tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38710910709541849822024-03-18T03:57:18.061+08:00Me, againBack with a slew of Famous Internet Time-Wasters, On the tracks of finding a Real GemZee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.comBlogger532125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-67673529358948619722024-03-17T22:01:00.033+08:002024-03-18T03:56:47.038+08:00Genki means Energy!<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGYG0_xhIqf5WJUVVL_9YmgtrPHEfcvbxMCqJ3llDvRtHvcq9C0T7BJrCLUlHTi13XqCDma_H0ej6WsDF3dVLH1G9k52CbB-9QakvNv0IBrJL8ZBE-Dp-g3q_hsKjwNG6RgfUTvtvirlJFAFsyDJke-HhGPBTEjxf-epUB7Q3hAozJwTJ1ZofhNfdi7M/s3072/InShot%20March%2017%20Sunday%20Mass_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="3072" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGYG0_xhIqf5WJUVVL_9YmgtrPHEfcvbxMCqJ3llDvRtHvcq9C0T7BJrCLUlHTi13XqCDma_H0ej6WsDF3dVLH1G9k52CbB-9QakvNv0IBrJL8ZBE-Dp-g3q_hsKjwNG6RgfUTvtvirlJFAFsyDJke-HhGPBTEjxf-epUB7Q3hAozJwTJ1ZofhNfdi7M/w640-h640/InShot%20March%2017%20Sunday%20Mass_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i>My morning first duty was hearing Sunday Mass (at the Mall)</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='635' height='528' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzbBpNTvkSs5w_D5HPc_eqHErYeKFweB47djx2jKd8Yf4IDrtPsH5Xg2ssWnh3EdThuwIpFPiwlDjAcTd27gw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i> Then came my Genki Sushi Getaway, a new Japanese Resto find, not to mention a new Japanese word!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><p style="font-family: Merriweather; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>Did you know?</b></p><p style="font-family: Merriweather; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Merriweather; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">The Japanese word “genki” (<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">元気</span>) means “I’m fine”, “I’m well”, or “I’m in good health”, but it can also be used to say that someone is or is doing something “lively”, “energetic”, or “with enthusiasm”. </p><p style="font-family: Merriweather; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Merriweather; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">When used in the phrase “Ogenki desu ka?” it can also be translated as “How are you?” in English.</p><p style="font-family: Merriweather; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div style="font-family: Merriweather;">The Japanese word “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">genki</strong>” (元気) consists of <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">two kanji</strong>. The first one <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">元</strong> (gen) means “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">origin</strong>“, “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">source</strong>“, “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">basis</strong>“, or “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">foundation</strong>“. The second kanji <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">気</strong> (ki) means “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">spirit</strong>“, “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">mind</strong>“, “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">motivation</strong>“, “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">energy</strong>“, or “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">mood</strong>“. When you put the meaning of both kanji together you literally get “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">source of energy</strong>“.</div><div style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102); color: #525466; line-height: 1.5; list-style: outside; margin: 0px 0px 30px 20px; padding-left: 20px; text-align: start;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">現 (gen)</strong> – origin, source, basis, foundation, etc.</li></ul><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102); color: #525466; line-height: 1.5; list-style: outside; margin: 0px 0px 30px 20px; padding-left: 20px; text-align: start;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">気 (ki)</strong> – spirit, mind, motivation, energy, mood, etc.</li></ul>This is a very good start to understand <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">what</strong> “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">genki</strong>” <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">really means</strong>, because in Japanese the word isn’t only used in relation to <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">physical health</strong>, but also <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">mental health</strong>, <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">enthusiasm</strong>, <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">motivation</strong>, and <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">cheerfulness</strong>. The word encompasses the <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">life energy of every living</strong> being and the <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">energy of the universe</strong>.<br />And that’s exactly why it is sometimes so hard for us to translate and understand the word correctly.</div><div style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br />In <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">English</strong>, the most commonly found translations of the Japanese word “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">genki</strong>” (元気) are “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">healthy</strong>“, “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">I’m fine</strong>“, “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">I’m well</strong>“, or “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">How are you?</strong>“, because the word is <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">commonly used as a greeting</strong>. However “genki” can also be an adjective by adding na (な) and mean “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">lively</strong>“, “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">cheerful</strong>“, or “<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">full of energy</strong>“.<br />Depending on the situation it could be translated as any of the following English words:</div><div><br /><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102); color: #525466; font-family: Merriweather; line-height: 1.5; list-style: outside; margin: 0px 0px 30px 20px; padding-left: 20px; text-align: start;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">energy, vitality, spirit, pep, vigour, enthusiasm, good mood</strong></li></ul><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102); color: #525466; font-family: Merriweather; line-height: 1.5; list-style: outside; margin: 0px 0px 30px 20px; padding-left: 20px; text-align: start;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">to be healthy, to be well, to be fit, to be in good health</strong></li></ul><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102); color: #525466; font-family: Merriweather; line-height: 1.5; list-style: outside; margin: 0px 0px 30px 20px; padding-left: 20px; text-align: start;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">lively, full of spirit, full of energy, energetic, vigorous</strong></li></ul><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102); color: #525466; font-family: Merriweather; line-height: 1.5; list-style: outside; margin: 0px 0px 30px 20px; padding-left: 20px; text-align: start;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">cheerful, happy, to be in a good mood</strong></li></ul><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #525466; font-family: Roboto Condensed;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102);"><b><i>Here's the<a href="https://www.alexrockinjapanese.com/the-real-meaning-of-genki-in-japanese-with-examples/" target="_blank"> link </a>to the website.</i></b></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #525466; font-family: verdana;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: verdana;"><b><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102);">000 000 </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102);">000 </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102);">000 </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102);">000 </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102);">000 </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102);">000 </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102);">000 </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102);">000. 000 000 000 000</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #525466; font-family: verdana;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102);"><b><i>Finally, </i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Merriweather;"><b style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;">Genki Sushi</b><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); text-align: start;"> is a chain of </span><span style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conveyor_belt_sushi" target="_blank"><i>conveyor belt sushi</i></a></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); text-align: start;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conveyor_belt_sushi" target="_blank"><i> </i></a>restaurants established in 1990 in </span><span><span style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;">Japan</span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); text-align: start;">. The chain expanded to include many locations all over the world including </span><i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); text-align: start;">the </span>Philippines<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">. </span></i></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The idea of “kaiten sushi” started way back in 1968 when the founder Chef Fumio Saito pioneered the use of a revolving conveyor belt to serve sushi, combining serving traditional sushi with modern technology.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Merriweather;"><i><span style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;">Captured on video above was my last order of a Strawberry Cheesecake Dessert delivered via Shuttle on a belt. I also had Chicken Teriyaki Rice Burger and some Lobster Salad Sushi to add to their complimentary Matcha Tea (powder) which you can refill via a hot water faucet dispenser placed at the side of each table. </span></span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Merriweather; text-align: start;">All in all, I thought it was a cool place to be eating your fave Japanese treats.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Merriweather;"><i><span style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Merriweather;"><i><span style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;">So why the sad face?</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Merriweather;"><i><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEDCCJ6FMxkv_XQRSp4xmsklxUdB5wM449ODnts-602LcgzYc3HWUimCdCU2skNv1DXZ0nE_ailM4VzJJ4sbNM7sZbglsbrNWjVL6joFnxpsKYu7RoHr-oZrAKIcu7zCXvHsBFTBaCUhb9yDMu-LB_58_bNSmcsaZ6TGfpbbrfGz2cTXWXmKidpTQQ1yM/s1037/Genki%20Sushi%20Logo%20Meaning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1037" height="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEDCCJ6FMxkv_XQRSp4xmsklxUdB5wM449ODnts-602LcgzYc3HWUimCdCU2skNv1DXZ0nE_ailM4VzJJ4sbNM7sZbglsbrNWjVL6joFnxpsKYu7RoHr-oZrAKIcu7zCXvHsBFTBaCUhb9yDMu-LB_58_bNSmcsaZ6TGfpbbrfGz2cTXWXmKidpTQQ1yM/w640-h590/Genki%20Sushi%20Logo%20Meaning.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Facts about the Genki Sushi Logo</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; 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caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102); color: #525466; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"></span><span data-ezoic-video-excluded="1" data-method="placement-service" face="Tahoma, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif" id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-911" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102); color: #525466; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"></span><span data-ezoic-video-excluded="1" data-inserter-version="2" face="Tahoma, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif" id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-186" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102); color: #525466; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"></span><span class="ezoic-autoinsert-ad ezoic-under_second_paragraph" face="Tahoma, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(82, 84, 102); color: #525466; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"></span></p></span></div><p></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-80841182702190377062024-03-13T18:50:00.009+08:002024-03-17T22:04:00.945+08:00Random Art Images<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWl6D_uf9IcvJWckR142cHdSkBx9jp5XNg0ACjakVG5vdr5V-CvO_xJerpwjWOebZSvMZcMC5uUQJc6TOXOncmZ23yu0F7vEwA3LeX7x15bDqJXyD4RcPfP3Pp64YvDvEuu7lc5GeJf_BqsYYd7Y68A_wci009xSlPbXIq00DNOpbS6g5xmZQljMj7ynA/s640/Talens%20Sketchbook.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWl6D_uf9IcvJWckR142cHdSkBx9jp5XNg0ACjakVG5vdr5V-CvO_xJerpwjWOebZSvMZcMC5uUQJc6TOXOncmZ23yu0F7vEwA3LeX7x15bDqJXyD4RcPfP3Pp64YvDvEuu7lc5GeJf_BqsYYd7Y68A_wci009xSlPbXIq00DNOpbS6g5xmZQljMj7ynA/w640-h640/Talens%20Sketchbook.gif" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i>...In ink, colored pencils, watercolor, and oil pastel done on my squarish Talens (Art Creations) sketchpad.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i>Products. Produce. Productivity.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='389' height='323' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwjooTOSOcORbenCwLYo_WhLIIjKpPklQev3_cHD9pXehbEnwwoNtG_4HpuSi24iZ7eSJ1pVuhRaPLqKVoxiw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed;">Not. Not. Notorious</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Merriweather; text-align: right;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='387' height='323' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzX6KdY-klZWnLITF_P6pdawpnHkyOvK3ip5yQ0xq98yClwK0I7BSPLHruTdWbEWtl1W5HIlHFAd3kdL35vLA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed;">Colors</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhib9ta2UlmSoFESkoIUMSOqNhEg8Z96V3nvLMe6b8hol_wZNPTlt3rARAzceEpZ9ywpLayTH5qXdoT7WC1nQDBr5DSsvpWqjIMuYJ1nIwPWyjsXDOM0sADbF_Yk4TyhRnGo6LEZmAJYafdYfaH1JQTgvM1bYMkWEiw7qscY0tJwXBtimAF_jwx4Lj57Q8/s1600/Talens%20Square%20Sketchbook%20Collage%20Big.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhib9ta2UlmSoFESkoIUMSOqNhEg8Z96V3nvLMe6b8hol_wZNPTlt3rARAzceEpZ9ywpLayTH5qXdoT7WC1nQDBr5DSsvpWqjIMuYJ1nIwPWyjsXDOM0sADbF_Yk4TyhRnGo6LEZmAJYafdYfaH1JQTgvM1bYMkWEiw7qscY0tJwXBtimAF_jwx4Lj57Q8/w640-h640/Talens%20Square%20Sketchbook%20Collage%20Big.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed;">Static Collage</span></div></span></div><p></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-30425110984957468712024-03-09T02:00:00.014+08:002024-03-10T18:09:36.152+08:00International Women's Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgQfEz-dxKX_-WdxuaUmw_3y37mmXrcpMFX5stPGKWyh7-lt-HXRabiZGq2ErKnq5b5AdeMlna2y0CTuOcnO4O0J0DOBaoKsL5Xeo-KnwWLjHpQoPgHaS-0Vdj7SgwWHtoH0yrNyfwa_URYa68QHwyfsJ-aOBRlhcSNIqtDK0hotVfVkcr4rEzXlXv3Mo/s3072/InShot%20March%208%20Dress_2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="3072" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgQfEz-dxKX_-WdxuaUmw_3y37mmXrcpMFX5stPGKWyh7-lt-HXRabiZGq2ErKnq5b5AdeMlna2y0CTuOcnO4O0J0DOBaoKsL5Xeo-KnwWLjHpQoPgHaS-0Vdj7SgwWHtoH0yrNyfwa_URYa68QHwyfsJ-aOBRlhcSNIqtDK0hotVfVkcr4rEzXlXv3Mo/w640-h640/InShot%20March%208%20Dress_2.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Happy International Women's Day! </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAsymvnc9-ss9b73sLhpg8CeedmwquHlU1j9Mm5QiicECWDxftgXwF30oi4qRfD_X6NKWUtKro6IL8Y9fU8KA6Dk6xhyphenhyphenfIcp2hBjwVakgc1r4Gj5ITcscATUOwBSxUeZvmEBCqJxNLocGWkiHdvh7mEsguXb5pvwpC80rABCozLFRr7oZM7YB2n1qoYFA/s3072/InShot%20March%208%20Dress_3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAsymvnc9-ss9b73sLhpg8CeedmwquHlU1j9Mm5QiicECWDxftgXwF30oi4qRfD_X6NKWUtKro6IL8Y9fU8KA6Dk6xhyphenhyphenfIcp2hBjwVakgc1r4Gj5ITcscATUOwBSxUeZvmEBCqJxNLocGWkiHdvh7mEsguXb5pvwpC80rABCozLFRr7oZM7YB2n1qoYFA/w320-h320/InShot%20March%208%20Dress_3.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Merriweather;">Also Bellydancing Friday<br /><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOMIOxxn2mQuCzqfVMSt137Vn0AT9EqM-09qxmABKJJgxuqtvkN8M3X8LiXou9d1rIdhDnGITPYv7QrVssY4XuLmKU31ugeUuhx1jWBUnFU0bBlsEyofAHMaYrc4aJUosfEP2nOqB3rWTPF-3_ntVrMpKZQtlqysRRGsFFbXXMJko9UxkEDIt3krDmjjk" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="1653" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOMIOxxn2mQuCzqfVMSt137Vn0AT9EqM-09qxmABKJJgxuqtvkN8M3X8LiXou9d1rIdhDnGITPYv7QrVssY4XuLmKU31ugeUuhx1jWBUnFU0bBlsEyofAHMaYrc4aJUosfEP2nOqB3rWTPF-3_ntVrMpKZQtlqysRRGsFFbXXMJko9UxkEDIt3krDmjjk=w640-h162" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">"I'm every woman" 🙂</span><span style="font-size: large;">- </span>Chaka Khan<br /><br /><br /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzfyTn2qSbI74vIXA4wGLadguI87JFwkikURcbz7ViB1sbwEU5_wCHSZsr_dCKfV3P4A1EQsquP6_8jdV0noA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">In Physics:</span></b> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-weight: bold; text-align: start;"><i>You matter...</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-weight: bold; text-align: start;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><i>unless you multiply yourself by the speed of light squared</i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><i>... then you energy!</i></span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"> €=ℳƇ2</span></p><br /></div></span>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-22210788896913453602024-03-06T16:17:00.007+08:002024-03-16T11:12:03.993+08:00Keep Calm and Carry On<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb_VKDWymPvbPHNlL_Rvv1kpFaIJYxdeIrVjxRjfy2Nlq2jEoRbntXkrRkfLcNWjZAJlLK_ncoApR8SOC30d3FV0wkSz8VGcbgQoKnDvp-jWanGHEkHtoV-M2GuvH4AWbUOUhLLBHl0_Ypdj4UxEuAfGEkL_uUxjW1FBnzgwlsIacMaMp6ZlfSa9lYByc/s2000/IMG_1123.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb_VKDWymPvbPHNlL_Rvv1kpFaIJYxdeIrVjxRjfy2Nlq2jEoRbntXkrRkfLcNWjZAJlLK_ncoApR8SOC30d3FV0wkSz8VGcbgQoKnDvp-jWanGHEkHtoV-M2GuvH4AWbUOUhLLBHl0_Ypdj4UxEuAfGEkL_uUxjW1FBnzgwlsIacMaMp6ZlfSa9lYByc/w640-h640/IMG_1123.gif" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h1 class="page-title" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1709715627616_882" style="color: #474747; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;">IN NOMINE PATRIS, ET FILII, ET SPIRITUS SANCTI, AMEN</span></h1><div><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhPjHacZ6XaXZSFViuRK_CUSxIyZ1hCBaYU8xhKNm6ZrjSqXRZkq8FpA6D8yQhBUIrvHwT-WTuEy4RVDBIIkeLPfIVW6uo_FddYlVhoUqISYal-KVKsmZWfxIDPOUmSPFUg8wiNl2JoQaEk9JzrWdRXfK9DGO_srz9Mmi8tPS2N_HgntQ1sS3uxTCbu6k/s863/Flintstone-Megalodon%20Down.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="863" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhPjHacZ6XaXZSFViuRK_CUSxIyZ1hCBaYU8xhKNm6ZrjSqXRZkq8FpA6D8yQhBUIrvHwT-WTuEy4RVDBIIkeLPfIVW6uo_FddYlVhoUqISYal-KVKsmZWfxIDPOUmSPFUg8wiNl2JoQaEk9JzrWdRXfK9DGO_srz9Mmi8tPS2N_HgntQ1sS3uxTCbu6k/w534-h640/Flintstone-Megalodon%20Down.jpg" width="534" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;"><h1 class="page-title" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1709715627616_882" style="color: #474747; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;">And The Nominees Are...AMEN</span></h1><div><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA_KN6VYrfeOzNM9zEfwNx54g1XFb9BzeK8pjljJdLUtupDvrUKQ04OpwvHLIpNiVNV_k3CiSap8Q3kTe6aIIt-P1RTEJZlYKIaLovWi2dMtAce4Ptf4_-INO_w_s_JChNkyTsbhISTa8BwtVBV8dz7yXPa3nUN38BsTwqT8OS-6vt1Z0iQR8v0clOxoc/s600/Dexter%20Starbucks.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA_KN6VYrfeOzNM9zEfwNx54g1XFb9BzeK8pjljJdLUtupDvrUKQ04OpwvHLIpNiVNV_k3CiSap8Q3kTe6aIIt-P1RTEJZlYKIaLovWi2dMtAce4Ptf4_-INO_w_s_JChNkyTsbhISTa8BwtVBV8dz7yXPa3nUN38BsTwqT8OS-6vt1Z0iQR8v0clOxoc/w640-h640/Dexter%20Starbucks.gif" width="640" /></a></div><div><h1 class="page-title" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1709715627616_882" style="color: #474747; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;"> AND THE WINNER IS DEXTER STARBUCKS</span></h1></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzLr8bbZ3Tfi253IrkZEL995BumOTurXhHssRJdtKS3nmsryjoO9BHNl4oPH1UHLNrFET8pO7NGflsW5umJOJblLn2dbIm_hg2-nwOhoZHr3FenDvCaZnlr5Z_9CCRNcwq5HR8Qd7DGxWt5XO2Uj1BEtFlYdp2rJPrOkDpuWq63OzsyHcLYlJTw0HpZ4Y/s2889/InShot%20Starbucks%20Dexter%20Flintstone%20Megalodon-Side.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="2889" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzLr8bbZ3Tfi253IrkZEL995BumOTurXhHssRJdtKS3nmsryjoO9BHNl4oPH1UHLNrFET8pO7NGflsW5umJOJblLn2dbIm_hg2-nwOhoZHr3FenDvCaZnlr5Z_9CCRNcwq5HR8Qd7DGxWt5XO2Uj1BEtFlYdp2rJPrOkDpuWq63OzsyHcLYlJTw0HpZ4Y/w640-h70/InShot%20Starbucks%20Dexter%20Flintstone%20Megalodon-Side.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-66590011190855395762024-03-03T08:04:00.018+08:002024-03-06T03:36:03.412+08:003 Games Acquisti<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq1fDGKdS6keZiydbe9P2gt9Xay-vz-aCdqdlqsMWBxw97g-9AWvdP35qa0s0RHu4TqqDZz5c0ZPi6NQ9QHOU5F247X3sy353RP-WNFM__XJV_OmR9uHvh8wZHWvwKNlRn2LYWw9aACg7QsIP6RwqFjiuK7KIyoL18uYXxgwtqhuszMeI6KOZ5BoxPDeQ/s3996/3%20Games%20Acquisti_2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3996" data-original-width="2663" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq1fDGKdS6keZiydbe9P2gt9Xay-vz-aCdqdlqsMWBxw97g-9AWvdP35qa0s0RHu4TqqDZz5c0ZPi6NQ9QHOU5F247X3sy353RP-WNFM__XJV_OmR9uHvh8wZHWvwKNlRn2LYWw9aACg7QsIP6RwqFjiuK7KIyoL18uYXxgwtqhuszMeI6KOZ5BoxPDeQ/w426-h640/3%20Games%20Acquisti_2.jpeg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i><b>I just bought my fave games on various platforms...</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><b>Empire Warrior </b>Tower Defense No Ads Purchase+ for the iPAD/iMAC. This game is clearly a Vietnamese (Developer’s) knock-off of the addictive, highly-rated and amusing Uruguay TD game Kingdom Rush Series but don't tell them I told you. In many ways, this one is easier to play with. As for “cheaper”, <i>I'm not so sure. </i>I also have this on my Samsung Android phone, btw. It’s got many bugs though.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /><b>Back to the Future Pinball Table</b> for Zen Pinball 2 on the iMAC, the only Pinball game that will work on the MAC. I’m already enjoying this on my Switch but the iMac’s got a bigger, more suitable display not to mention its trademark Spatial Audio for the entertaining movie sound bytes.<br /><br /><b>Real Boxing 2</b> for the Nintendo Switch, a real steal for $.50 (I bought a couple of days ago)! I was looking for a good wrestling game but this is what I found. From the short gameplay time I’ve spent with it so far, I find it’s not that bad. It actually works well and that’s saying a lot!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i>...and I celebrate them by illustrating them on my MUJI diary book. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i>Trust me, even if I don’t spend a lot of time with them (because at this point, I simply can’t ), I love what I buy. E n j o y!</i></span></div><p></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-83844337704163591242024-03-02T17:18:00.041+08:002024-03-05T11:02:19.598+08:00March Two Twenty Twenty-Four<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaMVJ9TVotqKQzFP-dOBpXHdKcp_PTmjr74cfNK-2JQ5YAiQV4XBqSbBbMheFlFvXCQsFaqBMmvWmhv1i7vBStnQiQDlFz1lXzJh5Frjg4k-3lgcM-QuZryoZ_ctK8w5_sXr-AekJcnoNiws3TpwEe0I5n6VrxSiWs7cRtbso9az0HIrCbm9jcpgGpuMc/s1920/InShot_Final%20Fantasy%20VII.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaMVJ9TVotqKQzFP-dOBpXHdKcp_PTmjr74cfNK-2JQ5YAiQV4XBqSbBbMheFlFvXCQsFaqBMmvWmhv1i7vBStnQiQDlFz1lXzJh5Frjg4k-3lgcM-QuZryoZ_ctK8w5_sXr-AekJcnoNiws3TpwEe0I5n6VrxSiWs7cRtbso9az0HIrCbm9jcpgGpuMc/w400-h400/InShot_Final%20Fantasy%20VII.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i>Saturday Morning Collaged</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjrZQ0yE5OKlPntZQKHL4jR0J9qm_Dec6I7nJ2AEQR0JsSylZkmZGIKO6JxrC5XYBgFmAqqh28N3F4_P497TgEIIzoedIogoLNnsc9w_rpgAzvaraUzsiqRVvc4cvqmZo1dGM9CqZ8ypx2y2DnL4SToulxpjxCmAY3bOhIuokPQ1E83ecH5nPca0uBwoc/s600/Final%20Fantasy%20VII%20Rebirth%20Day.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjrZQ0yE5OKlPntZQKHL4jR0J9qm_Dec6I7nJ2AEQR0JsSylZkmZGIKO6JxrC5XYBgFmAqqh28N3F4_P497TgEIIzoedIogoLNnsc9w_rpgAzvaraUzsiqRVvc4cvqmZo1dGM9CqZ8ypx2y2DnL4SToulxpjxCmAY3bOhIuokPQ1E83ecH5nPca0uBwoc/s16000/Final%20Fantasy%20VII%20Rebirth%20Day.gif" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i>Featuring Director Naomi Hamaguchi</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span><b><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Today </span><span style="color: #741b47;">Saturday,</span></i></b> I didn't really exercise in the gym but ambled around SM Mall and stopped by a Final Fantasy Booth that would later make me <i><span style="color: #a64d79;">offhandedly </span></i>attend a Meet & Greet Event for <span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #134f5c;"><i>Director Naomi Hamaguchi </i></span>(</span>of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth) in the afternoon. I was able to familiarize myself with main RPG character <b><span style="color: #45818e;">C l o u d </span></b>a little bit on the <b>P S 5 </b>and even clawed a free <b><i>FF </i></b><span style="color: #990000;">tote bag </span><span>prize</span><span style="color: #990000;"> </span>all while waiting for my name to be called on an ongoing hourly raffle. I just had to complete my ticket stamps first. I didn't win in the raffle but that's okay. <i>There's still tomorrow!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Then</i> </b>I had a hearty lunch at my go-to Japanese Resto Tsurumaru of Kake Udon, Tempura, Karaage + California Maki which fittingly had a 50% discount on selected tempura and udon dishes which I bought. After this, I headed to a nearby Starbucks and drank some Java Chip Frappuccino as my sweet dessert before heading back to the Final Fantasy Booth. We might not have all the best flavors of coffee in this corner of the world but life is still a peach = <i>when you're doing some inadvertent retail therapy + mall strolling!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-L2jz63EiAlqwLD23a7yOgrmukW56w6yHA2yJK35yOWLLJ538niRR8sgxWJyy_SaijyTaz-5J6mjVmgyOTOGa6EdB4cyqC5yj0NcIFZ1x7f886Si_AME6bav1FF2VuJVKCAfA1VuXnn_ndyDBYObzBiIeDpEol7IggfLuP5g7xqCQCy8Re_NZaJiHPkE/s666/March%201%20Starbucks%20Java%20Coffee%20Title.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-L2jz63EiAlqwLD23a7yOgrmukW56w6yHA2yJK35yOWLLJ538niRR8sgxWJyy_SaijyTaz-5J6mjVmgyOTOGa6EdB4cyqC5yj0NcIFZ1x7f886Si_AME6bav1FF2VuJVKCAfA1VuXnn_ndyDBYObzBiIeDpEol7IggfLuP5g7xqCQCy8Re_NZaJiHPkE/s16000/March%201%20Starbucks%20Java%20Coffee%20Title.gif" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOHZudWIUNtANHXM0czB-w-3K9DfN7Fqk2Ikv6yvgTql5wGRO9jvV8aXv9lcRVMdC3mIJSz1ulKC7Ksbb_4zp1FPwKaWkZJo-Ip26izODcEq03O1KicXgdqTrBgegnlV51tn3k_Y2t8lt8EinaKwd0g-p1Iz4yrjKHa1Ib1-0MjNuABOtgNzq6TvU1_E0/s3072/InShot_Starbucks%20SM_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="3072" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOHZudWIUNtANHXM0czB-w-3K9DfN7Fqk2Ikv6yvgTql5wGRO9jvV8aXv9lcRVMdC3mIJSz1ulKC7Ksbb_4zp1FPwKaWkZJo-Ip26izODcEq03O1KicXgdqTrBgegnlV51tn3k_Y2t8lt8EinaKwd0g-p1Iz4yrjKHa1Ib1-0MjNuABOtgNzq6TvU1_E0/w400-h400/InShot_Starbucks%20SM_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <p></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-19995984422565909622024-02-29T05:26:00.041+08:002024-03-06T02:50:20.268+08:00Ciao Febbraio!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizxIXH2wZY3rhTGve2ltJgRIOXqoHV1phZUfIghn9wyFzwZvHO3BcYlAE4x8plbt7yoh3bMa0hBc2g5x22yeLkFprJ8TBBRONu3FW1tf0wcpQvlsOYTpv7YjtawC2R2C1vCsyJGIrQYMRJ3lzGetnbgCtPyl7l5w6Rwt5zdeU4EEfmy3jFrJC73lNaBSw/s475/Feb%2028%20Dune%20Day.gif" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="295" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizxIXH2wZY3rhTGve2ltJgRIOXqoHV1phZUfIghn9wyFzwZvHO3BcYlAE4x8plbt7yoh3bMa0hBc2g5x22yeLkFprJ8TBBRONu3FW1tf0wcpQvlsOYTpv7YjtawC2R2C1vCsyJGIrQYMRJ3lzGetnbgCtPyl7l5w6Rwt5zdeU4EEfmy3jFrJC73lNaBSw/w397-h640/Feb%2028%20Dune%20Day.gif" width="397" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Febbraio in a GIF</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Ciao Febbraio! Ciao è Ba-boo!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Cougar t-shirt. Puma shoes. </i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>I didn't even know it was a Leap Year until Feb 29 came today! </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Maybe I really am a cat; born a cat and trying to dive in my own kitty litter of an endless <i>Dune </i>sandbox which I had the opportunity to <i>grab</i> in the mall yesterday. I went to the gym early so I can watch the movie Dune on its opening day unhampered by the usual swarm of mall-goers/movie viewers I anticipated would greet me. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As it turned out, only five people were watching the movie and it was the "weekday crowd" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">so... </span></i><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">it wasn't really a problem.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Anyway, because of this, I had many chances of getting fairly good <i>selfies</i> here and there. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As someone might say, <i>"the early<b> cat </b>catches the worm" :-) </i>and that I definitely deftly did. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><i>I hope.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKUDc-XTFRMnaLc1SrU8bpcsqDRBTSHXXOcqY58NjXGhbnotNvp1wb7hbuVwKThxxotIZMldYt9IPRLZt1GhpmdUhPV9oBG38IzGM0uDEVm1PSKimH6gVZ73cU4mCRfJrcZdkQGncWNOQVNRgN4mMfjotICQ164m0-qtnidLPnwBnRV5L9l-8pF9z9eCA/s1757/Feb%2028%20SM%20Dune%20Day%20Long%20Side.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="1757" height="101" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKUDc-XTFRMnaLc1SrU8bpcsqDRBTSHXXOcqY58NjXGhbnotNvp1wb7hbuVwKThxxotIZMldYt9IPRLZt1GhpmdUhPV9oBG38IzGM0uDEVm1PSKimH6gVZ73cU4mCRfJrcZdkQGncWNOQVNRgN4mMfjotICQ164m0-qtnidLPnwBnRV5L9l-8pF9z9eCA/w640-h101/Feb%2028%20SM%20Dune%20Day%20Long%20Side.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: medium;">Still Celebrating Dune 2</span><br /></div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5bFnTCyrjpkjBlKeKE1dfz3K451Ak_FodzM4JcRHFs6L76VApVooBZQAXM9VjpZg3UiSa8okRDiMetHpmDuQdDvFUKXN8TYPPZXKdUWLfciz5lsW6G6HFDC6zUIeh-GxjObGb7_8MHfgPUEZQN3jBB_8mQ79N-FwR9yyuJZXI-pwlhSH5hHuDP7mqJ5k/s2048/Garfield%20Dune%20Parody.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1366" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5bFnTCyrjpkjBlKeKE1dfz3K451Ak_FodzM4JcRHFs6L76VApVooBZQAXM9VjpZg3UiSa8okRDiMetHpmDuQdDvFUKXN8TYPPZXKdUWLfciz5lsW6G6HFDC6zUIeh-GxjObGb7_8MHfgPUEZQN3jBB_8mQ79N-FwR9yyuJZXI-pwlhSH5hHuDP7mqJ5k/s320/Garfield%20Dune%20Parody.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garfield Movie Dune Poster Parody</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><br /></i><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4NWXzpjSr47puidTQHmaiXxBcq4tQqRnRK6wJyNrSh-jKc8gYYqADSwb7oVK9DCa8qbuKvYpwpWLjvKDWOEHwlyAdw68AmJZwA2hNqRZ-Q_RRC6SJA8zywBDA5jHHsLeu73lDp-2pPHWZheoJ0VyPcPRUnjYpasFw6jRErc8Qtm21YruuxK69009FA3Q/s2361/Tim%20Dune%20Movie%20%20Ballpen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2361" data-original-width="1613" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4NWXzpjSr47puidTQHmaiXxBcq4tQqRnRK6wJyNrSh-jKc8gYYqADSwb7oVK9DCa8qbuKvYpwpWLjvKDWOEHwlyAdw68AmJZwA2hNqRZ-Q_RRC6SJA8zywBDA5jHHsLeu73lDp-2pPHWZheoJ0VyPcPRUnjYpasFw6jRErc8Qtm21YruuxK69009FA3Q/s320/Tim%20Dune%20Movie%20%20Ballpen.jpg" width="219" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Ballpen Art of a Scrapbook Entry<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><p></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-68315494999439208542024-01-09T20:20:00.081+08:002024-01-10T21:19:19.692+08:00The Boy and The Heron (2023)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvzGwKXRhR_sTA3x20rPmCaWd8PlUc4VDitEFhhyphenhyphenEXVt9qyY5DMKM-v8WOsciUzGGFAoD9MJejmnUbxbPWeKQsD0DVgTWotjhNSymgi6rRMCUj9oVh4tVGoEbnbYnvjOFnHHs6cE2CF0rAIyC01gAcPDW5wO5lCwbeGF6Olme0AVkKiYbri0YB6PnL3U/s1200/IMG_0957.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvzGwKXRhR_sTA3x20rPmCaWd8PlUc4VDitEFhhyphenhyphenEXVt9qyY5DMKM-v8WOsciUzGGFAoD9MJejmnUbxbPWeKQsD0DVgTWotjhNSymgi6rRMCUj9oVh4tVGoEbnbYnvjOFnHHs6cE2CF0rAIyC01gAcPDW5wO5lCwbeGF6Olme0AVkKiYbri0YB6PnL3U/w640-h336/IMG_0957.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Yesterday, I was able to drive to the mall and watch a Miyazaki Animé movie for the first time on the big screen </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">and I thought this would be a nice treat for me </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">as I have always been viewing Studio Ghibli movies with the confines</span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> of my computer monitor at home. Since this is reportedly Miyazaki’s last movie, now 83, his swan song so to speak; it was the perfect time for me to do so. So I went to the theater expecting to go home with a happy Miyazaki Animé movie experience in tow.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">I wasn’t wrong. I enjoyed the movie and although I am not obliged to say why, I thought having a novel experience in life is always the best experience anyway. So I convinced myself that despite the mixed reviews I have read prior, I will enjoy the movie regardless and that I did! Certainly! Triumph over matter (or material)!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Anyway, not veering off the topic, I read a little about or watched some YouTube reviews on how the movie would unfold and although many had said it really wasn’t the best Animé Feature Miyazaki has made (it was convoluted and confusing in many instances), it was still satisfying on my part. Being an artist myself, the artistry or the painstaking hand-drawn animation shown in this movie was worth the price of admission. In other words, seeing the various anthropomorphic animals come to life (and there were a lot!) was probably good enough highlights for me! I don’t claim to be a Ghibli film geek anyway. Just as how I would regard regular live action movies, I’m just interested in them with a general curiosity.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Nonetheless, the movie experience has to be real. First off, let’s start with Mahito. He is the main carrier of the story, the boy you see on the poster and the one you have to travel with mentally if you want to be transported to a world that mainly exists in the mind of the creator, Miyazaki himself. He is no flighty character but he goes through a myriad of fanciful encounters beginning when his mother dies in a hospital fire brought upon by War and had to move to their countryside estate from Tokyo to live with his aunt Natsuko who is now also his stepmother and when she gets lost and he tries to find her; then this is where all the flights of imagination begin…starting with a strange gray heron that mysteriously appears to call on him out of nowhere.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">This gray heron would lead him to a tower that he hopes fervently would lead him to his dead mother (as the heron promises) and ultimately his pregnant aunt Natsuko who looks strikingly similar to his own mother. What follows is where the so-called confusion sets in. First of all, Studio Ghibli movies are notably punctuated with spiritual references, and this one was inundated with it so much so that you may be reminded of past Miyazaki movies like Mononoke and Totoro that featured similar characters like the Warawara and other forest creatures. To add to this, the old ladies at the estate look like the big-nosed ladies from </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle and many people suggested this as perhaps a culmination of all Miyazaki’s works and as a kind of valediction to one of the greatest filmmakers of modern history and if not, certainly the most popular in Japan, I would think.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Going back on track, </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">I wouldn’t be concerned with any of this if it weren't for the hype surrounding this movie. I'm really more </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">concerned with how the story moves along but it is important to keep in mind that there is a thin veil between earthly worlds and the supernatural here. The next scene I remember is of the gate in the middle of a field he tries to enter after somehow navigating himself out of the dimly-lit tower and meets this pirate named Kiriko similarly named with one of the old ladies at the estate who tries to help him with his personal quest to look for Natsuko early on. Maybe this female pirate who probably belongs to the netherworld is a younger representation of his old lady friend. They both see zombie-like boatmen who Kiriko says she needs to trade things with and a flock of warawara (white, adorable creepy-crawlies) they try to feed with a big fish (catch) for them to develop wings to fly </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">(more like float)</span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">to their freedom </span><i style="font-family: Merriweather;">or even rebirth</i><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">, that is if another flock of starving pelicans don't eat them first. Confused yet? Enter Lady Himi who casts fireworks in the sky and burns the pelicans in order to set the warawara free.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">At this point, try to keep yourself free from judgment with the pelicans as I have (not, really) for they are also good spirits who are simply sharing the same space with other creatures and are </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">basically</span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> just hungry </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">themselves. There are no adversaries at this point, at least for Mahito.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Going back to the heron, the one supposed to be sharing equal billing with the boy (at least in the title); he turns out to be a mischievous little human-like goblin who actually ends up helping out Mahito even if at first this wasn't the case. At one point, since the two had an earlier altercation when the heron shows Mahito's mother as a lifeless (oozing) body, Mahito wanted to kill off the heron with an arrow's fletching made from the gray heron's feathers. Instead of dying, the heron's beak gets a hole which prohibits him to fly and Mahito later helps the heron out by plugging the hole with a piece of shaved wood.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Anyway, back in the tower and through his quest to find only Natsuko now, we get to meet Lady Himi the fire mage again, in a different dimension and as a young girl who offers to be his mother at one point. They go through the maze-like tower with an array of differently numbered doors leading to more dimensions or portals and Lady Himi points towards one door that will lead him back to his (earthly) world. The mysterious, magical tower architecture was explained as an extraneous energy (a meteor) that took roots in that place where Natsuko's grand uncle built a tower around to act as his library. The Grand Uncle as this old man is called is a virtuous intellectual who looks like a cross between God and Einstein when Mahito comes face to face with him. In other words, he could be Architect, Scientist, Creator, God in this realm he has founded and he wanted a successor (Mahito, in fact) to rule this world that Mahito by now gets first-hand vision of, as he is part of his bloodline. In this realm, we also get to know an Army of Parakeet People led by a Parakeet King who eventually halts this turnover of succession.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">There are (building) blocks involved, simple tools the Grand Uncle measures the world by and they symbolize balance of the cosmos, or if you prefer, the preservation of the uprightness of his world. When these building blocks get rearranged by the Parakeet King, himself a symbol of tyrannical rule and of malice that somehow entered this realm, the magical world itself collapses and the bevy of characters we have been introduced to are forced to flee back to their world.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">It would seem that Lady Himi the fire mage is Mahito’s mother in the magical realm but since she would not go back to the world she died in, ironically also by fire, Mahito goes back to his new family, to stepmother Natsuko and father Shoichi and all the other creatures return to their normal selves, with the parakeet people for example reverting back as regular-sized parakeets. The heron as a final message for Mahito tells him it is normal to forget, referring to what he has been through mentally and emotionally so we are faced in the end with a resolution of Mahito being able to accept his new life devoid of grief for his dead mother.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Despite the seemingly complex story structure, it would be wise to be simply part of Mahito’s course or passage as there really is nothing dire, tragic or even strange there. It was just a cryptic journey towards life’s acceptance.</span></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-67814408497522749022024-01-06T21:55:00.029+08:002024-02-29T06:55:13.149+08:00Grave of the Fireflies (1988)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLkW5TyCmsLR2JwoKGSjwyE04xUxz3CHfoU8abnLW-aq_mcmau9lv75tV8q7tRqazr2OIwik4MaypzyW92ZrnfXNRgn3B4MSa3yzcI8dyV8fv3u7g3sSGpYD-rVjrOgzTJt2dDkr0d8Oxw2uHpie2UT4vOGyqc413-c4BUb7imDPApECkiTu0VkGRi8Z4/s800/Grave%20of%20the%20Fireflies%20Collage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLkW5TyCmsLR2JwoKGSjwyE04xUxz3CHfoU8abnLW-aq_mcmau9lv75tV8q7tRqazr2OIwik4MaypzyW92ZrnfXNRgn3B4MSa3yzcI8dyV8fv3u7g3sSGpYD-rVjrOgzTJt2dDkr0d8Oxw2uHpie2UT4vOGyqc413-c4BUb7imDPApECkiTu0VkGRi8Z4/w640-h640/Grave%20of%20the%20Fireflies%20Collage.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">While still on the subject of Fireflies, I just watched this movie and </span></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;">I can’t peel my eyes off this Studio Ghibli offering from 1988 that I recently downloaded as part of my ongoing effort to view and collect pirated Ghibli animé movies on my iMac computer, <i>yeah,</i> <b>even if this movie was sad as hell. </b>It was just so poignant and <i>so beautifully made,</i> it will definitely make you cry.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;">I didn’t cry of course but that’s beside the point. The animation of both background, which is to say the Japanese countryside and foreground; the characters themselves including the bombs and planes in the distance was superb! The articulation for both Setsuko and Setai, the two siblings principal in this movie was so well executed, I thought if there ever was an award for Best Acting in Animé, I would give this to the two, particularly Setsuko, the four year old orphan who will definitely melt your heart just by watching her. She’s definitely a thing of unadulterated cuteness set in a backdrop of wartorn WWII Japan and that’s probably what this movie is all about for me. She sort of serves as a kind of counterweight to the heaviness of the story’s subject matter or perhaps a clever device to further heighten the inhumanities of war. Whatever the movie espouses, it works as a vivid reminder of war and its effects on its most important casualties, children abandoned not only by their parents but also of society as a whole.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;"><b>Facts about the movie:</b> First of all, you have to understand that this is a wartime account of a dead boy struggling to survive daily life with his little sister, also dead. Both become orphaned when their mother gets killed in an air raid shelter and forced to live in an abandoned one themselves when their own aunt, their only living relative mistreats them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;">This was directed and co-written by Isao Takahata and based on a popular Japanese novel by Akiyiku Nosaka and his personal account of WWII, the direness of the whole situation and his guilt for not being fully protective of his own sister.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;">It's a 1988 Animé from famed Studio Ghibli and its genre is Animation, Drama and War so don't go expecting the usual lighthearted fare of <i><span style="color: #134f5c;">cuteness overload</span></i> typical of many Ghibli animations most notably Miyazaki's Ponyo. It depicts victims of war as dead bodies piled one on top of another and bandaged dying people infested with flies, maggots and bloody. Despite its rather realistic or should I say pointed portrayal of war, it is a <u>standout in animation</u> and you have to see it for yourself if you haven’t seen it yet to fully appreciate the movie, especially if you're a fan or maybe even if you’re just curious.<i> <span style="color: #666666;">That could be even better!</span></i></span></div>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-21893923534397022262023-12-29T23:23:00.208+08:002023-12-30T07:55:24.146+08:00Firefly (2023)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcnVOq10SOJBlhMK9QoZp9GmcOzEC_AEIAFpQb1b5XYAyRzCs-ZSgpDUNHqJXNfS8NvXqo8-RnbPEgUaP2o0nSMiLy9KMRrco9UcSAqO3GDiMDD_DkIUBNow7inqjPS_N0F481zACB1OuDIPHARfQmsIYeBdw3dlrZPNbxczmbXgolM7-Gv53g51iShqw/s2224/IMG_0939.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2224" data-original-width="1668" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcnVOq10SOJBlhMK9QoZp9GmcOzEC_AEIAFpQb1b5XYAyRzCs-ZSgpDUNHqJXNfS8NvXqo8-RnbPEgUaP2o0nSMiLy9KMRrco9UcSAqO3GDiMDD_DkIUBNow7inqjPS_N0F481zACB1OuDIPHARfQmsIYeBdw3dlrZPNbxczmbXgolM7-Gv53g51iShqw/w480-h640/IMG_0939.png" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbtqOGUivenEDW1q9UsRA1ZmbK6YDNmbvhHWIFnQYaGzmBWvIqjSPi_XdQBNgPb5lBf46tVOGHfGwA3Yjl2kQf-ZmsXq4TnwJu6bUDdP0b1pIEqXTvpPVLat66_INHqMfaU8fV69ZM4Mqk6yGP7SQTT4AO_2Tj-XhE9jUYhmP8EvRBvoJ3k38ZTo7sDpE/s2224/IMG_0940.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2224" data-original-width="1668" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbtqOGUivenEDW1q9UsRA1ZmbK6YDNmbvhHWIFnQYaGzmBWvIqjSPi_XdQBNgPb5lBf46tVOGHfGwA3Yjl2kQf-ZmsXq4TnwJu6bUDdP0b1pIEqXTvpPVLat66_INHqMfaU8fV69ZM4Mqk6yGP7SQTT4AO_2Tj-XhE9jUYhmP8EvRBvoJ3k38ZTo7sDpE/s320/IMG_0940.png" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbtqOGUivenEDW1q9UsRA1ZmbK6YDNmbvhHWIFnQYaGzmBWvIqjSPi_XdQBNgPb5lBf46tVOGHfGwA3Yjl2kQf-ZmsXq4TnwJu6bUDdP0b1pIEqXTvpPVLat66_INHqMfaU8fV69ZM4Mqk6yGP7SQTT4AO_2Tj-XhE9jUYhmP8EvRBvoJ3k38ZTo7sDpE/s2224/IMG_0940.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbtqOGUivenEDW1q9UsRA1ZmbK6YDNmbvhHWIFnQYaGzmBWvIqjSPi_XdQBNgPb5lBf46tVOGHfGwA3Yjl2kQf-ZmsXq4TnwJu6bUDdP0b1pIEqXTvpPVLat66_INHqMfaU8fV69ZM4Mqk6yGP7SQTT4AO_2Tj-XhE9jUYhmP8EvRBvoJ3k38ZTo7sDpE/s2224/IMG_0940.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Before I retire tonight, I feel I should write something about the last movie I saw in the movie theater as a kind of appreciation and celebration for the year that is now ending. This has been a rather hectic and revelatory year <i>(blog wise)</i> for me and let's just close it with a happy note <i>with the hopes</i> of more positivity in the coming year.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Yesterday, after my early morning gym visit plus a side-trip to Burger King on the way home as a rare breakfast treat, I noticed there was an absence of the usual <b><i>traffic</i></b> particularly perennial in the streets of Manila so I rushed back to the mall to perhaps watch (another) foreign movie but I was faced with the ongoing Metro Manila Film Festival's fare of Filipino movies <i>presented this time of the year</i> while deciding and planning on what to watch from my connected home computer.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Since it was the only one with a preview clip from my clickthecity movie tab website which I equated with a proper promotion or send off, I decided to watch Firefly. I read its description and thought I liked it. Also, I felt I wanted to watch something not demanding of mental analysis like a historical drama or something stress-inducing like a horror movie or even romance. These are not my genres anyway. As it turns out, my serendipitous nature always prevails in the end. No Wonka, I thought? No problem. I Wanna watch Tagalog this time!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">First of all, what can you expect from a Filipino film anyway? From a nation who tries to make ends meet on a daily basis and a dwindling movie industry (because if you're a starving nation, who cares about art, right?), the answer is <i>nothing!</i> Not that I'm conditioning my brain for "lowered expectations = higher happiness", I am simply prepared for reality...<i>the good kind.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">All throughout the year and beyond, I felt I have mentally focused on lifting myself from the daily peril of living in my own town and country. This after all is a very perilous, very dangerous way to live: simply surviving, you know?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">This movie as in all movies, has its strengths and weaknesses. From a general perspective, this was well-shot (aka <i>good cinematography</i>); and although not intellectual in any way, was well-written; well-casted and finally, well-acted as expected from local talent. If I were to imagine this was a story of my life (as I try to put myself in the shoes of the principal characters while watching movies anyway), then the featured boy appears to be more photogenic than me. Since it's basically about a boy's particular adventure set in motion by his devotion to his mother and a bedtime story told to him he couldn't dissuade from his memory as it is his only source of comfort esp when his mother suddenly dies; the movie takes us on a journey to the distant province of Sorsogon, to a mythical stone island where we are set to believe they will reunite and it was shot as a kind of travelogue to the countryside with a bunch of strange bedfellows he meets along the way, leading to the secluded island that nobody even knows exists. Lovely but it wasn't entirely just a travelogue!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">After reading previous reviews from other co-watchers on clickthecity, I noticed the common negative comment for local movies is the objectionable use of CGI, and this film also had its own. It wasn't perfect but it wasn't all that bad either. It is what it is. It's a pitfall but for me, it doesn't take away from the other good features this movie as many Filipino films, had to offer and I happily focused on that. If you want to be happy in life, try to appreciate the good stuff and this film had plenty...if you only knew where to look. The Philippines was not presented as a hopeless economic failure or even disaster as most people (from here and abroad) would consider it to be and that includes me. It was <b>escapist</b> for sure but since it was set in my own backyard so to speak, what's so bad about that? I thought that's just perfect,<i> for me at least!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">So fuck the international critics! I'm in this for the literal ride of my life. There's something sublime in nature, in simplicity, in good old-fashioned values and I hope the rest of the modern world gets it finally!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Merriweather;"><i>Congratulations to the movie for winning Best Picture , btw</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Merriweather;"><i>and you're all welcome for my good review!</i></span></div><p></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-54443977917902001712023-12-29T18:04:00.000+08:002023-12-29T18:04:12.877+08:00My Wishes for 2024<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXknrCVskAqW77pEaW2JdSmZk_EPYEcjc6b3BsO1CjGsposbKPsLuXgM54_UZUKkEicsu67waApIj2_KtcC4dVkhyrdkz_hJbtvgoACZJVA0j0n3IE4t_XC5PZ_4uxbHny3pBKSzDdHxaALi71yCRda9Dij8G4RAr3Hm73MDXK26ODkCfZpESQX70kCjs/s500/2024%20Bird%20Yellow.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="500" height="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXknrCVskAqW77pEaW2JdSmZk_EPYEcjc6b3BsO1CjGsposbKPsLuXgM54_UZUKkEicsu67waApIj2_KtcC4dVkhyrdkz_hJbtvgoACZJVA0j0n3IE4t_XC5PZ_4uxbHny3pBKSzDdHxaALi71yCRda9Dij8G4RAr3Hm73MDXK26ODkCfZpESQX70kCjs/w640-h632/2024%20Bird%20Yellow.gif" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Try and keep the puzzle together.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;">#gouache</span></div></span><p></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-28480281832936894192023-12-21T19:23:00.024+08:002023-12-22T18:39:38.490+08:00Do you want Christmas?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghmFKwi_s2NaO_hsQ3Clj2O2TCb0Q9RYbSaTcbRA8datmV7QCRsE2LD_7DWeFDHUQ4tIN1pExrTl701St8-968232mIFZ_nPJU6SjBjo6J7FAP6zzQr4gi6fQLniJFSULY2CAFflWy9iuiD7xf7HvbcFeP5m6Fw8-lc-_iAzOPp02nqqXY6mKLCbMSlqo/s1000/Christmas%20Kid%20HDR%20Confetti.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="677" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghmFKwi_s2NaO_hsQ3Clj2O2TCb0Q9RYbSaTcbRA8datmV7QCRsE2LD_7DWeFDHUQ4tIN1pExrTl701St8-968232mIFZ_nPJU6SjBjo6J7FAP6zzQr4gi6fQLniJFSULY2CAFflWy9iuiD7xf7HvbcFeP5m6Fw8-lc-_iAzOPp02nqqXY6mKLCbMSlqo/w434-h640/Christmas%20Kid%20HDR%20Confetti.jpg" width="434" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: large;"><b>Claim it!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;"><i>...because faggot/local/envious/loser Kristo-Ramos </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;"><i>will steal it from you if you're not careful.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;">And while you're at it...</span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;">it will be entirely up to you to make </span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;">The New Year Happy too!</span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv4n6B2pexkzreQ3cJ0ojUAvBFqZsM252sWZhZVl91o-yehXmU97Ja2m1rhB8xVaOH6nNudLLEjZkMSBs3wjA-dl3cYuuVa0UWqE0QUXv6tUJKk1XuI9e4OExFQR05zNPFogKHLQBryhyk4rqoqtYRksT-vEcjCl4i1CpZ1oaHxqFUswcimewdR18RzRU/s1280/Dragonball%20Year%202024.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv4n6B2pexkzreQ3cJ0ojUAvBFqZsM252sWZhZVl91o-yehXmU97Ja2m1rhB8xVaOH6nNudLLEjZkMSBs3wjA-dl3cYuuVa0UWqE0QUXv6tUJKk1XuI9e4OExFQR05zNPFogKHLQBryhyk4rqoqtYRksT-vEcjCl4i1CpZ1oaHxqFUswcimewdR18RzRU/w640-h360/Dragonball%20Year%202024.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>_________😇_😇_😇_________</b></div><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;"><i>There just has to be justice somewhere, somehow </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;"><i>and as long as you choose to be in it...</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgebYlZXMmjcs8HaWskfHHTDHYmCkEGIRYBkmqJPy_dFOvh-6vBOBrocQwP5nx066cBtvmJw5xotTh8rE0DR70GdgNPi1RHD1S82Me7rQXmXwM-ijaYOWMwZJO0Z2NCOs1BCA3mkUh1TWgS-E-mZ5DlEXM22Y1r7EQKIka6-2EuMy2l9zQa8wb8uazb9XU/s2000/Merry%20Christmas%20Money%20Justice%20square.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgebYlZXMmjcs8HaWskfHHTDHYmCkEGIRYBkmqJPy_dFOvh-6vBOBrocQwP5nx066cBtvmJw5xotTh8rE0DR70GdgNPi1RHD1S82Me7rQXmXwM-ijaYOWMwZJO0Z2NCOs1BCA3mkUh1TWgS-E-mZ5DlEXM22Y1r7EQKIka6-2EuMy2l9zQa8wb8uazb9XU/w640-h640/Merry%20Christmas%20Money%20Justice%20square.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-85269475448991352272023-12-21T11:57:00.003+08:002023-12-22T18:21:57.859+08:00Something Something<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwnPTXYKRkkiUk0ekrHvZQkuYdcwL62_6LvWaSpj9Ur6_TbD4zcGYwxq5-qZl6zW6XFvjxFS1-KcKRMhNWeo5EpQ2C9P-H1G3NcI7xtUdKEE54mo8kIgT7A-AxaW_60igBT0bjBHze9evRRVdlse-cBHvQt6C-VPMteQE7qttgJmYwSUG-IpV8CQf66zQ/s1280/KISSMAS.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="895" data-original-width="1280" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwnPTXYKRkkiUk0ekrHvZQkuYdcwL62_6LvWaSpj9Ur6_TbD4zcGYwxq5-qZl6zW6XFvjxFS1-KcKRMhNWeo5EpQ2C9P-H1G3NcI7xtUdKEE54mo8kIgT7A-AxaW_60igBT0bjBHze9evRRVdlse-cBHvQt6C-VPMteQE7qttgJmYwSUG-IpV8CQf66zQ/w640-h448/KISSMAS.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Greetings from Goku of <i>Planet Vegeta!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i>#watercolor</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieFf9fvsN3UgfFc1IPDSUCd5vh8jOSHkv_PhzsoGfU9mSPwpRrkxUllKuyKp4UiKKP3Q6DcgNeoPII_JTK6w6f3BedGjTTAyM7t2v6kDOBivVIRaDBROZ0yH0l2vilhv7ONgpku7YHjtmJGNd1X9bSwVVDKR-uV4KKPicq7Bg5eu20OLf-dv6m9wJsGhI/s1280/Something%20Something%20ME_6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="897" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieFf9fvsN3UgfFc1IPDSUCd5vh8jOSHkv_PhzsoGfU9mSPwpRrkxUllKuyKp4UiKKP3Q6DcgNeoPII_JTK6w6f3BedGjTTAyM7t2v6kDOBivVIRaDBROZ0yH0l2vilhv7ONgpku7YHjtmJGNd1X9bSwVVDKR-uV4KKPicq7Bg5eu20OLf-dv6m9wJsGhI/w448-h640/Something%20Something%20ME_6.jpeg" width="448" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">I've been feelin'<b> </b><i><b>freaky deaky </b></i>so I made:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i>Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue,</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i>something physics, something cats, something midnight, something shades.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Something something!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYqs9J1IbggaaxvcNMxHrjTo6TZOfVSE7Oy815_sQVTYtXVX6UWddpcwF3nikHAk3JmAo39PoCmNXGscsA4_fyqazujsyPC_9iRnY43SEXyBMjpk7-CiEz6XZp7HkrJO5wiW5Hj-Hf1yyxpsQmLu3LKgkzHIn1nyjSmomPMQAh95ooTMjC-W5_pUZfg-Q/s2000/Merry%20Parmigiano%20Reggiano%20Christmas%20square.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYqs9J1IbggaaxvcNMxHrjTo6TZOfVSE7Oy815_sQVTYtXVX6UWddpcwF3nikHAk3JmAo39PoCmNXGscsA4_fyqazujsyPC_9iRnY43SEXyBMjpk7-CiEz6XZp7HkrJO5wiW5Hj-Hf1yyxpsQmLu3LKgkzHIn1nyjSmomPMQAh95ooTMjC-W5_pUZfg-Q/w640-h640/Merry%20Parmigiano%20Reggiano%20Christmas%20square.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Once again say,"parmigiano reggiano!"</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i>#acrylic #procreate</i></span></div><p></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-47319752334844760882023-12-15T14:49:00.008+08:002023-12-20T04:16:54.480+08:00Taylor is Man of The Year<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAWSIEcj-zT3CThiZvrvptbZTSx0YPNu5wsWySjjjxJREGbXojxQPINCoLhQRqsbUQtOtCNID4_q41eiI-h2BzB-MamOsRDnjpYWO0smBdpDhMMkHR9HQbHmHZpv-qOLjDR-zfX0hyH1BTuwz4NIVRz4TpkwCLEA0McWgskqjB_rE774kzuedKuHNFi1g/s3695/TIME%20POY%20Taylor%20SWIFT%20WC.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3695" data-original-width="2682" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAWSIEcj-zT3CThiZvrvptbZTSx0YPNu5wsWySjjjxJREGbXojxQPINCoLhQRqsbUQtOtCNID4_q41eiI-h2BzB-MamOsRDnjpYWO0smBdpDhMMkHR9HQbHmHZpv-qOLjDR-zfX0hyH1BTuwz4NIVRz4TpkwCLEA0McWgskqjB_rE774kzuedKuHNFi1g/w464-h640/TIME%20POY%20Taylor%20SWIFT%20WC.jpeg" width="464" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">...and so I made you a not-so-simple but quickly done (from yesterday to early morning today) <b><i>watercolor artwork </i></b>because all the Christmas Cards I write will eventually, hopefully lead me to a White Christmas (doesn't matter when exactly) I've been dreaming of since <i>for</i>-<i>evermore! </i> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><i>Also, you're the reason for the Season! Cheers mate!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">👩🎤🤶 👩🏻🌾</span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> 👩🏭👩🍳💂🏻♀️👳🏻👲🏻👮🏻♂️🧑🏻🦰👩🏼🦳🎅🏻🧝🏻♂️🧝🏻🦹🏻🦸🏼♀️🧟♂️🧚🏻🫃🏼🤦🏼♀️🧖🏼♂️👯♀️🕺🏻👯♂️🤳🏻👨🏻🦯👩❤️👨👨👩👧👦👨👨👧👩👦👨👧👻👺👹👿☠️😻🤢🤮🤧🤒🥶🤬🥵😡😰😓😱😨🤯😍🥰😀😃😇😎🤓🥳🤩🥸</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">#watercolor</span></span></div><br /><p></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-76249496502717277602023-12-10T04:54:00.017+08:002023-12-10T17:56:34.304+08:00Meeting of the Minds<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><b><i>4 am status</i></b>: </span></h2><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Preparing breakfast for me and Macoy on the Roof where he has been sleeping for a week now (upright on a couch). </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">I don’t think he will ever come down again because of his deep despise for his Auntie/Doktora who is situated just above his bedroom and is disturbingly noisy, according to him.</span></p><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-style: normal;">Idiot Ramos/ Ignoramos and cohorts </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><b><i>Status</i></b></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-style: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-style: normal;">: </span></h2><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i>Ready to Pounce</i></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-style: normal;"> at me with their barrage of filthy vehicular noises.</span><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-style: normal;"> </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">I can never be accused of being paranoid by my doctor-sister who probably thinks <i><b>I am</b></i> paranoid. (She loves profiling and labeling people. It is simply her job to assess and diagnose people with incurable diseases.) </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i style="font-family: Merriweather;"><b>Because everything for me is real!</b></i><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">She thinks every person on the planet is autistic or at least when she finds somebody annoying and "impossible" to deal with like my brother Rocky sometimes, she would secretly classify them as such! I personally think Rocky is in the Autism Spectrum Disorder anyway so why not just tell it straight to his face? Could it be because he's more highly functioning than her <i>(...who earns a lot, more than any of his siblings combined?)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Maybe one day, these two wayward souls (my sister and Ramos) can meet and discuss me. </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">First question to ask and try to answer (about me) is: <i>What Happened?</i></span></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-60728110089442450692023-12-03T20:43:00.047+08:002023-12-04T04:31:15.508+08:00Planet of the Apes, Life, The Universe and Everything<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qsNXxfyBUT1JQyj1owDn5qEoO6_l_fd8k2lq8g3w5NBOwDz5iZEqJQTrqUHtqFuAbAxZiwxFbjEh5HBVJotTZA3Owl1BbD4-1C1-TdCFPPK3taGSHPJqEe9nj79pj4ItXiF1An9ctMhRSx5fc2MC_gDXXVyuzNXq6IPIk4nLYhzIdTnc8wCfx_yPQOc/s1280/Planet%20of%20the%20Apes%20Dolphin.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="916" data-original-width="1280" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qsNXxfyBUT1JQyj1owDn5qEoO6_l_fd8k2lq8g3w5NBOwDz5iZEqJQTrqUHtqFuAbAxZiwxFbjEh5HBVJotTZA3Owl1BbD4-1C1-TdCFPPK3taGSHPJqEe9nj79pj4ItXiF1An9ctMhRSx5fc2MC_gDXXVyuzNXq6IPIk4nLYhzIdTnc8wCfx_yPQOc/w640-h458/Planet%20of%20the%20Apes%20Dolphin.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span><div style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;">What's wrong with this picture? First of all, it's supposed to be a painting of a movie mash-up of Planet of the Apes (1968 version) and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), two of the movies I deemed necessary or even apropos (to render acrylic on canvas) to avert from what I feel is my present-day existence or existential crisis given the daily grind of having to deal with people I don't like at home and the entire neighborhood especially nearby Iglesia ni Cristo buildings x4, heck, maybe even anywhere I go in this city, town, country!</div><div style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;">They're both Sci-fi films by the way. Technically, I used the picture of the leader of the Planet of the talking and intelligent Apes Zaius, a somber backdrop of submerged New York City and what is left of the Statue of Liberty and took a dolphin glass figurine from daddy's library (the coolest one I can find) to remind me of the “hooking” intro spill of THHGG where dolphins do some somersaults while actually saying <i>So long and thanks for all the fish </i>referring to exiting this world<i> </i>but not in so many words as fish couldn't talk. I did them all in the surrealistic style of collage. I did it as a personal reminder of my current situation, not necessarily to spite my human friends.</div><div style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiya2d4s0Os5AxnhMJToa5ussQSVLXYRmBIinwUvD_YFMAuYQRCA4JOCBoidP2cib1_NCtAJcbWqw8RgJEw4wuH-lFlZAPoXDaU8RZzLUCjVeH9TN4gZ-9dw6J6mQN8JsbOGdHVm0_a3makVLMK-NaYHoQ6_zK24LPTbBiMbVe3TE8au8eSf9SDFPg5rl8/s4032/IMG_0848.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiya2d4s0Os5AxnhMJToa5ussQSVLXYRmBIinwUvD_YFMAuYQRCA4JOCBoidP2cib1_NCtAJcbWqw8RgJEw4wuH-lFlZAPoXDaU8RZzLUCjVeH9TN4gZ-9dw6J6mQN8JsbOGdHVm0_a3makVLMK-NaYHoQ6_zK24LPTbBiMbVe3TE8au8eSf9SDFPg5rl8/w300-h400/IMG_0848.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;">I temporarily glued this painting above my bedroom TV set to act as a sobering reminder that as I am watching and relaxing to TV, at the same time I am also guarding myself from the active noises outside my bedroom…the objects or subjects of my painting. It’s like a visual alarm clock for what is real and actually happening in my world so I don’t drift off in a mindset of unrealistic and idealistic tv programming which I feel is personally and especially programmed for me sometimes because I’m so “attuned” as a viewer. <i>Ironically.</i></div><div style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;">So what’s wrong with this picture? Aside from the stark ultramarine blue I used for the dolphin that clashes into the overall harmony of the artwork, I would say nothing, nothing at all. In fact, as I presently love my dolphin still life drawing, I wouldn't have it any other way so...<i>so long and thanks for all the fish</i> if an actual Le Dauphin could talk.<i> </i>At this point in time, I wouldn't know how to correct it anyway.</div><div style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Roboto Mono;">#fineart</span></i></div></span><p></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-21274320493898085312023-12-03T02:37:00.105+08:002023-12-10T05:07:50.239+08:00Napoléon<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOYwm3qxD7Bm-ffq8eAdCIChy9PR8vWL6r-tA2GmkVwPq5N1K7I3rtlBYZrMLvidRe7YDsN2Uvw7zB4Bs68lTAd09DovCz5Ngk3nfkSmdD53qSBp1kBjcBENzgDcLINjSTpn_NvfFJoj_hvoRu1hhzktoqEe0XMRg2KKckeLfFpenj9UBD9vHA22ICVGg/s1668/IMG_0843.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1668" data-original-width="1123" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOYwm3qxD7Bm-ffq8eAdCIChy9PR8vWL6r-tA2GmkVwPq5N1K7I3rtlBYZrMLvidRe7YDsN2Uvw7zB4Bs68lTAd09DovCz5Ngk3nfkSmdD53qSBp1kBjcBENzgDcLINjSTpn_NvfFJoj_hvoRu1hhzktoqEe0XMRg2KKckeLfFpenj9UBD9vHA22ICVGg/w430-h640/IMG_0843.jpeg" width="430" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">I watched Napoleon last Thursday (Bonifacio Day) in an IMAX theater practically all by myself. I was probably viewing it with less than 6 people tops. I wasn’t intending to see this movie when I drove to the nearby theater (unplanned) although I still bought myself a ticket when I got there because well, it’s about a controversial historical figure and this was the better option to watching the Miyazaki <span style="color: #741b47;">Heron</span> Animé that wasn't being shown, the movie I was all set to watch.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Anyway, despite the very violent love-making, gory beheadings and graphic war scenes, I sort of liked it. Again, I’m not one to give a review since I slept through many of its parts (the theater was very cold and I had to buy a blanket from the popcorn concessionaire just to be able to stand the cold as I was only dressed in a delicate Spiderman <i>house</i> t-shirt and shorts.) In fact, when I had to go home when the movie was finished, I wondered what happened in <i>(ill-fated)</i> Waterloo since I completely missed it and woke up with the end credits already rolling.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The principal characters Napoleon played by Joaquin Phoenix and Aristocrat Josephine played by Vanessa Kirby (who I believe was Princess Margaret from The Crown) to me were the highlights of the movie. They were very engaging and they made you forget the complications of understanding Napoleon’s actual historical role/significance in the War particularly in the time of the French Revolution when France was in a dreary time of transition.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">I guess with all the “graphicness” of the highly-polished, high-profile movie, the take-away from all this is that these are human figures with foibles and flaws but still <u><i>highly interesting</i> </u>and in the end, I feel I can relate to them as such, this being my personal contribution to the Community. Not that I feel like a bratty, egotistical champion or even a meaningful member of high society but sometimes I behave in such a foolhardy fashion with a careless attitude (perhaps befitting the stereotypical Aristocrat or rich person) but that’s that and I’m not at all <i>Miss Perfect</i> despite my God-given generosity in spirit and attitude. I never imagined myself to be a role model in life anyway.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i>So, no remorse. No regret. </i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXi-uQqNyMAg_OR2lv2k0IZEkiELMc82TSTb6iFlxBwN5KMGJPdAVuoCHqRCxfElxPMnDdauhzoxVS4169rnd35796PgBZ_MDbbizqiPpS6ed3TxLRIXa4RaNOAI3l9geeoNeXuBsySdLfGGaqpn5LCENmH48t9q_AkoTDWuS0K41r8QxPXhZRrDanX2E/s1302/Napoleon's%20Bee%20Symbol.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1302" data-original-width="976" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXi-uQqNyMAg_OR2lv2k0IZEkiELMc82TSTb6iFlxBwN5KMGJPdAVuoCHqRCxfElxPMnDdauhzoxVS4169rnd35796PgBZ_MDbbizqiPpS6ed3TxLRIXa4RaNOAI3l9geeoNeXuBsySdLfGGaqpn5LCENmH48t9q_AkoTDWuS0K41r8QxPXhZRrDanX2E/w150-h200/Napoleon's%20Bee%20Symbol.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i>If this Bee was </i></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">chosen by Napoleon as a symbol of his Empire </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">as <i>bees were a symbol of the ancient sovereigns of France,</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;"><i>I can buy myself flowers, even indulge in a movie by myself and as a thoroughly modern person, just <b>BE. </b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">🌺🌼🌹🥀💐 </span></b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;"><i>So please let me.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;"><i>-------</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;"><i>Interesting Napoleon Habits and Idiosyncrasies (to me):</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK6qDRagCA1I784-itcffREbxyEGdVlP_1glC1_oQS1wy7zQenowZFPySkKxXsN1dgrGOzBQvZqwsnEM09kc7V1n60nMgz7h8nJCkH601dQpfT7UH_Giyqa4eZufsU4pPPl6nwwWdG1iuC52Ki1KcnbQTAAnwk3bi78bxxvo-dNqyUSMVRjXQV1oBFjno/s1848/Napoleon%20Habits%20and%20Idiosyncrasies.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="796" data-original-width="1848" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK6qDRagCA1I784-itcffREbxyEGdVlP_1glC1_oQS1wy7zQenowZFPySkKxXsN1dgrGOzBQvZqwsnEM09kc7V1n60nMgz7h8nJCkH601dQpfT7UH_Giyqa4eZufsU4pPPl6nwwWdG1iuC52Ki1KcnbQTAAnwk3bi78bxxvo-dNqyUSMVRjXQV1oBFjno/w640-h276/Napoleon%20Habits%20and%20Idiosyncrasies.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i><a href="https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/napoleon/index.html" target="_blank">Here's the Napoleonic Aussie Website </a>in its entirety if you care to know about </i></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;"><i>history and additional info as I am wont to do after watching a movie of my liking. 🤩</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;"><i><u><b>In Conclusion:</b></u></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;"><i>If the French loved the pursuit of liberté, egalité and fraternité enough to overthrow the sitting sovereignty hell-bent on maintaining absolute power, then thank God for an indulgent internet that can donnez moi la Liberté! </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;"><i>Take note, Philippines!</i></span></div></i></span></div><p></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-65542619982558399782023-12-02T21:59:00.014+08:002023-12-03T15:41:19.834+08:00Saturday's Earworm led to this<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKAopy-CX8rJQZ6f1SWCG8AAhdgzaG9rdrA5DvlJgz3YlG306s069y3mTMuVbpLRyaZJ26NzG8U2hd13o3JD0CHNeudB3-2tk_dWEdLEWcq-IKa3fZZUJRQRbCNAhaeYbnn1DuVhgyUv6l9IQcATFqXaC0GNDFEjYh0p17lLAJK9SwMMqjiy5tBscYWe0/s2224/Kuh%20Sting%20JungKook%20DG%20_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1668" data-original-width="2224" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKAopy-CX8rJQZ6f1SWCG8AAhdgzaG9rdrA5DvlJgz3YlG306s069y3mTMuVbpLRyaZJ26NzG8U2hd13o3JD0CHNeudB3-2tk_dWEdLEWcq-IKa3fZZUJRQRbCNAhaeYbnn1DuVhgyUv6l9IQcATFqXaC0GNDFEjYh0p17lLAJK9SwMMqjiy5tBscYWe0/w640-h480/Kuh%20Sting%20JungKook%20DG%20_2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Mono;">My #Artworkdujour featuring cantors Kuh Ledesma, Sting and Jung Kook</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: x-large;"><i>And if you're ready, and if you'll let me...</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: large;"><i>I want to see it, in motion, in 3D.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><b>Why not, right?</b></span></div><p></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-5826201244694867192023-12-01T12:42:00.014+08:002023-12-02T02:01:33.856+08:00Death Note <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Just as I don't expect change or even progress to happen (overnight) especially if you aren't mentally open for it 100%; I don't expect my detractors led by this <i>idiot of a former teacher </i>to change its stupid ways (overnight) especially because it is its only preoccupation (to be stupid overall). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Some people are resistant to change and progress even if it means they will eventually be left behind, to put it kindly.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWoQgq4CXNCrND1trCMFCLaquE8RMSRyQ8Lsi9ELHNspwvg2xzWcQb7YMo3WCrfgl8woi4ChlAO0U-pxCHSxHu3eZV0C6FOwx-dfeBtDhb22CKyuUFdoty5MB5yGp_mPfodj6E4rt3UPCxRo5ubIJD9Ga5v4udew8R8yBcQSgLRQAc8Aia7djM2n1XtLw/s1919/Death-Note-death-note-7946511-1919-1283-753826017.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1283" data-original-width="1919" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWoQgq4CXNCrND1trCMFCLaquE8RMSRyQ8Lsi9ELHNspwvg2xzWcQb7YMo3WCrfgl8woi4ChlAO0U-pxCHSxHu3eZV0C6FOwx-dfeBtDhb22CKyuUFdoty5MB5yGp_mPfodj6E4rt3UPCxRo5ubIJD9Ga5v4udew8R8yBcQSgLRQAc8Aia7djM2n1XtLw/w640-h428/Death-Note-death-note-7946511-1919-1283-753826017.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Segoe UI", "Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation Sans", "Open Sans", FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(73, 73, 73); color: #494949; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>Japanese Manga by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.</b></p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">To the uninitiated, this means nothing. </span></i></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><b><br /></b></span></i></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><b>"IgnoRamos" is bliss personified.</b></span></i></p></div>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-15384371563127150522023-12-01T02:57:00.061+08:002023-12-03T15:51:10.567+08:00Marunong Gumanti ang Katulong (The household help Bherly only knows guileful tactics)<p><b><i><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">...Pero hindi marunong magsumbong!</span></i></b></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">It is so intelligent, it rejects Authority. Scared perhaps? Of a proper resolution? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">With all her supposed “responsible” problem-solving roles in life :</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">from being tutor and mother to only son EJ, </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">to being only guardian to elderly, single, sickly-looking father Bert,</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">to being supporter to secondary income-earner Erlu in the family, </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">(all living in the kitchen)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">and being <b><i>provider</i></b> to ALL in many iterations including me, Alexis and Macoy and her family entire who all come for a visit time and again;</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">try to resolve me now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i><b>...Because how do you solve a problem like <span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;">M E </span>?</b></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i>Try being more open to a dialogue with me. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i>Try solving the thing you fear the most. At least.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i>Then maybe we can go on with a semblance of a normal household.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i>Otherwise, I will keep living a clandestine life of being host not only to you <b>proximal parasites, </b>but to a whole slew of surrounding ones you have no idea how far-reaching their impact is, in both their importance and my interaction with them. <b>Important </b>as you may be, you’re still all parasites in this current living setup.</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Merriweather;"><i>As an unmissable reminder, a <b>parasite</b> is:</i></span></p><p><span class="OoNk445te7MEusWxZIjw" face=""LFT Etica", arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">noun</span></p><div class="_bzA3f8_vqmJSIKsgOar" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;"><span face=""LFT Etica", arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; font-size: 18px;"><a name='more'></a></span><span face=""LFT Etica", arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; font-size: 18px;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>1. an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.</li></ul></span><span face=""LFT Etica", arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; font-size: 18px;"><!--more--></span><span face=""LFT Etica", arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; font-size: 18px;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>2. a person who receives support, advantage, or the like, from another or others without giving any useful or proper return, as one who lives on the hospitality of others: </li></ul></span><span class="luna-example italic" face=""LFT Etica", arial, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Used in a sentence: They are greedy politicians, parasites with their snouts in the public trough.</span><span class="luna-example italic" face=""LFT Etica", arial, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">____________________</span><span class="luna-example italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></span><span class="luna-example italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">To me, in my current physical condition, a parasite, these parasites I have pointed out are giving me a worsening health status I have to actively combat day in and day out. Although it definitely is not, it almost feels like a losing battle because they’re clearly not after my own personal welfare but their own. In fact, I feel they are literally out to get me…one way or the other and in a very malicious way. That simply is their nature. The nature of a parasite!</span></span><span class="luna-example italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></span><span class="luna-example italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">In having a basic human relationship, I want a symbiosis that isn’t based on parasitism. I want one based on mutualism and commensalism. </span></span><span class="luna-example italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></span><span class="luna-example italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="color: #252528;">I just watched a forthcoming YouTube video of the 🌍 ‘s Richest Homes and their owners. Although I am not one to envy any of them because it is not in my nature to envy </span><span style="color: #b45f06;">(period)</span><span style="color: #252528;">; I feel I deserve a better house and home, plain and simple. And I want it ASAP, while I am still able to properly decide and do it wilfully. Otherwise, based on the butterfly effect, today as in this day, we will all live edgily, anxiously and excitably and this will be the same case for tomorrow and the following day, etc (something that nobody wants really) that is, until I finally get my long warranted beauty sleep in the exact equal amounts that I have lost them. </span></span></span><span class="luna-example italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></span><span class="luna-example italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Then and only then will we finally see change….for the better and long-lastingly. Right Elon?</span></span><span class="luna-example italic" face=""LFT Etica", arial, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); clear: both; color: #252528; font-family: "LFT Etica", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwHfS1NPk06T6ijV9JiloSDDma21YvsEzAnoVK5sQld3rn5iPjZ25bSV6kQJeunbWBhe1nP8K5_Ci0Tg-M3AIOPMo5b0S1OmEExAHJ9a08LS0Wy3cDssQUpJex9j16CWLy_7_-Jg3GzV6tr_nAh7CNf_eKg8NYx5ZuxaBibtOdMpqWX9qbDMTMDgUj51c/s2000/IMG_0822.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwHfS1NPk06T6ijV9JiloSDDma21YvsEzAnoVK5sQld3rn5iPjZ25bSV6kQJeunbWBhe1nP8K5_Ci0Tg-M3AIOPMo5b0S1OmEExAHJ9a08LS0Wy3cDssQUpJex9j16CWLy_7_-Jg3GzV6tr_nAh7CNf_eKg8NYx5ZuxaBibtOdMpqWX9qbDMTMDgUj51c/w640-h426/IMG_0822.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span class="luna-example italic" face=""LFT Etica", arial, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">The house(s) that Tesla built.</span><span class="luna-example italic" face=""LFT Etica", arial, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span class="luna-example italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">P. S. We can only live one day at a time.</span></span><span class="luna-example italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">----------------</span></span><span class="luna-example italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></span><span class="luna-example italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><u><b>Observation: </b></u></span></span><span class="luna-example italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); color: #252528; display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></span><span class="luna-example italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="color: #252528;">I noticed my words are being actively ignored by the enemy (mostly by the parasites nearby). They simply refuse to listen and continue to annoy/destroy/disrupt despite my pleas for a cease fire. So as a voice (of reason) perpetually crying on deaf ears, and in fact me always the one</span><b style="color: #252528;"> being able to listen </b><span style="color: #252528;">to their jeers (ironically), I say let them jeer on....while they can...for as long as they want </span><span style="color: #666666;"><b>even.</b></span></span></span><span class="luna-example italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40); display: block; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span><span class="luna-example italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Merriweather;"><b><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 40);"><i>History has a way of repeating itself anyway and with me in it this time, I see nothing but the brightest future ahead.</i></span></b></span></span></div>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-35909209703490461152023-11-19T23:44:00.046+08:002023-12-03T16:29:33.744+08:00All Rice!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi49fILekY3GBhWGfqMpGKJdmEHT7_oIX7YR08MP42nzVeS_Zec0spsFOqupkdCetUDhvdG2Sb5cS38xoJzu8u2BpiwxyFvu8bUpuQwfxmKO_5tyIZHP8HErdOIG4Omx7EVmKRbqNsBOmzRNIcDDyR1KzRenuHVSNo18Cmw-VXFseBTvDbwF6sGdzMGwxw/s1282/Zatarain%20Rice%20Daddy%20Bday.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1282" data-original-width="1282" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi49fILekY3GBhWGfqMpGKJdmEHT7_oIX7YR08MP42nzVeS_Zec0spsFOqupkdCetUDhvdG2Sb5cS38xoJzu8u2BpiwxyFvu8bUpuQwfxmKO_5tyIZHP8HErdOIG4Omx7EVmKRbqNsBOmzRNIcDDyR1KzRenuHVSNo18Cmw-VXFseBTvDbwF6sGdzMGwxw/w640-h640/Zatarain%20Rice%20Daddy%20Bday.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Happy Birthday to Daddy on the 24th, November. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This box of<i><b> <a href="https://www.mccormick.com/zatarains/products/dinner-and-side-mixes/rice-mixes-and-side-dishes" target="_blank">Zatarain Rice</a></b></i><a href="https://www.mccormick.com/zatarains/products/dinner-and-side-mixes/rice-mixes-and-side-dishes" target="_blank"> </a>from New Orleans will always remind me of my time in Naga from Lola's "Molino" or rice mill in Jacob St, <i>a home away from home. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The unusual surname Zatarain was Lola Naga's maiden name so I was doubly delighted when I chanced upon this box in our house here, a gift from<i> Rocky<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><b> </b></span></span></i>some years back which I originally thought resulted from one of his trips to Spain where this unlikely coincidence would be more logical or even <i>genealogical</i>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;">*Inserted <b>pic </b>was from our trip in Niagara in the Winter of 1992/93 which I took of him, where I almost slipped and tripped into the Falls without anybody noticing because of general agitation/restlessness </span></i><i><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;">but this is really not aboot me...</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">This pithy time at least, it's about family!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihl4ymAmr1D674X-LlDIwmfjjgTMaKN3fwws-ioTLM9JAi7k75ORaNgFcKLJ5x0DNunVwxOM07un_aisiwUpTuJNtwsW-tO5-96lEY_gQluqfqs7m_qKAQD88iF5J9KNqb5wYsPHB2WKWQvA37SAFheg0h855s6BxeTA3sfFz_CfotDaqQVoAVdn3uyjQ/s3492/Daddy%20102%20years%20WC.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3492" data-original-width="2433" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihl4ymAmr1D674X-LlDIwmfjjgTMaKN3fwws-ioTLM9JAi7k75ORaNgFcKLJ5x0DNunVwxOM07un_aisiwUpTuJNtwsW-tO5-96lEY_gQluqfqs7m_qKAQD88iF5J9KNqb5wYsPHB2WKWQvA37SAFheg0h855s6BxeTA3sfFz_CfotDaqQVoAVdn3uyjQ/w446-h640/Daddy%20102%20years%20WC.jpeg" width="446" /></a></div><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;">My watercolor art tribute to what is supposed to be his 102th birthday </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;">meticulously displayed at home as an oversized refrigerator magnet!</span></i></div></span><p></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-78346864174723792952023-11-17T20:48:00.011+08:002023-12-16T17:32:44.280+08:00My Secret Hate Wishlist for XMas 2023<p><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Merriweather;">1) For the entire Bherly Family to Die…instead of Me.</span></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Merriweather;">2) For All my Immediate/Nuclear Family to Disappear from my Life.</span></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Merriweather;">3) Na itong Hayup na Ito na ang Pulso nakadikit sa Puso ng mga Pulubi, Squatter at Durugista na kanyang prinoproktektahan, Mamatay ngayong gabi! No English speaking yan. Hindi makaintindi! Proud Titser yan ng mga hunghang, Very proud. Natutuwa lang yan kapag napapansin ninyo. Ito na yon, Pansinin mo. Dinggin mo pa. Katawa-tawa ka lang. </span></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Merriweather;">Yan ang Muslim na natatawa lang dulot ng nerbiyos at mapanumpa sa kapwa dahil buong buhay inapí! Wala siyang tunay na kaligayahan. Takot lang ang kanyang motibasyon sa buhay kaya’t mahilig manakot…</span></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Merriweather;">Mag-ingat kayo dito sa baklang ito. Kung maaari, abutan na lang ng abuloy, huwag nang lapitan. Hingi ng Hingi…bigyan ng kung anong pwedeng i-abot. Parang hayup yan na nanlalaway sa pagkain. Mismo siya ang nagsabi.</span></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Merriweather;">Kung ang gusto mo mangyari, buwagin ako para lang maka-isa ka naman kahit isang beses lang, subukan mo ngayong gabi. Nanonood ang buong katabi mo.</span></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Merriweather;">Luwang-luwa ang iyong mga kalamnan sa tuwing masisilipan mo akong walang panty. Ikaw naman. Nakalabas nga, wala namang makakita.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Pero ayon sa Hapon, lahat ng tao sa mundo pati yung mga apíng-apí, may pag-asa sa buhay. Baka siya eto.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRErGPOsj8wzUFvUP7jo38T0qs9FNy-LZv9lWsrcp8eEYPBx5BDgjsbIBYPr1desgk5CnzhMT1mFt8LApC2ZZDur6xBKWxk8oYA8ABjPZYffIlJ-oi4LHBMwyTnKlaphvjqWEMnqpAyBfzoayBW6E5bds0j1Eju_O2tu2cqtoxiS1jIT8MW8OR-lWiiac/s4030/Attack%20on%20Titan%20Infographic.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4030" data-original-width="2894" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRErGPOsj8wzUFvUP7jo38T0qs9FNy-LZv9lWsrcp8eEYPBx5BDgjsbIBYPr1desgk5CnzhMT1mFt8LApC2ZZDur6xBKWxk8oYA8ABjPZYffIlJ-oi4LHBMwyTnKlaphvjqWEMnqpAyBfzoayBW6E5bds0j1Eju_O2tu2cqtoxiS1jIT8MW8OR-lWiiac/w460-h640/Attack%20on%20Titan%20Infographic.jpeg" width="460" /></a>I</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Walang ano pa man.</span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-13178666679839516782023-11-17T16:53:00.002+08:002023-11-17T16:58:16.240+08:00On Addiction<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">My friend recently posted this message on her social media and this couldn't be more timely in our current situation.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwHDRYAUzHjy985jcTPmp6q6VXzwC-eQztlIx6v54g9bs0n6RjkEbtTKezMkZyLGr0hJG2v2IXjamAQVUMvWXqbLFYUK9-MHfa6cJjf6hTiFg2FwOFGw7wzMuaT8Inl1UmNXFi5oDaBq-7b9yarjfkxRTwMBxttKgIDig8D75RL4VGTA2RTwVYhMGJdig/s1201/IMG_0781.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="837" data-original-width="1201" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwHDRYAUzHjy985jcTPmp6q6VXzwC-eQztlIx6v54g9bs0n6RjkEbtTKezMkZyLGr0hJG2v2IXjamAQVUMvWXqbLFYUK9-MHfa6cJjf6hTiFg2FwOFGw7wzMuaT8Inl1UmNXFi5oDaBq-7b9yarjfkxRTwMBxttKgIDig8D75RL4VGTA2RTwVYhMGJdig/w640-h446/IMG_0781.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; text-align: center;"><i>I commented the following:</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Imelda. Marcos. The Poster Lady for Corruption all over the World, also our best well-known Celebrity! Isn’t it moronic? Next in line: All her children and their families entire, and now The Dutertes . All secret Drug Lords, Addicts, especially current president Bong Bong Marcos!</span><p></p></div>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-41711650222694798432023-11-14T04:11:00.014+08:002023-11-17T14:08:23.007+08:00Christmas sans The Reyeses (My Secret Wish)<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">As I was browsing photos in my iPad's Photo Library and looking at the pictures of our family’s yearly get-togethers where we would all sit side by side with grins that don’t mean anything more than having a good family photo op (after the obligatory hearty meal of fatty food), I silently wish that I won’t be physically present this year.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">This is because I finally found my smile, and I don’t think they’d be happy with that.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglsfzlmzFFYahe4gkAxt9JV0K562Be6R6TiSWt_XpMW0ta2Kgqv45Ft0BqZeayIOyygNNyw2HBsvDyQ25dChs-VxrHfLjdPJNqlCmtzfWqDVZ-eiYpKz1ZmTi97WlxciON_q5A6h7fd9Y0CNK-ZKQV40pzfvK-xE3089fXzSD-4Tj8olQ1Xu0ShVS7wB8/s1282/3DF08933-E39E-4E87-970E-238E7D330FED.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="962" data-original-width="1282" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglsfzlmzFFYahe4gkAxt9JV0K562Be6R6TiSWt_XpMW0ta2Kgqv45Ft0BqZeayIOyygNNyw2HBsvDyQ25dChs-VxrHfLjdPJNqlCmtzfWqDVZ-eiYpKz1ZmTi97WlxciON_q5A6h7fd9Y0CNK-ZKQV40pzfvK-xE3089fXzSD-4Tj8olQ1Xu0ShVS7wB8/w640-h480/3DF08933-E39E-4E87-970E-238E7D330FED.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871091070954184982.post-86946243501229137642023-11-13T23:47:00.012+08:002023-11-14T03:54:41.728+08:00Personal Profile of Current Housemaid Bherly Calañada Trembivilla in Pure Tagalog<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Magaling mangatwiran ang katulong namin na si Bherly. Yun ang puno’t dulo ng kanyang katalinuhan. Pilosopo. Binibigyan ako ng sakit ng ulo at sakit. Paano ako hihingi ng tulong dyan? Sana mawala na yan sa pamamahay ng Diyos!</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Ang kaya lang niyang sagapin sa akin ay <b style="font-variant-caps: normal;"><i>masamang balita </i></b>at sa simulang simula pa lang, ayon sa kanyang kaibigan/kamag-anak na si Primrose na kung lait-laitin niya ang kabobohan nito ay kala mo nga isang tunay niyang kaaway. Tinatalikuran ang aking kabutihan….sa kanyang anak (Erl John, 13), sa kanyang pamangkin (Bimba and Princess), sa kanyang tatay (Mang Bert), sa kanyang asawa (Erlu/ WallyBayola look-alike), mismo sa kaniya, sa aking araw-araw na pakikitungo. Masyadong magaling para maging kasambahay. Ubod ng talino pero malakas ang "negativity bias". <b><i>No. 1 nga anak</i></b> niyang natanggap ngayon sa Phil. Science HS.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Ginagamit lang ang kapatid kong Doktora bilang bukang-bibig na tunay niyang AMO. Hindi ko naman siya kinokontra kahit may "secret aganda" pa siya. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">------------</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Ang tanging aral na mapupulot dito sa mga taong may pakialam ay: </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">1) Sabihin ninyo ang totoo. Magpakatotoo. Kung ayaw ninyo ang kausap ninyo o kung kayo ay natatakot lang, iwasan ito o tumahimik na lang. Kung hindi maiwasan ito, idaan sa takot o respeto. Huwag magpakita ng "ka-plastikan" alang-alang sa "pakikisama" lang. Hindi ito magandang kaugalian. Magdasal para sa kaliwanagan ng pag-iisip kasi lalabas at lalabas ang natural!</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">2) Huwag ninyong akuhin ang lahat ng problema ng buhay. Matutong makipagkumbaba at humingi ng tulong sa kapwa. Lahat kasi ng trabaho dito, magmula sa pag-aruga kay tatay (biruin mo yon...may "import"!) maliban sa pagtuturo sa anak na si EJ (sa pamamaraan ng pagsigaw), hanggang sa pagluto, pag-laba, pag-file ng mga patiente ni doktora Ate, mag-grocery, etc... siya lahat nagmamando!</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Merriweather;"><i>Gusto ko rin naman siyang tulungan. Kala ko nga nung simula, kaibigan ko yan eh kasi natatarayan yan kay Ate at kami lang ang talagang nag-uusap dito. Gusto ko nga mag-grocery eh. Dati, ako hatid-sundo niya. Ngayon, ayaw na niya sa akin. Ano bang gawà ko dito?</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">3) Lahat ng bagay, nadadala sa usapan…kung marunong kayong maki-usap! Kung disedido ka kasing ayaw mo sa akin, eh ganun na nga. <i>Walang asenso!</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">4) Ang mismong familya mo na iyong tinutulungan at pinag-lalaanan ng iyong buhay, pawis at pasakit ang magsasabi sa iyo ng katotohanan. Na hindi ako ang may diperensiya kundi ikaw. Sinasabi ko lang. <i>Nga nga! </i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i><b>Tip</b>: Ako ang taong marunong magpasalamat…sa lahat ng pagkakataon. Nakakatulong ito sa aking mental health. Kayo?</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i><br /></i></span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Merriweather;"><i><b>Yun lang at sana mabuhay ang Pilipinas!</b></i></span></h3>Zee_Gatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00772341724265261510noreply@blogger.com0