The “new” official website of my most favorite band ever really made my day! After seeing this link on Parokya’s fan Multiply site, I instantly browsed through the section and purred happily while digesting all the PNE goodness.

What really made me do cartwheels (well, imaginary ones, fine) is the Videos section. I initially wanted to purchase the Matira Matibay DVD a few months back, but got the Audio CD instead when none of the SM Pampanga music stores carry it. I wanted to see all their music videos! >.< Yes, there is YouTube, but despite going through the heaps of cover songs, mushy PowerPoint presentations using PNE songs for BGM and what-have-yous, I feel that I still have not seen ALL of their MVs.

I was right. After going through the section, I found out that Maniwala Ka Sana does have a video. Well, everything else, I’ve already seen, but it was cool seeing their other MVs again. ^-^

Before I end the entry (which is more like a SQUEAL tribute to PNE), let me list down my Top 5 Favorite PNE Music Videos. Personally, it was a Herculean task for me to separate the PNE song from the PNE video, but I tried my best.

 

TOP 5 PNE VIDEOS by syaowee

5. Akala

 

This is PNE’s latest MV, which wisely tells us not to be afraid of risks, and then relates it somewhat to the success that this band has enjoyed for more than a decade now.

On a slightly-related note, my BF loves this video to pieces!

Favorite Scene: Green amidst blue :D

4. Mr. Suave

 

The song that helped catapult a senator aspirant to the much-coveted position in the Philippine islands. It is a funny tribute to the Rico J. Puno suave style of wooing girls in his own songs.

I believe this is one of the more spam-played songs on the radio previously. :)

Favorite scene: Chito emoting at the start of the song amidst soft filtered sepia-toned lights, Chito dancing, Chito, Chito, Chito! XD

3. Buloy

 

The first PNE song from their first album, which I will not even bother to spell. (Off-topic: I thought Picha Pie was their first song.) This song talks about Buloy, a friend that the songwriter/singer admires so much because the former always has an answer to life’s problems: drink booze. :D

The song itself has a dark tone in the climax, but the video reflects little to none of that. It shows considerably younger PNE wreaking havoc on the places they visited for the shoot, having fun and being carefree.

Favorite Scene: Chito running away from home. XD 

2. Harana

 

One of my ultimate faves in the Parokya playlist. It shows the gang doing something they probably also do in real life when hanging out—playing with an Abs Flexer, playing dama (checkers?) with 4 players, and doing WWE Smackdown moves on each other.

The song itself though is one of the most romantic pieces I’ve heard, not because of emo, poetic phrases, but because it’s a song that you can truly imagine a typical male teen will croon to the girl he loves. Boyish, shy and heartfelt.

Favorite Scene: Arinola-throwing

1. Halaga

 

This song made me swoon in high school, and still does: a song of a frustrated guy whose (I assume) female pal keeps on crying on his shoulder because her BF hurt her for the nth time.

Its video though did not choose to literally interpret the song. Instead, it chose to show a hilarious boy-band-MV spoof dressed in what most elementary-boys wear after cutting classes to play pRO.

Favorite Scene: A very inspired spoof of Boy Bands (and recently, Edward Cullen) shining amidst the sun’s rays while riding on a boat.

My product training curriculum includes Netflix viewing, a two-hour streaming movie/buffer experience in a dark air-conditioned classroom of 21 agents munching on Chippy and Pringles right under the giant poster asking suggesting that trainees not to bring in anything edible.

… Um, well, my company did not explicitly state the Netflix part, but since our product supports this feature, then I might as well showcase this cool feature to the folks first-hand. :) To hell with troubleshooting, LET’S WATCH A MOVIE FTW!!!!!!11

*coughs* Anyway, for the past two classes, I’ve seen 2 movies and 2 documentaries: Wall-E, Enchanted, Mary Magdalene, and some documentary on anime and its impact on American viewership. But I’ll be reviewing the one that fascinated me the most.

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I believe this is a long-delayed post to pay tribute to my newest anime fixation. I’m pretty sure this will be quite a long entry, but come to think of it, when did I last sit down to really write about something non-work-related?

Learning the Code

I first saw Code Geass while lurking in the Naruto forums during the Hinata Manga confession heydays. One of the sigs feature a sultry lime-haired woman in black Chinese outfit bending over a Sohma Akito-like bishounen with a self-satisfied smirk on his face.

 

  

The characters are pretty and glossy, yes, and it’s crisp lines and gorgeous coloring are ironically a sharp contrast to the shonen style of Masashi Kishimoto. Yet it is the boy’s smirk that ultimately led me to google Lelouch x CC: I had to find out where this sheer arrogance and power comes from.

What I found after scouring through YouTube and Wikipedia did not disappoint me. This man is one reason enough for me to revive my dusty fan engine for cute anime boys.

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So what jolted me awake from my long period of internet hibernation?

THIS. 

Not your typical PHR cover. 

Yes, ABS-CBN will now be serializing the bestselling Tagalog romance pocketbook in and out of the country starting May 2009. As a response to the komiks television adaptations that GMA-7 is spewing like there’s no tomorrow, PHR’s maiden offering will be Rose Tan’s Bud Brothers.

PHR pocketbooks boast of a significant part of my childhood’s treasured memories.

This is where I first learned about rich-masters-that-fall-for-the-humble-governess plots (long before I started watching The Trapp Family Singers on ABS-CBN’s morning cartoon block).

This is where I learned that super models are crazy scheming bitches by default.

And yes, this is where I first encountered soft porn.

At pinagpala ng mga kamay ng binata ang kanyang mayamang dibdib.

You don’t really have to ask for its translation, right, moral upstanding Netizen? 

So naturally, knowing that these pieces have captured the attention of the giant network is enough to make me recoil in absolute horror. More so when I learned that it’ll be one of my ficcating muse’s well-loved series that they’ll be “adapting”.

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After a year of filling up surveys after surveys, I finally have enough
points to redeem a $25 GC in any of these online stores: Amazon, Overstock,
Target, and some other stores I cannot remember. However, when I was about
to redeem the online code, I saw that either: a) some of the stores do not
ship to the Philippines or; b) shipping expenses will totally defeat the
freebie-ness of the product.



*sighs*



So if there's anyone out there who would charitably buy the GC from me
through Paypal, please give me a nudge. I would really appreciate it,
especially now that I'm just about ready to strangle myself for not
anticipating this happening one year before I started answering those
45-minute questions.