Just got back from the movie theater where I watched the first full show on the official opening day of The Dark Knight. Jessica Zafra wrote in her review (the only one I’ve read about the movie) that, “This is possibly the best superhero movie ever made.” Guess what? I cannot agree with her more!

Read more of Flori’s personal take on The Dark Knight on Speechless.

When we hear of the phrase Mortal Kombat, only one thing first comes to mind: Fatality. Even Capcom can admit that this concept featured in MK challenged the supremacy of their Street Fighter.

The Fatality became a major innovation in the genre of fighting games, that it made MK gain its current reputation: it was deemed too graphic and disturbing that it caused major uproars from concerned citizens, especially parents.

Ironically, I think it was also thanks to MK that the ESRB was founded, and the ratings body gave it an M (Mature) rating. This had seemingly stopped MK from being released in the arcades, but it instead spread in the privacies of our homes.

But enough about fatalities: let us deal with the topic at hand, shall we?

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Good news: The first Filipino edition of Playboy will hit the stands on April 2.

Bad news: There will be no nudity. Well, that is, if you really consider it a bad news.

Veteran journalist Beting Laygo Dolor says that the Filipino Playboy will be launched as an “adult lifestyle magazine”, aimed at a more mature readership compared to FHM and Maxim, which they classified as “lad magazines”.

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This just in: The Sta. Lucia Realtors‘ 15-year oddysey has come to fruition, as the green-clad basketball warriors finally win their first PBA Championship ever.

It was a bittersweet victory for the Realtors, as their opponent Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants put much of a challenge by managing to tie the Best-of-Seven Series at three games apiece. But they made the ultimate statement by defending their 100-88 victory in Game 7.

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This news isn’t so new, but I believe it’s worth posting anyway.

In 2004, Electronic Arts had a partnership deal with Marvel Comics, which gave rise to the “cross-over” beat-’em-up/fighting game Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects. To me, at least, the game didn’t sell that good, and it has a share of fairly bad reviews.

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I am so pissed off!

Really! Who would actually put very personal information (including addresses, birth dates and voter ID numbers) online?! Just one guess, folks. Just one guess!

I don’t know if the COMELEC NCR people in-charge of this scheme mean to please stalkers or those ruthless self-serving politicians. No wonder may dayaan! This plain screams, “IDENTITY THEFT!”

Hmp! There should have be an account log-in of some sorts so that the people concerned can just view their own personal info.

Use your heads naman, men! Yes, yung nasa taas.

Thanks to Atheista.net for the info.

I often can’t pinpoint the emotion I feel when I come across a foreign TV show or movie that has a character that makes references to the Philippines or Filipinos?

Sometimes it’s amusement, especially when the characters are Filipino themselves and they speak in Tagalog. Remember the following?

Ewok in the forest saying “Ito ay puno!” in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)

The Filipino cook complaining, “Ayan kasi aalis-alis! Nagsusuka na yung mga tao…” or to that effect in Her Alibi (1989)

The chef cursing Sean Connery’s character in Tagalog in The Rock (1996)

Hmm… but how about insult? Pride? How I wish it’s always the latter, but more often than not it’s the former!

I know that we’re far from being model citizens of the world, but come on! We have more to us than typhoons, or a corrupt government, or Imelda and her shoes! Pinoys are loving, optimistic, hospitable people who possess multitudes of natural skills and talents!

Anyway, enough of my ranting. More of this stuff in Scott R. Garceau’s The Philippine Star article, Pinoys in TV Land .

First thing’s first, I’m not blasting anyone’s belief system.

We received a bread dough from a neighbor with a photocopied paper attached to it. The paper read clear – the dough’s Hemin, the bread of Catholic saint Padre Pio.

I thought that it was just a small scale thing involving neighbors but since other people (links here and here), wrote this, I thought of writing a post about it too. Very viral of me.

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