Egypt Uprising! The end of Mubarak?

Breaking news! Egypt burning! Watching the telly right now and it's so chaotic as pro and anti Mubarak are clashing. Of course the anti out number the pro. Maybe something will happen later... and Hosni Mubarak's hours, days may be numbered!

Social Media and Television.. news

I saw this via Mashable How Social Media is Changing the Business of Television. That is so true.

The nightly new shows here have something new to offer the viewing public. See, every time I watch, I noticed that anchors have now been equip with iPads. Before they will just read the new paper and teleprompter. Now, they will will blah blah with the top headlines news and then flip their iPads, they instantly read reactions of views via twitter or FB thereby engaging the viewing public to participate. Socializing with everyone real time, we get to know the pulse and opinion. Pretty soon will probably have SNN... Social News Network. Heh.

Prince William and Kate Middleton Engaged! Royal Wedding Next Year!

OMG! Engagement announced! I just have to blog that! I don't know why I'm excited. He he. Watching BBC right now and they are showing news clips about the Kate who is the become the future QUEEN of England! And because I can barely remember Charles and Diana's royal wedding, (Hey I was kid!), and I like fairy tales, prince and princess, this royal wedding summer of 2011 must be watched soon!

A wedding on the internet age! Great!

Still on the topic of Boxing and Paquiao's win...

Oh I like Dan Wetzel's report! why Mayweather should keep dodging Pacquiao. Ha ha!

Quoting Manny Pacquiao on Mayweather... “He needs me,” Pacquiao said. “I don’t need him.”

And because boxing is an brutal entertaining sports.. I was LOL so much with this comment re: Justin Bieber vs Mayweather battle! Epic! Ha ha ha!

Manny Pacquiao still the champ!

Woohoo! Manny wins over Antonio Margarito! As usual, we know the results even before the fight could start. Delayed free t.v showing here. It is live but.. super delayed and add to that, the commercials dominated the fight! Ha ha ha.

*edit.oh and Pacquiao may not need Mayweather anymore. Read comments from that yahoo link, one said of Mayweather, "he is irrelevant and he should retire!" Ha ha. Right on!

Now showing on US politics, John Boehner!

I'm still for Mitt Romney for 2012!

Just for the record I'm hardly a pundit. I'm not American nor do I live in the US. However I'm more fascinated with whats happening there more than what's going here. Politics sucks, and politicians gobble it all up.

Anyway, this post is about the recent victory of Republicans in Midterm elections. With the victory, the GOP regained control of congress. John Boehner, will be the incoming speaker of the House.

From NY Daily:

It was a scene straight out of "Mad Men" - chain-smoking Don Draper denouncing "addictive" cigarettes after his ad agency lost a big tobacco account.

Except it was Rep. John Boehner - speaker of the House-in-waiting - on Election Night, enthusiastically ripping into the city that made him what he is.

"For too long, Washington has been doing what's best for Washington, not what's best for the American people," said the man who would be third in line to the presidency.

The sounds of jaws dropping filled the air. Here was a man who epitomized Washington denying he ever had anything to do with the place. The fictional Don Draper would have been proud.

In many ways, Boehner is the Don Draper of D.C. - a chain-smoking, unapologetic Midwesterner in a sharp suit straight out of America, circa 1962. Read more

CNN:

Who is John Boehner? Among friends, he's just one of the guys.

During Boehner's time in Congress, he's also earned a reputation among reporters and colleagues as having a laid-back demeanor and a penchant for wisecracks. On Thursday, when questioned by ABC's Diane Sawyer about the possibility of a "Slurpee summit" with President Obama, Boehner responded, "I don't know about a Slurpee. How about a glass of merlot?" Read all

Well, suddenly 2012 seems fast approaching. No Palin, please!

OMH! (Oh My Hamm!)

Jon Hamm what the hell are you doing? I like that you take risks and appear (the very first time) ON SNL. And as much as I like the show, I wish that you just stick to Mad Men and be Don Draper! Suave and elegant and classy, gritty, smart, and powerful ad man!

I betcha' Don Draper would never appear on SNL!

News links: NYmag, WSJ blog

White is purity, empty is bare

Good morning. Why the hell am I still awake? I've been trying to do some html geeky coding with the other test page. I took a break and browsed the web, read some articles and blogs. Now I'm set to rest my sleepy eyes.

I've had this blog since 2002 and but for the last 6 years the layout has been bare of any clutter save for links, blog archives and the about blah blah. I wanted a new template for this blog without having too much crap. I'll dress you dear blog.. soon.

In the meantime, after 3 years I'm no longer a monkey slave to time and pressure. It's been about a month and half since I tendered the paper to the higher ups. After that, I've been looking and I've been lucky but had to decline two and the other one, I didn't continue. In hindsight, I probably should have accepted the offer.

Anyway, I have a lot of time to spare now hence tinkering with the bare site. Heh. I feel empty just like this blog post.

Last year this time, I woke up in Misery

Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana) left us all in a state of calamity and sorrow. It rained non stop for 6 hours and brought everything to a halt. The floods buried the metro in helpless situation. It was worse than what happened in New Orleans. Google if you need to, so you'll know what I mean. Check Flickr, You Tube, Facebook too. Click to see large version of the print screen images.




Photos via search from Google images which came from different websites.

IE9 Beta Released.. XP Users left out and ignored

So, a new browser for Microsoft. The (browser) war is not over it seems. FF, Chrome look out. Microsoft running after their rivals. When I had my first pc13 years ago (I had to beg my mom), I was running Netscape as browser for crying out loud. I switched to IE after a few months. Click inside IE9

In the meantime, Here are 12 Things You Need To Know About IE9 And part of that is the sucky news that XP users cannot download, will not be able to get the new browser because it's exclusive to windows 7 and Vista. Aw. majority of people still uses XP you know. All right. I know it's slowly dying and it's probably the way they want so that people will leave the ageing OS.

Okay so XP is becoming obselete? will be extinct? is an antique? cannot support acceleration and HTML5?

As I'm running my PC using XP prof, and will not be able to download the new browser, I will just try it on with another pc that is running windows 7. I have to buy one first. I'm content with my XP. I never even dared getting a Vista. FF, Chrome, running perfectly.

I don't want to be left out with technology but I'm still happy with my XP and my 3 browsers. Yes, I'm running different browsers . I'll have windows 7 machine. but 'll stick with FF as browser.

The hyping of an idiot

I decided to blog about the loony one. Who the hell is Terry Jones? I've seen news about him in recent days but wasn't really interested. I really don't know the whole story until just last night while browsing the net for a blogging piece about 9/11.

Apparently media/ cable pundits/bloggers/ social networks hyped and sensationalized the idiot's plan to burn the Koran. Terry idiot basked the limelight trying to promote his own radicalism. He loved it. The idiot! And the media... tsk tsk.

Read these: How the media ignite Koran burning story (theage.com)
What if media had ignored Terry Jones via Mike Thomas article (Orlando Sentinel)

Terry Jones is an Idiot...

Terry Jones is nobody. Is he really a pastor? Maybe seeking limelight for his cult? Retard?

His threat to burn Quran/ Koran is such a disgusting idea. Only lunatic will do that. He hates Muslims and the the idea of building a mosque near ground zero. He can hate all he wants but to burn something sacred to Muslims is an act of ignorance and stupidity.

Because we don't want to forget

Read this article form NY Times: September 11, 2010: The Right Way To Remember.

Nine years after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, a memorial and a transportation hub are taking recognizable shape and skyscrapers are finally starting to rise from the ashes of ground zero.

Click the link to read the whole report. It's good and I agree.

9/11 I weep for you

I always remember September 11, 2001. I'm not American but I don't have to be one to share the grief, sadness and anger with what transpired 9 years ago. I remember what I was doing and where was I when it happened. It was evening, (local time here) I was chatting online and surfing the net but at the same time watching t.v. in my room. Breaking news flashed on the screen and I see that World Trade Center is burning. Pentagon, Pennsylvania also reported that planes have crashed.

Tower one was burning I saw the planes from the news footage, smashed through the towers. I remember being shocked and awed and stayed throughout the evening into the morning not turning off the t.v. but watched all the news from CNN.

I wept when they showed people trapped inside the burning tower, choosing to jump to save their lives. 40 stories, high even 30 or 20 they all jumped one by one and I shamelessly cried when I saw the images. I wept watching the news and when people couldn't find their love ones in their state of panic. I wept seeing them tired and crying helpless, wandering and wondering where are their families. Even news reporters and anchors couldn't stop the tears flowing from their quivered voices. It was hard for them report on the scene without feeling any emotions.

9/11 changed everything. The way American views things, the way they see the future and how to deal with Muslims. Somehow, America is not safe anymore. Americans are wary and it is understandable. All you have to do is to remember that sunny morning of September 11, 2001 a little over past 8 a.m. A piece of safety and security broken by radicals of Al Qaeda.

Hurricane Katrina five years ago

One of the scenes from the news I mostly remember was the dome that was so filled to it's capacity- young and old, rich, poor crying getting col and hungry having lost their homes and their things. Residents wandering the streets littered with garbage and floods everywhere. It didn't look like America.

New Orleans looks to have recovered. The people have risen from the ruins. Resiliency being their weapon.

Nola.com has stories of ruins and recovery: five years after Hurricane Katrina

Manila, After The Hostage

Filipinos working in Hong Kong getting the brunt of the residents anger after that hostage tourist bus tragedy. I can't really blame the reactions of the HK residents both here and in HK. Of course they're angry. 8 are confirmed dead and several others are in in critical conditions.

One policeman's grievance's against being dismissed which caused that officer his job and pension and retirement benefits triggered the craziness in his head.

What he did was wrong. How the Police handled the situation had lapses too. C'mon, we're a third world country okay! Our policemen doesn't necessarily have the training and equipment and other know hows on how to handle such crisis.

The whole thing was like 'Speed' the movie. The situation is somewhat the same in some aspects. Difference is that there was no bomb planted on the tourist bus that that crazy policeman took over and held hostage 28 tourist from HK. Instead an m 16 and I don't know what else.

Hostage situation lasted 12 hours that ended in a rainy day assault of the bus killing 8 Hong Kong nationals and wounding the other hostages. That crazy policeman, fired shots and killed the hostages.

I Dont Think There Should be a Mosque near Ground Zero

But that's just my opinion....

Building a mosque (more like community center with a mosque inside, developer said) so close to the heart of pain and suffering that 9/11 brought to the people, is an 'insult to New Yorkers.'

I think sensitivity is an issue and a big factor. And yes, have people forgotten 9/11?

The proposed mosque by the Cordoba Initiative is stirring up heated debates for those oppose and in favor. Read more via CBS. See the comments too. People have a lot to say too.

A Mosque maligned - via NY Times. Read the article and the comments too

Islamist expert thinks it's more of political statement.

The question to ask and ponder ... why there? Why the land? Who is funding that? Is it really for cultural identity and to foster relations (with the west or other faiths). Questions left unanswered. So the skeptics.

Okay so American Muslims and Muslims in general are good people. It's the terrorist, extremist and radicals that makes the Muslims bad.

There is nothing wrong building that community center/mosque. They do have good intentions. They need a place where they can gather, pray, worship, teach, foster good relations and mainly a center for the majority of Muslims who needs help whether it be jobs or lawyers, for recreational purposes or just for everyday community center.

I know what they want to achieve with the center/mosque. I'm not an American and I don't live in the US much less NY but if I am...I would want something like that. One that would cater to my culture, where I don't have to feel indifferent because of my race or my faith.

However, building a mosque in NY gives Bin Laden (if he still alive.. is he?) another chance to wipe out New Yorkers. Americans. Al Qaeda and the extremists took years planning that 9/11 attack . A planned mosque/center for Muslims is easy mechanism for extremists. The center can be a tool they can use and service their needs for something that we should all be vigilant

C'mon. Be a realist. Everyone knows what's going to happen if a mosque is to be build in New York so close to ground zero.

Something to read and think..

In case anybody wanders to this blog and if interested. There is an article in the New York Times- What Broke My Father's Heart by Kathy Butler.

It is a long 7 page narrative of their ordeal with pacemaker, medicare, doctors and hospital ethics, liability of patient and doctors, dementia, heart attack, modern medicines...I can go on. It's informative painful way of sharing what the family did and the risk and the decision making that comes into important situations.

I admit I don't know anything about these things but my grandma had dementia (I think It was) but she was sane. God bless her soul. Although in her case, it did not come to point the where we had to make decisions because of sickness.

The article is full of information for research for knowing what to do and what not and how to do so if put in such a situation. I don't know.. just figured it's interesting.

Talking Movies: Catcher in the Rye Movie?

Oh wow, is there a possibility? I read from the Telegraph UK...

JD Salinger always insisted The Catcher in the Rye was "unactable" and refused to let Hollywood anywhere near his masterpiece. But six months after his death, producers believe their chances of landing film rights to The Catcher in The Rye, considered the "holy grail" of scripts, are improving and a movie could be on the horizon.

Salinger maintained an intractable grip over the book during his lifetime and his publishers have insisted the rights are still not for sale. I suggest read the whole article.

Young stars of yester years (now they're old) dying to play Holden Caulfield. I wonder who best to pay the part...

I'm interested to see.. but I don't think movie will ever replace the book.. cos the book will always be better.

I just hope I don't have to puke watching the movie if there is one. He he.. in Caulfield mode.

Talking Movies: The Godfather

Last Tuesday HBO showed The Godfather trilogy. Original and the sequel. I didn't like part three.

Godfather movie mafia mobster gangster awesome. One of the best films ever made.

The marathon started 4 in the morning. I actually waited for it. The I watched the second part around 7 but I was getting sleepy already but still I watched about an hour. I ignored part three cos I was sleepy when I woke up and turned on the telly.. Andy Garcia was blabbing. Hehe.

In the original Godfather, Al Pacino who played Michael Corleone, looks like Robert Downey Jr. If ever they make a remake, I want Downey (or Depp?) to play that role. They're probably too old for the part anyway and I sincerely doubt they will ever consider to do remake of a classic.

I'll see what on' the telly now. Maybe a classic again :D