Silver Screen: The Age of Stupid

Caring for the environment – this is one idea that most people are actively talking about; however it just starts and ends from there. To most of us, it’s just an idea. Something that we keep at the back of our heads until its forgotten. Yes, some of us are actively buy clothing, bumper stickers, paraphernalia, attend concerts, join fund-raisers that promote the idea of caring for the environment; but will it just be up to that? Do we ever ask ourselves where is the result of my ‘environmental’ activities? Will it just be another fad or trend that goes in and out of style?

The Age of Stupid is a documentary that tackles the history of the human race and the planet that they’re living in. In a nutshell, it presents us on how our greed and hypocrisy towards our environment/natural resources/planet will lead us to our own extinction. As what the narrator mentioned in the film:

“I just find it surprising that after so much effort; the final act of our existence should be suicide.”

The film presents stories from different point of views: A poor girl from Nigeria struggling to find funds for her college; a tycoon from India starting his very own budget airline; Two kids caught up in the War in Iraq; An environmentalist employee of a huge Oil Company; A French tour guide devastated by the climate change and an English Engineer whose dreams were destroyed by vanity. All of these characters gives us a little insight on how directly or indirectly climate change is affecting them. We see how some of their principles change through-out the movie not just because of the issue on the environment but also because of norms and society.

There is a lot of ideas presented in the film that really made me think. One is the idea of Consumerism.

“Lots of ideas have tried to take over the world but there is only one winner: Consumerism“

Everywhere there is advertisements, advertisements and lots of advertisements. Advertisements from companies that lure us into buying their products promising us that we’ll be happier, cooler, smarter when in fact it just feeds and enlarges our very own greed. People now want more and more stuff. A new phone model-A new camera-Tons of accessories-Unecessary sweets-desserts-A new car-There’s not an end to this! Just take a look back at our history, most wars were started by human greed: War on diamonds, War on Oil, War on Spices.

I just hope that people remind themselves to consume responsibly. Our natural resources are now diminishing and still we have no reliable alternative energy source (Most projects such as Solar power and electric cars were still underdeveloped). By the year 2050, I can’t really say that there can be a planet earth that can sustain life.

Are we that selfish that we strip the life of the planet for the enjoyment of the current generation? Think about it?

There is still time. Don’t be stupid. We can still act out.

The Age of Stupid Facebook page. Be a Fan. Watch the Film. I highly recommend it.

Pop! Can’t Stop!

I’ve noticed that there seem to be a bunch of K-pop artists trying to go global. With the success of the Wonder Girls (Nobody, Nobody but you! clap-clap), more and more artists from other Asian countries are penetrating our local music scene. Actually when we take a look back there are already artists from Japan, Indonesia and Korea that made it big here.

Can you recall the Japanese group Pizzicato 5? I’m sure you must have heard their smash hit ‘Sweet Soul Revue’ back in the 90s. How about Utada Hikaru with her debut single here ‘Automatic’ and the more popular ‘First Love’? Surely you must have danced to the ridiculously addictive ‘Dayang Dayang’ from Indonesia. Remember those days?

Also there is a surge of Korean/Taiwan music when the popular koreanovelas such as Meteor Garden, Stairway to Heaven and Lovers in Paris were Tagalized (F4 anyone?). Further back then Anime shows like Dragonball (CHALA HEAD CHALA!) and Voltes Five (Voltes Fivaaa!) introduced to kids the power of addictive melody and singing unknown lyrics.

Super Junior - I can't understand why they need to have 13 members (perhaps more than the Sexbomb?)

Diversity is such a wonderful thing. At least now we many choices and not just limited to our genre of music. I just hope that our people will give more support to our local artists and I also hope that our local artists will come up with something new and unique (No more revivals, acoustic versions or tagalized version of foreign songs please.). Other than that, do you fancy K-pop or J-pop music?

Before I end my blurb, here is something that I just discovered off of Youtube: The Yazima Beauty Salon group. Just check their wiki page for more info. I just find them (Specially Strawberry) so hilarious! The Japanese never ceases to amaze me:

Silver Screen Returns!

Yes. I’m bringing it back: Silver Screen 2-point-Oh. In my previous blog home I usually write short reviews on the latest movies that I’ve just seen. Sometimes in one movie-review-post I would feature at least three films and give out just my quick impressions on them. I kept doing that for sometime until it became a boring. I mean here am I writing my impressions on movies that most people have already seen or planning on seeing… so I lost interest on doing that.

This time around with Silver Screen 2.0, I plan to feature films of all types (Animation, Documentary, Live Action, Foreign, Local) that were actually good but didn’t had the chance to be shown in our local shores or were underrated. There were actually a lot of good films out there. Sometimes we just need to open our minds to them. So here I am again, inviting you to join me in my journey to the different realms of Moving Pictures!

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A new year. A new age. A fresh start. Another chance.

I just turned a year older two weeks ago. Every year I’ve been telling myself that I’ve grown so much, Changed a lot, but I guess I just like to think of it that way. I was really hoping that I wouldn’t change that much but it was like crashing through a huge wave. It was inevitable. Change is constant. I am not. Realizations suddenly come as we grow. To me the world becomes more and more senseless. As we grow, we get caught up in life created by our society. Being trapped in a routine. Work. Home. A little fun. Work. Some people just accept the fact that this is life while some lucky ones has found a different meaning in seeing life.

The children. I still envy them for in their eyes the world is still new and fascinating. Most people take that for granted, ridiculing other’s wonderment with the world. Immature — That’s the word they use to describe those who still has passion to live. Most complicate simple things in such various levels. A simple problem can be solved in an easy way yet most opt for the harder solution. Yet most of us has this inner child. How is a child laughing different from an adult laughing?

I just wish I won’t turn into one of those people. Dull. Boring. Lifeless… I still keep the child inside. In one way or another that kid inside of me pulls me through life itself. He keeps reminding me to be different; find Challenges; see life through another angle; Don’t let the passion fade away; Lust for life.

So here’s to another new year to me.

Cheers.

Freshness Guaranteed!

- Fizzy.Out.Burst -

I want to start again. It’s been an endless cycle for me in the blogging work: Active – Hiatus – Dead – Zombie Mode – Active. Ever since I started working I have less and less time for blogging nowadays. There’s so much things that I wanted to do but there is little time. Sometimes I find myself awake until the wee hours of the night (or morning) reflecting on what I have been doing in the past years of my life. Anyway enough about my rants, the important thing is I’m back again trying to revive my lonely home in the blogosphere.

Fizzy Outburst — it’s a title that I come up with when thinking about renovating my blog. It’s either I set-up another blogspace in wordpress or stick with this current one. Since I remembered that I have less time for writing things up, I think I’d rather speak through pictures in my blog. But I still promise to write even short posts about my interests. Why did I chose Fizzy Outburst? I noticed that sometimes I have this sudden bursts of inspiration come out from me. Sometimes unusual ideas pop-up at the most inappropriate times. These are the times when I’m not in front of my PC thinking of what to blog. With that I’m trying hard to stick to these ideas, making mental notes or taking them down in my cellphone just for me to remember them. The only problem again is finding the time to write it here. Anyway, let’s see if I can keep this up — (I also said this when I started my Tumblr account). Let’s hope for the best.

There may be changes with my current lay-out since I’m not yet decided on what the final version will be. . I think this will be my default theme for now. Just a little more minor tweaking and I’m done. Also, I’ll be writing mostly in English (Obviously to sharpen my English writing skills) so I want to say sorry in advance for future (and current) grammatical errors. Maybe there will be a little post on Tagalog every now and then. Let’s see where it takes us.

What to expect in the coming days: Past Adventures, Reviews, Hobbies, Reflections and whatever ideas that I can save from this fizzy brain of mine.