Tuesday, October 23, 2012

From The GrapeVine

NEWS the LATEST:

Autumn > Winter Season. A time when it get so chilly out there. Change in temperature can make people sick. The usual effects: runny nose, colds, cough and the worse thing that can happen? FLU. Flu can get to you by means of infection through air and where you get them thr. location or the kind of environment you are in with the "infected person or group of people."

Who should get the flu vaccine? Just like previous news, as in before, flu is not that ordinary it comes and goes every year no matter what happened and no matter what the situation is however flu vaccine is necessary to prevent an onset of deeper implications and deeper worse diagnosis. So better that vaccine should be implemented to the following people who are working in the hospital or clinic. Them first to have vaccines because they are the ones receiving the sick patients in their facilities. Next, restaurant workers, school teachers, administrators, and students. Seniors, old people and those who are vulnerable to certain ailments need to be vaccinated too.

However there are people who don't believe in vaccines. It's up to them if they don't like to have vaccines. IT's UP TO THEM. You cannot force them. Who do you believe? Your doctor or yourself? Whoever, whatever, wherever and whenever. So if you get sick with flu please be cautious not to infect others, that's all.

OTHER NEWS: Mr. Black the newspaper mogul is having a mad verbal rant with a journalist this morning TV news. Not long ago he was accused of a "case" that I don't know about because it seems to me that it was sort of a publicity stunt. They should produce a MOVIE about Mr. Black being the new MR. BOND. lol. Oh no! Timely with 007's Daniel Craig movie.

What else is new? The security threat in cyberworld. Everyday is a threat for all of us here in the NET WORLD. Where is Sandra Bullock when you need her?

I think we need to be aware of our ENVIRONMENT the REAL WORLD because we might wake up Canada is no longer Canada or Philippines is no longer Philippines.

CANONIZATION. Aboriginal woman Saint Tekakwitha the latest of the list of saints being canonized in the Vatican. Then a Filipino saint also in the list known after Lorenzo Ruiz. How they can find out if they are saints or has become saints? Through the intercession of "miracles accumulated in their names" but how many miracles should it be? It's weird. Hope you don't mind why I questioned such case. Would it be better if  Pope John Paul II or at least Dr. Jose P. Rizal be named as SAINT?

Many miracles were then gathered, reflected and happened  since Dr. Rizal became a hero, he should be a saint. Don't you think?

Oh no!!!!!!! He was excommunicated by the Spaniards who are devoted Catholic so he wont become a saint. Too bad Josephine!



Monday, October 22, 2012

It's So Weird Out There

Wicked and wacky Amazing Race was shown on television last night. From Indonesia to Bangladesh. If you haven't seen what poverty yet that's the place to go and see for yourself. It's a pity that life over ther haven't changed. It's the same impoverished community for the past twenty years. That's the "old similar scene" close to the Divisoria area where the railway train is, muddy, slum area with millions of squatters. Bangladesh, just like India had cruel flash flood brought on by so many cyclones and other harsh calamities including famine. In this leg of the race the cast of Amazing Race 2012 had the chance to work on old buses, repair > fillin in gaps of the buses' wall dings, scraping and polishing its side walls then pulling out the bus' seats outside for re-upholstery. They have to get clues from a sack of dried fish from the market stall, fill-in a mattress with cotton, helped the ironsmith finish his work by pounding the metal armor or equipment dunno what he will do with that metal tool. While the fast forward is a task of collecting so many rats from one location to another, a task that the rocker and lawyer was able to finish right in time and was the winner of the leg of the race for that episode. So many rats!!!!! I hope they burned the rats or dig a hole so that it wont cause a pandemic. Rats are dirty. They are the cause of bubonic plague during the Dark Ages.

Then here comes the news about those contaminated beef and boxes upon boxes of those meat were dumped in the landfill. According to the news soil was dumped to cover the boxes of meat so that wild animals wont clutter them. Really? Why not they just burn them? It's safer that way right? Birds can get easily open those boxes and scatter them for every wild animals to share.

Uhm scary, what an awful scary scenario as if a movie called "Contagion."




Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Rumors Have IT

I heard of this rumor from somebody and long before I know it's also written on another website in the blogosphere. What's this rumor about? It has something to do with WALMART competing with the DOLLAR STORE. Really???!!!! Wow! Let's get along with the competition.

I love to sew my own clothes and get the chance to design the style I preferred it's better that way. However textiles in Canada are really expensive. Very costly! Thread, sewing machine needles, elastic, pins, zipper are costly too. You can avail of sale or discounted textile products only if you are a member of  Fabricland. You'll be happy of their low priced items when you visit their store however with Walmart's priority to please the public and their customers their retail pricing of commodities are really more than amazing.

One day I found out that at Walmart, they are selling some bathing suits worth only a dollar!!!! Would you like to scream for that kind out of this world sale? Well, because those items were worth more than $15.00 before. Zellers cannot even have those items priced lower than five bucks even if they are closing down for business. So really Walmart is trying to beat the Dollar Store because Dollar Store's upgrading themselves by selling their one dollar priced items to $2.00 up to $3.00/item.

So where else you'll go to shop during this upcoming Christmas season? Not to mention Halloween is fast approaching.

Better shop at WALMART then. I know we are all thrifty and we use our mind to think that nothing last forever so why buy expensive items.

How many times we are victims of  expensive costly materials and materials we thought it's the real thing but it's not. At least when the product is cheap we know its cheap and it wont really hurt our pockets and wallets. You know what I mean? Because you know what? Not because the store is known for its genuine accessories you thought what you are buying is genuine. Think again. Sometimes it depends on how you carry yourself amidst all these things called "material."

I'm just like you wanting and wishing to have genuine leather stuff thing or leather trendy bags and shoes and all expensive clothes and accessories then later after watching the documentary "Dirty Job" on how leather are gathered from dead animals and how they cleaned them thoroughly using so much water and how they pollute the water system it really made me sick and look at the water like as if its poison. No wonder only few people drink water. They would rather have "colored water of their choice."

Reason for this that POP, TEA and SODA is more than in demand in this part of the world. I hope BRITA water filter can do justice in purifying our water.


Monday, October 15, 2012

Odd Jobs

Last night a very interesting documentary shown on TV CBC edition of The Passionate Eye. It has something to do w ith young girls from Russia. It all started with a queue of teengirls clad in skimpy bra and bikinis vying their way in to modelling. They all are tall and skinny and have that fair complexion their would be employers would like. After a short video wherein they have to say their name, age and where they came from they have to parade like models in those swimming suits and act like models and snapshots after snapshots were then recorded and later on they've chosen who will be going to be a model in Japan. Why Japan is the destination for these models? Yeah why on earth not in other countries?

Two models from Russia were chosen namely Nadiya ( a Lilli Sobieski's look-alike) and Madlen by their mentor who was also a model before she become their promo manager. It was na hour documentary only so the pacing is somewhat fast. They travelled by train from Russia (Siberia) to Japan. The models were ushered to small cubicle called apartment which is so small enough for a bunkbed to fit in, small table and stools, bathroom in the same room. It was really too small for them but they managed until they were called for photo shoot ops. Nadiya was asked not to reveal her true age because she is only minor age 14 actually at the very start then the photographer asked her to say she's 15 yrs. old. Only one photos were shot and were then xeroxed so many times. The girls tried to find out where those photos were published. They searched those photos everywhere, in magazine stalls and book stores and can't find where their modelling career will end up. They don't have much luck of their career because of the many don'ts esp. on how they have to manage their body weight. The manager keeps measuring their vital statistics and they should not go beyond those "numbers" (body weight, height) what's stated in the contract. Madlen becomes overweight and she was sent home. End of her modelling career. Later Nadiya went home too after she finds out that her photos end up in magazines with black dyed hair and the hair covering her eyes. Nadiya has blonde hair and blue eyes. After that she also went back to Russia after all the crying scenes.

Modelling career at Tyra's? You as a model for supermodel should have tough invisible mask on your face, you should be very strong to racist comments, you should be made of plastic if not rubber or steel to get to the top. You should be able to do their "odd jobs of modelling" embarrassing yourself to the public and you may want to compare the modelling to hazing, fraternity and sorority. It's almost like a cult. It is scary. It's like being in MIT where genius experiment with awful gas. Something like that. Weird! So weird! If that's the kind of modelling who wants it? You'd better just join the ARMY! Or NAVY.  At least you get promoted to the rank and file.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

What you should know aside from TV shows? Hackers!!!! So I save my work here for draft then somebody else changed the spelling of the word I'm using. Wow! Dude are you crazy?

What To Watch For?

The many news that keep bombarging us every now and then brought to you by television networks:

I told you before that a complete TV channels with satellite dish will give you more than 5,000 thousand channels and programs. Even just a thousand channel is too much. However in this generation X when almost everyone wants to be entertained in their homes what can you do? Did you know that every schools in Canada is provided with TV sets? It's no longer an ordinary appliance set at home but also in schools especially at school library. Then you know what? You wont believe churches and religious congregations have television sets too. Why oh why? The power of magnets.

TV sets have magnetic power that draw attention to minds and once you are focused to its face you can't stop looking and staring. Your vision on television.

Last night, my daughter watched an episode of  VICTORIOUS a teenager's view about secondary school or for those students  who are in the field of arts and entertainment hollywood style. What the group of Victoria Justice (Tori Vega and the whole cast : Jade, Beck, Cat, Robi, Rex the puppet and Andre), did in this episode > was an impersonation of the BREAKFAST CLUB. Did they do justice to that movie in matter of 30 minutes? Surely is. They should had it longer version and make it into a movie. They are talented teen actors and actresses. They can sing and dance. What I like about them is their timing for comedy. Watch out 22 MINUTES! lol

Another to watch for in the TVLAND is the DOG WITH THE BLOG starring the cute guy of LEMONADE MOUTH who is the next Keanu Reeves.

What happened with too many television shows appearing in almost the same time slots? Viewers will have a problem what to watch first or give attention too that's why X FACTOR's judges : Simon Cowell, LA Reid, Britney Spears, and Demi Lovato have to connect with the like of Justin Bieber, Mark Anthony, Nick Jonas, Will of Black Eyed Peas to judge the contestants separated by distance, location, bodies of water, so that they can concentrate. FIVE MILLION DOLLARS too big of a prize.

What happened at SURVIVOR: Philippines? Looks like it's getting boring with few remaining contestants.

AMAZING RACE is a little bit crazy on the side from its USA from the top of the bridge in Cali down to the next level of the hill the contestants proceeded with caution with the determination to win the $2 million dollars. From Shanghai surprise tour having to eat guts from papaya fruits to Indonesia's bull racing like no other and "ballooning exercise" hehehee just kidding. I mean it's funny sometimes to watch this game show that the contestants have to travel around the world and have to try and experience the different kind of job that other people from different countries normally do to be employed, well mostly odd jobs compared to what these lawyers, actors and actress, and other extra ordinary occupations they had in America. But in today's economic condition when millions are unemployed you've got to try something to survive. That's also the "teachings or lessons we learned from Amazing Race."

Shanghai, China. My God that country never stop to excite us with something new. Too many skycrapers there now. Where are their plantation? Where are the farmlands? China's rice terraces no longer exist? It's all buildings and concrete. When chinese no longer work to till the land the cultivation is now given to farmers where? That's why according to the late Pres. Marcos in the year 1972 he considered that agrarian reform be implemented in the Philippines to be the source of farm products but what happened to the farm lands were then used for subdivisons and housing facilities, the resources of food and other raw materials lessened and others vanished. Philippines no longer the rice granary in year 1980. There's not enough food for billions of people that's why we all have to watch what we are eating if its real or not. GREEN PEACE advocates warned us about such news before the millenium, before Year 2000.