The Woes of A Movie Lover

Summer's finally here!

Sadly I'm not in the mood for it. I'm quite bored. And since most of my friends are scattered all around the big land mass that is Region V, I have nothing to do with my life.

To think, I looked forward to this the entire freaking year. . . . . . -- __--

I miss my schoolmates: my friends, my annoying acquaintances, my classmates, clubmates, study mates, cheatmates and even the bitches that give me a god reason to lift my middle finger.

And now I'm missing all the tests and homeworks and "surprise" quizzes my teachers give me too...... Oh God, what the F*** is happening to me!!!

Instead of moping round looking at the ceiling and missing my textbooks(WTF?!), I'll think of what I'd love to do but can't when there's homework.....

I love watching movies.

I find them very interesting. They're like documented scenes of a person's life. I don't care if the movie's setting is in a parallel universe or the world after the most gruesome war that happened in history!

I love books.

They're extremely diverse and give me a wider imaginary world that I can explore.

I like both because you get to see the main character's development and such. The main character's the one that experiences the harsh challenges while I am beside him, learning as well.

I noticed that these days a whole lot of books are being turned into movies; Les Miserables, Pitch Perfect, Delirium (or so they say and so I wish), Beautiful Creatures, The City of Bones, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the Percy Jackson Series, the Avengers(comic BOOK), etc.

I'm not particularly overjoyed by this. Of course I'd love to see the Barden Bellas and Jesse and Percy Jackson and Lena and Jean Valjean and all my other favorite characters on the big screen.

it's just that it seems to me the movie makers are running out of ideas.......

Although, there are still movies that are pretty good. Silver Linings Playbook, Argo, Red Dawn.

Problem?

Most of the really good movies don'y get to show here......

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

The theaters here are showing The Last Exorcism (maybe nice), Must Be Loved(Kathiel, ew) and another one that I forgot the name.

I vsited one freaking website and saw that there were so many good movies shwing in America and I'm stuck here watching Kathryn and Daniel entange themselves in another love story where I wont watch the ending because I already know wht will happen.

Can my situation be any more tragic?

Director's First Cut

When I was in First Grade, I found out my aunt was a director of shampoo commercials in another country.

I was like,"Oooooooohhh." coz I've always wanted to be in the Film biz.

I kept day draeming about my life as a Hollywood director. I would go further than making 3 minute clips about fake girls throwing around their fake hair that's all shiny and smooth "because of the aloe vera extracts" as they talk in their fake accents.

DIRECTOR ME
boy version

So, I tried to make my very first video. It as supposed to be very good, because I wanted my biography entitled "The Director's Movie" to begin with my first attempt that won a dozen awards when I was just 8 years old.


I filmed and filmed and filmed. The stuff was random; I couldn't even remember what the movie was about. But I felt really happy when I realized I had already finished my very first film.

I sat on the couch and I when I saw my film, I was thoroughly disappointed. My film looked nothing like ET or Cinderella or High School Musical or even sappy and gross and cliche Twilight!

My film was a bunch of noisy, rowdy videos that had terribble sound and mis-arranged videos.

I was so low I was beyond the depth of the Marianas Trench. 

Of course, I was in my brightest mood possible after my grandma gave me ice cream.

A few years later, when the problems I had were now more mature and important, I read the Diary of A Wimpy Kid book that was about Filming, I was bummed out that the contents had nothing to do with the misadventures of Gregory H.

Although, the book made me realize that filming took a lot of processes. 

And the most basic part of it is having your own video editing software.

My first thought was,"There's a video editing software?"

I could already imagine 1st Grade me using Windows MovieMaker, which was according to the internet, the most used video editing software of students yet.

Yet, I thought, coz I haven't made one yet. . . . 

Kidding!!

We had a video editing lesson using Windows Movie Maker. It was quite easy. I think 1st Grade Me could have figure out how to use it easily.

And to think! If I had known about it before, I could've been a director with my own star on the Walk of Fame by now!

Okay, I'm in Super Big Headed Mode again. . . . 
Cut

Picture Magic

You know what's so great about Technology?

You can do anything you want with it. What used to be impossible 10 years ago is a habit of ours now.

FOR EXAAMPLE!! Before, people had to live with a photo of their that has, like, their huge pimple on top of their sorry little foreheads. And since photos before took, like, a billion years to take you have to keep it. FOREVER.

Now, before you post your picture on Facebook. you you clear your face of any debris using. . . 

THIS PHOTO
is Photoshopped

Many people religiously use this on EVERY SINGLE ONE of their pictures using this.

Sometimes I wonder when I look at my friends' albums if they used Photoshop on it or not.

It's hard to tell, really. 

I find those kind of people very conscious. I wouldn't care if I had a scar running down the left side of cheek. It's MY face, not theirs.

So, like I have already said in one of my posts WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back in time, I find Photoshop dull and senseless.

And we had Photoshopping AKA Pimple Erasing lessons, so I think that Photoshop is Daedalus's other Labyrinth. 

But, we had another activity with Photoshop, which was making our own magazine cover. I was like What? coz I always thought magazine cover designers/geniuses/artists/madmen used Paint. 

I've tried making a magazine cover before, so many years ago. I used Paint. I couldn't understand how you can put the text behind you, so I just went like "UGH! I give UP!" 

You can imagine my surprise when I found out you have to use dumb ol' Photoshop when it came to stuff like that.

Photoshop isn't so useless after all, but I still believe very self-conscious use it all the time.

Running for the Second Time!!!

I like games where you seem to be chased or chase something. I love games with beautiful graphics and a lot of power ups.

Now, I have a love: Temple Run 2.

Take the idol if you wanna be chased by a gorilla

The new game is so awesome, I can’t wait for my money day! One of my friends has it (already) and, since I already tested it out, I know it won’t be a waste of money.

The characters and the graphics look sooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better than the old one. So better than it looks like the old version looks like a 13 year old made it(no offense to the graphics artist, of course).

And now, instead of being chased by a lot of monkeys, you get chased by a MONSTER GORILLA! I have no idea why primates hate adventurers, but hey! It’s probably coz they stole the only thing valuable to their little monkey hearts.

What’s annoying about the gorilla is that when you trip, he can get so close to you that you can effin’ see where you’re going!

And now, the new version is a bit more of a crybaby (sensitive). One wrong move and you’ll be falling from the temple of the clouds.

Me, in Super Big Headed Mode

Progress. It’s like a river; it’ll never stop continuing. As long as life is here, as long as your mom nags you about your chores, it’ll be here.

Some people say the future is now. Well, it is, really. Compare our lives to the very first homo sapiens, then you’ll be see my point.

But sometimes I wish I did live in the past. You know why? Well, since every basic out there has been already thought of by some dead guy in the past that we call ‘genius’, there’s none left, right?

I mean, not that I’m bragging or anything, but some of these other ‘revolutionists’ have really basic ideas. Like the lightbulb for instance. When I was, like, in 4^th grade, I already figured out how it worked.

But, of course, times are different nowadays. Maybe in the future, there will be a great invention that some blogger (or whatever they call it then) will say “I wish I lived in their time! I could’ve thought of it. . . . “

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i could have thought of this..."

Then, I would smack ‘em in the head and say,”No you wouldn’t! Now shattap and freakin’ appreciate it!”

Sounds harsh?

The Four Elements

I really liked Avatar: The Legend of Aang. The fact that some people could connect with the elements in their environment really make me smile. It’s like, in another world, people really had a connection with their environment. With practice, you could be a master of bending your own element.

What if that is true now? Would there also be some kind of competition where the person who can bend like a boss gets a prize? Or you can prank your friends using you awesome bending powers?

I have no idea how to feel, of course. I mean, I have always loved the show, but if it was true to life, it wouldn’t be fair. Some people could bend while others couldn’t?

And sometimes, the element you can bend can not necessarily help either. C’mon people! What’s the use of Earth bending when you have machines to do the work for you?

Let’s just that I prefer this world to the arm waving, feet prancing and fire breathing world of Aang.

Please, don’t try to bend at home. You already look like a dork; don’t try acting like one.

Kidding!

Daedalus's New Labyrinth

Daedalus was the most brilliant mortal Greek that had ever (been said) to live. He was the creator of the Labyrinth, which he used to try to escape Death. The Labyrinth is a connection of rooms and tunnels meant to confuse ordinary people and even Death.

Daedalus has passed away and so has his Labyrinth. But Death hasn’t prevented him from making another. . . .

Meet, Windows 8, Daedalus’s new labyrinth.

Okay, I know I’m being harsh, but come on people! It’s kinda confusing coz now, Start takes over the entire screen. And there are a bunch of these little boxes that change like a chameleon whenever I scroll the cursor over to it.

And I remember when I used it the first time. I wanted to shut down the freaking computer but. . . .

where's the off button?

My cousin: Why don’t you turn the freaking computer off.

Me: Can’t find the Shut Down button.

My Cousin: Here, let me! Where was it again?

See? Even my cousin that was using it for, like, 3 days forgot.

Sometimes, I wanna approach the genius who came up with the idea and slap him in the face. C’mon! Windows 7 had no flaw (in my opinion)! And you know what they say; If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

Oh well. What’s done is done, I guess. But don’t comerunningtome ifsomebody ever sues them of getting a headache coz of ‘Windows 8 Confusion’.



My Favorite (Talking) Cat

As I have said in my previous post, I have seen the Talking Tom App.

My roomate and close friend has the Tslking Tom 2, which is funnier to me.

I find Talking Tom really really really funny. The way the voices always turn out sounding like a chimpunk that inhaled helium makes me ROFL.



Tom, scared of a paperbag

And the fact that Ben the Dog can scare him into jumping up so high that he ends up hanging on the lamp! Hahahaha! Priceless!

And there's this question mark button that, if you press, will make Tom grab something from his back and use it makes me laugh. His complaints when you touch the yoyo (with sounds vaugely like "C'mon!") and when Ben smashesthe cake into his face are funny to me.

He makes me remember the yellow dude in Dora that always sings "I'm the grumpy old troll, who lives under the bridge, hey!", even though they have nothing in common. 

What I (nor my classmate) can never figure out what I laugh about is when he tries to give you a rose and he rub his foot on the ground.

When this happens,I tell my classmate, "Take it and Angela's gonna kill you."

And then I burst out laughing so hard til my stomach hurts. All the while, she'sgonna look at me with one eyebrow raised.

And when I see her expression, I laugh again.

So what if you think I'm silly.

For me, that's a compliment.

a Robot Life

It's nearing March and every student knows one thing. . . .






It's almost summer!

But, of course, something has to kill that joy. And, for me, that is the requirements our teachers gave.

You know how teachers always give you a problem when you think you're home free?

We're scholars, so the hardness of the work is doubled. We have to pass projects, assignments, reports, term papers, etc. Add the every day homework and a sprinkle of everyday troublesand worries of teenage life and you got yourself a moutain that will make Olympus Mons look like a molehill.

As I thought this through while looking at my laundry that needed to be packed, I wondered if I lived in another time,or another life. A life where robots do our chores, solve our problems, clean the bed, solve RAEs (if you don't know this, I'm happy for you) and other life troubles.

Robots will help us one day. You might think I should consider the robots feelings. But it's a ananimate object! It has no feelings, no thoughts or no other thing to do but help us while we laze around.

Imagine a life where you just have to watch the robot do your chores andyour laundry and make thedescisionsand do the Algebra homework and run to the grocery store.

But.... what if your mom has a robot too? A robot that will nag you all day long because it has nothing else to do?

Mombot: You!
Me: What, Robot?
Mombot: Don't talk to me like that! You're still too young to sass!
Me: Fine, whateves.
Mombot: Is your room clean?
Me: Yes, Madame. My robot is cleaning it.
Mombot: Do it yourself! You've got four limbs that aren't broken!
Me: What's the use of the robot if I do the chores?
Mombot: I said you're too young to sass! Now DO IT!

                                            
Imagine that happening everyday for therest of your life, every week, every day,every hour, every moment. . . . .

BRRRR!!!

I'd take handling my own homework any day!

App App and Awaay!!

People theses days love smartphones. Almost everyone is dying to have one(or two, or three). But sometimes I wonder why people go gaga over it. I am an owner of a BlackBerry, but I like it because it is quite easy to use and to type with.

While pondering over this question,I noticed that my dorm mates were occupied with their own smartphones.

I peeped over as to what they were doing that was so important that they could not see gawking observing them as the gears in my head turn.

Then, I saw they were all preoccupied by.....




(guess)





(you're getting closer)





APPS.



One of my friends was playing TapTap,which was like Guitar Hero, minus the guitar frets.

Her fingers were pressing the screen so fast she reminded me of Flash.

My two Kathniel fangirl friends had downlaoaded the Wattpad app, and were reading Kathniel fan fictions. I sighed. Wasn't it enough that these two had every project with each other? No offense to all the Kathniel fangirls/boy/gays.

Another one was using the Talking Tom app. She held it to the two Kathniel lovers, so whenever even one of them lauched into her 'Fangirling' mode (which, BTW, wasgoing crazy shrieking and saying Oh May Gawd) when they read a romantic scene, their voices would be replayed a few octaves higher.

And since they already had soprano voices, the sound coming out almost made the glass shatter.


I then realized that I was OP (out of place) again.

But thenagain, I'm not the type of girl that goes with the flow.

Course not! Where's the fun in that?

PANIC ATTACK!

Watsup, dear readers!

You may be wondering why there's a picture of a woman on the top of this blog that looks like she's panicking that she lost her job, or she saw her picture on Facebook from a party she wanted to forgot, or the laptop's shut down and she can see the rat's nest that is her hair.....

Well let me tell you I didn't see any picture of myself looking like an idiot on Facebook. And if you pay any attention to my other posts, well I can't open the damn thing.

See, the reason for my panic attack is because for one second I thought I wouldn't be able to open my account(for blogger) anymore. 

I thought, OMG! This is the only connection I have left in cyberspace!! I will absolutely die if I lose it.

And then I logged in several times using the same e-mail and password 'coz I was pretty damn sure I knew what they were.

Then I remembered that blogger e-mail were @gmail, not @blogger.

I tested it out and you know something, honey?

It worked.














Funny how panic can fog your mind up better than the Mist. . .

Travelog (the short one)

Yesterday we went to Naga C|ity or, what I prefer to call it, Nueva Caceres. The purpose of the tour was to be amazed of everything we saw and write in a sheet of papere what made us so amazed.

I was really amazed so Mission Accomplished ma'am!

I really wanted to just post the travelog on my account for several reasons:

a.) more people can read it and the word will spread better
b.)it doesn't cost anything to upload photos
c.)you can personalize your wall these days

Back to my story. So anyways, the best thing I did was riding the 4D Max Rider. I had fun screaming my head off  every time some hideous beast would come chasing me.

When we came out we sore throats, I saw the Grade 7 boys...........
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playing with computers.

I was like, Ugh. There are a lot of things to do there and they decide to play computer games. Like they don't do it every other day. Like they don't have it at home....

Write a travelog about a computer screen.. Gee, that's fun.

Okay I sound bitter.

My Books; The Most Important Documents

I am totally hooked on books. I’m always skipping from one series to another. Although, I have never ever collected one complete series. Diary of Wimpy Kid? Nah, found myself too old for the cartoon novel. Dork Diaries? Too expensive for such a small book. Harry Potter? The inconsistent and expensive prices made my wallet feeling so light.

But that all changed when I discovered Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

I just recently bought the last book, The Last Olympian, thus completing my set.

As I flipped through the book’s pages, I wondered how long for the publishing people had to type everything down: the Table of contents, the body, the chapter pages, the advertising pages.

Our most recent lesson in Computer Science I was about making documents. And, in my book the pages of a novel count as a document.

I know how they made the Table of contents and the other pages. As I looked at the Chapter title, I couldn’t help but I wonder on what type of book the footnotes where most found because I haven’t seen any novel with footnotes before.

I scanned through a bunch of books, in my house and the ‘recorded’ books in my head. Then, I remembered that the bible has a bunch of footnotes per page. And some manuals had footnotes, too, if dummies couldn’t get them. And in Reader’s Digest! Yeah! How could I forget?

I groaned last Friday because we had a practical exam about these stuff, and I should probably admit I found it hard because I didn’t really take in what Sir Tom was yammering on and on about because I thought that the only purpose for these were term papers, which I had to pass only after, like, 2 years. 

And a bunch of factors gave me a better feel when I read the books. The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series had a Greek-y font that made me feel I was reading an actual writing from a Camp Half-Blood Scribe.

Now I know that it’s important and has other uses than for term papers. How could the publishing people type my favorite stories if they didn’t know?

Candy Colored

Hi there! I'm currently in the Computer Lab and I just want to add a few more posts.

See, our current activities always need colors. The graphs need color, the text need color, the space inside the cells need color and even the lines need color!

I always have fun looking at the type of colors my classmates use since the colors they use can reflect their personalities. One of them used colors like dark red and grey and black and  midnight view. I had a feeling that he/she was going through something really really really bad. I decided not to ask.

One used bubblegum pink, sunshine yellow and sky blue. I was like, "Candy lang, teh?". Really girls. So girly I wanted to puke rainbows....

So you may ask, What colors did you use Pia Pie?

Well, I used the colors that our teacher had used. I didn't really want to waste time personalizing everything.

Just goes to show how boring I am..... ;)