Mother's day

last modified: Friday, May 11, 2007 (11:28:49 AM CST)

First of all thanks for reading my previous posts and thanks for your messages, especially the ones regarding my situation at work. On that same topic, Im still walking on lalaland as I still have no idea what is going to happen or what resolutions that stupid President for Latin America may have taken after that horrible meeting. So, the stress continues....


This was a post I wanted to do yesterday but didn't have much time so Im doing it now. When I was a little girl we used to celebrate Mother's Day on May 10th (don't know if it was also this way in other countries) but for some years now this has changed to the second Sunday of May, in order to make it consummer's friendly.

So I started thinking of my mom - who died of cancer in Christmas 2005. I thought of her, of how much she did for us while she was alive and how much I miss to have her by my side just to hug her, kiss her and tell her how much I love her. She was gone too soon, she was only 52 and had so much to live and see. Not having her by my side has been one of the most difficult and painful things that I've ever gone through.

Fellow collectors, if you have your mom alive please don't ever stop telling her that you love her and showing her how much you do because you are lucky to have her by your side.

To my mom who I know she's still there watching after us... I love you and I miss you so much that it hurts! Thank you for everything you did for me and I know we'll meet again someday!

Your daughter that will always love you.

When you get the courage... and a threat

last modified: Friday, April 13, 2007 (4:57:06 PM CST)

Strange week this has been (that sounded like Yoda, lol)

It started on Monday with a phone threat, a woman was telling me they wanted come and beat the crap out of me, then on Tuesday there was another phone call and then on Wednesday they called and hung up all day long. Isn't it funny how when you do nothing everything happens to you?

*sigh*


And then as a bad punchline, today I had a meeting with the President for LA of my company. There are labor problems at my office (that concern the four people that work here) and I had discussed them with my ex boss and my current boss - who have/had the charge of Regional Manager - and since they did nothing about it, I just said I had to go and play with the big dogs....

Today around 11 am had the chance to meet my boss boss... the meeting started well, there were things he didn't know and everything was fine until we reached the taxes part of the conversation, and that's when all hell broke loose. This guy looks like Larry from 'Curb your Enthusiasm' and is about 6'1", really tall!

So how do you make a guy from the US that the labor laws in my country are different to his and that if I was signed here in my country, the laws of my country are valid?

From then on the conversation went downhill but in a bad mood, both from my boss (who was there and not too happy that I had brought this subject to his boss without his consent) and his boss. At some point my boss was trying to make it look like I was trying to take advantage of the situation when in fact no! After like 30 minutes of conversation - and at some point the President got somehow bored as he stared looking everywhere and not paying attention to me, I thought the meeting was over. Stood up, thanked him for his time and went back to my office... minutes later they left cos he had to take a flight and didnt even say bye to me.


I was a nervous wreck and I was so pissed off that had tears coming from my eyes, I was furious! fortunately I was alone here, I called my dad and told him about it which was very good as I managed to calm down. Obviously I was not going to give my boss the satisfaction to see me down, so I went to the bathroom, washed my face and put some make up so he wouldn't notice that I had cried. And it seems it worked, but I can also tell that he's not happy that I had brought the conversation to his boss. Well Im sorry but I don't give a damn filthy stinking rat ass....


Today's my brother's bday, and that's the only good thing about this day... because this has been a damned Friday the 13th....

F1 is not the same without Schumacher

last modified: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 (9:53:29 AM CST)

All those that know me know that Im a huge motorsport fan, especially of the Formula 1. I've been following it for years and have seen how much it has changed. Can I say that I just hate all that glamour and half naked girls around the cars and races... I understand that it's a sport that attracts men mostly but still...

But that was not the reason why Im making this post today... I've always been a huge Michael Schumacher fan, and I was very sad when he retired last year, luckily I was there at the race and was with him on the weekend. I knew it was going to be hard to watch the first race of the 2007 season without him on the grid, but it was worst than I expected. His absence was so notorious that even some of the most anti-Schumi people from f1 boards have had to confess that f1 is not the same without him. Im also a huge fan of his brother and loved to see them both on track - even if their relationship didn't seem to be as good as it was years ago - and fortunately he's still there racing... but Michael is Michael and there'll never be another like him.

Damn customs

last modified: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 (2:54:58 PM CST)

I know that most of the people here is from the US, and how lucky you are! You don't only have to pay lots more on shipping for cels, mangas or books, but you also can buy merchandising overseas without getting charged ridiculous ammounts of money for the concept of 'taxes and customs charges'.

I live in Chile and here the custom is like a thieves hole where everybody want to have a piece of you. And believe me it's worst in Peru and other countries around me. I was telling a friend that some years ago I bought a single cd for $5 in cdnow, the thing is that when it arrived to the country I had to pay taxes and custom charges for a total of US$25 O_O And once a cel provider in Japan dared to include an invoice. No matter how much I tried to explain the people in customs that what was received was 'just a drawining made by a friend' and not merchandising, they still charged me with taxes and all that load of bs they have.

Yes they charged me again today >_< and Im upset, damn the greedy governments! *raises fist*


The good thing is that I received two DBZ cels that I've wanted to add to my gallery for a very long time. Harris thank you so much! you're absolutely wonderful!

Im gonna start working in my update this week, today I added two cels... maybe tomorrow I'll add more.


Reminder for the day: cels collecting can cause huge addiction.

I'm not selfish! I swear!

last modified: Thursday, February 15, 2007 (10:05:00 AM CST)

Don't you hate it when you surf the internet and find a website that displays your cels and not even acknowledge that they belong to somebody else?

Here's the story. I'm a big fan of the anime of the 70's-80's, especially Candy Candy, and I've tried to get good quality cels of this anime for my collection. I try to make them look as best as posible in my gallery, adding information about what's happening in the scene, add a background, what's the episode number, and a screencap, you know how it is. Obviously if you're displaying them in your gallery it's because you want to share them with other fans and collectors.

Before I started getting new CC cels last years (when I started collecting again after a few years away from the hobby), I visited a french website dedicated to this manga/anime, and there I found a section of cels. They all had the watermark of the website and you would obviously assume they belong to the webmistress. I even pm'd her congratulating her for her collection.

So, months later I check 'her collection' and surprise!! I see my cels on her website, with her watermark and with no mention that they belong to me. So I did what any other cel collector I know would've done, I contacted the webmistress in a polite way and asked her to remove the cels from her website because they belonged to me....

... what did I get? she defended herself saying that she is not using my pics (or scans) of the cels in her website, but she took them from the dealers/auctions and she put them there, so she is not really using my cels and that I have no right to ask her to remove them. She said that no matter what, she was not going to change her mind.

I emailed again and explained that even if the pics were not the same, the image shown in the cel belongs to me and that I'd appreciated it if she would remove them. What I got was another nasty negative reply, and she basically told me that I was being selfish because not everybody had the chance to buy cels especially of such important anime. So for what I could see she was trying to be the prophet of the CC cels world and she was displaying them right there so everybody could see them. I told her that I have a gallery to show them to everybody and didn't need them displayed in other gallry, but no matter what her answer was always no. At the end she told me not to email her again cos she was not going to reply me. Needless to say I threw her email address to the black list of my mailbox.


I got really pissed off, you know? We all know all the trouble and money involved in getting our cels, then display them so everybody can see them, and I got this? I got so upset with this person that if she thought I was selfish, then let's give her a reason to really think that I was selfish and made the Candy Candy cels in the private area of my gallery.

All this happened by Christmas and as some people have emailed me to ask what happened to my CC cels I decided to post this.

*Sigh* Things would always be a lot better if people learned to respect each other.

10.000 hits!

last modified: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 (10:20:38 AM CST)

When I attended AX in 2001 I didn't know what a cel was, and a dear friend of mine explained me what they were and I couldn't believe I could actually own a part of my favorite anime... and that's how I started.

Had to leave the hobby aside for some years due to some serious personal problems and returned to collecting last year. My collection has grown quite a while and I've been lucky to get cels from really old shows that I've always loved.

So, I wanted to thank each one of you for visiting my gallery and for your feedback. As soon as I have some time I'll re-scan the old cels and will add backgrounds to make'em look bette, and of course will add cels I haven't had time to upload yet.