This electronic diary is continued on Tony Perez's Electronic Diary (May 15, 2018 - ), on tonyperezphilippinescyberspacebook40.blogspot.com. Kindly proceed there for the continuation of this cyberspace book.

Tony Perez's Art of War: When someone does not want to help you, he will tell you, "It doesn't work that way."

Remember that line. Use it on him when it is his turn to ask you for help.

Worked an hour on fifth layer on one painting.

Lunch at home with Angelique. Aubrey at university.

My love affair with red

The sun is the pot of gold, that is why you never find it at the end of the rainbow.

He was eliminated because his first line was always soft, low, and inaudible.

Being an artist is always suspenseful because an artist cannot see what his works will be 50 years from now.

One step toward making your dream reality is to write them down in your private journal.

Have a throw carpet. It represents astral travel.

Overconfidence is worse than lack of confidence.

Sometimes you have to allow the mind to do the walking.

You can never be truly upset with someone whom you understand completely.

Worked an hour on fourth layer on one painting.

Might have to call it a day for painting. This layer needs to dry completely.

Worked an hour on third layer on one painting.

Worked an hour on second layer on one painting.

Angelique now off to vote and then study in a coffee shop.

Fredo, who used to work at Miranda's Cove (circa 2002), his wife, two kids, and brother Nino arrived from their hometown to bring Nino to work at Lelyn's store. They'd had lunch, so I gave them dessert, brought them to Lelyn's store, and afterward to Lelyn's mother's store. Quite a production number; the little boy's diaper had to be changed in my bathroom.

The house is no longer what it was in 2002, and I had difficulty envisioning how Fredo remembered it to be.

Lunch at home with Angelique. Aubrey at university to finalize a group project with her classmates.

"Survival of the fittest" is a phrase applicable only to people without talent, because everyone who has talent survives no matter what.