Letting go

 I felt a resurgence of positive energy. After all the awful things of the past year, it's time to let go of them all and move on. As much as I'd like to, I am held back by anger.

I held this anger for the people I cared for but betrayed me in the end. Now that they're out of my life, I can only move forward if I am not held back by hatred.

They may have disappointed me, but it was a learning experience. I could only wish them good luck and stop caring, for the world will keep on turning and the universe keep on existing.

All of us are insignificant. Me. Them. You.

I say, letting go made me feel good. It felt like I can do anything. I felt the nice positive energy flowing immediately.

The only thing to complain about: As with most things in my life, there is a song for every milestone. And as much as I hate it, the Frozen theme song played, Let it Go. Somebody suggest something!

Then, I had to meet me girlfriend. I stayed outside the building, where the old office was housed.

Then I saw them. A wave of anger and hatred flooded me. I stormed off, the memories of the things they've done flashed backin my memory. The sabotage, the trash talk, the backstabbing.

I ain't over it. I probably ever won't. I came to the realization that I can't forgive easily. So, here's what we're gonna do. I have let go — or at least pretend to let go. Since I can't tell the difference if I really did, let's just say that I did let go and will never be in a situation that could remind me of the vile things those wonderful people have done.

Send me a "letting go" song. It might help.

Alvin and Freaky Lalaloopsy

It was a lazy Friday night. Browsing through channels with boring shows, tired movies and reality shows, I ran across Nickelodeon and saw the made-for-TV ALVINNN and the Chipmunks.

The 3D animation was not very good, compared to how sophisticated some shows are, and the people were leaning a bit at the edge of the uncanny valley; but was still fairly amusing. In the end, I have a soft spot for those anthropomorphic rodents. And I still love the classic cartoon better.

Then the commercial of Lalaloopsy with stretchy hair.It's like a chant that played and lingered in my freaking head.

She is there with that artificial smile, waiting for the silly children to be ready, and when the adults are asleep...

Shit. I really freaked myself out this time.

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Lalaloopsy is available in all major toy stores everywhere. So, you be prepared with some blowtorch.

Just Watch Anna Wintour be Funny on Late Night with Seth Meyers

Like the documentary "September Issue," on this sketch with Seth Meyers, Anna Wintour is acting like her "known" brutal cold self.

She can be funny. If not funny, we can admit she is amusing.

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Then you can watch what she thinks of the people at the recent Met ball.




There should have been pictures of the three almost naked women, but I guess she's nice now.

Anna Wintour is a shrewd businesswoman. She knows how to capitalize on her brand. If not for Meryl Streep, she would have only been a scary figure in the fashion industry. She should have dinner with Lauren Weisberger and thank her. As powerful as she is, the writer did make her a household name.

Death by Treadmill

Sometimes you run across some news that if happened to someone else, it would have lesser impact. It might even be a joke.

SurveyMonkey CEO, Dave Goldberg, husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, died on a treadmill. His skull was "cracked open." Filthy-rich people can also die of really silly things. 

It is a serious matter, of course. Even if the above-mentioned description, skull cracked open, pops up in some violent cartoon, it's something we need to take seriously. Running on treadmills can be dangerous.

We have seen countless videos on Youtube of people being thrown off treadmills. Often, we call them idiots. I mean, you can always be careful. And why run on a speed you can't handle? But what if something goes wrong? What if you have a stroke in the middle of things? What if you trip while running in maximum speed?

In 2009, Mike Tyson's four-year-old daughter died after being strangled on a treadmill. We may look at a treadmill as an easy and simple exercise machine. In concept, it really is, just like a stove. There needs to be more precaution.

Maybe we should not use treadmills alone, or just never be cocky. And be self-conscious. Sometimes we like pushing ourselves. Exercise comes with discomfort; but don't neglect the signs that may be telling you're pushing it.

You could die, you know,

Some Met Gala pictures

The Metropolitan Museum in New York is on my checklist of places to go to when in New York, if I'll ever go to New York. They have this gala annually, organized by the iconic Anna Wintour. So we expect it to be this fashionable event.

Until you see the people who attended.

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Won't they feel cold? I am all in for sexy women in sexy clothes, but they look like honeymoon wear.  Expensive but something you should not wear on a formal event. OR why not just wear glitters and pasties, then hang a curtain on them. Rather than have famous designers paid, give more money to charity or something.

This is a scary trend though. If people go out to formal events wearing these in 2015, what would our daughters wear  to the prom in 2030?

We shudder.

There are some interesting looks out there. Some really good ones that are unfortunately overshadowed by a few attention-grabbing personalities. It almost made us think that the Met gala is tacky.

Speaking of attention whores, Justin Bieber looked good in that embroidered dragon jacket that I want so badly to snatch.

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It was on-theme, "China: Through the Looking Glass," which so many people did not follow. It was refreshing and cool. We hate the person, but we're starting to like him until three days ago. No, we still don't like him. We like what he has on.

There are people who made an impression, not by how they look, but who they are with.

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Preponderance of Zombies

Zombies do not interest me so much. I mean, the modern depiction of zombies. It's not to say stories with zombies do not interest me, as there are some movies that I have seen that are fairly good; but on a creature-creation aspect, they are not as interesting as vampires and witches.

Besides, there's just too many of them on TV right now. There are very few people who has never watched The Walking Dead. That's us.

from top clockwise: The Walking Dead,  Resident Evil, 28 Days Later, iZombie, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland

Although I've enjoyed Resident Evil, 28 Days Later and World War Z, the interest lied mostly on the psychology and effects on the human condition, and of course, the fight scenes that ensued later.

Unlike romantic vampires and majestic witches, modern zombies lacked individuality which earns them no empathy. Most often, zombies are represented as mindless human shells with nothing in their heads but the instinct to eat.

One of the more surprising zombie movies I liked was Warm Bodies, another post-apocalyptic movie, that had sentient zombies. If it was marketed better, I would have seen it earlier. The posters and trailers felt Twilight-y.

In two weeks, iZombie will premiere in the Philippines. It's about a gorgeous but intelligent zombie that works in forensics, who helps solve crime by eating human innards (or was it brains) to see visions from the dead. It borrowed some elements of so many stories that it's ridiculous and brilliant.

Would I watch that? Probably not, even if it's based on an Eisner-nominated graphic novel. The title alone ruined it almost immediately. As much as I hate zombies, we like ours to be traditional.