BUTT-TRUCK

Kids had a good laugh seeing this truck bumper sign - "Distance Amigo Puwet Ko Yan!!!" 

puwet (noun) rear-end, butt, buttocks, ass

BLACK vs RED: War of the Small (Complete)

"Black vs Red: War of the Small" by Nicolas Garcia (ballpoint pens on paper)

EARTH HOUR 2011

See Earth Hour 2010: Earth Hour 2010

FATHER'S DAY TUMBLER & CARD

by Savion

 by Nicolas

CRAZY METEORITES

"Crazy Meteorites" by Nicolas Garcia 

Note the 'Afterwards' Frame

(Materials Used: paper and pencil)

AZKALS AUTOGRAPHS

Nicolas got autographs of players of the Philippine National Football Team referred to as the "Azkals".  The team is also known as the "Tri-Stars" which is derived from the three stars on the Philippine flag.  Nicolas used the cardboard cover of a Krispy Kreme box - note the doughnut smudges.

FOOTBALL: Philippine National Team

SPONGEBOB - SURFACE

"SpongeBob Surface" by Nicolas Garcia 
(Materials Used: paper and pencil)

CONTRACT

Father: "I will always be your Dad and we don't need a contract for that". 

Son: "Just in case you know, you never can tell."

Story from O.L., father of Diego.

FOOTBALL: First Game

PEOPLE POWER

"Laban!"

The People Power Revolution (also known as the EDSA Revolution and the Philippine Revolution of 1986) was a series of popular nonviolent revolutions and prayerful mass street demonstrations in the Philippines that occurred in 1986, which marked the restoration of the country's democracy.  It became a subsequent inspiration for the Revolutions of 1989 that ended communist dictatorships in Eastern Europe.  It is sometimes referred to as the Yellow Revolution due to the presence of yellow ribbons during the arrival of Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. in 1983.  These protests were the culmination of a long campaign of civil resistance by the people against the 20-year running authoritarian, repressive regime of then President Ferdinand Marcos and made headlines as "the revolution that surprised the world."

The people used the "L" gesture meaning "laban" in the street demonstrations.

DRAGONHEART

"My heart can't stop burning for you."
"Dragonheart" by Nicolas Garcia (a Valentine's card for his mommy)
(Materials Used: pencil, paper heart ears, paper heart nose, paper fish tongue)

CHECK PAYMENT

Nicolas lost a wager on the correct lyrics of a song from the Disney cartoon "Phineas and Furb".  He paid by check.

THE GIANT PAPER CRANE

"The Giant Paper Crane" by Nicolas Garcia

(Materials Used: nine sheets of paper and transparent tape)

BASKETBALL: First Win

TOM'S TOYS

Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks has become a grandfather for the first time.

Tom's first grandchild could give him the perfect excuse to dig out his most treasured toys, as he recently admitted he still loves playing with his kids' miniature cars and planes.

Tom said:  "I play with toys all the time.  I play with the little goofy things my kids still have like cars and planes and I hold them up and imagine the same stories I did when I was a kid."

He added, "My own toys weren't collectibles - they went through hard use so any toy I had was eventually pounded out of existence or they broke.  They went the best way any toys can - they were played with out of existence."

News article courtesy of Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation http://www.mb.com.ph/

THE MODERN PLAGUE

Savion: "Did you know that in the olden times people lived up to 958 years old?"
Nicolas: "It's because there was no cholesterol."

HAPPY IN "HEVEN"

"How Is It In Heven" by Nicolas Garcia 

(2008 Birthday Card - Materials Used: pencil & crayons)

MY ABC'S

 "Lola Linda" by Savion Garcia 

(2007 Artwork for Grandparent's Day)
See Lola link: http://ipisnippets.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-matreshka.html 

NICOLAS' PIZZA

"First Pizza Creation" by Nicolas Garcia 
(Ingredients: Hungarian sausage, mushrooms, cheese, tomato sauce & crust)

HAIKU

I just bought this mag.

I like it so much it's cool.

I hope it will last. 

Savion Garcia (Haiku for his fave magazine)

Haiku |ˈhīˌkoō; ˌhīˈkoō| - a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.  Origin: Japanese, contracted form of haikai no ku ‘light verse.’

TRON

"Tron" by Nicolas Garcia 

(Materials Used: paper (back of his exam sheet) and pencil)

WHY DO YOU STUDY

"It's not about beating my classmates.

It's about getting better. "

 Nicolas Garcia, 8 years old

(in a conversation with his grandfather, Ising)