What was your initial reaction when Facebook changed its “Become a fan” to just “like”?

I’m a Facebook addict, and the moment I found out that developers proceeded with this change, I was like “wtf, liking a page sounds way lesser than becoming a fan of it.” But be my guest, Facebook, the fan feature has lost its glory.

But that’s not what I’m pointing at.

Even though I’m a Facebook addict, I never got to build my own fan page (for the lack of thoughts on things to become a fan on). Now, I see my friends making fan pages of all sorts: their hobbies (photography, literary, visual arts), their .com websites (wow, it sure is great to have such kind of promotion), and themselves (I rest my case.) I reckon fan pages on Facebook are as many as China’s population (or maybe more) and pages just keep adding up.

Facebook enabled its users to suggest a fan page to their friends and notify them via email. This feature is still enabled, only with “Like” as the verb mainly used. Everyday I get “like” suggestions from friends via email, like “Juan dela Cruz suggested you like Juan dela Cruz’ fans page.” That just sounds stupid, but nonetheless I end up liking them pages although I prefer being a fan instead.

Suggesting to like a page sounds so inappropriate (for the lack of better terms). It’s just like suggesting to someone to like something, but that’s exactly the way it is.

I’ve been too exposed to Facebook. I don’t like it.

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Ladies and gentlemen it’s roughly 34 degrees here in Metro Manila and I’m burning with my own rage.

This is a bad day. I woke up half naked as my body’s response to this unbearably insane weather.  Dave and I got up only to find our favorite paksiw na bangus covered in amag. Plus, the munggo soup nanay cooked for us has been spoiling inside the casserole for hours.

These are good dishes, in fact these are the dishes Dave and I would most likely to eat for a week had my sister been human enough to put them in the refrigerator. She didn’t so the dishes were thrown away.

I value food so much. I have been terribly hungry during those times when I cannot make my own food. It enrages me a lot to see food being wasted. Like my sister did.

So now I’m sending her back to the province for being such an irresponsible ass.

Add a terribly bad review that spoiled a movie Dave and I have been wanting to watch for weeks. People have to know the difference between a review and a spoiler. A review contains comments on the movie’s plot, setting, characters, story, but it doesn’t contain spoilers that could make a fan go ballistic. A spoiler is a piece of shit written by know-it-alls to declare to the world that “hey, I’m cool, touch me!”

People, if you can’t post a good review, just tell the world how much you love/hate the movie. I’m pleading.

Anyway there’s still no sign of my sister. She went out this morning and God knows where she is. I texted her that if she isn’t home by 1PM, she’ll find all her things outside the gate. It’s quarter past 2 but I’m still too lazy to throw her things away.

‘Bad’ is an understatement. I don’t know how to describe this day but what I know is that there will be a scene in this house later.

This is, indeed, a perfect day to smack somebody.

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I give you the second part of my movie shit list.

6. The Day the Earth Stood Still.
The movie’s message: it’s Keanu Reeves.

The Day the Earth Stood Still is a remake from the 1951 movie of the same title. It’s an alien movie with a cool introduction.

I don’t know whether I was pissed or just bored inside the movie house. I was expecting for a deeper sense in the movie since the introduction made me anticipate.

So what, animals are being saved from monsters otherwise known as human beings? Aliens save the earth and eliminate humans because they think we destroy the planet. Ridiculous. If Keanu Reeves didn’t look oh-so-stunning in the movie, I would have walked out as early as its first half.

The giant robot reminds me of the then-GMA 7 icon (“Bakalman” as the cast of Ober Da Bakod puts it). Pure disappointment. Even Keanu.

7. Know1ng

I’ve already written a movie review about Know1ng. After watching it, I swore to myself never to watch it again.

I was raving about its trailer a year before its release since it stars Nick and it deals with numbers. This movie has a fascinating trailer that will leave you amazed. I feel like I was victimized because I was fooled.

The movie has an awesome first half and an awful ending.

It’s also one of the movies with awesome poster but crappy content.

Just read my review because I don’t ever wanna recall every single detail about this 2009 flop.

8. The Final Destination 4.

Movies about gore is cool, but doing them more than thrice is not.

The Final Destination 4 is just an outlet for brutal minds to express their creative thinking on the death of human beings… the fourth time.

Devon Sawa did one hell of a job in the first FD movie and that’s just about it.

Knowing a bit of physics, some stunts are not possible but, oh well, it’s a movie, a stupid movie. The fourth time.

I wonder how it became a hit in the US.

Death is coming. Death has been coming and it’s just the fourth time.

If producers ever make a fifth FD movie, I don’t know, but I’ll probably warn everyone not to watch it.

9. Mr. Bean’s Holiday.

Talk about a silly man in a silly TV show/cartoons/movie.

A little does of Mr. Bean is fine. Farce and no-brainer shows are healthy in fair amounts, but to make a full-length movie about them is mental abuse.

Isn’t it so stupefying to see the same dumb man doing the same shit for more than an hour?

I sort of liked the previous Bean movie (the one about Whistler’s Mother) because it has some sense. This one doesn’t.

Rowan Atkinson better stop making movies and focus on short episodes of Mr. Bean.

That’s about it.

10. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

If we’re playing a Final Fantasy odd man out, this is the one we’re eliminating.

As Derek the Final Fantasy fanatic puts it, the movie has nothing to do with FF. If you’ve seen at least one Starship Troopers movie, you’ll realize that this FF movie is nothing but its revival.

Final Fantasy’s supposed to deal with its nature, not aliens and bugs and whatnot. I wonder what has gotten into the mind of this movie’s producer that he veered away from FF’s true nature.

Falling asleep amid the movie is also a message that says “it’s boring. Shoulda watched Starship Troopers and anticipated for the Brainbug probe that was censored on the last part of the movie, demmet!”

The list doesn’t end here.

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I am never watching a movie without hearing or reading about its reviews. I never learned my lesson, which is why I end up ranting about the movie after the tail credits. To give you guys a favor, I now give you my movie shit list part 1.

Legion has become an addition to my shit list. I thought the movie has some creepy Biblical interpretation of God’s wrath, but no. It just has demonic angels, and two archangels battling over what they believe in. At first I thought it was blasphemous to interpret apocalypse in a gory and morbid kind of way, but I give the director the freewill. Even if the director sent more creepy angels to possess mankind and torture the audience, still Legion won’t make it to my A-list.

It’s possible that I am just biased because the movie contains scenes not suitable for pregnant women who love their child very much. However, even if I’m not pregnant, I would still find it crappy to characterize an old lady as a demon angel-possessed entity trying to kill a baby.

I give this movie a 1/5. 1 for choosing the perfect setting for demons angels to bombard.

The next movie in my shit list is Superbad.

Superbad is super bad. I’m not really a fan of Hill-Cera movies (except Kocked Up because it starred one of my all-time female crushes Katherine Heigl). I don’t know what’s the point in watching a movie made entirely of awfulness and booze. I’m just not into no-brainer movies anymore (that if I watch Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion for the first time today, I’d throw away its CD). I felt stupid the entire movie.

I give it a 1/5. 1 for Mclovin and his fake ID.

The Spy Next Door is in this list too.

Oh yes it’s *echo*Jackie Chan! But why would somebody make a carbon-copy of Vin Diesel’s The Pacifier? Just why? The plot and characterizations are the same but this time, instead of starring a duck, the movie starred a pig.

Yeah, it’s *echo* Jackie Chan but watching him just felt like watching Vin Diesel doing martial arts. I somehow lost respect for *echo* Jackie Chan for this.

And by the way, ducks do it better than pigs.

Fourth is The Zodiac.

The biggest irony about this movie is that it’s based on true events. How can life be so mysteriously boring? If the events were portrayed in a non-boring way, the movie would have been good.

I’m trying to recall some details about the movie but all I remember was feeling utterly bored. I wasted more than an hour figuring out who the Zodiac is.

One thing I learned from this movie is “don’t judge a movie by its poster”.

I give it a 1/5. 1 for the outstanding showcase of how the 60’s looked like.

The Mist.

Stephen King, I don’t really like you.

The Mist is another alien-meets-mankind movie. It’s creepy on the first part, because of the mist that mystifies every audience. While watching for the first time you may ask “what could be in the mist?” I just gave out the answer.

Okay, it’s an alien movie. Alien movies are supposed to be good. It’s normal for then to mutilate human bodies and squeeze their blood out, but what’s not normal is the ending. It is the worst ending written in the history of bad endings.

The Mist. A clever title with a clever poster. It is a failed attempt to make another blockbuster alien movie. Had I been curious enough, I would have skipped to the last five minutes of the movie and suited myself. That way I shoouldn’t have wasted roughly two hours.

I give it 1/5. 1 for the mist, which is supposed to be cool during the entire movie.

Enough with the part 1. I’m taking a good afternoon’s rest, which includes clearing my brain from these five crappy movies.

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Ladies and gentlemen, it’s scorching hot once again.

I interrupt the DS updates since I really can’t find a way to organize my thoughts during this hot hot weather. Will have to dream about the long write-up for the page instead.

In 2007 I created the Candle Series in Multiply. The series shows how a candle in Los Baños bends due to extreme heat. Los Baños is a cooler place compared to Manila.

Initially the candle looked like this:

Then it looked like this:

A week later…

Then…

Then a telephone made out of wax:

If I were to put a tall candle here in Manila I won’t count weeks to come up with a deformed piece of wax.

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No matter how long I bathe I still feel like melting. Perhaps leaving Baguio is a wrong move for me and Dave. To digress, the only time I sweat in Baguio was when I had a bowl of Anak ng Putanesca in Oh My Gulay. Baguio was such a cool place that Dave and I ought to come back really soon. We don’t belong in Manila anymore. Seriously.

I passed out thrice this summer due to extreme heat. The last time I ranted about this insanely hot weather was in 2007, during the height of the election. Yes, it’s the El Niño effect and yes, it’s not funny.

We need to get back to Baguio really soon.

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