~ Vote Buying ~

Holy butt Batman, Manny won another ho-hum fight last weekend. It may be his most ho-hum-est fight evah except for one part there where he did some FPJ action with matching pompyang on the side.

I think we’re all aware of his win and everyone seems un-excited about it for obvious reasons.

Then, there’s the excitement last Friday regarding the rain. Man, we need more rain. Really.

And we have the never-ending papansin moment of the Gutierrez family, regarding our local showbiz news. For goodness sakes, (I know someone would react on this shit once again, a Ruffa supporter I presume) can anyone tell me what Ruffa Gutierrez’s talent is? A person has the right to be papansin in showbiz if he or she has the talent. I know that this is a disposable society wherein they throw away minor and full has-beens and all those who stay are real good players, well not all of them though, politics do play a great part in our local showbiz.

So, again, can anyone remind me Ruffa Gutierrez’s real talent aside from uhm… yeah, if she has one?

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Now, I have a project. If you’re familiar with 7-11’s Presidential cup voting where you purchase a cup of whatnot and 7-11 considers it as a mock vote from their so-called mock list of presidential candidate race. Or whatever you want to call that shit.

I find this one on a stupid level. Come on. It feels like this is another form of vote buying, but not really. A person can buy five votes just to increase a candidate’s standing.

So, here’s my project. There are fifty-four days left for the upcoming elections. I am going to buy the Perlas votes and I want you to vote for Perlas too.

Currently, he’s at the lowest spot right now at around 854 votes. Our aim is to at least be part of the top five. That’s like the lowest votes for that area is 10,000 cups already.

But hey, we have to be positive in everything.

7-11’s idea is stupid.

Mine’s way better.

Vote for Perlas. And win a kabibe.

~ Personal Stuff ~

I have a lot of blog entries running in my mind. I guess a full-packed schedule and not to mention the needed rest and playing a much more priority computer game would kill my writing lifestyle.

I’m not really bragging here or anything. I know I have flaws with writing. I admit that and I’m not proud of it either. The willing of me writing is way way way below the precedence for the past month. And since I’ll be having a bit more time alone for the next few weeks, I’ll try to go back with my nuisance “career”.

I have to remind myself of the following events I haven’t had time to write about:
-    Hot Air Balloon and Nayong Pilipino trip in Clark.
-    Sebay, La Union surfing trip.
-    Backstreet Boys concert.
-    Rent theatre show.
-    And the Potipot Castillejos, Zambales and Treetop Subic, Zambales trip.

That was the first time that I actually had a month filled with kick-ass activities. I guess if you’re willing to go on a trip, then you can really go and do it.

And that actually killed my so-called hobby of watching films and people picking on their noses. I’m not complaining. I think I need to catch up on my fifteen films a week viewing. I am sure I’ll be able to do some thirty films a week for the upcoming months, hopefully.

I also missed the “Stop-dami” concert last Tuesday and I might miss the “Hari ng 7-11” band. I’m not too keen on the “Lungsod ng Kwago” concert, this one will happen this weekend. I am sure I want to watch “Luha Para Sa Pananakot” this May (?). And I’m still thinking if I should go to “Troso-Lupa” Featuring Justin “Troso-Law” and Jojo.

Also, I am actually officially stopping myself on buying any expensive books. So, that Neil Gaiman visit is officially off in my calendar. I’ll just text him that I won’t go and see him. I mean, duh, we can always do a separate mix-up and give him more inputs, as I was the person who gave him ideas on Stardust, American Gods, and Coraline.

Duh. I am that good.

Oh yeah, I’m still selling my Percy Jackson books one to four for 200 bucks each for the first three books and 240 for the fourth one. They are all soft bound. Or they are bound to be soft. Whatever that means.

Ho-hum. This is the most boringest entry I’ve encountered. I miss action. Makes me wonder if I still want to go to that sad side of the road.

I just realized that I am also having a lot of backlog for my “project 365” blog. Ugh. I can’t force myself to not to have a life. Right?

~ Oscars 2010 ~

So, the 82nd Annual Academy Awards went… uhm… on.

Yeah... That’s it.

Siriusly, I wasn’t really keen on doing anything that is related with the Oscars for this year. I wasn’t able to ready myself with the event. I have been busy with a lot of things lately.

Ergo, I actually had a life… even for only a month for this year. I’m going back to my usual habits for the next few months, if I can.

Now, the Oscars for this year is not really that wonderful. And I’m just referring with the show. It felt that there was something missing in the show. Or even the fact that the comparison from last year greatly affected the show’s output. I can’t even say that the hosts are awesome, though I have to give credit for the amusing script for the whole show.

Secondly, I grew tired of the Avatar-The Hurt Locker brouhaha. It felt like there were only two contending films for whatever award that was given. I ended up rooting for the Basterds and only got excited with the Best Foreign Film and the Best Actress category.

That’s it.

And here’s another complaint, Hollywood loves to create war films that doesn’t look war-ish or even epic. Remember Jarhead? Come on! We need more films that give us blood and war, there’s Saving Private Ryan or even Schindler’s List. And going back to The Hurt Locker, I’m still trying to find in my mind that this film won over District 9, Inglourious Basterds, or Precious. Let us put it this way, how many of you have seen The Hurt Locker in the year 2009? As early as the last quarter of last year, critics have been raving over this film. BUT, I haven’t heard any ordinary consumer rave over the film when it was shown in our local cinemas last October of 2009.

The Oscars of 2009 didn’t really matter since Slumdog and Benjamin fought for the title. Almost every one was rooting for Benjamin and I was actually rooting for Slumdog all the time. But wait there’s more, Slumdog won and almost every Pinoy hated that film. Sabi nila, kaya daw ng Pinoy yun. So, here’s the real deal, 2008 was unforgettable, that was the time when all the films are possible contenders.

And now, ten nominees? Come on. That was a stupid move. Why would you put Up in the Best Picture category when we all know that there’s a Best Animated Film category already. And it was sort of a given that Up will win due to that simple deal that they did.

And since most of the categories gave us runaway winners, I am just happy that Christoph Waltz won for Best Supporting Actor and Sandra won for the Best Actress category. In addition, I was just shocked that El Secreto De Sus Ojos won over A Prophet and The White Ribbon. I think I have to watch ESDSO, I haz a copy already.

Despite the hello sleepy head show earlier, I’d like to put out some points on what I’ve noticed in the show.

-    Stand-up and the Oscars does not mix. It felt like I was watching one punchline after another and it seemed that it made the show less class. I mean it should’ve been a respected awards show BUT it felt like it is different in a bad way.
-    No chemistry between the two hosts. Despite them being SNL peeps, I think it would’ve been nice if Steve Martin was the only one to host the show or Alec Baldwin with someone of his age. Or something in that sense.
-    Why is George Clooney pikon? Come on.
-    What the hell is Taylor Lautner and Zac Efron doing at the Oscars? Anak ng pating naman.
-    The delivery of some of the presenters went from fair to fail.
-    Then, Miley came. Oh God. I thought I was watching the Razzies.
-    Tina Fey’s outfit is… Me Tarzan You Fey?
-    Thank God Robert Downey Jr presented (with Tina Fey).
-    Nice John Hughes tribute. I thought I saw Kevin Macanister este Mcallister.
-    There was actually a controversy with the Na’vi skit. Originally Sasha Baron Cohen was going to do a skit with Ben Stiller, but it seemed that something went wrong and it eventually just became a stand-up routine. And anything that Stiller does on that stage was funny.
-    I loved Mo’nique’s “It is all about the performance and not the politics”.
-    So, apparently the Oscars had a “Take It Take It” moment… Hello, Sigourney Weaver.
-    One of the stupidest montages ever made was the one in this year’s Oscars. They made a montage for the horror films. They included Twilight? Really? I mean, I read the novel and I know that it corresponds with fantasy and romance. I wasn’t aware that it was meant to be scary. Look at it this way, the researchers of that bit weren’t really aware of the greatest horror scenes in history. Come on, a little bit of research in the Internet and they’ll find good films. Unless of course, if they’d just stick with the ones nominated for Oscars. But The Ring U.S. version nominated for an Oscar? Come on.
-    It was stupid for Oprah to just mention Meryll Streep. Look what happened. Sandra Bullock won. In short, may balat si Oprah.

I have a feeling that the next Oscar’s will be slightly different that what we had this year. I’m just hoping that I’ll have that feel again. If they turn uptight next year, I’ll take it as long na hindi siya mukhang pilit.~ Oscars 2010 ~