tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1190999860372358402024-03-06T10:20:23.495+08:00Experimental TheatreAnything goes...Bernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13660841029692669097noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-11514408558298105802013-01-27T14:33:00.001+08:002013-09-24T21:43:26.523+08:00Knock knock knock??Is there anyone here? Wow, it's been years? Never had another post here since....err...<br />
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anyway... :) I'm still glad that we are getting a lot of viewers still. Hope this site continues running (maybe it's not too late)..<br />
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But actually, I won't be denying, I am here to advertise my blog. http://astraberryxmissredhair.blogspot.com/<br />
It is a Journal of my digital works and how I started studying digital drawings and paintings, as I originally promised the viewers and readers HERE in this blog. I planned to create a separate blog for my drawings.<br />
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Here are sample works that are featured in the blog :) Hope you'll visit my site too, comments and useful critique will be appreciated as well. Thank you!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02120433216799633975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-90050301726914843702012-01-07T23:17:00.001+08:002013-02-18T22:36:05.361+08:00Happy New Year ET!!!Well, well, shall I breath my first this year? (Or rather write?) hehehe<br />
For starters I'd like to greet everyone who's out there and looking up on our blog a Happy New Year!!!<br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway, since this blog seemed to be dying a bit, let me post something. Wish I can write an organized post, but this will do for now. I promise to post a better one as soon as I find time. For now, here's some bullet thoughts for you...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ok. I managed to find time to write at least one blog post this month. However, it was not here nor even on <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/">my site</a>. It's on Silverscreenandroll, a web community for Laker fans. It's a post on my basketball hero Kobe Bryant. It's not the first Kobe post I wrote - I already wrote a few of them in my site - but it was my first Kobe post in that site. If you wish to read it, here's the link: <a href="http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2011/11/21/2577617/all-about-kobe">http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2011/11/21/2577617/all-about-kobe</a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yehey! Christmas is just around the corner. And amidst all of the enjoyment and excitement, may we be reminded on what Christmas is all about. Here's a cute video to remind you: </span></li>
</ul></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dbJAKpIFmBc" width="420"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Speaking of the NBA and Christmas, the nearly half-year lockout is over! An early Christmas gift to all NBA fans out there.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just recently, "House" just beat "The Twilight Zone" as my most favorite TV show ever. House keeps on getting better and better, even though Cuddy is no longer in the show. The writing is consistently superb!</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I think I still have nearly a half a dozen 2011 movies I've downloaded that I haven't watched yet. Really having not enough time to do the things I like to do.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As I write this, I'm currently downloading another movie. As well, as <a href="http://www.iwatchpsych.eu/season6/episode7-in-for-a-penny/">an episode of "Psych"</a>.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mozilla's "Download Helper" is awesome.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And I still have 5 books that I had bought this year that I haven't read yet. Again, no time!</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Compared to my college years, my book purchases for this year is significantly low.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Money problems... we'll always have money problems...</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But God always provides my daily needs!</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">God is (always) awesome!</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">These days, the manga I am most excited to read each week is Hunter X Hunter. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Got plenty of writing ideas and topics... arg!... really need to put them into articles soon. Just continue to visit and check "The Experimental Theatre" and, my site, <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/">"The Bernel Zone"</a> for new updates...</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here's a fun mind-stimulating vid for you as finale...</span></li>
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</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>To know more what’s going on in Bernel’s mind, go to <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/" style="color: #2d21b6; text-decoration: none;">“The Bernel Zone”</a>...</i></span></span></div>Bernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13660841029692669097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-34776501269886663532011-10-10T23:57:00.000+08:002011-10-10T23:57:12.129+08:00And September barely passed...Phew, last month has been hectic. Attending to some due papers, formalizing application forms, applying for graduation and etc... I've barely had time to breathe some fresh air but hey, you get rewards after hard work right?<br />
Well, even though its late. Let me just do September's round up which consists of a few articles by our dedicated and awesome core group (except me that is, I was too busy :p).<br />
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There are of course 2 articles by our most dedicated founder, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13660841029692669097">Bernel</a>, who is a Sherlock Holmes fan like myself. These include;<br />
<a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/09/top-5-reinventions-of-sherlock-holmes.html">Top 5 Reinventions of Sherlock Holmes</a> - a list of some people who have honored Holmes and<br />
<a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/09/top-10-tv-shows-based-on-movies.html">Top 10 TV Shows Based On Movies</a>.<br />
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Of course the most artistic of the group, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02120433216799633975">Maddy</a> shares a unique but definitely not a rare form of art to our readers in <a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/09/its-been-long-time-since-i-havent-been.html">Clean Graffiti / Reverse Graffiti Project :)</a><br />
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I hope our readers appreciate them and keep on tuning on. Onward!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A group of friends visits a friend from a faraway province for her 18th birthday. They didn't know what a tragedy that visit would be.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She excitedly asks her best friend Blair (Joana Jane Cabatingan) for some help in preparing for the party but keeping the reason to herself.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you already know me enough, you know Sherlock Holmes is my most favorite fictional character since I was a kid. <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/2010/11/top-10-fictional-detectives.html">The greatest detective in fiction</a> charmed me greatly. And I’m not the only one. Plenty of people out there who encountered Sherlock Holmes became passionate devotees of the literary icon. These fans even wrote their own original Holmes adventures. There are countless stories out there starring the legendary detective that were not penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Aside from books and short stories, there are also plenty of Sherlock Holmes films already made through the years. As an icon, he was already depicted many times by media. <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_18785_6-comic-book-crossovers-you-wont-believe-actually-happened.html">Heck, he even teamed-up with Batman one time!</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">However, I am a bit wary of encountering Sherlock Holmes adventures that are not written by Conan Doyle. Though some succeeded in delivering the “original feel” of the character, I found that it’s still not the same thing as the original adventures. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nonetheless, there are those who totally stopped trying to completely mimic Conan Doyle but instead reinvented and reinterpreted the character. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkn8n18yS7A">Not all were that awesome</a>. But there were some that I found fresh and lovable in their own original way.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Again, as I’ve mentioned, I am limited to exposure to Sherlock Holmes material that are not Conan Doyle’s. That’s why this is only a top 5, since, honestly, I only can think of 5 that I really like.</span><br />
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</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5.) “THE SEVEN-PER-CENT-SOLUTION: BEING A REPRINT FROM THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN H. WATSON, M.D.” (By Nicholas Meyer)</span></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy0YC1KA9S7ubcRgF3yxbJVUlI3P6bEpv0dzgiIBHwBSD-kWJWmbarCCrvLAFjjGrJ9JQCQuuM4drohajA2YeYAw8UJZJ9H4GUPV0xuOvNoXYTnQz6Bj2hakIPKIz9oTXILXxnMBzkz9V1/s1600/7%2525.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy0YC1KA9S7ubcRgF3yxbJVUlI3P6bEpv0dzgiIBHwBSD-kWJWmbarCCrvLAFjjGrJ9JQCQuuM4drohajA2YeYAw8UJZJ9H4GUPV0xuOvNoXYTnQz6Bj2hakIPKIz9oTXILXxnMBzkz9V1/s400/7%2525.jpg" width="265" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Like most fan-made Sherlock Holmes story, this was written the way as if it’s just one of Watson’s countless previously unprinted chronicles of Holmes. The book portrays a Sherlock Holmes at his rock bottom, as he succumbs to the horrific consequences of cocaine addiction. At the start of the book, he was a delusional, paranoid wreck. It was revealed that all the things about Prof. Moriarty as a villainous “Napoleon of Crime” (i.e. “The Final Problem”) were all Holmes’ mad imagination of the matter. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Watson, with the help of Mycroft Holmes, brought Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud in Vienna to be cured. Freud managed to free Holmes from his delusions and addiction, but was not able to revive his spirits. What did the trick of bringing Holmes back to his normal self was the emergence of a complicated mystery for Holmes to solve, which he did, resulting to a prevention of a European War. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the end of the book, Holmes decided to take a vacation around the world and asked Watson to claim that he “was killed”. So Watson wrote “The Final Problem” (in which Holmes’ “died”) and “The Empty House” (the first adventure after his “return from death”) to cover up his three-year hiatus. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This was an awesome story by itself and the portrayal of Holmes needing help and, instead of the one doing the “reading” of people, is the one being “read” by Freud’s psychoanalysis was brilliant. </span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oh, this was also made into a movie.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>4.) THE MARY RUSSELL SERIES (by Laurie R. King)</u></b> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH6cXJWohzlHu03yshsuwpN-mGGw-MKxXcw5fPE0FYxcxRhJFnpvM5egpuifAPmn4X3lBt4F5X3o59J_VSbUKzA2uBxprTZEUgWP1OdxcFYb5MIMc2QZF97B_vMDxPjufnUmU6A_54XLjk/s1600/ba.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH6cXJWohzlHu03yshsuwpN-mGGw-MKxXcw5fPE0FYxcxRhJFnpvM5egpuifAPmn4X3lBt4F5X3o59J_VSbUKzA2uBxprTZEUgWP1OdxcFYb5MIMc2QZF97B_vMDxPjufnUmU6A_54XLjk/s400/ba.jpg" width="246" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are, so far, ten books in the series, and I’ve only read and collected the first four. But they were enough to greatly catch my fondness. In this re-interpretation of Holmes, he “negotiated” a marriage agreement with Mary Russell, a girl 32 to 39 years his junior. He first met her when she was 15, and in that first encounter, Russell greatly impressed Holmes with her strong personality and deductive power. From then on, he informally trained her to be his protégé, serving as a father figure along the way. When Russell hit her 20’s, they got married (the manner that got them at that point was an interesting part of the storyline). In regular Holmes’ canon, the closest thing to “love” for an opposite sex that Holmes has expressed was through his admiration of “The Woman” Irene Adler. In this reinvention, however, it showed a more entertaining and compelling Holmes-brand of affection than what Holmes’ had with Adler. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><div><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3.) SHERLOCK HOLMES (Guy Ritchie’s film)</span></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj2hV-hzHol6J-ljmsTRcsc70aUiyj-yGq2m6Jf3dGQco6EjiPCd3IJebA5EsIQoQU2a4TQfZU2t2fc0EijO_ROqvjP56Ig77FEYOOUI-mqh97KmbFZbRa0mRZch2KHnJ2p2FuJTS_E0ZV/s1600/post.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj2hV-hzHol6J-ljmsTRcsc70aUiyj-yGq2m6Jf3dGQco6EjiPCd3IJebA5EsIQoQU2a4TQfZU2t2fc0EijO_ROqvjP56Ig77FEYOOUI-mqh97KmbFZbRa0mRZch2KHnJ2p2FuJTS_E0ZV/s400/post.jpg" width="273" /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Guy Ritchie’s reinvention of Sherlock Holmes as portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. was mightily entertaining.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sherlock Holmes was an effective combatant, being adept in boxing, fencing, and bartitsu (or baritsu). But in this version of Sherlock Holmes, we saw a Holmes that was more of a kickass combatant than his literary counterpart, as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGCMfprPJoA">he uses his mental powers to calculate and simulate the moves or combos he will do and their results before executing them</a>. This version of Sherlock Holmes was also a bit clumsier, and has more dry wit and humor. </span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><div><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2.) SHERLOCK (TV Series)</span></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJMgvV0RKnvFsMVsys1Emybbw7S6GKlt3yXoORxEmGhzgIDygUSpj-wLy9gnudv7W5GJchCqXs8BpgV1YPvun89SrzV4YaYwOWZnmYB4Odlx-dlewyeYKeiGwvzT8EPHbOkiui2-XX2WX4/s1600/sher.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJMgvV0RKnvFsMVsys1Emybbw7S6GKlt3yXoORxEmGhzgIDygUSpj-wLy9gnudv7W5GJchCqXs8BpgV1YPvun89SrzV4YaYwOWZnmYB4Odlx-dlewyeYKeiGwvzT8EPHbOkiui2-XX2WX4/s400/sher.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What if Sherlock Holmes exists in modern times? Yup, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(TV_series)">this TV show</a> effectively covers that question. Really brilliant.</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><div><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1.) HOUSE M.D.</span></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiICn2ksiQxFMrgQve2gah4BLLkKxxyzWWetLwKRBdhHrRZfkufg7_8xEMu_7StERmhUihXsUP3lHCCHWraPvrEFuki-C9ocuf_r_l9dr8OAS8kSO0gjEI1_jMtBZ-b_zg1chZLiw97WGVg/s1600/house.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiICn2ksiQxFMrgQve2gah4BLLkKxxyzWWetLwKRBdhHrRZfkufg7_8xEMu_7StERmhUihXsUP3lHCCHWraPvrEFuki-C9ocuf_r_l9dr8OAS8kSO0gjEI1_jMtBZ-b_zg1chZLiw97WGVg/s400/house.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What?! You don’t know that Gregory House is a reinvention of Sherlock Holmes?! Oh, yes he is. Isn’t it obvious the play of the name of “House” and “Holmes”? Or “Watson” and “Wilson” (Wilson is definitely House’s Watson)? Both likes to “read” people and use psychology. Both only takes cases that are interesting to them (i.e. unusual or difficult), and refuse those they think are boring or easy. Both are talented musicians. Both have drug problems. And both have the same home address (221B Baker Street). House is definitely Sherlock Holmes if Sherlock Holmes has more social flaws and chose to become a doctor instead of a detective. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bernel is also a reinvented Sherlock Holmes in his own little world in <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/">“The Bernel Zone”</a>… </span></i></div></div></div>Bernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13660841029692669097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-72095907888547324742011-09-19T16:49:00.000+08:002011-09-20T13:05:03.747+08:00Clean Graffiti / Reverse Graffiti Project :) Wow, it's been a long time since I haven't been able to update the blog with something artistic. Hahaha! I'm sorry that I have been busy with medical stuff (ironic) hahaha<br />
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Anyway, this post is all about ingenuity and the innovative minds of some artists, who not only creatively conceptualized the process of this type of art but also the double purpose why they are doing it.<br />
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What is "Clean Graffiti" or "Reverse Graffiti?"<br />
Now as I understood it, it is actually a campaign to create art by cleaning our polluted/ dirty environment.<br />
Yup... Sad to say not all people appreciate the original style of graffiti which we all know-- painting on walls and other surfaces. Some find it "dirty" and do not really acknowledge it as a form of art.<br />
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Sad to say most of these people who abhor this "dirty" art do not equally do anything to clean the environment at all. And the ones whom they accuse of polluting the streets are actually also the ones creatively innovating a way to make art to "clean."<br />
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Here are some of my favorite photos of Clean Graffiti or Reverse Graffiti projects done by unique responsible artists.<br />
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I wonder if there are already campaigns such as these here. I myself would want to start one or support one starting here in Cebu. :)<br />
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Til next time art lovers! Mwah!<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02120433216799633975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-80915412872910786942011-09-07T21:35:00.001+08:002011-09-08T06:26:10.581+08:00Top 10 TV Shows Based On Movies<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sometimes, when producers need a new concept for a new TV series, they turn to existing material. And what more feasible material there can be than proven and successful popular movies. Sometimes the TV shows turns out to be as great as the movie. Sometimes the TV show even receives more success than what the movie received. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As the title suggests, this is a list of TV shows that were based from movies. So, as usual, my top 10 are after the jump…</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u><b>10.) GODZILLA: THE SERIES</b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aQENCPSCVjg" width="480"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This animated series was based on the Godzilla movie released on 1998. Prior to watching that movie, I knew Godzilla was a pop culture icon but I have never watched a Godzilla – the Japanese-made classics – movie before. So I really liked that movie, almost the same way I had liked the “Jurassic Park” movies. But those who did watched the original movies, however, hated it. Nonetheless, since I had loved the movie, I loved the TV series more. In the movie, Godzilla was the antagonist, as it/he/she proceeded to tear apart human civilization (or at least Manhattan). However, in the TV series, Godzilla is a protagonist, as it/he/she fought other monsters in defense of mankind (or at least its/his/her human friends). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u><b>9.) BUZZ LIGHTYEAR OF STAR COMMAND</b></u></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Dic_Hhnh9zg" width="480"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Everybody loves “Toy Story”. And its spin-off TV show, “Buzz Lightyear of Star Command”, was lovable as well. The TV show was about the cartoon character that the toy Buzz was based from. Thus, the series showed the life and adventures that the toy Buzz thought he was living out (when he still hasn’t accepted that reality that he was just a toy). Sure, a “Toy Story” TV series would have been more awesome, but something as epic as “Toy Story” is only fit for movie form. However, the premise of “Buzz Lightyear of Star Command” is the best “Toy Story”-spinoff concept that is applicable to be serialized on TV. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u><b>8.) THE PINK PANTHER</b></u></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/W1F_feF6lcY" width="480"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The idea of the Pink Panther TV shows (yup, there were more than one. I love the old ones more) was from the entertaining animated intros of the Pink Panther movies. It would have been cooler if the Pink Panther TV series still highlighted the hilarious Inspector Clouseau as the central character; however, the Pink Panther’s adventures were still Tom and Jerry/Looney Tunes-style entertaining.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Walt Disney has made it a habit to create TV series out of their hit movies. Though not all of these shows are as great as the movies they were based from, there were some that were really successful, not only giving in giving justice to the movies they were based from, but augmenting the franchise itself. But the best among them is “Aladdin”. On average, the “Aladdin” series delivered great memorable and compelling episodes. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<u><b>2.) JUMANJI</b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6RQYbLeyeAU" width="480"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Jumanji animated TV show was definitely more awesome, more exciting, more entertaining than the movie. Instead of inhabitants of Jumanji coming out to the real world (like in the movie), most of the time, it was Jody and Peter visiting Alan in the world of Jumanji. Thus, we were able to see how untamed, how badass, and how exciting the world and inhabitants of Jumanji really are. I remember watching a Jumanji marathon in Disney Channel (or was it in HBO? Can’t remember) when I was a kid, and though I had already watched most of the episodes by then, it was still one of the best TV viewing moments I ever have in my life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When not talking about TV shows and movies in the "Experimental Theatre", Bernel's talking about TV shows and movies in <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/">"The Bernel Zone"</a>...</span></i></div>Bernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13660841029692669097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-58728100785272911232011-08-31T14:44:00.003+08:002011-08-31T14:49:51.680+08:00August 2011 Round-Up: Just 3 Posts This Month...<div>This month on the ET: just one post each from the founders</div><div><br />
</div><a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/08/top-10-things-i-liked-about-harry.html">Top 10 Things I Liked About The Harry Potter Series</a> by Bernel<br />
<div><a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/08/my-sweet-and-thoughtful-22nd.html">My Sweet and thoughtful 22nd</a> by Niki</div><div><a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/08/and-world-spins-madly-on.html">...and the World Spins Madly On</a> by Maddy</div><div><br />
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</div><div>Still...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG1DIsDIl6NYgu3umrGE6_D8OI62HuIjA5Mc87E_aoE2Pb7_heu13cRMOkyMw0zT0zLbx2FkGtbz8fan4qEwbqdM-NEn609jqnLw9nDQihgIWq5Us9S_todUELdDDgnDUrjzbG5xHvWt92/s1600/onward.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG1DIsDIl6NYgu3umrGE6_D8OI62HuIjA5Mc87E_aoE2Pb7_heu13cRMOkyMw0zT0zLbx2FkGtbz8fan4qEwbqdM-NEn609jqnLw9nDQihgIWq5Us9S_todUELdDDgnDUrjzbG5xHvWt92/s1600/onward.jpg" /></a></div><div><br />
Here's a classic Tim Burton short film as a bonus to this post to make up for the short August round-up...<br />
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yep... and here are the lyrics to that song...<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b>The World Spins Madly On</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b>by the Weepies</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Woke up and wished that I was dead <br />
With an aching in my head <br />
I lay motionless in bed <br />
I thought of you and where you'd gone <br />
and let the world spin madly on <br />
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Everything that I said I'd do <br />
Like make the world brand new <br />
And take the time for you <br />
I just got lost and slept right through the dawn <br />
And the world spins madly on <br />
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I let the day go by <br />
I always say goodbye <br />
I watch the stars from my window sill <br />
The whole world is moving and I'm standing still <br />
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Woke up and wished that I was dead <br />
With an aching in my head <br />
I lay motionless in bed <br />
The night is here and the day is gone <br />
And the world spins madly on <br />
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I thought of you and where you'd gone <br />
And the world spins madly on.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Okay the song sounds a bit emotional and sentimental, but I believe the animation was great, it beautifully interpreted the song.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Ryan Woodward is a really good figure artist and and animator. Watch how fluid the movements are and the concept behind the storyline. The art applies the combination of the following art styles and principles: Figure Drawing, Contemporary Dance, Animation, and of course Music... <br />
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</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">for me the reason why I love Animation is because it is a combination of many fields of Art... reason why I want to learn how to animate... <br />
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^___^ explore around Ryan Woodwards site </span></span><a href="http://conteanimated.com/">http://conteanimated.com/</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><b>Ryan Woodward</b> began his career as an animator/designer and storyboard artist in 1995. He has worked for Warner Brothers Feature Animation, Sony Pictures, Cartoon Network, Walt Disney Studios and Marvel Entertainment and Dreamworks Pictures on films such as Space Jam, The Iron Giant, Osmosis Jones, Spider-man 2, Spider-man 3, Where the Wild Things Are, Ironman 2, and Cowboys and Aliens and The Avengers (2012). Ryan has produced and directed 3 short films, The Loch, The Turtle and The Shark and Aliens that have played in over 40 film festivals worldwide. In 2009, Ryan created 9 animated sequences that play nightly at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Laie, Hawaii. Ryan is an assistant professor of the Animation program at Brigham Young University where he teaches storyboarding, figure drawing, visual development and animation. Ryan has a BFA from Brigham Young University and an MFA from The Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He is currently a member of IATSE local 800, The Art Directors Guild. Ryan and his wife, Tiffany, have three little girls, and is an avid cyclist and mountainbiker.</span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02120433216799633975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-68773802229683430512011-08-16T17:18:00.000+08:002011-08-16T17:18:47.729+08:00My Sweet and thoughtful 22nd<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/275494_1082978778_5545150_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/275494_1082978778_5545150_n.jpg" width="110" /></span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I though the day would just be like any other</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">But I guess the Lord wanted to surprise me today</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">And spread presents along my way...</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">... I had missed breakfast again today because I wanted to sleep in. After Speech class, I dragged my classmate to eat with me and she found out that it was my birthday and she bought me my favorite ice cream. :)</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It was my first present of the day. Thank you Trizzia. I was not really expecting it. The second gift was from my grandma. :)</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-GKeg6p9HAu-w4yxCwrZRcWQ5qpb6d47tGn8xX98qaCxq79-_TMJJHis635GYHSErRfZhz9eF_DaB45wA7IbYXCIe9n8ADKbfVYDGOMtos1di1hPd7GlE80oifeyC_DMW84jzIn2YwIyQ/s1600/100_7297.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-GKeg6p9HAu-w4yxCwrZRcWQ5qpb6d47tGn8xX98qaCxq79-_TMJJHis635GYHSErRfZhz9eF_DaB45wA7IbYXCIe9n8ADKbfVYDGOMtos1di1hPd7GlE80oifeyC_DMW84jzIn2YwIyQ/s200/100_7297.JPG" width="112" /></span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">... Then my 2C girls texted me to meet them at school. I knew they were up to something. Hahahaha but I didn't expect all of them to be there. Having all of you present was the best gift I got from you. I love you girls. ^_^ Even Ate Sialmo greeted me through text. hehehe. I totally love the frame and the cake too. Hanging out at the hospital... where we were almost not allowed to go in.Hope your dad will recover soon Joy. :)</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPY1fSTQuA5yU1WG81ncNiEhKReR6e3uk2HlttNtxoTj9sN0_m3hggrtddwlh-od8YIl2Jkev6KvaROIhLnbiU7FGR54GNNZazdvBhqkr39TivpK4caOTq5rzLaJ59VFQy64yrsAv-CXb8/s1600/100_7320.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPY1fSTQuA5yU1WG81ncNiEhKReR6e3uk2HlttNtxoTj9sN0_m3hggrtddwlh-od8YIl2Jkev6KvaROIhLnbiU7FGR54GNNZazdvBhqkr39TivpK4caOTq5rzLaJ59VFQy64yrsAv-CXb8/s320/100_7320.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">.... Then around 4 my best friends were already looking for me. Madel had asked me if I liked carbonara so I expected her to cook that for me. I thought I was already late for whatever was happening there but I guess a celebrant is never late for her party (though they still ate the pancit canton without me). hehehe. But instead of carbonara, there was macaroni, macaroons and... the macarena????? O_o hahahaha!!!!! Thank you so much for the gift Dakz. Thank you so much for the food Madz. ^_^ I really enjoyed my mini party there. Hehehe. I didn't expect the three of us to be complete because I thought Rhoda had work but Korea's independence day falls on my birthday, what do you know??? hahahaha</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">... Then when I got home.... nope. No surprise party there. Hehehe... although there were more chocolates and presents. hahahaha. Soo cuuuute the cat Bernel. :D</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I think today, is the first time in my 22 birthdays that I feel so loved. My best birthday ever. :)</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you all. Even though Andrew isn't here in Cebu you guys made me feel so happy. Also, Andrew had already given me an advanced birthday gift - A panda! Hehehe.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">And also to those who greeted me on FB and through text. Thank you. :)</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</div>Nikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003971214739208436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-75347859608608272432011-08-02T14:00:00.013+08:002011-08-03T15:07:32.295+08:00Top 10 Things I Liked About The Harry Potter Series<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In my personal <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/">site</a>, I already wrote <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/2011/07/top-10-things-i-dont-like-about-harry.html">a top ten list of things I didn’t like about the Harry Potter series</a>. But I made it clear in that article that though there are things I didn’t like about HP, I am no Harry Potter-hater and am actually a “fan” to the extent that I have actually enjoyed the series. So, this time, I think it is only fair to write a list of things I like about the Harry Potter series. </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There’s “Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans” where there are several flavors in one pack. Most of the candy flavors are good and based on edible food, but there are some that’s just disgusting, like vomit and earwax. The catch is you won’t know what the flavor of the candy would be until you put it in your mouth. That’s basically a Russian roulette candy eating experience. Sure, the odds are favorable that you would get a good or at least edible flavor, but it’s still a Russian roulette-type risk. All of the chambers of the revolver except one are loaded, very likely you would end up with an empty chamber, but there’s no way it’s going to be a comfortable statistic to risk for.</span></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Then there’s “chocolate frogs”…</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now, these two are just some of the food mentioned in the series. And there could be more food of such weird character. But though the food in the Harry Potter universe is unappetizing to a Muggle like me, it can’t be denied that they are fascinating in the context of a fictional setting.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Actually, I am curious of how “Butter Beer” would taste like…</span></td></tr>
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">9.) YOUTH POWER AND (MORE INTERESTINGLY) SENIOR CITIZEN POWER AT FULL GLORIOUS DISPLAY</span></u></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZmSo06VHphx4JCQNglI3tsbSyuDCeQspEhyphenhyphenlF1DqZ3AS-bShBuTv0J5iKeounznsvHo4PE3Vq_sNAOdv5j7nhhwChzVXLnEdtXMfh6EXD74vz5DuZQ4QacMg9Oh1HOaMYQygnuhvpZvIa/s1600/kids.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZmSo06VHphx4JCQNglI3tsbSyuDCeQspEhyphenhyphenlF1DqZ3AS-bShBuTv0J5iKeounznsvHo4PE3Vq_sNAOdv5j7nhhwChzVXLnEdtXMfh6EXD74vz5DuZQ4QacMg9Oh1HOaMYQygnuhvpZvIa/s400/kids.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is not unlikely to see youngsters – children or teens – to be the central “good guys” in conflict with adult “bad guys” in fiction (especially in anime). However, it’s still refreshing to see Harry and friends being the youth power stereotype in fiction. While the adult good guys are hindered and bounded by rules, the youth – as the youth will always be anti-authority – will break rules, at the risk of punishment, if it’s the only way to get the job done. And many times throughout the series, Harry and friends did this. Another thing refreshing about youth power is being able to overcome the odds stock against being young and inexperienced. Case study: (from HP 5) Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, and Neville (the “Dumbledore’s Army” core) – a group of green underdog spellcasters – taking on Voldemort’s “Death Eaters” – a group of hardened killers. Before being bailed out by the “Order of the Phoenix”, Harry’s young group actually did pretty well.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But more fun than a display of youth power in fiction was the display of senior citizen power. There’s just something about fragile old people kicking butt that makes you smile. Sure, Dumbledore being badass is already a given since he’s a wizened Gandalf-type character. And fans of fantasy already know that wizards like Gandalf should not be messed around. But the Harry Potter series also had elderly characters like Minerva McGonagall and Horace Slughorn – non-Gandalf-type characters. Non Gandalf-type wizards are not intimidating at all. I mean McGonagall looks like your old grand aunt that loves to spend her days drinking tea and knitting while Slughorn looks like an old clumsy, nervous, rare book collector. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Still, don’t a judge a book by its cover as McGonagall and Slughorn rocked in “The Battle of Hogwarts”, fighting bravely and kicking Death Eater butts. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">…bravely fighting these guys (and surviving the battle)?<br />
That's badass!</span></td></tr>
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8.) SPELLS ARE KIND OF BADASS!</span></u></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo87T05ihLNsGCeLKokbgGyDvHz330TCRB4AFhz6Pn_T-fcbjEdkKFvhIYxfKilVnGnf6iQZjLDvnI6kE0g4k1IwGoP1yj-w0slcrnypGccGNwkXUmHCcz13M5vkGlVC9dCGbTuaKeeMM3/s1600/dv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo87T05ihLNsGCeLKokbgGyDvHz330TCRB4AFhz6Pn_T-fcbjEdkKFvhIYxfKilVnGnf6iQZjLDvnI6kE0g4k1IwGoP1yj-w0slcrnypGccGNwkXUmHCcz13M5vkGlVC9dCGbTuaKeeMM3/s400/dv.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Harry Potter universe has one of the most extensive and detailed magical inventories in fantasy. Spells, charms, and curses have distinctions and healthy variety. I really like the concept of each wizard or witch having a unique and appropriate “wand recipe” for him or her to be able to optimize the best possible magic he or she can wield. And, thanks to the films, I found that magic duels in the HP are pretty cool. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My favorite is the “Avada Kedavra” or the Killing Curse. Though it appears to be the most evil magic there is (one of the three “unforgivable” spells), I actually don’t think so. I mean, in the context of a battle, “Avada Kedavra” is probably, not only the most sure way to kill an enemy, but also the most humane way since it kills a target immediately. That’s efficient painless death. That’s preferable than killing by fire or ice.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I also like “Expecto Patronum” since it’s a deeply personal spell for its caster – as it summons an animal representation of the caster – and has to be conjured by a happy memory. That’s nice. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">my Patronus will definitely be a Lolcat</span></td></tr>
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7.) FOUR HOUSES & SORTING HAT</span></u></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4IeDlLYXwFYyl3FuhI3lefDA2D-8evIjjE2QNr3sB0VX7wgdfNKPS7RXnayrpsfIbo1rSvRenUW9M3me8MdUUDETPLUizTgw7vrnqLYe4VVs6BV4cC3KPlRixXk8-bJhPrkERPV3JiXea/s1600/sh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4IeDlLYXwFYyl3FuhI3lefDA2D-8evIjjE2QNr3sB0VX7wgdfNKPS7RXnayrpsfIbo1rSvRenUW9M3me8MdUUDETPLUizTgw7vrnqLYe4VVs6BV4cC3KPlRixXk8-bJhPrkERPV3JiXea/s400/sh.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In Hogwarts, students are grouped into Four Houses depending on their personalities and characteristics that mirror those of the four founders of the school, whom the houses are based and named from. This makes the school population roughly classified into four almost homogenous identity categories. The stubborn go to Gryffindor. The jerks go to Slytherin. The geeks go to Ravenclaw. The nobodies go to Hufflepuff. Moreover, the competition among the Four Houses – especially between Gryffindor and Slytherin – that we saw in the series puts the rivalry of intra-school organizations into a whole new level. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The one who assigns the students to which house they would belong in during their 7-year stay in Hogwarts is the Sorting Hat – a rugged, talking wizard hat. In their freshmen year, during the welcome supper, the students take turns in wearing the Hat as it psychoanalyzes them and determine which house they are fit for. (Note: aside from segregating students, the Sorting Hat can have the Sword of Gryffindor be drawn from it.)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Four Houses system and the Sorting Hat definitely helped in making the Harry Potter mythos enjoyable.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6.) EMMA WATSON'S METAMORPHOSIS</span></u></b><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As we all know, Emma Watson was cast as Hermione Granger for the Harry Potter movies. Thanks to the Harry Potter franchise, since the movie series took a span of more than a decade, we saw how a lovely girl like Watson grew before our eyes during those years – from a cute lassie to a hot sex-symbol.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Adorable, sweet, charming, cute, little girl</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Pretty</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">50 points for Gryffindor!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Gorgeous</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Scorching Hot</span></td></tr>
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5.) BELLATRIX LESTRANGE & LUNA LOVEGOOD</span></u></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXijxJIGV6OwlUlgobKpJC8lL6JDhbu_EfRqjuGH4lRlNBWZj6n-7pBPBIXrDjqoc6Mfm_b5-eLCyuarCMDHJYNihq7p81lgG4Rx_Y76sLj2Vgaga1UkWVBbHB0oE-hVkgnMloA3M_mD5K/s1600/b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXijxJIGV6OwlUlgobKpJC8lL6JDhbu_EfRqjuGH4lRlNBWZj6n-7pBPBIXrDjqoc6Mfm_b5-eLCyuarCMDHJYNihq7p81lgG4Rx_Y76sLj2Vgaga1UkWVBbHB0oE-hVkgnMloA3M_mD5K/s1600/b.jpg" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As I mentioned in that <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/2011/07/top-10-things-i-dont-like-about-harry.html">other article (no. 3 item there)</a>, I found that Luna Lovegood and Bellatrix Lestrange are more interesting characters than Harry Potter. In fact, the two are my two most favorite characters in the series. The characters caught my interest when I had read the book, but I only really get to love them when I saw them being carried out in the movies. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Helena Bonham Carter (the female version of Johnny Depp. Or is it Depp is a male version of Carter?) was absolutely brilliant as Bellatrix. She really enhanced her as a character. In fact, she was more than perfect. In my opinion, Carter portrayed the character better than how Rowling meant the character to be.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As for Evanna Lynch… her acting was not really good at all. But the charm about her is that she didn’t really need to exert much effort in acting at all since she was a natural real life Luna Lovegood. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYvthFLqr45G67kItI1-BuOd5NMsSXxSwwjv4kyOUvD74tQHcuf-glhBOz5Eg0IJgCcwfnmkG3tdmOZpOtTigy66wHhcgOW6vYeDIUUzq7uOcr-QKr5BqUxHmuLduhViRhtpb4bfbwUcOp/s1600/luna.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYvthFLqr45G67kItI1-BuOd5NMsSXxSwwjv4kyOUvD74tQHcuf-glhBOz5Eg0IJgCcwfnmkG3tdmOZpOtTigy66wHhcgOW6vYeDIUUzq7uOcr-QKr5BqUxHmuLduhViRhtpb4bfbwUcOp/s320/luna.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If not for the Harry Potter series, I wouldn’t have encountered such great characters.</span><br />
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4.) IT ENRICHED GEEKDOM AND INTRODUCED ITS FANS TO A WIDER AREA OF POP CULTURE</span></u></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">"Harry Potter taught us to read."</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It can’t be denied that Harry Potter made an impact on geekdom. Just like “Star Wars” or “Lord of the Rings”, the Harry Potter series created a noteworthy niche and a die-hard following for itself in pop culture history. In other words, whether you like it or not, Harry Potter is one of the modern pop culture fads that would become an immortal classic. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I mentioned <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/2011/07/top-10-things-i-dont-like-about-harry.html">in no. 2 in that other article</a> that Harry Potter is overrated. Harry Potter is great but not that great as most believe it to be. And one of the reasons people think it’s that great (when it’s not) is because most of its fans probably haven’t read much books or, at least, not much fantasy books other than Harry Potter. However, as I’ve said, Harry Potter has carved itself a significant niche in pop culture, thus, it had became a healthy starting point for its fans to be exposed to other (better) fantasy titles, and then to a wider area of pop culture. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Example, a non-book enthusiast watched a Harry Potter movie. He got hooked with the HP fad, so he got into the HP books. The HP books made him interested in other children fantasy and it led him to other popular but richer fantasy titles like “Lord of the Rings” or “Chronicles of Narnia”. Then he got into fantasy titles published by Del Rey. He liked the Del Rey books he read, and since Del Rey also publishes sci-fi, he decided to try sci-fi too and got himself hooked on sci-fi. OR he liked the concept of a boy in a fantasy setting, so he read “Artemis Fowl”. He was so impressed by Artemis Fowl that he sought other books that has a smart protagonist. And it may lead him to Sherlock Holmes, which might make him love the mystery genre.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And so on and so forth… the possibilities are endless. Thanks to Harry Potter.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So though some got stuck and refuse to budge from Harry Potter, some managed to move on to better things than Harry Potter because of their exposure to Harry Potter in the first place. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Unfortunately, there are also those who have treaded the “dark side” after starting with Harry Potter, as they ended up with “Twilight” (<a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/2011/07/top-10-things-i-dont-like-about-harry.html">No.1 in that list</a>). </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3.) IT’S ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD</span></u></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDTDjptXBKqxifBsjbPn8v8mjwJ70Ds6dpClUYDOZS7GNVYnvHBi9PcFctSh83AX3dylkHnKC8QaYe2-ELQ40UceFm63fSn8W3YzVczYKqCDu9Lvwl2liY6RaveG4WOqGhvvpJJZvmbjim/s1600/box.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDTDjptXBKqxifBsjbPn8v8mjwJ70Ds6dpClUYDOZS7GNVYnvHBi9PcFctSh83AX3dylkHnKC8QaYe2-ELQ40UceFm63fSn8W3YzVczYKqCDu9Lvwl2liY6RaveG4WOqGhvvpJJZvmbjim/s400/box.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Again, though I keep on mentioning that Harry Potter is overrated, it doesn’t mean that I found it to be dumb or lame. It’s actually an enjoyable good piece of fiction. My point is that people brand is a 10/10 when I believe it‘s actually rightfully just a 7/10 (7.5/10 at most). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A 7/10 is actually great already, isn’t it? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It’s a classic good vs. evil story with important themes (Voldemort is definitely patterned with Adolf Hitler and his racism, hatred, and madness) and morals present. It had plot holes but I liked the overall plot. Its storytelling kept me interested. The series started with a “General Patronage” feel. Then, it started getting darker. More mature. People started getting killed. And the body count piled up through the series. Some criticized this transformation to a darker feel in a children’s book. I disagree with these critics. I actually think the transition style – the level of maturity and grittiness increasing with each book – employed by Rowling in the series was brilliant. You see, not only is Harry the one growing up, the readers are, too. Take for me, for example, I started reading Harry Potter when I was in my late elementary. Book 7 came out when I was already in college. Harry Potter is not entirely a children’s book. It’s rather a “generation” book for those who were children when the first book came out. Thus, as the kids grew up, with their level of maturity growing up with them, the books also grew in maturity. And that’s brilliant. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And I liked how Rowling employed twists in the story. Right from the start (i.e. Quirrell is the bad guy, not Snapes), Rowling made it clear that she knows how to use twists to enhance the story and impress her audience. There are several of them, and they were cleverly inserted across the series. Sirius Black ending up as a good guy after all is the one that blew me away the most. Snapes being loyal to Dumbledore all along and that the killing of Dumbledore is planned by them is something I expected (I never doubted Snapes) but I guess it’s still a major twist in the story. Harry Potter as an accidental Horcrux was also a wonderful twist. But I think it would have been more badass if Neville was actually the true “chosen one”. And that Dumbledore (we all know he’s a master manipulator/tactician, planning his death and all that), to protect Neville, was making it appear that Harry is the “chosen one” so that Voldemort would target him instead. This is no big after all since Harry is a Horcrux, and to destroy it, Voldemort must kill him. So when Harry willingly walked towards Voldemort to be killed after this fact was revealed to Harry (through Snape’s memories), he would be killed for real. And then, in the end, Neville would be the one to kill Voldemort. That would be an awesome mindblowing plot twist. Of course, not all would like it. Especially crazed fans who want the world/story to revolve around Harry Potter. But it can’t be denied that would have been one of the greatest twists in fiction.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This “what-if” or “it would have been better if…” discussions actually make it more fun. Which leads us to…</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2.) IT PROVOKED DISCUSSIONS AND DEBATES, ERGO IT MADE PEOPLE THINK</span></u></b><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I never really followed “Lost” but I know it is highly praised by many. Some people are even saying – probably, those that never saw “The Twilight Zone” – that it’s the best TV show ever. The show enjoyed such success and honor because it instigated plenty of talk among its audience. I mean after each episode, it became the main topic at work or school. “Hey, did you see the latest ‘Lost’ episode last night? That was some awesome stuff, man! What the hell was that all about?” And they would talk. Discuss. Speculate. Debate. Try to predict what would happen next. Give their interpretations of the mysteries raised. It provoked the audience to think.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When a movie/TV show/book provokes discussions or debates among its fans, then it motivates them to think. And I believe that the best of fiction or pop culture should make its audience or readers think or/and reflect. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Harry Potter actually made its readers think. Rowling wrote a story where new questions are raised as soon as old ones are answered. And that was great. It made people (including me) hang on until the last book, where everything is answered. And along the way, there were plenty of discussions and debates among HP’s followers. I know since I was one of them. I can still remember how I kept on arguing (after Book 6) for the case that Snapes is a good guy. And I was right.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1.) HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2</span></u></b><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Indeed. Not only is the last Harry Potter movie the best HP movie ever made, but it is the best thing ever about the Harry Potter franchise: a box-office record breaking film. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are plenty of great things about the movie. Plenty of epic scenes. The fight scenes were smooth and badass. Especially at the climactic Battle of Hogwarts. I forgot how the Battle of Hogwarts went in the book, but I think the movie effectively created a perfect “Battle of Hogwarts” for visual purposes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I criticized Voldemort of being not as menacing as expected (<a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/2011/07/top-10-things-i-dont-like-about-harry.html">No. 7 in the other list</a>). But the scene of him walking barefooted on a sea of blood with the corpses of people he recently killed (because of his anger after Harry and friends stole a Horcrux in Bellatrix Lestrange’s vault in Gringots) covering the floor made me think that Voldemort might be one scary evil dude after all. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Another favorite scene of mine was the preparation of Hogwarts for battle. Professors and senior students – mostly from “Dumbledore’s Army” – readying themselves at the front yard. The covering of a magic bubble shield around the school. Dumbledore’s Army and Order of the Phoenix members readying themselves around the campus. And Prof. McGonagall summoning Hogwarts’ stone knight guardians.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This scene was also perfectly taken out from the book. Epic.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All in all, the movie successfully ended the HP story with a bang. It was greatly entertaining and gripping from start to finish. Easily one of the best movies of 2011. It was that kind of movie that even if you are not familiar with the first 7 films or the Harry Potter mythos, you will still appreciate the movie. Visuals… story… plot… action… all terrific in delivery.</span></div>Bernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13660841029692669097noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-39065331291912613432011-08-01T09:35:00.001+08:002012-09-14T20:31:54.906+08:00July 2011 Round-Up: Blah Blah Blah BlahBlah blah blah. Here's a lazily made round-up:<br />
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<a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/07/worlds-most-difficult-brain-busting.html">"World's Most Difficult Brain-Busting Logic Puzzle"</a> by Bernel<br />
<a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/07/peter-pan-and-peter-pan-syndrome.html">"Peter Pan and the Peter Pan Syndrome"</a> by Niki<br />
<a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/07/vhong-navarro-is-awesome.html">"Vhong Navarro is Awesome"</a> by Bernel<br />
<a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/07/filipino-diabetic-2.html">"The Filipino Diabetic Part 2"</a> by Maddy<br />
<a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/07/stop-stare-write.html">"Stop, Stare, Write"</a> by Niki<br />
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That's all...<br />
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</div>Stop.<div>If you're thinking of nothing, and you've got nothing to write, nothing to say then stop.</div><div>you can't do anything anyway.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Stare.</div><div>If there is an action word for what you're doing now, then that would be it. Stare.</div><div>Something is bound to be in front of you that will catch your attention.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Write.</div><div>So now that you can find something to talk about. You should start to write.</div><div>It doesn't matter what it's about. From your mind, something will definitely come out.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Peace all. ^_^</div>Nikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003971214739208436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-77584639672225919162011-07-26T15:54:00.002+08:002011-09-20T22:18:49.964+08:00The Filipino Diabetic 2Whew! I'm back!<br />
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After a long time that I have not been able to update the next part of my post The Filipino Diabetic Part 1, I finally got the time to put down my skethpad and pencil and my graphic tablet (which i got a craze over for the past few weeks).</div>
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Now I just realized that this part of my article is more important than the first because as all medical practitioners would say "Prevention is better than cure".</div>
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We've discussed what Diabetes is all about on the previous post I made. So right now, I will share the ways on how this deadly disease can be prevented.</div>
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Yep, it's starts with the determination and the wariness to prevent acquiring this ailment. Think about the life you can spare in your years, as well the number of your years in your life. Think about your loved ones-- you don't want them to be greatly affected because of acquiring this condition. I must say it is going to take a toll on your years, life, money, energy, emotion and not just yours but the people who care for you too.</div>
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1. Eat the proper amount and kind of food.</div>
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Control your sugar intake-- but don't shut it down. Sugar and starch are still our primary source of energy, we cannot deprive ourselves of which. On the other hand we must see to it that we don't take in too much than we need.</div>
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Avoid eating too fatty and oily food as well especially fat and oil that comes from an animal source. you may say "Hey, I thought Diabetes is about sugar intake only?" It is also an aggravating factor if you have a high cholesterol level in your bloodstream. We are not naive of this, we all know the many things and diseases result on this. And just because you are not fat and obese doesn't mean you don't have a high cholesterol in your blood. Even skinny people accumulate cholesterol plaques in their arteries-- they don't even realize it til they are diagnosed.</div>
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Good stuff you should eat-- I mean SHOULD eat--</div>
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vegetables-- the colorful your plate is the better...</div>
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2. Hydrate-- I mean drink lots of water... fruit juice and some tea may be helpful too...</div>
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What does this have to do in preventing Diabetes? I would ask myself before as well. Later I found out that when you take a bath, you are also hydrating yourself...and preventing yourself from other infections that would cause other disease. And by preventing these diseases it will not affect your overall health. Hygiene is very important. </div>
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It is not enough to take in your body good stuff... You have to keep your body well functioning and nothing keeps it from rusting than regular exercise. We are not ignorant of this. We know the many ways we can do exercise. Please, no excuses. This is a very critical prevention measure in Diabetes. If you don't use up your glucose, it will get stuck in your bloodstream--you get the idea?</div>
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Naaah... by regular it doesn't mean that you have to get a check up daily or weekly... probably twice a year or as the doctor recommends it. Get your blood sugar levels and your cholesterol levels as well. It helps to know about them.</div>
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So that's basically just it.... measures you can prevent Diabetes...Particulary Diabetes of the second type...</div>
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How do I know I am already susceptible in acquiring it...or I already have it?</div>
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excessive sweating, excessive hunger, excessive thirst and excessive urination...</div>
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Hahaha so I'm done sharing about what I've learned about this disease so far. There are still lots more to learn from it, but I hope this blog post is informative enough to all.</div>
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Mwah! <--cooties free</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02120433216799633975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-9268523847565926042011-07-18T12:13:00.003+08:002011-07-18T12:19:00.799+08:00Vhong Navarro is Awesome<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Vhong Navarro is probably the most entertaining dancer in Philippine showbiz. His dancing ideas and performing creativity are probably only second to Gary V (who is the "Philippines' Michael Jackson" in performance genius). But Vhong's trademark dancing is definitely more humorous than Gary V's style. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">His Street Boys mates also deserve some kudos since they are also among the best in the business as they effectively compliment Vhong's performances. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My favorite Vhong Navarro and Street Boys dance act is their "Evolution of Dance" - a medley of different dance crazes/styles through the years. I first saw this act when <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfcRB8lKDZA">they guested in Sharon Cuneta's show years ago</a>. They clearly got the idea from this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg">stand-up comedian's own "evolution of dance" act</a> (which is in the top 10 most viewed videos in Youtube). Here is a video footage of the act: </span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/R5eXPGKQbok" width="480"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Vhong and the Street Boys also performed another epic but entirely different "evolution of dance" in the hit "Showtime" last year (if I get it right), which was first <a href="http://youtu.be/1rrZU1piWWE">performed in ASAP during a birthday of Vhong</a>. Here was his "Magpasikat" performance: </span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/elSo-7hk1UY" width="480"></iframe></span></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Clearly, by these dances, we can see how an awesome performer Vhong Navarro is</span>.<br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When not dancing in the "Experimental Theatre", Bernel is dancing in <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/">"The Bernel Zone"</a>...</span></i></div>Bernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13660841029692669097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-69899455111258833432011-07-08T23:47:00.000+08:002011-07-08T23:47:41.966+08:00Peter Pan and the Peter Pan syndrome<div style="text-align: left;"><i>"Pan, who and what art thou?" he [Hook] cried huskily.<br />
"I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg." - Peter Pan</i></div><br />
First, of all; No. Peter Pan syndrome isn't a recognized disease in the medical world. But it is an interesting concept to consider.<br />
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I guess most of the people reading this would already be familiar with Peter Pan. The boy who lived in Neverland and has wonderful adventures with Wendy and the Lost boys. Some of us loved him when he was a kid, though I guess he won't stop being that to us - a kid. And though some of us would just like to be that - kids, most of us grew up and left our childhood days behind.<br />
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Peter Pan Syndrome is a term coined by Dr. Dan Kiley with his book "The Peter Pan syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up". I think I've read it once in my library visits. And though it is not recognized as a psychological disorder, I think there are people who fit in this syndrome.<br />
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Characteristics: <br />
- refusal/failure to accept mature responsibilities<br />
- post adolescent development stage<br />
- emotionally immature<br />
- narcissism<br />
- a history of failed relationships/ fear of commitments<br />
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One probable cause would be a person rejecting the adult world because of fear of growing up. He or she has experienced or observed an adult event that makes them afraid that that is how they'll be as adults. Another theory is that it is due to over protective parents. As young children, the adult "realities" were hidden or masked so they have a false sense of security which immediately dissolves when their first adult problem sets in. They're used to their parents handling their responsibilities.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJF8I_VDheb8aV5IueVphIYLC1_QZ5sHs8M2F64CzLbDurpqhmCL7wKMGM1ZqaS_M02eqDc4CU3e3r-sIlfLEOm3Twuvkx1oRD3mPEbbDQvskItovXpFWK5F-6dVycF53T6YLU6KynsQ0/s1600/PP2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJF8I_VDheb8aV5IueVphIYLC1_QZ5sHs8M2F64CzLbDurpqhmCL7wKMGM1ZqaS_M02eqDc4CU3e3r-sIlfLEOm3Twuvkx1oRD3mPEbbDQvskItovXpFWK5F-6dVycF53T6YLU6KynsQ0/s320/PP2.png" width="216" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This makes us look at Peter Pen at a different light huh. :)<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Though the syndrome makes us think of lazy-good-for-nothing bums who has no sense of responsibility, I believe that it is not necessarily their fault. These people are merely "victims" of the circumstances that surrounded their growth and development. I think with supportive friends and family, a person can grow up to be a mature, responsible and productive citizen of a community.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">What do you think?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>All information from the internet. :)</i></div></div>Nikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003971214739208436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-68034971248551294642011-07-06T13:01:00.002+08:002011-07-06T13:03:08.539+08:00World's Most Difficult Brain-Busting Logic Puzzle<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Three gods A , B , and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine the identities of A , B , and C by asking three yes-no questions; each question must be put to exactly one god. The gods understand English, but will answer in their own language, in which the words for yes and no are “da” and “ja”, in some order. You do not know which word means which</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOwDIqgrlbk1PncCcWwxZnmjWxYYhQ_hoL9YpG_3J4RZqxBgv2K91yvHfzTvi7tTWrtpUkbi0jWSvR8rvTYJvuUG3k36s2vnTkmNohyPku_6YbOnp8gZUgY18O1tDSAIJV4rYiAmGbaSRt/s1600/he.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOwDIqgrlbk1PncCcWwxZnmjWxYYhQ_hoL9YpG_3J4RZqxBgv2K91yvHfzTvi7tTWrtpUkbi0jWSvR8rvTYJvuUG3k36s2vnTkmNohyPku_6YbOnp8gZUgY18O1tDSAIJV4rYiAmGbaSRt/s400/he.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The puzzle above is what George Boolos, a legendary philosopher, logician, and teacher in MIT, coined as "The Hardest Logic Problem Ever." This puzzle was invented by the logician and puzzle-master Raymond Smullyan and slightly modified by the computer scientist John McCarthy. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I love logic puzzles and have solved some difficult ones, but I am not smart enough to touch this one. It's so friggin' hard. But, hey, you might be able to solve it (I doubt it :P. lol).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you are interested for more details about the puzzle and its solution,<b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardest_Logic_Puzzle_Ever">CLICK HERE</a></b>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>When not busting his brain in the "Experimental Theatre", Bernel is busting his brain in <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/">"The Bernel Zone"</a>...</i> </span></div>Bernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13660841029692669097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-53398978216571919222011-07-01T11:44:00.017+08:002011-07-01T12:15:27.868+08:00June 2011 Round-Up: The Month Where I (Bernel) Turned 22<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Haha. That was shameless. Plugging that it had been my birthday month. I just couldn't think a good title for June's round-up.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Aside from yours truly becoming 22 years old this month, we also saw the Dallas Mavericks kicking the butts of the Miami Heat. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/2011/06/thank-you-dallas-mavericks.html">Thank you, Mavs!!!</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Booyah! (Just sad that we have an NBA lockout in our hands right now)</span><br />
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</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway, we're still alive in the month of June and we had (though few) some good posts this month:</span><br />
<a name='more'></a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/06/prank-ly-speaking.html">Prank-ly Speaking</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Niki</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-the Chief shared some classic prank vids.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/06/new-tv-shows-to-premiere-this-june.html">New TV Shows to Premiere this June</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by ANDOi</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-some new shows to watch out for.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/06/has-just-recently-watched-drive-angry.html">Has Just Recently Watched "Drive Angry 3D"</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Bernel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-some thoughts about the movie. note: it includes a link to where you can watch the movie in the Net.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/06/49-days-what-will-you-do.html">49 Days: What will you do?</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Niki</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-the Chief highly recommends this Korean drama series.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/06/jimmy-kimmels-most-epic.html">Jimmy Kimmel's Most Epic Comeback</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Bernel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-some hilarity.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/06/filipino-happiness.html">The Filipino Happiness</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Niki</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-why are Filipinos a jolly race?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/06/filipino-diabetic-part-1.html">The Filipino Diabetic Part 1</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Maddy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-using her own experiences with her father as case study, Maddy presents us a highly informative post about the condition.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/2011/06/top-10-paradoxes.html">Top 10 Paradoxes</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Bernel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-a fascinating list of brain busters.</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">* * * </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That's all. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hmmm. The Espada are kind of dead lately. Just one post from them this month (and two in the last three months). Oh, well. Let's have a review (no change) of the standings:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ANDOi - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Primera</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Carl Cathrx - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Segunda</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ching - <i>Tres</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">RD - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Cuatro</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We can't blame them. They are not getting paid anyway. Hahaha. Still, you guys are very much welcome to post when you finally decided or thought of something to post ^__^</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway, us Big 3 (the founders) will keep this blog running... hopefully, forever... </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG1DIsDIl6NYgu3umrGE6_D8OI62HuIjA5Mc87E_aoE2Pb7_heu13cRMOkyMw0zT0zLbx2FkGtbz8fan4qEwbqdM-NEn609jqnLw9nDQihgIWq5Us9S_todUELdDDgnDUrjzbG5xHvWt92/s1600/onward.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG1DIsDIl6NYgu3umrGE6_D8OI62HuIjA5Mc87E_aoE2Pb7_heu13cRMOkyMw0zT0zLbx2FkGtbz8fan4qEwbqdM-NEn609jqnLw9nDQihgIWq5Us9S_todUELdDDgnDUrjzbG5xHvWt92/s400/onward.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div>Bernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13660841029692669097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-75933431568600421462011-06-19T22:19:00.005+08:002011-07-06T13:03:22.527+08:00Top 10 Paradoxes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNV_NzEqtsEwiPKkykZtq7gfDGH4tJ35mmjRfCA_aR0iDukJb9akPWpLWXOFj-YIWJlrXmW9zpt7X9eZQloq98rOYIpBHp_x9dmqYIhBalBehpnLPps20q9VEqNQZoCzRm5F4UOeHKzJOK/s320/button.jpg" width="320" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We can express paradox in different ways. In literature, paradox is a mere figure of speech. In theology, a paradox is distinct from a contradiction; paradoxes in theology are truths that only seem contradictory, but further and careful scrutiny would show that they are not, whereas contradictions are impossibilities and untruths. In the <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/2011/06/math-is-badass.html">mindblowing world of mathematics</a>, paradoxes are contradictions that are possible and true (e.g. 1 = 0.99999…).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Indeed there are different treatments of paradox among different disciplines. But what is paradox in general? A paradox, according to wiki, is “<span class="apple-style-span">a</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><i>seemingly</i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">true</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="text-decoration: none;">statement</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">or group of statements that lead to a</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="text-decoration: none;">contradiction</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">or a situation which</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><i>seems to</i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">defy logic or </span><span style="text-decoration: none;">intuition</span><span class="apple-style-span">.” So, as I want to interpret it, paradoxes can either be possible (which happens in theology and math) or impossible. Paradoxes can be seemingly contradictory but actually not or they can be outright contradictory. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I love paradoxes because they are awesome mindblowers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once you are ready for some massive brain-beating, meet me after the jump.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Can God create a stone that he won’t be able to lift?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If God can create and then creates a stone that he won’t be able to lift, therefore he ceases to be omnipotent since there will be something that he can’t do, which is lifting that stone. But if he can’t create such a stone that he won’t be able to lift, then he is not omnipotent in the first place since there is something he can’t do, which is to create such stone. Either way, it is implied that omnipotence is something impossible. Therefore, if omnipotence is an impossibility, then an omnipotent God is an impossibility. And since a God can’t be a God without omnipotence, then a God does not exist. That’s how the logic of it works. And this argument is a favorite of atheists. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Personally, I am already tired of this argument. But I have to add this in this list since, I admit, it had stumped me for a while before I learned the solution to this dilemma (with the help of two great apologists, C.S. Lewis and R.C. Sproul). I already wrote about it in my <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/2010/10/top-10-thought-provokers.html">“Top 10 Thought Provokers”</a> post. If you care to learn it, just read it there. The “Omnipotence Paradox” item is also a number 10 in that list. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Schrödinger's Cat is a thought experiment in Quantum Physics that can be related to several quantum topics, which ultimately arrive at many worlds theory (see number 2 of my <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/2010/10/top-10-thought-provokers.html">“Top 10 Thought Provokers”</a> post). This is a very notoriously complex thesis (like all other topics that Quantum Physics touches). I don’t really understand it totally. But here’s the scenario in a nutshell...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A cat is sealed inside a box with this device: in a Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, tiny enough that there is a 50/50 chance that one of the atoms will decay, which means that there’s the same 50/50 chance that no atom will, but if one does, it is designed to relay a signal for a hammer to break a flask of hydrocyanic acid. If no atom will decay, the cat lives after an hour. But if one does, then the cat dies because of the release of the poison. We will never know if the cat lived or died unless we open the box. But according to the theory, until then, the cat is paradoxically both alive and dead inside the box! The argument is since nobody is around to witness what is happening inside the box, then the cat exists in all its possible states. Yah, Quantum Mechanics is that weird – actually, weirder than we can ever imagine. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In simpler words, the Schrödinger's Cat paradox’s notion is alike with the question: “If a tree falls in the woods and there’s no one to hear it, does it make a sound?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Try answering that.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Awesome, right? According to this <a href="http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~sillke/PUZZLES/jigsaw-paradox.html">pic’s source</a>, this is a modified version of Curry’s paradox by Martin Gardner. Actually, the most mindblowing paradoxes exist in Math, but I’m afraid my head will explode if I force myself to grasp or study fully all of those. </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are different variations of this dilemma. But here’s the basic: a crocodile kidnaps a child of a father. The crocodile promises that he will return the child if the father correctly predicts whether the croc will return the child or not. No logical problem will occur if the father guesses, “You will return my child.” The crocodile now has the power to make the father’s guess correct or wrong. If the crocodile chooses to return the child, then the father’s guess is correct, and if the crocodile chooses to keep the child – which the croc will definitely do in such scenario since it’s the beneficial choice for itself – then the father’s guess is incorrect. Regardless of what the croc’s choice is, either way, there will be no violation of the crocodile’s stipulation. However, a logical headache happens if the father guesses, “You will not return my child.” Now, if the crocodile chooses to keep the child (since, as I’ve said, it’s the beneficial choice for itself) then the father’s guess is correct, and under the stipulation, the croc has to return the child. But how can the croc keep and return the child at the same time?! Even if the crocodile chooses to return the child to the father, the father’s guess would be incorrect then, thus under the stipulation, the croc should not return the child. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6.) Paradox of the Court</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is a logical problem dating back to ancient Greece.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">According to legend, the famous sophist Protagoras agreed to take Euathlus as his pupil, with the contract that the latter will pay the former for his lessons after he – Euathlus (let’s make this clear since these paradoxes already are confusing on their own) – wins his first court case. According to some accounts, Protagoras demanded the money as soon as Euathlus finished his schooling under Protagoras. On other accounts, Euathlus, after finishing his schooling, failed or made no effort on taking on clients. Regardless of which is true, Protagoras decided to sue Euathlus for the amount owed to him. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In Protagoras’ perspective, the logic was, if he won the case, he would be paid the money due to him. And, on the other hand, if Euathlus won the case, then as their contract stipulates, Euathlus still had to pay Protagoras since he won his first case. Either way, he gets his money.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">However, Euathlus’ argued that if he won the case, by the court’s decision, he would not have to pay Protagoras. And, on the other hand, if Protagoras won the case, it meant that Euathlus was still unable to win his first case, thus he wouldn’t have to pay Protagoras.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you were the judge of the case, who would you rule in favor for?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Rumor has it this is also what happened to him. </span></span></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This logical paradox was coined by Joseph Heller in his novel “Catch-22” (a hilarious and must read book!). This refers to a situation in which an individual needs something that can only be acquired by not being in that very situation. In the novel, the protagonist Captain John Yossarian, a US Army Air Forces bombardier, who as much as possible tries to avoid situations that endanger his life, wishes to be grounded from combat flight. This is only possible if he is evaluated by the flight surgeon as “unfit to fly”. However to be branded as “unfit”, a pilot must volunteer for extremely dangerous missions, i.e. to be mad enough to be willing to fly to possible death. But to be evaluated, a pilot should request an evaluation – an act that is considered sufficient proof to be declared sane. Therefore, it is impossible for someone to be declared “unfit to fly”, since a pilot who request mental fitness evaluation is deemed sane, thus should fly in combat, and at the same time, if he does not request an evaluation, he will not receive one and thus can never be found insane and must fly in combat. That is the “Catch-22”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I can give another example of a “Catch-22” scenario, which you surely will see is true: In applying for a job, a job experience is required for it. But how can one earn a job experience without having a job in the first place?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There’s a town with just one male barber. Every man in the town keeps himself clean-shaven. Some shave themselves, while some by going to the barber. Now, by this, we can logically assume that <i>the barber shaves all and only those men who do not shave themselves</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">However, one question would lead us to a paradox… “Who shaves the barber?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="apple-style-span">The assumption is “Every rule has an exception.” From what the assumption establishes, even “Every rule has an exception” has an exception itself. Thus, a rule without an exception can exist. There would now be a contradiction, since according to the initial assumption, “Every rule has an exception”, but if the assumption is applied on the assumption itself, we conclude that some rule with no exception is possible. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="apple-style-span"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="apple-style-span">Since the assumption implodes in itself, then we conclude then that such assumption, “every rule has an exception”, will always be a false premise since it’s impossible (Note: if you have noticed, this structure of argument was what was used in the Omnipotence Paradox).<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">There are other variations to the Exception Paradox but my favorite is “If everything is possible, then it is possible for anything to be impossible.”</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.3pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A judge tells a condemned prisoner that he will be hanged at noon on one weekday in the following week, but that the execution will be a surprise to the prisoner. He will not know the day of the hanging until the executioner knocks on his cell door at noon that day. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Having reflected on his sentence, the prisoner draws the conclusion that he will escape from the hanging. His reasoning is in several parts. He begins by concluding that the “surprise hanging” can’t be on a Friday, as if he hasn’t been hanged by Thursday, there is only one day left – and so it won’t be a surprise if he’s hanged on a Friday. Since the judge’s sentence stipulated that the hanging would be a surprise to him, he concludes it cannot occur on Friday. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">He then reasons that the surprise hanging cannot be on Thursday either, because Friday has already been eliminated and if he hasn’t been hanged by Wednesday night, the hanging must occur on Thursday, making a Thursday hanging not a surprise either. By similar reasoning he concludes that the hanging can also not occur on Wednesday, Tuesday or Monday. Joyfully he retires to his cell confident that the hanging will not occur at all. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The next week, the executioner knocks on the prisoner’s door at noon on Wednesday — which, despite all the above, will still be an utter surprise to him. Everything the judge said has come true.</span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A line in a poem of Epimenides goes: “The Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies!”</span></div><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He, being a Cretan himself, unwittingly called himself a liar. Thus, a dilemma arises. If all Cretans, including himself, are liars, then his statement that all Cretans are liars is a lie. Then, if his statement was a lie, then it means that all Cretans are truthful. However, if all Cretans are truthful, then he being a Cretan himself had told the truth that all Cretans are liars. And we have ourselves an infinite logical loop. </span></span></div><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That is the mechanics of the liar paradox. We can make it comprehensive with the simple paradoxical sentence of “This statement is false.” If the statement “this statement is false” is true, then it is false. If the statement is false, then it is true. Either way, it is both true and false. Which is a contradiction. </span></span></div><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div>Bernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13660841029692669097noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-29059596215905746002011-06-19T18:37:00.007+08:002011-06-19T22:32:50.498+08:00The Filipino Diabetic Part 1<a href="http://herbsknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/diabetes.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><br />
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My dad just got out of the hospital a few days ago. He is a diabetic and also got hypertension which means he occasionally has a high blood pressure. Daddy suffered this condition for more than a year now after his diagnosis.<br />
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</div><div>But what really is diabetes and and how is this disease such a health threat at the same time a health deficit?</div><div><br />
</div><div>Diabetes Mellitus is the condition where there is lack of insulin in the blood steam to help glucose be assimilated in the cells to and be used as energy.</div><div><br />
</div><div>There are two types of DM. </div><div>DM 1 means that the pancreas do not secrete insulin. Pancreas are the glands responsible in secreting insulin. Persons who have DM 1 are dependent in injectable insulin and most of them if not all of them, would have to depend on it for their entire life.</div><div><br />
</div><div>DM 2 means that the pancreas secrete only a scanty amount of the hormone. Another hand, it could also mean that the person having DM 2 takes in more glucose than what the body requires and by which their is insufficient supply of insulin produced by the pancreas.</div><div><br />
</div><div>My dad suffers Diabetes Mellitus type 2.</div><div><br />
</div><div>In my dad's case, like most other persons suffering DM2, he has maintenance drugs for diabetes. These drugs have different mechanisms or dynamics on how it works in the body to intervene the illness. One of his drugs stimulate his pancreas to produce more insulin. Another drug slows the absorption of glucose into the bloodstream.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Aside from his oral anti-diabetic drugs, my dad also has other maintenance drugs to control his hypertension or high blood pressure.</div><div><br />
</div><div>But drugs are not all good. In fact, if not taken with much care, awareness and safety, it could lead to other complications. The therapeutic effect of a drug might mend only a certain problem, but a lot of people neglect that drugs have side effects and long term effects called adverse effects. More so, they also have dangerous effects when they get to interact with other chemicals, food and other drugs we ingest and that stays in our body. These are factors we cannot easily control especially once they are already absorbed in our body.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Dad suffered a lot of complications of Diabetes</div><div>One it caused edema in his legs and feet because of poor blood circulation. Edema is a swelling caused by fluid that leaked out of the blood vessels because his blood vessels couldn't hold them in anymore.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Hypertension also developed because his blood has become viscuous due to the accumulation of glucose in the blood. It makes it sticky and blood cannot circulate well.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://herbsknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/diabetes.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 476px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 486px;" /></span><br />
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</div><div>This leads to another complication which is poor or slow wound healing. My dad walks everyday and if he cuts himself, especially on his foot, it takes long before it heals. In some cases, for other people, the wound never heals and turns gangrenous, resulting to amputation of the dead tissues.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Another complication that arose was dad's eyesight degeneration. This is a result of the poor circulation as well. His eyes do not get enough good nutrition and oxygenation. To make it short the eyes degenerate resulting to poor eyesight, meaning vision gets blurred and it makes the person strain to see. This causes headache and pain because of the pressure in his eyes. My dad can no longer see clearly and he got bleeding inside his eyes. He had to undergo cataract surgery and retinopathy to intervene this problem. And because he had swelling inside his eyes or on his macula, he had to be injected with a drug that stops the swelling inside. But whatever procedure he underwent, it never restored dad's vision to like before.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Recently, there came another complication discovered. This time, during when he was confined in the hospital. He had a 3rd stage renal disease, which means his kidneys do not function well anymore. We all know that kidneys play an important part in maintaining our blood to be free from impurities. It excretes the waste in our blood stream and important in balancing the chemicals that go in and out our body. Dad's kidneys can no longer perform this function well anymore. This led to more swelling or edema in his legs.</div><div><br />
</div><div>And the more dangerous part of it, because his kidneys can no longer excrete and filter blood well, the by-products of the drugs he takes can no longer be excreted properly thus it remains in the body and continues to toxicate my dad's bloodstream causing many damages all over the body. </div><div><br />
</div><div>One damage it made, which was the primary cause of his hospitalization was the sudden drop of his blood sugar. Yes, my dad is diabetic then wouldn't be a drop of blood sugar a good sign? No, for in this case it dropped really low that he is in the state called hypoglycemia. His body almost collapsed because the body's energy is depleting very fast. In fact being in the state of hypoglycemia for a long time is much dangerous than being in state of hyperglycemia (high glucose in the blood). It can lead to coma.</div><div><br />
</div><div>At that time my dad really was weak and he was sweating cold. He was shaking or what we say as tremors and he feels he can't breathe well because his muscles are weakening. He gets irritable, almost disoriented, uneasy, can't sleep and can't focus. More over, he is having a very high blood pressure. This prompted us to rush to the hospital emergency care, and eventually needs to be confined.</div><div><br />
</div><div>I am sharing this to all of you because we all need to be aware of this certain disease.</div><div><br />
</div><div>This is the first part of my blog post and on Part 2 I will be talking about how this disease has already become rampant amongst us Filipinos and what could be the factors that inclined us to acquire such illness. </div><div><br />
</div><div>I am basing all these thing from facts and real events that happened in my life and I have been a witness to the condition my dad is going through.</div><div><br />
</div><div>:)</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02120433216799633975noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-85727494827771956462011-06-17T22:23:00.000+08:002011-06-19T22:34:00.561+08:00The Filipino HappinessPeople have always talked about how a Filipino can smile even though tragic events are happening around them. Other countries also wonder about that. I don't have the exact answer but one of the things that I think contributes to it lies in the history of the Philippines. Being conquered by a lot of countries, the Filipinos have developed a sense of resiliency towards painful events. They have a deep sense of hope that things will turn out for the better. You can just imagine the horrible stuff those invaders did to our fellow men and yet the Filipinos still forgive them and even turned out to be one of the most hospitable people around.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-8sduoPwtMWiX3QNdeGcbz9j825JtBXeTeymZsyIbnZ3aEi5A4eyI_kwtJlaNPciush3ytFznc60-nQhharAIXVrTA19V78fLw2mf8qRlhD21kPAltQ4IxviPPuUuPNp0BfHvT_isiCt2/s1600/smiles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-8sduoPwtMWiX3QNdeGcbz9j825JtBXeTeymZsyIbnZ3aEi5A4eyI_kwtJlaNPciush3ytFznc60-nQhharAIXVrTA19V78fLw2mf8qRlhD21kPAltQ4IxviPPuUuPNp0BfHvT_isiCt2/s320/smiles.jpg" width="238" /></a>Another factor is probably the fact that a majority of the Filipino population are Christians and being Christians, we know that a higher being does not ignore our suffering and we can turn to God in times of life's sufferings. I observed in other countries that they don't or maybe they can't really smile about it and yet I observe the local news and somehow... the people there are grinning ear to ear. People who have lost homes. People who have nothing and yet they can still smile. Maybe some may call us fools but during those times, what can you do? It's not like moping around would help.<br />
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I think that having a family centered orientation also contributes to this cheerful nature. When a Filipino is lonely, he/she knows that mother (or another relative) is only a phone call away or a shout away. No one can underestimate a Filipino's love for their families or even their fellow men. Even though they can be harsh sometimes (not the abuse kind mind you), it is probably because they think of your future.<br />
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History, Faith and Family. These contribute to the smiling Filipino. I'm truly proud to be <i>pinoy.</i>Nikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003971214739208436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-81117242971606229092011-06-16T18:21:00.002+08:002011-06-16T19:53:07.737+08:00Jimmy Kimmel's Most Epic Comeback<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kimmel is one of the funniest and most entertaining men in TV. He has done plenty of fun craziness in his career, but I think the following video - done back in 2008 - is his most fun so far.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sarah Silverman, his then girlfriend, pulled an epic prank on him when she guested on his show. Watch below:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/m5MT5nbMQoA" width="480"></iframe></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This was Kimmel's rebuttal a month later. Definitely more epic...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TwIyLHsk2h4" width="480"></iframe></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bonus: </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- somebody also made <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63a8fUEaSEo">a parody starring Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton</a></span><br />
- <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">here's something recent. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUC-GjJh8dY&feature=feedlik">a prank on Ron Artest</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just a random sharing. Hope it made you laugh ^__^</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>For more on Bernel, go to the <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/">"The Bernel Zone"</a>... </i></span>Bernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13660841029692669097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-20010262040473793462011-06-07T18:10:00.000+08:002011-06-16T18:32:58.080+08:0049 Days: What will you do?As anyone who's been stalking my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1082978778">FB wall</a> lately, you would know that I've been watching this great Korean TV series; 49 days. It's a 20 episode drama written by So Hyeon-Kyeong and directed by Jo Young-Kwang. Recently, I've been watching a lot of Asian dramas but as always I'm pretty much choosy when it comes to shows, only watching the interesting ones until the end.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">49 Days</td></tr>
</tbody></table>49 days is a beautiful story about Ji Hyun (Nam Gyu-Ri), a rich girl who's life was well and perfect. She was getting married to the man she was destined for and no one could be happier. But her life literally takes a sudden turn when an accident caused her to have a coma. Pronounced brain dead, Ji Hyun's soul wandered about and she met the Angel of Death a.k.a. the Scheduler (Jung Il Woo). He offered her 49 days to find 3 people who sincerely love her but this excludes anyone of blood relation. As proof she had to collect 3 tears. Ji Hyun then was "allowed" to take over a depressed person's body - Yi Kyung for a certain time. Ji Hyun felt confident that she would accomplish that mission easily.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nam Gyu Ri and Lee Yo Won</td></tr>
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On her first day "alive", Ji Hyun remembers why she got into an accident - she had seen her best friend and her fiancée being intimate and had driven blindly and so crashed into the back of a truck. Suddenly she's not that confident in finding those three persons.<br />
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But then Ji Hyun has always been known to be the optimistic princess and as she unexpectedly finds other people who care, she brings her hopes up and goes on to find people who can shed those three tears for her.<br />
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As the story goes on, Yi Kyeung discovers someone is possessing her body and soon enough Ji Hyun and Yi Kyung help each other and find something meaningful in their lives. The writer also gives a satisfying finish as she reveals a secret to the watchers.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg74RAPHEuQvGLkzqmv-Y9xYyMNKYG08PVtStuLMPsKxlgWlBnmXA8NlJwQtvbe5d4BNHsTj9K15msoHCINAo7Ux9tW3QVg9s0y9p2xHm8Mcs674A4qMcPpfaKsyBJdBCkDjO9tjlEB0Zfn/s1600/49+couple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg74RAPHEuQvGLkzqmv-Y9xYyMNKYG08PVtStuLMPsKxlgWlBnmXA8NlJwQtvbe5d4BNHsTj9K15msoHCINAo7Ux9tW3QVg9s0y9p2xHm8Mcs674A4qMcPpfaKsyBJdBCkDjO9tjlEB0Zfn/s320/49+couple.jpg" width="320" /></a>The drama has a smooth script but isn't that heavy though I can't help but cry at the end. Ji Hyun gives an air of being a scatter brained at first but she is someone who is genuine and can do things if she puts her mind in it. Though she is definitely a cry baby, being in tears in almost every episode. Nam Gyu Ri performed her well. Of course, Lee Yo Won (playing Yi Kyung) has always been considered a very good actress in Korea and her acting in the show was unquestionable considering that she had to play 2 different personalities.<br />
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On my own personal drama reflection; I also think what if I was given 49 days and be in the same situation? Would I do what the unselfish Ji Hyun did? Do I really know my friends? Can I forgive my fiancée (If I had one) for doing that? Can I forgive my best friend for plotting for my end? Would I have the grace to accept my end?<br />
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I can't speak for anyone but myself though but I really liked this drama and recommend it to you if you haven't seen it. ^__^Nikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003971214739208436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119099986037235840.post-64724977876961978922011-06-07T00:26:00.001+08:002011-06-07T13:12:15.328+08:00Has Just Recently Watched "Drive Angry 3D"<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/O2-hiHUh4UQ" width="480"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wasn't able to watch this in 3D in a movie theater. But I think it would have been awesome if I did since it's the good kind of 3D (i.e was shot with 3D cameras) and not <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/2010/12/voyage-of-dawn-treader-my-first-movie.html">the poor technique of post-production 3Ding of 2D-shot movies</a>. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is not really a movie review. Won't tell you much about it. I wrote this just to say that I really love this movie, even though it received some negative reviews and has flopped in the box office. I don't know why a lot didn't like it. "Drive Angry 3D" was oozing with gritty action and contained both badass and very funny moments (the funniest scene though was already shown in the trailer). The story and plot both felt cliche and unique, I can't really tell, but, nonetheless, they delivered. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It also has three entertaining and fascinating characters (kudos also to the actors, as they successfully made the characters they played to be such) They were mean, badass motherf*@*##!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Well, I can't guarantee that you will also like the movie as I did. But if you care to watch it, here's the link:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.movie2k.to/Drive-Angry-3D-watch-movie-668532.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.movie2k.to/Drive-Angry-3D-watch-movie-668532.html</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>When not writing about badassery, movies, or entertainment in the "Experimental Theatre", Bernel is writing about them in <a href="http://bernel.blogspot.com/">"The Bernel Zone"</a>...</i></span></div>Bernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13660841029692669097noreply@blogger.com0