in the bookstore are books 15 to 17 out of the total 19 series.  i chose kinse ( i dunno why).

pb, is one of the reasons why i read inquirer (others are de quiros’ there’s the rub, young blood and inq editorial, in no particular order).  why i love it?  Pol Medina’s comic strips show the political, cultural and economic conditions of our country — with wit and humor; they are not pretentious and more importantly, they don’t show cowardice from the powers-that-be.

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ATTENTION:  kung kinsa man ang naay PB copies dinha ug labi na kadtong walay plano mangolekta, dili gyud ko maulaw nga mangayo sa inyo, hehehe…andam kaayo kong mudawat…

photo inset: PB’s 10th aniv special.  wala koy nakitang kinse, mao kani na lang usa.

japanese words and names interest me.

maybe, it’s a result from watching too much japanese metaseries during my childhood years. i can still remember watching magmaman and ultraman with my brothers and cousins. back then, we were so amazed with the heroes named misaki and hayata, respectively, as they fought and won against the villains.

looking back, i realized how low-tech the characters then compared to the cartoon heroes at present, and my all-time favorite x-men. but that’s another story.

aside from misaki and hayata, I was also hooked with the creation of the japanese manga artist naoko takeuchi — sailormoon, especilly her beau, the handsome tuxedo mask.

and yes, who would forget the creation of tadao nagahama, a japanese animation series — the super electromagnetic machine Voltes V? and the classic robot astro boy?! the latter a creation of the “god of manga,” osamu tezuka.

indeed, i was and still am an anime fanatic. which leads me to carrying the name michiko magusaka for this blog.

but, apart from my penchant with japanese names, michiko magusaka is more of a result from finding slash creating names for moi and mi amore’s would-be baby.

michiko is the japanese word for beauty and wisdom. and magusaka, well, we’re quite not sure if it’s in the japanese dictionary. but the word stands for something that is priceless, relevant and sacred for moi and mi amore. the word which we want to keep to ourselves…