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Top 5 for the week:
1. Sweetest Coma Again – by abingdon boys school
2. Guren – by the GazettE
3. DIRTY – by Nightmare
4. Ash Like Snow – by the billiant green
5. Bulakbol – by the Mongols
Truth be told, my group’s thesis really kinda watered me down. Really.
The thesis is a SMS/chat lingo language translator, and it translates chat lingo to its English equivalent. So I’m using some algorithmic principles, language theories, translation studies and transliteration methods to make the makeshift translator a bit more palatable for the ICS panelists as a thesis.
I skipped blogging for some days just to finalize some things and debugging. Oh hellish lawrd, I’m losing sleep.
Next week, we’re (me and my co-proponents) planning to finally defend it ourselves. Time to put my final game face on, because it’s going to be my final month at UST and we’re going at it full blast. And thesis isn’t the only subject begging for our attention.
I’m currently hooked on these anime titles:
Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
You’re Under Arrest: Full Throttle
Clannad
H2O
True Tears
Persona
Rosario+Vampire
Kimikiss
Majin Tantei Nogami Neuro
Seirei no Moribito
Shigofumi
Rental Magica
Naruto: Shippuuden
BLEACH
Binbou Shimai Monogatari
Wolf’s Rain
Spice and Wolf
Ghost Hound
Gundam00
Shakugan no Shana II
… and a lot more.
I’m reading these manga/manga-zines right now:
Alive
Otoboku
Negima
The Wallflower
Furuba
Yuri Hime S
BLEACH
… and some other more.
Some headline news from FARK.com… (I just screened the best ones, credits to FARK please)
(If you want the links, go to www.fark.com
The “bold” ones are the best ones, I think, so far.
– The Guinness World Records brand now belongs to Ripley’s… believe it or not
– Not news: Judge arrested for DUI. News: While dressed like a call girl. Fark: It’s a man, baby
– Woman cracks open egg to find second egg inside it.
– Chances are, if you made a list of your dream jobs, “pet food taste-tester” wouldn’t be on it. Unlike this guy
– Teens in upstate New York compete to wear shorts every day in the winter because it’s “cool.” Remember when teens understood irony?
– “You kids have it so easy today. Back in my day, we actually had to yell down the hall at our parents when we were mad, instead of text messaging them from our bedrooms”
– Brits spend more on cosmetic surgery than all other countries in Europe. Figure falls to average when adjusted for Victoria Beckham, however
– One man’s terrorist is another man’s presidential candidate: Reuters prints “Osama” instead of “Obama.” Three times. In one article
– Nothing says “I Love You” better than a shovel to your husband’s head
– Quebec’s “language police” orders Irish pub to take down decorative English signs, stop serving in English, and then tells him that the English on his bilingual menu is “not respectful.” Welcome to the Fourth Reich
– CNN opens up iReport.com, where users submit news stories without vetting or verification of authenticity or accuracy. What could possibly go wrong?
– The pope puts Sister Lucia, a woman who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary during apparitions in 1917, on the fast track to sainthood. Next up: That guy in the Midwest who saw Christ on a potato chip a few years back
– That spy satellite falling out of orbit? The Pentagon has decided it will shoot it down instead of letting it crash back to Earth. This should end well
– Animal rights idiots enraged that zoo let nine-year-old elephant get pregnant. “It is completely irresponsible,” they whine
– The end of days is upon us. Behold: Hello Kitty, the MMORPG
– China bans ghosts from the Internet. Who ya gonna’ call?
– Today’s obligatory “Police shoot naked guy with samurai sword” story
– Having solved the mysteries of cancer, AIDS, and limitless energy sources, scientists have now proven some fairy tales could actually be true
– White stag spotted in Scottish Highlands. Told you Harry Potter was real. Suck it haters
– Beer is now cheaper than water in Scotland
And speaking of politics, here we go again.
There are a lot of other Filipinos out there, in the militant and left-wing groups, church groups, sexist clubs, social clubs, business clubs and people-who-have-nothing-but-clubs who are calling for the current Philippines’ president G. M. Arroyo to resign. And I have a big question for these militants who have their lips on somebody else’s ass:
Where did your sense of justice gone to?
The basic principle of justice is that a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty. There are accusations, all right, against GMA’s administration. But we have laws, ladies and gentlemen. We can’t let the asylum be run by the inmates. For the thousand idiots who attended the Feb 15 political rally, you are all misled by blind rage, and the picture is this: Mr. Jun Lozada, you have more than twenty thousand people sucking your dick right now.
What the Senate is doing is just an INVESTIGATION, not a trial. They are investigating the anomalous ZTE broadband deal that the government signed so many months ago. Jun Lozada is a part of that, and I respect his testimony. But when hundreds of idiots march on the streets having these stupid placards and stupid slogans with stupid looks plasted on their faces, it makes me sick to my stomach and switch my TV channel to C/S, which is a better alternative than watching TV Patrol and 24 Oras.
It’s not that I’m complacent about this; I just believe in the equality and fairness of the basic tenets of law. It’s unfair to the accused people to be subjected to the so-called “trial by publicity”. Let the courts decide on this; let the evidence speak for themselves; let the truth be known at the most lawful way possible.
I’m just going to follow the investigation. If the courts decide that there was indeed a government tryst on this part, so be it. If the courts decide that the accused are innocent, so be it. Anarchy is not a solution for the moment, and calls for resignations are just plain stupid.
I’m getting sick of the local news lately. Better watch CNN and Fox News instead, maybe?
Somebody asked me a few minutes ago what I thinked of TNA Wrestling. You know, the one that Jeff Jarret launched after WWE bought WCW a few years back.
I think that TNA, in my opinion, is slowly going way overboard.
First, they should stop copying WWE. As much as TNA hates to admit it, they actually operate like the WWE. They have… “Stone Cold” Sharkboy, which is plain stupid at that rate. They copy WWE ideas, copy WWE storylines, copy WWE attitude… they are slowly morphing themselves like the ones they are up running against.
Second, they should stop, i mean STOP hiring ex-WWE wrestlers. TNA is losing its identity.
Paul Heyman was right with his last interview. When people see Kurt Angle, they remember him and Brock at Wrestlemania. The 4-time WWE Champion Kurt Angle, not the 2-time TNA Champion Kurt Angle. When they see Booker Huffman, they see the five-time, five-time, five-time, five-time, five-time WCW Champion Booker T and World Heavyweight Champ King Booker. They see Team 3D, they think they’re still the ECW Dudley Boys, not the stupid “brother Ray and Devon” thing. Christian Cage is 100% more popularly known as Edge’s gold partner at WWE and being the Captain Charisma than being the Instant Classic. I rather call him the “Instant Cl-ASS-ic”. See Jim Cornette there? He’s more famously remebered for slapping a wrestler in OVW than being a TNA personality. And James Mitchell is more known as The Sinister Minister than being just James Mitchell. Chris Jericho was also right. TNA is a cheap brand for a global wrestler such as him. Sting is even more famed for being WCW’s Sting than TNA’s Sting.
TNA initially developed greats such as AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Chris Harris, Ron Killings, and Monty Brown to be their cornerstones. Where are they now? Samoa Joe’s just another fat ass on Spike TV every two hours on Thursday nights. AJ, who worked for more than 3 years in TNA, is kissing the ass of a man who has worked for TNA in a duration less than him, Monty Brown’s gone, and Chris Harris and Ron Killings are headed to WWE.
TNA is a product who has outlived its purpose. Six-sided ring, yes. Great schedule, yes. Two-hour time slot at Spike TV, yes. Talented roster, yes. But promoting wrestlers to other countries, paying big and having successful pay-per-views, NO. TNA as an independent brand, NO. TNA is not at the same level at WWE for now. TNA should establish their identity more.
Ciao for now. Going back to class.
Briathrail // Albert 2MNG 
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