Geek Stuff Cooking Up… Wednesday May 24, 2006
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I'll be busy doing some geek stuffs for a while… I'll post it soon… somethings cookin'. 
Wawa Dam, Montalban, Rizal Photos Tuesday May 23, 2006
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Photos were taken by my friend Cracklypork, during our visit to the Wawa Dam in Montalban, Rizal last February. Here are the photos.
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Photo above : This is the actual "nag uumpugang bato" that was mentioned in the myth of Bernardo Carpio.
Geek Pic Monday May 22, 2006
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One of my rare picture taken last saturday at the Mapalad-PodCentral Joint Meet up.
That's Badaboom (Top Left), Glenn (Top Right), Me (Bottom Left) and Dr. Rosea (Bottom Right).
Thanks paulm_drive for the very nice pic.
Zsazsa Zaturnnah : The Movie? Monday May 22, 2006
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Got this article from Click-The-City website regarding the screening of the scripts for the Metro Manila Film Festival-Philippines 2006.
18. Zsa Zsa Zaturna (fantasy/comedy/adventure) starring Rufa Mae Quinto, Ogie Alcasid, Allan K and Alfred Vargas and directed by Mark Meily for Regal Entertainment Inc.
Yehey!
X-Men 3 : The Last Stand Monday May 22, 2006
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As I said, the day isn't over and I still have to go back to SM Mall of Asia but this time to watch the next awaited movie after The DaVinci Code… X-Men 3 : The Last Stand . I received the invitation to watch the Press Screening of the movie last Thursday, got so excited coz it will be shown in SM Mall of Asia cinemas… too bad it wasn't in the IMax theater… but I guess that's asking for too much. Beggars can't be choosers.
Although I'd really like to post some spoilers here, it won't be appropriate coz I don't want to burst the bubbles of those who are awaiting for the regular showing of the movie. Just post a comment if you want some spoilers, I'd gladly tell it to you… I won't write here that… bleep bleep bleep… hehehe
Up to now I'd still can't believe to what happened in that movie. The story has the elements of the usual comic facts we know and stitched it together to create a new storyline that you would not imagine nor predict that would even happen in the movie. It actually bested the two previous X-Men in terms of the story line. In this final chapter of the "X-Men" trilogy, you'd see more mutants and mutant powers used at its best… action packed mutant fight scenes that you have never seen in the previous X-Men movies. The only short coming is that you have to know a few about Marvel comics to find out which mutants are which. But if you are not an X-Men fanatic… it would not be a problem.
So for the risk they have taken for the X-Men story they did for this movie, I'd give them a 4 thumbs up! (2 hands thumbs… and two toe thumbs)… I know not everybody would agree so sue me!
There isn't so much improvements to the special effects but it is still great and kinda suffice the needs of the movie.
If there will be a fourth installment of X-Men we can only speculate. I won't spoil… I did promise. Hehehe…
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Next press screening would be that movie of Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. Then of course the next much awaited movie for this year… Superman! (Sana sa IMax na ito!)
The Great Mall Of Asia Monday May 22, 2006
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It's Sunday and it's my day off so I'll go malling (hehehe… sounds familiar?)
Next to watching korean/chinese/filipino telenovelas the next favorite Filipino pasttime is malling. It's actually a national sport that should be introduced into the next Olympics, we'll snatch a gold for sure if it will be included… nyahahaha. Besides the usual historical sites, boring art galleries and night life, malls are actually the new tourist destinations. You just have to realize how many malls we have now just in Metro Manila.
Ok, so back to my malling adventure. So for family day we decided to visit this new mall as a short activity, mom has to buy some gift for a golden anniversary wedding which they will be attending at 4pm. This sunday has an unusual bad sunday traffic so we got there around 230pm (so we've got only about 1hour of malling left). Once you get to the vicinity of the mall you'd see lot of cars anywhere… along side the roads, parking lots, parking spaces and literally anywhere surrounding the mall. So if you have that many cars… expect the number of people who are in that place… and I'd say literally swarming in that place. It's like suddenly the Mall of Asia is the most dense place in the country for the day. But the mall is like this giant behemoth… ready to take in as many people as it can. It's big and spacious.
According to Wiki (key: SM Mall Of Asia), SM Mall of Asia is now considered as the third largest mall in the world behind the Edmonton Mall of Canada and Golden Resource Mall of China. It boasts of an Olympic size skating rink and the much awaited IMax Theater which is one of the biggest cinema in the world… take that!
After buying the wedding gift, we have to scram out of the place so mom and my sis could go to their wedding itinerary. I went to the gym in Robinson's Place Manila and will have to go back again to Mall Of Asia for another itinerary… hehehe… see my next blog entry for this.
To be continued…
Palm-podding… Pod-palming… Sunday May 21, 2006
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It's G-Day again (as in G for GEEK!). This time it's a joint meeting between the tappers (Palm users) and the click wheelers (Ipod users). The meeting of course is a mayhem of all sorts… well in a geek sort of way of course.
Wearing the whites were the Podders and those in blacks were the Palmers. Since I am a member of both groups (yeah… geek… so geek… rub it in!) and I can't find a zebra shirt to wear for that occasion, I wore blue instead. The meeting was held 4pm at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf at Greenbelt 3. I arrived at 5 pm… Filipino time.
I arrived just in time for the Ques-tune game, a name-that-song game. I joined the group of some Mapalad oldies (meaning not newbies… and … uhmmm.. nevermind), it turns out we were too old for some new songs and we are too forgetful-old in guessing the titles of the old songs. They played some Polish Polka and German Love songs for us to guess the titles… kidding! Hey we did good in the OPM Oldies… ayt!
The joint meetings aim is to extend camaraderie with other tech user groups. We did it once with the Windows Mobile Users group (yup Palm and Windows Mobile users can co-exist in one place), and now with Ipod users community.
What's next? Hmm… we'll wait what is in store for the June meeting… but for now am interested in the GEEK IN THE PINK song of Jason Mraz.
Nobody Wants To Be Left Out When Everybody Talks About The Same Thing Friday May 19, 2006
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The movie ended without anyone making an attempt to show appreciation, a gesture of clap and not even a form of appreciative smile was given. Everyone was with their serious hats even when the movie ended. Was it because the movie didn’t fulfill its expectations? Or maybe because the movie’s theme is something that should not be taken lightly? Was it because everybody knows what the movie is all about?
In the last two days, almost everyone I know was excited to see the movie on the first day showing. Though most of them have already read the book, it was more of the curiosity of how the novel would be turned into a movie that keeps them (and me) keep guarding the Sureseats website, to keep an eye on the movie’s online reservation availability. Though the movies schedule was shown, reservations were suspended because the movie hasn’t been rated yet by the MTRCB. The delay was probably due to some influential religious groups, moralists and conservative Christian groups that keeps on making noise to ban the public screening of the movie.
Bad publicity is good publicity. As more and more people who cries and whines to stop the movie from being shown, the more and more the public becomes curious in watching the movie, and as for that, the accumulated curiosity becomes a hype.
The curiosity and then the hype. If you’ve ever been in Glorietta and Greenbelt ticketing lobby you’ll get to know how everybody is trying to get schedules on the first day of showing. The online ticket reservations via Sureseats were no good (TG! I got my tickets reserved midnight when reservations was opened). It seems their system couldn’t handle large simultaneous connections and their system choked. So everybody was piling up on ticket booths to buy tickets one day in advance. The last time this same circumstance happened was a few days prior to the previous Harry Potter movie.
Rated-18. Besides the limiting of the movie’s audience to mature audience, the next major effect was concentration these audience to a limited number of cinemas. SM Cinemas who holds the 50% market share of the movie audience has to decline the showing of the movie, simply because they don’t show “R” movies in their cinemas. As a result, remaining non-SM cinemas like Ayala Cinemas are forced to use almost all of their theaters show the movie and give chance to the madding crowd.
What’s the Fuss? It’s the current hype. The controversy of the moment. Nobody wants to be left out when you and your friends starts to discuss the movie or the book during lunch or during a water cooler conversation.
I guess this hype is every body’s fault. Who wants to be “out” anyway.
Meebo : A Place To Talk Wednesday May 17, 2006
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This has actually been around from sometime. It was only recently that I got to know this when I borrowed my sister's company laptop when my home desktop computer was in a comma. Having a need to talk immediately to some online friends, I immediately searched for YM (Yahoo Messenger). It turns out they aren't allowed to use it in their office, YM ports are blocked by their network.
Of course, there's a workaround and that's what Meebo is all about.
Meebo is an online IM service (I think its an AJAX-ian messenger to be exact) which allows you to emulate Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Jabber/Gtalk and AIM/ICQ right on your browser (meaning passing messages on the regular port your browser is using (bypassing of course the usual IM ports that in most networks are blocked).
Rain Check! Wednesday May 17, 2006
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Let's see… hmm… we've had a typhoon last weekend… showers almost every afternoon… cold breezes at night … and laundries that wouldn't easily dry up… it only means its rainy season again (or at least we are in the transition) and summer is soon to be over.
Rainy season means that for the next 10 months I'll be busy again with school, gym, work, parties and just the usual stuffs. I usually hibernate during some months meaning I sleep a lot, doing less shenanigans, less escapades but I do a lot of reading (especially when you have no choice but to read tons of school papers… it's still reading but not leisure reading).
The weather usually spoils the long planned trips during these days. A good example is our supposed to be escapade to the north (Sagada) this weekend, but since the rains has started they are opting to go in a less hassle place like Tagaytay which is only 1 and a half hours away from Manila. Oh well… you can complain all you want but you couldn't change the weather by doing so.
I couldn't think of a sure activity to do during these season. Perhaps the rains brings uncertainties with it.
Oh yeah… there's school again. I am not really excited with it, not 'coz I don't have new shoes, new set of Mongols or new automatic pencil case to bring on the first school day, but 'coz I have to change my schedules again. Thursday and Fridays for school, two consecutive days, two times a week. It means I have to squeeze my regular workout hours somewhere in the remaining days of the week, including the weekends.
Nothing much really to look forward to, I guess. I'll just be sleeping around most of the time and that is something I'd love to do.
