I was reading lately the book on Science, “Living Things and Their Environment,” for the Second Year High School. This book was released by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (Philippines) under Hon. Onofre D. Corpuz during the Marcos’ Regime. On page 102 of this book, I found this: “A frequently mentioned contraceptive device [...]

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Ever wonder why so many directors try to capture that so-called everyday life, only to fail miserably? These are directors with vivid imaginations, the gift of bringing us viewers to places we only dream of, who then crumble in front of what looked so simple, so normal. So everyday life. When first time director Lee [...]

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A hard working ajumma (housewife) always giving 100% at home, even going as far as forgiving her husband when he cheats on her. A sexy twentysomething flight attendant who is having an affair, but can’t seem to convince her lover to abandon his wife and come live with her. A cheating husband, torn between the [...]

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“When you’re playing cards, there are no friends nor eternal enemies.” Be it poker (Hollywood) or mahjong (Hong Kong), the world of gambling always walked hand in hand with cinema, and it was only a matter of time before Korea would join the game. The blockbuster War of Flowers brings some distinctive cultural touches to [...]

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Strict teachers, all those hours inside four walls, all your desires and youthful energy repressed. School is an endless drag – until she comes along. Uhm Ji Young (Kim Sa Rang of A Love to Kill) has a perfect body and metric tons of sex appeal, and she knows it. Needless to say, all the [...]

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Youth is always the best and worst of times, disarmingly confusing yet beautifully meaningful. Kim Young Nam, assistant director on Hong Sang Soo’s Woman is the Future of Man, presents three stories about young adults reaching turnings point in their lives in his creative debut film, Don’t Look Back. Along with Kim himself, the acclaimed [...]

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The story seems familiar. The average salaryman loses money and resorts to borrowing from loan sharks; then the crazy interest and threats to his life push him to crime, in this case kidnapping. The twist? There are two kidnappers, Dong Cheol (Kim Su Ro of Vampire Cop Ricky) and Min Ho (Lee Seon Gyun of [...]

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I failed to do my scheduled blogging job and activities yesterday, January 10, 2007, due to some internet connection problem of BayanDSL and Globelines Broadband. It happened that at 12:30 noon (Philippine time) the speed of internet connection through the BayanDSL slowed down to the worst internet speed. Just imagine that as I opened this [...]

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I was born to a Catholic Couple in San Agustin, Surigao del Sur (Philippines) and was raised into a devout Catholic believing that man has only two components: The Body, and the Soul. But, did you know that according to the Bible, Man has three components: The Body, the Soul and the Spirit? This is [...]

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During the early existence of my Songs Lyrics blog last year, I was very glad for it successfully reached the traffic stats of 2,000 unique hits a day. But then, last December 2006, its traffic dropped to more or less 500 unique hits a day. One of the things I suspected that caused the losing [...]

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