Star Cinema Failed for the First Time
Henry and I have been expecting any of our two most anticipated movies in theaters, Hellboy and Death Race. But so much to our disappointments, none was out yet last Friday. So out of no choice, we went for Star Cinema’s For The First Time (believe me that was the last movie on our minds!) instead.
I admire KC so much for she’s undoubtedly smart and talented which I do believe has always been where she’s getting her popularity from apart from being the daughter of the hottest loveteam sensation in the local movie industry sometime in 80’s. And, just like the last few Star Cinema flicks, I didn’t expect the movie’s plot to be something new. But I expected it to be a little above average since it is, for the first time, starred by two of the best and good-looking talents in Philippine showbiz, KC Conception and Richard Gutierrez. But to my dismay, the movie was a total breakdown. Anabelle Rama can kill me now but it’s not gonna make me say less that this movie is a FAILURE. And the scripwriter can kill himself for shame.
Okay, I don’t wanna be too hard on the movie nor on Star Cinema. We’ve watched some movies from Star Cinema and we didn’t have anything against them except for the fact that they’re all a bunch of cheesiness. That is forgivable anyway. This movie somehow started off fine with its romantc comedy lines and, well, thanks for Candy Pangilinan and her other half on the movie for saving our day. I’ll start off my dislikes in the movie with the chemistry between KC and Richard by the way. Whoever says they got it in this movie can be a pretty good lawyer. Why did they even thought about making this movie? Oh I get it. It has a lot to do with KC and Richard’s much talked about real score in real life and not forgetting Richard’s mom swooning over KC more than he does. But, the hell, who cares? If they will just admit it, they wish they never have thought about this movie. I guess it’s the turn of the movie from a rom-com mode to a goodness gracious melodrama that made it a, sad to say, laughing stock (at least to those who have a good taste). You can say Seth (Richard) has said all juicy lines there is to win Pia (KC) over which I thought have been dead a very long time ago. In fairness to Richard, he did pretty well in most of his movies with Angel Locsin and some other chicks which is the reason why I’m not getting it that he failed this time. And to KC, for the love of god don’t let her weep next time! Well, she’s better off on stage plays and non-drama genres.
Overall, I’ll rate this movie 4.8 out of 10. That’s the highest I can give. And oops, everything I said on my review here were all just honest opinions. Everyone’s entitled to his or her own I guess.(^_^)
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Made of Honour
Columbia Pictures’ Made of Honour is yet another film that I knew would never make it out of any anti-chick flick’s bloody criticisms. I couldn’t have forgiven the plot’s ordinariness and unoriginality if it’s not for Patrick Dempsey’s swoon-over materiality (because that one is no ordinary ^_^). Well, in my honest opinion, the movie is not really something that completely makes no sense, rather it could leave a mark in chick flick history for its first ever idea of a guy “maid” of honour. I guess that’s what brought diversity on it. The rest however is, as usual, monochromatic.
Tom (Patrick Dempsey) and Hannah (Michelle Monaghan) are two people who don’t seem to have anything in common except that they are each other’s bestfriend for 10 years. Tom is a wealthy womanizer who lives by the rules that keeps him untied to any woman he sleeps with while Hannah is always a woman who believes in true love and a lasting relationship. While Hannah is away to Scotland on a job assignment, Tom felt something’s missing in his life. Just when he realized he is done with the sleeping around and made himself ready to tell Hannah how he feels about their relationship, she came home to surprise him that she’s getting married in two weeks. What’s worse is her appointing him to be her Maid of Honour. Not wanting to disappoint his best friend, Tom not only finds himself subjected to an emotional torment of watching the woman he loves marry another guy but also in a whole stupid idea of being a Maid of Honor where he is always mistaken as gay.
The common idea that the movie stresses is that old “overlooking of love when it’s right in front of you”. I’m not a hopeless romantic and don’t even believe that such ideals in love exists in reality but I don’t find it sickening though watching same old storylines especially when it’s on a guy’s perspective. Somehow it amuses me when I see it’s the guy that is after the love of a girl because it is usually the other way around. It’s a 7-out-of-10 for me.:)
CSS Hack for IE(7)
CSS has always been a hell of a big deal to me (I guess every user’s) for it’s long-been-known cross browser incompatibility tendency. I can still remember how I have to be as patient as I could to keep up on the first few months of disalienating myself to it. Because of my need to design freely without compromising any of Firefox and IE (as these 2 browsers are the ones with a higher percentages of users), I always had to search the web for easiest (or at least one that wouldn’t take up too much time to do) ways on how to eradicate design flaws. I don’t really have that much problem with Firefox though–I guess it’s the most tolerant browser ever. Internet Explorer is quite a dud when it comes to CSS.
Part of what I learned was this simple CSS hack for IE (particularly IE6) which eliminates differences with Firefox. It’s the “* html” thing which really works so far fine for me. I use it in positioning div’s as sometimes what appears on Firefox doesn’t appear similar to IE. For example, if you have this CSS code for a certain div,
#header{
width:739px;
height:220px;
position:relative;
top:5px;
margin:0 auto;
}
the 5px top position may not be enough or too much on IE as to how it is on Firefox. So I always use similar to the following code to save my design,
* html #header{
top:8px;
}
I always knew this hack would sooner or later have changes and it turned out right when I started using IE7. I was back again on a great deal with IE’s CSS glitch in version 7. But fortunately didn’t took me too long to find the new hack. I found out it is now “* + html”.
* + html #header{
top:8px;
}
That is the equivalent code for IE7 of the above code (which is for IE6). There are instances though to which this hack (or any CSS hack at all) is not that necessary like those designs that don’t need tight-knit positioning of elements. But for some instances, including having a knit-picky boss, I bet it is that much.;)
Alive and Kicking
So you all (those who visited) know that this blog has been down for almost three days. Well I had a really hard time dealing with the problem. I was thinking my hosting service provider had suspended my account for reasons I was not aware of but have made a clash to their system. But I couldn’t think of something wrong I’ve done except that I’ve been receiving emails from them telling me I’m having “slow SQL query” and that it needs optimization. But I had no idea what they’re talking about. I’m just like any other trying to make the most out of their free service.
Since it was my first time to experience downtime that long, I thought the blog’s totally wrecked. So I decided not to waste more time and put up a new one instead. But then earlier this day while setting up the new blog, I found out my blog is back! Weee! Maybe I wasn’t that unlucky after all.;) Just so happy that my blog is still alive and kicking.:)
Racism In Their Own Race
So what’s up with that recent Olympic opening controversy? I mean that lip-syncing little kid who “sang” the Olympic Anthem at the opening ceremony. We’ve seen it. The opening was perfect. And the cute little girl in red dress singing the anthem had thousands of people at the stadium impressed by her amazing little voice. But then it turned out that the little girl was faking it out all the while. So, was it a big deal?
I think it just so happened that Lin Miaoke (left) was the one with the looks and the cunning smile and Yang Peiyi (right) was the one with the voice and nothing else and so officials of the ceremony had to come up with such a nice trick. And so for me it wasn’t that of a big deal at all (the lip-syncing I mean). Neither would it be a big deal if Yang Peiyi was the one out there on the stage. “The national interest requires that the girl should have good looks and a good grasp of the song and look good on screen…” Chen, the ceremony’s chief music director, said. Apparently, they thought Yang’s unfavorable look (probably because of her not-so nice-looking teeth, but she’s a kid for Christ’s sake) was a demerit to their image and doesn’t look like a true representation of China. Wasn’t that sort of racist? Racism in their own race that is. If I were to judge, Yang doesn’t look that much of different from any typical Chinese little girls. And I would even bet Lin had the audience because of how well she had thought to have sang and not how she looks on that stage.
And so just like how it should turn out to be, Lin made it to and enjoyed her fame. But she doesn’t have to get on your nerves like some antagonist on a drama series. Lin is 9 years old and didn’t really have an idea that she would be lip-syncing the anthem. All she knew was she would be singing it. Perhaps she didn’t realize her microphone (or whatever was it they used) was turned off while she was singing. LOL.
A Freakin’ Lunatic
Last night while I was editing my blog theme, there was a news on TV that really caught my attention. The news actually came out the other night and ABS-CBN brought it up again last night for update regarding the case. The news was about this guy, a lunatic who was probably high on something, who had mercilessly beaten a 3-year old kid to death. I mean literally! I have gotten over the news the other night but then last night I saw ABS-CBN’s illustration of what the guy have done to the poor kid and I was like “what the hell has gotten into this guy?!”. The illustration was he held the kid upside down and repeatedly slammed the kid’s head on the floor and didn’t stop ’til the kid’s dead. Geez! What kind of being could show such inhumane behavior? I would’ve considered his behavior if he wasn’t a human. And these kinds really make me disappointed. The kid’s relatives have already filed a case against the guy. But I was thinking even if he spends his whole damn life in jail, it won’t justify what he did. Somebody else must teach this guy a lesson so hard that he would regret he’s still alive.
I wouldn’t be overreacting like this if he had picked someone his own size to beat and not a 3-year old kid who was probably defenseless. Just felt for the kid that he missed his chance of a good life. I’m always against death sentence, but this time I’ll be willing to make an exception.
WordCamp Davao
Finally I’m registered for this event called WordCamp Philippines 2008 which will be held on September 4 here in Davao City. It’s not that I do have a huge thing about Wordpress but I do want to know more about the system that I don’t get to know as a general user. It’s a great, user-friendly Content Management System (which is mainly the reason why I’m using it right now) and I just don’t wanna miss an event that might not happen again in the future. That’s why I’m joining!:D
If you’re from Davao City, you can join too and it’s for FREE!
By the way, here’s the list of the Sponsors of this coming event:
- i.PH: the Domain for Individuals
- Free Online Flash Games
- Wazzup Manila Philippines
- Real Estate CRM
- Real Estate Website Designers
- Orange County Real Estate
- Auto Insurance Quotes
- Lane Systems Inc.
- RedMedia
- Orange County Business Lawyer
- Cebu Pacific Air
- Buddy Gancenia Reality TV
- SmartBro Wireless Broadband
- SPOT.ph
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For more information about the event, visit Mindanao Bloggers.
Why They Don’t Like Your Blog
Here I go again taking a week long before the next blog post. I’m not sure if it’s my being busy that I couldn’t post or it’s just my being lazy again. I hate to think it’s the latter.
Well, I just want to give you a little update about this blog. It is a month old and I would say I’m still up to making it belong to at least the middle-quality blogs that exist. That is to say, I’m trying more ways to increase my traffic and make people like what I’m writing. While I think it is a lot easier to achieve the former even in a short period of time, I’m gonna have to take the latter into a great deal of consideration. It is because traffic is not the primary thing you should be thankful for about your blog as there are lots of ways to fake it. It’s when people like what they found on your blog.
So, what are the tricks to a successful blog? You may be asking your self why these people do not like your blog. It’s pretty simple. It’s either your blog is not their cup of tea or your blog just makes their eyes hurt that they have to take it away as quick as they can. So asking my self that same question, I came upon this quick video tips from videojug.com that somehow answered it. And I’m sharing it with you. It simply helps you on how to make sure your blog is not a complete rubbish. I’m sure rubbish is the last thing you would want your blog to be if you want an audience. Enjoy the video!:)
Who’s Your Hottest Female Celebrity?
Or better yet, what does hot mean to you?? Do these words, smart, pretty (cute), sweet, and funny, mean hot?
Anyway, I’m not that much of a female celebrity fanatic. I guess it’s my being enthusiastic to movies that somehow made me appreciate some of them. So I got here a list of top 10 kick-ass female celebrities for me…so far.
10. Natalie Portman
She was the sweet Queen Amidala of The Star Wars films I’ve known since 1998. And I didn’t expect her to play such a role of a stripper in the 2004 movie Closer. But that was hot of her. She’s so amazingly beautiful that it didn’t even made her less attractive when she shaved her head bald for the movie Vendetta.
9. Jessica Alba
One of the most sought-after actresses in the world wide web, I’ve first known her as a kicking ass super-soldier brunette in a sci-fi TV series Dark Angel. She just look so good with that body and booty that if she ever was a “dark” angel, everyone would be her willing victim. And you missed that much not watching Fantastic 4 movies as she played the Invisible Woman, a woman who often found herself naked after being been invisible. That was fun.
8. Isla Fisher
The thing I have about Isla (pronounced eye-la) is that she’s unarguably CUTE (ah look at that photo). I love that innocent look of hers considering that my boyfriend is crazy about her as he loves to watch her movies. If you’re not a movie enthusiast, you probably won’t recognize her as she’s a new face in Hollywood hot scene. She just gained her popularity in 2006 when she starred in Wedding Daze with Jason Biggs where she played a confused woman who broke up with her fiance and moved in with another guy she only met for hours. Well, she may not be as innocent as she looks. Neither would you believe that she’s currently that Borat guy’s fiance. Uh-Oh.
7. Maggie Q
This babe is more than just a pretty face. She’s noticeably smart and of course she is that breaking-bones hot chick you should be thinking twice before messing with. Despite of her villainous roles in some of her movies, she’s just too hot to hate. I actually first saw her in Naked Weapon where she’s one of those girl assassins who got to their targets through seduction before killing them. Not gonna be your worst death if ever.;)
6. Brianna Evigan
Briana is also a new face. Though she’s said to be acting since 1996 (in the movie called House of the Damned, I’ve never really seen that one), she became known for her recent performance in the dance-themed movie Step Up 2: The Streets. If you happen to see her in that movie, you would agree with me that she’s got some some… Well, her hip look in that movie didn’t actually hide her being one of the hottest new chicks in the scene for me. It’s actually the way she shakes her booty. I just love it.
5. Eva Mendes
Eva Mendes has that extremely perfect physique that every woman (including me) would ever dream of having (sigh). She look so feminine with that lean body she had that made her consistent to be in all lists of top hottest women. Just her overall look could manipulate men. I first notice her as the hot undercover agent Monica Fuentes in 2 Fast 2 Furious. She also appeared in some comedy films like Hitch and Stuck On You. And well, who would forget her being the love interest of the superhero Ghost Rider.
4. Laura Ramsey
Okay she may not be as popular as Paris nor as talked about as Lindsay, not even as controversial as Britney, but believe me, she’s the type you can’t get enough of once you discover her hotness. This girl has appeared on movies like The Covenant, Venom, and She’s The Man. Though she doesn’t have her own highly-profiled movies, she had worked with other popular celebrities in Hollywood town. She starred in She’s the Man where she played a hottie who’s Amanda Bynes’ love rival. And if you watched her recent movie The Ruins, you’ve probably seen her in birthday suit. Now that’s hot. I also love that pretty huge cross tattoo on her back.
3. Amanda Bynes
…And this is where funny means hot. I never know such a young comedy actress like Amanda who despite of her dorky dork movie roles still managed to look sexy. Well maybe that is because she has that inborn comedic skills that she doesn’t need a lot of effort to perform a funny role. This girl really got me cracking up with her movie She’s The Man where she played a girl who wanted so bad to play soccer that he had to disguise herself as a boy. That movie was real fun. And I’ve read reviews that she actually looked like Zach Efron as a boy. Oh well, Amanda is the man!
2. Angelina Jolie
Do I need explaining? She is everyone’s type. The proof is even the best-looking guy on earth couldn’t resist her.
1. Megan Fox
Well this chick really blew everyone’s mind with her drop-dead gorgeous body in the box office hit Transformers where she played a campus hottie who that nerdy guy protagonist have been dreaming of. Those who haven’t seen that movie really missed a lot in his life. I guess it’s her nice complexion and tantalizing eyes that made her one of the hottest new faces in Hollywood now. And honestly, she makes me feel like a lesbian.;)
There it is! Now who’s top 1 on your list?
Try Your Luck On This One
I know everyone must be sick and tired of all those money-making scams sprawling all over the internet for you often end up wasting your time and effort. Indeed, we can’t help our selves to anticipate for something real every time we run into lines like “Make Money Easy Online!” or “Earn $100 a Day!”. They really are too good to be true, but what is it to lose if you buy those craps anyway? Nothing.
Just like any other optimistic fellow looking to find the most real extra income generating means, I just bought recently this crap about getting paid to read emails. If you haven’t heard about paid or sponsored emails before, allow me to spread the word and suggest that you try your luck on this one. These programs let you earn money by simply reading emails sent to your inbox for not less than 30 seconds. Not too much to ask for your time I guess. Prior to that, some of them give you 10 bucks bonus for just signing up for the program, and that’s for real! So your earnings stats right before you start reading emails is loaded with $10. There are many of them who offer this kind of stuff but my advice is to go for the ones that send most emails so as to earn most. I’m into E-mail Pays U, Hits4Pay, CashMoneyEmail (these three are the ones who give $10 bonus) and MatrixMails.
