I was chatting with an old friend last night and the discussion turned to fashion. I must confess in my younger days I was more daring in what I wore. But as I grow older, I have somewhat tone down my fashion. These days I take heed from what Edith Head had to say, after all, she is just an 8 time Oscar winner for costume design -
"Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady."
Now I know what I want for my birthday. :)
This is not original - I just read it somewhere -
Sometimes you have to put walls up around you... not to keep people out but to see who cares enough to break them down just to be with you.
Nice, no?
Came across this funny but inspiring story (from Inspirations from the Net) -
A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments. He had just completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist and a member of the ACLU. One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 min."
The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, "Here I am God. I'm still waiting."
It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him; knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold. The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence.
The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked, "What the heck is the matter with you? Why did you do that?"
The Marine calmly replied, "God was too busy today protecting America's soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid stuff and act like an idiot. So, He sent me."
SEMPER FI
USMC
Elaine Chow of Gizmodo wrote an article on how she was able to watch Obama's inauguration speech while in China, thanks to, in her own words, "an illegal Filipino satellite." Apparently, gray market decoders there are able to catch signals from DreamTV broadcasts via the Aguila satellite.
I don't know if I should feel proud at least our country is not that far behind in technology. But then the negative implications of those illegal feeds, especially coming after the recent World Bank's blacklisting of local construction companies, surely reinforce our country's image as a corrupt nation. Haaaaaaaaaaay.
We sure live in interesting times. Who would have thought - a black now lives in the White House that was built by black slaves.
Anyways, obviously I didn't watch the inaugural in person but I came across this Gigapan panorama that makes me feel like I was there. Actually it is even better. Because you get to see close-up the various VIP personalities and their various expressions. It is if you were seated right next to them! Check it out. The website link is here.
I went to Greenhills Shopping Center one late afternoon recently and as usual had a hard time looking for parking. I normally just park on the street where Chili's and Starbucks are as I figure less people are willing to walk. But this time around, a whole section was roped off, leaving no available space! When I asked the bantay why the vacant spaces were roped off, he said it was because there was a party later that night in one of the nearby establishments down the street and they were told to make sure the guests will have parking spaces.
I asked him why do they have to reserve public parking spaces? Doesn't the establishment have its own parking slots? Isn't this required by some law? The guy just shrugged his head and said the nearby schools don't have their own parking slots, too. It is just the way it is.
I guess it really pays if you have connections. 'Cause it seems laws don't apply to you then.
As I was getting more impatient for what seem to be an unusally long traffic light to change at the intersection of Meralco Avenue and Ortigas Avenue, I noticed the billboard shown above. It has a catchy line - Consider this ad. Before the traffic moves, u will see ur ad again.
Hmmm. Despite it being an obvious potential visual hazard (I don't know how distractingly bright it gets at night), it does rub it in the fact that you are stuck in traffic - long enough to read the message.
Then I saw the other messages. I might be wrong, but it seems the billboard is owned by the city of Pasig. If so, wouldn't this be a conflict of interest? I mean, wouldn't it be possible that in the interest of advertisers, the cycle of the nearby traffic light is lengthened to ensure viewership? Rather than have a smart light in which it automatically turns green whenever there is no opposing traffic, there would be more incentive to put in a fixed timed cycle for the light.
I am just asking. At any rate I am just alarmed there are beginning to be too many too bright LCD billboards around the metro. The one by Camp Aguinaldo really glares at you at night. Haaay. Only in the Philippines.
I switched to Google's Chrome browser because it is supposed to be faster. But since then I have found little annoyances here and there. But there is one major flaw that is making me think of switching back to Firefox.
When composing the photos in one of my other blogs, Pinay Pretty Faces, I have found out Chrome does not allow me to resize them while in Compose mode by just clicking and dragging the photos. Firefox does. I have to manually calculate the dimensions and change them in the Edit Html mode. Worse, for some reasons, the dimensions are not even listed! So I can't the sizes. Grrrrr.
Surfing the net, I came across website featuring a George Bush Toilet Brush that, according to the product description, "the build up from the rest of his reign might be impossible to clean up." It is one funny political gag collectible.
Somehow I can't imagine the a similar product appearing locally. And that says a lot about the difference between the US and our country.
Everytime I see a television network's self-serving commercial that says it is "in the service of the Filipino People," I tend to cringe. Why? Because if it truly does, then it won't do the following -
Include in the ticker tape of their evening newscast inconsequential tidbits about their actors/actresses (known and obscure) - buntis is ano, na-snub is kwan, nag LQ un dalawa. I mean who cares? For God's sake, it is supposed to be the evening news not tsismis hour. If they say their masa audience cares, they already have tons of tv and radio show to fill the masa's mind with silly nothings. Yet they play up trivia about the pool of talents in their newscast in the hope of popularizing them - at the expense of losing respect for their newscast. Nakakabobo talaga.
Accept advertorials in their talk and game shows using emcees of those shows as the spokesperson to make them appear as they are part of the show. It is bad enough that the advertorials are misleading to the mostly masa audience but most of the products are herbal stuff touted to cure certain diseases. Most of these advertorials in fact include testimonials from "users." But if you listen closely or watch their regular commercials or read their print ads, they always add a disclaimer, "No Therapeutic Claims." All those wonder claims, all those user testimonies and then to announce "No Therapeutic Claim" in direct contradiction? Boy, they must think the masa are really stupid. Oh yeah, I forgot - maybe that's the reason they do fill the masa's mind with all those stupid shows and trivia. Nakakabobo talaga.
In the service daw. Talaga ah?
Cruising through Metro Manila, I can't help but notice the many tarpaulins put up by local government officials wishing their constituents the usual season's greetings. Typically most of the tarpaulins have their faces plastered prominently on the streamers.
Looking at some of the faces, I can't help but wonder just how unappealing they must be in real life. I suppose with all the available technology today, those portraits surely must have be enhanced and photoshopped to death to make them more visually appealing while at least retaining the same physical features. But the problem is they obviously remain unattractive portraits.
Which makes me think - if these politicians are after getting more votes with the streamers, why include their portraits at all if they are not attractive in the first place? Wouldn't that make them lose the very votes they are hoping to get?
Or has all that power, actual and otherwise, made them believe they are as attractive as some movie stars who have turned into politicians?
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