Nobody Wants To Be Left Out When Everybody Talks About The Same Thing Friday May 19, 2006
Posted by Maco in Movie Flicks.2 comments
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
Posted by Maco in I Have A Life!.3 comments
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. 
I Am Not That Big Yet! Monday May 15, 2006
Posted by Maco in Health.3 comments
… or technically, I am not that muscular yet. Read on…
As I was doing my ball crunches in the gym a while ago, a friend approached me and told me that he had just splurged big time on buying body enhancing supplements 'coz he wants a body that would really show that he really is doing some heavy workouts… in short a defined muscular body. It hit me like he was fishing for comments about his looks… well he isn't really that muscular but you can tell that his workouts have paid off. In fact he has an above average physique than most people in the gym, just enough to be called muscular and to be admired.
Supplementing and/or drugging is one way of doing a shortcut to having a desired physique. Supplements are not really that bad 'coz they have their purpose… they supplement your body with nutrients you are not capable to provide because of some reasons. I, myself, use supplements primarily because I don't have time to prepare the recommended daily dosage of nutrients I need. It's just like your daily dosage of vitamins. But for some, they surrender their dependence on these supplements, they have these psyche that they won't reach their desired physique without these supplements.
Men are as vain as women… and sometimes even more. Men are also as susceptible to depression as women, as we are also victims of societal stereotypes and mental models. Muscle Dysmorphia or Bigorexia is an equivalent disorder to that of bolemia and anorexia with women. It is a disorder, an obsession in attaining a muscular physique and not being contented to just being big… and wants to be bigger…
In the book The Adonis Complex, a Harvard psychiatrist asserted the role of media in fueling the minds of the society and in influencing the young minds of having a musculature physique. He argues that the portrayal of overly fit and unattainable physique on cartoons such as G.I. Joe or Batman has an effect on the society especially with the young ones. Add to that, the tri-media including the internet has bombarded us with ideas of what is "beautiful" and what is "in".
I don't wanna sound like this kind of vanity is bad. In fact being fit and healthy is a good vanity. There is nothing wrong with having a good physique as long as the primary goal and way of achieving it is healthy. A person can have a good physique but not healthy… fit and not healthy. As long as you are doing it right, eating and exercising right, taking supplements in moderation and providing ample time for working out, for social life or for as long as working out does not interfere with your daily functions and "life", that's healthy.
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I once read a comment on an a health article that Men's magazine suck! 'coz they only provide readers with something to be depressed about. IMHO, it is the negative way of looking at it, if you are an optimist you'd look at is as an inspiration, something you'd look forward of having… something to motivate.
Smart Wifi… Now Smart Bro Sunday May 14, 2006
Posted by Maco in Tech Bytes.2 comments
What has become of Smart Wifi? You've guess it, it was renamed Smart Bro. Now 7x faster than dial up and I guess more improvements were made (I don't have the usual I-lost-my-connection-for-a-long-time-again episodes).
Although improved and rebranded there are still customers who still rants about their services.
Here is an article about Smart Bro.
Here is a blogsite created for Smart Wifi / Smart Bro customers.
Hallelujah! It’s Alive! Sunday May 14, 2006
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Wipppieeee!!! Finally Force is alive again (now I named him Force Phoenix)!
Despite the typhoon yesterday, I single handedly carried my CPU at the nearest PCX for diagnostics (yes… that is what those muscles are really meant for). Of course since I already have the idea that it would be a motherboard problem I braced myself for the price I have to pay to keep my Force alive.
After a few diagnostic tests, I was right, it was the main board and my power supply was causing the problem. Right that instant I bought a new MSI motherboard which is compatible with my old processor and memory modules and a new 350W power supply. I let the technician do the trouble of assembling my CPU, of course for a fee.
In less than 2 hours I shaved of exactly P4000 bucks… darn… I am poor again…
Anyways, I've spent literally the whole stormy saturday in my room, reinstalling my new system. I lost my windows My Document folder where most my picture albums are. I guess I just have to find my backup cd's to restore them. Thank god my MP3 collection is intact. I don't want to loose 2500++ collected songs.
Oh well at least It was worth it I guess. Some people can't leave without some things, and mine is my computer.
Tales Of A Dying PC 3 : Rest In Peace Saturday May 13, 2006
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As of this writing, I am now declaring Force as dead… R.I.P. … I couldn't get to boot his BIOS anymore, so I guess that's it.
I still believe that I can still save the worthless soul. First thing in the morning I'll contact PC Exchange branch here in Caloocan and try to ask if they have an available Socket 478 available and ask if they can service my PC to transfer the processor and other stuffs to it. Of course, I should ask first if my processor is still compatible with their motherboards (crossing fingers!)… please let it be compatible…
It seems that I am being more paranoid now… my mind is playing what ifs… what if it's my hard drives which are defective… or what if it is my processor which is defective… (keep your calm Marc!).. hopefully the kind people of PC Exchange can make some miracle and reincarnate my FORCE (hallelujiah!). I just hope its only the motherboard which is defective.
Let's see what tomorrow can bring.
**** I'm using my sister's laptop right now.
Fuzzy Food Orders Friday May 12, 2006
Posted by Maco in I Have A Life!.2 comments
I just realized how fuzzy I became when I started ordering lunch in Jollibee just this afternoon :
Jollibee Staff : Can I take your order sir?
Me : Can I have a veggie salad?
Jollibee Staff : Ceasar or Fresh Garden Salad?
Me : Is your Fresh Garden Salad vinegar based?
Jollibee Staff : Yes sir.
Me : Ok, one of that. Bigyan mo din ako ng 1 pc chicken.
Jollibee Staff : Original or spicy sir?
Me : Uhmm… spicy na lang… can I ask for a breast part?
Jollibee Staff : Sa counter na lang sir…
Me : Ok… ay…pwede palang instead of rice eh give me a roll na lang…
Jollibee Staff : Sige po sir. How about drinks?
Me : Coke… oops.. do you have Coke light?
Jollibee Staff : Meron po sir.
Me : Ok… sige Coke Light. Yun lang.
I guessed you’ve already gotten the idea that I’m on a diet… again. After the junk food diet I’ve had in my last trip, I’ve finally mustered enough determination to go on a no-rice-always-veggie-fruit-diet, of course am still continuing my high-protein diet to complement my workouts. I am not dreaming of a full 6 pack abs, its just that my waist needs a little attention and my diet needs more discipline (oh yeah… call me vain baby!).
It’s my 5th day of feeding on grass now. Rice cravings are hard to fight especially when healthy veggie food is hard to find in fast foods. Temptations are everywhere. Food temperament is not an easy discipline.
**** Mama asked me to buy 3 dozen Gonuts Donuts for them to bring as “pasalubong” on their trip to Aklan tomorrow. Placed it under my desk but the sweet sugary smell of the donuts makes me crazy. My sweet tooth is out of control, but I have to control… or else am gonna finish one box of these donuts. Oh man!
Tales of A Dying PC 2 Friday May 12, 2006
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Went home late and tired last night and tried to boot FORCE (the name of my home PC… the dying computer). Bad news again, like everyday unusual things happen when I try to boot this soon-to-become-a-piece-of-junk computer. If last time I saw a garbled BIOS startup screen, now it won’t go to the BIOS startup at all… this is bad… I tried a couple of times to push the power switch but still getting the same results. Didn’t try to make a successful boot, was to tired and needed to retire early.
I tried early again this morning and after a few frustrating attempts i finally saw the garbled BIOS startup screen… at least I know there is still hope to boot him up… between the two errors… the later is the lesser error.
C ddong ka diba? Thursday May 11, 2006
Posted by Maco in Flip-pinoy, I Have A Life!.6 comments
Funny how sometimes you'll get a text message from a number you do not know. Of course, the initial reaction would be to text back and verify if it is just a mistaken identity, and it if it is a mistaken identity… this is where the funny stuff starts.
+63918*****14 : Dong ito number ko 0918*****14. Txtbck.
Me (Confused) : Cno ito?
+63918*****14 : C syckie dong nandto c tina. Txtbck.
Me (Still Confused) : Sori wrong numbr.
+63918*****14 : Gago kb cge gnyn ka ha…….. Hnd na kta ittxt.
Me (somehow flamed up after being cursed) : Di talga kita kilala sori. Mali yata talga numbr na tinetextan mo.
+63918*****14 : Cge gnyn ka tlaga.
Me (Confused again!) : Cnu k b talga? At cnu ang tinetext mo?
+63918*****14 : C syckie ako n hnd m ako klla.
Me (WTF!) : Wala nga akong kilalang syckie. Kung kilala mo ako, cno ako?
+63918*****14 : C ddong ka diba?
Me (Am I Dodong?) : Nde ako c dodong at nde kita kilala.
+63918*****14 : C tina klala m.
Me (Very Irritated) : Nde rin.
+63918*****14 :
Tanginam hnd m pla kmi klala ha.Me (Raged) :
Tanginamo rin. TC! =P
Well… one thing is clear, I AM NOT DODONG! or else this blog would be questiondodong.wordpress.com… nyahahaha…
