Flickring

Posted on February 15, 2008 at 10:15 pm | 8 Comments
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I joined Flickr, a photo sharing site last year. I think you will agree with me if I would say that it’s a very cool site. The user interface is sleek and it’s very easy to navigate your way in the site. I’ve been using it for storing some of my photos and searching for a good image that I can use without paying any royalties and breech the copyright law as a banner here.

Three Each For one long year, I’ve been using the free version which has so many limits. With a free account, a member has only 100 MB monthly upload limit, three sets, only the 200 most recent images are available, photos can only be add to 10 groups, and only smaller resolutions of the photos are viewable. It sucks isn’t? But since I have earnings in the Internet, I decided to buy a Pro account.

Since last Sunday, I’ve been uploading lots of photos in my Flickr account. Currently, I have 738 photos uploaded in Flickr where 199 photos are for public consumption. I’m officially a Flickr addict! Lol. Actually, last Wednesday, I tried my stinking prowess in photography and came up with a set of photos of salt and pepper shakers. Lol. I had fun taking photos even though they’re not as impressive as those photos that are currently in my favorites (that’s obvious).

My Moo cards arrived! It’s been a while since I first expressed in my Twitter that I wanted a pro account and I’m really glad that I purchased one. I like it. What’s more is that I’m now waiting for my 10 free Moo MiniCards. They would look like those tiny cards in the photo on the left. They’re photo calling cards, actually. They look wonderful and from what I have read in the Internet, they really look amazing! As I write this, my MiniCards are being dispatched. I cannot wait any longer. Lol. I want my MiniCards now! Haha.

Maybe, I will order more MiniCards if I would be satisfied. There are other things that you can do with the photos that you’ve uploaded in Flickr. I want to try them but then, I don’t have any moolah. Lol. Haha. Maybe, someday, I’ll be able to buy other things from the Internet.

If you have a Flickr account, be sure to add me and visit my set I call The Gallery. I end this post with some of my favorite photos that I took (be sure to check out the photos found below this page).

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HP5 the Movie: Disappointing

Posted on July 14, 2007 at 4:50 pm | 16 Comments
Filed under Featured Flicks

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Spoilers Warning

If you still haven’t seen the movie yet and you are planning to watch it, please skip this for now. There are spoilers in this post that might ruin the already ruined movie even more. Thank you.

I’m disappointed.

As usual, there are lots of scenes in the book that were not included in the movie version, but of course, the movie makers have to compress the 800 plus pages book into an approximately two hours. Moreover, the transition of the scenes were too fast. I suppose, Steve Kloves is better than Michael Goldenberg, the writer of the script in this movie. Steve Kloves had to work with another movie, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which is another adaptation originally written by Mark Haddon. Good thing, Steve Kloves will write the sixth’s script.

What else do I hate? Oh, those newspaper clippings, I hate those, they really made the phasing fast. And the one that I really hate was the changes they did with Cho Chang’s role. She was not the one who is supposed to tell Umbridge about the Dumbledore’s Army. It was her friend, Marieta, who unfortunately was included in the movie. And this is not the reason why they Cho and Harry ended their relationship. But most of all, the prophecy was not fully heard nor explained.

Now, here’s a list of things, places and people that I wanted to see in the movie but were not spared from getting into the movie:

  • Bode, an unspeakable who works in the Department of Mysteries
  • Gilderoy Lockhart, Harry’s ex-professor
  • St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
  • The screaming portrait of Sirius’s mother (ah, how I wish I’ve heard her screaming), she was heard speaking, but not seen.
  • The fountain in the Ministry of Magic was there, but they should have sticked with what happened in the book. In the book, those statues should have sprang into life during the battle of Dumbledore and Voldemort.
  • Quidditch was obviously not included even Luna’s strange hats plus “Weasley is Our King”
  • Rita Skeeters! I hate the movie makers for removing Rita!

As for the good parts, well, the cast was good, their acting was superb. The most notable members of the cast were Imelda Staunton who played Professor Umbridge (she was really irritating), Helena Bonham Carter who portrayed Bellatrix Lestrange, and Evana Lych as Luna Lovegood. The sets were nice, especially the Ministry of Magic but that was not how I perceived the Ministry. Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place was great, and Umbridge’s office was really decorated with the color pink. I also like the changes they did with the Educational Decrees. In the book, there are only a handful, but in the movie, there are almost a hundred of them.

Well, I suppose that’s all. If there are some errors, please notify me. You might as well want to read Differences between book and film versions of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, an article from Wikipedia.

PS: I decided not to watch it for the second time because it’s not that good and it does not worth my moolah. I should be saving my money for the last book which will be released on the 21st.

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