Neda: Why she rocked!

Neda Soltani, Iran's "Voice" was viciously gunned down during a public demonstration she attented together with her father. With the growing unrest that comes from the political disillusion by some of our Middle eastern friends, a beautiful and intelligent woman like her should not have died. I believe that it was a wrong move to gun down a prominent person because tactically, it makes them a martyr and with that strengthens the resolve of the people to fight back the oppression.

The same thing happened some 20 years back in my beloved Philippines. It was this time that Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. got out of a plane from his long exile in America (Boston I think). What was supposedly a peaceful entrance to the country was cut short after "Ninoy" not even reaching the recieving terminal was shot by unidentified snipers. This later led to a bloodless revolution which deposed Marcos and kicked his "cronies" in the ass. Big Time.



So going back to Neda, she rocks. Really rocks. What sucks about this is that it took her death before people even noticed what she was fighting for. Nobody needs to be martyred if not for worthless pathetic jerks that cling to old notions and useless traditions.

Like everybody, she had dreams and aspirations. She wanted to be a mother and was pretty much a good daughter. And because of a single bullet, she wont be able to follow her dreams.

Could be this the beginning of something bloody? I hope not.

Sucks to live in a world filled with hate and violence and intolerance and old world political agendas and beliefs.

Remembering Magnolia and the 80's

Its a dreary and wet afternoon.

It was times like this during my childhood that my "lolo" would often drop by the house with something that I haven't seen for the longest time now.

A Magnolia Chocolait bottle with the good stuff. Syempre Magnolia Chocolait.

As a kid who had fuzzy memories of the late 80's and early 90's there are a lot of things that have gone the way of the dodo.

The aforementioned Chocolait in the bottle is one them.

Nakakamiss na rin yung mga sumusunod:

Pritos Ring - Actually di ko na siya namimiss kasi niregaluhan ako ni Inang Starlet ko ng isang buong ballot noong FHM Christmas party. Inubos naming ng kapatid ko to while watching the special episode of Dragon Ball (the one where they met in Mr. Satan’s place to commemorate the defeat of Kid Buu)

Humpty Dumpty - na pag tinira sa bus ay magkakaroon ka ng instant kaaway, at pinagbabawal sa mga field trips sa tindi ng iniiwang amoy sa loob ng aircon bus.

Ninja Turtles (Oo namimiss ko na sila. Wala na kasing appeal yung mga bagong ninja turtles na cartoons ngayon. I tried watching the whole “Fast Forward” thingy on Studio 23 and they lost me right after they “upgraded” their costumes and please, April and Casey Jone’s great grandkid?

Palibhasa Lalake – 90’s na 90s. it was effin great to see those guys. Joey Marquez, Richard Gomez then later Jomari and Anjo Yllana and John Estrada. So many remakes and re-inventions pero I was want to see the original. Going Bulilit made a spoof/ parody of this in their own show; funny but still needs that extra OOMPH. And it also gave the world Chynthia Patag….


Afternoon Oldie Movies – ABS-CBN had the bright notion of having these in the afternoon well before the current trends of

(a) Mexicanovelas – Before Rubi, Gata Salvaje, El Cuerpo and all that junk that’s not really ours.

(b) Teen Romances – Puh-lease, the oldies were great because it showed the best (and often the worst) in our film history (Joey De Leon and Rene Requestas reruns please….) I don’t need to settle with seeing the newest teen sensation projecting and pretending that they can act although alam ng lahat ng tao na di talaga siya marunong mag-acting.

(c) Infomercials – But wait! Theres more…

(d) 3 o Clock Habit – Wait, scrap that, it still exists in a new format with a new photo of Jesus Christ and it’s dubbed in tagalog this time. This was our marker that all those animes and cartoons are about to appear.

Variety Shows – It has the word VARIETY in it because it caters to a variety of interest. I don’t want to see Willie Revillame’s ugly mug every lunch time. Although masaya parin manuod ng Eat Bulaga once in a while, it kinda gives you the feeling na “that’s it. There’s nothing more. It’s either TVJ or Willie.” But I AM DEFINITELY NOT MISSING “ITS CHOWTIME” (I was present with the production then kasi I had my OJT in broadcast city. So no thank you. Believe it or not, yung mga audience came from the neighboring barangays. Imagine what happened kung wala pa yung mga yun…)

Cartoons – Okay I admit Naruto in the afternoons are fun. Pero may kulang. Dati may Peter Pan sa hapon tapos nung mga late 80’s sa channel 9, they’d have Thundercats, Powerhawks, Tiger Shark, Karate Cats, Denver the Last Dinosaur, Widget the World Watcher, Bravestar, Dinosaucers and so many others.



TV Patrol – the old format was fun now in hindsight because of the multitude of things they discuss just before Frankie Evangelista’s Sports report and the entertainment news. (Nakakabwisit lang kapag Friday kasi gusto excited ka ng manuod ng X-Men or ng Ninja Turtles tapos ang dadaldal pa ni Mel Chanco at ni Noli De Castro)

And finally, THE most important thing that I currently miss is:

UNCLE BOB’S LUCKY SEVEN CLUB – Oh yeah. That’s the pepper. I missed this for the toy commercial’s they play, the toys they give away, the stupid and pathetic mascot dance numbers and the toy press releases that they do (as well as some comics on the side.) What I don’t miss is Dolly Anne Carvajal pre- showbiz days. ( I never knew then that Dolly was the daughter of Inday Badiday, the other showbiz personality I didn’t want to see kasi yun yung pinapanuod ng yaya naming.. Inaagaw kasi ng yaya namin yung TV kapag 6 na, eh PBA time nay un so kinainisan ko ang Eye 2 Eye dahil dun.)


Thanks to http://nostalgiamanila.blogspot.com for making me remember...


Parang si Captain America lang nung hawak ni Winter Soldier yung Cosmic Cube sa ending ng arc ng "Winter Soldier"

"Remember who you are"

MISSING IN ACTION

ARMORKAIZER IS MISSING...

IF FOUND, PLEASE NOTIFY AUTHORITIES. INDIVIDUAL IS CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

I'm really missing out on a lot of things. I missed parties, events, personal blogging, facebook, chatting, downloading and a gazillion other things.

But despite this, I'm happy with where I am right now. I may no longer be Mister Events and Mister Blogger but I guess I kinda learned to like my situation. I still get paid to work in front of a computer for 8 hours (in some cases 10 hours, 2 hours OTY), I still have an hour for lunch and sadly, just 10 minutes for cigarette break. I do have several stuff that I've actually longed to have. (PS3 Here I come!)

There are some elements in my past life that I wish I could throw back into the fold but sadly its not possible. What I'm still accepting right now is the lesson that, "You can't have your cake and eat it too."

*Sigh*


To my friends here and on the forums and sites I frequent, I miss you guys. Don't worry. Armorkaizer will be back.

Why cant we just reset the whole bleeding economy?

I had this fucking brilliant idea last night.

Why can't we just reset the whole global economy. You know, like all debts get cleared, and the whole world starts from scratch. It may be drastic but its better than everything suddenly going up in smoke right.
Cut our losses and move on with life. At least thats one disaster averted. I've been reading excerpts from Great Depression Era books and I tell you, the Depression part was there because it really was depressing and that the least of our needs. Lifes hard, we all have to admit it pero we don't have to be depressed. And think about it. If this happens in a global scale, think of the suffering its going to bring about.
Ugh. Human nature. Tama nga si Ozymandias, people tend to tackle on the symptoms but never on the disease itself. ( Does it follow that I have to amass an empire, create a psychic monster and teleport that monster into the heart of NYC to kill half of the city, in the process killing off one of the most decorated heroes of our time and isolating the most powerful man in the world? Sorry, that was me raving over Watchmen)

So going back to my brilliant idea, according to my boss/ EIC, (whos analytical in nature) it wouldnt work. First and formost because a lot of global leaders are greedy. Plain and simple. Greed hinders us from solving one dire problem.

During my old school days, I heard a teacher (not sure whether this was college or elementary) state that there was a "DAY OF RECKONING" for the Jews when all crimes were forgiven, all debts were forgotten and everything starts over. Everything was set back in order. Thats what I envision. That way, our kids wont have to pay a debt they never really owed.

Pero too bad, its not going to work.

Well it will work. Given right awareness, the right campaign and so on and so forth, I think itll work.

Yeah right.