Sheldon Says...

Glad to have the gang back this week. I watched the episode while scanning the Playa del carmen rental website. There was no new episode of The Big Bang Theory last week, and this week they're back funny as ever with the new episode, The Einstein Approximation. Of course, the Bazinga scene was the highlight of the episode.

Hello Sunday

Should be in a better mood right now. The thought of friends not wanting you to be around them is the most depressing thing. It's just a thought. None of them might be true, but being in a been-there-done-that situation like that at least makes me a pro. I never should've let my hopes up that they would always include me. Who am I, anyway. I guess I'll just busy myself writing about modern furniture and maybe watch this movie. Might stir up a better mood.

Phoenix is love.

Their fourth album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, had been on my playlist for the past six months. I accidentally discovered this band while streaming songs tagged as #indie at Last.fm. Lasso was the very first song I heard from this band, and I've tracked their songs and albums since then.

Almost all of the songs from the Wolfgang Amadeus album are perfect morning pick-me-up playlist. The band’s exposure to the diverse sound of the 80s can be heard throughout the album with the ubiquitous synths (nothing like one scratching a Franke sink) and raw guitar riffs. Hopeful lyrics paired with catchy melodies have this band soaring through the airwaves as they made the list of the most listened-to artist of 2009 in Las.fm. The seamless vocals of Thomas Mars and a dash of his adorable French accents here and there made each and every song from the album a must-play.

We Are All Fans

People with the best jobs in the world were honored at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards. Being in the music business, making music, touching people and then being honored for the work they've poured their souls into is I think the coolest thing ever.

 

Beyonce and Taylor Swift were the biggest winners this year, taking home six and four awards respectively. Great performances were prepared by the best of the best in music scene, but fans anticipated performance has got to be the Michael Jackson tribute performance in 3D.

Thirty-first

One month down, eleven to go. The first month of 2010 have been very busy both at work and with my friends. This month was great and I am thankful that I was able to start my year on a positive note. Another thing I am thankful for is the downpour of writing assignments I've been getting every week. I still need to write two articles about life insurance quote and there are six more on queue.

Anyways, aside from the blogging tasks that I hope I do a lot of this year, I also want to learn how to make this:

Droll fest

Now, I don't really care if I'd be writing some boring news article about insurance quote, this Rolling Stone photo of John Mayer made my day! H-O-T.

Just one more day and I'll tear a page on my desktop calendar that says January. I started 2010 the best way I have started any year of my adult life. Been surrounding myself with the best people around for the past couple of weeks that's why I'll be ending this month on a happy note.

Birthday Gift

I love bringing home little gifts for my father. He has been a house husband for the past eight years and being good at that. He wakes up every 5am to drive me to the shuttle terminal and then takes care of my two other brothers before going to school and work. He also manages to help out the neighbors from time to time, making him the best one to come for help if there's something wrong with their sink or something similar. Taking care of us everyday makes him deserve little rewards, plus I really like seeing him so giggly everytime I tell him that I got him a pasalubong. His smile is priceless. Last Christmas, I was successful giving him the gift that he wanted: a new pair of leather shoes. He regularly serves as a lay minister at the local parish and he always wear leather shoes, hence the Christmas wish list.

His birthday is August, and I am thinking of what to give him. My mother suggested years ago that I should buy him a watch since he likes wearing one all the time. I was looking at this site where they sell the best replica watches. One design that caught my eye is the fake rolex submariner watch which looks fine for a replica watch. Other designs featured on the site would definitely knock off rolex and other expensive designer watches. Been browsing the site for a while now and I thought Do I really want to give my father a replica watch? It's affordable, yes. The quality must be not state-of-the-art, but it does look great. *thinks...

Anyways, I still have a couple of months to think and decide what gift I would give my father this year. A watch is an option, and another pair of jeans maybe...

A Page From The Past 02

Kid Makes It To The Top Of The World
By Maria Zobel Certeza
Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 03, 2002

A Page From The Past

Harry Potter By Two

by Luigi Baroa and Bhel Certeza (that’s me n_n)
The Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 26, 2003

Life Unexpected

I remember watching each and every episode of Gilmore Girls. The banter between the mother-daughter tandem of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, played by Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel respectively, is seamless, smart and entertaining. The lovely scenario of generation gap interpreted through the war of words between the two is really something to look forward to every week. But the fun ended which I believe was so soon some three years ago when the show aired its last season.

Life Unexpected, the new show from the same producers as Gilmore Girls, promises the same smart sarcasm that Lorelai and Rory had, and a lot more.

I read an article about Life Unexpected while researching about quick weight loss, sharing that this new series has a Juno-meets-Gilmore-Girls feel to it. Here’s a quick synopsis of the show from Variety.com:

About to turn 16, foster child Lux ("Swingtown's" talented Brittany Robertson) learns she must obtain signatures from her biological parents in order to become emancipated. So she hunts down her dad, Nate (Kristoffer Polaha), who is now running a bar, has a bit of a Peter Pan complex and is understandably flummoxed to meet the girl he fathered with the unfortunately named Cate Cassidy (Shiri Appleby) in high school.

Cate now co-hosts a local morning radio show with her boyfriend, Ryan ("Dawson Creek's" Kerr Smith), and she's equally flustered when Lux waltzes into her life. Yet the plans for a quickie emancipation conveniently evaporate (or else there would be no series), and Cate and Nate reluctantly assume shared custody of their long-lost seed.

Series creator Liz Tigelaar ("What About Brian") falls back on all the tired tropes of the genre, from the squabbling between Nate and Cate (nope, it doesn't sound any less silly that way) to Lux's alternating precociousness and neediness. What makes a family is a potent theme, but "Life" never gets much beyond glib banter and after-school special territory.

For all that, Robertson and the still-adorable Appleby (a graduate of "Roswell," which played on both WB and UPN) nearly save things with their moist eyes and innate likability. If only the show didn't keep stumbling into cliches like Lux's tough friends and Nate's disapproving parents at each new episodic turn -- or empower Lux to repeatedly lecture adults about the art of parenting, which will likely make anybody out of their teens want to throw up.

So despite its modest merits, "Life" ultimately spends most of its time paddling in the shallow end of the dramatic gene pool. And based on the CW's recent track record, that wasn't entirely unexpected.