The 3rd San Pablo Comics Festival Gyud!

Ahahah, maski abalang-abala ang lahat sa kanya-kanyang raket at trabaho, 'buti na lang natuloy pa rin ang San Pablo Komiks Festival ngayong taon!

Sobrang-sobrang SAYA at PASASALAMAT po sa lahat ng mga TUMULONG at PUMUNTA para sa kasayahan na ito. MARAMING, MARAMING SALAMAT PO TALAGA sa mga sumusunod:

ULTIMART SHOPPING PLAZA
UNITED ARCHITECT OF THE PHILIPPINES (UAP)
Expressions
Funhouse
Comic Odyssey
ElectroMagnetic Tentacles
Walk me Home

Ang aming super-espeyshal na mga panauhin na sina MANIX ABRERA at POL MEDINA, Jr.

Grabeh, sa lahat ng mga exhibitor/kaibigan galing pa ng Maynila:

Comic Odyssey
Komiks Veterans na pinangunahan nina Mang Danny Acuña at Jorvy Ondis
Lightbox Studio
Core Studio sa pangunguna ni Andrew Villar
Gio Paredes
Randy Valiente
Rawwr Studio sa pangunguna ni Patrick Rawwr
Pugad Baboy Crew sa pangunguna ni Pol Medina, Jr.
Trese group: Kajo Baldisimo at Budjette Tan
Ner Pedriña, Rommel "Omeng" Estanislao, SSM at Freely Abrigo
Komikon Organizers

Siyempre pa, ang aming mga partners in crime:

KOMIKERO Artist Group
Graphic Literature Guild (GLG)
Komikero Publishing, Inc.
JonasDiego.com

...at sa dalawang (2) kumag na may kagagawan ng lahat ng ito, GERRY "ManongLisa smile" ALANGUILAN at JONAS DIEGO...LOVE YOU GUYS! Sa susunod na taon ulit!

At eto ang mga highlight o kaganapan n'ung araw na 'yun...SALAMAT kila Gerry, Jonas at CARLO PAGULAYAN para sa mga larawan.


Ang lugar na pinagganapan, Ultimart Shopping Plaza!

Bago ang Festival, nagkaroon muna ng maliit na Exhibit sa ikalawang palapag ng Ultimart, nakabalandra d'un ang mga gawang Pinoy na komiks sa mga nagdaang taon. Tatlong araw din na nasilayan ng maraming tao ang kagalingan ng mga Pinoy pagdating sa komiks!

...ang exhibit...


...kakalagay pa lang , may tumitingin na kaagad!

...si Jonas, habang nagbabantay ng exhibit...at tumitingin na rin...

...sa pag-akyat mo ng Ultimart, ito na kaagad ang makikita mo!


At kinabukasan, eto na nga ang FESTIVAL!

...sa umaga ng paghahanda, maski si Manix na special guest, tumutulong....ohhhhh, MABAIT ngang bata!



oh 'di ba, mabait nga!

At eto na ang mga exhibitor!


Komikero Artist Group at GLG, Kevin, Enzo, Angelo, Ate Ilyn, Zarah, ako at si Jason!


ang booth ni ELMER!


Da Greyt MANIX ABRERA!


...'di pa man nagsisimula, may mga nagpapapirma na kaagad kay Manix!


...ang parating mabentang COMIC ODYSSEY...


...kitams!


Ang mga pinagkaguluhang KOMIKS Veterans...


...grabeh, ang dami nilang FANS hah!


Core Studio, sa pangunguna ni Andrew Villar, at si Ambush!


Lightbox Studio sa pangunguna ni Brian Balondo.


Jonas, Gio, and Randy!


Si Gio Paredes ng KALAYAAN!


Randy Valiente in da haws!


Rawwr Studio!


Mel Casipit!


Ner Pedriña, Rommel Estanislao, SSM, at Freely Abrigo!


...ang magigiting nilang mga komiks!


Ang TRESE group, Wella, Budjette, and Kajo!


...At ang mga taga-KOMIKON (kasama ang "hindi taong" si Neil Cervantes - HAYOP 'yang MAGKULAY, hehehe....): Jon Zamar, Ariel Atienza, at Syeri Baet-zamar, kasama rin nila sina Lyndon Gregorio at Lei Muncal!


Kada oras o depende sa gusto, namimigay din naman kami ng mga papremyo (komiks o t-shirt) kapag nasagot nila ang aking mga tanong tungkol sa komiks!



At hindi lang 'yan, may pa-contest din naman sa pagguhit na nilahukan ng marami!


kanya-kanyang hanap ng lugar sa paggawa ng entry nila...


...kitams!


At ito ang mga butihing hurado: Pol Medina, Jr, Gerry Alanguilan, Kajo Baldisimo at Carlo Pagulayan!


Si Polgas, habang iniinterbyu!


Kwela talaga siya!


Siyempre, huwag kalimutan ang ibang artists!


Busy sa pagpo-promote ng mga latest na gawa nila!


Sa pagtatapos, ang pagpapasalamat sa lahat...


at harana ng bandang WALK ME HOME...


Ang galing nila hah!

At siyempre, hindi mawawala ang video na ginawa ni Fafah Gerry, enjoy!

Make and Drink Your Own Emoto HADO Water

Here are some steps you can take to prepare and drink the HADO water.

1. Buy some mineral water. If you can find some in a glass container, that's best. The plastic containers leach plasticizers into the water that pollute it. Tap water is hard to purify because the chlorine seems to affect the structure even after the chlorine evaporates according to Dr. Emoto's research.
2. Keep a gallon or two of mineral water in front of a music source where you can play purifying water music. In Dr. Emoto's two books, you can find out the names of various symphonies and songs that produce great crystals. Some of these musical sources of HADO include Beethoven's Ninth, John Lennon's Imagine, and Amazing Grace.
3. Prepare a HADO bottle of water. This process if highly individual.
4. Start with a clear glass jar. One that holds about a quart is fine. Peel off any labels and clean the outside of the jar.
5. Cut out small pieces of paper (about 3" by 5").
6. Write messages on the pieces of paper.
7. One message should be "Love and Gratitude".
8. If you have some illness or pain you want to go away, another message can be "[Name of pain or illness] Has Gone".
9. A third message should be "The eternal power of the universe has gathered itself to create a world with true and grand harmony".
10. I also suggest you put a message on another sheet of paper with the name of your religion.
11. Tape these messages onto the outside of the container so that they face inward towards the water.
12. Put them in different places on the outside so that no message obscures any other message in facing the water inside.
13. Keep this HADO jar full of mineral water that has been in front of your speakers that have been vibrating with high HADO music.
14. Keep the water away from microwaves, televisions, computers and cell phones. All of those energy sources harm the structure of water as shown in Dr. Emoto's photographs.
15. Drink as often as possible from the HADO jar and refill it. Drink the amount of water that's healthy for you. But try to get as much of that water as possible from this jar. You can carry some of the water with you when you are away from your source.
16. Be thankful as you drink the water.

Dr. Emoto's experiments suggest that you will further purify the water if you say or think the following thoughts as you drink the water:

• "We love you, water."
• "Thank you, water."
• "We will take care of you, water."
• Also thank God and the Angels for the water and ask them to bless it as you drink it.

Notice any changes that occur after you begin drinking HADO water and eating high HADO foods.

You may notice no changes . . . or you may notice quite a few. Finding some improvement is essential to seeing whether this approach is for you.

Kwentong Tambay: 3rd San Pablo Komiks Festival

The 3rd San Pablo Comics Festival

Inaanyayahan po ang lahat, sana makapunta kayo!


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The Chicken Which Should be Banned

Do you put dimethylpolysiloxane, an anti-foaming agent made of silicone, in your chicken dishes?

How about tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ), a chemical preservative so deadly that just five grams can kill you?

These are just two of the ingredients in a McDonalds Chicken McNugget. Only 50 percent of a McNugget is actually chicken. The other 50 percent includes corn derivatives, sugars, leavening agents and completely synthetic ingredients.

Organic Authority helpfully transcribed the full ingredients list provided by McDonalds:

"White boneless chicken, water, food starch-modified, salt, seasoning (autolyzed yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavoring (botanical source), safflower oil, dextrose, citric acid, rosemary), sodium phosphates, seasoning (canola oil, mono- and diglycerides, extractives of rosemary).

Battered and breaded with: water, enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, food starch-modified, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, whey, corn starch.

Prepared in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent."


Dr. Mercola's Comments:

There's no doubt about it. Processed food like that from McDonald's is just not part of a healthful diet – in fact, much of it cannot even pass for real food.

After reviewing the above article I am very grateful I can say I have never had a Chicken McNugget from McDonald's. If you can't say the same at least you can commit to never having another one again.

This sentiment was echoed by Federal Judge Robert Sweet in a lawsuit against the restaurant chain back in 2003 when he said:

"Chicken McNuggets, rather than being merely chicken fried in a pan, are a McFrankenstein creation of various elements not utilized by the home cook."

At the time, Time Magazine reported that Judge Sweet "questioned whether customers understood the risks of eating McDonald's chicken over regular chicken."

That was seven years ago, and I still wonder whether or not McDonald's customers truly understand the risks they take when consuming fast food on a regular basis.

If you missed Morgan Spurlock's documentary Super-Size Me, I highly recommend you watch it with your entire family. It's a real-life illustration of just how dangerous – life threatening, in fact – an excessive fast food diet can really be. And "excessive" consumption is likely far less than you imagine: Eating fast food just twice a week DOUBLES your risk of developing insulin resistance, compared to eating it just once a week, for example. Insulin resistance, as I've discussed on many occasions, is one of THE primary driving factors behind most of the diseases we currently struggle with, from diabetes to cancer and heart disease...

The truth is, McDonald's fare contain non-food ingredients that can seriously harm your health.

This shouldn't come as any great surprise. After all, how healthful can something be that shows no signs of decomposing after being left on a counter for more than a decade?

Clearly there's more chemicals in there than actual, real foodstuff.


Chicken McNuggets: "Made With White Meat"... and What Else?

According to McDonald's, their chicken nuggets are "made with white meat, wrapped up in a crisp tempura batter." But as the article above shows, these chicken nuggets are a far cry from what you might expect, based on that description.

About half of it is actual chicken. The rest is a mix of corn-derived fillers and additives (most likely genetically modified), along with a slew of synthetic chemicals, including:

• Dimethyl polysiloxane, a type of silicone with anti-foaming properties used in cosmetics and a variety of other goods like Silly Putty
• Tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ), a petroleum-based product with antioxidant properties

The latter, TBHQ, is typically listed as an "antioxidant," but it's important to realize it is a SYNTHETIC chemical with antioxidant properties – NOT a natural antioxidant.

The chemical prevents oxidation of fats and oils, thereby extending shelf life of processed foods. It's a commonly used ingredient in processed foods of all kinds, but you can also find it in varnishes, lacquers, pesticide products, as well as cosmetics and perfumes to reduce the evaporation rate and improve stability.

At its 19th and 21st meetings, the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives determined that TBHQ was safe for human consumption at levels of 0-0.5 mg/kg of body weight. However, more recently, the Codex commission set the maximum allowable limits up to between 100 to as much as 400 mg/kg, depending on the food it's added to. (Chewing gum is permitted to contain the highest levels of TBHQ.)

That's quite a discrepancy in supposedly "safe" limits!

So, is the safe level zero, or 400 mg/kg? Who knows?!

According to A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives, one gram of TBHQ can cause:

• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Ringing in the ears (tinnitus)
• Delirium
• Sense of suffocation
• Collapse

Based on animal studies, health hazards associated with TBHQ include:

• liver effects at very low doses
• positive mutation results from in vitro tests on mammalian cells
• biochemical changes at very low doses
• reproductive effects at high doses

The good news is that it is not suspected to be a persistent toxin, meaning your body is probably able to eliminate it so that it does not bioaccumulate.

REAL Food "Lives" and "Dies"

I recently commented on the curious ability of McDonald's food to remain impervious to degradation. It's as if the food has been embalmed to stay "fresh" forever! After sitting on a shelf for 14 years, the hamburger bun has yet to develop a single trace of mold. It's barely even begun to shrivel...

Folks, these buns bear absolutely no resemblance to real bread, and when you read the list of ingredients, this mysterious mummification feature becomes less of a mystery.

Here are just a few of the ingredients in a McDonald's hamburger bun:

• calcium sulfate (aka Plaster of Paris)
• calcium carbonate (Antacid medication)
• ammonium sulfate (According to MSDS,“harmful if swallowed”)
• ammonium chloride (Causes irritation to the gastrointestinal tract. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting and diarrhea)
• calcium propionate (Preservative)
• sodium propionate (Mold inhibitor)

Always remember that wholesome, health-promoting food is "live" food, and the hallmark of live food is the fact that it will decompose.

The fact that these burgers, buns, and fries do not decompose, even after a decade or two, is a clear sign that it's just not real food, and should not be part of your diet.

You Are What You Eat...

The bottom line is that if you want to stay healthy, and keep your children healthy, you have to avoid fast food and other processed foods, and invest some time in your kitchen, cooking from scratch. Reclaiming your kitchen is part and parcel of healthful living, so you know exactly what you're putting in your body.

Ideally, you'll want to consume as much whole, raw, organic and/or locally grown foods as possible. That's one of the major reasons why vegetable juicing works so well – you're consuming living raw food!

Most vegetables also have very low carbohydrate levels that minimally disturb insulin metabolism – another important trait of a healthful diet -- but there is something very special about vegetable juicing and eating live raw foods in general.

In addition, I believe optimal health is also largely dependent on eating the right foods for your nutritional type. I think this is such an important part of an optimal diet that I am now offering the entire Nutritional Typing program to you for free.

If you're "hooked" on fast food and other processed foods, please review my recent article How to Wean Yourself Off Processed Foods in 7 Steps. If you're currently sustaining yourself on fast food and processed foods, this is probably the most positive life change you could ever make.

And if you have children, remember that feeding your children home cooked meals can have far reaching benefits, extending even to your future grandchildren. Yes, that's right! It is now well known that dietary changes can prompt epigenetic DNA changes that can be passed on to future generations. For instance, pregnant rats fed a fatty diet had daughters and granddaughters with a greater risk of breast cancer.

Making wise food decisions can literally "override" genetic predispositions for disease.

AQUINO COJUANGCO: FACTS THEY DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW

KOMIKON 2011

KOMIKON naaaaahhhhh!!

Whohoooooh!

SIGURADO akong PUPUNTA dito!

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Win a Pencil Brush!

...please click the poster for more details.


I. What’s the competition about?
- It’s an art contest! In a single page, draw a character related to the theme (No colors). Make it unique, exciting, creative and fun! And one of the main goals is to create and expand awareness of pinoys when it comes to art and comics.

The competition will officially start on November 8 and will end on December 27, 2011

II. Theme?
- The contest will have a “Superhero” theme, so this means you can’t submit a drawing of a horse, or a man doing owling or whatevs! You can draw existing characters like Batman, Superman, Spidey, or other characters from video games but it would definitely be great if it was your own character or your own rendition of a character.

UPDATE: All drawing should be in pencils, NO INKING and NO COLORS

III. Categories?
- There will only be 3 Categories: Best Male, Best Female and Best Creature design (eg. Aliens, Monsters, Folklore/Mythological). So please bear in mind these categories when you start on your entry.

IV. Who can join?
- Everyone! No age limit! Pros and Non-pros! I MEAN EVERYONE! and its NATIONWIDE!

V. Submission Process?
- You will have to scan your work, and just email us directly the scanned image — 1 entry per person, per category only.

UPDATE: You can submit upto 3 different entries per category, so this means you can submit an entry per category. 1 for best male, 1 for best female and 1 for best creature


- Be sure to put in these details when submitting your entries:

SUBJECT: Pencilbrush – FlipGeeks Contest
SEND TO:
For Best Male and Best Female categories, please send to info@pencilbrush.com
For Best Creature (non-human) category, please send to submissions@flipgeeks.net
In the details, include the following:
Complete name of participant
Title of artwork/entry

- You can submit your entries anytime and day w/in the contest duration. (Please see Section I)

- During the contest, there will be a “Publishing Day” which will occur every Tuesday (11/8, 11/15, 11/22, ….12/27). On this day, all new entries submitted before the Publishing Day will be posted/published in both FlipGeeks and Pencilbrush Facebook pages.

Voting Process and how to win?

- There will be a voting process, and it will involve Facebook LIKES (FlipGeeks and Pencilbrush).

1. All qualifying entries will be showcased in the Voting page for online voting from 8th November - 27th December 2011.
2. Winners will be selected by highest number of votes.
3. All voters in the winning entries will be rolled over to a lucky draw component, where 1 lucky voter from each category will be awarded.
4. All winners will be notified via email and through the Pencilbrush online community on 10 January 2012.
5. Judges decisions are final.


Prizes?

1 x Best Male Superhero: 1 Pencilbrush, 1 book + add-ons (worth about $100)
1 x Best Female Superhero: 1 Pencilbrush, 1 book + add-ons (worth about $100)
1 x Best Creature: 1 Pencilbrush, 1 book + add-ons (worth about $100)
1 x Flipgeeks Editors Choice: 1 Pencilbrush, 1 book + add-ons (worth about $100)
1 x Student: 1 Pencilbrush, 1 book + add-ons (worth about $100)