Tuesday, October 30, 2007

That Wicked Dream

I had a dream last night. A wicked dream to be exact. Right after my weird but amazing dream the other night, this one followed.

Well it might seem normal to other people to have this kind of dream but for me, it's totally wicked!

Because it's all about Jed. Yes, that person! I dreamt of him and I hated it.

It was during our back to school years. We were having this really, really weird end-of-term-exams where Miss Timaan (never mind if you don't know her) was looking after us.

I was left taking the exams with one classmate and we were forced to submit it when our dean Ma'am Manalaysay went inside the classroom and asked for an urgent meeting with Miss Timaan and the rest of the division heads.

So I went out of the classroom, clad with two heavy sling bags (I defo didn't know why I was carrying two) when Jed went over and asked me to talk to him. And the convo went:

JED: What happened between us?
NEYM:
JED: You and me, Neym. We're supposed to be best friends, aren't we?
NEYM: Well, yeah.. Not until that Tara girl went crazy for you!
JED: Well, can I at least apologize on behalf of her and.. Neym, I want my best friend back.
NEYM:
JED: Neym, I'm serious! I want you back...my best friend back. Please!
NEYM: Hmm, alam mo, wala namang problem sa akin yan eh, the problem is youre girlfriend. You know how much she humiliated me when she spread this rumor that you and her broke up because I commited suicide, right?
JED: Well that's supposed to be over, I'm sure she'll understand, please. -holds hands-

Well ok, here I went, wasn't able to resist his..charm? haha! So yeah, I accepted his offer back on being his bet friend again. We sat on this mighty corridor chairs and started eating the foods served for us for some kind of a culmination lunch.

We finished eating and I called into him, asking him if he has an extra plastic bag because I lost mine. Smiling and without saying anything, he unzipped my sling bag and took out a plastic from it.

NEYM: Where'd that come from?
JED: You put it here before we ate, geek-head!

Awww, evil him! So after that, we went to his car on some mall parking lot (dreams are weird, i know. from schools to malls!) and he had a problem about the parking fee. He has to pay 1, 350 pesos. LOL! That was crazy! How can a parking fee get that big? And so, I paid the 350 and he contributed the 1, 000.

The End.

nuff said...-toot-

static goes...

But hey, haven't finished yet! When I woke up, I was wonderign why on earth was I able to dream about him? And why that kind of dream? That kind of conversation?

Am I missing him? Do I want him back subconsciously? Or am I just not moving on yet?

Jeez, I hate this!

back to random blogging!

yehey! i'm back to random blogging! hahaha!!

i posted a blog here i think the other day and i realized that it has been a month since i left this blog hanging. yes, a month! whoa! can you believe that? why? because i was only expecting to put stuff here regarding reviews of the k-movies/k-series that i've seen.

well, i think that's not the main purpose of a blog, right? then what is? hahaha!

eh di posts! hahaha!

i'm getting crazy again. probably a hang-over from this extreme eat-all-you-can last night after we visited lola on her 9th year death anniversary. we were just supposed to go woosh and go home but we decided to eat out. haha!

so it was just supposed to be this common barbecue rice-all-you-can thing pero pagdating namin sa resto, they have a new gimik. EAT ALL YOU CAN FOR Php 99.00 only! waaa ang saya! so go! eat all you can kami!

ok naman ang foods, masyadong ma chlesterol! hahaha!!

ok so medyo peaceful na kami sa food-eating namin nang may biglang umeksena. some kinda foreigner na lasing and he was talking to the owner. the owner then was shooing him away kasi nga raw nanggugulo.

later on, we realized na indeed, nanggugulo siya because my god! he took the serving ttong from the buffet table and picked up the dessert and guess what.. SHOVED IT IN HIS MOUTH! eeewww as if that was enough! worse, he placed the tong back to the serving plate! hahaha!

adeek ren yung guard, hindi man lang siya pinigilan. ayun, the bonggacious owner went over to him and screamed at him na! hahaha! eh di natakot ang ulol atlumabas ng restaurant. -sighs-

and to think, he's a foreigner. can't anyone just pass a law against abusive foreigners? that foreigner i heard was already caught by the police before for smoking on public premises. we all know that smoking is totally banned in davao city. he was told by the owner not to smoke and still he smoked.

these foreigners actually thought they can do anything to our country because they are visitors. but hell, we also have our own laws here. we also know what we're supposed to follow and if we are obliged to follow, aren't those foreigners obliged, too?

so much for a nice peaceful dinner. hahaha!! =]

Monday, October 29, 2007

Why do you have to go and make things so complicated??

Ah, remembering those high school days! Teka, high school ba kamo? hahah!!
When Avril Lavigne's first ever single titled COMPLICATED went on air. People of all ages became addicted to this song not even thinking how it truly meant.

Even I admit that I wasn't much paying attention to the true meaning of the song...until I had a chat with Gerlie earlier and I was commenting on some people who were torrid liars. yes, LIARS! Those people who love to make other people believe that they are pretty, rich, able, whatever! Those people who somehow fear rejection if they show their true selves..

-sighs- I don't even know how it started. Oh yes, it started with a GM Ms. W has posted a group message. Well I alreadhave this previous issue with her where I hated her so much for being such a suck-up. haha! Really, she makes other people believe that she's popular in school,she's super pretty that all guys drool for her! Guy dogs, I think! haha!!

So I told Gerlie about it and there goes the rantings about damn posers and all their dirty work! Then came the other one. Miss KT.. Ok, so she's my friend. Compared to this narcissistic Miss W, Miss KT is closer to me for we've been friends for like.. sometime. haha! I don't know, basta we've been close friends ever since.

So back to the subject, I've only told Gerlie so far about my thoughts with this girl. She has posted pictures whom she claimed was her and yet, we doubted it. I mean come on, even though we haven't seen each other in person yet, there's really this distinctive features in someone whom you've already known for long and you'll recognize him/her in just one glace.

But looking at those pictures don't remind me of Miss KT but reminds me of..wait.. Han Yoo Joo? Park Han Byul? All those Korean actresses whom I can recognize.

Jeez, I don't really mean to judge but fooling someone who trusts you in that way, is just like asking someone to kill that person or worse, shoot that person in the head. We're close friends and yet she can dare fool us just to appear cool and pretty.

Worse, she wasn't just fooling others, she was fooling herself as well which is really, really, unforgivable.

Ok, compared to Miss W, Miss KT is a bit prettier, I admit. But she's pretty enough to make herself even prettier. We won't even laugh at her if a pimple pops out of her nose or something, we'll accept her even if she has an extra eye on her forehead or stuff like that.

Alright, I've been bragging a lot now! haha.. Why did I make that title anyway?

COMPLICATED:

Why do you have to go and make things so complicated
I see the way YOU'RE ACTING LIKE YOU'RE SOMEONE ELSE GETS ME FRUSTRATED....

Yeah, just a simple question from Avril. Why indeed do you people have to make things around you look complicated by fooling others, pretending to be someone whom you're not and whom you can never be.

It's just so unreasonable and no matter how many people explain it, I JUST WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND HOW A POSER CAN WORK WITHOUT BUILDING UP A CONSCIENCE!!

nuff said..end..-tooootttt-

-static goes-

Saturday, August 04, 2007

4 Horror Tales - February 29

Park Eun Hye - Han Ji Hyun

February 29 is part one of 4 Horror Tales and this is another confusing horror film by the Korean Entertainment.

The story revolves around a toll gate personnel Han Ji Hyun whom we can frist see in the beginning of the movie as a mental hospital patient.

She tells a news reporter about her death-defying days when she believed that there was a curse by the toll-gates where klilling every 29th of February happens.

There a series of twists in this movie where one was we can see that so-called "ghost" walking around in exactly the same clothes that Ji Hyun was wearing at that same day making her friends mistake it as her.

But as the story went on, you'll soon realize that Ji Hyun has been telling stories that she herself has believed to be true. Indeed, having believed to have a bad trauma of the dark, she developed mental problems and all the ghostly appearances that she experienced while she was still senile were merely due to her fear of the dark.

But in the end, there was a more shocking discovery about Ji Hyun thatwill definitely tell the viewers that indeed, this is not just some horror movie. =]

Thank You - Jang Hyuk & Gong Hyo Jin

Jang Hyuk - Min Gi Suh
Gong Hyo Jin - Lee Young Shin
Seo Shin Ae - Lee Bom
Shin Sung Rok - Choi Suk Hyun

I never thought that I would cry so hard again after shedding a lot of tears for Snow Queen until I was able to watch this higest-rated series in Korea, beating up Witch Yoo Hee and The Devil of the rival Korean Entertainment stations.

Thank You indeed was a very unique love story between a kind and simple woman and an arrogant doctor. The conflict the occurred in this series wasn't like the any other typical series because here, our main character Lee Young Shin has to live her life with two dependent people; her grandpa with dementia and her daughter who acquired AIDS through a blood trasfusion when she was younger.

Aside from these dependent characters came Young Shin's ex-boyfriend and Bom's father Choi Suk Hyun rivalring against the doctor Min Gi Suh who came to take care of Young Shin's family after finding out that his girlfriend who eventually died of cancer was the doctor who made the greatest mistake about the blood trasfusion.

This unique and touching story shows how simple people can become someone else's miracle as Young Shin and Bom made the arrogant and bastard Min Gi Suh into a total guardian angel who promised to take care of their family until the day of his death.

I cried so much watching this series and I really don't have any objections on why it became the higest-rated series in Korea when it was aired. Just like what Min Gi Suh said, "Young Shin and Bom are my miracles," this series was indeed a miracle itself opening our closed minds to the realities and life and how to simply be thankful even with just a piece of choco-pie.

Yes, this series made me love choco-pies so much that whenever I go to a supermarket, I would definitely make sure that I can grab one before going to the counter. Because just like the choco-pie, Thank You made me realize the possibilities in ones life and definitely made me smile. =]

Hello! Miss - Lee Ji Hoon & Lee Da Hae

Lee Ji Hoon - Hwang Dong Gyu
Lee Da Hae - Lee Su Ha
Ha Suk Jin - Hwang Chan Min
Yun Mi So - Suh Hwa Ran
Ryan - Lee Jun Young

For all of the series that I've seen, Never have I imagined that there would be a series where the confession of feelings happened in the earliest episodes.

Yes indeed, Hwang Dong Gyu confessed his live for Lee Su Ha at episode 3 which shocked me at the most and I was like, "What about the upcoming episodes then? What will happen?"

I was expecting it to be a lottle bit boring in the next episodes because of the early confession but I didn't put in mind that here, there were at least two uncompetitive villains who will try to ruin the relationship unfolding between our two main characters as well as the historical property that one of them was protecting.

It may look like a typical romantic-comedy series to you but unlike those typical ones where boy meets girl, boy argues with girl, girl falls in loe, boy realizes, this on'e completely different for both the characters Dong Gyu and Su Ha were up struggling against inner emotions and responsibilities.

But then, lights have turned on in Su Ha and Dong Gyu's life catwalk and they were finally able to ramp down the platform, showing other that indeed, love doesn't choose status, ownership and love could definitely disregard the untimely happenings in the past. =]

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Death Note Movie

This movie is based on a Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba about an ordinary genius kid who wanted to become God after possessing a Death Note which was dropped by a Shinigami (Death God). Wanting to eliminate the criminals in the whole world, Yagami Raito (Light) used the Death Note aggresively, killing a lot of convicted and accused criminals gaining himself the name "Kira" by the police officers who were hunting him.

Aside from the police officers, the cooperation of the world's greatest detective also went out and risking everything, showed himself to Raito whom he was already suspecting to be Kira. Being very odd, L could even hind his intelligence by showing all those strange behavior that he does when in fact, competing against Raito on who will win first.

I've seen the anime and read the manga of this story although I haven't finished them yet. Being very excited to see the movie, I didn't mind the spoiler that it may bring by the end.

Indeed, I was glad that I decided to actually watch the two parts of the movie because it was only my second time to be amazed at how the plot was so much twisted to end in a better way. It wasn't much like how the manga turned out to be although I know it still has the same kind of ending.

In conclusion, all I can say was that even though L outwitted Raito and was able to defeat him, I was still amazed by how intelligent Raito was that all his plans turned out well even after loosing his memory by discarding the Death Note.

Indeed, Justice shall really prevail and for Raito and L who won't accept defeat, only death would be able to make them happy. =]

Tansformers Movie

Since I was a kid, I've been hooking a lot for the Transformers animated series. It indeed took years before it has been made into a realistic movie but I think that maybe if it was made before, it wouldn't have this much of an impact probably due to bad technology.

So I admit even though I've waited too long, it was indeed a worthy wait because the Transformers movie has definitely been on the rocks!

I've liked Megatron so much even from the cartoons even though I knew he was the leader of Decepticons which is the group that betrayed Cybertron's Autobots. But the movie made me thought otherwise.

-sighs- Megatron didn't have much of an exposure in the movie, I wondered why. I mean he only went out during the last minutes when he was already supposed to fight Optimus Prime.

So I admit...my eyes vented towards the cutest Autobot, Bumblebee and indeed, he proved the viewers that he wasn't just any rundown Chevvy Camaro but he indeed was an awesome chick-magnet and loyal fighter.

I can't say much about this movie since it has only shown the common stuff about fighting to save the world from evil forces but what amazed me in this movie was the way they made the robots blend so much in the human world that in a split second, I would believe that Autobots really do exist. =]

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Witch Yoo Hee - Jae Hee & Han Ga In

Jae Hee - Chae Moo Ryong

Han Ga In - Ma Yoo Hee

Kim Jeong Hoon - Yoo Joon Ha

Dennis Oh - Johnny Krueger

Jeon Hye Bin - Jang Seung Mi

Who would have thought that a wicked witch could actually turn into a pretty damsel in distress just because of love?

This series is one of those typical romantic comedy series but with a twist. This time, the woman was on the rich and arrogant side and the man was on the poor and pathetic side. Together with other obstacles including the father, the girlfriend, the potential man and the ex-boyfriend, a wonderful story was created.

Yoo Hee grew up to always have hatred in her heart. Living under the shadows of her father, she was forced to act like omeone who could never have friends hence she was dubbed as the Witch.

Moo ryong was a happy go lucky man who wished to become a chef and was looking up to Johnny who soon turned out to be his personal cooking instructor.

Joon Ha and Seung Mi on the other hand played the girlfriend and ex-boyfriend of our main characters but Joon Ha was the more evil one. He bound up with Yoo Hee's father to keep her from falling in love with her debtor and love consultant, Chae Moo Ryong.

I've seen a lot of love stories already and yet, I quite have different views with all those stories that I've seen. In Witch Yoo Hee, I can say that love really has the power to change one person. It can either make the person change for the better or for the worse. It can make a person think about others and it can also make one a selfish being.

In this series, we can see how much love has eaten the pride of a seemingly arrogant person and become the one who desperately wanted to cling on with the love that she had. We can also see how someone was willing to let go so as not to hurt the other and how love can integrate greed and can do anything even the worse just to get the love that he wanted.

In conclusion, Witch Yoo Hee isn't only a romantic comedy story. It is also a mirror of life's hardships when love gets on the way. =]


Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Freeze - Lee Seo Jin & Park Han Byul

Lee Seo Jin - Baek Jung Won

Park Han Byul - Kim Ji Woo

Son Tae Young - I-hwa

Do vampires really exist? Are there still 300-year old vampires roaming around our contemporary world?

Freeze tells a story about two vampires living for over 300 years in modern Korea.

Some would say that this series is absurd because it carries the concept of dark creatures. But this series is one of the results of Koreans' creativity because in its 5 episodes, viewers could see and understand what contemporary vampires go through. Haing been caught between not doing bad and trying to survive, most of them were forced to kill people just to satisfy their thirst for blood while some of them use the black market to buy blood to drink.

But no matter how exciting a vampire's life can be, it could become more exciting especially if that vampire who lived under the darkness would enlighten up as one falls in love with a human.

Baek Jung Won fell in love with his former lover's daughter, Kim Ji Woo and I-hwa, not wanting it to happen tried her very best to keep them apart, even comitting heinous crimes just to impress Jung Won.

But love, once it is felt can never easily be broken apart by greed and selfishness for only in love will you find comfort from all your insecurities be it for over 300 years. This series showed how a person is willing to change and decides to live longer just for love and how this person also tries to keep his love in safety even though it meant hurting that love.

Although Freeze has quite a bad ending, I think it is great in general and for five episodes only, it can already show us a lot of things about good and bad vampires alive and how humans deal with it.

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

The Classic - Jo In Sung & Son Ye Jin

Jo In Sung - Oh Sang Min

Son Ye Jin - Suh Joo Hee/Ji Hae

Jo Seung Woo - Oh Joon Ha

Lee Ki Woo - Tae Soo

A very touching masterpiece. The classic shows a story about a love which has never been fulfilled only to be continued by their next generation.

However, there was a twist. These new generation kids didn't know that their past were already inter-related even before they were born.

Reading the title, I really thought this was one of those cute Korean stories that I've seen involving a man and a woman falling in love with each other. But it was so different.

It doesn't only tell about love but it also tells about the art of holding onto the love even though one knows that it won't work.

Having lost the one you love in the past doesn't mean you will lose him forever. Destiny may not bring you together with the person you love but that same destiny will find a way to connect the love which was lost through other people.

In this story, Ji Hae's mom fell deeply in love with Sang Min's father even though she was engaged with Ji Hae's dad. Together, they struggled to keep their love alive but fate really brought them apart.

Ji Hae and Sang Min fell in love with each other not knowing their past connection; not until ji Hae discovered a diary written by Sang Min's dad. The diary contained all of the happy and sad memories Joo Hee had with her beloved until time came that they were permanently broken apart.

This story of destiny was really touching. Indeed I call it a LOVE MASTERPIECE. Together with the drama they portray, in real life, these people have their own dramas in life which will touch and insipire people's lives.

So as I say, LOVE could be as enlightening as fireflies freely wandering through the night. And love could be as deep as the river flowing endlessly on its basin. Because love, love is everlasting and will continue on until the next life.

My certified new FAVORITE MOVIE! =]

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

A Millionaire's First Love - Hyun Bin & Lee Yeon Hee

Hyun Bin - Kang Jae Gyung


Lee Yeon Hee - Choi Eun Hwan

Ok, so a lot of you may comment that I'm too late in watching this movie lol! But what can I do, I felt so stupid for not watching this earlier.

Ok, so let's get going! At first, I never thought that this movie would end up the way it did! I watched the movie without reading the synopsis. All I knew was that this millionaire should give up his carefree life in Seoul and should graduate high school in a province in able to inherit his grandpa's riches.

This movie was so funny at the beginning, showing how much Kang Jae Gyung and Choi Eun Hwan despised each other, fighting here and there and for nonsense reasons. But I was surprise at how heartbreaking this turned out!

The plot was kind of common, but what made this movie extraordinary was the way they changed the attitudes of the characters in this movie.

Jae Gyung, being very arrogant and a spoiled rich brat turned out to be the sweetest guy on earth and Eun Hwan, being the friendliest in her village turned out being the one who was most desperate for love.

Hearts were broken but lives were replenished in this movie. No matter how love would hurt you, your willingness to accept what is in fate for you will keep you happy for the rest of your life even without the presence of the one you truly loved.

Indeed love changes everything. It can change attitudes, it can change one's outlook in life and most importantly, it can 100% change a person's life no matter how much he lived in his stereotyped world.

Hyun Bin is just a superb actor! From his series Snow Queen, I've been tracking about his acting since then and I wasn't really mistaken when I said that I salute him and his acting. Because he definitely showed in this movie the ways to break up the hearts of viewers at the same time, mend their pain.

Kudos to Lee Yeon Hee too, for being such a baby! I really love the way she brought her character as if saying that, "I'm a very nice person". the way she talked and moved, you'll really feel a lot for Eun Hwan!

Ok, so tears stopped flowing now! It's over! lol!

I defo love this movie! =]

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

ICON-CRAZEE! =]

Lately, I've been Icon-Crazy! It's all Clarisse's fault! Joke! Hehehe. Actually, Because of her tutorials and stuff, I became addicted on making icons so go! =]

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Spiderman 3

Oh jeez! Why did I ever rated it 2? Because it deserved such ratings!

Spiderman 3 was so much wasn't what I expected it to be! Hitting the blockbuster in the screens on it's premiere, I really thought that it was somehow worth watching!

But then I was glad that I did not watch it as it premiered. Glad that I didn't squeeze myself in the movie houses where people do stand just to be able to watch! Because if I did, I would be too much damn hating myself until now! =P

Ok, why do you think I hate the movie? Well, I don't actually hate it, I was just frustrated by it!

First, being the 3rd installment, I actually expected it to be super great especially that Harry will be seeking revenge for his father.

And what the heck? Why did those sandman and the little creepy black thing from outerspace appeared? Unlike the first two installments, they only focused on one enemy! And those enemies were really challenging, from Green Goblin to this annoying Dr. Octivius/Octopus.

But this time? God, what was with that stupid sandman? I thought he was annihilated or something but after a couple of hours perhaps, he became MR. SANDMAN!! -applause!-

Ok enough with that. So, Peter was like very sorry to Harry and he wanted to explain things and stuff, but Harry didn't listen and the next thing we know, Harry was already attacking him with that glider like his fathers; Peter managed to bring him down, losing his memoryand in a snap of a finger, gained back his memory!! Awww, in those three hours that we've watched it, everything happened so fast!

So this gruesome VENOM thing as they called it, made Peter Parker a bad man. He kills, humiliates and embarrasses people! Why did he become like that? Because his stupid best friend asked his pathetic actres wannabe girlfriend to break up with him!

Breaking his heart should be a big NO-NO in your "How to Kill Spiderman" list! Because he would kill you instead! LOL!!

Ok so what else? Oh yeah, I really hate the way they make good pathetic people into bad guys!!

1. Harry Osborn - we know he loved Peter so much as his best friend but after finding out that he was Spiderman, believing that he killed his father, he changed into this very bad person who wanted to avenge his father's death. No matter how his best friend explains that he didn't kill his father, he wouldn't listen and he was still on his mind to want to kill Spiderman.

2. Random robber/thief who was known to have killed Ben Parker and has a daughter who was sick - he steals and robs because of his daughter. He wasn't originally a bad man knowing that he does the crime just to save his daughter's life. But just because of a freaking accident, he turned out to be this random SANDMAN!

3. -insert name here- Brocks - the new photographer who was trying to steal Peter's position as a photographer in the Daily Bugle. Ok, so he was kind of a jackass, but he wasn't really that bad! After the VENOM-SPIDEY humiliated him, he somehow wished that Spiderman would get killed and oh, his wish was granted in an instant as the creepy venom transferred into him, making him a monster!!

So that would make it three s to one!! But who do you think has won? Of course, it's our friendly neigborhood SPIDERMAN! As expected, yeah!

Ok now let's go to the characters!

1. Peter Parker - he has a very cute, funny and consistent character in the three installments, I have nothing to say against him! Toby Maguire was the greatest!

2. Mary Jane Watson - ok, pretty consistent character, too! But I just realized that she was always frustrated with her acting career yet she doesn't know that her real life was an acting itself. Seems like she was her own actress in her real life! Always being the subject of hurt and of course, full-time action! How come she doesn't get traumatized after almost falling about 100-feet in three movies? LOL! And her singing voice! Man! I really can't understand how a 2007-bred woman could have a 1930's kind of voice! No wonder she was fired from her job! =P

Ok well let's go to the ending now! Hahaha!! A Spiderman movie could actually have that super cheesy ending? Oh-Em-Gee big time!

I have nothing against that venom ending because it was indeed so cool! But the sandman ending! Hahaha! It made me cry!! It made me cry because of its cheesiness! LOL! It was so crazy! Flying away like that! Reminded me of the mummy!

And as expected, Harry died! Yes, I know he would die when he decided to go and help Peter fight back his enemies! Because of course, when a person becomes good, he dies! Haha! Sandman was lucky though! =P

-sighs- why did I even bother typing this long for a very frustrating movie like that? So now you understand why I gave it a 2? I wasn't frustrated because of the cinematography, I was just frustrated because of the way they wrapped everything up in one movie as if there won't be another one next anymore. Or will there be? =P

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Free Hacking, Anyone? =P

So what does hack mean? Hack as a verb mean, to break. In computers, it means modifying an computer program, a site or an account usuall skillfully.

Hacking is considered as one of the heinous crimes that destroy or invade private property especially on online sites. Hacking can cause a lot of trouble. I can destroy a person's dignity, personality and literally, own computer hardware hence defining it as to break.

I am a moderator on a Summit Media Forum called Total Girls Philippines. I bet most of you have heard about this kiddie/teen magazine which came from the same company that distributed Candy Mag and W.I.T.C.H Mag.

Anyway, that site has been mostly composed of girls aged 12 and up. The most common age group in that site is fourteen years old.

So the site has been peacefully running with some pasaway kids being moderated and stuff when suddenly, one member acted rather strange. She started bashing against moderators and also started sending rude and offensive messages to random members. This has put the whole forum in worry because that member wasn't that kind of person as we think of it.

And later on, we found out that she has been hacked. At first, we were worried about it but as the hacking continues, a lot of mysterious stuff started to happen involving that hacked member, her boyfriend, her boyfriend's best friend and her boyfrioend's best friend's girlfriend who also happened to be a member of TG.

We started having doubts about those two members and the hacker thinking that they are somehow prettily related to each other and all of them are involved with the hacking.

Things became crazy when another 4 accounts were hacked including one moderators's account. Worse, the hacker leaves viruses on the account owner's computers.

We were slightly alarmed by this issue because the offensive messages sent by the hacker were all with bad words and adult content therefore, putting the innocent kids' minds in a dirty situation. Remember, kids in TG were minors. And the messages sent to them were of adult content. So indeed it was very disturbing.

The issue hasn't been resolved yet as the administrator still hasn't taken any action for the issue yet. But if worse comes to worse, there's a huge possibility that the site will either shut down or restart.

I just have one question if indeed that hacker exists. Why was he doing it and what were his intentions? This hacking has put kids' minds in terrible worry and of course, it'll cost those hacked accounts a lot of money to have their computers fixed for viruses.

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

ANG DAKILANG PINOY!! =P

You're probably wondering why I used that title, right? Well you'll find out soon!!

I'm proud to be a Filipino, but sometimes, I couldn't contain myself from being ashamed with my own race. I wasn't much used to insulting the Filipinos. I just don't understand why my kababayan cannot quite understand simple signs and instructions.

Me and my friend were in downtown just a few hours ago and since our city (Davao) has just acquired the 'traffic lights', we were already practicing to be good citizens by abiding the simple traffic rules and regulations. Of course, the red light means stop, yellow means ready and green is go.

But vehicles were not the only ones which needs those signs. People who walk also need signs especially when they cross the street. When the green light is on for the vehicles, the pedestrian intersection will flash the red hand which means 'stop' for those who are planning to cross the street.

So me and my friend stopped under the heat of the sun and waited for the 'walk' sign. But I was surprised when we saw at least three people look left and right and when they were sure that the coast is clear, crossed the street, ignoring the 'red hand' signal. When I saw it, i wasn't able to control myself and i just merely shouted, "Pinoy! Wow! Pilipinong pilipino!" One of those who crossed the street looked back at me and I just smiled at her as me and my friend laughed. Then I added, "Dakilang Pinoy", hence the title of this blog! Oh well, in my mind that time, if these three people would get hit by a car, I would really hurl if they would cry and demand payment for their physical injury or worse, would file a case against the one who hit them. When in fact, if you look back at the situation, it was their fault that they crossed the street even though the signal was still on the 'red hand'.

One girl arrived and probably she heard what I said that she also stopped and waited for the 'walk signal'. So we waited since it was on the main street, we have to wait for at least 2-3 minutes. It was so hot that time but we ignored it, thinking that it was better than breaking a simple rule.

So the 'walk signal' was flashed and we crossed the street, my friend commenting about the girl. "I guess she already wanted to cross the street but she heard what you said and stopped, too!" LMAO! I really laughed hard when he said that. Well I was thinking that you don't need other people to tell you that you were doing the wrong thing. I mean, there's a clear sign that they shouldn't cross the street but they still did. If that's still the case, then I think putting up those signs aren't necessary anymore; they would only add up to the electric bill payed for by the government.

Anyway, while me and my friend were crossing the pedestrian, a car just passed by without even bothering to stop or even just slow down to let us cross. And to think, that was the pedestrian lane and we were supposed to cross the pedestrian so it was their responsibility to stop or slow down. I just merely said, "Whoa! Nasa pedestrian tayo!"

Just like what the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos said, "Para sa kaunlaran, disiplina ang kailangan" means, for our progress we need discipline. Not discipline in our country but discipline amongst ourselves. Because social discipline can grow out of personal discipline. If you couldn't follow simple traffic rules like that, then how can you follow national laws? If you are still going to ignore the flash of the traffic lights, then what's the use of the government's efforts to provide us with such things?

Oo nga naman, mga Pilipino tayo at nahihiya man akong sabihin ito, pero nakikita ko talagang sobrang tigas ng ulo ng mga Dakilang Pinoy! =]


TEN COMMANDMENTS OF RESPONSIBLE VOTING

1. You shall vote according to the dictate of your conscience.

2. You shall respect the decision of others in choosing their candidates.


3. You shall seek to know the moral integrity, capabilities and other personal qualities of the candidates and parties seeking your vote.


4. You shall strive to understand the issues, platform and programs of candidates and parties seeking your vote.


5. You shall not sell your votes.


6. You shall not vote for candidates using guns, goons and gold


7. You shall not vote for candidates with records of graft and corruption.


8. You shall not vote for candidates just because of
utang na loob, popularity or pakikisama

9. You shall not vote for candidates living an immoral life.


10. You shall put the welfare of the country above all else in choosing the candidates you will vote.


Source: Children's Play: Politics in the Eyes of a Child Concept Paper

Those phrases above are merely reminders for us, voters! It only says one thing. We should vote according to what we think is right, our instincts and of course, our own conscience. =]

Friday, April 06, 2007

Goong S - Se7en & Heo Yi Jae

Se7en - Kang Hoo/Lee Hoo

Heo Yi Jae - Yang Soon Yi

Kang Doo - Lee Joon

Park Shin Hye - Shin Sae Ryung

Myung Se Bin - the Queen


The current Empress of Korea was unmarried and recently, she has
been worried about a successor. Then they found out that the son
of the former King, the Queen's uncle has been living among the
commoners since he was born.

Kang Hoo grew up as a restaurant delivery guy under the care of Jo
Sang Ki. He has been living well for 20 years and has become Ilcheon's
most famous delivery guy. But one day, his life went at risk when a
group of people tried to kidnap him, thanks to Jo Sang Ki, he was able
to escape from them.

But then afterwards, he found out that his father, who died before he
was born was the former King of Korea and that the current reigning
Queen was his second cousin. And so as swift as things may be, in just
one night, he became a Gong-ja (Young Prince) and was now called Lee Hoo.

Meanwhile, the group of people who tried to kidnap him were working
under the Hyo Jang Dae Gong who happened to also be the Queen and
Hoo's uncle. Hyo Jang Dae Gong had always wanted to claim the throne of the Pye-ha (reigning Queen/King) and since he failed when the current Queen was installed this time, he was trying to let his son, Lee Joon be the Crown Prince. But he was threatened when he found out that Hoo has been found and since he was in the direct bloodline of the former king (of course because he's his son), he was possible to be the Crown Prince.

And so, Hyo Jang Dae Gong and his wife, has engaged Joon to the Deputy Prime Minister's daughter, Shin Sae Ryung. Pretty and intelligent, Sae Ryung has all the qualities to be the Queen but to do that, she has to marry the crown prince. This marriage would be of advantage for both of them. With the help of the Deputy Prime Minister, it'll be easy for Joon to be the crown prince and when Joon becomes the crown prince, Sae Ryung's dream to be the country's mother would come true.

Meanwhile, as he tried to adjust inside the Palace, Hoo met his grade school classmate, Yang Soon Yi who was working there as a Palace Maid. As impossible as it maybe, Lee Joon also happened to meet her and he became interested with her.

Things inside the Palace became very hard for Hoo when he started to feel something for Soon Yi while Joon has already confessed his love for her. Sae Ryung on the other hand was so jealous with Soon Yi since Joon ditched her because of him. But soon, Sae Ryung fell in love with Hoo.

Hoo also became more curious about his mother's exile from the Palace causing him to live as a commoner. He found out that Joon's dad was responsible for his mother's scandal and the Mother Queen was the one who made the decision of the exile.

Despite the circumstances and despite Joon's dad's dangerous tactics to put both Hoo and the Queen down, Hoo was still determined to become the Crown Prince so that he would be able to investigate further about his mother's exile. But being this way made him float away from Soon Yi and because he couldn't control his feelings anymore, he told Soon Yi how much he loves her.

Hoo and Soon Yi started going out but Joon and Sae Ryung were still determined to break them apart. Joon accepted his father's cheating methods so that he would win the competition for the Crown Prince position at the same time, he could win over Soon Yi. Sae Ryung on the other hand still encouraged her father to engage her with Hoo.

The Mother Queen knew about Soon Yi and Hoo's relationship and so, she persuaded the Prime Minister (the former PM has resigned due to illness so Sae Ryung's dad became the new PM) to engage Hoo with his daughter. But Hoo declined. Because of this, the Mother Queen had no choice but to let Soon Yi go abroad. Sacrifice...that's the true meaning of virtue. You give up your personal emotions and all your feelings to serve the people of your country. Because of this sacrifice, the Queen's own love has been rejected and Soon Yi left Hoo to study abroad.

Joon on the other hand has confessed to the Queen that he only won the competitions because he has cheated. And because of this, Hoo became the Crown Prince but he wasn't engaged with Sae Ryung because she declined the engagement and went to New York to see her mom.

Three years passed. But in these three years, has Hoo already forgotten about Soon Yi? And will Soon Yi continue to run away from him especially now that he was already the Crown Prince or will Crown Prince Hoo give up his throne so he could live happily with Soon Yi with the life he had back then?

This series has been inspired by the Goong series aired last year which starred Joo Ji Hoon and Yoon Eun Hye which was based on a manga. Just like Goong, this tells the story about having a monarchy in modern Korea.

But this has different twists as this story focused more on the political aspect and how much one should give up just to appear worthy in front of the people of Korea.

This series mainly focused on sacrifices. Sacrifices for your own happiness as well as sacrifices for the happiness of those who are around you. This would also show the injusttice of politics especially when it comes to position. Politicians may tend to rely on one another in able for them to keep their positions in their grasps.

As for the actors, it was Se7en's first time in acting but I'd say he was already good! Heo Yi Jae also portrayed her role well since she looked like a sweet and innocent young girl. Park Shin Hye has a change in attitude in this series. I've seen her in two dramas, always crying but this time, she has become a strong personality with a touch of greed and stubborness. What amazed me more was Kang Doo's character. He was the type who willdo everything to get what he wants, but in a fair way. Kang Doo's strong look fit his character very well for Joon was this kind of person who will never give up just to get what he desires. =]


Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usFree Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us