Hello Melissa Gomez

Always good to have a BFF in which you can do your mean muggin' with, it's also super helpful when ya'll know all your good sides for pictures and then stick with it! 

These last 33 days of her journey have been filled with highs and lows. I've actually taken up blogging as a way to keep my family informed because it became hard to have to retell the same diagnosis and doctor report to 40 people everyday. I started feeling very disconnected and distant from the situation. I upload pictures of her I have around the internet so people can remember her during her model days.

As Thanksgiving nears and nobody is here to celebrate it with me -- I turn to you, oh Internet. 

I'm thankful for the photographs, videos, old voicemails that I have of my Abuelita Fanny -- I've been a little obsessed looking for them on the internet. I don't have my desktop computer here and there are so many files I never even uploaded, because I don't want to be an "oversharer" but really, who cares? I've checked my old photobucket accounts, old gmail archives, facebook posts, tumblr & twitter.  It's as if the internet is my little time machine that I get to go back and take all the things I didn't even know I held dearly. I'm indebted for the love that has been poured into me by my family and friends because its with that love that I'm able to give back. I'm happy I have my faith in God and I know that our life is temporary here, so live it up babies. Little Abuelita Fanny sure has lived it up, I just want her around for a bit longer.

Just made a tiny step towards making a life-long dream come true. These are three of the first draft samples of the first season of my clothing line, albeit. Thirty years in the making.

Philippine Red Cross

American Red Cross (with instructions on how you can make financial donations to the Philippine relief effort through Red Cross offices in the U.S.)

Australian Red Cross

Embassy of the Phillipines (Washington, D.C)

Sagip Kapamilya Telethon (via ABS-CBN TV network)

World Food Programme

UNICEF

I love DCM. 

I’ve been going to DCM since it’s 9th year and it’s always the best weekend of the year. DCM was the first time I ever saw improv. 3 days of nonstop improv was my first exposure and every year it’s an anniversary I love celebrating. 

This year at DCM I wanted to do something to showcase my love by doing portraits. I have been taking pictures at DCM for a few years now, but it’s mostly been about capturing the shows. This year I want to capture the people that make DCM great. 

If you see me at DCM be prepared to get a portrait taken of you. And if you don’t know me, but still want to get in on the action, stop me and introduce yourself! If you don’t know what I look like I am in the last photo of the set, the one who isn’t familiar in the group (the black guy with the Delocated shirt).