July 27 Iglesia Ni Cristo Anniversary day +GEMNET too!

Today was a very very long day. Well let's begin shall we?

First things first! I woke up at 8:10AM today and ate some breakfast. Tocino and eggs were on the menu today. I ate some and then took a shower. After taking said shower I got ready and went with my dad and Von's dad to Bank of Hawaii to deposit the offering from the thanksgiving WARship service. All I can say about the total amount is that it's alot! Like crazy a lot! Anyways I don't think I can say how much it is so let's move on. It took like twenty minutes for the tellers to do their job lol! By this time it is 9:20AM! O_O! I'm late!

Luckily we left the bank on time and I only got to work 2 minutes late (9:32am). I then said hello to fellow co-workers Toshi and AG. Pretty cool people, then I got the things I needed for work (clip board, cell phone, bus schedule, and my schedule). I then relaxed for a few minutes and by 9:40am I went out to see if AG was ready to go to GPO. He said we were too early so he decided to drop a spell. He talked about how his family got to the USA and etc. We left at about 9:48AM and headed to GPO. On the ride he talked to me about how a lot of Filipinos travel abroad to get jobs (which I guess is true).

We parted ways then I got ready to do my job. At GPO the first thing I do is go to Burger King to get some "free" water. When I asked for it they ran out of water so I headed to Taco Bell for some water. Little to my knowledge it costs fricken .15$ to get a small water! CRAZY! Oh well, at least it came with free refills and lots of ice. I then went to my area (outside coldstone near that pillar) and set up camp (so to speak).

The whole first half of the day was practically normal. It went by without incident or anything special. Later at about 11ish I got a refill on water. Then I went back to camp. Joe then decided to drop a spell himself. Joe is a very interesting person. He came from Hawaii because of his wife. Very interesting case which I cannot explain for the sake of his wife's family, but I can tell you irl maybe. But yeah, he's been on Guam and likes it. Fills me up on the downlow of what's goin on in Hawaii. Lots have change since I was last there according to him. Anyways, today he stayed for a good bit like from 1-3. Then from like 4:30-6PM.

Today some of the special parts I can point out that stuck out was first, this Japanese model in a fricken bikini was there doing a photoshoot! It was very awesome to watch heheheheheha! Another interesting part of the day was when this one Japanese tourist who I have met twice before today on different days, gave me two pieces of hard candy! That was very cool of her! It seriously made my day extremely better! Another part that wasn't as interesting was when one of the drivers (Art) borrowed $2 from me for coffee or something.

I was supposed to end work at 5:30, but, my reliever (person who takes over) decides to come at 6PM. Lame! I was cool with it since I wanted extra hours anyways. I took one of the buses back to base (office of fukuda). By the time I went back home, I fixed my hymns and went on my way to go to church! Because today was the church's 95th anniversary!

We left our house in a whirlwind! We got there on time and still had a parking space near the front of the church. Today, I forgot my undershirt and wondered if anyone could see under my toga (which would be embarrassing/funny). Today Adam, Matt, and Paul came!!! Yeah!!!! It was awesome! Right after the sermon I found them and they got they're food and we chilled at our car! We caught up on old times and made jokes! At first it was only Adam and Paul but latter Matt showed up to join the SUPER PARTY! LOL! It was cool, they seemed to like the performances! When it was time for the choir members to sing their song, they seemed to like it too! LOL! It was cool! After the performance I got my food (there wasn't much ;__;) and ate When all of the performances and eating finished. Then GEM-NET stuff began!

Today's GEM-NET was the funnest we had ever since Chuuuuuck was here!!! LOL! We got to do an interview with Adam, Matt, and Paul (all in reverse order of interview)!!! It was super cool! It was also cool later cause when we interviewed brother Bill Matt did camera man and Paul got to do audio OP! LOL! It was awesome! At first it was annoying when we started since there was a lot of people going in and out of the room! It was hard to keep it quiet, however, we got the interviews down and made it super effective! I actually want to see the finished product already lol! But yeah, it was super entertaining! Anyways after the shoot which took an hour or two, we all chillaxed outside for a few more hours.

It was very awesome. Matt, Paul, and Adam made some of the funniest jokes I have heard in the longest time! Really cool night tonight! Can't wait for the next Gem-net thing and GEM too!!!

Review: Transformers Revenge of the Fallen

Double the Transformers double the fun?

The basic storyline for the new movie is basically, two years after the events in the first movie, the main character (let's call him Joe) basically finds a piece of the Allspark stuck in his sweater in all of the sudden it sends all of it's information into Joe's brain and then Joe get's all these crazy visions. Joe then goes off to college and then things get crazy and now he's back working together with the Transformers to find a thing called a Matrix that is basically a key to this doomsday machine thing.

Let's start from the beginning of the movie. They started off on the right track with double the explosions and double the action, the problem however, is that there are so many new transformers that we don't know who's who or who's good or who's evil. In the first transformers movie they gave a formal introduction on who all the Transformers are, in this movie they kinda just assume you know who is who or what is what. There being more transformers and all is cool, but it's not cool when you don't know who they are, there's like no connection between us the audience and to the nameless transformers.

After the decent beginning, then the massacre begins. The next 30 minutes or so is pretty boring/stupid. It's pretty much they're excuse to make a watered down College Party movies that didn't really seem to fit, yeah I know he's going to college, but they didn't really have to put in all the sexual tension of ya know what I mean.

After that massacre ends and the explosions start happening then things get interesting. However, from that point on the storyline falls apart. The director tries to blind you with a gratuitous amount of CG and special effects that it's not even funny. It's cool and all but I rather have a good mixture of awesome and story.

There were some parts that made you wonder what just happened and ponder if it was necessary and what not. An example of this is the part where these enemy transformers came in to steal a part of the allspark in the military base and fail to do it. All they do is go in there, attempt to steal it, and right when it was about to get it, it just leaves. They never again try to steal it or reference this part.

The character balancing was kinda odd, as some of the major characters of the last movie where given minor parts (Military guys) and would be minor characters of this movie were given bigger parts (college friend guy, and ex-sector 7 guy). Some of the enemy transformers from the old movie showed up only to be destroyed within seconds in this movie (Scorpian transformer thing).

I kinda felt bad for the transformers since there were soo much of them this time, that a lot of them got destroyed and we as an audience didn't care if they were either good or bad.

With those being said, I still thought the action was pretty cool but the CG effects are not believable. You can tell the CG people got lazy since sometimes it would pan off the transformers when they transform. Yeah I get that it's really hard to make that stuff, but they might as well go the extra distance since they already invested so much in it.

The ending was pretty abrupt if you asked me. There was not much closure but eh, I guess there was nothing else to say or to look forward to but an obvious sequel on it's way.

As for the soundtrack, I thought it was pretty adequate I guess. Overall, Transformers is basically the old transformers movie but with double the transformers and action, however, it has a weaker storyline from the first.

3/5

Soundoff: The Proposal

I've seen my fair share of drama animes to know what a good drama should have. "The Proposal" being a drama/comedy is pretty good imo.

The story of this movie is about this book editor (Let's call her Jane) who is getting deported back to her home country "Canada" and she does not want to. So to keep herself from getting deported she asks her assistant (Let's call him John) to marry her. Then the most of the movie is them going to the John's family reunion in Alaska.

The movie is basically supposed to be a drama/comedy, however, although there is some drama, it is mostly comedy throughout the movie. The acting was pretty convincing although I don't think the characters acted naturally if that made any sense. I meant that it felt as if there were a lot of forced lines and didn't feel like what the character would have really said/done.

The funny parts were well, okay. There is this re-occurring character this is used for comedic relief, I was okay with this character. The other funny parts would be things that are really out of the ordinary.

As for the sad parts, they are pretty predictable and not really all that sad. Well then again, a drama, wouldn't be a drama if there wasn't any drama.

Overall the story is pretty solid, got some good scenery shots of Alaska and New York so that was pretty cool. As for the musical score, it was pretty average, it was pretty natural for most of the movie.

The ending pretty much ended on a high note but I still wished they added like maybe 30 more minutes just so we have more of a closure. The credit extra footage was pretty entertaining, but it still was not enough closure.

The Proposal is a pretty solid movie, I think anyone can easily get into it, maybe not kids but it's short length probably wouldn't bore them.

3.4/5