Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie trailer just came out on the web today in high-def. The movie is adapted from the 2003 video game with the same title. The film is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and distributed by Walt Disney. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince and Ben Kingsley as the Vizier, fans are expecting a lot from this movie. Well, the effects look awesome on the trailer. Let’s do hope the movie is, too. And by movie, I mean the plot.

Enjoy the trailer and watch the movie in theaters on May next year!

Over the last decades, he gained mixed judgements and impressions from all parts of the world because of lawsuits and controversies he was into. But all those negative vibes did not seem to change the fact that he was and will always be the great music icon that those who love him know, even after he died.

Michael Jackson's "This Is It"

Wednesday last week was the first theater release of Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” worldwide. It is a compilation of the footages of Jackson’s rehearsal of tours and concerts he was supposed to perform if he had not died. And the film still proved the singer’s impact on audiences when it topped the Box Office weekend report beating all “halloween”-themed movies released the same day. The film grossed $32.5 million domestic and 68.5 million foreign, a total of $101 million worldwide in just five days! Well, good for those that are part of the film.

When it started to occur to me that I have to take this problem seriously because it isn’t “normal” anymore, I took an advice from this hair stylist who had my mom’s hair done to cut my hair short. And so I did, even though it was the last thing I wanted to do. But turns out it did not solve the problem at all. Not a bit.

So I made a research recently about the causes of hair fall and from all of them, one thing I found out as the most possible cause of my own is stress. Yes I am stressed and it took me quite a while to figure (or admit?) I am. I just noticed how I’ve been working a lot and been sleeping too late. I can’t even remember the last time I’ve had sleep of 8 hours or more. I’ve been very hard on myself, on my body really and I guess it is just my body’s way of saying “hey, it’s payback time!”. Well now I have to make up for my negligence.

Here are other possible causes of Hair Fall as I am pretty sure I am not alone on this:

• Hereditary
• Too much work or Stress
• Trauma
• Illness or Diseases
• Poor Diet
• Excessive weight loss
• Chemicals or Drugs (drugs taken to cure certain diseases)
• Pregnancy
• Excessive sun exposure
• Menopausal
• Use chemical
• Frequent use of tints, colorants, or other substance
• Hair Perming

On the other hand, the quick tips or do’s to prevent Hair Fall are these:

• Practice a high protein diet.
• A regular shampoo will keep hair clean and healthy which prevents hair from weakening.
• Drink 10-12 glassfuls of water daily.
• Use only mild shampoo and use conditioner only twice a week.
• A high intake of Iron helps regulate the blood circulation on the scalp.
• Sanitize combs, brushes, etc. at least once a week.
• Vitamin E helps in the growth of hair.
• Use combs with well-spaced bristles.
• Include small quantities of nuts, seeds, milk and beans in your diet as these contain important amounts of copper. Copper stops hair from falling.

There you go!

1. I was born with a (some says identical) twin. She used to be my worst rival (when we were kids) but growing up, we get along in a lot of things.

2. I have a weird talent of making my ears move (without the help of my hand, of course). I always do it when I was a kid but not anymore. Ha!:D

3. I was addicted to boy bands during my high school years. I had posters of them surrounding my room in our hometown. I still have them until now. My most favorite was ‘N Sync and I used to save my allowance just to buy stuffs with their faces on it (notebooks, magazines, song hits, cassettes (lol)). And I’m still hooked with Justin Timberlake until now.;)

4. When I was about 13, I cried over my hair because my mother forced me to cut it short which was the last thing I wanted to do. That’s how I loved my hair.;)

5. My greatest fear is deep waters. I can’t swim and I had near-drowning experience.

6. I’m a frustrated painter. If I hadn’t been in IT, I would have studied painting or anything related to visual arts.

7. I’m a pessimist. That’s because I rather see things turn out well when I didn’t expect them to, than see things don’t when I expected them (especially too much) to.

8. I’m a ‘live and let live’ human being.

Done. Now the fellow bloggers I hope to do this tag with me are:

1. Amor
2. Cinderella
3. Mish
4. Alma
5. Raquel
6. Joanna
7. Jean
8. Ronald
*Bonus: Danzrev

And the RULES are:

1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

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 bunch of cheesiness. That is forgivable anyway. This movie somehow started off fine with its romantic 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 in the first place. I guess it’s the turn of the movie from romantic comedy to godforsaken 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. Not to be unfair to Richard, he did pretty well in most of his movies with Angel Locsin and some other chics which is the reason why I don’t get it that he failed this time. For KC, for the love of god don’t let her weep next time! 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.(^_^)

The movie isn’t 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 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.:)

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.;)

More Web Design Help and Tutorials here

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.:)

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.

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.