  Ok… now I have dreams…. It is about living here and the life I could lead far away from where I was born. The dream was strange and filled with an undercurrent of emotions which could not be seen except for in parts of the dream where I was alone. I could see faces and remember how it was to feel and drink my fill of living. There were several faces, I guess I was groping for someone. I took what I could get, it wasn’t that great of a happiness but it was like warmth in a storm, a small piece of something that can sustain.
I guess I was happy, the experiences were more tragic then any other experience I have felt before. With my luck, I’m sure when things begin to turn my way, bad luck will strike sooner than expected. When something can go wrong, it will go wrong. It’s not that I’ a pessimist or anything like that, its just that I’ve noticed My luck swings in extremes. I can be very luck and very unlucky, so when the other head rears itself I brace for the other one which follows quite soon. BACK HOME Well other than Chat, I don’t hear a lot from what’s happening back home.
Buster has no internet other than from school. Ton is still in Bangkok, Thomas has been busy, and Everybody else I know don’t keep blogs for me too check on. PASALUBONG I bought a lot of pasalubong, for those who aren’t Filipino they gifts on returning from trips. It simply means “brought back.” I got a lot of miniatures for everyone, cause its cheaper here and the Reaper brand isn’t sold here. I was planning to start my own miniatures company when I have the capital, since the labor here is so much cheaper and its easier to find artist who can understand western concepts such as fantasy figs I can outsource people to sculpt the figures and color them like Dwarven Forge. Given the cost of labor being the part that makes the figures so expensive, I can cut the cost of the figs to about half.
Dwarven Forge costs $16 for 3 pieces of colored metal figures, DnD miniatures go for $10 for 8 rubber figurines with poor quality. With the outsourcing I can do, and the people I know, I think I can make it cost $2 per plastic miniature at the same quality as Dwarven forge. That’s on one on one retail, for whole sale the cost will be heck cheaper. For the cost of starting a warhammer set of $75, for a number of figs that equal the cost of $150. I can make mine $50 dollars with the same number of figs BUT COLORED. That would basically crash the market… Cause if I were to make the figs compatible with the Standard sizes for figs and interchangeable bases then I’ll have the whole market covered.
Now, I just need investors, although I’m not in a hurry cause I’m planning to be the one to fund it with my brothers. The Philippines is the best place to outsource labor for a western market when the quality is not much of a concern. I can just see it now… FIGS that I would buy for my games…. At a price I can afford. For $100, I can have practically all the figs I can ever need for a game. That would be 20 mook figs, 10 other mook figs, 10 different monster figs, ad 5 character figs.
In other companies that would cost me $200. hoody hoo!!! With me doing my own advertising, production and quality control. I would be set… I just need capital… Which BTW would only cost me less than $5,000. Money I can save up in overtime and in less than a year…. He He He….
The gravy train is coming I help and give jobs back home and I make just enough money to make the company expand, and all I get in return are free figs. What gamer can ask for more. Hmmm… I can pay skilled laborers back home P4,000 a month on that ($72), in a place where the going rate for this kind of labor is 2,000 a month ($36) I can then increase their pay after every month by a grand. To 12,000. Capital would be $2,000, second hand stuff and some experts to help make a just the right acrylic formula for miniatures. I think I just need a person to do the books and I’m set.
Hey Chat, you interested? I need an accountant or someone who can help me with the books. Hey Arj I’ll need you to take of business there while I finance it. I don’t know anybody else with the passion to make this work back home. Damn…. I better save that capital soon.
I want to drive the Miniature Prices to the floor as soon as possible. God has the contacts, Buster has the foresight and Kezo has the PR. Charles if you read this there is a job for you here. If You want to be paid to write this is your chance to write for a fantasy genre and for your axe heavy criticism. A small business with friends… almost no risk and so much reward… Heck I’m the one taking care of the financial and looking for sculptors when I’m there and market over here in the states. All the guys have to do is what you are all good at.
A chance like this is worth the risk anyway… sez the guy who spent his whole savings on Christmas on a gold neclace for a girl who rejected him and turned into a dyke. YEAH… Life is great 
