Posted on September 1st, 2010
I’ve mentioned it before: I don’t have the patience to wait a week before I can watch another episode of my favorite shows. This is the reason why I buy compiled DVDs of TV shows that I like and watch them in one or two sitting. I’ve been doing this for 5 years and is quite content with it.
However, I just finished watching the whole second season of Fringe and I must say that I can’t wait months to see the first episode of Fringe Season 3. Not when the episode is airing on the US on September 20. A friend gave me a link to the teaser and it got me all excited. Unfortunately, I don’t know which cable channel will be showing it on the Philippines. Damn!
For those of you who aren’t Fringe fans, the scifi TV show stars Anna Torv and the ever charming Joshua Jackson. It’s pretty much like the X Files (though I’ve never been a fan of that). While Scully and Moulder deal with aliens, Olivia Dunham (Torv) and Peter Bishop (Jackson) team up with Peter’s father, Walter Bishop, to solve cases of paranormal and pseudo-science nature. Parallel worlds, psychic abilities, time travel, teleportation, mutation, genetic engineering, are just some of the themes tackled in the show. And you get to see some really cool stuff stuff like a window to the other world, radar detector, time machines, etc.
I remember that the show was only meant to last a season because it didn’t have that much viewers at first. However, ratings shot up in the second half of the first season so it was extended for another season. Fringe Season 3 promises to be more explosive than the last two so I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it’ll extend to the fourth season.
Posted on August 31st, 2010
I just caught the last 20 minutes of the “He’s Not That Just Into You,” one of my all-time favorite romantic comedy movies. It made me think of all the other romance movies that made me want to fall in love again. Here they are:
- P.S. I Love You – It felt weird seeing Hillary Swank in a girly role but she portrayed the shoe-crazy widow with aplomb. Gerard butler was so lovable in this movie and I can’t seem to get his striptease scene out of my mind. But what propelled this movie on top of my list, despite the fact that Butler’s character died, is that it made me cry and laugh at the same time. Admittedly, I was crying most of the time, about three-fourths of the movie. But I still want my Jerry, even if I’ll lose him just like in the movie. Most memorable line: I know I am still in love with you because the first thing I wanna see when I wake up in the morning is your face.
- He’s Not That Just Into You – Star-studded movie with a good story. I fell in love with Justin Long in this movie because he’s just the kind of guy that I could fall in love with: popular with girls, manages a bar, dresses nice, and likes video games. Although, I’d probably be a “rule” girl for him rather than the exception. I’d probably end up like Jennifer Connelly, divorced but moving on. Most memorable line: you’re my exception.
- Someone Like You – A long-time favorite. I can’t count the number of times I have seen this movie starring Ashley Judd and Hugh Jackman. I love that scene where Hugh was feeding Ashley cold Chinese noodles using his hands. Really sweet. Most memorable line: Ray is not the last man you’re ever going to love.
- Made of Honor – There’s really something about bestfriends falling in love that makes me wish I would end up marrying one of my guy friends. Who knows, rght? But as of now I don’t think any of my close guy friends like me that way.
- 27 Dresses – Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. That was Katherine Heigl in this movie until she fell in love and married James Marsden. I was only a bridesmaid once and that was when I was still in college. I wonder if they still ask single moms to become bridesmaids…
These are movies that make me hope that one day I won’t be afraid to get hurt and allow myself to fall in love. Or maybe, having my daughter and enjoying our time together as I work at home as a virtual online assistant is enough.
Posted on August 31st, 2010
I don’t know about you but I still prefer printed books over e-books. I love feeling old books in my hand, knowing that I made those creases or marks when I first read the book. I love bring pocketbooks on buses, comfort rooms and restaurants. I love covering my books with plastic while I watch my favorite TV shows. I love reading books while sitting on patio chairs in the yard.
Even when I do have e-books, I never read them at the computer. I did skim them, checking out their contents, but never reading the entire thing even if it’s only 36 pages long. The ones I like, the ones whose content look promising, I printed. I remember printing the entire Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales book, almost 500 pages, when I got a copy of it from Project Gutenberg. I had the book bound when at the UP Diliman Shopping Center for Php 50.
Work wise, I’ve printed lots of manuals and e-books. One of my favorites is the Twitter Marketing Guide: How to Use Twitter as a Marketing Guide from OneClick VA. I had this one printed at one of the computer shops in UP Diliman Shopping Center for only Php 2.50 per page and had it bookbound for Php30. I also had Matt Carter’s Search Engine Domination e-book printed at the same shop.
Now, I am getting ready to have Marghil Macuha’s Guerilla Blogging e-Book printed here at Star Café Online. No, it’s not in UP Diliman. It’s small computer shop here in San Pedro, Laguna. They have a promo now, only 2 pesos per page. Unfortunately, they’re not offering bookbinding services. I can always have it bound later.
Let me end this post with a question (I know you know that was coming!): which do you prefer, printed books or e-books? Don’t forget to share the why part!
Posted on August 27th, 2010
Literally.
I forgot to turn of the cheap water heater and the water dried up, burned the bottom of the heater as well as the plastic base that supports the stainless steel body. I guess it took about at least 30 minutes for the whole thing to burn up, fill my small house with smoke, and alert my neighbor, Ryan, who went inside and unplugged the water heater.
You’re probably thinking, where was I? I was out parading the streets of our subdivision along with my daughter and her friends in the “sagala.” There were about 50 dressed up little girls and teenage girls strutting their stuff on the street to the amusement of their family, friends, and other residents.
This highly dangerous incident is a stark reminder that I shouldn’t be such a cheapo. When I moved, I was really on a tight budget that I chose the cheapest water heater I could find. The one I bought is a water heater made from China. When I bought it, safety didn’t cross my mind. All I was thinking is I need something to heat water with and it doesn’t have to be a brand name item. Now, I will probably be using the rice cooker to heat water.
So a word of advice: don’t buy cheap water heaters from China. You might save a couple of hundred of pesos when you buy it but it may cost you hundreds of thousands in house building.
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