Friday, October 20, 2006

This B/log has been fun and very exciting to make.

Although I had more difficulty this quarter than the last one due to our hectic schedules.

I expanded my range of topics on a wider span including a book and websites.

I know that I am proud of what I made and I will be honored for more people to look at it.

I hope you enjoy looking at this blog!

Camille

~ { 5:36 AM }
aiming for the sky above;

Michael andrews-mad world

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world mad world

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

And I find it kinda funnyI find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell youI find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world ... world

This song is my one of my favorite songs which i first heard my cousins sing it during our Christmas performances. It's a wonderful song with a tune that goes over and over again about how 'mad' the world is.

It explains how the world is today with all of it's problems and miseries. Being in the world today just letting it out in one song just defines all of it. It is a sad song but it bravely faces the reality of how we sometimes feel about what is around us. But I know that I should not define this world by this song but resolve to do what is right, and what is right is to change this world into something better.

This is a remake of the song by Tears For Fears but I like it better than TFF because it a slower more mellow tune and it fits with the song too.

~ { 5:18 AM }
aiming for the sky above;

Thursday, October 19, 2006

My Favorite Commercial

This is my favorite commercial of all time. The idea is simple for a beer commercial but is sure to bring you laughs. It's totally original, creative and low budget. Although this commercial has been banned for special reasons ;)

I love how it shows you what beer may do to you at the same time it has the power to make you laugh so hard. Simple yet understandable and truly funny.

~ { 3:26 AM }
aiming for the sky above;

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Truly a fascinating read. As the Washington Post said, "Unputdownable". I started yesterday and could not put it down. The plot is carefully made and is a mystery full of puzzles and secrets. Every situation and character has a catch and your heart stops in the most exciting parts.

I read the "The Da Vinci Code" and for me "Angels and Demons" is way more thrilling and exciting for me. I have read many books in my lifetime and this is the only book so far that makes me exclaim loudly in the climax moments. Dan Brown is a total genius i knowing all these facts and I admire him for his intelligence in making this story. Such controversies and stories he made that would shake the world and that it did. "Angels & Demons" was a bit more violent than "The Da Vinci Code" and I would suggest that it would cost more to make considering the more lines it crossed with the papacy of Rome.

One of the best books I have ever read and truly a must read fro those who dare to. Don't worry it won't dissuade your faith in fact in some ways it can make your faith stronger.

~ { 5:23 AM }
aiming for the sky above;

Monday, October 16, 2006

The Devil Wears Prada

I felt like I was rushed into a whirl of color, sights and sounds. A fantastic and wonderful movie, and I'm not even talking about the clothes at all. The acting of Meryl Streep was superb, and Anne Hathaway was really good too. The story wsa so nice and heart warming too. A very enjoyable movie with no uncomfortably mushy scenes.

The costumes were gorgeous. All the famous stores of Gucci, Fendi, Dolce & Gabanna, Louis Vuitton, and many many more came together and created this winderfully made masterpiece of different artworks. The sets that were based in Paris and New York were just great and the story about the current fashion world's ideals was too true.

It made you realize somehow how different people are these days in terms of principles. All of their attention is focused on parties, clothes and high fashion. This movie is sort of like a more refined Tessa Prieto Valdez. The scenes and lines are quirky and interesting. And Meryl is just THE best actress ever to walk the earth.

Truly a must watch movie.

~ { 5:43 AM }
aiming for the sky above;

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Philippine Daily Inquirer and its Principles

My family has declined from buying newspapers locally for over a year. But every once in a while we buy an issue of STAR or PDI for the local news. I observed how much change the Lifestyle or Entertainment parts had gone through. For one it focused more on high-class fashion meaning: vanity, money, parties. It showed teenagers or people who are in their mid-twenties that being a Socialite is everything in this material world.

PDI's writers like Tim Yap and Tessa Prieto Valdez are one of the first who started the regime of Socialite madness on it's pages. Just open the next issue you'll find interviews with questions filled with vain principles which ask about possessions or about how much they are wearing.

I think that this kind of media with it's principles influences much on all of us today. We should al thnk of sorting out our priorities in life when reading even the newspaper. Parties and social gatherings aren't the only things in the world. There is a world outside that needs more attention than what everyone else wearing.

~ { 5:43 AM }
aiming for the sky above;

Friday, October 13, 2006

Kyle XY

I started watching this show during summer out of boredom. Since I am a YouTube baby I decided to research shows which were on in the US and see if it was on YouTube. Kyle XY is about a guy who was literally born as a 16 year old in a forest. He woke up not knowing where he was and he did not even know how to speak or talk, he was just so curious about what was going around him. Since he went from the forest to the City naked, the police thought he might be crazy and sent him to juvenile prison. The police knew he was a bit tweaked so they sent him to live with the Trager family where he learns how to be a human being and decides to learn more about where he came from and why he was like that.

As Kyle stays with his new family, he struggles with the High school system at the same time, his own 'brother' thinks he's an alien from outer space. He doesnt know anything about his past life when he was young and still struggles to find out. Kyle XY was a show that is Sci-Fi, its like a mix of X-Files and a normal teenager TV sit-com. The idea on the story is so interesting.Since the series isn't finished yet I don't know the whole story but it's sort of a clone TV show with a super-genius as their main character and teenage problems as a mix.

For those who are into Sci-Fi shows, this show is really cool. Full of mystery and adventure. For teenagers, this show has a lot of teenage drama in it too.

~ { 6:47 PM }
aiming for the sky above;

World of Warcraft Addict

My term paper will be about "Addiction to technology", this entry will be only an introduction since video games are also media to the young people of today.

As you can see in the video there is living proof that teenagers from all over the globe are hooked on online video games that are so addictive that they just keep on playing on and on for hours. Games like Ragnarok, World of Warcraft and DoTA are only a few of the games that millions are playing today.

I personally have seen it's effects on people since my old classmates would play the whole day straight. By word of mouth they would share their online adventures to their other friends and they in turn get hooked up to the game too. I myself tried the online game of Ragnarok but my attention span lasted 10 seconds into the game. In other words, I wasn't interested at all.

My brothers (aged 11 and 8) are hooked on to games on their DS (Nintendo Dual Screen) that have games that can keep you going like Metroid Prime Hunters and games even like MarioKart. But don't get me wrong, it's not only the internet and the DS but Playstations and X-boxs all around the world keep boys and girls at home and not playing outdoors.

These things have effects on people and they may be physical and mental. There is a man in China who killed himself because he wanted to live so bad in a fantasy world after playing 36 hours straight. Another Korean played more than 50 hours and died because of exhaustion. People tend to play for minutes that lead to hours and hours everyday.

This has become a sickness in the world and it is hard to get out of the cycle. Teenagers should realize just how dangerous this sickness is, and its effects on the principles on violence is astounding. We should all come to realize one wy or another where we are on this and prevent it form happening to your brother, cousin, or son.

~ { 3:10 PM }
aiming for the sky above;

Friday, October 06, 2006

All American Rejects- Dirty Little Secret

~ { 6:25 PM }
aiming for the sky above;

POSTSECRET

PostSecret is so far the most interesting website I have ever been to in my entire life. I have been checking it up every Sunday for more than a year. It is an interesting site started by Frank Warren on January 1, 2005 where he told people that they can send their secrets on a 4 x 6 postcard anonymously. Some of the

postcards are humorous, some are quite vulgar, some you can relate with. This website has meant so much to some people, a way of release. They have been able to share their darkest, most kept secrets that they sometimes never told anyone else but this website. Frank Warren has made a website which releases people from their barriers and makes people all over the globe know that you are not the only one. Being able to read many secrets, I was able to understand more how sad the world is nowadays. I realized that the world today is full of people who seek for love and happiness in things which DO NOT.But, I also learned about many happy things that happened to people like saying "I love you" to someone whom you've been meaning to tell for years, or being really free for the first time.

This website has caused quite a stir in th internet community and I believe it is a good site for people who want to learn about other people more. Frank's idea of sending secrets anonymously is such a hit that every time you hit refresh you can see how many people are looking at the website on the counter below.

Some of the postcards are very disturbing and some are fun but in the end you'll find some postcards which just happens to be your secret too.

~ { 5:40 PM }
aiming for the sky above;

Bryanboy

As the newspapers describe Bryanboy, they say he is the Filipino Paris Hilton. The most gay person to walk this earth.

Bryanboy is a internet celebrity. Internet celebrities are people who are world renown because of their blogs on the internet, and one of them is Bryanboy. Thousand of people are hooked up on checking his site everyday. Why? Because he has sucha fascinating website which contain interesting lines, ideals and principles that sometimes people are mad at him for teaching kids or whoever looks at his website to do things he does.

For example:
1) He is gay and supports the gay part of society.
2) He supports the thought of being anorexic and bulimic.
3) He has a Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
4) There are some pretty vulgar things on his website.
5) He spends excessively on everything and is proud of it.

I am a homophobic, I can stand being near a gay or lesbian person but the thought of doing gay stuff makes me cringe. So anyways, I got hooked on bryanboy because I couldn't get why people liked or disliked him and because I wanted to understand gay people more. All I got was some warped principles and pretty vulgar things on the net.

Bryanboy has influenced many people in this world to do things they would not do before but he keeps on saying, "Kids, do not do this at home", things like that. He has influenced some wrong principles on this world since people from Austria, Russia, Switzerland, London, US, Philippines, Malaysia, etc. go to his website everyday. I just hope that people would recognize that some of what he says is wrong.

He said it himself; he is shallow, materialistic and full of himself. I think Bryanboy should stop saying or rather writing things which would not make the world a better place and instead use his 'power' to tell people how to do good.

~ { 4:57 PM }
aiming for the sky above;

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