Struggling to BALANCE my Life

Yes...orange color is for family time.

Proud FATHER to Our New Interior Designer

Last June 6, 2014...my daughter is rushing to me and shouted....

"It's Done! I finished my course" I smiled and congratulate her and
pray to our Lord.

 "I thank our Lord God for all the strength He gave

me. After all the difficulties we encounter this year, He held me
and guides me to all the decision I need to take. I thank Him for

giving me a wonderful & supportive family..."

I am a Proud School DAD.. for having a hardworking daughter BEA,
I know sometimes that we had an argument for some technical issues
regarding her studies, I know sometimes she will go on and follow my
instructions even she's tired, she just carry on even my design is off.

But in the end she earns my Respect. I'm proud of you Beatriz.
Your mommy & me + Enrico & Sofia loves you.
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Looking Back when she started to use drawing instruments, teaching her on how

to text using 45 deg triangle ruler, how to draw & render manual perspective.

 

 

  

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Bea during APID Seminars

 

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CONGRATULATIONS...!

 

HOW to create your FINISHING SCHEDULE

HOW to create your FINISHING SCHEDULE.
This was our topic last night with my daughter.

Important to know:
1. Need to design & decide your finishing materials
2. Need to know the supplier & availability of materials
3. Prepare your finishing schedule prior to clients approved design.

Lesson Plan aggaaiinn!

GRAMMAR

English Lessons in YouTube

Good thing...nowadays our children have an option to read their
lesson or watch in YouTube.

This is my Son English Lesson.

A scene from "Where the Red Fern Grows"

SKETCHUP Lesson 1 for my Interior Design Student

Hoping we will have a good start tonight. SKETCH UP BASICS.

SAMPLE INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE:
(This is my recent Office Work, an interior of MAJLIS Area modeled and rendered in SketchUp)

back to HOMESCHOOL

Need to re-start, reboot, volt-in...soon..!

EXAMNINATION WEEK - 1st Quarter

This week is our 1st Quarter Examination.

After two months... at last on-line test.
Let's see the result soon.

STOCK Photography Lesson for my son

STOCK Photography Lesson for my son

22 PCS. OF COOKWARE SET (Stock Photography)

Last night,I am trying to convince myself that I need

to do my job right now or else do it in office. 

But why not now. I can teach my son to shoot a stock photos 

and setting up lightings and at the same time as assistant photographer.

Our task is to take a Hi-res images of Cookwares 22 pcs.

Combine together and submit to client early next morning.

Kiko helps me to prepare photo table, laying out paper,

setting up lightings, tripod, lenses and holding the

pans during shoot.

After the shoot, I gave a quick tips on how to use flash

if you're having less lighting set up.

Camera Table Set-Up

My son holding small & big pans

Photo was taken by my youngest daughter at her bed

STOCK PHOTO of Complete Set of Cookwares

TRADIGITAL Presentation Lesson for my Daughters

I am not student in Photoshop...my youngest daughter she is.

Anyways,Just want to share this:
"Old school manual sketch rendered in Photoshop"
(I remember last few weeks back, this is the same
exercise they did for Robot coloring)

This is not a great work, you can do much
detailed and outstanding work than this.

This exercise was given to my Generation-Z eldest Daughter
(whose taking Interior Design) to understand how to
use traditional & digital technique for presentation.

HOW WE DID THIS:

1. Big Idea.- 10 min.
 My daughter planned a kitchen combined dining area
on a small piece of paper.And she wants it to be a
west indies kitchen theme.

2. ACAD Preaparation.- 10 min.
Bea prepares a draft plan intended for 3D exercises.


3. SKETCH UP - 10 min.
She prepares 3d files thru sketchup doing the push &
pull and inserting 3d models.

4. MANUAL SKETCHING - 30 min.
This is my part. I printed the selected view.
Lay over tracing paper on it and started to add information.

5. PHOTOSHOP Coloring - 15 min.
I took a snap on finished sketch and import it to Photoshop.

5.1  Copied the original file on another layer and change the mode
        to Multiply.
5.2  Created a new layer for my colors.
        After I finished all the coloring, I group all the layers and I
        renamed the folder"COLORS".
5.3   I merged all the layers and adjust the brightness and contrast.
5.4   Apply text for title and your signature.
















Total time finished: 1 hour 15 min.

I hope somehow, lesson above helps and inspire you
to create something to share for.

Old School Drawing for Generation Z

KITCHEN PERSPECTIVE
Freehand sketch & an Old School Rendering

Yesterday morning, I gave my daughter a
quick lesson on how to use traditional
& digital style of drawing presentation.

Below is my freehand sketch rendered
in Photoshop. Tradigital rendering.

WHAT ABOUT OUR NATIONAL HISTORY?

After lunch in our office, we will spend our last 30 min.
talking something interesting topics.  And today,
one of our topic is history...as in Philippine History.

Most of my colleagues are young and I am pretty sure
they don't have enough knowledge in our history...
I mean behind the scene Philippine history.

So,  I am the one who gave an interesting & controversial topics
like...Where is the 1st Magellan Cross landed? (is there more than one?),
Whose the real Jose Rizal? and  a controversial history issue like
" Dolphy's dad is Manuel Quezon?"

During our endless and laughing conversation...
I'm thinking about our national history for my home-schooled? Philippine History...!
of course it is not included on their curriculum.  A big question on how they know
their roots, specially to my youngest daughter.

I think...I need to do something about this.
Maybe once a week...need to have Philippine History Lesson.

What do you think?

COOKING LESSON for my homeschooled

Just want to share instant techie lesson. Only a few minutes ago I sent a How to
Cook BISTEK Tagalog (Beef Stew Filipino Style) to my kids using Facebook
private message. 

Realizing that we parents unconsciously teaching our kids
even on our daily routine activities.' love to be homeschool Dad.

MY OLD SCHOOL Techniques

Last night, I gave a one on one tutorial on
How to create a One Point Perspective &
Watercolor Rendering to my daughter Beyya.

One Point Perspective

Watercolor Rendering

I told her that I learned this technique
not in university nor in YouTube (80's of course...).
I learned this thru my Mentor Architect Jun Paragas.

Those were the days that we are literally cut the
image from magazine & paste that image to our perspectives.

Old school is hard but also fun, we thought how to be
resourceful to find quick and clever ways to finish
our school project.

hmmm..paused for a few minutes...'coz....

I am still recollecting all my university lessons...
but none of those lessons thought me what I am today.
All the skills I gained was only during on, one on one
tutorials from my friends,during a sideline jobs,
from a senior architects, from old drawing books I bought
along Recto St., Phils. and from my Father.

Maybe, from my 100% long stay in university...
I can say 30% of that is a real education.

Happy schooling.
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How to Draw a One Point Perspective

                                 

Interior Perspective Water Color Rendering

SHIFTING GEARS

After a very tiring holiday, I need to shift gear to Normal Life.
My GOD, FAMILY and COMMUNITY.

First Day of homeschool was a lazy day.
My two home-schooled teens review their past
lessons.I feel guilty, coz' I didn't prepare
their lessons before the holiday starts.I feel
embarrassed to myself and to my children
that I didn't follow my own schedule.

That day after my office and with full of energy,
I gave my son lessons and exercises for next
school day.And, yesterday I started to do
next week lesson plan.

"St.Thomas Aquinas, pray for my children. Amen"

LAYERS - PS Class for Sofia DAY 5

Today, Sofia's Photoshop class topic is all about LAYERS.

There are several ways on how  to create a layer.
1. thru menu bar
2. thru pallete menu
3. thru cluster bar
4. and the last one is keyboard short cut (Shift+ctrl+N)

During Sofia's Day 5 Photoshop Class

Listening to her instructor brings me to compare
our time as a parent to a photoshop layer.

As a parent, we need to layer our priorities in our family.
Which one is the primary layer, secondary, tertiarry and
which one must be prioritize, which one is least priority
but, also important.

Everyday, when we open our eyes, we need to layer our schedule.
Automatically, our brain creates a layer of activities on which
we need to re-arrange instantly.

Some of the template layer activities are...
driving your wife to workplace, fetching your daughter to school,
household chores etc...

A CUSTOMIZED Layer is the one we created, like an occasional activity...
a party, attending seminars, running a marathon etc...

But the most important LAYER in our daily life is the...
Base Layer Layer FAITH IN GOD,
2nd Layer FAMILY FIRST,
3rd Layer EDUCATION,
4th Layer COMMUNITY HELP,
5th Layer LEISURE and Layer OTHERS.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION for Home schooled?

This is my next question.

How about physical education for my children?

My daughter Sofia, a Grade 7 Home schooled asked me
about PE... "Should I do the pull-ups dad?",
" It is on my PE course manual".

Below is an excerpt of my daughters course manual:
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Physical Education 7 (Wk. 1) Days 1 - 5

First Quarter
Week One

Pull-ups: Grasp the chinning bar with both hands, 
palms facing forward.  Hang with arms and legs straight.  
Feet should not touch the floor.  Pull up until chin reaches the bar.  
Lower your body until your arms are straight.  
At age twelve or thirteen, you are in excellent condition 
if you can do nine or ten pull-ups.

Physical Education 7 (Wk. 2) Days 1 - 5
Week Two

Sit-ups: Lie on back with hands behind head.  
Have partner hold ankles.  Raise body to a sit-up position.  
Turn trunk to the left and touch left knee with right elbow.  
Return to lying position.  Repeat with left elbow touching right knee.  
Boys at twelve or thirteen should be able to do 100; 
girls should be able to do fifty if they are in good condition.
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Should my daughter do all of this?

Since, we are family in sports (running),
can we substitute our sports activity to their
PE activities and send their photos or running
certificates to school.

My daughter Sofia, can finished 3K to 5K run.
My son Enrico, can finished 16K run.
And of course during training and before a race,
they are thought about basic preparation for running,
like stretching exercises and nutrition.

Yesterday, we participated on Breast Cancer Awareness Run
for Breast Cancer Arabia held here in Dubai, UAE by
FRU (Filipino Runners UAE) Running group.

I hope, I can get a clear answer.