Better than Bahay Kubo

         Life without music is like grinding peppercorns using a mortar with a broken pestle, it's like listening at my father's whining about the electricity bill, it's like you're in the middle of cooking something and you run out of LPG, it's like you're a prawn-lover but allergic to shrimps.....it's like....OK....I really need some friends.

         I think there's something wrong with my music. Every time I play something out loud, people around me do this.....

          I've been receiving death treats lately because I've been playing loud and annoying music in my room. The native folks aren't appreciative of my effort on bringing good vibes through music. Maybe it's time to let go of Yoyoy Villame's catchy tunes(for now at least) and try those "haven't-tried" genres that are ready to explore and dig in. So, before someone come up with an idea to make my music stop (i.e. throw grenade in my room), I decided to stop tormenting their peaceful lives and try out something worth listening. I'm currently listening to Foster the People album and I really like all the tracks from it.

IMHO...they're the modern day Beatles

        After a few playing cycles, the song entitled Houdini became my most favorite out of the ten tracks (Pumped up kicks is my second favorite). I pronounces it "Hu-di-ne" because I'm Batangueno. The lyrics was like written about my life..hehe....very inspiring. Check this out...

Houdini

Rise above gonna start a war
Whatcha want whatcha need whatcha come here for
Well an eye for an eye and an F for fight
They're taking me down as a prisoner's riot

Got shackles on my words are tied
Fear can make you compromise
Fast enough it's hard to hide
Sometimes I wanna disappear

When I feel good I play under warm distress
Pass it up on ability
Well you got whatcha want you never knew
Perfect gift from me to you

Yeah yeah yeah

Got shackles on my words are tied
Fear can make you compromise
Fast enough it's hard to hide
Sometimes I wanna disappear

[Raise up to your ability]
Never knew what I could find
What could come when we realize
Don't no one want to compromise

[Raise up to your ability]
Yeah I'm scared but I'll disappear
Run around before I'll come with you
Like he's someone who lost his way

[Raise up to your ability]
I know that you want it
Cause it was easy to see
Oh more for ability

[Raise up to your ability]
Yeah you're undecided
Hey so I can see it
Hey I'm gonna wanna run away / Hey I'm gonna mound your way

Just focus on your ability
Focus on your ability
Now focus on your ability
Focus on your ability

Gain again what they want to steal
Gain again what they want to steal
Then they can't get what they want to steal
Can't get what they want to steal.



If you want something different, try Foster the people. It's better than Bahay Kubo.

Sino ang Kakain ng Gardenia Bread?

Isang araw may isang inahing manok na nakakita ng isang butil ng trigo.
“Sino ang magtatanim ng butil ng trigo?” tanong ng inahin.
“Ayoko”, sagot ng bibe.
“Ayoko”, sagot ng pusa.
“Ayoko”, sagot ng aso.
“Kung gayon, ako ang magtatanim”, sabi ng inahing manok.

Tumubo ng malusog ang butil ng trigo hanggang ito’y mamunga at mahinog.
“Bibe, ikaw ang mag-ani ng trigo”, utos ng inahin.
“Ayoko”, sagot ng bibe.
“Ayoko”, sagot ng pusa.
“Ayoko”, sagot ng aso.
“Kung gayon, ako ang mag-aani,” wika ng inahing manok.
“Ngayon, sino ang mag-gigiik ng trigo?” tanong ng inahin.
“Ayoko”, sagot ng bibe.
“Ayoko”, sagot ng pusa.
“Ayoko”, sagot ng aso.
“Kung gayon,” malungkot na wika ng inahin, “ako ang mag-gigiik ng trigo.”

Nang magiik na ng inahin ang trigo, nagtanong siya.
“Sino ang magpapagiling ng trigo para maging arina?”
“Ayoko”, wika ng bibe.
“Ayoko”, wika ng pusa.
“Ayoko”, wika ng aso.
“Kung gayon,”, wika ng inahin, “ako ang magpapagiling ng trigo.”
“Ngayon, arina na ang trigo. Bibe gawin mo itong Gardenia Bread,” utos ng inahin.
“Ayoko”, sagot ng bibe.
“Ayoko”, sagot ng pusa.
“Ayoko”, sagot ng aso.
“Kung gayon,” wika ng inahin, “ako ang gagawa.”

Isang mahabang piraso ng tinapay ang nagawa ng inahin. Maya-maya, tinanong niya.
“Sino ang kakain ng Gardenia Bread?”
“Ako! Ako!” sigaw ng bibe.
“Ako ang kakain” sigaw ng pusa.
“Ako” sabi ng aso.
“Ano? Hindi! Bakit? Tumulong ba kayo?”

Tanong ng inahing manok sabay tawag sa kanyang mga sisiw.
Masayang pinagsaluhan ng inahing manok at ng kanyang mga sisiw ang Gardenia Bread. Habang nakatanaw ang bibe, pusa at aso. Ngayon, alam na nila ang halaga ng pagtutulungan.

Welcome to Costco, I love you.

           If you haven't seen this movie yet, I suggest you do so. Idiocracy is the funniest movie I've watched so far. That’s because the movie did not require me to have high level of comprehension to catch up and understand the humor. I’m pretty much too slow catching up sometimes (foreign comedy movies in particular^^). Here are a few screencaps with the most LOL moments.

Washington Monument 500 years from now...full of jet skis and motor boats.

10 million dollar denomination...500 years from now.

His name is President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho...who would want to protest against a president during a speech...armed with a machine gun?

The president's cabinet members

Welcome to Costco, I love you. Welcome to Costco, I love you.

Interesting mecha name

          If you belong to a few Pinoy Gundam Wing fan like me, I think you'll find this post interesting. Do you remember those desert-type mobile suits assisting the Gundam Sandrock during fights? I only knew its name lately, and it is called the WMS-03 Maganac. What's interesting about this mobile suit's name is that it is derived from a Tagalog word "mag-anak". Here are the facts:

The Maganac Corps

              As the Earth Alliance continued to spread its sphere of influence around the world, and even into the far reaches of the colonies in space, a few pockets of resistance formed to oppose them. One of these groups was the forty-man team known as the Maganac Corps; the word "maganac" meaning "family or relatives" in the Tagalog language, mag-anak. Although the Maganac Corps were in no way able to challenge the full force of the Earth Alliance military, by using guerilla tactics and their own mobile suit forces they were able to deal an occasional blow to the Earth Alliance.

          The mainstay mobile suit of the Maganac Corps was the WMS-03 Maganac. Constructed and mass-produced by the Maganac Corps, the eponymous Maganac mobile suit proved to be equal in power to the OZ-06MS Leo fielded by the Earth Alliance and OZ, and it even was more effective in some areas such as firepower and fighting ability. The Maganac would be the Maganac Corps standard mobile suit before the war between the Earth and the colonies began in After Colony 195, and they would continue to use it during the war. Built and colored mainly for combat in the desert environments of the Middle East the Maganac proved to be versatile enough to fight in a wide range of terrains, and the Maganac Corps would even later adapt their Maganac mobile suits for use in space so they could assist Gundam pilot Quatre Raberba Winner during the Eve Wars.

online sources:


http://encycl.opentopia.com/term/WMS-03_Maganac

http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/w/wms-03.htm

Plants vs Zombies: Endless survival cheatless play

            Early stages are easy to handle (of course), and this is the best time for you to collect as many sun as you can. This is the best set-up I could think of. Place four twin sunflowers as shown above. The rest are single sunflowers needed only to boost your suns collected. It will be replaced eventually by plants meant for offensive so no need to double all of them. (note: sunflowers don't hold a grudge even when they're not paired up, as they'll keep on smiling for the rest of the game. They are happy to be single...look at those happy faces.)

          With accumulated sun, you can already plant all those highly "sun-consuming" plants. (six front-liner gloom-shrooms, eight melon-pults) This is also the right time to put pumpkins as your last line of defense.

Now you can add six gatling peas and winter melons to slow down the zombies.

            At this stage, you can still beat the zombies without requiring the help of cob cannons yet. So take advantage of those free slots and plant sunflowers on it. (I'm talking about the inner part of the pool where 4 cob cannons should be placed)

            Once those gargantuars appear, it means it is time to ready your four cob cannons. Four cob cannons will require you 8 kernel-pults.

The final set-up should look like this. To reach hundred flags you must:

-never let those 6 front line gloom-shrooms to be blown or munched
-don't let your accumulated sun drop to critical 5000.(since this a cheatless play)
-immediately replace worn-out pumpkins!
-use the cob cannons with 15-second time interval. (one cob cannons takes 30 seconds to charge.)
-choose the best plants for the kind of zombie (prioritize on choosing plants that can counter the most troublesome zombies...as you only have 10 slots)

               The kinds of zombies you're about to face differ in every stage, so choose the best plant to counter those zombies (red-eyed gargantuars appears randomly). Also, keep an eye on the most troublesome zombies...and these are:

       Bungee zombies - plant ice shroom once you see those thrown targets, then use coffee bean immediately on it after you hear the "yeehaw!" sound. This will freeze those annoying bungee zombies and prevents them from stealing your plants.

             The red-eyed gargantuar got the most extreme level of toughness among all other zombies. If there's some free slots left, choose the plants that deals massive damage.

         This one's the most troublesome of them all. What this zombie usually does is blowing up those six frontline gloom-shrooms, blowing it up unpredictably. It's very important to prioritize choosing those plants once you see them....always.

          This one's usually not a big threat, as two cattails can handle a few of them. But if you're above 250 flags already, I suggest you choose a blover if there's a free slot....as swarms of balloon zombies sometimes appear in number that two cattails alone can handle.

            If you followed my set-up, may I remind you that it won't ensure you victory. I'm only human...born to make mistake (I'm not singing). My luck began to run out...I had to replace all those munched and blown plants...without looking at my depleted sun. As you can see, it dropped to 240 suns...it's beyond critical amount and it means GAME OVER.

          The journey ends here. From an initial target of 500 flags, I only endured 355 flags. In the picture above you'll see which zombie got lucky to taste my brain.

Yoyoy Villame

         Roman Tesorio Villame (November 18, 1932 - May 18, 2007), youngest among ten children of a fisherman father and fish seller mother, Roman Tesorio started composing songs for the Boy Scouts in his elementary days. Dropping out after his second year in high school, Roman Tesorio enlisted to become a soldier-trainee of the Philippine Army. Being unhappy in his post in Pampanga, he asked for a discharge after the surrender of rebel leader Luis Taruc. Roman Tesorio would become a passenger jeepney driver plying the Baclaran-Pasay Taft-Santa Cruz-Dimasalang route. During the ten years of driving jeeps, he would compete in amateur nights held at Plaza Miranda in Quiapo but only to lose because of his strong Visayan accent.

              In 1965, Roman Tesorio went back to Bohol to become a bus driver of the MB (Meneses-Butalid) Liner fleet, where he had a bus numbered 13 that plied the Tagbilaran-Ubay-Talibon route. At the bus company, Roman Tesorio formed with some fellow drivers the MBs Combo, a rondalla band where he sang and played the mandolin. Roman Tesorio was soon invited to parties and eventually as an entertainer in fiestas, baptism, weddings, funerals and special events.

           The owner of the bus company took notice of Roman Tesorio ’s efforts and set up a music studio named Kinampay Records, after a local dish, just for him. Villame's first recording was in 1972 and entitled Magellan, a parody of historicism of Ferdinand Magellan's failed conquest of the Philippines. This became the top-selling record in the Visayas-Mindanao region. Comedian Chiquito recognized his potential and brought Roman Tesorio to Manila to be signed to Vicor Records, which re-issued most of the Kinampay catalogue. Touring Pampanga, Nueva Ecija and other parts of Luzon helped Villame establish his name in the country.

       Roman Tesorio was the first to brand his music as "novelty" to distinguish himself from his contemporaries, who tried hard to sound like Perry Como or Frank Sinatra. It was the beginning of a long list of albums and recordings of his politically inspired songs in Cebuano, Tagalog and English.

(info from wikipedia)

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