Let’s make a deal with Superman

Posted on July 21, 2006 at 9:01 pm | 11 Comments
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Superman said deal!Yeah… I know, this one is out of date. The Pirates of Caribbean have already killed Superman! But never mind… if you don’t want to read this entry, it’s okay, besides, this is my site, I can do whatever I want to do with it. Oh, spoilers alert!

Yeah… I’m sure you already know about it… he was in the front page of Daily Planet a few weeks ago. Superman has returned! I watched the movie in the second Saturday after its release. Everyone I know who have seen it said that it’s a good movie.

So I decided to go to the movie house and see for myself if it’s indeed a good movie: if I’m to rate it, I will give it seven stars out of ten. The love story of Superman and the award-winning Lois Lane sucks! That makes me rate the movie not that high. More so, the plot is not that interesting, the suit Superman is wearing is not the one that I had on my mind when I was still a kid, and if you have not noticed, there’s something wrong with the movie…

What we know just by watching the movie:

  • Kryptonite is fatal to Superman
  • Lex Luthor stole Superman’s crystals in the Fortress of Solitude that can be used to “grow” anything… it only needs water.
  • The new continent is made up of kryptonite.
  • Since Superman has landed in the new continent, he started to lose power.
  • Luthor stabbed Superman with kryptonite making him weaker.
  • After Superman was saved by Lois, Richard and Jason, Lois removed the shard of kryptonite that was stocked in his torso but there was still a small amount of kryptonite that wasn’t remove. Superman gained consciousness and he decided finish his mission.
  • He dived under the sea and from there, he lifted the new continent and threw it in space.

This suggests that Superman should be dead by now… but how come he’s still alive? Did he still have reserved energy when he crashed from space?

Three days ago, I decided that it’s time to buy a new book to read. And guess what I bought… a novelization of the movie Superman Returns by Marv Wolfman. I’m already halfway through the book and I found out that there are many scenes that did not make it into the final cut of the movie counterpart. The book’s better, but still, the love story of Loise and Superman still sucks… it’s just more dramatic. Lol. I just hope I’ll find an answer to the question: why Superman is still alive and most important of all…

Why Superman (and all of the western heroes) does not know how to wear his underwear?

Can you answer that question for me? Eh?

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Do you think that there will be a grand prize winner in Kris’ “Kapamilya: Deal or No Deal”? I don’t think so… there’s only barely 4% chance that you will choose the right briefcase! Or if there will be one, we have to wait for at least a couple of months to go.

Whenever the contestant and whoever is with him/her shout the amount of the lowest prize the contestant can get, I shout and hope for the briefcase that holds the highest amount of money to be opened!

All I can say is that If I’m given the chance to be the contestant, I will choose briefcase number seven and say deal when the banker’s offer reached PHP100,000.00. But of course, I will not be the chosen because as what I can see, most contestants stick with their chosen briefcase until there are only three or two left briefcases to open. Well, this is just a theory because all of the contestants undergone some interviews.

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Transporteysyon

Posted on July 17, 2006 at 9:33 pm | 4 Comments
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Ooohhh… an update!

During my high school days, I was only walking the distance between my school and our home. It’s not a big deal to me, (if my calculations are correct) it’s only a quarter of a kilometer away; I can arrive at my destination in less than five minutes.

Sometimes, due to some reasons, we were going out of school, like competitions and community work. My school has no bus; instead, my school rents a jeepney from a very prominent person in my school. And in turn, we, the passengers have to pay a certain amount of money. We even jokingly named the jeep Apung (lola in Tagalog, grandma in English) [insert the name of that prominent person whose name starts with the letter "A"] Airlines or [insert the name of that prominent person whose name starts with the letter "A"] Express, AAA and AE for short.

Okay, let me describe the jeepney. It’s a prehistoric jeepney. I mean, it’s very old. If I’m not mistaken, 14 people plus two plus the driver, 17 in all can be in that jeepney at once. For sure, you will be knee-to-keen with the person sitting in front of you. It’s always driven by a man whom I know as “Mr. Brown Eyes” and he has to sit with his feet on his side just so he can fit. And from what I heard from my classmate, its wiper is ran manually.

But now, an hour’s drive is needed (if you’re going to transport by jeepney) so I can go to school. Every street is a terminal for the jeepney drivers! They stop whenever they see people on the pavement, what’s more is that these people are not waiting for a jeepney, they’re crossing the road. Plus you can smell smoke!

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Just a quick thought… do you already know that the words “tsokoleyt”, “laybrari”, “smayl”, “navigeysyon”, “senter”, and the like are already accepted in Filipino? Yeah, I know, they sound baduy and if you will come to think of it, it’s as if a grade school pupil who has no idea on how to spell these words correctly decided to spell these words based on how we pronounce them. During my high school days, I and my friends always spell English words like these and we laughed at them because they were spelled in a way that you will recognize the errors as soon as you see the word, not knowing that the words that we were laughing at are accepted in Filipino.

I repeat, they’re accepted!

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My agenda this week…

  • I’m planning to go to my previous school tomorrow… alone! I asked some of my classmates but they’re not free.
  • Our prelims will start on the day after next! And here I am blogging! Bad news for me, they decided to move our prelims next week!
  • We have a meeting on Friday regarding on our first issue of our college newsletter (or whatever you want to call it) this academic year. And my news article is not yet finished! My article looks like a test paper… I mean, it has blanks here and there! Lol! Fill in the blanks? Yeah… that’s because I still don’t know the other information of the event that I’m documenting.

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I’m the chosen one… no way!

Posted on July 7, 2006 at 7:29 am | 13 Comments
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I’m getting irritated… or shall I say flattered? Haha. What I know is that I hate it when they associate Harry Potter to me… I mean, three people from the university that I’m currently attending (two of them are my instructors and the other one is a staff of the official publication of my college) told me that I look like Harry Potter. No way!

First thing you have to know now is that I didn’t tell them that I’m a fan of Harry’s and I’m not imitating him! So why these people are telling me that I look like Harry? I don’t know… I’ll ask one of them in the near future.

Do I really look like Harry? Then, why didn’t I turn up for the auditions for Harry Potter? Haha… lol. FYI, only European people can be casted for the movie.

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I don’t know if this is a good or a bad news to me…

I’m now officially a staffer of my college’s official publication.

Big time! I’m not expecting it. Besides, I didn’t plan to join it. Well, there were no auditions and the like where me and the other hopefuls to join the said club have to write an article and wait for a day or two to know if we’re “in”. The new members were handpicked… and now, I have to write a news article for our first issue this academic year which will be released next month. Urgh… I hate writing news. Want to do it for me? I’ll give you the details and the other information. Lol… joke!

See… I’m the chosen one! Lol!

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As for the recollection we had two days ago, I’m pleased that our facilitator did not tell a thing about me, except for the fact that I was his student during my high school days (see and read the preceding post).

And as what I had expected, I already know the things that we did. I was not excited but on the other hand, I was pleased that we did those activities. One of them is where we have to affirm each other; we told each other our first impressions and the positive characteristics we had noticed about them. I run out of adjectives that time! I think almost all of my blockmates told me that I’m… oh, I’ll not put it here… I don’t want to be a swelled head.

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Last week & tomorrow

Posted on July 4, 2006 at 7:13 pm | 3 Comments
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Last Friday, all of the freshmen students from the university I’m currently attending were officially welcomed. A program was prepared for us. The said program started at 4:00pm and ended five hours later.

Generally, the program was good. It’s not like in HS where the programs are not well prepared. During the latter part of the program, we were allowed to dance. Okay, as you know, it’s in my nature that I hate socialization parties.

I left my blockmates and joined my HS classmates. I told them that I was very hungry and I already want to eat. You see, it was 5.50 hours before the program started since I last ate a decent meal. But they insisted that they want to dance. During the first few minutes, I was with them. But I felt so tired that’s why I left them and waited for them in the bleachers (and this is the moment where I started writing this entry). Call me KJ if you want; I don’t care.

What I saw from the bleaches is something that I already posted here… no need for me to put it here again.

But with my desperation to eat I decided to go to a nearby famous fast food chain; I don’t care if I’m not eating with somebody.

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