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Birthday Wishlist #9 - Kirk’s Shoes

I am not your Star Trek ultimate fanboy, but after seeing how bad ass James Tiberius Kirk in that kick-ass Star Trek reboot, I’m sold out. Here’s a chance to experience how is it to be a Captain of a big-ass Space ship, and be in Kirk’s shoes. Literally.

Beam me up!

Birthday wishlist #10

From here

Give me some love. Geeky Transformers USB Love.

The never-ending Lebron vs Kobe

For those who are fans of basketball and the NBA, there’s a popular belief that Kobe is better than Lebron mostly because of Kobe’s almost perfect mid-range jumpers. I say no contest to that, and i am saying this as a diehard Cavs Lebron James fan. (I would’ve said i’m a Cavs fan, but really i’m just a fan of Lebron and ‘his’ team and there’s a difference). 

Lebron’s mid-range jumper is one of the gray areas of his skillset, though his 3pt shooting has become one of his deadliest weapon, and has shown a lot of potency in this post-season. I have to admit that Lebron’s shots are a weetle beet awkward  against Kobe’s finesse ninja-like moves.

ESPN, to hype everything up, just published an article asking ESPN writers who’s the really really better between these two enormously talented and gifted players. But i just couldn’t agree more with this argument, pertaining Lebron’s and Kobe’s strengths…

Taken From Cavs: The Blog » Blog Archive » Kobe/LeBron Day: Director’s Cut

Furthermore, pretending that LeBron predicating his game on driving to the basket while Kobe prefers to go with mid-range shots as some sort of stylistic difference is just wrong. Going to the basket is, universally, the way to get efficient baskets, followed by shooting threes. Midrange jumpers are the easiest shots to get, but the trade-off is that they’re a victory for the defense over time-not one player in the league shot better than 50% on midrange jumpers this season. Kobe’s percentage on mid-range jumpers was 44% this season, one of the better marks in the league. Keep in mind that mid-range shots rarely produce free throws or offensive rebounds. The worst offensive team in the league, the Clippers, had a TS% of 52%. So if your offense were to be entirely Kobe Bryant shooting mid-range jump shots, you would have the worst offense in the league by a very wide margin. 

 The mid-range game is definitely the weakest part of LeBron’s game, something he should definitely work on (especially his footwork in the post), and a great plan B late in the clock if you can’t get the corner for a drive or open three. But to say that LeBron’s lack of development and devotion to the least efficient shots in basketball are what keeps him from being as good as Kobe is just fallacious. Not only are mid-range shots inefficient in the long run, but they keep the team from getting involved; instead of getting into the paint, scattering the defense, and opening up teammates, the possession ends with little ball movement and few other players getting involved. On a micro, individual level, a perfectly executed midrange move is pretty and a solid way for one player to score against a defense, but over time the only way to consistently attain offensive success is to get to the basket, which LeBron James does better than any player in the league, not only getting dunks and layups but involving his teammates and opening up the floor.

Yeah, i still love Kobe’s game, specifically the post-Shaq Kobe. He is more Jordanesque than any player in the NBA, except maybe for the D-Wade, but that’s another story. Kobe has acquired his skills thru experience, having played with the best. Even Lebron admits that Kobe’s game is more complete. And Kobe’s already got 3 rings. (To which his fans seems to overcompensate, forgetting the fact that it’s Shaq’s)

But to date, Lebron is hungry for a ring. Hungry like a hungry bear that hibernated for 5 years and woken up by noisy fat campers in the middle of the woods. 

Hatton got intimate with Pacquiao’s Left and The Canvas

Our very own Manny  “Pacman” Pacquiao proved that boxing isn’t just about trash talking but trashing the lights out of the other guy.

In one of the most anticipated fights, coupled with the old Mayweather’s antics and shenanigans, Hatton experienced first hand (obviously pun intented) how powerful Manny’s left hand is. Also his right hand. Also that the chin cheek catch-all defense wasn’t really that effective. Pacquiao just gave an all new meaning to Hatton’s monicker, the Hitman.

And to Mayweather Sr. please just stfu.

And here’s some funny quips from the Twitter community:

@JeromeGotangco Pacquiao is now the only fighter in history to win linear championships in 4 dif divisions, surpassing Henry Armstrong http://tr.im/kksN

@PimplePopper And once again, Manny proves that the only thing he can’t beat… Is the English language.

@tunaynalalake Ricky Hatton: Tunay na Lalake: Ang tunay na lalake, hindi umiilag.

 

Trekking And Beaching the Holy Week

…or How To Achieve A Definitely Not Whiter You in Less Than 24Hrs!

Hiking + Beach Holy Week Vacation
Mt GB (Gulugod Baboy) and PhilPan Diving Resort
Anilao, Batangas

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Long And Winding Road

I’m always fascinated by the idea of learning. I’m not only referring to the stuff learned at school, but learning in general. I am so conscious about the process of learning that for me, learning is an experience itself. It’s pretty amazing that at one time you don’t have a clue about something, and next thing you know, in like 10 years, you’re already an expert. Only the most annoying person, can claim to achieve this “basic to expert” transition feat in about 10mins or less, depending on the number of people to annoy.

As a programmer by trade, it is important for me to learn new things. And in the wave of the Web, there’s always a new way to do something everyday. So to keep me updated, so I say to my boss, I read a lot of porn blogs and articles of interesting people and take a piece or two of their ideas. But based on experience, I can only learn the thing if I need it urgently, or in other words deadline nearing.

Say for example, the very first time I really learned how to code for web is that when I have this commissioned web project for a sports house store (I will not divulge the name of the store) and all I know are few HTML tags which includes my favorite <marquee> tag. So in a small amount of time I learned JavaScript and the concept of basic e-commerce or else we have to payback the client’s down payment i already used to upgrade my PC. So learning is accelerated when there is urgency, or when your ass is on the line and for me it is the best way to learn something. Reading something and understanding it but not experiencing it immediately is not learning. 
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Stolen Macbook Pro

I know MBPs, Macbook Air and the likes are hot these days and everybody seems wants to have one. So it’s understandable to take advantage of second hand buys because they are cheaper. But if you’re going to buy one, please make sure it’s not a stolen one.   

Taken From Watch Out for Marco’s Stolen Macbook Pro!

My friend had his car broken into by thieves last night. He was parked in the parking lot beside Podium in Ortigas.

We placed our things inside the trunk. When we came back a few hours later everything was gone which included his Macbook Air and my Macbook Pro (both only a few days old).

The windows were not broken—apparently they were able to mess with the car’s lock.

Here are the items that were stolen:

1.6 Macbook Air Intel Chipset
Serial No: YD9011AZY51

2.4Ghz Unibody Macbook Pro
Serial No: W88522KH1G0

Dell XPS M1210
Serial No: GS9LM1S

Please contact the authorities if you may have bought or found any of the items either online or offline. You may also call this number: 09184866586. We will be giving a cash reward to anyone who can give us useful information in tracking these items.

Farewell Francis M

Francis Magalona, considered the father of Pinoy Rap, passed away quietly today noon at Medical City Hospital in Mandaluyong after waging a battle against leukemia for almost a year. He was 44.  read more…

Prenup Shoot Outtakes

Outtakes from Sherwin & Lanie’s “unofficial” Prenup Photoshoot.

The Making of the Movie Nobody Can Refuse

Taken From The Godfather Wars | vanityfair.com

Puzo was a gambler, into the bookies for ten grand, and perhaps his only hope of not getting his legs broken was in the envelope—a treatment for a novel about organized crime, bearing as its title the very word the underworld guys wanted to stamp out: Mafia. Though the word had been in use in its current meaning in Italy since the 19th century, it gained recognition in America in a 1951 report by the Kefauver Committee, a congressional group headed by Democratic senator Estes Kefauver, of Tennessee, created to investigate organized crime. The good news, Puzo claimed, was that the word had never before been used in a book or film title.

“I’ll give you ten G’s for it as an option against $75,000 if it becomes a book,” Evans remembers telling the writer, more out of pity than excitement. “And he looked at me and said, ‘Could you make it fifteen?’ And I said, ‘How about twelve-five?’”

Without even glancing at the pages, Evans sent them to Paramount’s business department, along with a pay order, and never expected to see Puzo, much less his cockamamy novel, again. A few months later, when Puzo called and asked, “Would I be in breach of contract if I change the name of the book?,” Evans almost laughed out loud. “I had forgotten he was even writing one.” Puzo said, “I want to call it The Godfather.”

 

Anyone but Brando

The studio executives wanted Laurence Olivier, Ernest Borgnine, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn, Carlo Ponti, or Danny Thomas to play Don Corleone. Anyone but Brando, who, at 47, was perceived as poison. His recent pictures had been flops, and he was overweight, depressed, and notorious for causing overruns and making outrageous demands. will not finance brando in title role, the suits in New York cabled the filmmakers. do not respond. case closed.

But Coppola fought hard for him, and finally the executives agreed to consider Brando on three conditions: he would have to work for no money up front (Coppola later got him $50,000); put up a bond for any overruns caused by him; and “most shocking of all” submit to a screen test. Wisely, Coppola didn’t call it that when he contacted Brando. Saying that he just wanted to shoot a little footage, he arrived at the actor’s home one morning with some props and a camera.

Brando emerged from his bedroom in a kimono, with his long blond hair in a ponytail. As Coppola watched through the camera lens, Brando began a startling transformation, which he had worked out earlier in front of a mirror. In Coppola’s words, “You see him roll up his hair in a bun and blacken it with shoe polish, talking all the time about what he’s doing. You see him rolling up Kleenex and stuffing it into his mouth. He’d decided that the Godfather had been shot in the throat at one time, so he starts to speak funny. Then he takes a jacket and rolls back the collar the way these Mafia guys do.” Brando explained, “It’s the face of a bulldog: mean-looking but warm underneath.”

Coppola took the test to Bluhdorn. When he saw it was Brando, he backed away and said, “No! No!” But then he watched Brando become another person and said, “That’s amazing.” Coppola recalls, “Once he was sold on the idea, all of the other executives went along.”

 

Batman going American Psycho on Terminator Set

Dark Knight actor Christian Bale wants to do a f***in’ scene and he doesn’t want no f***in’ distractions! I guess his Directory of Photography doesn’t understand that.

  (Angry Christian Bale Beatdown on Terminator Set)

NSFW for language

 I wish he can do this again in Batman voice.

UPDATE:

Taken From Aint It Cool News: 

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The DP on TERMINATOR SALVATION, Shane Hurlbut, is a apparently a light tweaker. He’s a fairly young DP and likes to fiddle with his lights on set during action, which is a big “NO NO” on most productions unless worked out in advance with performers. But apparently Shane was a pretty unrepentant light tweaker.

The scene in question, was a very emotional and tough scene between Christian Bale and Bryce Howard. A scene that required soul bearing and a deep level of immersive concentration. The sort of scene where everyone on set knows not to get in anyone’s eye lines, and definitely not to move lights around while FILMING. You lock that shit down before the scene starts.

Bale had indeed warned the DP on multiple occasions about messing with lights while the cameras were rolling, and Bale was in the midst of a painful scene with Bryce, what was described to me as being the emotional center of the film and his character for the film.
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Another Update: I can haz remix!

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Sherwin and Lanie’s Wedding AVP

Like a star

Corinne Bailey Rae - Like A Star

Just like a star across my sky,
Just like an angel off the page,
You have appeared to my life,
Feel like I’ll never be the same,
Just like a song in my heart,
Just like oil on my hands,
Honour to love you

Still I wonder why it is,
I don’t argue like this,
With anyone but you,
We do it all the time,
Blowing out my mind,

You’ve got this look I can’t describe,
You make me feel like I’m alive,
When everything else is au fait,
Without a doubt you’re on my side,
Heaven has been away too long,
Can’t find the words to write this song,
Oh…
Your love,

Still I wonder why it is,
I don’t argue like this,
With anyone but you,
We do it all the time,
Blowing out my mind,

Now I have come to understand,
The way it is,
It’s not a secret anymore,
’cause we’ve been through that before,
From tonight I know that you’re the only one,
I’ve been confused and in the dark,
Now I understand,

I wonder why it is,
I don’t argue like this,
With anyone but you,
I wonder why it is,
I wont let my guard down,
For anyone but you
We do it all the time,
Blowing out my mind,

Just like a star across my sky,
Just like an angel off the page,
You have appeared to my life,
Feel like I’ll never be the same,
Just like a song in my heart,
Just like oil on my hands

Get a load of these awesome Obama Action Figures!

Obama must be the most awesome president ever elected! Disagree? How many president-elect have their own action figures?! None!

Chuck Norris is jealous!

He even has a lightsaber duel with friggin Darth Vader?!
If only there’s a McCain figure dressed as the emperor…

 More Obama action figures here

Some random photos

Different kinds of genius

A map genius

vs a math genius… 

Now that’s pure genius.

Flash news: I’m sick of this world so..

I decided to be the next president of the world!

Click here for more info 

LIfe of Brian - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

This clip comes from the Monty Python’s Life of Brian, a movie i really really like, besides my name’s in it. I’ve got no time explaining this movie, but Eric Idle’s character supposed to cheer up Brian (Graham Chapman) by singing this song.

This song never fails to cheer me up also.

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