Wha Didjcha Say?

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.Aww no one got the inside joke! haha XD The “Let’s TED it up” was referring to an episode in How I Met Your Mother when everyone started using the Ted as a verb which means something like “doing something foolish”.

Thanks to all those who read and liked my super long post! I was browsing through my old posts last week and I realized… I used to write even longer than that! XD And my blogger blog had longer entries. Don’t worry, hope you guys noticed how I’ve been trying to shorten my entries now for the convenience of both of us.

Thanks too to Sis Tricia for putting me on the site spotlight! Thanks dear!! Gosh…

Admit it guys, you must have been LSS-ed or at least have been annoyed or you liked the song Watcha Say by Jason Derulo. Here’s a video just to refresh your memory

This song automatically played in my mind when the Oscar nominations came out last February 3, 2010 and as tradition, I have to blog about it. I already posted the list here in Tidbits Movie Blog but I really can’t help but blog about it here too! I’m really into movies and I really hope to at least work at least once in my life related to movies or something This is why my dream too of going to Pixar is like hitting 2 birds with one stone… wait that’s cruel… hitting 2 targets with one stone. Check out my project filmography! 14 movies so far this year!

So wait where was I, oh yeah! This song played in my head because for the second time in FOREVER since the first Best Picture Oscar was given that an ANIMATED MOVIE WAS NOMINATED FOR A BEST PICTURE.

Guess what animated movie?

Yeah you guess it right, it’s UP!

Did you know that besides Up, only Beauty and The Beast was able to battle with the big boys back in 1991? What do you guys think? Because Beauty and the Beast didn’t win that year, the Academy then thought that animated films were actually doing a fantastic job so they made a different category called Best Animated Film. But guys, what do you think Best Picture means? Isn’t it suppose to be the film that did REALLY WELL regardless of medium used to make the film? What do you think? I personally believe that Up deserves to be at the top *though it won’t win, but it CAN* because it was one of the best films of 2009 and I think Pixar went ABOVE their standards again. So I want to hear your thoughts on the animated film controversy. Read this blog to find out more about it (did you know that for 8 years, animated films were the TOP critically acclaimed movies for their year?)

I do think that this year’s Oscar is going to be GREAT. I’ve been so blaahh-ed about the past few years because of various reasons such as the Oscar host wasn’t good, I didn’t like the Best Picture win or the nominees at all. This year has some very interesting battles especially the duel between the ex-couple, James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow. It is so funny to see these two neck in neck with 9 nominations each. I mean what would reaction be if you’re up against your husband or wife at some award? What should you feel? I think James Cameron would gladly give the award to his wife because his previous monster hit Titanic did win Best Pic already and now his current movie just HIT A BIGGER ICEBERG and broke all movie records. He’s a Box Office director no doubt! I am so excited to see how this turns out but I think Kathryn will get her awards I have yet to see Hurt Locker though, will watch it soon!

And then we have Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin as hosts! A TEAM UP! This is going to be so awesome because I believe these two have great chemistry. I have yet to see somebody top my favorite Oscar host, Billy Crystal!

And of course, 10 NOMINATIONS FOR BEST PIC. How the heck will they present them all? What would the hosts’ intro be? AND DISTRICT 9 WAS ACTUALLY NOMINATED!! I FRIGGING LOVED THAT MOVIE AND I’M SO HAPPY IT’S THERE.

Sorry for the all caps, I just love Oscar season even if some don’t *and I’m sorry if I’m boring you all* but I can’t feel anything but happiness. This actually cheered me up last Tuesday because I felt so down. Sniff. I feel like a kid in a candy store

So here are the four major categories of the Academy Awards. No bets yet until I watch them all! I have a month (March 3 – Oscar day) to watch them and a month to decide. I’m hoping Carey Mulligan for Best Actress! Did you know she played Kitty in Pride and Prejudice alongside Keira Knightly? I DIDN’T BAT AN EYE AT HER THEN BECAUSE SHE HAD SO FEW DIALOGUE. But when you watch An Education, WHOA she has grown so much!

I think that this is enough for the day WAIT!! Did you know that there was a STREAKER (a.k.a Naked man running) in the Oscars way back in… forgot the year but the host was soo cool with it XD It was so shocking! Wanna watch? Embedding is disabled you see WATCH HERE

I’ll be posting a new entry sometime after 3 days maybe?

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Questions:
1. What do you think about animated films being nominated for Best Picutre? Are they qualified to be at the top?
2. Who was your favorite Oscar host?
3. Fave movie of all time?
4. Fave actor/actress?
5. Fave animated film?
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I remember when my family still had the lot in New Manila and I was dreaming already of the tea parties I’ll have (which is an exaggeration, we’ll have cocoa parties instead!) and how my room would look like (it would be classical and yet very hip and techno and country at the same time! Can you just imagine the wacky things that were going on inside my mind?) and I planned to be a part of designing the house. My brother and I have already created a Sims-model of our house. Isn’t that neat?

But unfortunately plans didn’t push through. If it did push through, we’d have awesome flooring and doors because dad bought these awesome wood flooring that we can probably laminate. I was browsing through magazines (because back then I didn’t hog the internet that much) and looking at everything from the tables to the windows to the ceilings to the floors and to the stairs.

Well I hope that we can still get our dream house someday.

Let’s TED It Up!

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**WARNING QUITE LONG**

As promised, SHOUT OUTS to Nadine for guessing the right age (6 years old!! Actually I was 5.9 years old, we went to US for the whole month of May back in 1996) and Szarina (pls visit her, she’s Stephie’s little sister and she just revived her blog! She got the place right, Splash Mountain at Magic Kingdom, Disneyland, Florida) and Beng (i am the kid in the middle at the front row XD was with my dad and bro! XD)

Sad that a few of you didn’t know where I was sitting… i was the cute kid! XD haha KIDDING.

Story regarding the prisoner letter if anybody is interested ▼

Finally finally my package from Threadless has arrived last week! It took almost 2 months for it to ship. Reckon it was stuck in customs? So weird, because the panda hat I bought later also from the US came before these 2 shirts.

What you think about the shirts? I wanted this one but it is STILL OUT OF STOCK. Bummer !

I do want to promote their shirt for Haiti. I know I haven’t talked about Haiti and I feel quite guilty because I was all out for Ondoy. I tried to help though. I donated to Phil Red Cross for their Haiti relief operations and I’m still spreading the news on twitter and facebook. I really can’t imagine how Haiti is coping. They are less fortunate than us Philippines and have fewer resources so I am quite concerned with their manpower. And I’ve been hearing about the violence that they experiencing. An earthquake is quite different from the flood because buildings collapsed here. More damage has been done. People in Haiti must really be frightened. If I only can go there, I would to! If any brave soul with the capability to go there, please do try since airline tickets have dropped for easy access to Haiti. I will still keep on praying for them… oh here’s their shirt by the way!

I also received Sis Tricia’s package OMG WHOOT!! MY VERY FIRST CONTACT LENS! She even gave me a small pouch and a keychain from Singapore! h thank you sis!! So happy! your letter! I still haven't successfully put the contacts. It's soo dang hard. XD I will definitely post a pic once I am able to do it. I'll try it later in the evening. I'll need some help XD haha!!

Now to the gist of the post! I’ve been really wanting to talk about how innovation is affecting our lives. I’ve been enjoying the past few classes of PS140 Electronics and it is WEIRD for me because I normally scrunch my face when I hear of electronics because I just don’t understand it at times. But good thing Sir showed us how cool electronics is and how technology is changing. He introduced us to TED and in their site I quote,

TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year’s TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize.

People in TED hold a lot of conferences and forums and if you just watch some of them, you’d be amazed how man has traveled so far and how going to the moon now is just a cinch. I mean imagine a world like the one in Ironman, where Tony Stark is just manipulating and staring at an invisible screen but yet he is able to move windows, resize them and input calculations. It’s awesome isn’t it? I was actually able to watch the video where I saw this almost happening. You can take pictures WITH JUST YOUR FINGERS. Get information of a book from Amazon by just screening the pages/title cover. AMAZING. Are you ready to watch this SIXTH SENSE?

But I realized… if this device can just point at a person’s face and identify him immediately, isn’t it… a bit stalker-ish? This device gives a whole lot of knowledge and in our society today, KNOWLEDGE is INDEED POWER. It’s crazy and scary at the same time how technology is advancing so quickly. I really do think that the movie I Robot may actually be possible now.

For me, technology shouldn’t be selfish. This device is a bit selfish in a sense that you want everything at once and anything. If you invent something that saves lives, then that’s something really marvelous. My favorite innovation that sir showed us was the lifesaver bottle. He was inspired by Hurricane Katrina when he saw that after the devastation, people were cloistered and were getting sick everywhere. Access to food and most importantly water is almost non-existent. People were still dying. Michael Pritchard then researched and after a few prototypes (you can just imagine how many times he must have gotten sick himself), he was able to invent a water bottle that even if you put the MOST POLLUTED RIVER WATER (case in point: pasig river or yangtze river), you’d be able to filter out DRINKING WATER.

Again. AMAZING.

Did you know that the size of a bacteria/virus is 25 NANOMETERS and the size of the pores of the filtering systems of our water filtering centers is around A MICRON? Food for thought. GET THIS, they actually have a website already *just saw it, silly me XD* HELP HAITI BY DONATING 25$ and give them a water bottle! Pls go this site for more information.

I can’t believe I haven’t seen these water bottles before, I really want to invest in this and bring it here in the Philippines. GOSH REALLY AMAZING.

And more doggie news! I went to my mum’s friend’s place (the on you know, who I talked about had a pool just for her doggies?) but too bad I didn’t see the oldie golden retrievers swimming about! XD Good thing Tita (aunt in Filipino, you call your mum’s friends aunt too :D) was able to capture these moments!

Ever since my alarm clock broke… well i haven’t had anything to wake me up except mum’s screams. XD And am lusting over this. T_T It’s soo cool and it’s an ipod speaker to boot! Anybody wanna give this as an advance birthday present? haha it’d be good when I go to Junior Term Abroad too! Oh yeah, which brings me that the list of schools being offered will be released NEXT WEEK! It’s finally happening!

A Run-and-Catch clock? XD

Talking alarm clock maybe?

Or a flying alarm clock?

Well hope ya learned something in my scrambled post. Cheerio!

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