Change Ur World by KAT-TUN
KAT-TUN gave me another reason to love them!*eyes turned into hearts* Nakamaru is getting more handsome one video after another while Ueda seemed like he's loving the cropped pants with boots(?) outfit (remember what he was wearing in Love yourself, Going, N.M.P and now this) And I honestly thought Koki was Jun because they had the similar hairstyle and even jawline. Haha. Again, Kamenashi stood out a little bit because he's almost always at the center BUT I think all of the members had their fair share of the spotlight. And I'm thinking Jin leaving the group gave all of them equal chances of longer lyric lines and even airtime in their videos. Now this video goes to my psp.
Breaking a Promise vs. Telling a Lie
The Scene: You said you'd do it if he would. He did it but you didn't do it. On purpose.
Would you say you were lying at the time you said you'll do it too?
or
Would you say you can't keep the promise you made that time?
Obviously none of the two will add a star in your name at the 'good noodle' chart. Maybe the question is about choosing which one will less ruin your reputation.
I'd go for the latter. You don't really have to make a promise next time, you just have to say you'll try.
Would you say you were lying at the time you said you'll do it too?
or
Would you say you can't keep the promise you made that time?
Obviously none of the two will add a star in your name at the 'good noodle' chart. Maybe the question is about choosing which one will less ruin your reputation.
I'd go for the latter. You don't really have to make a promise next time, you just have to say you'll try.
No one can define Accuracy better than the Japanese
One word: SUGOI!!! This proves how dedicated and disciplined Japanese can get! One of the coolest videos EVER.
To Hiroshi
Happy Birthday Hiro-san! For a hard-working and fearless shounen, I hope you do well in your studies abroad. Don't forget to have fun while doing your homeworks! If you need any help, you know that you can call and email me anytime. Again, I want to say it, I admire your courage to go in a faraway place just to fulfill your dream. For me, that's what I like about you. And I hope you won't change, and if you change I hope it's for the better. For my favorite Japanese shounen, here is a simple pillow you can hug if you feel lonely.
Happy birthday!
My Secret Christmas Wish
Now it won't be a secret. It might sound so 'showbiz', as Filipinos would put it, but really I've been thinking about it seriously.And it's not just now that I thought about it because it's Christmas.
I'm not rich, and I never wished to be filthy rich. But sometimes I catch myself thinking, "If only I have so much money to spend.." Though I honestly never thought about it because of my selfish desires, or maybe sometimes I did but not always. What I need money for are two things: I want to be a Santa to the less fortunate (especially those people living on the streets) by distributing food using my own hard-earned money and I really wanted to be a sponsor of a kid and send him/her to a decent school.
I maybe lucky not to experience extreme hardship, and even if I say I totally understand how hard life is for the poor people, I know it's just a part of the experience for them. It might not be now nor anytime in the near future, but I definitely do it someday.
I'm not rich, and I never wished to be filthy rich. But sometimes I catch myself thinking, "If only I have so much money to spend.." Though I honestly never thought about it because of my selfish desires, or maybe sometimes I did but not always. What I need money for are two things: I want to be a Santa to the less fortunate (especially those people living on the streets) by distributing food using my own hard-earned money and I really wanted to be a sponsor of a kid and send him/her to a decent school.
I maybe lucky not to experience extreme hardship, and even if I say I totally understand how hard life is for the poor people, I know it's just a part of the experience for them. It might not be now nor anytime in the near future, but I definitely do it someday.
Happy Birthday!
It's late I know and I'm positive you won't be seeing this.
Happy birthday! I won't tell you you're sweet nor thoughtful because you're not. And I know that you know you're not the nicest nor the friendliest. Still, I'm happy knowing you for a while! I have said this before only maybe you cannot remember, you're one of the most interesting person I know, also one of the smartest. Maybe we're just not aware that many like you too like me! Here are three cute and simple cupcakes for your birthday. Tanjobi omedeto!
Happy birthday! I won't tell you you're sweet nor thoughtful because you're not. And I know that you know you're not the nicest nor the friendliest. Still, I'm happy knowing you for a while! I have said this before only maybe you cannot remember, you're one of the most interesting person I know, also one of the smartest. Maybe we're just not aware that many like you too like me! Here are three cute and simple cupcakes for your birthday. Tanjobi omedeto!
Sex, Environment and the Poor
Overpopulation - an issue that is still debatable up to this day. Among Filipinos, this debate is between the always attention-seeking Catholic Church and environmentalist (or simply people who just care about the environment) and anti-poverty groups. I'm siding the latter.
They said this issue is a big deal among developing nations (in the case of the Philippines, we'll forever be in the developing stage, never moving forward). In Japan, as we all know they have the opposite dilemma despite the fact that sex is not a taboo, that there's not much censorship in anime/manga. Again, it's the opposite in the Philippines. We were supposed to be conservative, we were taught not to have pre-marital sex and stuff. So what's happening really?
Effects, definitely there are. First is poverty. In the Philippines it is a major effect. Assuming we started off as a poor country -- illiteracy, low employment rate, weak capacity to buy the basic needs like food and having a decent shelter, poor health. Why did we start off as a country in poverty? Unequal wealth distribution/land ownership and dirty politics to name a few reasons. You can go as far as the Spanish colonial period in tracing why we have all these inequalities. Now match that with an exponential growth in population and the impossibility in the increase of land mass and resources. It leads us where? Worst poverty. Now Filipinos are stuck in this condition because the problems we had from the beginning are not yet (or will never be) resolved.
Why is population booming anyway? It's simple. Poor Filipinos have nothing to do. Many are unemployed. Unlike Japanese people who work until midnight, Filipinos do not have much to do at night plus there's not much form of entertainment at home. Plus, Japanese think of the expenses they will have in the future if they deliberately and carelessly have sex (Don't get me wrong, I definitely don't know the sex habits of Japanese.) which Filipinos don't really care about. Another big difference, we have the Catholic Church with us that they don't have.
The Church is supposed to lead us to a better place, to lead us to a better life. One BIG problem about the Catholic Church is they are stuck in their ancient beliefs, they never progressed with time. I'm a practicing Catholic so don't get me wrong. The Church trusts the people too much, a trust that many people don't deserve to have. Natural family planning? It's effective ONLY if everyone is disciplined and if everyone will take responsibility - something that will never happen. The Church needs a good slap in the face to wake up in reality. For a long time they've been sleeping since the time of Pope-put-a-name-here that they forgot there are already contraceptives, condoms, that ariplane was already invented or that we already buy water in bottles.
Now back to the real issue (Church intervention in various issues is a whole story in itself) of overpopulation and poverty. Since Filipinos with big families are chained in poverty, it's normal that their primary concern for most of them is to look for a way to attend the basic needs (food, shelter, clothing, education, health). Nothing else. And in the process of finding all the possible ways to meet those necessities (remember they are in poverty) there's destruction of the environment. How?
Imagine a poor family living beside the Pasig river - they live in a shanty, a make-shift house made of used GI sheets, used tarpaulin, used wood, sack, cartons, and rocks to hold them down all together. It's a given that a shanty doesn't have a real toilet and bath. And why would they need one? There's the big wide river! (hint:sarcasm?) So yes, their toilet and bath is the river. They do all sorts of things there. Name it. Now imagine hundreds and hundreds or even thousand of shanties living beside a body of water and this scene is like a daily routine, do you still want to imagine it? It's really scary. And that's the second major effect of overpopulation that came out because of poverty - murder of the environment.
Now, just a reminder, we are all at fault, we're all culprits in one way or another. Together with the ballooning number of poor families and the average to the elite members of the society, we all share in a very limited natural resources. In effect we try to squeeze everything out from mother nature, all the possible things we can get and make it useful for us. I remember my ES1 (Environmental Science) professor told the class that people will only give a damn concern with the environment when they're already filthy rich. Assuming that's true, when we compare the percentage of the rich from the poor, the difference is like Pluto and Jupiter. If that's the scenario, efforts wouldn't really be that big. Again, the major concern of poor Filipinos is their hungry stomachs and caring about the environment is not the least their concern. Now let's call it raping our natural resources - like forcing ourselves to get our own satisfaction. Sad right?
Now the effects are like a chain of events. One thing comes up as a result of a prior unresolved problem. And the list goes on and on. Like overpopulation+poverty=pollution-poor sanitation-poor health-infectious disease-death or overpopulation+government corruption=insufficient number of classrooms-illiteracy-increasing unemployment rate-poorer families-worst state of poverty or overpopulation+low domestic employment rate=professionals/blue-collar job employees leaving the country for another country-brain drain-stagnant technology. There are lots of lethal combinations. Overpopulation is the root of it all.
Why did I go through the trouble of writing stuff like this? Just recently I saw a post in Facebook, a video, saying overpopulation is not a problem. Like what?? It really made a vein in my temple burst. I want to hit him really hard. I think he's from US that's why he did trouble himself and make a ridiculous video. That 5 minute video I consider a wasted time. Tsk.It's Christmas I know, I should be happy and all but knowing apathetic and people unconscious of the 'real' world spreading a myth, it's really worth bothering about. Oh well, I said my peace.
They said this issue is a big deal among developing nations (in the case of the Philippines, we'll forever be in the developing stage, never moving forward). In Japan, as we all know they have the opposite dilemma despite the fact that sex is not a taboo, that there's not much censorship in anime/manga. Again, it's the opposite in the Philippines. We were supposed to be conservative, we were taught not to have pre-marital sex and stuff. So what's happening really?
Effects, definitely there are. First is poverty. In the Philippines it is a major effect. Assuming we started off as a poor country -- illiteracy, low employment rate, weak capacity to buy the basic needs like food and having a decent shelter, poor health. Why did we start off as a country in poverty? Unequal wealth distribution/land ownership and dirty politics to name a few reasons. You can go as far as the Spanish colonial period in tracing why we have all these inequalities. Now match that with an exponential growth in population and the impossibility in the increase of land mass and resources. It leads us where? Worst poverty. Now Filipinos are stuck in this condition because the problems we had from the beginning are not yet (or will never be) resolved.
Why is population booming anyway? It's simple. Poor Filipinos have nothing to do. Many are unemployed. Unlike Japanese people who work until midnight, Filipinos do not have much to do at night plus there's not much form of entertainment at home. Plus, Japanese think of the expenses they will have in the future if they deliberately and carelessly have sex (Don't get me wrong, I definitely don't know the sex habits of Japanese.) which Filipinos don't really care about. Another big difference, we have the Catholic Church with us that they don't have.
The Church is supposed to lead us to a better place, to lead us to a better life. One BIG problem about the Catholic Church is they are stuck in their ancient beliefs, they never progressed with time. I'm a practicing Catholic so don't get me wrong. The Church trusts the people too much, a trust that many people don't deserve to have. Natural family planning? It's effective ONLY if everyone is disciplined and if everyone will take responsibility - something that will never happen. The Church needs a good slap in the face to wake up in reality. For a long time they've been sleeping since the time of Pope-put-a-name-here that they forgot there are already contraceptives, condoms, that ariplane was already invented or that we already buy water in bottles.
Now back to the real issue (Church intervention in various issues is a whole story in itself) of overpopulation and poverty. Since Filipinos with big families are chained in poverty, it's normal that their primary concern for most of them is to look for a way to attend the basic needs (food, shelter, clothing, education, health). Nothing else. And in the process of finding all the possible ways to meet those necessities (remember they are in poverty) there's destruction of the environment. How?
Imagine a poor family living beside the Pasig river - they live in a shanty, a make-shift house made of used GI sheets, used tarpaulin, used wood, sack, cartons, and rocks to hold them down all together. It's a given that a shanty doesn't have a real toilet and bath. And why would they need one? There's the big wide river! (hint:sarcasm?) So yes, their toilet and bath is the river. They do all sorts of things there. Name it. Now imagine hundreds and hundreds or even thousand of shanties living beside a body of water and this scene is like a daily routine, do you still want to imagine it? It's really scary. And that's the second major effect of overpopulation that came out because of poverty - murder of the environment.
Now, just a reminder, we are all at fault, we're all culprits in one way or another. Together with the ballooning number of poor families and the average to the elite members of the society, we all share in a very limited natural resources. In effect we try to squeeze everything out from mother nature, all the possible things we can get and make it useful for us. I remember my ES1 (Environmental Science) professor told the class that people will only give a damn concern with the environment when they're already filthy rich. Assuming that's true, when we compare the percentage of the rich from the poor, the difference is like Pluto and Jupiter. If that's the scenario, efforts wouldn't really be that big. Again, the major concern of poor Filipinos is their hungry stomachs and caring about the environment is not the least their concern. Now let's call it raping our natural resources - like forcing ourselves to get our own satisfaction. Sad right?
Now the effects are like a chain of events. One thing comes up as a result of a prior unresolved problem. And the list goes on and on. Like overpopulation+poverty=pollution-poor sanitation-poor health-infectious disease-death or overpopulation+government corruption=insufficient number of classrooms-illiteracy-increasing unemployment rate-poorer families-worst state of poverty or overpopulation+low domestic employment rate=professionals/blue-collar job employees leaving the country for another country-brain drain-stagnant technology. There are lots of lethal combinations. Overpopulation is the root of it all.
Why did I go through the trouble of writing stuff like this? Just recently I saw a post in Facebook, a video, saying overpopulation is not a problem. Like what?? It really made a vein in my temple burst. I want to hit him really hard. I think he's from US that's why he did trouble himself and make a ridiculous video. That 5 minute video I consider a wasted time. Tsk.It's Christmas I know, I should be happy and all but knowing apathetic and people unconscious of the 'real' world spreading a myth, it's really worth bothering about. Oh well, I said my peace.
Bruno Mars - "Grenade" (Studio Session)
Bruno Mars is awesome. I love his smooth voice. The lyrics, a little too much I think. I'm pretty distant about these kinds of topics, because you know. And it just so happen last night I talked with a friend about being in a relationship. So, yeah. And the last time I checked Bruno Mars is part Filipino which is really cool if it's true. Yeah. Gotta love Bruno Mars.
Since it's Christmas..
I'm totally against giving alms to the poor. No matter how pitiful a beggar can possibly look nor how extreme their gimmicks might be, I cold-heartedly refuse to give. If there were times I gave it would be food, never money. As much as I want to help them in anyway I can, I don't want to spoil them by letting them think they can survive a lifetime thru begging. It's something like teach a person to fish instead of giving him fish. But last night was different. Since it's Christmas, I gave a whopping (yeah right!) 20 bucks to a kid who distributed a red money envelope (the Chinese one) in the bus. I hesitated at first but I thought otherwise. Sigh. I thought I would normally spend it on a C2 or a Chuckie but I'm pretty sure he needs that 20 pesos more than I do.
I can feel it!
It's here! Christmas is. Christmas carols, simbang gabi, overflowing food, gifts everywhere, need to say more? Wah. It's here! It's finally in the air!
My Not-so-Grown-up Christmas List
2. UP jacket and lanyard -- Can't last a day at work without a jacket. Too cold. Don't care about the corporate b*llsh*t. As for the lanyard, it's for my cellphone.
3. A backpack or a tote bag for work -- convenience comes first. Don't care about the skirt uniform.
4. Harry Potter boxed set -- I call myself a fan but I only have one book of the seven.
5. New Moon and Eclipse DVDs -- yes, I already have the Twilight DVD.
6. PSP or iPod classic -- pathetic alright. I've long been poring over which one to buy first. I know lotsa newer gadgets than these. I just love sticking with the basics. Not much of a fan of fads.
**I really think I need to reward myself.**
Cartoon KAT-TUN Episode 3 Part 2
Another favorite episode of Cartoon KAT-TUN. Talking about boobs and being attractive among girls.I'm not sure of Kamenashi's humility. On the contrary I think Nakamaru's personality will stand out in a group date. And who says he's not handsome? What else can I say, boys will be boys.
Work, work and second thoughts
Now is the best time to think things over - while I'm still at the stage when mistakes are welcome. To put it nicely, I'm still on my testing ground.
It can be two ways:
It's like having my first few bites - chewing while thinking if I can swallow it since I can spit it out if I want to.
or
It's like the first few tries in taking a bitter-tasting medicine that I need to get used to since I need to take it in for a certain time.
To choose which of the two I can relate to more is dependent on what's happening on a day to day basis. There are times something interesting comes along making me choose neither. Still I cannot make make those blissful episodes as sole basis in a life-changing decision.
The worst part:
I know my options - lots of them - but I just cannot decide because I myself don't know yet what I want. It's like I want to try all the possibilities but it's plain impossible without putting something on the line.
And the indecisiveness lingers.
It can be two ways:
It's like having my first few bites - chewing while thinking if I can swallow it since I can spit it out if I want to.
or
It's like the first few tries in taking a bitter-tasting medicine that I need to get used to since I need to take it in for a certain time.
To choose which of the two I can relate to more is dependent on what's happening on a day to day basis. There are times something interesting comes along making me choose neither. Still I cannot make make those blissful episodes as sole basis in a life-changing decision.
The worst part:
I know my options - lots of them - but I just cannot decide because I myself don't know yet what I want. It's like I want to try all the possibilities but it's plain impossible without putting something on the line.
And the indecisiveness lingers.
Peak by KAT-TUN
I gotta say this is the most entertaining performance by KAT-TUN for me. Jin was not on this single, maybe this was recorded when he first left the group to study English abroad (if I am right). Again, they're not the best dancers nor singers but they really are entertaining. This is the most upbeat song that I know they have, the dance-able-type I mean.Kamenashi's voice sounded different here. One of their best singles. Super love this!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)