Posts Tagged ‘musical’
2008
12.06
Tags: 4 seasons, accent, airport, asians, atm charges, attitude, awe, baseball bat, borders, bridge, burger joints, burgers, cash atm, caucasian, caucasians, circumstances, citizen, continuation, correctness, courage, culture, curve, domestic trip, downfall, dreams, economics, execution, faces, familiarity, fears, feelings, financial burden, flashlight, game, glimpse, gps navigator, guess, heartbreaks, home, hopefuls, hosts, hotel, imagination, jeep wrangler, journey, life, longing, louisiana, love, lunch, mall, malls, mississippi, movie, music, musical, nasa, paper tissue, photo, Photos, planning a trip, presence, presidents, red bull, restaurant, rock, scientists, segments, shape, signs, sleep, snack, sport utility vehicle, suffering, switches, target, task, time, tourist attractions, traffic, transportation, vacation days, vancouver bc, windshield, wish
Posted in Travel | 5 Comments »
INTRODUCTION
Before December begins, I should have used all my vacation days from work. It was the last two weeks of November. Usually, I spend my vacation in the overseas, but this year, I opted for a domestic trip with Frances.
I did not plan the trip ahead of time like I usually do things. Planning a trip most of the time does not work for me because things happen in between. I’ve been irking to go south this time, especially to Texas. It has been in the back of my head. Only financial burden and fear was pinning me down. That’s another thing why I don’t plan my trips; I get over the fear. So during the weekend when I picked up Frances from the airport (she came from Las Vegas, but originally from Vancouver, BC) I was thinking about the trip while driving. From there, I decided to do it. Face the music later.
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2008
11.03
Tags: antenna, apple, asus, asus eee, bug fixes, buggy software, computer, edition, Eee PC, email, execution, flavor, gadget, hardcore user, home, hyper, keyboard, latest addition, lcd monitor, mini pc, music, music photos, musical, network, photo, Photos, power consumption, preference, Software, specimen, windows, windows xp, wireless, wireless adapter, wish, workspace
Posted in Computers, Hardware, Software | No Comments »
I had to wait a week before writing about the latest addition in my network — the ASUS Eee Box. If I may, I would say that the Eee Box is ASUS’ answer to Apple’s Mini PC; only smaller. The unit weighs 3lbs and is 1-inch thick (8.8×7x1) only. It comes with two mounts — one is for desktop mount and the other is a wall mount or like what ASUS advertises, the unit is mounted behind an LCD monitor to get the effect of “no box PC”. The box comes with wired keyboard and mouse. Of course if you chose the wireless route, you can do so because the machine already comes with wireless adapter (and antenna for range maximization). Knowing me, this featureis of course disabled. The machine is also very quiet and does not take up so much power consumption. The Box is also DVI ready so if your monitor has DVI, that would be great. For an average user, it won’t be a difficult computing because the Box is pre-installed with Windows XP Home Edition.
The Box!!!
Why did I have to purchase this gadget? For one, I wanted to test it and it’s cheap enough to experiment with. I plan to install other *NIX flavored OS in it instead of Windows. I also needed a PC that can serve MySQL database and it shouldn’t take space in my workspace and won’t consume so much power. Eee Box is the perfect specimen. The Box has been running since I bought it an a few restarts were executed because of Windows’ unfailing releases of bug fixes (don’t they get tired of this why not release a less buggy software instead).
I only recommend the Box to an average user. Average I mean a user who only does: web browsing, chat, email, music, photos, occasional videos, word processing. I don’t prefer this to a hardcore user who may wish to do audio-visual editing and multi-tasking applications although it’s hyper-threading. However, it’s enough for daily computing.
2008
08.15
Tags: acting, feelings, imagination, live act, mercury, music, music critic, musical, philippines, queen, rico blanco, solo album, tendency, universe, vikings, yugto
Posted in Music | 1 Comment »
I’m not exactly a music critic, but I’ll mention a few things about Rico Blanco’s album Your Universe and especially the first single, Yugto. I’ll call this album good. Blanco’s poetic abilities is still evident in this solo album. Yugto has an operatic feel to it trying to follow Freddie Mercury and Queen. The intro surprisingly sounds Eastern European which I thought was cool. I can’t imagine the Vikings in the Philippines. Blanco did not try to sound different from Rivermaya and I think it’s a better move because he was after all Rivermaya. It’s good that he did not attempt to escape. I can’t wait to see him perform Yugto live because the song has a tendency to be an awesome live act.
2008
07.20
Tags: good music, good riddance, image change, images, music, musical, pinoy, pinoy idol, rei, rock, rock artist, toffer rei, toffer rei tragico, voices
Posted in Entertainment, Music | No Comments »
Good riddance to him (from Pinoy Idol). But I’m sure we’d be listening to him in the future because he’s got a beautiful voice. I’m hoping he’d go solo as a rock artist. It wouldn’t be wise for him to form a band. He needs an image change and make good music because I’m pretty sure there’s a hit in him. You’re the second idol finalist who has been booted that’s deserving an entry in my site. Idol is not a place for a rocker, but it’s a very good exposure, so it’s good you’re out. Rock on!
2008
07.12
Tags: bias, cris, dreams, faces, few days, little bit, music, musical, network, noy, performance night, pi, pinoy dream academy, segments, singing contest, style of music, talents, variations
Posted in Entertainment | 4 Comments »
Today I had a tiny luxury to watch Pinoy Dream Academy 2’s performance night. I’ve seen their contestants scholars a few days back because the network seems to be injecting every little bit of segments from the 24-hour affairs within the academy. That means I see their faces everytime I pass through the channel. I may sound bias and I believe I may be, but the Idols are better than the scholars.
The Idols have variations when it comes to talent and style; the scholars don’t. It’s boring when you see a singing contest and all contestants have the same style of music. That’s why I like the Pinoy Idol. However, I like Cristina “Cris” Pastor a lot. That’s the only thing I like about PDA2.
2008
06.26
Tags: attitude, british, canada, canada canada, canadians, caucasian, culture, envelopes, existence, food chain, generation, good manners, gratitude, guess, hotel, love, monarchs, monarchy, mouths, music, musical, neck of the woods, observation, photograph, presence, prime minister, sovereign country, stache, states of america, stereotype, stupid thing, stupidity, united states of america, winnipeg manitoba, wish
Posted in Travel | 3 Comments »
Winnipeg, Manitoba — It’s been a while since my last entry and here I am full of expectations for this one. I don’t like Canadians. I have been solid about that for years now. I don’t like them politically, culturally and throw in also economically. (more…)
2008
06.09
Tags: american idol, capability, curve, democratic politics, democratic state, deserving candidates, fashionista, form of government, frustration, genre, girls, government politics, guess, hypothesis, ilonggos, images, life, love, music, musical, new talents, philippines, pinoy, pinoy idol, ram, rigging, rock, sampling, singing contest, talents, text messaging, time, voices, vote, way of life
Posted in Entertainment, Music | No Comments »
A pure democratic state is defined to be a state of the people, for the people, and by the people. Obviously, this form of government is inexistent therefore I’m not talking government politics in this entry. I’m speaking of Pinoy Idol (Philippines’ installation of “… Idol” reality show). This kind of contest shouldn’t be allowed in a country where text messaging is a way of life, not a necessity. “… Idol” is a singing contest where the winner is decided by the masses. I am not saying that voting in an installation like the American Idol has a 1-1 vote/person ratio, but the sampling is closer to the actual number. In the Philippines, one out of five texter could (a hypothesis) vote at least 100 times for his contestant and that clearly manipulates the curve which then yields a non-democratic politics. What’s worst is that (again I’m hypothesizing) the multi-voting texter does not know about the talent. However, that doesn’t matter because as far as the show is concerned, they are just counting the number of text votes. (more…)
