My good friend Amie is leaving us this week and she asked if I could help her to transport this huge pan grill of, I assume, hers to home. Sure, that’s what friends are for. I often wonder what she does during the office lunch hours. Had I know she grills meat all this while … [...]
Entries from May 13th, 2008
Dance of the Dragon = 1/2 Star?! What Are You Smoking? Shoot the Scriptwriter If You Must
May 10th, 2008 14 Comments
Com’on people. Half-a-star and you buy that? If someone is sending a DVD of this movie to me as a Christmas gift, I promise I will watch it before Easter (got to love that one critic I heard using cold turkey analogy though). Putting “Dance of the Dragon” just half-a-star above Paris Hilton’s “Hottie and Nottie” is [...]
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Clive Barker – Mister B. Gone – How Open Is Your Open Mind? Can You Read A Book Backward?
May 9th, 2008 4 Comments
Whether or not you will find “Mister B. Gone” rewarding hinges on whether or not you “get it“. Since I am a responsible netizen, I am going to self-censor this entry with a NC-16 rating due to my personal views on homosexuality and religion. Besides, why would we wish to expose readers younger than 16 years old to a [...]
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Utada Hikaru – Heart Station – Classic It May Not But What A Soulful Voice She Has!
May 8th, 2008 14 Comments
If you have purchased Utada Hikaru’s latest album lately, you may wish to check if track 10 is truncated towards the end of the song. The friendly assistant at HMV (Citilink) was ripping the plastic covers of more than 10 of her CDs open including a newer batch and an older batch and they all have the [...]
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Audio Effect: Compressor!
May 6th, 2008 6 Comments
My friends at Facebook know that I have been working on this rather mammoth article on “Audio Compression for Beginners” for days. The reasons why I am always so passionate towards sharing what I’ve learned are simply twofold – one is rather selfish and one is not. Nearly all of us who use the Internet regularly use [...]
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These Are The Days That Put A Smile To My Face
May 5th, 2008 18 Comments
Check out the McGraw-Hill website! Tons of people to thank (yes, you loyal readers too!) especially the one who trusted me with the opportunity and those who are so enthusiastically supportive during this rather long but excitingly hush-hush journey. You know who you are! I know it’s a tiny little baby step. But still … Tweet
Fragments Of My Dreams Episode 9 – Ghost Ship And Phantom Plane
May 4th, 2008 No Comments
May 1 – Somewhere in my Dreamland – Day I gather that I must be a small fry inside a battle ship. It does not take long for me to realize that my work revolves around cleaning and filing. A kind of small fry that everyone knows (when they need something) yet nobody sees (when [...]
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Kat DeLuna – 9 Lives – Mad Vocals But Flawed Album Execution
May 3rd, 2008 No Comments
Once in a blue moon, I do come cross great vocalists whom even from one of my least favorite genres – in this case Hip Hop R&B – I just have to dig it and own the album. A bilingual and an opera trained, this 20 years old singer songwriter of Dominican Republic does have a recorded voice [...]
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Iron Man – Quite Possibly My Favorite Superhero
May 2nd, 2008 20 Comments
For the short attention span readers of my site, if you wish to watch a tiny extra clip of the movie that most people may miss, defy the urge to leave the theatre when the end credits start rolling. Stay till the very end for a tiny reward. Now, that’s all you need to know. [...]
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5 Gemstones – Journal Of Our Studio Jamming Session In Facebook Style (Sort Of)
May 1st, 2008 2 Comments
[Opal] Now that our drummer’s new baby has safely landed on Planet Earth and our lead guitarist has officially signed his bachelor life away, it is time for our band to come out of this 5-month hiatus and do something. Just anything. [Sapphire] Do I have imaginary friends? Of course I do. Everybody do. I have [...]
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