Wednesday, July 16, 2008
My travel time
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Ito ang bus na sinakyan mula sa condo ng friend ko. Sobrang excited. Kase sabi nila ang Singapore daw ay maliit pero malinis. Ang unang naisip ko na puntahan ay ang Sentosa. I love to travel kaya di mo talaga ako mapapastay sa Hotel or sa bahay lalo na first time. Naku kahit lakarin ko buong City di ako mapapagod. Buti na lang di ako mayaman kung hinde naku! nalibot ko na ang buong mundo. Gustong gusto ko talaga makita ang ibat ibang creation o nature ng bawat bawat bansa . Kase na a apreciate ko ang ginawa ng Dios sa kamangha manghang tanawin na sya ang may likha.( Nov. 18-2006
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Amazing right? Kung paano nya naalagaan ang colorful fish na yan. Sobrang peaceful. Hay nakaklimutan ko talaga ang mga problema ko sa pinas. Para din akong nasa ilalim ng dagat.Napakalinaw ng water.
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Lahat ng klaseng isda magmula sa pinaka maliit at pinaka malaking isda meron sila. Kinuha nila ang ibat ibang klaseng isda sa ibat ibang panig ng mundo. Sobrang mahal ang entrance nila pero sulit naman. High tech ang mga gamit nila. Pinapakain nila sa tama ang mga alagang isda nila. Ang pagkakaalam ko sa ilalim ng dagat ang place na yan at manmade lang ang Sentosa.
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Sumakay akong train. Wow look sa paligid ko ha ha ha wala masyadong pasahero. Di tulad dito siksikan kaya heto maari pa akong mag pose :)
Tsaka walang pakialaman kaya malayang mag pakaisip bata :)
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lapad.jpg
Ito ang bus na sinakyan mula sa condo ng friend ko. Sobrang excited. Kase sabi nila ang Singapore daw ay maliit pero malinis. Ang unang naisip ko na puntahan ay ang Sentosa. I love to travel kaya di mo talaga ako mapapastay sa Hotel or sa bahay lalo na first time. Naku kahit lakarin ko buong City di ako mapapagod. Buti na lang di ako mayaman kung hinde naku! nalibot ko na ang buong mundo. Gustong gusto ko talaga makita ang ibat ibang creation o nature ng bawat bawat bansa . Kase na a apreciate ko ang ginawa ng Dios sa kamangha manghang tanawin na sya ang may likha.( Nov. 18-2006
fishes.jpg
Amazing right? Kung paano nya naalagaan ang colorful fish na yan. Sobrang peaceful. Hay nakaklimutan ko talaga ang mga problema ko sa pinas. Para din akong nasa ilalim ng dagat.Napakalinaw ng water.
fish.jpg
Lahat ng klaseng isda magmula sa pinaka maliit at pinaka malaking isda meron sila. Kinuha nila ang ibat ibang klaseng isda sa ibat ibang panig ng mundo. Sobrang mahal ang entrance nila pero sulit naman. High tech ang mga gamit nila. Pinapakain nila sa tama ang mga alagang isda nila. Ang pagkakaalam ko sa ilalim ng dagat ang place na yan at manmade lang ang Sentosa.
garden.jpg
nhuj.jpg
h.jpg
hjkl.jpg
Sumakay akong train. Wow look sa paligid ko ha ha ha wala masyadong pasahero. Di tulad dito siksikan kaya heto maari pa akong mag pose :)
Tsaka walang pakialaman kaya malayang mag pakaisip bata :)
bilog.jpg
lapad.jpg
My site (MY CITY)
Philippines Beats America Hands Down
I asked my friend to wrote an article to the forum of my OFW online community website mabuhaycity.com, and here's what he came up with.
The article was posted on some there places as well and ignited flame among some people. Some say I must be smoking while writing this. But it's up to you to decide what I really mean with this article.
Philippines Beats America Hands Down
--Only after I went to America, did I find the Philippines so much better than America
In the Philippines, we have many official public holidays, not like in America where people only have some 6 or 7 official public holidays. In fact we start celebrating Christmas in October when the Americans just have work in their minds. We are pretty much relaxed at work. Working is never as stressful as in America. In the Philippines who cares if you play some music from your computer in office, have chicaharon bulaklak break 3 times a day in office, or even have some short karaoke session in office during the day? After work, it's usual we would go for gimmick together. In America everyone has to work their butt off, busy all day long in office and most of them have no time for gimmick after work. They have to pay high income tax, not like in the Philippines where the government can't figure out how much to tax you because they don't exactly know how much you make and where you get the money. In America if people work for the government, they can't even get under table money.
In the Philippines, you have so much more personal freedom than in America. You can smoke in many public places, drink in public, and our jeepneys can pick you up anywhere and drop you off anywhere on a busy street, which is so much convenient. Even if you got caught with traffic violation, our police officers are so nice that they would just let you go for a small amount of pesos. Not like in America, you have to go to court if you beat red light riding a bicycle, and the police officers are so mean that if you gave them money they would threw you to jail.
In America, there are no tricycles. You virtually have to drive by yourself whenever you want to leave your home. In the Philippines, you could see tricycles just outside your door, and you have the privilege of having someone drive for you at affordable cost!
In the Philippines, the working class people always have some cash in their wallet. In America, most people just have some plastic cards in their wallet. If they happen to have a few dollars in their wallet, that's just for emergency only.
In America, almost everyone is in debt because it is easy to borrow money from credit card companies or banks. In the Philippines, thanks to the credit card companies and banks who have made their interest rates the highest in the world, nobody has the guts to borrow money from them, so we do not have that many people in debt and having to foreclose their homes like the Americans are doing now.
In America, the children and teenagers are easy to get bad influence from outside, especially those violent games and pornos, etc on Internet. In the Philippines, luckily many people don't have access to Internet at all so many of our kids can stay away from those harmful things.
In America, the churches are bad. Their Catholic church has been found with a lot of child molester pastors. In the Philippines, people have strong religious belief and consciousness so our pastors don't do that kind of stuff. The churches in the Philippines are only into politics such as general election, of course, they do politics on behalf on God.
In America, if you want to buy a DVD, that would cost at least 10 dollars(that's 400 pesos!). If you want to get a Windows software CD or something you'd have to pay 100 dollars(robbery!). To download a song from Internet you have to pay 99 cents. In the Philippines with less than 50 pesos you can get a DVD with the latest movie, or any kind of software, or tens of MP3 songs.
Some people say things are cheap in the Philippines because we are a poor country. I don't think so. For example, in America with any cell phone service provider you can easily get a deal to pay $39.99(that's 1600 pesos only) a month to get 600-1000 minute of free calls to anywhere in the country plus unlimited calls during evening and weekend. In the Philippines if an American talk that long with Globe or Smart he'd certainly have a heart attack when the bill comes.
Also in the Philippines the electricity is more expensive than America, the gasoline is much more expensive than America, the cars are more expensive than America, and like Americans, Filipinos are also fond of big cars. All those evidently prove that we Filipinos can afford higher living standard in the Philippines than Americans in America.
Even the American democracy is not as good as ours. First of all, our politicians are more caring and giving than the American politicians. In America whenever election comes, the greedy politicians go out to collect money from people to run their political campaign and they call it 'fund raising'. In the Philippines, the politicians give money to people to vote or go on the street or assemblies. Secondly, in America the politicians have no human rights at all. They have to disclose their income, or even their personal life. President Clinton just had an oral sex with his intern and he got abused by the American media and almost got fired by the Congress. In the Philippines, Erap had been banging all kinds of different women while he was the president and nobody gave a damn.
Our economy is also getting stronger than America's. Philippine peso has been going up sharply against US dollars over the past a couple years to become "the best performing currency in Asia", according to our government, who also says this is a sign of our strong economy and a result of successful economic policies. Although people's salary didn't get increased, virtually nothing got cheaper in the Philippines and many OFW families have to tighten their belt as a result of strong pesos.
Lastly, for a man, Philippines is a far better place than America. In the Philippines, if you made a woman pregnant, you could just run away telling the woman you are not ready for the responsibility or have no money for the responsibility, or just run away without telling the woman anything at all. In America the court will haunt you down to the last dime to pay for the living expenses of the kid and woman and even the day care and school tuition of the kid until the kid reaches 18 years old. Scary, isn't it?
Disagree with me? Think again. In every city of the Philippines, you can get authenticated McDonald or KFC burgers easy. How many Jolliebee did you ever see in America? In how many cities of America did you ever see restaurants serving sinagang or crispy pata? Let alone Tanduay which I am confident will blow Americans away if it is ever served in America. In the Philippines, even in the squatters, people are happy singing karaoke all day long and all night long, have you ever seen such happy neighborhoods in America?
Monday, June 23, 2008
Buhay Pelikula
Today's Screenings
Competition
Three Kings (US)
Dir: David O Russell.
Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube.
Near the end of the Gulf War, a trio of American soldiers hears rumours of a hidden cache of Kuwaiti gold.
English. 112 mins.
Nebeska Udica (Sky Hook) (Yugoslavia)
Dir: Ljubisa Samardzic.
Cast: Nebojsa Glogovac, Ana Sofrenovic, Ivan Jevtovic.
A seven-day period in May 1999 at the peak of the NATO bombing of Serbia.
Serbian. 95 mins.
Dokuritsu Shonen Gasshoudan (Boy's Choir) (Japan)
Dir: Akira Ogata.
Cast: Atsushi Ito, Sora Toma, Teuyaki Kagawa.
Looks at the disillusionment of some youthful radicals when faced with changing ideals.
Japanese. 130 mins.
Retrospective
Zaïde (France) 1999.
Dir: Josée Dayan.
Cast: Jeanne Moreau , Guillaume Depardieu, Mathieu Amalric.
90 mins.
Hommage: Jeanne Moreau
La Notte (France) 1960.
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni.
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Bernard Wicki and Monica Vitti.
A moderately successful novelist and his wife begin to question their marriage and their life.
121 mins.
Hommage: Jeanne Moreau
Hi, Mom! (USA). 1970.
Dir: Brian De Palma.
Cast: Robert De Niro, Charles Durnham, Allen Garfield, Abraham Goren and Lara Parker. The adventures of a young porno film-maker.
87 mins.
Hommage: Robert De Niro
Johnny Mnemonic (USA) 1995.
Dir: Robert Longo.
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Ice-t, Takeshi Kitano and Denis Akiyama.
Johnny works as a courier carrying data in his brain.
98 mins.
Panorama
Bhopal Express (India)
Dir: Mahesh Mathai.
Depicts how the 1984 Union Carbide toxic gas accident affects a newly-wed couple.
98 mins.
Elze Is Giljos (Elze's Life Love Was All She Had) (Lithuania)
Dir: Algimantas Puipa.
A chapter from the history of German-Lithuanian relations in the town of Nehring.
139 mins.
Grass
Dir: Ron Man.
English.
Examines how deeply rooted marijuana is in our culture.
79 mins. + short Psycho Path
The Third Miracle
Dir: Agnieszka Holland.
Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Ed Harris, Ann Heche.
A priest discovers that the nun who is to be beatified has a daughter.
113 mins.
Crissy (Australia)
Dir: Jacqui North.
A family faces a major challenge when the eldest daughter can no longer hide the fact that she has Aids.
52 mins.
Panorama
Buddies (US) 1985.
David befriends militant gay Robert who is dying of Aids.
81 mins.
+ short Living With Aids
Voiz (Orator) (Uzbekistan)
Dir: Jusuf Razykov.
Cast: Bachodyr Adylov, Lola Altoeva, Javochir Zakirov.
A witty and poetic story about an Uzbek who can't give up his three-woman harem.
83 mins.
Shadow Boxers
Dir: Katya Bankowski.
Katya Bankowski, herself a boxer, portrays Luica Rijker, the kickboxing world champion.
72 mins.
+ short Darling International
Asfalto (Spain)
Dir: Daniel Calparsoro.
Cast: Najwa Nimri, Gustavo Salmerón, Juan Diego Botto.
Three criminals are in love with each other.
92 mins.
Sulla Spiaggia E Di La'Dal Molo (Italy) Drama.
Dir: Giovanni Fago.
Cast: Lorenza Indovina, Stephane Freiss, Laurent Terzieff.
A friendship overcomes war and destruction.
130 mins.
Forum
George Washington
(US)
Dir: David Gordon Green.
Cast: Candace Hairston, Donald Holden.
A group of teenagers on the edge of adulthood, how they deal with a friend's death, love and jealousy, and their improverished existence in North Carolina.
89 mins.
Norae-Ro Taeyang-Ul-Ssoda (Shoot The Sun By Lyric) (Korea)
Dir: Cho Jai-Hong. English subtitles.
Moves to abolish the screen quota system in Korea provoke major protests.
90 mins.
Havanna Mi Amor (Germany)
Dir: Uli Gaulke.
Contrasting the fiction of television with stories of the lives of people who watch every Cuban telenovelaepisode with bated breath.
72 mins.
Long Night's Journey Into Day (US)
Dirs: Frances Reid, Deborah Hoffmann.
A moving account of the work of the Truth & Reconciliation committee in South Africa and a document of a unique political trial in the history of mankind.
94 mins.
Leçons De Ténèbres
Dir: Vincent Dieutre.
A journey to selfawareness, encountering along the way works of the old masters: Caravaggio, Honthorst, Caraciolo and Riberia.
77 mins.
One Piece! (Japan)
Dirs: Shinobu Yaguchi, Takuji Suzuki.
Cast: Youji Tanaka, Nao Nekota.
A brilliant series of cinematic short stories.
English subtitles.
72 mins.
Beau Travail (France)
Dir: Claire Denis.
Cast: Denis Lavant, Grégoire Colin.
An African Foreign Legion outpost is transformed into a bizarre ballet of violence and passion driven by homoerotic undertones.
90 mins.
Marsal (Croatia)
Dir: Vinko Bresan.
Cast: Drazen Kühn, Linda Begonja.
Village dwellers on a small Adriatic island believe they have seen the ghost of Marshal Tito.
97 mins.
Press/market Screenings
Abendland (Germany)
Dir: Fred Kelemen.
Cast: Wolfgang Michael, Verena Jasch.
The emotional love story of a girl in a laundry and her unemployed boyfriend facing an uncertain future in a German town near the Polish border.
140 mins.
Arise! Walk Dog Eat Donut (US)
Dir: Ken Kobland.
A semi-abstract video poem evoking urban sadness.
30 mins.
and Third Known Nest (US)
Dir: Tom Kalin.
Different segments are unified by a thematic thread of body and identity politics in the age of Aids.
40 mins.
I Could Read The Sky (UK)
Dir: Nichola Bruce.
Cast: Dermot Healy, Brendan Coyle.
The moving story of an old man living in a bedsit in London.
86 mins.
Hans Warns Mein 20. Jahrhundert (Hans Warns My 20th Century)
Dir: Gordian Maugg.
Cast: Florian Hober and Shenja Lacher.
A fictional life story through the use of old photograghs and film. 105 mins.
Martin (Israel)
Dir: Ra'anan Alexandrovicz.
52 mins.
and Shine (Israel)
Dir: Gidi Dar.
48 mins.
Deutsche Polizisten (Germany)
Dir: Aysun Bademsoy.
A young group of police officers encounter people from their own countries and often have to apprehend them.
60 mins.
Ruang Talok 69 (Thailand)
Dir: Pen-ek Ratanaruang.
Cast: Lalita Panyopas.
English subtitles.
The day after Tum loses her job because the bank is 'downsizing', she finds a cardboard box stuffed with banknotes on her doorstep.
115 mins.
Beau Travail (France)
Dir: Clare Denis.
Cast: Denis Lavant, Grégoire Colin.
An African Foreign Legion outpost is transformed into a bizarre ballet of violence and passion with homorerotic undertones.
90 mins.
Forum
22.15
Hubad Sa Ilalim Ng Buwan (Naked Under The Moon) (Philippines)
Dir: Lav Diaz.
Cast: Klaudia Koronel. Elizabeth Oropesa.
All families have secrets sometimes they can destroy the fabric of family life.
110 mins.
Kumar Talkies (India)
Dir: Pankaj Rishi Kumar.
An examination of the consciousness-shaping role of local cinema in a globalised and digitised world.
English subtitles.
76 mins.
Where A Good Man Goes (Hong Kong)
Dir: Johnnie To.
Cast: Lau Ching-wan, Ruby Wong.
Experiments with daring and unusual stylisation.
86 mins.
Forum
Kinderfest
Tsatsiki (Sweden)
Dir: Ella Lemhagen.
Cast: Samuel Haus, Alexandra Rapaport, George Nakas.
Tsatsiki dreams about going to Greece to meet his father.
90 mins.
Kinderfilmfest
Films and profiles of Filmmakers listed here, initially, were shown at or given tribute by the U.P. Film Center. The list of Films are arranged alphabetically, includes synopsis, credits and some photos. The filmmakers listed includes scriptwriters, editors and other members of the crew, and their filmography with links within to their films.
Tuhog (2001)
Sa nalalabing mga taon bago mag taong dalawang libo, karamihan ng pelikulang Pilipino ay tungkol sa pagwawalang hiya, pisikal o anu pa man. Dali daling nagpalabas ng mga pelikulang may nakakapangtawag pansin sa mga kalalakihan at mangilan-ngilang kababaihan, samahan mo pa ng mga pangalan ng mga starlet ay wari mo'y hinugot sa isang pantasyang napapanahon. Mga pamagat na tungkol sa kinakain, kapaligiran at gawain, na badyang pampalubag loob na kung susuriin ay may natatanging kahulugan. Sa panulat ni Armando Lao (Takaw Tukso) at dereksyon ni Jeffrey Jeturian (Pila Balde), ang Tuhog ay isang sariwang pagtanaw sa industriyang, bagama't unti-unting kinakain ng mga anay, ay masugid na pinipilahan sa takilya ng mga hayok sa laman, ang mga pelikulang bomba o sexploitation.
The film, albeit it’s searing title, is a gem. As Filipino film critic Noel Vera puts it, "its a film about screwing". It burrows a hole into your core about the truths on exploitation for profit. Irma Adlawan (Tukso, Sa North Diversion Road) and Ina Raymundo (Burlesk Queen Ngayon), stars as mother and daughter. Raymundo as the subject of her grandfather's (Nante Montreal) affections, eventually gets raped, in news of this a gung-ho filmmaker and his scriptwriter, interested in it approaches the family in hopes to get the heartfelt story across. Unbeknown to Adlawan is that what is extremely personal will get skewered on screen. As scenes from the film flashes before the audiences eyes, we also get a glimpse of the truth behind it. And most often than not, what we see is farther from the truth. In the finished film, we see Jacklyn Jose portraying Adlawan, Klaudia Koronel as Raymundo, and the cynical Dante Rivero as the soulless grandfather.
After being through the wringer, the mother and daughter, feels more vulnerable when they first sold their life. We feel their anguish as they are mocked as cutouts, as if they actually consented in the appalling acts of incest. The awful truth is made fun of, allowing viewers of the film take in what suppose to be horrifying, but as a soft porn flick to satisfy the urges. Tuhog (Larger than Life) proves to be one of 2001's best Filipino feature.
My Videos
Klaudia's wedding (Official Wedding Video) 8-28-09
Klaudia koronel in the US
klaudia koronel tubing in USA (Ang mga kano nga naman.Galing gumawa ng trip)April 12,08
Klaudia's graduation
klaudia koronel tubing in USA (Ang mga kano nga naman.Galing gumawa ng trip)April 12,08
Klaudia's Fishing experice USA
Klaudia's Sport feats in the US
Klaudia koronel in the US
klaudia koronel tubing in USA (Ang mga kano nga naman.Galing gumawa ng trip)April 12,08
Klaudia's graduation
klaudia koronel tubing in USA (Ang mga kano nga naman.Galing gumawa ng trip)April 12,08
Klaudia's Fishing experice USA
Klaudia's Sport feats in the US
Friday, May 30, 2008
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