My Being ME…

Jesse Bradford has signed on to star in Yam Laranas’ Hollywood version of the chilling Sigaw entitled The Echo. Bradford will play the role of James Blanco’s but with a different characterization. The movie had been rewritten but the producers opted to have Laranas to direct the movie. They will start shooting come August in Canada.

Can’t wait!

Last June 3, I turned 27 (God! I’m getting older!). I was supposed to be with my officemates the the day before in IGaCoS (Samal), to celebrate together with one of them, but I passed on it because I wanted to spend my day with my siblings.

My sister is here in Davao for her studies same with my brother, they stayed in my cousin’s house in Matina. Since my nephew, who is 21, is in Davao too, I asked him to join us. We watched Pirates 3 at NCCC (I fell asleep in the middle of the screening), while eating popcorn and sipping soda. Then we headed to my apartment to have dinner with my housemates.

Nothing much!

I was curious about Neil Gaiman’s writing, so I brought a couple of The Sandman comics on National Bookstore online. Then I got hook up with the story, I bought a couple more, which means I still have to buy the remaining 7 compilations. Although a compilation would cost me 900, I can’t complain because it’s worth it.

Neil Gaiman’s Stardust, another graphic novel of his, which they say is a fairy tale for adults and which I couldn’t find on NBS online, is coming to US screens come August 10. And here’s a TV spot:

I’m out!

I’m a fan of all Spidey movies and fell for the 2nd part. So I was very much excited to see the new movie. Malls with four theaters filled all with Spiderman 3, so there are no choices. The ticket price was upped by 10 pesos. The anticipation is really huge.

The first part of the movie is all good. I like the start where they showed a brief look back at the old films then taking all of us to the current situation. Everyone is happy and Spidey is now a celebrity, as well as MJ. The action starts, but I noticed that some are too cartoony, rubbery? At times I felt like watching Shrek.

The introduction of Gwen Stacy and Eddie Brock is a breath of fresh air. Bryce as Stacey is really believable, I would rather like her to be with Peter that MJ in this movie. Topher is also good, he could even play Spiderman with his cocky attitude.

I would have liked Church but his character is only introduced a little. Wishing there could have been more.

Bruce Campbell is again awesome in his cameo with his fake French accent. He once won’t let Peter get into MJ’s play on the 2nd part. This time, his good with Peter and he’s so funny.

The battle could have been more beautiful if they made perfect the CGI. It kept seeing Shrek.

Sam Raimi could have been tired of the franchise so filled the movie everything he had on mind and it could a problem if they’re planning for a 4th film and having him on the camera.

Shit! One villain could have made it perfect!

I’m out!

This video is great! I was browsing through some sites lately and found some blogs posting this video of Alanis Morissette as parody to BEP’s My Humps. Hope you will like it guys.

Have fun!

Suddenly the world turns upside down, we have to report for work at 1 in the morning. The management decided to have two rounds of work each day, at 1am and at 9am. So I changed my body clock, literally.

I have made a schedule to sleep between 4pm until midnight, no waking up for dinner, I’ll have my dinner at 12. First day of work seems fine, I have kept my brains working ’round the clock. But when I got home, the weather was not participative. Seems like these days, Davao became a melting pot, you could melt yourself by the heat of the sun. When the sun is still up, I couldn’t get a good sleep. My room is not air-conditioned, it was so hot that even the electric fan exhausted hot air. I wasn’t able to get some sleep. I got hot-headed so I headed downstairs to sleep on the living room. But unfortunately, my house mates were all downstairs and awake and chatting and the TV is on. There was too much noise to get a sleep.

My second day at work became stressful, my eyes are excited to get a rest but my workload is full. Even the up beat music can’t help me to get to work. After work, I decided to sleep at around 4pm but I woke up at around 8pm because I was very hungry. At around 9pm, I decided to get some sleep, but still the room is so hot, I still sweat even if I had the fan at full speed.

Only the weather could help me get through this problem. While I was writing this at 2am, I was helping myself not to fall asleep.

I’m out.

I always seem to like handling people, I mean managing, and I am fortunate enough that I have become one. There are issues that I have seen that I would like to share.

I have read an article on JoelOnSoftware.com that talks about incentive programs and I do agree with him that on this kind of business, which is application development, the incentive program is unnecessary. Giving someone an additional pay for the basis of completing a project ahead of time or because a project encounters lesser bugs gives lesser feeling of importance to a developer. We work for the love of creating these applications.

I think that we can be HIGHLY motivated by the kind of atmosphere we have in an office. A spacious, cozy place would be a great place to start. I always complain about my chair before, it couldn’t support my back that I have to move a lot to stretch my back. Most of my time, I spend on standing up or take a walk to not stress my back. So I have a small production. Now that my boss gave me a chair with a nice back support, I get to do more. On meetings with our bosses, I always talked about the issue, of giving the developers a nice seat. I believe it’s helps motivate them to work.

A nice and fast PC would also give boost to production and a nice long table. Of course, the people around us, in our offices also contributes. A smile when facing an officemate could brighten the entire day.

Just a thought!

I’m out!

Trivia: Xerxes is portrayed in the Bible as Achashverosh in the Book of Esther. (from Yahoo!)

This video is from You Tube!

Pirates 3 countdown to the new trailer…