R.I.P. to my iPod :(

R.I.P. to my iPod video (30gb). Really sad now. I bought it last 2007 for Php 13,000 because I really love music and movies. I saved my money just to buy it and I was really happy the first time I hold it. I use it everyday especially during my travel. I enjoyed listening to music, watching movies and browsing my photos in my iPod. I was able to use it for 3 years and got problems with the hardware and earphone jock last 2010. I never used it for a year and decided to buy an iPod shuffle but unfortunately it was included in my bag when I was robbed. Last June 2011, since my boyfriend knew how important my iPod video to me so as a birthday gift, he brought it in a repair shop in Greenhills hoping to be fixed and luckily it was fixed. I was very happy and started using it again. Another incident happened with my iPod when my brother borrowed it. He rode a bump car and was not aware that my iPod was in the pocket of his shirt. As he was enjoying the ride, the iPod was magnetized in the railway and got damaged. Luckily, the iPod is still working eventhough the case was deformed. Last night, i checked my iPod and discovered that it was infected with a virus. I heard noises coming from my iPod as I was formatting it. As I connected it again, the sad broken face appear. My boyfriend tried to fix it by checking ways in the internet. I knew this time the problem is serious especially that it concerns with the hard disk. I know that it can still be fixed by putting a new hard disk but it will totally cost me more. So, it’s like buying a new one. Really sad about it. I’ll hope to have a new one soon. 😦

Upcoming Movies for 2010

I’ve always been a movie addict. I’m looking forward to watch more movies this year. Watch out for these movies:

1. Movie Title: The Book of Eli

Cast: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals

Director: Albert and Allen Hughes

Release Date: January 15, 2010

2. Movie Title: Legion

Cast: Kevin Durand, Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Kate Walsh, Adrianne Palicki

Director: Scott Stewart

Release Date: January 22, 1010

3. Movie Title: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Cast: Rosario Dawson, Logan Lerman, Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan

Director: Chris Columbus

Release Date: February 12, 2010

4. Movie Title: The Wolfman

Cast: Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Hugo Weaving, Anthony Hopkins, Geraldine Chaplin

Director: Joe Johnston

Release Date: February 12, 2010

5. Movie Title: Shutter Island

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, Michelle Williams

Director: Martin Scorsese

Release Date: February 19, 2010

6. Movie Title: Alice in Wonderland

Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Anne Hathaway

Director: Tim Burton

Release Date: March 5, 2010

7. Movie Title: Clash of the Titans

Cast: Sam Worthington, Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Gemma Arterton, Alexa Davalos

Director: Louis Leterrier

Release Date: March 26, 2010

8. Movie Title: Date Night

Cast: Mila Kunis, James Franco, Mark Wahlberg, Steve Carell, Olivia Munn

Director: Shawn Levy

Release Date: April 9, 2010

9. Movie Title: Kick-Ass

Cast: Mark Strong, Nicholas Cage, Chloe Moretz, Aaron Johnson, Christopher MIntz-Plasse

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Release Date: April 16, 2010

10. Movie Title: A Nightmare on Elm Street

Cast: Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker

Director: Samuel Bayer

Release Date: April 30, 2010

11. Movie Title: Iron Man 2

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson, John Favreau

Director: John Favreau

Release Date: May 7, 2010

12. Movie Title: Robin Hood

Cast: Mark Strong, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Kevin Durand, Matthew Mcfadyen

Director: Ridley Scott

Release Date: May 14, 2010

13. Movie Title: Shrek Forever After

Cast: Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews, Justin Timberlake

Director: Mike Mitchell

Release Date: May 21, 2010

14. Movie Title: Sex and the City 2

Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim  Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth

Director: Michael Patrick King

Release Date: May 28, 2010

15. Movie Title: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina, Ben Kingsley, Reece Ritchie

Director: Mike Newell

Release Date: May 28, 2010

16. Movie Title: The A-Team

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Liam Neeson, Jessica Biel, Sharlto Copley, Patrick Wilson

Director: Joe Carnaha

Release Date: June 11, 2010

17. Movie Title: The Karate Kid

Cast: Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson

Director: Harald Zwart

Release Date: June 11, 2010

18. Movie Title: Toy Story 3

Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Michael Keaton, Whoopi Goldberg

Director: Lee Unkrich

Release Date: June 18, 2010

19. Movie Title: Jonah Hex

Cast: Megan Fox, John Malkovich, Michael Fassbender, Josh Brolin, Will Arnett

Director: Jimmy Hayward

Release Date: June 18, 2010

20. Movie Title: Grown Ups

Cast: Adam Sandler, Maria Bello, Steve Buscemi, Salma Hayek, Rob Schneider

Director: Dennis Dugan

Release Date: June 25, 2010

21. Movie Title: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy BUrke, Ashley Greene

Director: David Slade

Release Date: June 30, 2010

22. Movie Title: The Last Airbender

Cast: Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel, Cliff Curtis, Nicola Peltz, Jessica Andres

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Release Date: July 2, 2010

23. Movie Title: Inception

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page

Director: Christopher Nolan

Release Date: July 16, 2010

24. Movie Title: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Cast: Nicholas Cage, Monica Belluci, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer

Director: Jon Turteltaub

Release Date: July 16, 2010

25. Movie Title: Salt

Cast: Angelina Jolie, Live Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Yara Shahidi, Zoe Lister Jones

Director: Phillip Noyce

Release Date: July 23, 2010

26. Movie Title: Little Fockers

Cast: Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Dustin Hoffman

Director: Paul Weitz

Release Date: July 30, 2010

27. Movie Title: The Expendables

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts

Director: Sylvester Stallone

Release Date: August 20, 2010

28. Movie Title: The Social Network

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Rashida Jones, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Andrew Garfield

Director: David Fincher

Release Date: October 15, 2010

29. Movie Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Allan Rickman

Director: David Yates

Release Date: November 19, 2010

30. Movie Title: Rapunzel

Cast: Mandy Moore

Release Date: November 24, 2010

31. Movie Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Cast: Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, Will Poulter, Eddie Izzard

Director: Michael Apted

Release Date: December 10, 2010

32. Movie Title: Tron Legacy

Cast: Olivia Wilde, Michael Sheen, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Serinda Swan

Director: Joseph Kosinski

Release Date: December 17, 2010

33. Movie Title: The Green Hornet

Cast: Christoph Waltz, Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz, Edward Furlong, Edward James Olmos

Director: Michel Gondry

Release Date: December 22, 2010

34. Movie Title: The Three Stooges

Cast: Jim Carrey, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro

Director: Bobby and Peter Farrelly

35. Movie Title: The Rum Diary

Cast: Johnny Depp, Giovanni Ribisi, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart, Amaury Nolasco

Director: Bruce Robinson

36. Movie Title: Arrested Development

Cast: Michael Cera, Jason Bateman, David Cross, Alia Shawkat, Jeffrey Tambor

Director: Mitchell Hurwitz

Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

My boyfriend gave me a gift for our 2nd monthsary. It was a book, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, written by Rick Riordan. He bought it in Powerbooks for P305.

I find the book interesting after I read the synopsis:
 
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school…again. And that’s the least of his troubles. Lately, the mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he’s angered a few of them. Zeus’ master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.

Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus’s stolen property and bring property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeedon his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.

Japsy told me that the said book will be shown as movie in 2010. I still have a lot of time to read the book before the movie will be shown next year. Here’s the trailer:

 

 

Top 10 of Everything 2009: TOP 10 SPORTS FILM

1. Cars* (2006) – Car racing

2. Rocky IV (1985) – Boxing

3. Million Dollar Baby (2004) – Boxing

4. Space Jam* (1996) – Basketball

5. The Longest Yard (2005) – American football

6. The Waterboy (1998) – American football

7. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) – Dodgeball

8. Days of Thunder (1990) – Stock car racing

9. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) – NASCAR racing

10. Rocky Balboa (2006) – Boxing

*Animated

Forbes Magazine Named Its Best Paid Actors

#1 > Will Smith – $80 million (I Am Legend, Pursuit of Happyness, Hancock)

#2 > Johnny Depp – $72 million (Pirates of the Caribbean)

#3 > Eddie Murphy – $55 million (Shrek the Third, Norbit, Dreamgirls)

#3 > Mike Myers – $55 million (Austin Powers, Shrek, The Love Guru)

#4 > Leonardo DiCaprio – $45 million (Titanic, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed)

Discounts, Dining Deals, Raffle, Promos, Entertainment Shows, Etc.!!!

Interested in discounts, dining deals, raffle, promos, entertainment shows, etc.? Check these out:

* SM Department Store – 50% off Men’s sale until June 30

– instant P100 cash back for every P1,000 single receipt purchase (men’s wear, accessories, shoes or luggage department) until June 22

– buy in World Traveller bags and luggages and get a chance to win a unique gyroplane ride and overnight accommodations at the Taal Vista Hotel

* SM Megamall – new FILA boutique in upper ground floor Bldg. A

* Ayala Malls – win tickets of Lea Salonga’s Cinderella on June 13-July 15 for every pair of shoes in participating stores

– Shoe Sale on June 13-20

– watch a movie and get P100 bonus in your Timezone Powercard, load P200 and get P300 Powercard load

* Makro – win the daily raffle with every P1,000 purchase and a visit to 5 participating booths

– save 30% with every Makro Value Pak (MVP)

* Shopwise – get big discounts on its “Make the Grade with Big Savings”, all branches nationwide

* National Book Store – get the chance to win motorcycles, gaming consoles,laptops and gift certificates if you buy a P300 purchase of “N” items, promo is until June30

* Trinoma – NBA Madness on June 14-15 (Activity Center)
– launch of Folded and Hung

* Greenbelt Malls – “Pleasures at Greenbelt on Fathers’ Day”, June 15 (12-1 p.m. & 7-8 p.m.)

* Market! Market! – “Asian Tropical Living” interior design exhibit until June 30 (Home Market, 3re level)

* Cebu Pacific – All-Domestic Fares, get really low ticket prices until June 17 for travel between July 1 and October 15

* Slimmer’s World International – buy 1 month, get 1 month free and no monthly dues on lifetime membership on its world-class slimming and fitness programs
– avail 15 skin or face treatments and get 15 more treatments for free

* Mang Inasal – get endless rice for every rice meal purchase, all branches nationwide

* Taco Bell – Fiest Platter for only P129/platter available in Gateway Mall, Araneta Coliseum and Trinoma

Meal A: fiesta rice, chunky pork bbq, fiesta salsa salad, churros with chocolate dip
Meal B: 1/2 pound beef combo burrito, potato bites with cheese sauce, cinnamon twists

Meal C: fiesta rice, seasoned ground beef, fiesta salsa salad, potato bites with cheese sauce 

* Italianni – use your BPI Express Credit and get 20% off on any Italianni’s Tower of your choice on your next visit

* Music Museum – Pooh…kwang! on June 14, 20-21, 27-29 (9 p.m.)
* Robinson’s Place Manila – Love Radio’s Tambalang Balahura at Balasubas (June 14, 5 p.m.)

* Araneta Coliseum – “From the Heart” concert of Air Supply

* Shang Cineplex – 13th French Film Festival in Manila until June 22, admission is free (Cinema 1)

* Brillante Mendoza’s Serbis – showing on local cinemas on June 18

* Philippine Cultural Center of the Philippines – Lea Salonga in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella on July 29-August 24

SOURCE: Libre

 

My iPod, My Movies

Last week, I decided to put some movies in my iPod video. I love watching movies! I’d like to watch these movies especially if I get bored in the middle of the traffic:

License to Wed (Robin Williams, Mandy Moore) – This is a comedy with a touch of politics and religion movie. I’m interested to watch it because of Robin Williams. I really like him when it comes to acting.

Man of the Year (Robin Williams) – It’s Robin Williams’ movie again! He is a host who runs for Presidency and wins because of some error in the computerized voting system. I have watch the trailer of this movie before and I got interested in his comedic character.

Monster-in-Law (Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda) – A funny and romantic movie of a woman who finds the man of her dreams but struggles in dealing with her future mother-in-law.

Serendipity (John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale) – I have watched it many times and I’d love to watch it again and again. This is one of my favorite movies. Comedy, drama and romance in one. If you believe in fate, you’ll definitely love it.

50 First Dates (Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore) – Also my fave movie! I love watching it again, again and again. Perfect, I love it!

Bruce Almighty (Jim Carrey) – One of the best movies that really make me laugh to death. I remember when I watched this movie with my officemate, he almost cried laughing. Thumbs up for Jim Carrey! If you want to relax a bit, watch it!

Stomp the Yard (Columbus Short, Ne-Yo) – After I have watched Step Up 2, I got more interested in watching dramatical and musical movies like this. Since I can’t dance, I’d like to see the characters in this movie doing their moves and competing. =)

American Pie Beta House – I have watched the other American Pie movie series. This movie will surely be more funnier and wilder!