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KJ

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

I did not attend our teambuilding. It’s supposed to be today. Finally, some time by myself. My Team Leader was making me feel guilty about not going because there’s only one confirmed person in our team going, but I can’t. I mean I was among the people who made it pretty clear, right from the onset, that I was not going. So dapat yung mga tao na nag-back out ang dapat ma-guilty.

Besides, masyado na akong matanda para maging biktima ng peer pressure.

I also bought two books. One is A Scanner Darkly, written by Philip K. Dick. I have not read a book of his and maybe it’s time. (more…)

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Maid of Dis-honor

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

There I was, minding my own business, when my sister watched Made of Honor starring the oooh-so-charming Patrick Dempsey from Grey’s Anatomy(crappy TV series, if I might add).1

I am sorry for all you lovestruck people but it was a scary, spiteful movie.

For a country which prided itself with racial diversity, the American movie poked fun at Scotland’s rich culture, from kilts, to bands and bagpipes which they found irritating. With the expertise of Hollywood’s subtle touch for political correctness, it was crafted to not appear so. Or they think.

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  1. people are having sex there, left and right, in closets and other tackier places reminiscent of Penthouse Letters, only it is tasteful because they made it so [↩]

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Movie tripping

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

After uploading reCAPCHA, I thought I would no longer be seeing spam, but they are a persistent lot.

I have been pushing thoughts out of my head. Been at home for the past two days, maybe to relax, but the irritation of the hot weather is getting to me. I want to watch more movies.

I decided to watch a couple of DVDs at home. I found a DVD of Postgrad starring Alexis Bledel. I liked her when she was at Gilmore Girls, that chick TV show, understand that I had no social life some time in my youth (and it was a freaking good TV series). Much to my disappointment, the movie was awful.

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Ded na Lolo

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

A good movie does not need to have uber complex relations to be melodramatic, nor does it need have super complicated and unusual situations. I saw the movie Ded na si Lolo , and I think it is one of the best Filipino movies I have seen recently. The movie was cast with great actors (maybe except Rainier), we have Gina Alajar, Dick Israel, Elizabeth Oropesa, Roderick Paulate and Manilyn Reynes among others. The movie was directed by Soxie Topacio.

It is nice to see an indie movie that is not gay-themed.

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Snuff among other things

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

I am starting this post at 4:39 a.m., listening to Ours (my current favorite band for quite some time now). I am beginning to have sleeping problems again.

I hate going to work. My shift now starts at 9 a.m., parang normal na tao. I hate waking  early when I am able to sleep. I hate the traffic.

So here I am. I tried to catch on my reading. And so many of the books I have, I still haven’t finished.

Last weekend, I saw Fight Club again. I don’t recall liking it that much when I first saw it (but I did like it). I guess I liked it more because I understood how it is like to be going to work and being there half conscious like a zombie. I am really having problems looking for the book.

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Sleeping, the Watchmen and Facebook

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

I wish I could go on living without sleep. There’s so many things I wish I could do  but time deprives me of that. I like sleeping, it makes me escape reality but I wish I had more time to do stuff. I want to write, read, draw, listen to music, create a website and watch television and movies.

But that can’t happen now… sadly.

I told this to Meow and she told me I shouldn’t, I might end up like one of  the Murakami characters from his short story Sleep (the only story in the book I lent her that she almost liked). I told her that, at least, I’d have beautiful skin despite the emotional withdrawal.

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Stardust: Book vs. Movie

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

I was about to make a post about the desktop on the computer I use but I am delaying that for my next post. Please understand, I have been anticipating Stardust the movie way before many people heard of it, I was waiting for that even before pre-production, it’s the geek in me (who seems to be getting lost recently). This is the reason why I was late at work yesterday. I hate it that it was shown way later than when it was released in the US (regardless of Robert DeNiro).

If you intend to watch the movie. Stop reading right now coz I might spoil some really interesting parts here. One thing a person who has read the book (I own two, including the illustrated volume) are the amount of changes done in the movie. A friend told me in advance how it ended in the movie and was turned off, the book had a different ending which I immensely loved.But I love Michelle Pfeiffer (she looks really hot for someone her age, really HOT), so I still watched the movie. But let us understand that it is really tough to make the book shorter.

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jeeper recommends

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

I am not in the mood to write anything today. I was planning to write something about the human spirit but I got too lazy and my mind is in too much disarray right now.

So, I will be recommending stuff that I really like. Little thinking required in writing the post.

Books

  • Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. One of the best Murakami books I have read and all Murakami books I have read, I really like. This is something I’d recommend if you’re not into the whole whiny feel (that I happen to like a lot, thank you) that is well-known in his books. Part-fantasy and part-postmodern (I am not really sure if the world scifi applies to this really cool book), it made me almost cry. The last part was breath-taking. I have no words to describe how cool it is. Go ahead, read it, relish it and spread his awesomeness. If you hate the book, you are stupid and you don’t have taste.
  • The Sandman Vol. 2 The Doll’s House. It is the first from the volumes I have read and while browsing through a forum it said to be one of the best. And with little knowledge of the whole story arc at that time, I was immediately hooked. Some people don’t like the illustrations but I really did, it grows in you. It is the book that Gaiman says he has found his voice. It makes reference the bzou (if you are familiar with my online activity, you’ll get it). There’s a convention for serial killer and so much more. There are character’s here that you won’t easily forget.Costs around Php 900.00 though.

Anime

  • Death Note. It’s good just plain good. The story was excellent and the animation was exceptional. The antihero (named Light) is immediately likable but I started to despise him when he started going megalomaniac, then like him again during the middle part, then loathed him again after he killed his arch nemesis. Basta ang galing! If you like the same characters that I do in fiction you are gonna go crazy over L (it doesn’t stand for Light) . His early departure made me want to cry.
  • Basilisk. A story of 2 rival Ninja Clans. Two fall in love. It’s like Romeo and Juliet gone violent. A lot of killing that I really like, the action sequences were breathtaking. Episode 1 pa lang panalo na! And it does make a good observation about hate, prejudice and other aspects of being human. Did I mention? There was a lot of violence.

Movies

  • Gattaca. I don’t know why I have just seen this only recently, may have missed it for reasons I don’t know. It’s just how I like my futuristic movies to be like. Sends an interesting message about on how our reliability on science let’s us overlook other stuff. It’s really nice. Not that I am anti-science, sometimes there are things like faith. Not that I now believe in you know what, I don’t think the movie also sends that message. It’s inspiring. Really.

Internet

  • esnips. It’s a great means to do some file-sharing. E-books, pictures, music, etc. But you can make public or private.
  • Utrackmovies. I have my librarything for my books and I have Utrack for my movies. I still haven’t finished updating my collection but you can visit it, click here and enter jeeper for password. By the way, my movies wouldn’t really be considered inside some of the categories it’s in kasi nga marami sa kanila nabili ko lang sa mga gilid-gilid ng St. Francis Square. Dapat natin bawasan ang pagbili ng pirated DVDs. Hehehe.

Music

I don’t listen much to modern music these days. I am listening to a lot of old songs right now, Stone Temple Pilot and The Carpenters. I am really amused by Karen Carpenter’s voice. Let me listen right now. Man! I can’t get over listening to Superstar.

PS

I am still working on my new domain, there were some problems with the SSL of my registrar. They said they’ll manually make some changes on it. So, yeah. I am still waiting for their email. I should have sent them a word earlier. And I was thinking,I may have done something stupid.

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