Seven Ways to De-Stress Instantly - Dumb Little Man
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1. Go For A Quick Walk
Even if you can only spare five minutes, go for a walk (it might just be to the water cooler and back). The aim here is to get yourself away from the immediate source of stress and to calm down. A few minutes to gather your thoughts is all you need to get some perspective.
2. Read Some Fiction
If I’m seriously worked up, upset or stressed, one of the best things I can do is to grab a book. Fiction is ideal (especially anything funny or uplifting). Reading fiction takes you out of the here-and-now and into a different world. You can forget everything that’s troubling you, for just ten minutes, as you concentrate on the story.
3. Meditate or Pray
Often, the best thing we can do to instantly de-stress is to simply stop. Many life coaches and stress advisors recommend meditation: there’s no mystery to it, just sit and try to clear your mind of thoughts (perhaps concentrating on a calming image or a word or phrase, if that helps you). I also like to pray – if this suits your religious/spiritual persuasions, it can be a very powerful way to get outside of your own head and call on a higher power for some much-needed help!
4. Watch A Funny Video
I don’t know about you, but I just can’t stay stressed out when I’m laughing. (It’s like trying to pat my head and rub my tummy at the same time...) If you have a favorite YouTube clip, or if LolCats make you giggle, then give yourself five minutes to indulge. You’ll find that you return to your work – or whatever the source of the stress is – feeling much better equipped to handle it.
5. Make A Herbal Tea
If you’re feeling uber-stressed, caffeine isn’t going to help. A warm, soothing mug of herbal tea might, though. The act of making yourself a drink can be calming: it gets you away from your desk, and it gives you a chance to concentrate on something physical. You’ll probably also feel a psychological boost from doing something positive and nurturing for yourself.
6. Punch A Pillow
Depending on where you are when you’re feeling stressed, and on your personality, throwing a few punches at a pillow might help. Think of the stress leaving you through your fist with every punch. (If you’re in the office, please don’t be tempted to use a co-worker as a substitute pillow ... even if said co-worker has caused your stress.)
7. Take Slow, Deep Breaths
When we get stressed, we tend to breath more quickly, taking shallow breaths. Concentrate on your breathing (you might want to do this in conjunction with meditation or prayer). Imagine breathing from your stomach, not your chest. Take slow, deep, fulfilling breaths. Calming your body down physically in this way is likely to have a knock-on effect on your frazzled mental state.
what I immensely need.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Home|Giving a damn about Mother Nature.
again with my ongoing depression with regards global warming all thanks to the apathetic and skeptic creatures that doesn't give a shit about this at all. This is a social issue that means every member of society is part of this problem and damn better be part of the solution. No one can save us but ourselves alone. Damn isn't that enough to get your asses moving, and Go Green.
here's the trailer of the film
Watch full movie here.
available only until June 14, 2009
Visit the Official Website
more info about the planet.
http://www.goodplanet.info
here's the trailer of the film
Watch full movie here.
available only until June 14, 2009
Visit the Official Website
more info about the planet.
http://www.goodplanet.info
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
InFRINGEment| My take on Fringe and Abrams
Here is the best review I have ever read so far. I watched the Pilot episode of Fringe and It was utterly disappointing. Like I said I just became a recent X Phile, the episodes are still fresh, the mytharc, the standalone stories, the 2 movies so I could really say it's a rip-off. I tried to ignore it, watch the whole thing, liked Walter Bishop, loved the cow more than anything...pretty much that's all I liked.
Anyhoo... here's the review I'm talking about
Original Post here.
**I'm 'going to bold the text on why I got issues with Abrams and why Fringe is not worth the watching**
TV REVIEW: Fringe (pilot)
The pilot for J.J. Abrams' series Lost (2004 - ) is -- without any exaggeration -- the finest I've ever seen. That's not a comment on the direction the series has ultimately taken (don't get me started, please...). Just my honest assessment of the involving, intense first episode. It was...amazing.
By direct contrast, the pilot for J.J. Abrams' new genre series, Fringe is one of the absolute worst that I've seen in a good long while. With Fringe's disappointing initial outing, we very much have a modern case of the Emperor's New Clothes: the pilot is alarmingly naked in terms of real human interest, and shockingly devoid of originality in terms of conception, look and execution.
There's been a lot written in the press lately (hype) about how Fringe is not a rip-off of The X-Files. Don't believe a word of it. This show is such a flat-out rip-off of Chris Carter's work it's actually an embarrassment. Allow me to enumerate (briefly) some of the many similarities between the two productions:
1. Fringe, like the X-Files is set in the milieu of the FBI. With agents, search warrants, stake-outs, car-chases and "investigations."
2. Fringe, like the X-Files, finds solutions to unusual problems (like a nasty new airborne disease/terrorist WMD) in the notion of "extreme possibilities" (the paranormal/fringe science) On The X-Files, this description meant any number of things (NDEs, Astral Projection, psychokinesis, etc.). First up in Fringe: "a synaptic transfer" that allows two minds to meet in the dream world. You may have seen this idea played out already in Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) with Linda Blair and Louise Fletcher. Lower. Lower...
3. Fringe, like The X-Files, focuses on an untrustworthy authority figure. In fact, this character-type was a regular staple of The X-Files. Specifically, I'm referring to the incredibly sympathetic notion that someone derided, dismissed or de-valued by society at large (perhaps a criminal, perhaps a madman, perhaps just an unconventional thinker...) could be the best source for understanding "the truth" about the featured mysteries. Even "Spooky" Mulder fits this type to some degree. As do the conspiracy theorists, The Lone Gunmen. As late as this summer's X-Files: I Want to Believe, we saw this character type at his most raw and troubling, in the form of the psychic pedophile priest. On Fringe, we get quirky, inappropriate Dr. Bishop, both a madman and a criminal, one who possesses many secrets.
4. Fringe, like The X-Files, focuses on the "The Mytharc" or "Pattern." The X-Files was famous for an exploration of a larger conspiracy, one including the FBI, heads of state, and various departments in the United States Government. The conspiracy had a secret, malicious agenda. In Fringe's pilot, we're introduced not only to a specific episodic mystery (an airborne, self-eradicating germ) but the conspiracy operating behind it. There's not a Cigarette Smoking Man hanging around yet, but we have Blair Brown (replete with a cheesy robotic arm...), a representative of the company Massive Dynamic. She and her corporation are working behind the scenes on the by-now rote malicious and secret agenda.
5. Fringe, like The X-Files, centers on a male/female pair-up. It's Duchovny and Anderson on The X-Files, and Joshua Jackson and Anna Tory on Fringe. I should point out an important difference here. On the X-Files, Scully and Mulder actually boasted fields of expertise. Mulder was a behavioral psychologist (and one of the best profilers in the FBI). And Scully was an M.D. The characters on Fringe seem to have no specialties at all. Peter Bishop (Jackson) is simply tagged a "genius" (that way, a writer has to do no research whatsoever - the character is just SMART!) and Olivia Dunholm (Tory) is merely your average gun-toting, ambitious FBI agent. Each character is about as interesting as wonder bread. Without the crust.
6. Both shows have the same home: The Fox Network. Wonder how that happened?
So yes, pretty clearly, Fringe is a dedicated rip-off of The X-Files. iI's also a rip-off of a short-lived, obscure series from 1998 called Strange World, which concerned "medical mysteries" like the one featured in this pilot. My problem: it's not a good rip-off of either show.
The X-Files is such a classic not merely because the subject matter (the paranormal) is fascinating; not merely because the conspiracy is intriguing. But rather because it boasted the good sense and artistry to create two characters (Mulder and Scully) who viewed their world in vastly different ways. As viewers, we saw the world interpreted through each lens. The writing and acting were so utterly brilliant that moments of heavy exposition played not like boring recitation of fact...but foreplay. We fell in love with Scully and Mulder because they were both smart and passionate. And I don't mean passionate about sex, necessarily, but in the manner they interpreted "the facts" of any given case. Ideas represented the currency of the show. Bold ideas; boldly interpreted.
***this just blatantly points out why I love X Files so much because NOTHING BEATS GENIUS WRITING!***
Whereas on Fringe, there's only the veneer of intelligence, not intelligence itself. In other words, all the concepts and ideas in the pilot are pulled from smart sources (like The X-Files and Altered States), but don't feel organic to this enterprise. You can't import intelligence, and you can't import wit. This was the same problem I had with Orci and Kurtzman's brain-dead Transformers (2007) movie. There was no authentic human element to grasp. Similarly, Fringe already seems anti-science, railing against "science" and "technology." In The X-Files, the villain was the misuse of science and technology, not science and technology itself. There's a distinction there. One asks us to examine human nature (how do we apply our knowledge wisely and morally?) and the other is blatantly anti-intellectual.
** I love you CC can I have your Mind??lol**
So what we're left with in this pilot is a dull police procedural with a conspiracy underneath, and a touch (and I mean a touch...) of the paranormal. Oh, there's a car chase, well-staged. There's a creepy prologue (also an element of The X-Files' formula), here set on a plane in flight. There are some nice special effects involving a man with translucent skin, but the X-Files has already done that too (in Fight the Future and the Season Six premiere.) Worst of all, in Fringe's pilot there's no joy, no fun, no sense of curiosity at all. It's a mechanical, heartless product...a machine grinding out sausage for the masses. (comment: oh yes, Abrams has done it again feeding the idiotic and testosterone drives of mankind bravo Abrams bravo.)
I'm going to keep watching, and I hope the series gets better. I would always rather write a positive review than a negative one. And I have been wrong before, that's for dang sure. But for the time being, I'm going to call a spade a spade: Fringe is a charmless, brazen rip-off of The X-Files. One that copies all the specific elements of that TV classic, but has zero understanding of why it worked in the first place. Fringe is positively soulless. In fact, that's the creepiest thing about it.
Want more Infringement click here.
Seriously, I can't believe there are people who actually watches this, well, not really on utter disbelief but I'm shocked that people are amazed by this show, they actually think it's smart coz' they talk about pseudo-science and conspiracy and yeah great visual effects...WTF??. Are people really that naive?? It's really sad that their is a mass audience on this I'm amazed by the number idiots that lives in the planet of ours. I know it's subjective, but why watch a rip-off ?? that's what's trully sad.
On Abrams I know that this guy is a producer, and that very well ended my question on how this type of incoherent-blank storytelling gets green lighted. Because there are producers like J.J. Abrams who sees the brainless apathetic creatures and they're so kind enough to feed their needs and make all remakes, possible, create major explosion, possible, and make tons of rip-offs
possible. All in the Glory of feeding it to the masses
You want another sad fact
Mass = Money so you can't really blame him can you??
Now, I can't really bash Abrams fully(tempting), I have issues regarding him (after watching Cloverfield, Frine and The REMAKE of Star Trek) but I know this, He created Alias and Lost. I have never watched Lost but I was damned well intrigued by Alias. To Abrams, That's originality why'd you have to break away from it and be a masterful copycat?
Anyhoo... here's the review I'm talking about
Original Post here.
**I'm 'going to bold the text on why I got issues with Abrams and why Fringe is not worth the watching**
TV REVIEW: Fringe (pilot)
The pilot for J.J. Abrams' series Lost (2004 - ) is -- without any exaggeration -- the finest I've ever seen. That's not a comment on the direction the series has ultimately taken (don't get me started, please...). Just my honest assessment of the involving, intense first episode. It was...amazing.
By direct contrast, the pilot for J.J. Abrams' new genre series, Fringe is one of the absolute worst that I've seen in a good long while. With Fringe's disappointing initial outing, we very much have a modern case of the Emperor's New Clothes: the pilot is alarmingly naked in terms of real human interest, and shockingly devoid of originality in terms of conception, look and execution.
There's been a lot written in the press lately (hype) about how Fringe is not a rip-off of The X-Files. Don't believe a word of it. This show is such a flat-out rip-off of Chris Carter's work it's actually an embarrassment. Allow me to enumerate (briefly) some of the many similarities between the two productions:
1. Fringe, like the X-Files is set in the milieu of the FBI. With agents, search warrants, stake-outs, car-chases and "investigations."
2. Fringe, like the X-Files, finds solutions to unusual problems (like a nasty new airborne disease/terrorist WMD) in the notion of "extreme possibilities" (the paranormal/fringe science) On The X-Files, this description meant any number of things (NDEs, Astral Projection, psychokinesis, etc.). First up in Fringe: "a synaptic transfer" that allows two minds to meet in the dream world. You may have seen this idea played out already in Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) with Linda Blair and Louise Fletcher. Lower. Lower...
3. Fringe, like The X-Files, focuses on an untrustworthy authority figure. In fact, this character-type was a regular staple of The X-Files. Specifically, I'm referring to the incredibly sympathetic notion that someone derided, dismissed or de-valued by society at large (perhaps a criminal, perhaps a madman, perhaps just an unconventional thinker...) could be the best source for understanding "the truth" about the featured mysteries. Even "Spooky" Mulder fits this type to some degree. As do the conspiracy theorists, The Lone Gunmen. As late as this summer's X-Files: I Want to Believe, we saw this character type at his most raw and troubling, in the form of the psychic pedophile priest. On Fringe, we get quirky, inappropriate Dr. Bishop, both a madman and a criminal, one who possesses many secrets.
4. Fringe, like The X-Files, focuses on the "The Mytharc" or "Pattern." The X-Files was famous for an exploration of a larger conspiracy, one including the FBI, heads of state, and various departments in the United States Government. The conspiracy had a secret, malicious agenda. In Fringe's pilot, we're introduced not only to a specific episodic mystery (an airborne, self-eradicating germ) but the conspiracy operating behind it. There's not a Cigarette Smoking Man hanging around yet, but we have Blair Brown (replete with a cheesy robotic arm...), a representative of the company Massive Dynamic. She and her corporation are working behind the scenes on the by-now rote malicious and secret agenda.
5. Fringe, like The X-Files, centers on a male/female pair-up. It's Duchovny and Anderson on The X-Files, and Joshua Jackson and Anna Tory on Fringe. I should point out an important difference here. On the X-Files, Scully and Mulder actually boasted fields of expertise. Mulder was a behavioral psychologist (and one of the best profilers in the FBI). And Scully was an M.D. The characters on Fringe seem to have no specialties at all. Peter Bishop (Jackson) is simply tagged a "genius" (that way, a writer has to do no research whatsoever - the character is just SMART!) and Olivia Dunholm (Tory) is merely your average gun-toting, ambitious FBI agent. Each character is about as interesting as wonder bread. Without the crust.
6. Both shows have the same home: The Fox Network. Wonder how that happened?
So yes, pretty clearly, Fringe is a dedicated rip-off of The X-Files. iI's also a rip-off of a short-lived, obscure series from 1998 called Strange World, which concerned "medical mysteries" like the one featured in this pilot. My problem: it's not a good rip-off of either show.
The X-Files is such a classic not merely because the subject matter (the paranormal) is fascinating; not merely because the conspiracy is intriguing. But rather because it boasted the good sense and artistry to create two characters (Mulder and Scully) who viewed their world in vastly different ways. As viewers, we saw the world interpreted through each lens. The writing and acting were so utterly brilliant that moments of heavy exposition played not like boring recitation of fact...but foreplay. We fell in love with Scully and Mulder because they were both smart and passionate. And I don't mean passionate about sex, necessarily, but in the manner they interpreted "the facts" of any given case. Ideas represented the currency of the show. Bold ideas; boldly interpreted.
***this just blatantly points out why I love X Files so much because NOTHING BEATS GENIUS WRITING!***
Whereas on Fringe, there's only the veneer of intelligence, not intelligence itself. In other words, all the concepts and ideas in the pilot are pulled from smart sources (like The X-Files and Altered States), but don't feel organic to this enterprise. You can't import intelligence, and you can't import wit. This was the same problem I had with Orci and Kurtzman's brain-dead Transformers (2007) movie. There was no authentic human element to grasp. Similarly, Fringe already seems anti-science, railing against "science" and "technology." In The X-Files, the villain was the misuse of science and technology, not science and technology itself. There's a distinction there. One asks us to examine human nature (how do we apply our knowledge wisely and morally?) and the other is blatantly anti-intellectual.
** I love you CC can I have your Mind??lol**
So what we're left with in this pilot is a dull police procedural with a conspiracy underneath, and a touch (and I mean a touch...) of the paranormal. Oh, there's a car chase, well-staged. There's a creepy prologue (also an element of The X-Files' formula), here set on a plane in flight. There are some nice special effects involving a man with translucent skin, but the X-Files has already done that too (in Fight the Future and the Season Six premiere.) Worst of all, in Fringe's pilot there's no joy, no fun, no sense of curiosity at all. It's a mechanical, heartless product...a machine grinding out sausage for the masses. (comment: oh yes, Abrams has done it again feeding the idiotic and testosterone drives of mankind bravo Abrams bravo.)
I'm going to keep watching, and I hope the series gets better. I would always rather write a positive review than a negative one. And I have been wrong before, that's for dang sure. But for the time being, I'm going to call a spade a spade: Fringe is a charmless, brazen rip-off of The X-Files. One that copies all the specific elements of that TV classic, but has zero understanding of why it worked in the first place. Fringe is positively soulless. In fact, that's the creepiest thing about it.
Want more Infringement click here.
Seriously, I can't believe there are people who actually watches this, well, not really on utter disbelief but I'm shocked that people are amazed by this show, they actually think it's smart coz' they talk about pseudo-science and conspiracy and yeah great visual effects...WTF??. Are people really that naive?? It's really sad that their is a mass audience on this I'm amazed by the number idiots that lives in the planet of ours. I know it's subjective, but why watch a rip-off ?? that's what's trully sad.
On Abrams I know that this guy is a producer, and that very well ended my question on how this type of incoherent-blank storytelling gets green lighted. Because there are producers like J.J. Abrams who sees the brainless apathetic creatures and they're so kind enough to feed their needs and make all remakes, possible, create major explosion, possible, and make tons of rip-offs
possible. All in the Glory of feeding it to the masses
You want another sad fact
Mass = Money so you can't really blame him can you??
Now, I can't really bash Abrams fully(tempting), I have issues regarding him (after watching Cloverfield, Frine and The REMAKE of Star Trek) but I know this, He created Alias and Lost. I have never watched Lost but I was damned well intrigued by Alias. To Abrams, That's originality why'd you have to break away from it and be a masterful copycat?
Final MV| Karylle 'Almost Over You'
Final Music Video Output is done. ;)
Had a blast, Direk Nani was really great.
The Team was awesome had a blast.
esp. to Rhine, Mai,Coreen and Lauren *bonding moments...???* lol
so wanna work again :)
Monday, June 1, 2009
XF3 Campaign| Awesomeness and Cuteness?lol
XF3 campaign is on going hopefully will get one more. No I believe in the future. XF3. anyways here are some frigginly cute vids for the campaign by the talented vidder Philes (this is not helping at all just makes me want XF3 now-so baaaaaaad) :((
I miss M&S already, 9 season's and 2 movies aren't enough they're too cute.
for more infoXF3 campaign - BELIEVE IN THE FUTURE.
For Pinoy Philes you could help out in the campaign. to Philes or NON-Philes.
Help us Make it Happen!.click for details
XPhiles take on the MasterCard "We Want The Funk" Commercial. XF style lol
The 2 Grand Daddies of Cuteness
by AdaPiper
by anelissetno1
Here are the rest of the vids:
another from anelisstno1
**I'll say powerful.** gah this relationship is to die for...Romeo and Juliet who???
YEAH, WE, esp. ME! I MISS THIS!
by XFyellowbee
by XFChemist
by beyondtheseait
**hate the song but anything with, tub, Speedo and shower *sahring* a shower, I can take it...I could always mute the audio.
Here's the link to the Italian Philes Group
Beyond The Sea
Facebook.Beyond The Sea
**This explains why am having a heavy XFilesGASM yesterday**
Gaah this relationship is killing me, never in my life I have imagined myself obsessing and squee-ing (yes I squeeed--probably will share it, let's see if you wont) about a relationship. This friendship makes lovers and married couples to shame. The Romance puts Romeo and Juliet to rest.
I miss M&S already, 9 season's and 2 movies aren't enough they're too cute.
for more infoXF3 campaign - BELIEVE IN THE FUTURE.
For Pinoy Philes you could help out in the campaign. to Philes or NON-Philes.
Help us Make it Happen!.click for details
XPhiles take on the MasterCard "We Want The Funk" Commercial. XF style lol
The 2 Grand Daddies of Cuteness
by AdaPiper
by anelissetno1
Here are the rest of the vids:
another from anelisstno1
**I'll say powerful.** gah this relationship is to die for...Romeo and Juliet who???
YEAH, WE, esp. ME! I MISS THIS!
by XFyellowbee
by XFChemist
by beyondtheseait
**hate the song but anything with, tub, Speedo and shower *sahring* a shower, I can take it...I could always mute the audio.
Here's the link to the Italian Philes Group
Beyond The Sea
Facebook.Beyond The Sea
**This explains why am having a heavy XFilesGASM yesterday**
Gaah this relationship is killing me, never in my life I have imagined myself obsessing and squee-ing (yes I squeeed--probably will share it, let's see if you wont) about a relationship. This friendship makes lovers and married couples to shame. The Romance puts Romeo and Juliet to rest.
M&S forever
Californication| September 27
been having a heavy XFilesGASM day hmm maybe I miss the show anyways this an entry for Hank and Caifornication. lol
Premiere Date will be on Spetember 27 again side-by-side with Dexter Season 4 (Blood and Fornication) oh, Showtime knows things lol--kidding.
Who to look out for...
For the meantime here's the Promotional Vid from season II
concept was good but still liked the first season's vid
again great track. 'Come To California' by Matthew Sweet
To those who still thinks it's all about fornication...you're missing a lot. I say you should check it out. It's just sex smesh, pay attention to the story. It's a brilliant-witty-fresh Show. Really really FRESH for TV.
Premiere Date will be on Spetember 27 again side-by-side with Dexter Season 4 (Blood and Fornication) oh, Showtime knows things lol--kidding.
Who to look out for...
- Peter Gallagher's perfomrnace (love this guy and when it was annouced, him and David. gah dreams do come true lol)
- Kathleen Turner (who doesn't love her?she's so kick ass!)
- Kevin Corrigan (saw this guy on some flicks and the season is yet to premiere am already loving him)
- Ed Westwick (saw a couple of Goissip Girl Eps...meh, like what he'a playing though)
- Eva Amurri (saw her on saved, actually liked the movie so we'll see)
For the meantime here's the Promotional Vid from season II
concept was good but still liked the first season's vid
again great track. 'Come To California' by Matthew Sweet
To those who still thinks it's all about fornication...you're missing a lot. I say you should check it out. It's just sex smesh, pay attention to the story. It's a brilliant-witty-fresh Show. Really really FRESH for TV.
Hallway Scene OBAMICON| No Damn Bee!
check this out I mean how hot is this? non-philes couldn't relate so don't bother wasting your time lol don't worry I'll edumacate you. haha
and yes Frak that damn Bee.
Credits
If you want join the group. just for fun.
To all curious cats...
Here's the video I'm talking about
It's an outtake from the X-Files:Fight The Future(1998) movie.
Second Version *ahem* seeing more 'into' the action.
To fully understand shipper's frustration watch the whole thing and wait for the infamous Hallway Scene (mid part), if you're attached you might as well curse the mere existence of bees.
Edumacation:
there are two outtakes coming from the 1998 Film here's the first outtake.
'Up Against The Wall' - you'll figure it out after watching the vid.
History:
- after 16 years, July 25, 2008, was the first well-lit-daylight kiss. No Damn Bee but damn the Camera Angle!
- after 10 frustrating years, FTF deleted kiss was included in the Blu-Ray version.
DAMN| THE TEASE| THE WAIT| THE FRUSTRATION
**will probably post an IWTB Tease Frustration**
** now don't get me started on M&S Kamasutra**
**see, I told you TXF is secretley pornography**
**am I The only who believe it is.lol**
on my secretly pornography comment check this entry from this site.
Great Read and Fun Review of the show.
Mulder's Big Adventure
**will probably post an IWTB Tease Frustration**
** now don't get me started on M&S Kamasutra**
**see, I told you TXF is secretley pornography**
**am I The only who believe it is.lol**
on my secretly pornography comment check this entry from this site.
Great Read and Fun Review of the show.
Mulder's Big Adventure
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