It's been quite a while since I last posted here. So, I'll try my best to post something worth the waste of time.
It's November! English Month! We had lot's of fun-filled activities and opportunities to rediscover old habits.
It was also this November when I got a bit insulted by a co-teacher from a different department by telling my advisory class these words: "Pipiliin n'yo ang papaburituhin nyong teacher ah! Kung siya marunong mag-English, marunong din ako mag-English. Eh siya? Marunong ba siyang mag-drawing?" (Choose your favorite teacher well. If she knows how to speak in English, I know how to speak in English, too. But does she know how to draw?"
I may not be as good as he is but I did enjoy drawing. Here are some of the drawings I kept for more than a decade now.
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Not so bad, right? Since then I've been thinking of ways to see if I still have that artistry. And then came... the COSPLAY! I'll tell you a little story on something I did about a couple of years ago that I'm still proud of today. I introduced cosplaying in our school. They've been doing the "Parade of Characters" long before I arrived but it is just recently that they adopted the now more appropriate term "cosplay". Every year since then, we let the students have a cosplay. We teachers join them, too.
So back to showing the artistry. I grabbed the opportunity to rediscover my hidden talents (chos!) I decided to cosplay a popular DotA (Defense of the Ancients) Hero--- TRAXEX, the Drow Ranger!
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| Drow Ranger Fanart (Based on the first DotA) |
Okay, let me make this clear. I am a 70+ -kilogram-woman and there is absolutely no way I will wear something that revealing for students to laugh at. So I chose the DotA 2 version of Traxex.
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| Drow Ranger (DotA 2) |
Miss Valerio, Miss Tordera, her mom and I visited Dubai(soria) * as Sheril always says instead of Divisoria *. We bought things that we needed for our costumes and let the creative juices flow.
I made wristbands, armbands, shoulder plates and the bow and arrow.
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| The Bow and the Frost Arrow |
Last November 23, we had the Grade 7 Cosplay Finals and this is how I looked.
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| Me, Bulatski (Jasmine) , Ms. Valerio (Crystal Maiden) and Mrs. Nariz (Lady Chang) |
It wasn't so good. We were all sweaty from the afternoon heat and my body paint just can't stay the way it should. By the end of the day, I looked as though somebody threw blueberry icings on my face.
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| See the smudge? |
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| Ooopsie! The big unpainted arm is showing! |
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| One of My Favorite Cosplayers of the Year---The Madhatter |
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| Fourth Year Students asking for a picture with me |
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| Wacky Shots with Fellow Cosplaying Teachers |
Here are some that I edited to give it a more artistic feel.
Without the wig:
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| My Personal Favorite |
