Fwendz

Kuya Bloggie invited me and my sister, Maita, to hang out at a place in Metro Avenue called Fwendz. Nice place. Small and cozy, and there's a lot of IT students hanging around there. He introduced me to some of them. I was promoting Talecraft and the Story-Creation Contest in January. One of the guys there said that a lot of the IT people present were willing to do digital art for free! They needed an outlet, he said.

It's really too bad that we don't have enough good jobs for digital artists here in the Philippines. And we have such good people! Too bad they end up taking a job that is either not related to Digital Arts, or is related but pays peanuts. Most of them studied on their own. There's no Digital Arts school here in Davao yet. Hmm... I think one is overdue.

Another thing crossed my mind when I was at Fwendz. Either I hang out with a really different crowd in Manila, or real estate here in Davao is just really a lot cheaper, but a lot of young people here seem to own their own establishments. The owner of Fwendz was quite young. And I remember another guy I met in Zakoya who said he was studying Medical Transcription, but he owned a food establishment in Damosa! Yeah, and the friend of another friend used to own Spro's Coffee Shop. Well, that one closed down. But still, the point was, it was put up. I'm not saying these kids know how to or don't know how to run business establishments. Some of them seem to be doing well while others think they can just put one up and leave it to make money for them (Not going to work.), while others tried but failed because they didn't see the big picture. But they were able to put them up. It makes me think that kids from Manila seem to be more "baby" than the ones in Davao. Just my thought.