So, to the fans of the Chuck, let’s just keep waiting for the season 3 of the Chuck. I read a blogpost talking about it telling us that NBC officially announced that there will be Chuck Season 3. However, I am quite not sure if that blogpost is for real or is just written by the blogger just to make us wait for it.

Why am I uninterested with the GMA7’s Codename Asero?

First of all, the story of the Codename Asero is about top secret agencies and agents but they are not actually using the real principles of the real top secret agencies and agents. Paetechie talked about them at his blog and mentioned two things:

• The agencies in the story are not using the principle, “know thy enemy and know thy self.”
• The way the Advocacy agents use to detect if Asero is a cyborg is not really realistic. Just as what Paetechie mentioned, cyborg can really be detected by merely using x-ray devices.

However, if the writers behind the Codename Asero really want to make the story realistic, then they should at least do some research regarding Top Secret Agency and Agents and about cyborg too.

I guess they did not watched cyborg related movies like “Terminator” and “I Robot”.

Another thing is: The funny characters portrayed by Michael V and Janno Gibbs are actually not needed on the story, including their not-on-time jokes. These two characters are just showing stupid things. Well of course they can mix funny and serious stories in one TV Series but they should present it in better ways just like how Jacky Chan showed funny things on his movies.

I wonder if the “Palos” and “Lobo” of the ABS-CBN inspired the writers of creating the story of the Code Name: Asero of GMA7. “Palos” was actually a story of a secret agent of certain Agency, while the name “Lady Q” of the Codename Asero is similar to the name “Lady L” of the “Lobo”. If it is true that “Palos” and “Lobo” are the few of the previous TV Series and movies that inspired the people behind the creation of Codename Asero, then Codename Asero is a failure because “Palos” and “Lobo” were presented well than Codename Asero.

Practically raised in the kitchen of Korea’s most prestigious traditional restaurant, Sung Chan (Kim Rae Won) and Bong Joo (Kwon Oh Joong) have both been trained since an early age by Bong Joo’s father (Choi Bool Am) to become master chefs. Cool, meticulous, and ambitious, Bong Joo has been striving for years with the expectation that he’ll eventually inherit the restaurant and its royal legacy. His father, however, favors Sung Chan who is actually a descendant of the Joseon era royal chef. As the nonchalant Sung Chan gradually becomes more serious about cooking, his natural talent in the kitchen turns into a formidable threat to Bong Joo and rival chef Min Woo (Won Ki Joon, Jumong). When the three face off in an epic cooking competition, Min Woo and Bong Joo reveal their true sides with plans for sabotage. Shocked by the betrayal, Sung Chan disappears without a word, and starts a new life as a traveling vendor selling food to delighted housewives from a converted van. Enjoying his new low-key life, Sung Chan is content to let things be, but the past has a way of catching up.

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Kang Gun Woo (Kim Myung Min) may be Korea’s top conductor, but his status is eclipsed by his inability to get along with anybody. Despite his great talents, his notoriously difficult personality and refusal to compromise even an inch eventually put him out of work in his country. Years after leaving Korea, he is invited back by violinist Ru Mi (Lee Ji Ah) who is organizing a city orchestra on very limited resources. Formed by a ragtag group of amateurs and second-stringers, this budding orchestra has heart, but they’re short on cash and talent. Both the conductor and the players are in for a shock when they meet, none the least reluctant trumpet player Kang Gun Woo (Jang Geun Suk), who holds a childhood grudge against the self-righteous conductor with the same name as him.

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At 5:00 PM, they finally arrived and I brought them immediately to the Pension house of the Sts. Peter and Paul Multi-purpose cooperative in Bangkas, Hinunangan, Southern Leyte, where I rented a dorm-type (13 person) room for only PhP1,300.

Typhoon Frank was coming. In Surigao and Samar, the signal was already raised to #1, and I know that we would experience its presence even during the time of my wedding. It really worried me. Typhoon Frank was really a threat to my wedding but I know it couldn’t stopped us from coming to the Iglesia Ni Cristo house of worship in Panalaron, Hinunangan, Southern Leyte to received the blessing of God as the new husband and wife.

The next day, the signal was raised to #2 and that was our wedding day. Worries were there behind my mind, but my faith in God strengthen me and told me that even if Typhoon Frank will disturbed us with its strong winds and rain, the wedding will still go on. And that what really happened.

Wedding Reception

Now, I know why our plans to held the wedding reception at the Las Vegas Resort Hotel was canceled, and we finally held it in the Training Center of the St. Peter and St. Paul Muli-purpose cooperative which is located at the second floor of the Pension House. Some considered it a coincidence, but I considered it as God’s will.

You know, the wedding reception would just be turned to mess if it was held at the dining hall of Las Vegas Resort Hotel which is overlooking at the shore of the Hinunangan Bay. The hall is open and Typhoon Frank could easily broke in the reception.

Las Vegas Resort Hotel’s Dining Hall

Typhoon Frank at my Apartment

This post should have been posted earlier, but the province of Southern Leyte experience power black-out because lots of SOLECO’s power posts and lines were destroyed by the typhoon Frank. And not only that, this typhoon soak all my things inside my apartment unit in Maasin City. Got no choice but to use my time in saving all my things including my desktop computer.

The story of the Mischievous Princess is circling around a lady who is a member of the royal family who dressed up like a man to help the poor. It’s like the Zorro story but is played by a woman.  (SELBOY 1/7/2009)

Forced to support her irresponsible family, 20-year-old Jia Di (Rainie Yang) is an extremely thrifty and hardworking young woman. Cheerfully strong-minded and persistent, she has her eyes focused on one thing and one thing only – money! Thanks to her friend’s harebrained idea, she ends up selling “wish” coupons at a charity fair, and that’s how she meets department store heirs Huo Yan (Kingone Wang) and Huo Da (Mike He). Older brother Huo Yan is polite, responsible, and reticent while younger brother Huo Da is willful, egotistical, and temperamental; both are a world away from Jia Di and her count-the-pennies living – until they decide to buy coupons from her. Their coupons are for “love” and “guardian angel”.

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A young man is found dead in what appears to be a suicide inside a posh apartment in Seoul. Retired detective Park Byung Sik (Baek Il Sub, Mom Has Grown Horns) arrives at the crime scene and identifies the corpse to be Lee Jun Soo (Lee Dong Wook), the very man he had been closely watching for the last six months. Meanwhile, housewife of 15 years Hye Jin (Oh Yeon Soo) takes a month-long break from her cheating husband to relax in Hokaiddo, Japan. On her way, she runs into Jun Soo who is also on his way to the island to identify his friend’s dead body.

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• Korean Language
• No subtitle
• NTSC Picture format with DVD Regional Code 3
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