THE NEW OFFICE, IMAGE COMICS?
Then, we were talking at her new office…. Which was on the ground floor of a mall-looking area. Looked like a space somewhere in the Greenhills commercial area, like a Coffee California (with an entrance open to the public, and bright lights). Not sure whether it really WAS a café/art studio/office.
___ Anyway next to her office was an empty storespace which had brown paper covering all the glass panels, and on the brown paper was written, “Soon to move here, IMAGE COMICS”. Of course we were skeptical, but then it did make sense, since Pam was working at Whilce Portacio’s comic studio….
___ The studio was a mess. People everywhere, hangers-on, vid games being played, all sort of broken junk, vidgames, art supplies and etc. strewn in corners. It looked like a bodega more than an office or art studio.

TJ'S COMICBOOK DESIGNS
Somehow, the place was also the office of INDIO Communications, and TJ was there showing me his latest design for 2 comic book pages where a creature looking like The Thing (from the Fantastic Four) was as big as Godzilla and wrecking cars in a city area…. He was telling me that my designs for the hitech robot lacked some realistic armament designs like those in Macross… gun casings, cannon designs. So he drew a monster instead. TJ’s drawings were in pencil and were impressive…..

DIAMOND VIDEO
And then somehow, I was watching a video about diamonds. What the different cuts and carats were. I don’t know why, but it did seem fascinating. Maybe I was looking for a ring?

Background:
During the weekend when I had these dreams, I was in Los Banos with my parish choir. The night before the Reincarnated Messiah dream, we were sleeping in a newly-constructed airconditioned chapel (which had no altar/tabernacle yet), and laid our mats in-between the new pews. Maybe that's why my dreams were more morose than usual.

April 9, 1999

LOOKING FOR FARM WATER
Rural agricultural town. I am inspecting farmlands, although the group of us are actually just looking for large bodies of water so that we can fill up our water pistols. A farmer appears and asks us to explain our mission, we try to bluff our way thru, saying we work for some gov't agency or another, but our driver/bodyguard appears and scolds us as he drags us back to the vehicle--- a Toyota Tamaraw FX or some such roomy thing.

LAND OF THE GNOMES WITH EVERYDAY OBJECTS
Land of the dwarves and gnomes. Each of the inhabitants in this picturesque place has a piece of junk that they use as talismans or special weapons. These junk pieces fall out of the sky and each inhabitant claims the piece they feel calls out to them. Thus there are dwarves who wield lanterns, bulbs, and scissors, like religious icons. They mount them and wear them on their little costumes.

April 10, 1999

CRUISING NEAR-APOCALYPTIC MAKATI
I'm cruising with my high school classmates thru the squalor of a Makati in a near-apocalyptic state. It was Makati but felt like a ruinous Hong Kong. We were searching for an ideal place to have a few drinks in.

WHO KILLED THE REINCARNATED MESSIAH?
Suddenly, I am at a crime scene--- an apartment in abovementioned near-apocalyptic Makati. A mother is frantically recounting how her son--- the reincarnated Messiah--- has been murdered by an insider, a close friend probably of the family's. The murderer used a knife, and the mother explains, using a diagram, how her son was gutted like a fish so that the intestines were cleaned out.
___ She shows us the secret rooms and secret passageways in the apartment where she had confined her son (a la Diary of Anne Frank): a revolving panel in hallway that leads into a pantry that can hold 1 person, and a fake aircon panel which is really the doorway to her son's room. Obviously, the murderer knew all of this. So could he have been an insider?
We examine the son's room but no evidence of the killer exists. At least, until the mother's cat starts snarling... And in one of the floor-level air vents in the boy's room, we spy a black cat looking at us. i assume that this is how the murderer can spy into this household--- thru the eyes of the cat.
___ I have a knife in hand and in one stretch, I have reached the black cat, stabbed it with the knife and killed it. A 2nd black cat appears. And I do the same with this, in quick, efficient violent moves.

PAIRING OFF BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST
A while later, me and someone else (I don't know who) are traipsing thru some tiny apartment buildings and meeting the landladies in preparation for the approaching Holocaust. We are looking for places to hibernate safely away from the destruction that looms ahead. And we are pairing off with some people as roommates...these are the people we will hibernate with for a long long while...

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