DivisionByZero

For those whom I haven’t told yet, I got a few sentences media exposure in a Manila Bulletin Manila Standard Today column.

From the August 9, 2005 Digital Life column by Chin Wong:

… Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos tells us Katrina isn’t alone. This site http://gmailfeatures.grytoyr.net/, lists the most wanted Gmail features — and will even let you vote for yours.

The author happened to be a member of the PH-Cyberview Mailing List and it was in one of this threads that I was able to tell him about the Most Wanted Gmail features link. Below is the body of the email I sent to him:

On 8/2/05, Chin Wong wrote:
> In the year since I began using Gmail, I’ve discovered some quirks and
> gathered a number of tips from the Web that help me make the most of
> Google’s free e-mail service. Here are some you won’t find in the
> official Gmail documentation.

There’s this site that does a survey on what features gmail users most want.

http://gmailfeatures.grytoyr.net/

After what seemed like three years, I’ve finally put something on my Deviantart gallery (don’t ask why )

All of them are old artworks I did during my undergrad days - magazine covers for the student publication and posters done pro-bono for my org.

If I have the time and interest/inspiration, I just might put some new ones. I’ve always wanted to learn vector graphics, maybe now is the best time to start.

Movies I’ve seen from Time.com’s All-Time 100 Movies:

• Blade Runner
• City of God
• Finding Nemo
• The Godfather Parts I and II
• Goodfellas
• The Lord of the Rings
• Pulp Fiction
• Schindler’s List
• Star Wars

Jeez, 9 movies out of 100!

There ought to be art film theater here in CDO.

Interesting Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith links:

How a lightsaber works
Revenge of the Sith wallpapers

Mungkey sent me this really cool Star Wars Episode III spoilers link.

some movies i’ve recently seen (yes, i do watch a lot). maybe i should start a movie-review blog somewhere. too lazy to comment or even rate them though:

• finding nemo (2003)
• the men who tread on the tiger’s tail (1945)
• drop zone (1994)
  
• the plot to kill hitler (1990)
• king arthur (2004)
• primal fear (1996)
• the terminator (1984)

bowling for columbine

michael moore’s other award-winning documentary aside from the more popular fahrenheit/911. while the film is basically about gun violence in america, it takes the viewers on other related issues such as u.s. foreign policy, corporate greed, government-sponsored paranoia, and media-bias against african-americans and other minorities. this is a film every concerned american should watch.
rating: 4.5/5

twilight samurai

an award-winning film by yoji yamada about a low-ranking samurai named seibei iguchi who just lost his wife to consumption and must live a life of austerity with his two young daughters and old mother.

the development of the characters is brilliantly done you could almost feel their humanity. add to that the film’s great cinematography and accurate depiction of the period during the meiji restoration. this is a film, i’d recommend to anyone interested in japanese culture.
rating: 4.75/5

warriors of heaven and earth

set in the gobi desert during the tang dynasty, the story is about two warriors, lai xi and lt. li, who are on opposite sides of the law but are forced by circumstances to protect a caravan carrying a sacred relic from falling into the hands of invading turks and bandits.

i won’t call this film brilliant or anything - there were some aspects of the plot i think they missed out on. (maybe i was expecting spectacular kung-fu scenes instead of swordfights and horseriding or perhaps just more screen-time for vicki zhao ).
rating: 3/5