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!

Taller

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.

Life Update

• Currently reading ‘Life of Pi’ by Yan Martell. I still have 5 books pending to be finished: ‘Eleven Minutes’ by Paolo Coelho, ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ by Gabriel Garcia Bernal (Which I doubt that I would finish since I already saw the film), ‘The Kite Runner’ by Khaled Kosseini (I’m avoiding the film so that I could read this) and two self-help books which was given to me as a gift (I’m not a fan of self-help books).
• Was so into ‘Suikoden Tierkreis’ for the Nintendo DS, got bored and left it halfway and got engrossed with ‘DotA’ and ‘Left 4 Dead’. I’m thinking of re-playing ‘Shadow of the Colossus’ for the Playstation 2.
• Got sucked in another hobby which is photography. Imagery in all mediums has always fascinated me before. This time imagery via light captured my interest the most. Now I have tons of pictures awaiting to be post-processed.
• Health issues already bothered me. Although I’m still young (I’m talking about early twenties here. And that’s still young for me. ), I’m already experiencing the cons of having a deskjob (increasing mass, less bodily movment).
• I’m in desperate need of a vacation or just a relaxing break from this city life. Been planning with friends to go to Puerto for a weekend. I hope by that time the weather would cooperate with us.
• My sleep cycles has already been broken. I’ve been sleeping at around 2-3 AM in the morning and wakes up at around 8 AM. I think I need stronger sleeping pills.
• Just finished ‘Ga Rei Zero’ series. It was great Anime with intense action and interesting storyline. It’s a much needed break from the light-comedy Animes that I’ve been watching. ‘Shikabane Hime’ and ‘Toradora’ still pending to be finished though.
• What else?…. Oh, I like donuts.