The Modernist

TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN

2011-11-07T06:44:00.000-08:00

Last Sunday I was looking for a television show that would entertain me and I accidentally tuned in to Star World with Twilight: New Moon. I am not really into vampires, nor wolves. I am not a hypocrite to say that I hate magical movies as well, actually I enjoy watching Harry Potter series, Percy Jackson and the Olympian: The Lightning Thief, The Chronicles of Narnia and others, especially those starred by Nicolas Cage.

I find the film interesting because of the thrill that it gives to it's audience. It's a suspense but more on a romantic film which revolves 360 around Bella's wolf-human-vampire love affair between Jacob Black and Edward Cullen. For me, the scenes are so unpredictable because this is my first time to watch this vampire flick. I didn't even know that New Moon was the first SAGA, followed by Eclipse and this one, Breaking Dawn. I am so innocent with the culture of the Quilite tribe that Jacob's in, and I turn very fearful when there will be a confrontation between the Cullen's and those vampires that eat flesh. I do not want to believe that I find myself accelerating up to finish washing the dishes because I cannot afford to miss a single scene during the party that Alice threw for Bella's birthday, or the scenario where Edward Cullen's gonna be showing the people that he is a vampire. There came Bella to the rescue with Alice, driving that yellow luxury car that made her even hotter than the sun that might have killed Edward.

These question lies in my head: would finally Bella accept her fate to be with the vegetarian vampires, or would give herself up to the Quilite wolf tribe? If she will choose the previous, who would do it then? Would they they change what Alice have foresaw in her vision, or just let it be? What would happen if Jacob knew that Bella has finally accepted her fate? Would he set a revenge plan? This November, The Twilight Saga: BREAKING DAWN Part 1 would be in cinemas in the Philippines. I am looking forward to this next chapter of the Twilight Saga because I simply wanted answers to my questions. I'm still not a fan though. I just want to conclude and jump off to Breaking Dawn.

Official Poster of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn

These are fan made posters of the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.
The official post of the said film (above) received notions from many fans and movie critics.

Me and my friends would often talk about different malls in the Philippines with the best cinema. Of course, who would want to stay on a dust-smelling theatre seats and watch in an old, poor and dissatisfying cinema screen? Sad to say, there are still local malls which doesn't put effort on renovating and updating the interior and cinema equipments used for playing the current digital films. I personally prefer to watch movies in cinemas where I would feel the magic of these films, and that the movie screen is going to eat and absorb me because of the large and very clear screen resolution that would refrain you from doing something under the shadowy areas of the theatre. As far as I know, these are the best local cinemas in the metro:

1. IMAX - which is in SM Mall of Asia (MOA) in Pasay City. I will rate this 5 stars but the cost is twice or maybe thrice of your local mall's cinema complex. It is the best for it has the full capabilities of providing a 3D film, a full IMAX experience.

(http://smcinema.com/smcinema/?p=1644)

2. Alabang Town Center, Cinema 1

(http://nowshowing.ph/cinemas/alabang-town-center-ayala-cinema)

3. Gateway Theatres - not the lazyboy seats.

(http://www.gatewaycineplex10.com/index12.php)

4. The Podium Cinema 1 & 2

(http://www.nowshowing.ph/cinemas/sm-cinema-podium)

5. Robinsons Galleria Cinema 1

(http://www.robinsonsmovieworld.com/)

6. Greenbelt 3 Cinema 1, 2 and 6

(http://www.nowshowing.ph/cinemas/greenbelt-3-cinema)

7. Shangri-La Cineplex

(http://www.shangrila-plaza.com/shang_cineplex.php)

8. Trinoma Cinema 7

(http://www.nowshowing.ph/cinemas/trinoma-cinema)

9. SM North Cinema 4

(http://www.nowshowing.ph/cinemas/sm-city-north-edsa-cinema)

(Click on the links to check the cinema movie schedules. You may go to www.sureseats.com)

I think the best cinema to watch this film would be in Greenbelt 3, Cinema 6. To my luck, I know friends who's gonna be holding a BLOCK SCREENING of this film on NOVEMBER 18, 2011 in GREENBELT 3, CINEMA 6 at 9:30 pm. You may contact this person for ticket reservation of the EXCLUSIVE BLOCK SCREENING of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1.

MR. MICHAEL BONUS - (09175928488)

The proceeds of this ticket selling will benefit the children of Hospicio de San Jose, an orphanage located in Manila. So make your Twilight Saga Movie Experience worthwhile, making these children happy through availing these tickets.

Would I become a vampire like them if I watched this new Twilight film? Really now.

BOREDOM IS A SOLUTION TO UNPRODUCTIVITY

2011-11-06T22:40:00.000-08:00

From the usual 3:00 in the afternoon waking up hour, I woke up a little early today at 9:00 in the morning. All I did was, I cleaned the house and watched movies which of some sort I find it interesting especially when Star World just flashed this resume clip while I was watching Twilight: New Moon:

I checked my e-mail if there's something I should see that would hopefully arouse my senses to become a deserving mortal today, all I got were from Multiply, LinkedIn and an e-mail from a colleague who says that she is her own boss.

I opened my social network site accounts,I've stalked several groups which I am subscribed to, doing it so just made my situation worse. I feel so helpless, I wanna sleep, but my presence doesn't want me to. I wanted to do something else that would stimulate my senses, but that would be crime. I do not know what I wanna do or if I wanted to do something at all. Until I posted in my Twitter account that I was finally bored.

C. D. Fisher describes boredom as an unpleasant, transient affective state in which the individual feels a pervasive lack of interest in and difficulty concentrating on the current activity. There are many factors why people experience this condition. Some people get bored because they cannot find something to do, people who feel lonely and loveless mostly, doing something for longer hours or maybe you're doing it out of your interest or worse, you wanted to go somewhere or have something in your life but you cannot get it because you do not have the means.

Many website would offer various means on how to reduce or ways to get away from boredom. But the most effective solution to that crazy condition that prevents from focusing and accomplishing much more important things than to daydream is this - check your planner or your schedule tickler if you have appointments to attend on the next few days or if you have a deadline. Start doing it, eventually you'll overcome boredom.

But if you do not want to become busy and just wanted to relax the whole day, keep being bored. Boredom is a solution to unproductivity, it's more than an excuse, for when you become bored, you end up doing nothing. And that's better than compelling yourself to do something which will result to a poor output. But be careful, this doesn't work at all times and at all circumstances, and you must also remember that this is just my insight.

I am very frustrated to buy that Celeteque Acne Cleanser set because I don't think products from a company that doesn't specialize in facial skin care would be that effective in helping me solve my problem. It's still our college's semestral break and my money is not yet enough to buy the set. Add to my disappointment the delay of the start of our class because the faculty would be having their meeting on the supposed date of the start of the second semester. This afternoon I was very close at buying a different product, but it's a good thing that I was bored and I have insufficient resources, I cancelled buying it.

This is such an irony of my previous post, but what I did is actually more than that. I googled some review about that product and to my luck, I was saved. Having patience is still my best asset.

Am I still bored until now you asked? Yes,I'm bored no more.

PROCRASTINATION: A POISON TO EVERY SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT.

2011-11-03T10:21:00.000-07:00

Where did you go this day?
With whom are you with?
What did you do?
Did you had fun today?
Did you became productive?
Did you have to take risk?
Did it pleased you?
Are you satisfied?
Would you like to do the same routine again?
Would you like to risk again?

I had to wake up by 8:00 in the morning today because I have a meeting with our student council auditor for her quarterly financial transparency exhibit. I still have to do my chores before I leave home: fix my bed, clean the house, the old school routines that just ate my time. I reached the office at around 11:00 AM and I immediately started to work. After we had our lunch, we went to a coffee shop to buy some frappes to refreshen ourselves and at the same time, start collecting some stickers for the company's most awaited planner promo. Most of us got disappointed with the total look of the new planner, but everyone's bitter pill turned into sweet pills after getting some talk at a tea house. We had so much fun conversing about stuff, add our gay friend who just made our day. It was already 5 in the afternoon when we got back in the office and everyone's preparing to go somewhere else in the south. It is raining outside and I was tempted to go home with my friend after some smart dialogue about our desired career in the future and about the reign of the late president Marcos in the Philippines.

The travel route I took tonight was the easiest - van from Morayta (in front of FEU) to Bocaue, Bulacan. I can be dropped at Petron Station in Marilao, but I decided to stop over at SM in Marilao. I went to the department store and checked some medical ointments for my pimple. I looked so ridiculous standing in front of some facial care boutique for like 15 to 20 minutes, checking every detail of the product - when it comes to skin care products I really read all the details especially the active ingredient of the product (as if I know how it functions) because I am afraid to use products that are new to me, because of the fear that it may just worsen my skin condition. I was able to find a perfect scrub for my face but I didn't bought any, even though It's tested to be mild and even I have the resources to buy the set. I feared. I feared because I haven't check The Face Shop yet, where all the products have organic components which will not greatly harm my skin. Because I haven't checked Mercury Drug yet, maybe they have a better dermatologist made ointments for pimples. Because I haven't visited Watsons yet, I heard there are good skin care products offered in this all-in-one shop.

But what if I gave this product a chance? What if it cured my skin problem? What if? What if? What if what? What if I did not procrastinated when I was there? What if I just bought the product so I can start healing my pimple?

Procrastination is the evil twin of our conscience, for we would often find ourselves fighting our spiritual self, our inner thoughts, contradicting the right action that should be done in the given situation to get the best result. It is always our choice to procrastinate or do the right thing, but we should always keep in mind that in procrastinating, we postpone the positive end result of doing the right thing or never let the good thing happen at all. But why do we procrastinate? In my case, I did not bought the products because first, I feared. Maybe it would just worsen the condition of my skin. And second, I thought that maybe hitting the mall on the other day would give me more product options than buying this product on my hand at the moment.

You might have experienced procrastinating, maybe once, one hundred times, one thousand times, or you may not have counted how many times you procrastinated since the time you started doing it. Aside from fear and laziness, here are the reasons why a person procrastinates:

3. Indecision - you balanced your decision making criteria and you end up not deciding.

4. Priority Confusion - there always come a time when we weigh each task in our to do list. Sometimes, we prioritize things according to the most desirable to our least liked task to accomplish, rather than weighing these task according to the deadline or what should be done first.

5. Lack of Energy - energy is one factor for procrastinating. Most of the time when we lack the energy to perform task, we tend to rest or sleep.

6. Early Morning Lag - or the scenario when we do not know what to do at the start of the day, so we end up finding ourselves sitting in one corner or sleeping the whole day like a bum.

7. Boredom - this is what we mostly feel when facing repetitive tasks.

8. Complicated Task Anxiety - the tasks that are assigned to us are just so complicated that we end up not doing the task. You break the biggest task into smaller once and start doing it.

9. Unproductive Circle of Friends - this is one factor that the youth should not take for granted because peer pressure is everywhere in our every-friends. If their circle are full of people who did not do anything good in their life but to have fun and get wasted all the time, they are definitely no good examples. Choose your friends.

Or maybe, people don't just appreciate the importance of finishing a task right away - that's why they procrastinate.

One action that I failed to do is to take risk. Being a risk taker (someone who do actions without knowing the outcome) is for me a necessary attitude of a person. Businessmen are mostly risk takers, especially those entrepreneurs who are just starting their business. If Jerry Baldwin, one of the original owners of Starbucks did not took risk in purchasing Peet's, a coffee shop that sells high quality coffee and high-tech equipments for brewing which is owned by Alfred Peet (who know works in Starbucks), Starbucks would not be known internationally, having more than 15,000 branches all over the world, or severe, Starbucks would not exist at all. If it weren't the aggressive attitude of Sam Walton in business, WalMart would not top the Forbes' 500 companies in the whole world for how many years. If the scientist or the normal people who played a big role in the development of human civilization did not took risk to invent and innovate things and improve the natural process of God given resources, we will surely be living in caves right now. If only I bought the product in the department store a while ago, who knows my pimple might be gone tomorrow. We should take risk. I should say, it's a requirement for each person to somehow, somewhere and sometime in their lives to take risk, wether or not they are sure of the end result of our action. But ofcourse, making a risk decision should be properly guided by purpose and reason. We do not risk everytime! There are just some instances that we should take risk to progress, to develop and feel the improvement in our system, in our work, in how we see and do things, or in our life.

Procrastination, is a poison to every successful attempt. Procrastination, as described by Napoleon Hill is the common enemy that everyone must conquer. We do not need light sabers or be in the boxing ring and beat Pacquiao inorder for us to beat this poison, this enemy. Procrastination is can be easily solved through our action. Once you beat procrastination, motivation becomes present because we now see and feel the importance and effect of finishing a task right away. Once we beat this evil twin of our conscience, we are still not safe for not being conquered by it again. We are human beings and we are easily tempted. But viewing the positive and right perspective, we are smart human beings that knows how to be productive and make right decisions for ourselves. Making it a habit to fight procrastination, will eventually kill this evil twin and we will become more motivated and productive than ever. We must remain vigilant in fighting this evil twin as we set our roads to our success.

RIGHT DECISION + INITIATIVE = ENDING PROCRASTINATION

RIGHT DECISION + INITIATIVE + MAKING GOOD RISK JUDGEMENT = SUCCESS

My ending conclusion, I will buy the facial wash tomorrow. It's my action, for me to see the results in my current skin problem. So how about you, what will happen to you tomorrow? Are you gonna be somewhere in the world, hoping to be productive or just wanna have fun with your friends? Who knows, maybe you'll end up creating a blog post, too.

If you would ask me if I became productive tonight, I would definitely say yes, it's in bold and italic. Because by this dilemma I am facing, I was able to create another post, which I am so proud to say that I was able to create a masterpiece tonight. I hope I was able to enlighten some of you, through my post, and help you get motivated to start things right, to the students, especially those who will start another semester this November 8, 2011. Always remember the equation I made above, hoping that it would set your focus and help bring you success in every way.

I remember the short tag line of one of the high-end sports company recognized internaitonally, "JUST DO IT." That's right. Just do what should be done and everything will come along your way.

ADE[LEGEND]

2011-11-01T13:02:00.000-07:00

IT HAS BEEN a while since I created a post about my favorite artist. Last year I blogged about Vienna Teng, a Taiwanese-American pianist, songwriter and singer. She was able to capture the interest of many, especially in the English countries and also in China for her enticing voice. Her albums peaked Amazon.com and was also featured in many talk shows like The Late Show with David Letterman.

We are in the musical revolution where Telephone paved way for paparazzi and the beautiful, dirty, rich lady who likes it rough while maintaining the poker face look [not mentioning that she is born that way] reached the fame and now she is on her edge of glory. And this boy who wants a lot for Christmas: mistletoe, the Christmas song, he heard that santa claus is coming to town, and wants to duet with Mariah Carey in all I want for Christmas is you and the thing that intrigues many fans and haters, the drummer boy. In this kind of music genres, it's very unusual for a blues/soul country music to enter the scene and capture almost the entire music market.

With Adele's voice, it can conquer everything.

ADELE, a young British singer born on May 5, 1988, who was known for singing "Rolling In The Deep", "Someone Like You" and "Rumor Has It" has captivated the people all over the world. She might not be known for her real name which is Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, but sure is she's known for her earthy, silken voice [as what Lorely Trinidad describe her voice in MONDAY Magazine] with the music inspiration of Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald and Roberta Flack. While many singers would have many back-up dancers and dance production, fireworks if there's any artist who did that already and a set of big stage with many spotlights in their concert, Adele would have with her on the stage only her musicians, her two loyal back-up singers and herself, sometimes just sitting at the center of the stage singing her life. The simple and adorable Adele with such a beautiful voice would make her audience wipe their tears off their eyes.

ADELE'S CAREER:

Her mother supported her inclination to music when she started singing at 4. It's funny that during special family occasions, she impersonates many artist like The Spice Girls and Destiny's Child. Her natural likeness in music led to her first penned album "Hometown Glory" and finally had formal music instruction at BRIT School in Croydon, a performing arts school which honed her talent in singing and playing instruments.

In May 2006, Adele graduated from Croydon and four months later published two songs at the online publications site PlatformsMagazine.Com. Months later, a friend posted a three song demo on MySpace from a mutual class project featuring Adele's vocals and it grabbed the attention of the music label XL Recordings. A phone call from XL Recordings led to a meeting, despite Adele's initial thoughts the call was not "real," as the only record company she was aware of at the time was Virgin Records. In 2007, a record deal followed and Adele's "Hometown Glory" was released. [www.brainz.org]

From then on, she released her 19 album and it topped the music chart in United Kingdom, and later on tied up with XL Recordings and Columbia Records which expanded her career in the United States, releasing her album 21 which brought her to many shows and opportunities in the US like The Ellen Degeneres Show, The Late Night Show with David Letterman and the Graham Norton Show. She is a two timer title holder in Grammy Awards, and was awarded in BRIT and other special awarding ceremonies, just proving that at a short span of time, she had a lot of achievements. She's doing a world tour and there were rumors that she'll be having her concert in the Philippines this December 5, 2011. But it was just a rumor.

Her 19 album, it was rated 68 out of 100 by www.metacritic.com, but BBC gave it a 5 star, quoting "Pitching up somewhere between blues, folk and jazz, she's included something for everyone without ever pandering to a particular trend. Her melodies exude warmth, her singing is occasionally stunning.." When Adele realized that her boyfriend cheated on her, she went to the bar where her boyfriend's at and punched him in the face. After that she was alone walking along a street and thought to herself what is it that she is chasing? "You're chasing an empty pavement." It's the story behind Chasing Pavement which is included in this album with its stunning music video. Her amazing rendition of the song Make You Feel My Love is really heartfelt. She offered this song as a tribute to Amy Winehouse in one of her concert in San Diego, [California]. The sad Hometown Glory and her second single Cold Shoulders completed the album of a young woman who is getting out of her teenage corner as she turns 19.

ADELE'S 21 is more on her bitterness and bitchy side for being cheated by her boyfriend. In her Rolling In The Deep, Adele sung it like a woman who experienced a lot of pain and loneliness that has finally seen a light to escape from this nightmare. According to Adele, she was able to hit high notes that she have never imagined that she can, out of maybe her anger, her madness towards her ex-boyfriend. The punky blues with some percussion accompaniment, in the catchy Rumor Has It, this is a song where she makes fun of her ex-boyfriend but contradicted by her song Someone Like You which showed who really Adele is when she's thinking of her past. But my most favorite song of Adele in this album is Don't You Remember. I really feel sad whenever I hear this music, aside from the fact that I can relate to her, I cannot imagine her pain. 21 set the record for any artist - it placed 2nd in the top selling list of www.amazon.com in 2011, and was featured in the Guiness Book of World Record for topping the music charts entirely in UK and US.

Her music videos are mostly live performances in her home, in Largo, in iTunes Festival or filmed during her live concerts. I sometimes cannot help myself but compare her with the late president Cory Aquino who, loves candid shots. Her Someone Like You (Live In her Home) video in YouTube has reached 72 million views, and the astonishing count of viewers of her Rolling In the Deep video that reached 287,339,270 and is still counting. [as of today, 4:04, May 5, 2012]

It is just astounding how Adele write and sing her songs, it's really coming from the heart. Her life experiences were written and expressed through songs that eventually made her ease the pain through the joy and warmth she feels whenever she sing these songs infront of large audience, craving for more. It just proved that songs written from the deepest bottom of one's heart will not just make money, but will capture many hearts as well. I remembered one of her conversation with her producers, the Executive producers told Adele to lose weight. But she replied: "I write music for ears, not eyes."

Simply Adele.

STARBUCKS PLANNER 2012

2011-10-28T01:55:00.000-07:00

This is my Starbucks Planner 2011 and its Metallic. I always put my random thoughts and how I feel on my planner. I also write on it my friend's party and birthdays, to-do list, my meeting schedules and sometimes I use it in taking down notes when I forget to bring bond papers with me during seminars and conferences that I attend to. When I get bored, I often browse my previous planner and check what I did on that date and try to relive it again. In short, I put the list of what's important to me and what will I do about it, and it helps bring back the old happy times.

2011 is about to end, and this signals Starbucks to release the new Starbucks Planner 2012! It was said to be released starting November 3, 2011. From the three (3) texture choices we have last 2011, Velvet, Metallic and Wood, with the theme of saving the environment, this year we can choose from 5 color variant designs: Poplar, Bamboo, Cherry, Spruce and Oak [from lightest to darkest respectively] which are 70% made of recycled papers. Like the usual process, you can grab a planner in three (3) ways:

1. 17 Stickers (Drink or treat your friends with 9 Christmas beverages and 8 Core beverages)

2. 23 Stickers (Drink or treat your friends with 23 core beverages, bottled drinks are not counted)

3. FREE STARBUCKS PLANNER (If you avail P5,000 worth Starbucks merchandise)

The Starbucks planner 2012 comes with a bookmark and planner bag unique for each planner style! It's a convenient thing that the company has provided a bag for the planner because there are people who are OC about their planner like me. I have to use my project in Science during my freshmen days, I call it Book Bag because it's main purpose is to replace the use of plastics in covering their books. It is made from flour cloth (katsa) which I soaked in dark coffee that's why it appear brownish in color and some piece of cloth I found at home. Tell me if you like it and I will make one for you. Ofcourse it comes with a price! You can feel secured with the new feature of this planner as it has a unique serial code for each for security purpose. I also heard that there are minimal changes on the layout of the pages. It has more pages for notes. More Note pages = more doodle fun or you can always neglect to bring bond papers during your seminars because you have a lot of free pages in your Starbucks planner! The new planner is SMALLER than the previous planner. In my raw measurement, it's only 7-8 inches in height and maybe 5-6 in width. Female consumers would love it because it's more handy.

What's good on buying these planners is that you get to donate P50 each planner to UNICEF in their project with Starbucks Philippines, SparkHope Community which supports and provide materials for early child development in the selected communities in the Philippines. Since 2004, Starbucks and UNICEF were able to gather P1.7 million. Make your drinking meaningful by helping others especially the bright morrows of our future, the youth! If you want to donate personally to UNICEF, you can inquire on Bayad Centers and iRemit Centers near you, or inquire at Globe Customer Care on how to donate using GCash.

Three reason why you should avail the new Starbucks Planner 2012?

1. It's USEFUL and PREPPY.

2. It's HANDY and

3. It COMES WITH A CAUSE - Saving the environment and the proceeds that will go to SparkHope Community on the development of the youth.

So get ready, get set and collect them all stickers! Good luck!

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UNPRODUCTIVITY TURNED PRODUCTIVE

2010-12-19T05:14:00.000-08:00

Last December 17, 2010 was the 400th annual Christmas celebration of UST, the UST Paskuhan. It was understood that there’s no class the following day, which is yesterday. I woke up at 8:00 am and prepared for school. There’s no classes today, but our professor asked us to attend our class to get instructions regarding our group Case Study. But yeah, I did not expect that she’ll be absent, maybe she watched the fireworks display before she went home. I heard it's already late when the firworks are being shown. My blockmate Ronn, the leader of the other group and I just ate our lunch and flew back home. I dropped by at National Bookstore at Victory Mall, Monumento and checked the business / financing books area. I found books that caught my attention and I listed them down, included it in my Christmas wish lists.

Think Like a Champion by Donald Trump is in my first list.

The Heart of a Leader by Ken Blanchard comes next to it.

Both books are written by Emily Post, Etiquette and The Etiquette Advantage in Business. This interests me a lot. It seems like it talks about the proper and right things to be considered for well grooming and actions applied for individuals and in the business world.

The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene really intrigues me a lot!

The Fourth Secret of the One Minute Manager is actually a series of books. I'd love to collect them all.

The AMA Handbook of Leadership and Growing Great Employees. I think these are essential in an organization or in a business. Leading and directing people and helping them to develop themselves into a competitive, compassionate and committed individuals. Not just in the work place, but as well as in everything they do. :)

Rich Brother, Rich Sister. Two different individuals who took different path: money, and spiritual happiness. I think this is an interesting book, relating and synthesizing success in spirituality and business. How to Sell Yourself by Arch Lustberg. This is a book which will really benefit me most importantly. I believe that success in business is not just how high your IQ or your knowledge in this field. But a man with combination of knowledge, Leadership and good communication will surely make a company stay in the market competition.

Building Social Business by Muhammad Yunus. I think all Muhammads are great. From him to Muhammad Ali. :)) 1000 CEOs is sure a good book. I wanna read true stories of inspiring successful CEOs of the modern generation and get tips from real experience based advise. :)

These books, I WANT. I'll make sure I'll be ablee to buy all these books before hey were all sold out in bookstores. I do not regret going to school even wala akong napala. It actually gave time for me to scan and check books that will help me in the future.

TERNO

2010-04-14T04:32:00.000-07:00

A week before school year start, my family used to go to the department store to buy things that we will be needing in our schooling. I remembered my black Fibrella umbrella, it was broken because of the typhoon Ondoy. We were walking against the strong current of water and the strong wind blew my umbrella from my hand. I cannot go back and get it because the level of the flood is rising and I have to secure myself because I have an open wound on my knees. So this year, I'll buy another umbrella and since I'm so excited to be a Thomasian, I'll really look for a puma print umbrella like this picture that I found in Hypebeast. (It looks like a tiger print)

BAPE (Bathing Ape) Umbrella

PERFECT TERNO

2010-04-11T07:54:00.000-07:00

I'm currently searching for bags that will fit my course and my collee uniform. I googled El Bosquejo Blog and there I found some links that transported me and discovered this perfect bag terno for my uniform. Salvatore Ferragamo is one of the high-end foreign brand so I bet this will cost me thousands of bucks. I think I can find a better alternative for this bag.

I'm looking for a Ray Ban Wayfarer shades, and I also found this LGR shades. It's cool, too.

PREPPY

2010-04-06T00:55:00.000-07:00

I like these collection from Fred Perry
Liberty, Blank Canvass 2010 Collection.
Very classy.

Barney's Coop

I like the long sleeves, the collar is short compared to the usual long sleeves. I don't know how do they call this cut but I prefer to name it as the Earring Hole Cut. I have one polo shirt with this kind of collar, bought it from Mint. I guess what makes this long sleeves preppy is the simple design of the pattern itself. It's an S for me.

and ofcourse, FAB designs from 5TH AVENUE.

I'm not really familiar with these brands, but one thing's I'm sure : they all surpass my ideal statement when it comes to clothing. I'd really work hard for these. Maybe that time the trend is different with touch of a bit futuristic and liberated looks, but simplicity would not be out of style. Thanks Hypebeast for sharing these pictures.

theGUAM

From Princess to SEXYness

2009-06-05T21:59:00.000-07:00

Who wouldn't know the younger sister of Vina Morales? Yes. It's Shaina Magdayao. a Filipina actor which was a product of Spanish mother and Cebuano father. She started in the showbusiness when she was ten in the drama series Lyra and later on discovered and became a family of ABS-CBN and Star Magic.

We can see her everywhere for being one of the peg models of Bench, Human and Kashieca. Now she turned 18 last November 6, from the pa-tweetum image, she now expresses and show her sexiness. She's the sexy covergirl of Maxim Magazine in May Issue this year.

Shaina's latest ramp activity was last week during the Philippine Fashion Week, modeling Bench, Kashieca and Human, Philippines.

I heard from my friends she shared some of her personal stuffs and what she do with her money in the said magazine. I'm going to the mall later to grab a copy of it. It's not late pa naman to buy anyway. SHE's EFFIN SIZZLING SEXY!

I Can't Believe It.

2009-05-23T07:11:00.000-07:00

(This post should have been published last May 25. I don't know what happened and it was not published.)

This season's American Idol is so boring and it sucks! Without a Danny Gokey competing for the finals is like a meal being prepared without love. THE VOTERS MUST BE CRAZY!

Adam Lambert. Definitely, you will first notice that he looks good with his spiky emo hairstyle. I listened to his songs now and then, but I can't make myself love the way he sing and his style. It look's like he's a fan of the 80's to 90's rockstars. Though he has a great soprano voice, it's still not good for me. He must give credit to his self because he's handsome and I think that made him climb to the grand finals. GOSSIP : I heard from my friend who's an avid fan of the show that he admits he has a boyfriend and he's in HIS facebook.

Kris Allen, never mind. He's good tho, but he still can't beat Gokey's skills.

GO! GO! GOKEY!

He sings great. I really love it how he sings his songs with sincerity and make me fall inlove with the song again and again each time I hear his music. With his husky voice, he proved that it's not a limit to him, but it can be used as a style when you worked out well with it. He's such an idol for me, an icon, and an ispiration. Tho he's on the line of being a star now, he's been fooled and bullied in the internet. These pictures are used to make joke on him. I don't know what would he say when he saw these pics. These are some:

But whatever people do to fool him up, he's still an idol to many and indeed, an American Idol.

Luxury

2009-05-23T02:58:00.000-07:00

(On Top) The iPod Touch (Down) iPod Video

I'm really not into iPods since I had my Motorola v3x years ago. It's like my iPod, I can always listen to my songs I just need to plug in the earphones and I'm already satisfied. I can also watch my favorite porn clips on it. I'm already okay with it. (Grin) But now, I starting to long for this cool and wicked gadget. Not because having this iPod will make me cool and "In" to the trend, but it's my answer to overcome stress. My N3110 Classic got wet and until now I'm depending on my dad to have it fixed. I'm using my Dad's spare phone, Motorola v3i and hell, it's not built in with memory card. This phone should get a life!

I went to this shop at SM North last February with my family. My dad's checking out a phone with AM station because he needs it. He's getting old already and I think it's really a necessity when you're on the 'aging' stage. Just Kidding. So this phone caught my attention for it's wicked sliding design. It really amazed me and I liked it already from the moment I saw it. When you slide it to upward direction, you will see the keypad. And when you slide it downward, the phone's speaker will show up. This is cool! Because I used to flip my Motorola V3x (the screen facing the surface) whenever I'm going to play my musics without earphone because the speaker is at the back. With this phone, definitely I don't have to sacrifice the surface of my phone from scratches just to listen to my musics well.

I'm having a hard time hiding my personal files from my family. I'm tired of hiding and unhiding my files everytime I'm done viewing them. I think I need to have a break from a multi-user personal computer. I need to have myself a new MacNotebook Pro 17''. This will really fit me because I stay online for like 5-6 hours per use with 5 years lifespan of the battery. This MacNotebook has a battery that last for 8 hours, 3 times longer compared to other branded notebooks. Add it's fashionable sharp, thin design and good sounds and graphic display. Dang. I won't need to fight again with my brother when it's already his turn.

The world now have seriously advanced to something that the people in the early times couldn't imagine that these great technologies is possible. But these technologies are way too expensive for a student without job like me. Could someone just give one of these to me? Forever you will be kept in my heart. n_n

WHOA!

2009-05-14T03:33:00.000-07:00

Wow. I just can't believe I'm getting the interest to blog again for like zillion years already. Well.

You Can with Archuleta

2009-05-14T03:25:00.000-07:00

Since the American Idol season 7 has started, I never liked how he perform. I was telling my friends that he's voice is so elementary and the other aspirants are better than him. My classmates used to sing his contest piece like Imagine, Stand By Me and Heaven. Whenever they do that, I really walk out the classroom because for me, David Cook's the best.

But my perception changed until he came here today in the Philippines (May 14, 2009) to take a visit and have a concert at the Mall Of Asia. Archuleta was a guest at SIS, a noon time show at GMA7 and he was interviewed about his life before and after the contest even Cook won, his experiences and about his music. Some of his songs were sang by the GMA7 singers like Kyla, the La Divas and 2 of the Popstar Kids and he was so amazed with our local singer's performance. He was saying that he feels odd, why is he sitting there while Kyla and the rest performs better than him. He's so humble and jolly. He's childish and spontaneous. I noticed that I never saw him make face. He's always smiling that I think makes him charming, that all his fans were so happy to see him and liked him so much. Even during the contest, he's always smiling even after the announcement of the new American Idol of Season 7. Natuwa lang ako. From there, I started to like him. Actually I'm listening to the songs of his 1st album with "Crush" as his album cover.

I'm afraid I cannot watch Cook's guesting tomorrow because I need to go out of town for something. :( I have no choicebut to search youtube what happened to Cook that day. :( Just comment me if you like to have a copy of his songs I'll make it available for download.

Sweetness

2009-05-14T02:34:00.000-07:00

It's no problem boss! It's only a hamster.
Got no allergies from him boss!

For CLARITY

2009-05-14T02:31:00.001-07:00

The number of homosexual people rises it’s number in the world. Due to the continuous change of trend and all, people tend to be affected and change their lifestyle, too. Indeed, the only permanent thing in this world is change.

Homosexual people are the gay, bisexual, lesbian, transgendered, name the people that has interest and do attract with the same sex. The definition of gay is a male individual who is being attracted permanently with men. And Lesbian are women that falls inlove with women. Transgendered are people who have undergone operations to change their sexual organs. (Take note : Men who changed their sexual organs does not have the capacity to bear a child. Number 1, because they do not have the female egg cell which only real women has it.) And the Bisexual people, which I personally define as someone who cross between the river. Actually, bisexuality intrigues me a lot that’s why I made this account to give a clear definition of a bisexual.

Who is Bisexual?

As you can see, there is no simple explanation of bisexuality because bisexual people are a very diverse group. Being bisexual has many different behavior. J. R. Little identifies 13 types of bisexuality behaviors, as defines by sexual desires and experiences, which are:

1. Alternating Bisexual

May have a relationship with man, and then after that relationship ends, may choose a female partner for a subsequent relationship, and many go back to a male partner next.

2. Circumstantial Bisexual

Primarily heterosexual, but will choose same sex partners only in situations where they have no access to other sex partners, such as where in jail, in military, or in gender segregated school. So that means what is actually on your mind really happens. (Oh fcuk. What about my ninong! n_n)

3. Concurrent Relationship Bisexual

Have primary relationship with one gender only but have other casual or secondary relationship of people with another gender at the same time.

4. Conditional Bisexual

Either straight or gay/lesbian, but will switch to a relationship with another gender for financial or career gain or for a specific purpose, such as young straight males who become gay prostitutes or lesbians who get married in order to gain acceptance from a family members or to have a child.

5. Emotional Bisexual

Have intimate relationship with men and women, but only have sexual relationship with one gender.

6. Integrated Bisexual

Have more than one primary relationship at the same time, one with a man and one with a woman.

7. Exploratory Bisexual

Either G/L or straight, but have sex with another gender just to satisfy curiosity or “see what it’s like”.

8. Hedonistic Bisexual

Primarily heterosexual but will sometimes have sex with another gender primarily for fun or purely sex satisfaction.

9. Recreational Bisexual

Primarily heterosexual but engages in gay or lesbian sex only when under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.

10. Isolated Bisexual

100% straight, gay or lesbian now but has had one or more sexual experience with another gender in the past.

11. Latent Bisexual

Completely straight or gay/lesbian in behavior but have strong desire for sex with another gender, but never had acted on it.

12. Motivational Bisexual

Straight women have sex with other women just because a male partner insists on it to titillate him. Dang.

13. Transitional Bisexual

Temporarily identify as bisexual whyile in the process of moving from being straight to gay or lesbian or going from being gay or lesbian to being heterosexual.

Many of these people doesn’t call themselves as bisexuals. But the fact that they are attracted with both men and women, they are in fact bisexuals, not gay. Being gay is different from bisexuals. Bisexual men are discreet, and when not, they do not act like what gay people do. Bisexual people I think are just enjoying life. They wanted to interact on both sides for happiness, acceptance and pleasure.

(Got the information from the net.)

Sweetness

2009-05-14T02:27:00.000-07:00

How about a nice cup of tea with my
peeking relatives behind me?

Today's Thought

2009-05-14T02:22:00.000-07:00

"Why is it that as a culture, we are comfortable with seeing two men holding guns, than holding hands?” -Ernest Gaines

Up Dharma Down goes Bi

2009-04-30T18:39:00.000-07:00

BiPolar is the cover of their sophomore album which contains 14 tracks and I believe it was released under another independent label.

Armi Millare as the band's vocalist and keyboard, Carlos Tanada is the guitarist, Paul Yap, the bassist and Ean Mayor is the drummer.

The Up Dharma Down was able to again please their fans with their another soul talking, noteworthy album BiPolar that covers 3 vernacular songs, "Taya", "Sana" and "Silid" which were really breathtaking, as well as 7 English songs and 4 Instrumentals. The PEP team said that the location where they launched this album was too small for the excited fans to see their favorite band play and have the limited signatured BiPolar album on their hands.

Short changes:
I wont be uploading the 14 tracks of this album in any upload site. I just realized, what we, Fans do to our favorite band is to give business to them. So hurry and grab one copy of this album in stores now! :)

Magic SARAP!

2009-04-22T19:40:00.000-07:00

This year's Summer Season is really different from the other summer season we had here in the Philippines. Rains all over the metro and the provinces ruins the vacation of people this season. Instead of eating Halo-halo this unwanted time, I personally recommend making Arroz Caldo in just 4 easy steps! Yes, it's really easy, even first timers like me can do it. This is my first time to cook REAL food! (because I used to cook only hotdogs and bacons when I don't like our viand).

Here's how.

Ingredients

Onion, sliced
Garlic, minced
Ginger, sliced
Chicken (6-8 pieces)
Malagkit Rice
Plain Rice
Onion Leaves
Saffron
Fish Sauce
Onion Leaves

Procedure:

1.In a preheated cooking pot with oil (you can use vegetable oil), saute the sliced ginger (about 2 tablespoons), minced garlic (about 5-7 pieces) and onion. Add 1 Maggie chicken cube.

2. Add the chicken parts. Cook until lightly browned.

3. Pour in 3 to 4 cups of water into the pot.
4. Add 1/2 cup of Malagkit rice and 1/2 cup of plain rice into the pot. Mix well. Simmer until rice is cooked. Be sure y7our Arroz Caldo is still pourable. Season with Fish Sauce (Patis) and ground black pepper. Add water if the mixture becomes thick.

Serve with fried garlic chips, chopped spring onion and patis-calamansi sauce. Add there tokwa for a healthy well proteined-Arroz Caldo. :) I hope I helped even a bit.

PLONING : Out in Oscars

2009-01-17T08:01:00.000-08:00

The year of the Ox welcomed with closed doors the Philippine indie film movie Ploning, the official entry of the country in this year's Oscars Best Foreign Movie, after not being chosen to be one of the 9 foreign movies, to win the title. According to the news which has spread like a virus, Ploning was not included in the most favorite films in this year's Oscars.

That is definitely a sad new for everyone especially to those people behind this film. We've seen Judy Ann Santos with his boyfriend Ryan Agoncillo doing together a lot of campaign for her best film. She even went to GMA7 to promote her film and produced a book based on the film Ploning which is now i think in stores nationwide. Many people gave their supports morally and financially to Judy Ann for the film.

I made a review of this film for our Filipino subject and I really hated the result. I don't give a damn to them.

The 65 board of jurors of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science have voted and here are the top 9 foreign films for Oscar's Best Foreign Film 2009 :

3 Monkeys (Turkey) - Directed by Nuri Bilge

Everlasting Moments (Sweden) - Directed by Jan Troell

Waltz With Bashir (Israel) - Directed by Uli Edel

The Class (France) - Directed by Laurent Cantet

Tear This Heart Out (Mexico) - Directed by Roberto Sneider

Revanche (Austria) - Directed by Gotz Spiellman

The Necessities Of Life (Canada) - Directed by Benoit Pilon

Departures (Japan) - Directed by Yojiro Takita

The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany) - Directed by Ari Folman

I hope there would be a dvd release of these films so I can watch them. Or I must say, I prefer watching it in wide screen with appreciative friends.

Phase&Serenity
theGUAM

Men's Bag

2009-01-14T02:23:00.000-08:00

You must not be surprised. Trends do change. If in the past years, skinny jeans were worn by women, they also now look good with men. The designers of these creations thought of something new. Something different that they made shoulder bags for men. I bought one shoulder bag from Refill and hell, when I saw it, I just can't help but to buy it. :) From that on, I look forward to shoulder bags though I still like backpacks. :)

From simple leather designs to checkered

And the elegant black and white terno bag. (right)

The shiny silver leather bag (right) is one of my favorites. With it's big size, It can accommodate all my necessities when going to a volleyball play.

Look great with these bags. Yes. Shoulder Bags for men.
Phase&Serenity
theGUAM

What's Poppin'?

2009-01-13T04:57:00.000-08:00

As we all know everyone hopes for a change in their life. A change in their bad habits, a change in their love life and career and everything because it's really change that's constant. Tip of advice from me: Now why don't you take a glimpse at the new shoe trends for men this 2009? Somehow you'll be replenished and relieved about worrying for a change. You'll just be bothered where to buy these great products!

I've seen these in my mail and followed the link after it. These great designer's leather shoes made me have a second thought on buying myself a brand new phone over one of these great pair of shoes (or maybe someone will be so kind to give me *grin*).

The stiletto-type are still in line this year. I don't know what do you call these mix-match leather shoes. They all come from colors black, to white, and blue. You demand for color brown, then they'll give you neon orange. Stop wearing those hard Havaianas. Try these simple strap like flip-flops that' would suit your neck and tie attire. (I think I've seen a flip-flops like that. Locally made, Beachwalk. Ohaa!) All I know was they are all great! I'm really looooking forward to own one of these.

Great designs, I hope they have less prices!

Phase&Serenity
theGUAM

Not A Serious Essay Though.

2009-01-10T23:49:00.000-08:00

Another leaf fell from our fig. Another fight to win. Another year to take on.

This year's new year is very sad. It rained here in my hometown. Even during Christmas where you usually see people outside their houses partying, doing the videoke thing, singing their lungs out. Sharing their foods on their plate with their family friends merrily. But now, You could see all of their tribes inside their houses and garage (if they have). Colorful umbrellas ruled the night.

That went until the new year's eve. In Makati Area it did not rain that much, that's why GMA7 and ABS-CBN continued their new year count down celebration in different places. When I woke up at 10:00 pm, I just watched Disney Channel's Mr. Bean Holiday. And when the clock finally lashed 12, my family were all outside, still, they were happy doing the fireworks especially my young cousins. Oh, not to mention that we're the oldest in my father's side. But I just stayed inside the house. Smoke free, healthy.

New Year Resolutions? I don't have any. I mean, I intentionally did not list my resolutions. I can't do them all anyway, and it will just be a pressure to me. But now, I'm currently listing my firsts! That's one reason why It's just now I have updated my blog. I've been busy and I thought you should know, too.

This new year's so harsh to me. I guess it's not really the year's fault. It's me who joined these many activities that keeps me stressed. I hated loving it. I'm a COCC Applicant and luckily baleful, I topped the election as the Class Marcher and It's really crushing me. I don't even memorized all these 11 Gos and other Desiderata thing. And what's so prodigious being a class marcher is when they are being punished, the officers double the punishment to me. "Oh no, does that mean when they are doing 100 pushups, you'll do twice?" Exactly. Amazing, isn't it?

Good thing I'm still inspired this year. Coz' tomorrow, I'll be able to get my Starbucks Planner 2009 from Luisa! n_n Voila! I selected the black one 'coz it 's my trend. I can't wait for tomorrow to come. But now, I'll be off and attend later 5:30's induction of officers as the External Vice President of our Youth Org at St. Michael Parish Church. I don't think I'll be able to take pictures later. I'll try.

Phase&Serenity
theGUAM

My Icons

2009-01-03T05:57:00.000-08:00

Here are 3 of the celebrities I look up to.
Alvin Alfonso Jon Avila Tim Yap

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Alvin Alfonso

He is a Filipino model with the height of 188cm and weighed 70kg. He models for Bench Philippines, he is also seen with Colgate, Lewis and Pearl, and the local telephone company PLDT DSL commercial where he is seen to be the hero with electric powers, inviting you enthusiastically to apply for the DSL promo, and Piknik. He did not really surprised me for being one of the most sought-after commercial models before. And until now, he may be seen in countless magazine and print ads. It's his body that I worship for. I really wish to have a body like that and I'm currently working on with it, gradually. n_n I'm eating a lot now. He's been an icon for me for a long time. I remembered, a close friend even made a collage of me and my Idol. This picture was last 2007 pa I think. NAKAKAHIYA. :D

ANYWAY.

Jon Avila
This Filipino-British model has won the title of the Century Tuna Superbod 2006 and later on became an endorser of the International clothing brand, Bench Philippines. His breakthrough to showbiz is via the Filipino adopted reality show Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Edition and later on, he became the lead actor in ABS-CBN's afternoon show Komiks as Kapitan Boom. He ranks no. 7 in the poll RP's Most Sexiest Men 2008.

His tantalizing eyes and his height is his best asset for me.

Tim Yap

He lives an extraordinary lifestyle as an actor-host-endorser-model-entrepreneur-editor-writer and eventologists. The people wouldn't call him eventologist if he's good for nothing. He is known to be the king of social scene and loves to dress up. He is a proud co-owner of the intrigue prone bar Embassy where celebrities hang out to and where they most likely get into trouble. And obviously, he is a fashion starter for men. I love how he come up and wear these trendy and cool clothes from his closet.

HE became an inspiration to me to take up Marketing in college. I wanna be like him, who's aspirations are high and very popular. My friends are always telling me that in someway, I get to be like him, because I'm quite unique with clothing style and the looks. In the morning when I wake up I look like him because of my chinese like eyes from bed. n_n

TRIVIA:
Did you know that he was really poor when he was young and grew up in Divisoria? And now, look at him, one of the high socialite people that were well respected and known for their great determination, great lifestyle and great riches.

My Icons.