When There’s Nothing to Write…

Posted on September 8, 2008 at 5:10 pm | 16 Comments
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I read books, listen to music, and watch TV. I’m aware that it’s been over three weeks since I last updated my blog, and I’m really sorry for that. I don’t know if it’s just I don’t have something to share to you or I am already getting tired of blogging. Hopefully, the latter is just a product of my imagination.

Home ScreenSince yesterday, my Lolo’s second death anniversary (where a big roasted turkey was served for lunch, no I didn’t eat it), I’ve been trying to brainstorm on what to put on my next update. I decided to make my own review of the apps for the iPhone and iPod touch. Well, I’ve been planning to make one ever since I updated my iPod touch’s software to the iPhone software 2.0 (which I had to buy online). Yesterday, I started to take screenshots of the various apps I use. As a proof, check out the Flickr photo set I’ve made. But obviously, this is not the review I’m talking about. LOL. When I try to start my post, I always find myself starring at my monitor.

So what am I doing right now? I’ve been flipping channels for the past eight hours. The local networks were airing cartoons this morning so I switched to the cable channels. The following are some of the shows I’ve seen today:

I declare The Moment of Truth is the craziest TV show I’ve ever seen. LOL. It’s a very simple game show, but it could leave your life devastated. As what the name of the show suggests, the contestant has to tell nothing but the truth. The questions were too personal. There was this question that goes like: “Do you keep a spreadsheet of the names of the girls that you’ve slept with?” Crazy, eh?

Last Sunday, I found out that our cable provider has added Nat Geo Adventure to the plan we’re subscribed with. It was only today that I’ve seen some of the shows in this channel. There was this program where they featured people climbing huge rocks without any ropes. It was amazing. I didn’t know that it is possible. Cool.

Over National Geographic Channel, I’ve watched various shows. NGC never fails to amuse me with their shows. On a related note, if I heard it correctly, in one of National Geographic Channel’s documentaries, it claims that you’ll spend a total of 19 days in your lifetime just for looking the remote control. Now, that’s a big waste of time.

Uh, this post is getting random-ish. I should end it soon. Just a final note, okay? I’ll try not to use Google and any of its services for a whole day (or longer) sometime this month. Yes, it’s a challenge. And I’m pretty sure it’ll be hard. I use Google on a daily basis. It’s the only thing that makes me keep going. Whatever. Oh well, it should be fun. We’ll see if I can live for a day without Google Search, Feedburner, Reader, Calendar, YouTube, Calendar, and whatnot.

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Pichur!

Posted on August 9, 2008 at 3:47 pm | 12 Comments
Filed under Random Realities • Shameless Shot

Okay, I’m really sorry for not updating this blog for uh, almost a month? I hope you’ll forgive me. I guess, a bug bit me. Well, yeah, I have a writer’s block right now. So yeah. That’s mainly the reason why there are no updates in this blog lately. Another reason is school. Though I have lots of new experiences, I can’t post them here. By the time I get back home, most my energy has already been depleted. Then, there are still other things that I have to worry like endless paperwork, Ms. Irresponsible1, and other things that make me annoyed. Besides, the reason why I’m keeping my identity would be defeated if I published them here.

But if you can’t resist2 me, I suggest that you follow me on Twitter and Plurk. Also add me as your friend, contact, fan or whatever on Last.fm, Facebook, Flickr, Delicious (The new Delicious site is… delicious!), Google Reader, and Digg. But erm, there’s no 100% guarantee that I’ll reciprocate. XD

So, what’s with the title? Well, I dunno if I’ve already introduced you to the word pichur. Haha. Obviously, it’s synonymous to the word picture. Use it in a sentence? Okay, here we go: Have you seen NYTimes’ feature on Angelica Panganiban’s photoshopped pichur? I guess this word was created circa 2005 by my chemistry-teacher-slash-adviser who has pronunciation problems.

Because I’m really out of words, I’ll be using photos to express myself and I’ll try to put a short description. Hopefully, this will work. And uh, I hate to admit it but this post is very random.

Let’s get the film rolling!

Agony in the Garden
Agony in the Garden - March 25, 2005

I’m pretty sure I’ve already posted this photo here. This is one of our heirlooms. My Dad reckons it was sculpted around the last quarter of the 17th century. That makes it more than a century old. Every Holy Week, we go to Dangwa Flower Market (near UST) to buy flowers for the procession. The float is designed with various flowers. Around six in the evening, the procession starts. But lately, I didn’t like how the float was decorated (20063, 2007, 2008). My Grandmother insists on buying white flowers only. It looked too simple to me. Currently, this photo is in Flickr’s Explore. Uh, if you have a Flickr account and you like this photo, please add it to your favorites and leave a comment as well. Well, I’m not coercing you. Haha.

Eat
Eat - December 24, 2006

A little bit of history about this phone: before it landed to me, my younger and sister and mother used it. Well, I’m not really a fan of phones. So even though it came from the Jurassic Era, I really don’t care. Lately, it was malfunctioning which forced me to use the other old phones here at home. But now, it’s working again. The culprit was its bloated battery. On a related subject, I’ve already owned one Smart, one Sun, and four Globe sim cards. Currently, I’m using two Globe sim cards. One is for my offline life, and the other is for my online life (but I don’t regularly use it).

Fully Booked
Fully Booked - April 06, 2008

You know how much I love books. Books are the fuel of my life. WTF?! I really enjoy reading books, that’s why I don’t mind spending hundreds of Pesos on them. Yeah, reading is an expensive hobby. Unless you have other resources like borrowing reads from the library or from your friends, you’ll surely get broke. But owning a copy is still different, eh? Right now, I don’t have anything to read. The books in the local bookstore don’t look interesting to me. Someone suggested a Chuck Palahniuk book to me, but after reading the synopsis on the back of his book, I hesitated. I think I will not like his style, besides, the synopsis kinda scared the hell out of me. I badly want to visit a Fully Booked store!

Bread Talk
Bread Talk - August 08, 2008

I have to say that Bread Talk is officially my favorite bakery. The presentation of their pastries and breads is awesome! I always salivate when I see breads (and not to mention cakes) from Bread Talk. And oh, the structure of their shops is also cool. Simple but amazing. The only downside is that their breads are expensive. Oh, look at that sign! The “NO PHOTOGRAPHING, no smoking, no eating/drinking, no shoplifting4” sign can’t stop me from taking photos of this amazing bakery!
PS: I submitted this photo to the Flickr 888 pool.

Print Cartridges
Print Cartridges - August 09, 2009

I’ve been bragging on Plurk that I’ve used my HP 56 Print Cartridge (as seen on this photo) for a staggering two years. What’s more is that I didn’t have to buy a new cartridge because I used up all of the 19 milliliters of ink but because the cartridge malfunctioned. That’s how tipid I am with ink. Haha. You see, I usually use “fast draft” for Print Quality (for text). Well, the quality is good and the text is still readable. Yesterday, after checking the prices of the print cartridges in four computer shops at SM City Pampanga, I bought the cheapest HP 56/57 print cartridge combo-pack for my old printer-slash-scanner-slash-copier I’ve found. I was able to save more or less PHP 1000.00. In one of the shops I’ve visited, if you bought a HP 56 and HP 57 print cartridges separately, you would have to pay them for PHP 2680.00 (I’m glad I didn’t buy from that store)! Now, that’s an impressive deal! I guess, those are that last print cartridges I would buy until I graduate from college. Haha.

Uh, I guess this worked for me! w00t! I now have my first post for this month. I actually enjoyed doing this. I’m off to visit your blogs, then, I’ll try to catch the Olympics (read this article: 10 Fascinating Facts About the Ancient Olympic Games) later.

  1. That’ll be her name here in my blog from now on. Also, I believe that the whole class now knows how much I hate her. Wait, have I mentioned about her here in my blog? [↩]
  2. LOL. What’s wrong with me? Resist?! Seriously? [↩]
  3. Weird. I can’t find a photo of this in my Flickr account taken back in 2006. [↩]
  4. Uh, I’m not sure if it’s a “no shoplifting” sign. The illustration was so vague. [↩]

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Say Moo!

Posted on July 6, 2008 at 1:24 pm | 10 Comments
Filed under Retarded Reviews

Before anything else, I want to make it clear that Moo didn’t commission me to make this review. I am doing this out of love. WTF?! In other words, this is not a paid review.

I’ve heard about Moo — a printing company based in London — a year ago, since then, I’ve been drooling because of their famous Moo MiniCards. These MiniCards have a vital statistics of 28mm x 70mm with a Matt laminate finishing. They’re so small but they’re still attractive and cool. You can get Ready Made MiniCards, or you can design your own with your own photos. On the reverse of the card, you can place up to six lines. You can even choose the color and font that suits your needs.

By Air Mail

Back in February, I subscribed to Flickr Pro account. Surprisingly, a Pro account comes with ten free Moo Minicards. I immediately chose my favorite photos and ordered them. The waiting period was very long. There was even a point when I thought they would never arrive safely here in the Philippines. It took a month before they arrived. It’s my first package from London and I was like sniffing the envelope trying to smell London. LOL. Call me crazy but I don’t care. (I’m really dreaming of London. Haha. Someday, I’ll treat myself a trip to London). I was so happy with them. They’re simply beautiful.

Last May 03, I decided to order 100 Moo Minicards. Even though they’re quite expensive, I didn’t hesitate to order. After a month, they were still in the mail. And that was the time when I started to panic. I thought to myself that perhaps, they were lost in the mail somewhere in Japan or Madagascar. Haha. I asked my younger brother every now and then if I received an email when I get back home. Last week, I concluded that they were really gone and maybe, they’re back in Moo’s Headquarters in London. I was really sad because they cost me around $30.00 (that includes the shipping and the plastic Moo MiniCards holder).

Two days ago, when I got home from school I saw a small package with a familiar label on our dining table. The package was very dirty (it might not look dirty on the photo, but it is). I was really shocked when I saw it. My Moo MiniCards had arrived at last! I was saying “Dumating din sa wakas!” like a mantra for a few minutes. Now that I have them, I can’t wait to give them to my friends even though they perfectly know my email and phone number.

Dirty Mail Teh Box Get One!

My next target is their StickerBooks. God, I really love their products! Now, I have to look for a good blogger out there who can buy me a StickerBook. Hehe.

If you want to see more photos of Moo’s products, check their group pool @ Flickr!

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Birthday Bash

Posted on May 3, 2008 at 2:21 pm | 12 Comments
Filed under Random Realities • Site Stuff

chocolate-coffee cupcake with mocha ganache and mascarpone cream Okay, my birthday is more than seven months away and I haven’t attended a birthday party recently but this post is about a party… a party that I want to have. This may sound really absurd to anyone who reads it: I want to have a children’s birthday party! Yeah, lol. I know, it’s weird. As a matter of fact, thinking of it makes me laugh like a person who lost his sanity (or have I lost my sanity already?). But I’m dead serious about this one.

I want to celebrate one of my birthdays in a local branch of McDonald’s or Jollibee where I and my friends can fill our hungry tummies with delicious cheeseburgers, spaghetti, fatty French fries, deep-fried chickens, and sundaes. Of course, there will be party hats in assorted colors, a banner that says “Happy Birthday, Christian!” with Ronald McDonald or Jollibee and their respective friends as its background.

There will also be an emcee who will host parlor games but the games will be uh, adult-ish. Lol. We’ll play an edited version of Trip to Jerusalem. The guys will hold bananas just in front of their pants and these bananas will serve as the “chairs.” The contestants will be either females or gays (to make the game more exciting and funnier). The contestants will circle around the guys sporting bananas in front of their jeans while dancing like a GRO in a far-flung cabaret in the tune of a novelty song composed by Lito Camo (God, how gross is that?). Once the music stops, the contestants will try to grab one of the bananas. The one who will not be able to get a banana is out of the game. The process will go on until a winner will be declared. Okay, I’m exaggerating. Loot bags will be given to the participants. These loot bags will contain but not limited to chocolates and candies.

Of course, there will be a special appearance of a mascot (I really feel sorry to those people wearing those stupid costumes) who will give entertainment to everyone who is in the party. Either Jollibee or Ronald will dance like there’s no tomorrow. And we’ll see if we can make Jollibee dance a folk dance (preferably Pandanggo sa Ilaw) or make Ronald sing.

I’m sure everyone will enjoy the party even though every bit of it is very childish! Haha.

So… will you join my party? Haha. Magpapa-cheeseburger ako!

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Yeah. I have a new layout! Woot! It’s been a while since I last used a dark theme. I really like this one. I love its simplicity and the semi-transparent columns. But I’m not sure if this will work with older versions of the effing and the most ridiculous browser to me: IE. Expect to see some minor changes to this new layout in the coming days. A credit is due to this simple CSS trick to make semi-transparents columns and to imjustincognito’s amazing photo that I used as my header.

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Biggest Bother: Brother

Posted on March 25, 2008 at 4:50 pm | 12 Comments
Filed under Featured Flicks • School Sabotage

There are so many things that I want to tell you about our movie. But then, I don’t want to bore you reading a very long entry. You see, there are so many problems that arose in our group especially during the production part. As a matter of fact, our leader-slash-director is the biggest problem that we ever encountered.

All of us hate her so much! She even wants to be the script writer and one of the characters in the story. During the day when we decided to choose a plot, it was one of her plots that won in the voting. I don’t know what happened but until now, I still can’t get it why her out of this world plot was chosen.

It goes like this…

A group of friends have this certain project so they went to the house of their leader. But what they didn’t know is that place used to be a tribal burial place, and on that day, that group of friends were locked inside… and one by one they started to disappear. But in the end, it turns out that it was one of the members of the group who killed the others and she did that because her group mates were teasing her.

The story was so shallow. There were hardly any underlying reasons why the killer decided to murder her group mates. And there were so many plot holes in the story that she created. There was even this big hole that only she didn’t notice. Everybody who read her draft were in the verge of laughing so hard just because of that big plot hole that she didn’t notice.

And from then on, a new group arise from our group… a group within a group. I’m proud (lol) to say that I was one of the three members of this group and we called ourselves as the “Conspiracy Group.” As much as possible, we didn’t want to bypass our director, but then, we had to. Because if not, her outrageous ideas and suggestions would reign! Who would want to film a gas tank exploding (this was in the plot that she made)? Duh, we’re not in Hollywood!

We (the CG) decided to do major revision in our plot. In the end, what only remained in the revised story was that there was a group of friends who got killed one by one. I liked it so much and the plot was really interesting. The second version was really good. The whole group decided that our movie’s title should be “Brother” and yes, it really fits our movie. But I think our leader didn’t like that. She has her own weird ideas. Actually, she suggested “Big Bother” to be our movie’s title. But you see, “Brother” really fits our movie, and besides, majority of us wanted it as our flick’s title.

During the production part, our director did only little in our movie. Actually, it was us, the CG who made almost everything possible. It was always us who were on the camera, filming this and that, directing our group mates on what to do, checking the props that we’ll use, and many more. By the end we were over filming all of the scenes, everyone was really mad at our so-called director. Someone even told the actress who starred as the killer to kill our director. Haha. But the catch was that it looked like our leader didn’t like with what we did. We didn’t had any choice at all but to put all of those things on our hands and be the ones who’d settle what we had to.

We didn’t include our leader in the post-production part. Basically, it was only the three of us (CG) who worked during this part. As a matter of fact, what she knows was that we didn’t meet at all. All she knows was that the editor was the only one who edited everything that needed editing and it was me who did the poster and the DVD cover. Well, she has her own ideas on what should appear on our poster. She wanted it to be something like serious…. something like the posters for “Maging Sino Ka Man.” Yuck! It doesn’t really fit for our movie! Good thing they didn’t have time to have a pictorial session. What I did was to search for pictures (of course, that have something to do with our movie) in Flickr that are free to use.

Brother Theatrical Poster
Photo Credits:
the toxic dragon
strobist flickrazzi
Note: The names I used in the poster are not real.

Last Saturday, the three of us met and finalized everything we had to finalize. I enjoyed doing our poster, all I need was their approval. And hey, they really liked it. So when we got everything about the poster settled, we had it printed.1 I really liked our poster, as a matter of fact, I have my own personal copy of it!

During the afternoon, we were editing our movie. And because I was also the one who was assigned as the musical director, I used indie music in our movie! Yay! That afternoon, I also made our DVD cover which took hours of my time. It was only around 10 in the evening when I was able to finish doing it.

Over all, I really had fun doing this tedious and tiring task, especially during the post-production part. Even the other two members of the CG said that they had fun. Just seeing our poster printed was such big joy on my part. It was just our leader wasn’t cooperating and she’s really a big problem in our group. And even though there are still some flaws in our movie I can say that we really did great, after all, we’re not even BA students.

  1. Just a side-note, that was the day I knew that somebody can be allergic to tarpaulin. Lol. My friend is! Haha. She was itching after she touched our newly printed poster. [↩]

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