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Birthday
• 1990-04-12
Gender
• Male
Location
• Philippines
Member Since
• 2003-10-18

Personal

Achievements
• High School Valedictorian
Anime Fan Since
• the mid-to-late '90s
Favorite Anime
• Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X), Detective Conan (Case Closed), Knock Out! (Hajime No Ippo), Great Teacher Onizuka, and many more!
Goals
• To be a high school teacher, journalist, detective, nurse, TV producer, TV writer, manga artist, late-night talk show host, or a WWE Superstar
Hobbies
• Surfing the Net, watching TV (especially anime)

myOtaku.com: The Mask

Thursday, October 12, 2006

FIVE THINGS
Hey guys! I know, it's Thursday, and your cafe manager normally doesn't post on weekdays. But I just wanna say five things today:

1. This week will be my final week in the semester, with tomorrow being my final day of exams. That means I might spend some more time here, especially during the BIG DAY.

2. On my previous post, there was some cussing going on in the comments. I'm not really too offended by it (especially since the swear word wasn't targeted at me), and I'm not going to make some formal action about it. But next time, please refrain from using any of the "swear bombs". Crap, damn, and darn are fine. But the S-bomb and the F-bomb should be avoided. If you must post it, then put some censorship signs in it. This is to make people feel comfortable when going here. Using swear words isn't a good habit.

3. Hey guys! In case you didn't know, there's a Halloween contest in theOtaku.com. You can join in 3 ways: a.) Make a Halloween fanart with one anime character dressed as another character (e.g. Naruto as Pikachu); b.) Make a scary e-card like this one; or c.) Make a scary story with your fave anime character in it.
To know more, click here.

4. Since THE BIG DAY is almost near, I've decided to make posts daily in the cafe until THE BIG DAY. This will be done to accomodate the THREE FREAKING YEARS segment.

5. Here is today's THREE FREAKING YEARS:
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THREE FREAKING YEARS
A Dish for Adam
myOtaku.com. A place where an otaku can be an otaku. Where they can show the world of their love and passion for anime. "Your social anime source," their slogan says. It has evolved from being a little experiment in 2003 to one of the fastest-growing online anime community today. So it just seems right that I make a feature on the man behind this amazing site. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, I give you....ADAM!

Okay, now this is the part where I stop being formal and start saying what I really wanna say. Now, Adam here is the big boss behind theOtaku.com and myOtaku.com. I mean, everyone should know that by now....right?

He once called himself "The Prince of Anime" before he gave up his throne during the birth of myO. As far as I can remember, he gave it up to give way to the otakus around the world whom he considered as "the real Princes and Princesses of myOtaku". Quite nice of Adam-san, huh? Unless if he gave way to us being princes and princesses while he becomes "The Emperor of Anime".

Aside from being the father of theO and myO, this 23-year-old New Yorker also has a job at a different company. He's also a "gym monster" and loves to drink Gatorade.

Now from informal, let's go to personal. Let me take a deep breath first.....

My general feeling on Adam is that's he's a swell guy. He gave us this super-cool site. He gives us hubs for us to see stuff related to our fave anime shows. He gives us tons of art galleries to enjoy. He gives us a sweet alternative to Quizilla with "the Guru". He gives us a nice, easy-to-learn manga tutorial (Art of Otaku). And that's just a little bit of the many things he has given us to please our otaku soul.

There were 2 incidents where he personally made me happy. The first one was back in 2005 when my article "Barbecue Sauce" was featured in the main page of theOtaku.com. (Click here to see that feature.)Back then, articles were featured not just because it was the latest submission, but also because it was really that good from Adam's point of view. As such, getting featured was really such an honor.

Then there was last April 30. It was his 23rd birthday, so I decided to give him an online birthday gift. The gift was a Top Ten list of birthday greetings for him. (This was supposed to be a contest, but since nobody joined, poor old me had to do it by himself.) To know that he was happy with the present made me happy as well. (Click here to see Adam's post about it.)

Of course, he did make me upset too. There was that promotion thing, where many artists got promotions while the ones who weren't "artistically inclined" got nothing. Seeing that the deserving ones didn't get it, I joined the protest. But everything was resolved, when he gave the writers the promotions. That incident, however, kinda made me feel kinda ashamed. Members complaining about a thing like that to Adam? Kinda odd when you look at it now. We did apologize to Adam about the situation.

But the worst was yet to come. When Adam lit the fuse on the retirement of the Articles section to give way to visual art, a protest quickly followed. Since I was a writer and a member of SOAP (the group that led the protest), I complained once again to Adam. There were some points that I wanna tell him regarding this matter but I never had the guts to tell him directly about it and were just posted in "the cafe" for only a few people to read. (If I did have the guts, maybe I forgot all about it.) Eventually, he did take out the articles. That made me so sad and also made me so disappointed at the man. I think I felt the same way Mick Foley felt back in 2001 regarding the direction the WWF/WWE was headed.

But as my Pinoy Big Brother jomz said, "We should just trust Adam." So, even though it was really hard at that point, I tried to trust him once again.

Now, I still respect Adam. Despite the events of the past, I still respect him. Even though I sometimes call him, "Mr. McAdam" (a reference to WWE's Mr. McMahon), deep down, I no longer have bad feelings for him.

In fact, when Adam had suffered from severe food poisoning, I was worried. Like what I told him before, the word "food poisoning" makes me remember of a food poisoning incident here in our country that killed many schoolkids. As such, I kinda feared the worst. (I know, I was overreacting to the whole situation.) That's why I was so relieved to know he's okay already.

Anyway, I wish Adam more power in managing myOtaku.com and theOtaku.com. Sorry for all the troubles I've given you in the past months. Take care and good luck with your book, sir.

That's all for today. HAVE A NICE DAY!
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