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A week after I blogged about the unreleased tracks that I have discovered, my dear cousin told me that she heard I Stay In Love on the radio. True enough, I checked MC’s official website and there it was “Mariah Announces I Stay In Love As Her Third Single.”
The video was directed by hubby Nick Cannon. I’ve seen it on youTube and though it was classy and sexy, it borrows heavily from the video of Breakdown (one of Carey’s most memorable songs) and Don’t Forget About Us. Still, I can’t erase the beautiful sight of MC driving in a lonely highway in all her black-and-white glory.
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I have this personal curse that my bet in a competition always ends up as just the runner up. And this happens every time I campaign heavily about my bet, be it vocally or blogwise.
Classic examples will be the Frat Boys in Amazing Race 8, Mark and Rovilson in TARA2, Elliot Yamin and Chris Daughtry in American Idol, Bye Bye as a sure 19th Number One for MC and Al Gore in the last ill-fated US elections.
So I pretended I didn’t care about the recent US elections even if the downfall of the US economy spells worldwide doom (one of the saddest realities of life, right?). But at the back of my mind I was rooting for Obama and dismissing McCain as another Bush clone.
And holy five cows… Obama won in a historic landslide victory! Finally, we see the dove in the Pandora’s box full of Bush’s faux pas.
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Last week I heard that Michael Crichton passed away. I checked yahoo but news on his demise was immediately overshadowed by all the US election hullabaloos.
You may not know who Crichton is but you surely know his works and contributions to pop culture. He is the creator of Jurassic Park (altogether now…Ah sya ba yun?!). Congo. Disclosure. E.R. (the groundbreaking TV show that predates the Grey’s Anatomy of this generation).
I remember back in the early 90’s, we have this circle of friends/reading group composed of five people. Usually three of us would gravitate towards one author and the other two would totally snub that author. I was part of the Michael Crichton trio.
I initially didn’t pick Jurassic Park (the novel) as it was too textbook-ish for my reading pleasure. All because it has data printouts and computer screen captures! But once I started reading it, I couldn’t put it down. I was surprised at how it was so comprehensible and so accessible. It was one of the best literary escapes I had experienced. For a while there, my sad world disappeared and I was in Crichton’s world.
And who can forget the heavy emotional turmoil and stifling tension of Disclosure. Sadly, pop history credits Demi Moore and Michael Douglas for Disclosure, because of their strong performances in the movie. As always, the writer takes the backstage.
Like the dinosaurs he immortalized in Jurassic Park, Crichton’s legacy will surely fascinate this and many generations to come.
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Everyone knows that Men’s Health has become my bible of sorts. Men’s Health is far from joking when they claim that it has HUNDREDS of useful tips per issue.
Just sharing some useful nuggets of wisdom from the recent issue.
* If something’s beyond your control, why worry about it?
* If beer tastes bitter, it means you’re happy and problem-free. Otherwise, it tastes sweet. Drinking ‘til the beer tastes bitter won’t help.
* If you think you need help, you sure do.
* If you fall hard, bounce back harder, and swing back at the one that put you down hardest.
* If a deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
* Great things are accomplished by cooler heads in the midst of a battle.
* If you can dish it, make sure you can take it. Sometimes, with interest.
* If you fear dying, then you are already dead.
* Contrary to popular belief, you need sleep if you want to lose weight. Lack of shut-eye may disrupt the hormones that control you ability to burn fat.
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Just a tip for those who have iPods or iPhones: as much as possible, try charging through a wall electrical outlet and not through your laptops. My first iPod’s battery got busted because (as Apple said) I was always charging through the laptop…which is true. This charging is already “secondary” (the charge from the laptop is transferred to the iPod) and it ultimately shortened the battery life of my iPod.
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Here are some pop factoids that I recently discovered or are back in season:
- The vocalist of band-of-the-moment The Script is the vocalist of that second-rate boyband called Mytown. I only know one MyTown hit...Now That I Found You. But the icky part is we have a Mytown CD at home (remnants of the pop explosion in the early 90’s that spawned the boybands and the blond divettes).
BEFORE:
AFTER:
- Where Are You Christmas?, the theme from The Grinch, is composed by Mariah Carey but interpreted by Faith Hill. Rumor has it that erstwhile husband Tommy Motolla did not allow MC to record her song. How Grinch-y!
- Have you seen the live video for Just Stand Up? It’s the charity song in support of cancer which brings together the top female acts from this generation (unfortunately, it included Miley Cyrus who single-handedly ruins the song). Now, who is in the video but is not on the recorded track (studio version)? Answer: Sheryl Crow sings in the track but is replaced by Nicole Scherzinger in the video. Don’t ask me why. [My funny imagination thinks that Nicole went to the producer and says…My name is (slight pause)...Nicole”]
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Last Thursday’s Hot 10 in Chico and Delamar’s Morning Rush features the Hot 10 Invented Jokes. I was laughing through the skin of my teeth at the corniness and hilarity of some of the jokes. It’s not yet posted on Chico’s blog but here’s what I remember:
- Q: What is the first name of Janno? A: Edumann
- Q: What is the surname of Dulce? A: Enggabanna
- Q: How do you win a nurse’s heart? A: Just be patient (said in a tagalog twang…pey-shent)
- Q: What did the fart say to the sanitary napkin? A: I am the wind beneath your wings.
- Q: Bakit hindi pwede magsuot ng maroon ang maiitim? A: Kasi baka pag nagpunta ka sa Quaipo, buhatin ka ng mga tao at iprusisyon.- Q: Ano ang sabi ng sad na medyas? A: Life socks.
- An apple inside a ref said: Nyiiii…ang lamig naman dito. The orange said: Nyiiii…yung apple nagsa-salita! (Shame on the sender…this is an old American joke and was even featured in a survey of the most hilarious US jokes)
Talking about jokes, here are the jokes that never fails to cheer me up when I remember them:
This is one of the best jokes I’ve heard:
A cono girl was asked: what is the difference between a penis and a camote.
The cono girl answered: Yuck, I don’t eat camote!
And I don’t know why but I find the caterpillar/centipede jokes highly amusing.
Joke 1: Galit na galit ang tatay na centipede dahil hindi pa umaalis ang anak nya na pinapabili nya sa tindahan. The anak na centipede said: “Haller, nagchi-chinelas pa ako!”
Joke 2: Bakit nagalit ang tatay na centipede sa anak na centipede? Sagot: Kasi nagpapabili sya ng sapatos sa tatay nya.
E bakit natakot ang anak na centipede sa tatay na centipede? Sagot: Kasi sabi ng tatay na centipede: “Gusto mong tadyakan kita?”
Joke 3: Bakit ginabi ng uwi ang anak na centipede galing sa nursery school, na ikinagalit ng tatay nito? Sagot: Pinakanta daw sya ng “I have two hands, the left and the right…the left and the right…the left and the right…”