Bernel's Bullets (Midnight of) 12/3/2011

Sorry, it has been more than two months since my last post.  Can't find time to write lately.  Even in my personal site.  It seems a lot of things are eating up my free time.  

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...

• This site got hit by a hacker and hosted some malware in it so Google had to block it :(  To fix the problem, Madz had to change our url address so the site can be visited again. That's why, if you notice, we're THE Experimental Theatre now.  Hope this won't happen again.  (UPDATE: it's back to http://experimental-theatre.blogspot.com/)
• Ok.  I managed to find time to write at least one blog post this month. However, it was not here nor even on my site.  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: http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2011/11/21/2577617/all-about-kobe
• 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:  

• Speaking of the NBA and Christmas, the nearly half-year lockout is over!  An early Christmas gift to all NBA fans out there.
• 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!
• 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.
• As I write this, I'm currently downloading another movie.  As well, as an episode of "Psych".
• Mozilla's "Download Helper" is awesome.
• And I still have 5 books that I had bought this year that I haven't read yet.  Again, no time!
• Compared to my college years, my book purchases for this year is significantly low.
• Money problems... we'll always have money problems...
• But God always provides my daily needs!
• God is (always) awesome!
• These days, the manga I am most excited to read each week is Hunter X Hunter.  
• 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, "The Bernel Zone" for new updates...
• Here's a fun mind-stimulating vid for you as finale...

• Sleepy. 

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Top 5 Reinventions of Sherlock Holmes

"I am awesome."

If you already know me enough, you know Sherlock Holmes is my most favorite fictional character since I was a kid.  The greatest detective in fiction 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.  Heck, he even teamed-up with Batman one time!  

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.  

Nonetheless, there are those who totally stopped trying to completely mimic Conan Doyle but instead reinvented and reinterpreted the character.  Not all were that awesome.  But there were some that I found fresh and lovable in their own original way.

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.

Top 10 TV Shows Based On Movies

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.  

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…

Don't be surprised if animated series make up most of the list

August 2011 Round-Up: Just 3 Posts This Month...

This month on the ET: just one post each from the founders

Top 10 Things I Liked About The Harry Potter Series by Bernel

My Sweet and thoughtful 22nd by Niki

...and the World Spins Madly On by Maddy

(Sigh)

Still...

Here's a classic Tim Burton short film as a bonus to this post to make up for the short August round-up...

Top 10 Things I Liked About The Harry Potter Series

In my personal site, I already wrote a top ten list of things I didn’t like about the Harry Potter series.  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.  
View this image first as an appetizer, then meet me after the jump...

Click to enlarge.  Here's something I found from Deviantart.

July 2011 Round-Up: Blah Blah Blah Blah

Blah blah blah.  Here's a lazily made round-up:

"World's Most Difficult Brain-Busting Logic Puzzle" by Bernel
"Peter Pan and the Peter Pan Syndrome" by Niki
"Vhong Navarro is Awesome" by Bernel
"The Filipino Diabetic Part 2" by Maddy
"Stop, Stare, Write" by Niki

They are still missing...

That's all...

Vhong Navarro is Awesome

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.  

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.  

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 they guested in Sharon Cuneta's show years ago.  They clearly got the idea from this stand-up comedian's own "evolution of dance" act (which is in the top 10 most viewed videos in Youtube).  Here is a video footage of the act:     

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 performed in ASAP during a birthday of Vhong.  Here was  his "Magpasikat" performance: 

Clearly, by these dances, we can see how an awesome performer Vhong Navarro is.


When not dancing in the "Experimental Theatre", Bernel is dancing in "The Bernel Zone"...

World's Most Difficult Brain-Busting Logic Puzzle

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.

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.    

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).

If you are interested for more details about the puzzle and its solution, CLICK HERE.

When not busting his brain in the "Experimental Theatre", Bernel is busting his brain in "The Bernel Zone"...         

June 2011 Round-Up: The Month Where I (Bernel) Turned 22

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.
Aside from yours truly becoming 22 years old this month, we also saw the Dallas Mavericks kicking the butts of the Miami Heat.  Thank you, Mavs!!!  Booyah! (Just sad that we have an NBA lockout in our hands right now)

Anyway, we're still alive in the month of June and we had (though few) some good posts this month:

Top 10 Paradoxes

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 mindblowing world of mathematics, paradoxes are contradictions that are possible and true (e.g. 1 = 0.99999…).

Indeed there are different treatments of paradox among different disciplines.  But what is paradox in general?  A paradox, according to wiki, is “a seemingly true statement or group of statements that lead to a contradiction or a situation which seems to defy logic or intuition.”  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.    

I love paradoxes because they are awesome mindblowers. 

Warning:  This may happen while reading this list 

Once you are ready for some massive brain-beating, meet me after the jump.

Jimmy Kimmel's Most Epic Comeback

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.

(Warning: for mature audiences only...)

Sarah Silverman, his then girlfriend, pulled an epic prank on him when she guested on his show.  Watch below:

This was Kimmel's rebuttal a month later.  Definitely more epic...

Bonus:  
- somebody also made a parody starring Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton
- here's something recent. a prank on Ron Artest


Just a random sharing.  Hope it made you laugh ^__^


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Has Just Recently Watched "Drive Angry 3D"

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 the poor technique of post-production 3Ding of 2D-shot movies.  

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.  

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*@*##!!!

John Milton (the Protagonist/Anti-Hero)

Jonah King (the Villain)

The Accountant (Not Only The Best Character, But The Best Thing About This Movie)

The movie also has one of the baddest, raddest weapons ever in fiction...

It is badassly called as the "God Killer".  No joke.

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:

http://www.movie2k.to/Drive-Angry-3D-watch-movie-668532.html

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Bernel's Bullets - 5/30/11

Sometimes (or often), I get lazy writing an article.  Or, rather, the effort of organizing the sentences to form a coherent article makes me lazy.  So I thought that instead of writing a constructed essay, whenever I get lazy, I will just scribble my thoughts organized in items by bullet-pointed listing.  By this, I will be unloading my thoughts like bullets being fired from the chambers of a revolver.  This writing-style is not an original of mine.  Plenty of other writers in newspapers and blogs did this before in their article writing.  I did this several years ago in a Friendster blog (when I had made my “hell fighter” account) and I will give it a go in this blog.  The “Bernel's Bullets” shall also replace future “Random Interesting Things I Find in the Internet” posts, since I will just put those Internet contents I want to share in BB posts.        

So, ready?  I’ll fire away after the jump…

5 Random Interesting Things I Found in the Internet #4

Wow! It has been a long time... 


I got your 5 for you...


5.) "Friday" is Already Old News, But...


Here's a Christian parody of the song...

Silly, but at least it glorified God... I think.

4.) A More Ridiculous Christian Parody of a Song...

I am not sure if God is glorified, but I'll bet it made Him laugh...

3.) And, Oh, There IS A WORSE SONG THAN FRIDAY...

WARNING: Listen at your own risk!!

2.) OK... A Cute and Funny Vid This Time...

Kobe vs. LeBron debate.  Baby-style.

1). Metamorphosis


Check this out: 

http://www.funzu.com/index.php/Crazy-pics/unbelievable-transformation-21022011.html

Imagine me saying this word in House's voice: "Interesting."

Till next time... continue to visit this blog!!!

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April 2011 Round-Up: Is the Blog Dying?

Just 4 posts (minus the March round-up post) this month??!!  Wow, we're losing steam.  Blog stats are not worth looking up (too unmotivated to do it).  Here's the round-up, if you still care to know:

5 Random Interesting Things I Found in the Internet #3 by Bernel

- my only post this month.

Keeping My Summer Cool by Niki

- the Chief loves cold deserts for summer.

I ♥ CEBU FOOD-- Part 2 by Maddy

- another epic food post in list form.

A week of prayer by Niki

- post for the Holy Week (i.e. when it's okay to have no activity in this blog). 

No need to bother with rank changes in the team.

Hope we can drag this blog back to good health in May.

5 Random Interesting Things I Found in the Internet #3

Not much stuff to share, but hey...


5.) It's Friday


I hate what Rebecca Black did.  My favorite day would be forever associated to the crappiest song ever written.


At the bright side, it makes me LOL that people with musical talents started covering the song and uploaded these to youtube.  And they all ended up better than the original!  I mean these guys PARODIED the song and their versions ended up having a better like-to-dislike ratio.  Which is like a big FU to Ms. Black.  "Hey, even our crap is better than what you can ever do!"


Anyway, here could be the best cover of the song:

If you still can't enjoy it due to the ridiculous lyrics of this song, how about this, an orchestra version, which is lyric-free (you still have to suffer some clips from the stupid music video though):

4.) Good Dose of Badassery Each Week

Here's a site that chronicles badass people (historical or fictional):

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/list.html

Entries are written weekly.

Two of the people they wrote about (and I have read) are of our Filipino hero, Lapu-Lapu, and the Bible's King David.  Could be the most entertaining bios I have read about them.

3.) Greatest Archeological Find Ever!

Whoa!  Archeologists at a dig-site in Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan uncovered a burial site for giants.  This was the first giant skeleton that they unearthed.  There could be more!  Scholars are rushing to the site as I write this.

Pretty exciting?  Well, this is more exciting...

2.) Greatest Astronomical Find Ever! 

While archeologists dug up a giant's skeleton, astronomists in Dominion Astrophysical Observatory took this picture.  See nothing special?  Well, look closely.  The astronomists accidentally took a picture of a real angel! 

Still can't see it?  Let me help you...

Amazing.  Illusion or a real angel?  You decide.

These are great Internet stuff for today.  A Friday.  

1.) However, Aside From Being a Friday, Today is... 

APRIL FOOL'S DAY!!!

That means the previous two entries of this post are NOT true.  

Anyway, here's a great April Fool's Day article...

http://listverse.com/2007/10/24/top-15-april-fools-day-hoaxes/

And some photos of hilarious pranks on passed-out drunk people in...

http://passedoutphotos.com/

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Top 10 Animated Movie Songs

A good animated movie wouldn’t be complete without the songs.  A classic animated movie usually has several good songs in it.  But only one or two – or, in the case of Tarzan, three – songs would stand out to define the movie.  This kind of songs would even become classics on their own.  They are generally inspiring, moving, and powerful.  They would make your skin crawl and fill your heart with emotion.

yup. a lot of which are from Disney

My top 10 picks, after the jump:

The Crappiest Song Ever!!!

WARNING: This is going to be a massively sadistic torturing of your ears.  Listen at your own risk.  You've been warned!

The effect of the song to a listener

And this vid actually went viral!  As I write this, it has more than 28 million views.  But look a bit closer at the ratio of likes to dislikes.

my point exactly...

Ok, I might be exaggerating.  There might be a worse song out there than this crap.  But nothing comes to mind as of now (remind me if you thought of a worse song).  Nonetheless, this is at least one of the the worst songs ever made.

Or at least when it's sang by Rebecca Black, it's the worst song ever.  Because, when covered by others, it sounds better!

Here's how it sounds with actually some "talent" in it:

There are other covers of "Friday" that you can watch in youtube that is better than the original.  

Here's another one:  

Made me LOL.  As one youtube commenter pointed out:

The fact that this video was made for fun, and the original video was made seriously still makes me laugh.

This cover > Original.

Exactly.


Is this song the worst song ever?  Or it is just real bad because Ms. Black sang it?  You be the judge.

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5 Random Interesting Things I Found in the Internet #2

Here's another installment of some internet finds of mine...


5.) Meow

Really funny.  But what was the reaction of the cats to vid?

4.) God Smiled


If I get it right, this was the original version of "Lord, You Are Good" Dance (by Israel Houghton)...

My lovely sisters (in Christ) performed the dance, too, in one of our concerts...

But still this is the best cover of the dance...

Ok, the last one was hilarious.  But nonetheless, all three performances made God smile (or laugh) and was glorified.

3.) Facebook Fails

For your laugh trip sessions, go to http://www.lamebook.com/ 

"Funny Facebook Statuses, Fails, LOLs and More" as the site describes itself.

I, myself, am starting to learn to print screen epic moments I encounter in Facebook.  For the purpose of having a collection of hilarious and embarrassing fails by my FB friends.

2.) Crazy Drummer

Just enjoy it.

1.) Disturbing... but Hilarious

Here are some drawings done by kids that were labeled as disturbing:

http://www.barnorama.com/disturbing-childrens-drawings/

These are my favorite of the bunch...

For me, they were more hilarious than "disturbing".

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5 Random Interesting Things I Found in the Internet #1

The Internet is such a rich place for everything bizarre, epic, intriguing, and fascinating.  In this series (which will have no definite regular schedule), I will be enumerating, at a time, 5 Internet finds that I stumbled upon in the Web that you might want to check out for yourself.   They can be links to articles, videos, images, etc.    

So, here’s for the first edition of “5 Random Interesting Things I Found in the Internet”… 

5.) Let’s Start With Something Cute…

Then…

Now…

Awwww…

Enjoy the cuteness.  The rest in the list are not so.

Source: http://www.thatcutesite.com/boy-his-puppy-then-now.html

4.) Axl Rose

Axl was the lead vocalist of “Guns N’ Roses” and second most prominent member (yup, Slash is the most prominent) of the band.  He was as sexy as a rock front man can be. ..

Because of the Internet, I learned that he now looks like this…   

The word “shocking” does not give it justice.

Source: http://www.cracked.com/article_19001_17-images-that-will-ruin-your-childhood_p3.html

3.) Mrs. LeBron Wade

the site: http://mrslebronwade.com 

Lots of LOLs entries (and ‘shopped photos) in this blog…

No.  I am not a LeBron-hater, though if there’s a Kobe vs. LeBron debate, I am with Team Kobe (my fave player).  But, really, this blog is just hilarious.     

Bonus link: http://www.uproxx.com/feature/2010/07/decision-2010-10-things-lebron-james-might-announce-on-his-espn-special/  

This was a hilarious pre-“The Decision” article speculating on what LeBron's announcement could be.

2.) Goblin Fetus From Hell

SWEET MOTHER OF ZEUS!!! WHAT IN THE BLUE EARTH IS THAT???!!! 

Read more here: http://www.chilloutpoint.com/odd_world/strangest-creature-found-on-earth.html

1.) Food Pornography

There are times in these "epic meal time" projects that seem to give you an appetite, but the extremity of it all would eventually look disgusting.   I picked this particular project to embed because, to me, it has the least chance of giving you nausea and has some possibility of being appetizing.
 

Plenty of other interestin, fun, and extreme food trips in their youtube channel.  Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/user/EpicMealTime


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