With a little help from my friends--

The Life and Times of Raf


Pushing Friends Off Of A Cliff
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So what it this? This is what I like to call a "half-blog", a blog where nothing really matters, and I don't care about whatever.

So I'm thinking. What would be a good story to tell, this time it's supposedly to be inspired by British Cinema, specifically

a director, so I'm to choose: Danny Boyle or Michael Winterbottom? I chose Winterbottom.

So now I'm into genres.

Drama, Comedy? What?

I'm watching 24 Hour Party People by Winterbottom, and I began a little what if in my head:

What if...it's just about students. And their daily lives as students. The conflict comes from one of those students getting pregnant,

and consequently trying to find out who the father is by interrupting classes of the supposed fathers.

SO HERE'S THE TWIST! The cameraman (me) actually goes around campus, interrupting actual classes. Obviously

I have to shoot this on day where I myself have no real classes (Thursday, ahem)

plus I'll have to script some scenes to make things a bit more interesting.

The ending is me, the camera  sees me open up my laptop  while I  begin to edit the footage, then I say something British and witty and

then end, cut to black, that's a wrap.

So Friends who have classes during Thursday, I want a 'when and where' of  your classes. Me and the currently unknown lead actress will

come and visit at a random moment, just respond by excusing yourself from class.

So to give the story a little format, the female lead tries and make each supposed father sign a written contract that says that if the baby is

genetically theirs, they marry, sometime in the future, or which where or when they decide to do so will be final. (what...)

The title would be. LONG and HARD: The Way to a Woman's Heart.

 

There's a twist at the end, I won't reveal it. OK done, now to script the little bastard.
 



Spending Taxpayer Money In The Philippines
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I really enjoy reading these business and real estate gurus generalizing the Rich and Poor. To them I say: good luck, and have fun!

They mean well, inspire business and promote community growth. I won't name names or companies.

But it's human nature for the smart to take advantage of the ignorant, where do I begin?

Maybe I should stop here.

Think about it. Read. Absorb.

Then forget it. Don't be an idiot.

I used to not care about the world. I'm growing old. I feel old. In fact... (author dies of old age)

:D

Dream Momentum
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I had an entirely positive dream, a reverse nightmare, something that once you wake up from it, instead of screaming in fear, you awaken with a strange energy, a unique momentum that propels you forward. I just had that, I woke up from the dream and I started doing household chores and morning habits usually reserved for the late-morning (about 4 in the afternoon).

But! The dream momentum ended just before I started writing this blog, it ended when I realized I had been doing chores and being over-productive. Basically, this strange state of flowing energy ended when I had thought about it and questioned it. After this awareness of my sudden change of character, I simply sat on the couch, felt drowsier, and turned on the internet.

The power of the mind, the power of dreams, imagine all this "imaginary" energy, untapped, unused, unobserved even. If I have made some sort of scientific discovery, let this be a copyright idea of Rafael T. Raymundo as the term Dream Momentum: The momentum gained from one's sleep. Doesn't that contradict? Momentum being half of one's mass times velocity, but this time this momentum has no equation, only imagination.

So is this real or imagined? Well humans believe what we want to believe, but I can see physical results of what really happened (the chores), so it really did happen. All that "think positive" crap is actually an energy in itself, and if somehow the power of our imaginations and self-hypnoses is fully activated, all men and women in the world could turn themselves immortal from pure will, their cells not feeling a second of their true age, a mind over matter sort of deal.

Now, on to the dream itself. There were two dreams, interconnected to each other by Jeeps/Buses. The first dream has just ended, that I do not remember. The second dream has just begun. A woman, familiar to me in real life, but not the same person, only a look alike. The woman is in a suit. We talk in the Bus, I remember she being two seats behind me. This was strange, the first dream it was a jeep, and in dreamlike fashion it turned into a bus without me realizing, or remembering. Could this be a negative to positive transformation?

We talk, I ask her from where she's from, she says MOA, I ask her which country, she says Malaysia. I can't remember the rest. We climb some stairs, afterward we stop and sit down on the steps, she and another person, this time a man, features unrecognizable. This part of the dream I remember in real life, when in line to enlist in  Bio 1, the line had gotten so long that it reached the top of the stairs, and the students sat on the steps the same way...

Back to the dream, this time she and he were in a suit, and they were talking to each other, she was his boss or something. I don't know what I was wearing, but a man came up to me and sat ahead of me, apparently 'he' was 'my' boss. So I was the assistant in the relationship. Interpretation? I serve and not lead. But my relationship with my boss was very casual. The next scene was something like "Jake in Progress" or "Just Shoot Me". A short comedy thing occurs where we thank a janitor in a nearby room for his work. The boss says "Thanks! Thanks!" I say "Thanks! Thanks!" He then says, "Konichiwa!" I say, "Merci!" I am the person in my dream, I've tried some FrenchPod during my summer vacation and I remember thinking, should I say Merci, or Merci beaucoup, which is thank you very much.

In a dream, we have thoughts. We make choices. We decide.

The next scene is a restaurant in the top floor of a mall (It looks like Glorietta, with the white tile floors), we sat in wooden chairs, now there was a kid with us, it looks like Eric Jr. from America. He was smiling.

And then it turns into a roller coaster ride, the floor around the table separates from the place. and it starts moving around the mall, as if it were floating. We could see the people below look at us, the floor was made of glass. It was a fun ride. There was even a tilt in the end where all of us almost fell off, but it balanced itself right after, a joke. This part of the dream I felt real sensations, I could feel the gears and the machinery below me, (but it was see through, just glass...) it was all there, the bump and grind. We then land safely on the ground floor of the mall and cheer. This is when I wake up.

In dreams, when we have lived long enough, we replace imagined feelings with real ones.

When you have such a dream, don't question it, and remain in that state of positive flow and action for as long as you can, good luck and may you feel the same as I do.

Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo.
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Burton Vs. Manson
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In 2010, two movies will be released in theaters, one is "Alice in Wonderland" by Tim Burton, who has many other fantasy works under his belt, such as the Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd, Edward Scissorhands, and my personal favorite, Big Fish, among others, all amazing, all my favorites, actually.

And then there's "Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Caroll" directed by Marilyn Manson, yes the shock rocker with all the make-up. Now I've recently done a little YouTube-ing things and saw a lot of video interviews and I was a surprised, he seems to who he is, what he does and what he represents. After a little fandom, I realized that with his intellect, he could probably topple Burton in his directorial debut! But, experience does topple brilliance and vision.

So why is this a versus? I don't know, I just want to title it that way, I just really want to see these two the day they get out, I'm so excited...:D

Can you freakin imagine?! Burton has a tendency to make things fantastic and yet available, Manson however, judging from his music videos, will take the darker more macabre approach. <3

Behold, my two-minute Burton/Manson Poster :)


Walk This Way
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So I joined this contest which I won't win, which I do quite a lot now that the vacation is coming to a crash halt. This one is the "Eye Aching Beauty Contest" by create-illusions on deviantART. Basically she's asking for any deviation with the "Eye" as a theme and is accepting writing and traditional art as well. Each deviant can submit up to two entries, and here's my first one:




model and photographer: Ilana Lu (link)
edit: me

So this is how creative and original I am. "Hey what's a good Eye Theme...The Eye!"
And that's how this piece was born.


The deadline is on June 7, so for all those deviants out there, get deviating!

Eye Aching Beauty Contest (link)
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Imagine
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....a world where I don't have to cook my own lunch.

That would be nice. I miss my Yaya, Ate Naning. :D

No, actually, I'm having fun learning all sorts of dishes and whatever. And these skills I know I'll use in life, so it's not  really a waste. Plus, I can always pretend I'm some sort of a TV chef, explain things while I go, but basically, just talking to myself.
 

"Ah, oui! This needs more salt!"

I'm still in Maryland, I'm going to write a review on The Blair Witch Project in a while~it's scary, because Rockville is really close from here, like a 15 minute drive. I could literally take a bus and go to Burkittsville and enter the freakin Blair Woods.

I'm sure most people have seen it, really original and enjoyable, actually. You really feel pity for the characters. But then again, you want to see what's killing them and what's going on so in the end you just really want them to get into more danger.

:D
 


Writer's Block: Meant to Be?
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Do you believe in fate? Why or why not?

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Fate, something that we cannot escape, something that is bound to happen, something that is meant to be.

I follow the fate is what you make it philosophy.

I decide what to do each day. Are my decisions my fate? Yes.
            

off with their heads
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It's two in the morning again.
The basement.
Hollow noise outside
Rhythm of the night
space and time
passing by
it's blitz



~~ what, a poem?? hm.

Writer's Block: Swine Times
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Are you worried about catching the swine flu? Do you have a plan for avoiding contagion or dealing with quarantine?


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Stop watching TV. It's not as bad as all that. Most people survive this virus. It's just just flu+.

Writer's Block: Beautiful Vistas
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What is the most beautiful view you've ever seen? Have you been there, or do you plan to visit? If you have one, share a picture.


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Japan. Or perhaps under any tree. All the places I've been to are great, but if you haven't been under a tree, you are missing one of life's simple pleasures.


Film Art
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well, I know about "some" people who don't seem... insightful enough for the UP Film Institute Panel of Judges,  but anyway, I want to raise my standards for a "good movie" so if anyone can suggest any really deep art films, I'll go try and see it. :D

hooray...hoorayyy...
bird
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I'm dancing, dancing. Two exams left. It's been hell. Haven't slept in 56 hours, Still awake.

 

I guess I don't deserve to complain, I just feel like an anemic retard. I want to sleep but i'm awake like SHIT~!



Ugh
bird
[info]hardcorepotato
There's nothing to do, I want to be productive but I'm doing ... nothing !

I want to do something creative, I want to express myself, but... nothing!

What happened to hell week? The endless tests, reports, projects, homeworks, what the hell ever,

are they over??

Demon days, yes, but I miss them. I want to be f*cked once more by over-demanding profs

I want to be hanged

I want to feel depressed, suicidal

I want more suffering!!

 

Life without work is just... tambay!

But that's good, too. I love tambay. I enjoy nothingness, just passing the time talking about things, or even silence, yeah.

So... I just contradicted myself, what the F*ck? 

-end
 



Well, that was fun.
bird
[info]hardcorepotato
My phone got stomped to death in the Sunken Garden yesterday so now it's non-existent. Couldn't even find the sim XD

Conversation with dad:

"So, kamusta yung rakenrol?"

"Good." (high five)

"Dad...my phone got stomped to death."

"Ay...ayoko na." (goes back to his room)

HAHAHA

No number, no phone, just offline me a ym.

 



RUN!
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I don't know. Before class at 10 am i'm here just typing stuff. *YAAAWN*. There should be only 3 days of school in a week. And, as the subject says, I wanna run away and go home. Or do other deeds =0

Fighting Sleep
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I have to. I have to finish these readings. I can't sparknote them. There's no other way! From 11pm to 2 or 3. If I don't pass out with a coffee mug in my hands. If only I xeroxed these earlier. OH WAIT. I did. Last week. BUUT I was busy. Very busy. WIth...editing my playlists and rearranging my pictures. And watching Yu Yu Hakusho. And watching Blind Date and the Moment of Truth. And watching Prison Break. And sleeping. ANd eating.

I don't blame myself. I blame society and its pressures on an individual who is limited by his own sociological imagination to fool himself into thinking he is not to blame.

WHich means...I am to blame.

YAWN FART BELCH FUCK whatever. Whoops, language. FUDGE.

QUestion!
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[info]hardcorepotato
Does anyone know how to unload a 35mm film roll that's half-used up?? Can I pick up from where I left off or does that mean the unused film gets wasted?? 

NYAHAHA
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WHOOPS I slipped on the mouse and it posted a private entry, but now it's private once again. I hope in that fatal minute you have seen the evil that goes on in my twisted head !! HAHAHA
:0

anyway whatever you guys have read is all false. GUWAHAHAHAHA

:0

having your private thoughts posted for everyone is like death. But worse. Coz you live.

It's THAT time again!?!
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Time for a haircut, the curls get into my eyes and I can't really watch TV without them being poked.

I guess I'm too lazy for long hair. Medium will DO.

THAT'LL DO PIG, THAT'LL DO ?!?!?

party 2day at Andre's pad
bird
[info]hardcorepotato
I'll try to not get lost in Bicutan *___*

I wanted to go as Captain Jack Sparrow, buut since I already have most of *his clothes, I'll just go as The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

*__* zombiees

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