A Barely Recognizable Aubrey Miles Cyborg From An Angry Future (Uno Mag/August 2010)

She was one of my ultimate crush back in the days, until today i was browsing through the interwebz, i came across across something that gave me petrified goosebumps:



Aubrey sporting a PMC look with her TM Sig552_SWAT AEG with my good buddy Fritz Mesedilla during an Airsoft Skirmish not long ago in Manila:



Now, the deal breaker. This is Aubrey Miles, after they’ve replaced her with a killer robot that will seduce you before firing eye-lasers to turn you into a smoking heap of cinders in a second. That, or the art director just told her to “look so f**king angry!!! Like you’re ready to eat a bag full of severed dicks, or something.”



.....WTF?!

I Was Born Intelligent, But Education Ruined Me

Cant sleep, been staring blank at my laptop's monitor after having added some wonderful friends over at Facebook. And speaking of which, i posted a shout out about 2 hours ago..a shout same as the title of this entry. Of course some FB friends liked it and some commented, agreed, some negative reaction and for the sake of not flooding my mail thru never-ending threads over discussions, i deleted all comments and decided to blog about it since most of them were asking who made the famous abovementioned saying. Was it the saying of any famous people like Winston Churchill, Amelia Earheart, Manny Paquiao(?!) etc.. or its just said by someone anonymous, for the sake of amusement?

As always, in my quest to share lame-pathetic but rather entertaining one-liners to y'all, here's a simple answer from my ever reliable "facebook-shoutout-guide-for dummies."

-It's a contrivance from an Albert Einstein quote: "the only thing interfering with my learning is my education"

Both phrases mean this:
You don't get smart from school, quite the contrary. School deteriorates your intelligence with it's disorganization and varying patterns. It diminishes your potential with subjective things such as essays that a teacher can mark you down for if they simply dont like you, not based on your merit. In this way, we are held captive by the pen, and belittled by it.

Nuff' said.. Now sleepy, i stay up so late that i have my morning coffee before i go to bed.. *yawns* gonna hit the sack now peeps, I bid y'all 'gnite (or mornin') with love and peace :D

*lights out*

Just Another Random Thought

Well friends, I’ve been saying for a while now that it’s time for a new computer. My first generation MacBook and Acer Aspire 5580 is all I have, and now that both batteries is so gone I can only run it plugged in, the fans are so loud it makes hearing YouTube videos difficult, and I have to use it propped up on aluminum cupcake trays to keep it from overheating, it’s time I make the switch and save these bad boys for traveling. Oh, how I love going through airport security with freaking cupcake trays in my bag.

I will say, as a sidenote, that I have to give huge props to Blackberry. It’s not such a random thing to say. Before the Blackberry, I would’ve never considered getting a desktop. But ever since I got that little destroyer of bus and mrt boredom, I can honestly say it’s taken up 90% of the reason why I’d need a laptop. As I said, big trips, I’ll need something more, but the Blackberry? — heck, smart phones in general…they rule.

It’s such a shame we have to mine gaping pits in pristine forests for their sweet precious lithium, gold, unobtanium, and whatever else they need to run. YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS?!?!?

Anyway. As I’ve said time and time again, I’ve been a Windows guy nearly all my life. Save for my torrid love affair with sink-sub as a teenager, Microsoft has been my company of choice. Even now, I look at it in 360 as a supplier of electro-joy. I personally, don’t have that many grudges against them. No more than I do, say, Linux or Mac or even Starbucks. I can frown at some of their business practices but in the end they provide me with more mirth than murder.

STOP! I just thought of the best band name. Mirth For Murder. Is it taken? Please tell me it’s not taken.

As I was saying, I actually like Windows. But…

When I first got my MacBook, and really gave Apple a chance with OS X, I finally saw what all the fuss was about. The sheer fact that you don’t get errors every time you try to do something, how you don’t have to run a million ad-blocking and virus-smashing programs in the background, how everything is slick and shiny and smooth and just…works. It was really something else.

After some time, however, it’s got me thinking…I was on Apple’s site just a half hour ago and I said to my cat, Chi-Chi, I said, “Man, I could get an amazing PC for the same price they’re charging for these Mac's.” Pretending she replied, “Yeah, but it’s Windows! Don’t do that!” Granted, she’s a dumb cat and doesn’t know what the hell she’s talking about and if she ever backtalks me again I’ll put her in a damn cage, in SPCA. in BUT, I said this, “Come on. Windows isn’t so bad. I actually don’t mind it at all.” And it’s true. I don’t. But, the last iteration of Windows I used was XP. Is Windows 7 the jams or is it the hams?

SECOND BAND NAME! Jams For Hams. And they said all the good band names were taken. Pfff…

Kidding aside, I would be getting a new computer mainly to just have a nice piece of hardware for all my creative endeavors, photography post processing coming in first. More space, an actual keyboard and not this wrist-breaking hot-as-sin metal shard I have to use now, a nicer monitor and most certainly a shit-ton more power. You know, a proper desktop. One that I can have on a desk and say to people as they enter my room, “That over there? That’s my workstation.” I’m thinking, ok, I’ve learned my way about OS X for the past few years…I could stick with it, and pay a lot of money for a computer that can pretty much do anything I’ll ever want in the near future except play games. Or, I could give Windows another chance, pay the same amount for a computer that’s even better than that Mac and, get this, do proper PP's, go on-line or no.

Dammit, I don’t know. It sounds like I laid it out for myself, but I have to stress how carefree using Apple’s OS has been. It’s like, literally a whole new world…but, what I’d get for the same price is staggering if I look to a Windows machine. Not to mention that it’s almost counter-culture to get a PC; it’s almost the cool thing to do now, and it could be making a comeback, much like…the 90s. Think of the cool points I’d get when people come over to my house and can’t find the “apple key” on my new keyboard. I’ll say, “Where we’re going, we don’t need keys…”

But we do. Either way, we need keys, let’s not get crazy.

So I’m reaching out to anyone who reads this. What do you have? What do you recommend? Is it kind of crazy to have two computers with different operating systems? Are all the conveniences of a Mac now found on the latest Windows machines? Can you make Macs and PCs talk to each other now (I’m still going to use my MacBook, after all)? Help! Comment!

Then, let’s start a band. My job in the band is to come up with our name. and please oh dear Lord, grant me the wisdom to get out of this financial slum I'm into now."

Fame, Like All Colors Fade

This is a follow-up to my NBA blogpost last week. I don't know if you guys realize it, but we're pretty close to entering a new era in the NBA. No, not the superteam era kicked off by the Miami Heat, though that's happening too. Rather, I'm talking about a Shaquille O'Neal -free NBA for the first time since 1993. That's pre-Justin Bieber being born, people. It's kind of like a big deal.



And while we knew this day would come eventually, no one figured it would be next season. However, now that the Atlanta Hawks are signing Josh Powell, The Diesel might end up without a team. Now here's a caption of a report i got from the interwebs:

ESPN's Marc Stein reported earlier this week, the Hawks were the only team with a "live" interest in Shaq, but with them signing another center in Powell, it seems unlikely they'd also bring Shaq on board as well.
Bottom line: It's looking like Shaq needs to bite the bullet and drop his asking price -- as well as his request for healthy playing time -- or he may not be getting a contract at all for next season.

It's hard to even imagine NBA without the league's biggest goofball would be like, but after scoring just a shade more than 600 points last year it wouldn't be terribly surprising. Shaq's one remaining skill is being huge, and while he's very good at that, he doesn't have a lot left to offer. Some post scoring, sure, but that often comes at the expense of a free-flowing offense. And let's not even consider defense, since Shaq doesn't.

That being said, odds are that someone will bite the bullet and add O'Neal. He'd have to agree to come off the bench, but he'd also be great at that since most backup centers aren't that good. Furthermore, he's always a good pickup from a marketing standpoint. Everyone knows who he is, and lots of people like him even if he does steal television show ideas on the reg.

Of course, if O'Neal ends up unemployed he'll go down as one of the more successful players in history. He's currently seventh in all-time scoring, has four championships, an MVP and 15 All-Star appearances. Pretty great career, even if it could have been exponentially better considering his size and athleticism.

However, the true tragedy if O'Neal is forced to retire is that he will not have had the chance to wear every purple jersey in the league. I mean, he looked so good in his Lakers and Suns uniforms that he should really have a shot to don the purple and black of the Sacramento Kings. Such a flattering color.


Anyone wants to have Kazaam-2 raise your hands :D

The Good, The Bad And The Silly

As I sit in front of my laptop i told myself I’ll post something you my padawan friends would be delighted to read about. After having a nice lounge session with my buddies at home, I decided to share some light on my entry’s subject. To Keith, Dyason, Alvin, Chris my family and friends, this one’s for you.

“Drinking is bad. It messes up your organs, makes you bad company and destroys your life.”

It’s hard to go against an argument so solidly backed by empirical evidence and statistics. Alcohol consumption when carried out to an extreme, thus lead to bad outcomes. But the question is, should all manner of drinking be lumped with alcoholism and uniformly condemned as a vice?

Coming from a guy like me who’s going semi-retired on drinking, I don’t have the right answer for you. And then again, being a responsible web journalist who checks the facts before he writes, what I can do is to go through the pros and cons. Then you decide for yourself whether drinking is good for you or not.




The Good :

Some studies have found alcohol helpful in fighting against heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular ailments in middle-aged people. They suggest that maximum benefit can be derived from a regular regimen that involves limited amounts of drink.

The idea that moderate drinking protects against cardiovascular diseases has a biological basis. Moderate amounts of alcohol raise the level of high-density lipoprotein (HDL or good cholesterol) , and higher HDL levels have been associated with better protection against cardiovascular ailments. Moderate consumption has also been associated with better insulin sensitivity and the prevention of blood clots that may choke arteries.

The Bad:

There’s no lack of literature on the evils of alcoholism, I’ll make no bones about this: uncontrolled imbibing is going to ruin you! Excessive alcohol fries your liver and your kidney like no one else’s business, damages brain functions, exacerbates clinical depression, wreaks havoc on your already pathetic-life and the list goes on….



Alcoholism is Bad. Period.


The Silly:

Given the heading of this entry, you’ll probably think that I’ll be going on about the ills of alcoholism. No, I’m not going into that- haven’t I already done it? The silliness I want to talk about is that of intellectual laziness.

To some extent, all of us are creatures of fashion. We frequently hear people around us saying things like drinking is bad, smoking is bad, gambling is bad, and the likes. Depending on your socioeconomic status, significant others and other factors, it may indeed be fashionable to admit that certain things are bad. I’m sure you already realize how uncool it would be to champion the cause of Big Tobacco! In our bid to stay on the right side of the divide, we go around mouthing cliché’s that are so tired they could fall asleep any moment!

Do you regularly chow down a juicy beef burger overflowing with oil and fats? A lot of good that does your heart! How about soda and cola’s? Calories galore with zero nutritional value about to skull-fuck your system at any given time.



Unless our definition of “the god life” is nothing short of a Spartan regimen of the most austere kind, we’re probably harming our bodies one way or another most of the time. As a case in point, I just had deep-fried fish fillet for lunch earlier today.

Things get problematic, however, when we classify our beliefs and actions into “god and “bad” according to the dictates of the prevailing fashion; and beyond a certain point, we slide down the slippery slope into unmitigated intellectual laziness.

So, don’t jump into hasty conclusions. Do your homework, widen your perspectives, then think through the issues carefully. By deciding for yourself whether you ought to drink or not, and how much you should consume in the event that you decide to do so, your taking a neat step forward on your journey towards becoming “free citizens of the universe."




i wonder when is the next Lounge Session..hmmm :D