Thanks for polling!

I know this ain’t turkey as Americans prepare for Thanksgiving, but this is what our company served us during that Holiday courtesy of Andok’s – at least meron.  It’s just sad that I won’t be staying that long with them and flashbacks came in all of a sudden.  Yeah, since it’s Thanksgiving anyway, I would like to think of things I am grateful when I joined my 247 Family.  There’s the team I first enjoyed being with, whose inspiration is a bottle of vodka.  I can’t also forget meeting 3 of my close friends when I started working.  Ah, it’s hard to leave them but I can’t compromise my longing to find my fulfillment in my career.  Nevertheless, I have to be strong and face another challenge hoping I can find happiness with my work and at the same time bring my dreams into reality.  Well, no matter what happens I would surely thank God for bringing all these things and people in my life – not to forget my real family and WiWi.

PS. Globelines’ internet connection just annoys me while writing this.  It comes and goes.  Sucks!

After watching Fame last 8th of October at the Power Plant Cinema, this cute celebrity became my new singing idol.  Asher Book has the most soothing male voice I have ever heard especially when he sang “Ordinary People” in the said movie.  He is also a member of a band named “V Factory” whose music I never heard the entirety so I can’t comment yet on their songs, but I hope they stay in the industry especially with Asher in the group.  The casting team of Fame did a good job getting him for his part there.

Here’s Asher Book’s version of “Ordinary People”.

Here’s my Top 3 songs on this new album.

H.A.T.E.U

Betcha Gon’ Know

I Want To Know What Love Is

2009 Anniversary Edition.  Pictures by Wiwi and I.

I decided to revisit the Naruto series after boring myself with the first episode of Death Note.  I am not saying though that Death Note is not a good series.  It’s just that I would prefer the fantasy and ‘powerful’ types especially if it involves the supernaturals.  So here I go, resuming my Naruto days with Shippuuden which was on hault for some months already, trying to patch it together with Bleach.  And to fill up some space on this post, I quoted some bits of information from Wikipedia.

Naruto (NARUTO -ナルト-, romanized as NARUTO) is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a Hokage, the ninja in his village that is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all. The series is based on a one-shot comic by Kishimoto that was published in the August 1997 issue of Akamaru Jump.

The manga was first published by Shueisha in 1999 in the 43rd issue of Japan’s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. Currently, the manga is still being serialized with forty-seven tankōbon volumes released so far. The manga was later adapted into an anime, which was produced by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex. It premiered across Japan on theterrestrial TV Tokyo network and the anime satellite television network Animax on October 3, 2002. The first series lasted 220 episodes, while Naruto: Shippuden, a sequel to the original series, has been airing since February 15, 2007. In addition to the anime series, Studio Pierrot has developed five movies for the series and several original video animations (OVAs). Other types of merchandise include light novels, video games and trading cards developed by several companies.

Viz Media has licensed the manga and anime for North American production. Viz has been publishing the series in their Shonen Jump magazine, and as well as the indidividual volumes. The anime series began airing in the United States and Canada in 2005, and later in the United Kingdom and Australia in 2006 and 2007 respectively. The films, as well as most OVAs from the series, have also been released by Viz, with the first film premiering in cinemas. The first DVD volume of Naruto: Shippuden will be released by Viz in North America on September 29, 2009.

Serialized in Viz’s Shonen Jump magazine, Naruto has become one of the company’s best-selling manga series. As of volume 36, the manga has sold over 71 million copies in Japan. The English adaptation of the series has also appeared in the USA Today Booklist several times and volume 11 won the Quil Award in 2006. Reviewers from the series have praised the balance between fighting and comedy scenes, as well as the characters’ personalities. However, some of them have noted the series to have concepts which appear in several shōnen series.

Source: Wikipedia

I’m starting my Death Note journey today after finishing Kiba.  This is ranked 5th in AnimeCrazy.net making me eager to finish its 37 episodes.  So here’s something about it from Wikipedia.

Death Note (デスノート Desu Nōto) is a Japanese manga series created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and manga artist Takeshi Obata. The series centers on Light Yagami, a university student who discovers a supernatural notebook, the titular “Death Note”, dropped on Earth by a shinigami (death god) named Ryuk. The Death Note grants its user the ability to kill anyone whose face they have seen, by writing the victim’s name in the notebook. The story follows Light’s attempt to create and rule a world cleansed of evil using the notebook, and the complex conflict between him, his opponents and a mysterious detective known to the world only as L.

Death Note was first serialized in 108 chapters by Shueisha in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2003 to May 2006. The series was also published in tankōbon format in Japan starting in May 2004 and ending in October 2006 with a total of twelve volumes. The series was adapted into live-action films released in Japan on June 17, 2006, on November 3, 2006, and on February 2, 2008. The anime series aired in Japan from October 3, 2006, to June 26, 2007. Composed of 37 episodes, the anime was developed by Madhouse and directed by Tetsuro Araki. A light novel based on the series, written by Nisio Isin, was released in Japan. Additionally, various video games have been published by Konami for Nintendo DS.

Viz Media licensed the Death Note manga in North America and has published all the twelve volumes from the series as well as the light novel. The episodes from the anime first appeared in North America as downloadable by IGN. Viz later licensed the anime series and it aired on Bionix. The live-actions briefly played in certain North American theaters since 2008. However, none of the video games titles have thus far been published in North America.

Several publications for manga, anime and other media have added praise and criticism on the Death Note series. The plot and violence from the story have been praised, noting it to be very entertaining. However, the series was banned in China due to various problems people had with children altering their notebooks to resemble the Death Note.

Source: Wikipedia

Meet my Thai i-wish-we’re-together idol, Mario Maurer.  From being a cute little boy in The Love of Siam to being a 20-year-old hottie.  I once go gaga on this specie, and until now actually.  Hope he comes here in the Philippines soon, or should I say, I visit him there in Thailand.

After spending all day trying to fix an iPod Shuffle with iTunes 7 and 8 and just getting Error 1418, and after following all the tedious steps suggested by online forums, all it takes is to sync the iPod with Winamp and everything is perfect.  Needless to bring this to the store, which I thought needs their attention.  I just spared myself the agony leaving the house on a rest day.