Yes, the days of blogging whine! I should be sleeping. It's past six in the morning here. Sheesh, I must be freaking loser eh! I suppose I could have fun with my mind. Yeah..larky sheesh. Skye is high Skye will fly if those CO's arn't dumb maybe Skye will not be numb so then Skye high will ride and she'll fly high! Wootness! is that poem or is that frigging poem?!?!?! Talk about limerick freaking lark! the frggin' title says it all!
Aww fck it! Too freaking bad I don't drink! Yeah, a Catholic shmuckness! Larkiness..ugh ugh! Two minds should be consensual..with the bodies entwining! But aloneness leads to nonsense wittiness! or wetness! bwahahaha!
Okay. I've calmed down..just dull now. Weirdo me.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Careful you never know who's reading!
Saw this article. It tells a lot about how one should think what sends via SMS and later on selling that old cellphone! Yikes!
WASHINGTON - The married man's girlfriend sent a text message to his cell phone: His wife was getting suspicious. Perhaps they should cool it for a few days.
"So," she wrote, "I'll talk to u next week."
But so okay... isnt' it that all informations are stored in the sim card? or is that stupid question!?! Haha.
WASHINGTON - The married man's girlfriend sent a text message to his cell phone: His wife was getting suspicious. Perhaps they should cool it for a few days.
"So," she wrote, "I'll talk to u next week."
"You want a break from me? Then fine," he wrote back.
Later, the married man bought a new phone. He sold his old one on eBay, at Internet auction, for $290.
The guys who bought it now know his secret.
The married man had followed the directions in his phone's manual to erase all his information, including lurid exchanges with his lover. But it wasn't enough... Read more
But so okay... isnt' it that all informations are stored in the sim card? or is that stupid question!?! Haha.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
A Year After the Flood of Emotional Disaster
One year after the worst hurricane disaster, people are still coping with the loss. Mentally and emotionally. They're slowly rebuilding but the trauma of the past year really makes it hard for some..maybe for most to get on with their lives. It's not only in New Orleans, other states too like Mississippi, and even some parts of Alabama are still coping with the disaster, one year after. People are optimistic though. Despite the continuing argument about the slow federal response and what the government should've done when the magnitude of the hurricane started to unleashed before everybody else's eyes, resiliency of the many residents and their determination to bring back everything to normal is great challenge to them but at the same time challenging themselves to rise after the storm of disaster. The photo is the remnants of hurricane Katrina. The homes and possessions of many residents became trash.Photos by AP/WashPost. News link via WP
Monday, August 28, 2006
Fox journalists freed
The two Fox new journalist describes their ordeal while in capitvity.
In a phone call with Fox News, Centanni said they were abducted Aug. 14 by four masked gunmen on a side street in Gaza City. He said the assailants covered his head with a black hood, and crammed him and Wiig into a small car. Their possessions were taken, and their wrists were bound behind their backs. "I still have some sore wrists," he said. "It was digging into my wrists really badly." In captivity, Centanni said, he was laid face down in a dark garage and tied up in painful positions.
In a phone call with Fox News, Centanni said they were abducted Aug. 14 by four masked gunmen on a side street in Gaza City. He said the assailants covered his head with a black hood, and crammed him and Wiig into a small car. Their possessions were taken, and their wrists were bound behind their backs. "I still have some sore wrists," he said. "It was digging into my wrists really badly." In captivity, Centanni said, he was laid face down in a dark garage and tied up in painful positions.
We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint," Centanni told Fox.
I guess when somebody points a gun on you.. you have no choice but to abide. Scary. Glad they're free now. Got soft spot for journalist/reporters.
Idiot!
I decided to upload pics from cam, after uploading, I deleted everything. Idiot! So now, all the 100 plus pictures are gone from the comp and the cam. Idiot!
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Value
I saw this while browsing. Just blogging it here.
To realize the value of one year:
Ask a student who has failed a final exam.
To realize the value of one month:
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.
To realize the the value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of one minute:
Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane.
To realize the value of one second:
Ask a person who has survived an accident.
To realize the value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.
Nice isn't it? If I can add up to this.. it will be something like ...
To realize the value of friendship or love: Don't be annoying.
To realize the value of humility: Try saying sorry.
I'll add some more but..my brain's a bit spaced out. Happy Sunday morning.
To realize the value of one year:
Ask a student who has failed a final exam.
To realize the value of one month:
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.
To realize the the value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of one minute:
Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane.
To realize the value of one second:
Ask a person who has survived an accident.
To realize the value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.
Nice isn't it? If I can add up to this.. it will be something like ...
To realize the value of friendship or love: Don't be annoying.
To realize the value of humility: Try saying sorry.
I'll add some more but..my brain's a bit spaced out. Happy Sunday morning.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Old piece of blahness
Blogging an old news. I was fixing my documents and I saw I had saved this one I made. I lost the link somewhere but nevermind. Everybody knows about this since it's old. And so....
Incumbent Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman got blogged down by his multi millionaire opponent, Ned Lamont for the primary battle for the Democratic race for the states senate seat. Man, it pays to have good blogging support group eh? The powers thy bloggers yield in this tech savvy world of politcal crapness. Eh.. *scratches head* Hihi. Poor Lieberman, he will run now as an independent. Lets see if Republicans will back him..for all it's worth. Heh.
One thing I can surely say about my blogs, I don't have that yielding clout power. This blog sucks and I'm the only one sane enough to read it. Of course..it's my damn blog! But hey, if I can use this blaaaahg to help (someone/something) in a positive way..I'll glady blaggghing do it :)
Oh yeah, make love not war! :)
Incumbent Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman got blogged down by his multi millionaire opponent, Ned Lamont for the primary battle for the Democratic race for the states senate seat. Man, it pays to have good blogging support group eh? The powers thy bloggers yield in this tech savvy world of politcal crapness. Eh.. *scratches head* Hihi. Poor Lieberman, he will run now as an independent. Lets see if Republicans will back him..for all it's worth. Heh.
One thing I can surely say about my blogs, I don't have that yielding clout power. This blog sucks and I'm the only one sane enough to read it. Of course..it's my damn blog! But hey, if I can use this blaaaahg to help (someone/something) in a positive way..I'll glady blaggghing do it :)
Oh yeah, make love not war! :)
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Oh no we're Plutoless!
Planet Pluto demoted to being a 'dwarf' by leading (Goofy) astronomers!
For now, membership will be restricted to the eight "classical" planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Much-maligned Pluto doesn't make the grade under the new rules for a planet: "a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit."Pluto is automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune's.
Aww. Why oh why did they do that?!?! Our solar system will not be thesame. Oh pluto! Nine planets will be come eight.. ack! we're Plutoless!
Hotness!
I feel the sweat trickling down my tummy!
Fartness! I was laughing so hard hearing this one performer comment "Oh vanilla Ice is back?!?" referring to the performance of guy named Federline. Hahah.
Newness! Blogger, yes the one who publishes my blogs you're readng right now has new beta features. One needs to switched from the old to the the beta version so one can use it. Looks good. About time they change something and enhanced their blog features. Remember it's beta so there's still some bugs. Eh..squash those bugs ye hear!
Fartness! I was laughing so hard hearing this one performer comment "Oh vanilla Ice is back?!?" referring to the performance of guy named Federline. Hahah.
Newness! Blogger, yes the one who publishes my blogs you're readng right now has new beta features. One needs to switched from the old to the the beta version so one can use it. Looks good. About time they change something and enhanced their blog features. Remember it's beta so there's still some bugs. Eh..squash those bugs ye hear!
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Reviews for the Spike Lee documentary
When the Levee Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. Click this HBO link for more information.
Even when Lee's subjects are calm and composed, their words cut to the bone. Along with visuals that capture all aspects of the disaster, these bitter, wounded, poignant, thoughtful, expert and often foul-mouthed voices are knitted together in a tightly edited film that manages to sustain four hours without a central narrator. (Washington Post)
Although seeds of hope are woven into this tapestry of rage, sorrow and disbelief, the inability of government at almost every level to act quickly and decisively leaves you aghast at what amounts to a collective failure of will. Some of the stories that hurt the most describe indignities suffered by ordinary New Orleanians leaving the city, like those who were turned back by armed police officers as they tried to cross a bridge into the town of Gretna. (NYTimes)
In this way, "When the Levees Broke" isn't so much investigative as impressionistic, the kind of storytelling you still get on a radio show like Ira Glass' "This American Life." But it's the accumulation of anecdote, not the rhetoric, that makes this such a valuable document. "When the Levees Broke" is like the New Orleans jazz funeral — a dirge on the way to the cemetery, an up-tempo parade in the deceased's honor on the bittersweet walk back home. (LA Times)
I'm not sure if HBO Asia will air it here but I hope they do. I've seen 9/11 docus before (haven't seen Oliver Stone's film, WTC or the film flight 93,though). I'm sure Hurricane Katrina, will resonate with emotional thug just as 9/11 documentaries.
Btw, I hope HBO Asia plan to show the Kevin Carter documentary also.
Source for many reviews from Metacritic
Even when Lee's subjects are calm and composed, their words cut to the bone. Along with visuals that capture all aspects of the disaster, these bitter, wounded, poignant, thoughtful, expert and often foul-mouthed voices are knitted together in a tightly edited film that manages to sustain four hours without a central narrator. (Washington Post)
Although seeds of hope are woven into this tapestry of rage, sorrow and disbelief, the inability of government at almost every level to act quickly and decisively leaves you aghast at what amounts to a collective failure of will. Some of the stories that hurt the most describe indignities suffered by ordinary New Orleanians leaving the city, like those who were turned back by armed police officers as they tried to cross a bridge into the town of Gretna. (NYTimes)
In this way, "When the Levees Broke" isn't so much investigative as impressionistic, the kind of storytelling you still get on a radio show like Ira Glass' "This American Life." But it's the accumulation of anecdote, not the rhetoric, that makes this such a valuable document. "When the Levees Broke" is like the New Orleans jazz funeral — a dirge on the way to the cemetery, an up-tempo parade in the deceased's honor on the bittersweet walk back home. (LA Times)
I'm not sure if HBO Asia will air it here but I hope they do. I've seen 9/11 docus before (haven't seen Oliver Stone's film, WTC or the film flight 93,though). I'm sure Hurricane Katrina, will resonate with emotional thug just as 9/11 documentaries.
Btw, I hope HBO Asia plan to show the Kevin Carter documentary also.
Source for many reviews from Metacritic
Truce be told...
Israel has right to defend it's nation. And if that means stopping (by raiding) re arming of Hezbolla by Iran and Syria then what's wrong with that? And UN peacekeeping force from muslim nations like Indonesia, Malaysia and Bangladesh..c'mon, if ever there's conflict again, do these UN peacekeeping force have the power to even patrol the borders or prevent militias? Unifel wasn't even a success you know. Hezbolla extremist and their masters, Syria and Iran could wipe them out. Plus the fact that Malaysia recently hosted an Islamic conference that included calls for Israel to be "wiped off the map."
Okay enough said.
Newslink via Washington Post
Okay enough said.
Newslink via Washington Post
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Photographer McCusker out of the hospital
Link via Romenesko. Article from Photo Distric News. I blogged about this guy who snapped and wanted to die (8/13 blog). He seems alright for now. He's out of hospital but will still be facing four criminal charges.
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Finally a suspect murderer arrested!
John Mark Karr, a 41 yar old American teacher was arrested in Thailand. He said that '" he loved Jonbenet" and that "death was accidental."He confessed to the killing.
Oh my God. I can't help but cringe and get scared. This man, who is now a very much suspect in that brutal murder of a child beauty queen had been living in Asia. A decade ago six year old Jonbenet Ramsey was brutally murdered. It became a high profiled case and for ten years the Boulder police didn't have any success finding out who killed the little gir (they suspected the parents). And now this breakthrough and the guy all along had been in Asia.
What led to his arrest was the emails sent to journalism professor which became suspicious of him
Oh my God. I can't help but cringe and get scared. This man, who is now a very much suspect in that brutal murder of a child beauty queen had been living in Asia. A decade ago six year old Jonbenet Ramsey was brutally murdered. It became a high profiled case and for ten years the Boulder police didn't have any success finding out who killed the little gir (they suspected the parents). And now this breakthrough and the guy all along had been in Asia.
The little girl, would've been 16 years old right had she lived.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Sadness, Anger and Grief Took it's Toll on Him...
This is what Hurricane Katrina did to well known local photographer John McCusker.
He wanted to die.
“You have to understand the depth of the horror that the city was,”
This is from the New York Times article (NYTimes reg req'd)
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 9 — On the morning after Hurricane Katrina, when members of The Times-Picayune’s staff found themselves marooned in its flooded building here, John McCusker refused to join most of his colleagues in relocating to a remote newsroom in Baton Rouge.
After the building was evacuated, Mr. McCusker, a photographer for the paper, swam through muck while managing to keep his equipment dry and, from a kayak, captured some of the most harrowing images of the storm’s immediate aftermath. Then, for months, he lived the misery he had been photographing, having lost his possessions, his family’s home and his entire neighborhood to the hurricane.
On Tuesday, nearly a year after the storm, he seemed to snap.....read more
Please... if you're interested. I wanted to post all but it's quite long. It's a reminder really that people still are dealing with the mental grief and trauma hurricane Katrina brought to them. New Orleans residence still suffering from the tragedy.
In many instances like in strife torn places and countries were poverty is rampant, people suffer from the trauma of what they're going through.
I'm not a photographer but seeing and snapping photos of tragedy can really take it's toll and then one just snaps. Pulitzer-prize winner Kevin Carter of South Africa is an example. After seeing the famine in Sudan and snapping that now famous photo of vulture waiting to eat a child, he committed suicide. (Click here to see the photo).
Emotions and tragedy are potent mix. For some it's hard to disassociate themselves from the subject of their profession. It's hard not to get affected. Snapshots of tragedy specially, can trigger despairing feelings and then one just wants to end it all and just die to block it all out.
It's all sad.
He wanted to die.
“You have to understand the depth of the horror that the city was,”
This is from the New York Times article (NYTimes reg req'd)
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 9 — On the morning after Hurricane Katrina, when members of The Times-Picayune’s staff found themselves marooned in its flooded building here, John McCusker refused to join most of his colleagues in relocating to a remote newsroom in Baton Rouge.
After the building was evacuated, Mr. McCusker, a photographer for the paper, swam through muck while managing to keep his equipment dry and, from a kayak, captured some of the most harrowing images of the storm’s immediate aftermath. Then, for months, he lived the misery he had been photographing, having lost his possessions, his family’s home and his entire neighborhood to the hurricane.
On Tuesday, nearly a year after the storm, he seemed to snap.....read more
Please... if you're interested. I wanted to post all but it's quite long. It's a reminder really that people still are dealing with the mental grief and trauma hurricane Katrina brought to them. New Orleans residence still suffering from the tragedy.
In many instances like in strife torn places and countries were poverty is rampant, people suffer from the trauma of what they're going through.
I'm not a photographer but seeing and snapping photos of tragedy can really take it's toll and then one just snaps. Pulitzer-prize winner Kevin Carter of South Africa is an example. After seeing the famine in Sudan and snapping that now famous photo of vulture waiting to eat a child, he committed suicide. (Click here to see the photo).
Emotions and tragedy are potent mix. For some it's hard to disassociate themselves from the subject of their profession. It's hard not to get affected. Snapshots of tragedy specially, can trigger despairing feelings and then one just wants to end it all and just die to block it all out.
It's all sad.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Amazing wonderful shots from Afghanistan
Saw this beautiful Flickr photo by violinsoldier a US flag flying and with a close up of the rainbow so vivid. The other similar photos with the rainbows are just as amazing. Click the link will ya. It's really lovely.
Monday, August 07, 2006
So who do you side with?
The innocent civilians of course and especially the children. They are really the victims in these tit for that bombings. Telly is on right now and Haifa hit by heaviest rocket attack by Hezbolla. Somebody please not glorify militias and extremist groups!
News link (AP/Yahoo)
News link (AP/Yahoo)
Friday, August 04, 2006
Un hibernating, un hiatus for today now
I'm still sad about about last Thursday (7/27). But I will try again! Last week I thought I would be on cloud nine but turned out to be hell. Frustration turned into tears and silence soon followed and sadness never left. I hope to rectify everything. But for now...ciao.
Ganging up on Mel Gibson
Un hiatus for today. I am adding my own two cents worth of blahg! Not that it matters. And so....
Yes. He deserve all the hate and bigotry and for his drunken anti semitic slurs. But c'mon! He already said sorry! He apologized and I believe he is sincere and he meant it. Of course some would argue, he should have said the apology right then and there and not when he sobered up did he profusely apologized to the jewish community.
There are conservatives defending him. In defense of Mel Gibson, John Derbyshire in his NRO column said....
The guy was drunk, for heaven’s sake. We all say and do dumb things when we are drunk. If I were to be judged on my drunken escapades and follies, I should be utterly excluded from polite society, and so would you, unless you are some kind of saint.
But yet again people would argue, is it really the drunken state or there really is more deeper hatred against the jews hence anti semitic tirade?
Where is Hollywood and why wont they defend one of their own? They're nowhere to be found. They are silent. Hell, most of Hollywood bigwigs are Jews. Deep inside they are disappointed with Mel and his tirades. Would they Abandon him? It looks to be heading that way..for now it seems. Will he lose fans and his movies will tanked? Yes. He did make an ass of him out there. Getting drunk, and saying those slurs. He deserved it. No excuse for it.. except him being drunk and all. He is paying the price now for his actons. His image tarnished.
But... Mel Gibson is one powerful movie star you rarely hear anything from his family..his wife especially, his children had been shielded mostly and free from all the hollywood brouhaha. So Give the guy a break!
Celebrities and famous personalities have been charged with drunk driving too many times, and this time around, Mel Gibson arrested for misdemeanor DUI created a lot judgement because of his anti semitic slurs, truth is if it weren't for those remarks, it probably would made less of an impact. Of course it would be created a lot of publicity because he is a big star. Powerful hollywood player.
At the end of the day once sober, he apologized and made amends again and owned up to his very very stupid grave mistake (that will probably ruined him in hollywood and with friends as well though I doubt. Heck, hollywood is hollwyood if you know what I mean.). He should be getting help now and for his alcoholism problems.
Yes. He deserve all the hate and bigotry and for his drunken anti semitic slurs. But c'mon! He already said sorry! He apologized and I believe he is sincere and he meant it. Of course some would argue, he should have said the apology right then and there and not when he sobered up did he profusely apologized to the jewish community.
There are conservatives defending him. In defense of Mel Gibson, John Derbyshire in his NRO column said....
The guy was drunk, for heaven’s sake. We all say and do dumb things when we are drunk. If I were to be judged on my drunken escapades and follies, I should be utterly excluded from polite society, and so would you, unless you are some kind of saint.
But yet again people would argue, is it really the drunken state or there really is more deeper hatred against the jews hence anti semitic tirade?
Where is Hollywood and why wont they defend one of their own? They're nowhere to be found. They are silent. Hell, most of Hollywood bigwigs are Jews. Deep inside they are disappointed with Mel and his tirades. Would they Abandon him? It looks to be heading that way..for now it seems. Will he lose fans and his movies will tanked? Yes. He did make an ass of him out there. Getting drunk, and saying those slurs. He deserved it. No excuse for it.. except him being drunk and all. He is paying the price now for his actons. His image tarnished.
But... Mel Gibson is one powerful movie star you rarely hear anything from his family..his wife especially, his children had been shielded mostly and free from all the hollywood brouhaha. So Give the guy a break!
Celebrities and famous personalities have been charged with drunk driving too many times, and this time around, Mel Gibson arrested for misdemeanor DUI created a lot judgement because of his anti semitic slurs, truth is if it weren't for those remarks, it probably would made less of an impact. Of course it would be created a lot of publicity because he is a big star. Powerful hollywood player.
At the end of the day once sober, he apologized and made amends again and owned up to his very very stupid grave mistake (that will probably ruined him in hollywood and with friends as well though I doubt. Heck, hollywood is hollwyood if you know what I mean.). He should be getting help now and for his alcoholism problems.
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