Planet NAGA

Cop Out

Enteng — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:59:00 +0000

Kevin Smith in yet another comedy, a buddy cop movie at that sounds appealing. Throw in Bruce Willis and his dry humor and I am sold. Though not quite on Tracy Morgan who I find annoying, but truth be told I only watch 30 Rock for the hotness that is Tina Fey.

I came out of the movie disappointed.

The movie was too cliched, too much here and there of Lethal Weapon or Rush Hour, or hell even Tagalog Rudy Fernandez films. To find out it wasn't written by Kevin Smith made me say "Uhmm, so that's the whole thing why it sucked balls!"

Kevin Smith's movies lies on the script, the constant back and forth of silly but logical characters. This movie lacks all of it save for Seann William Scott who steals the show. The plot? Let's not get even there, it is forgettable chase of a stolen baseball card that gets intertwined with drug dealing chicanos.

The end is the usual firing back and forth with the screaming villain with the protagonist-sidekick (Morgan) getting shot in the chest and whatdoyouknow? the baseball card absorbing the bullet for him.

Maybe it is just me but clearly after a few movies, Kevin Smith is losing his magic - Clerks 2 and Zack and Miri Make a Porno (to an extent) and now this? Maybe it is time to go back to the View Askew universe and not cop out with safe choices such as this one.

Arman & Alnie

ryan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:08:50 +0000

ARMAN FIGUEROA & ALNIE DALUYAYA

D I S C O V E R Y S H O R E S > Boracay Island Philippines

HAIR & MAKEUP > MADGE LEJANO + STEVE PAGSANJAN / { The MakeUp Studio }

VIDEO > MAYAD STUDIOS / COORDINATION > AMANDA TIROL

A Basic Example of JQuery’s UI.Dialog Dynamically Loading an URL with an IFRAME

Sandee Nocete Flores — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000

Let me share to you a jQuery UI sample and hope this will help you to start coding with jquery for your website development.

A Basic Example of JQuery's UI.Dialog Dynamically Loading an URL with an IFRAME

Stylesheet required by the Frameworks
jquery-ui.css

jQuery UI Frameworks
jquery.js
jquery-ui.js

test.html

Just simply download the files above and save in your computer.

Alice in Wonderland

Enteng — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:43:00 +0000

This is a different rabbit hole.
Sure the fixtures of Lewis Caroll's novel are there, the mad hatter, the evil queen, the deck of cards, the smiling disappearing cat, the Indian smoke-pipe wielding blue caterpillar, and of course, your super-sized, mini-me Alice.

It cannot be denied that this one is a visual feast, going through the route of Avatar cgi awesomeness once Alice opens the door to Wonderland. But its strays a lot from the original novel that it will leave you scratching your head. In this one, Alice is persuaded by a dressed up rabbit to peep and fall through a rabbit hole in high hopes of her saving an Underland dominated by an evil queen. Plot reminds you of what?

Still guessing? Clue: It had four kids as protagonists and already has 2 movies under its franchise.

Guessing still? Clue: Its title rhymes with a disease on balls.

Oh cm-on, its Chronicles of Narnia for God's sake. Yes, if you think about it they need a champion to slay a jabbawockee. There is an evil queen and the inhabitants are talking animals. Tim Burton must have missed that movie but I can clearly see the resemblance. It does not take the route of who stole the tarts plot but instead introduces a cliched white queen versus red queen who are surprise, surprise, estranged sisters!

Not to put the axe harder on this one, it has its good to great points. Tim Burton's wife, who is forever Marla to me (Helena Bonham Carter) steals all the scenes with her egregiously humongous head and her signature line of "off with their heads!" Alice played by a newcomer whose last name I cannot pronounce or spell is marvelous with her eccentricity and transformation into a young woman with conviction. Johnny Depp, well I dunno about this one, but his Mad Hatter comes off as over the top and sometimes too weird to a fault, sorta like the bit he played in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Well as this goes, the visuals steal the show and makes all the buck worth the price of admission. With the deluge of these types of movies dominating the cinemas, one will only wonder when they will deliver a movie with substance over style? Still, a good enough attempt to lure us into the rabbit hole, but I feel this Alice in Wonderland did not steal the tarts.

The Hero

saintdune — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:31:00 +0000

The Hero

Aldous & Leah

ryan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:24:52 +0000

ALDOUS ALINGOG & LEAH SORIANO

Shot on Location > UP DILIMAN / AYALA HEIGHTS Quezon City

CONCEPT + STYLING > GEOF GONZALES of ILoveYou Store

PRODUCTION DESIGN > BIANCA HOLGANZA of ILoveYou Store

PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS > DARYL RECINA + JAM SAN PEDRO

Naga City in OpenStreet Map

Senen Ebio — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:10:00 +0000

Naga City, Philippines

View Larger Map

Phoeben & Gen

randall — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:23:04 +0000

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PHOEBEN TEOCSON + GEN BRIONES

Vivere Suites / St James Parish Alabang / Fernbrook Gardens

Video / { Phoeben Teocson } + { Jason Magbanua }

Tux / Randy Ortiz . Gown / Cecilio Abad

Hair & MakeUp / Ogie Rayel + Angie Cruz

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T H E H E I R T O T H E T H R O N E O F J A S O N M A G B A N U A F I N A L L Y T I E S T H E K N O T

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AVP > Phoeben Teocson

CSS Based

saintdune — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:34:00 +0000

With the help of freebies, chedeng!!Miss doing this... really...

My Dining Place: http://www.mydiningplace.com.sg

Celebrating People Power

Naga City Photo Gallery — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:46:28 +0000

Celebrating the historic EDSA 1 People Power in style, Mayor Jesse Robredo together with Barangay Officials in their yellow gear took the city streets on a morning bike ride.