So yesterday Melanie and I found out the sex of our baby, Melanie’s wish came true! I’m just thrilled to see that the baby is on schedule, we’ll find out the evaluation of the ultrasound pics next week. Click on the image below to see the set of pictures and try your luck to find out if we’re having a boy or a girl. It’s like “Where’s Waldo?” with private parts.
Took this recording last week.
My picture was pointed out to me today on this stuff animal company. Pretty funny…
Click on the cow squishable or picture below.
My friend Jen at work was listening to the my first clip and asked, “Isn’t that kind of slow?” Which was the reason for the previous entry where I actually counted the heartbeat.
I think the first recording wasn’t getting the in-between heartbeats, so for you listening pleasure, here’s one with all heartbeats taken Saturday
Counted around 116 per minute on the Baby’s heartbeat tonight. I’m sure my counting wasn’t perfect since it should be around 120 or higher, but it’s fun to hear 🙂
Take a listen by clicking on the link below…
Yes, I’m getting a tattoo and I’ve been wanting this for a while now, so here’s my story…
First and foremost I need to give a BIG shout out and Salamat (Thank you in tagalog) to my cousin Cyrene Mary. She’s an incredible graphic artist and came up with the tattoo design, check out her portfolio website:
Cyrene designed the tattoo I will be getting inked from a Baybayin translation from pinoytattoos.com. I asked her to integrate the Filipino sun and stars from our country flag with the Baybayin text. Check it out at the end of my blog.
Last night I was fortunate enough to scheduled my tattoo appt at Humble Beginnings Tattoo Studio in San Jose, CA by a fellow Filipino artist Orly Locquiao. I get it on Friday 8/28. I love Yelp.com and it’s how I found the studio and was fortunate enough to find a talented Filipino artist to ink my design right down the road. Here’s their website:
If you google Orly and tattoo, you find a lot of incredible art pieces done by him and some say he’s the best Filipino tattoo artist in the bay area.
So what does the tattoo represent? Well some close friends that I camp with every year (Jonn and Skip) have some incredible tattoos and I’ve always been interested in them. I’d say about 3 years ago I decided I wanted to get a tattoo that was dedicated to my Grandmother. As many of you know, she passed in December 2008 and I started doing the research.
It started as a simple translation of my Grandmother’s name in the original Filipino tribal characters called Baybayin, but then I decided to integrate all the women that are important in my life, so I included my Grandma, Mother, and my wife Melanie. You can read about Baybayin here as well as get it translated, like I did:
http://www.pinoytattoos.com/translations/
It’s a total of 4 Bababyin characters, which are Filipino nicknames:
Peday (Grandmother): Pe-da
Sa (Mom): Sa
May (Wife and another nickname for my mom): Ma
Below is the translation:
Here’s the image of the final design that Cyrene created that will be inked on my left arm:
Not much to say, but INCREDIBLE! Melanie gave me a gift certificate for a tandem parachute jump for my birthday this year. I used it today and I highly recommend it if you have the chance… See video (last part of the slide show) and pictures by clicking on the image below:
Flickr Photos:
Viddler Video:
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Ren and Linsey are my cousin Don’s next door neighbors and have become good friends, I went to their daughter Mia’s birthday a couple of weeks ago and took a lot of great pictures. Happy Birthday Mia! Click on the pictures below to see the set.
