There's this new TV series being aired at CTV called 籃球火 or Hot Shot. Well, like most of the TV drama/series nowadays, it's also one of those manga-turned-TV-series kind. The original manga which was also entitled "Hot Shot" is a shonen drama sports who's mangaka is Oono Junji. I actually am not very much fond of shonen manga so I'll be honest that this is the first time I'm hearing the mangaka's name. XD That aside, from the first 3 episodes of 籃球火, I could probably say that it's pretty interesting. Then again, I think it would be quite a talk later on since Show Lou (TV Host) is co-starring with Jerry Yan (F4/JVKV) and also, Wu Chun (Fahrenheit) is there (although Wu Chun seems to be the antagonist this time, or a devil's advocate - who knows). I've only watched 3 episodes so far (care of CrunchyRoll) and I would give a 7/10 for the comedy and over all acting. I didn't give that high of a remark since it made me feel like watching the anime of Slam Dunk all over again, of which anime I've seen for about more than 10 times already (I'm being serious, I love that anime ever since I was in elementary), with the Sakuragi-Rukawa comedic rivalry in Show Lou and Jerry Yan's characters, respectively. Also, I do think that the over acting is a part of it since most manga are like that too in the form of chibi or super deformed characters and removing them would make the shonen comedy sports genre a whole lot boring than they already are. XD

And lastly, Jerry Yan better be boosting his acting skills here to at least convince me enough to watch his next series since I'll be expecting him to act out my Tsuruga Ren-sama's role later on in a TV drama adaption of Skip Beat. I don't want to see another sad (but bearable) rendition of one of my favorite mangas again. Seeing Vic Zhou acting out Rei in the TV drama version of MARS made me lose interest in editing manga for months. And even now, I still think that he didn't grasp the character well enough. Especially his warped up side which I love most, above all. And I don't want this to happen again, since I currently have quite a bit of shoujo projects waiting for me to be edited with love and that Ren-sama is just too hot to pass.

After years of arguing with myself and everything else, I finally decided to have an irritating phone and an internet connection installed at my place. No cable, just phone and internet. What's the best one you could recommend? For privacy and stalkers prevention reasons, I can't reveal my exact location but I currently live somewhere in Makati (for those who know my exactly address, SHUT UP, GUYS! It's painful enough to hide from my debtors. :P) although I think I'm moving out soon - in about 6 months (uhh... yes, I'm an NPA). Well?

This is just an experiment conducted for the mere purpose of self-satisfaction and humor. This experiment is expected to bring smiles and laughs to uplift people's spirits despite the evil aura surrounding everyone because of several reasons such as stress, depressions and hopelessness. No! Don't kill yourself just yet.

3:27pm, cloudy weather. I left a message at a few people's messengers (they were all male). The following is the exact message left:

WANTED: HOST (21-29) can sing or dance - not required, but preferred and/or willing to learn. Lap dance is a plus. <33

By the end of an hour, these are the replies I got...

Reaction #1, Marcossius:

Marcossius: o_o
Marcossius: thank god i'm only 20

Reaction #2, Glitch:

Glitch: hmmm
Glitch: di na ako pwede
Glitch: sayang

Reaction #3, Poneros:

poneros: wahahahahahahahaah
poneros: di ako marunong sumayaw eh

Reaction #4, Siege:

Siege: magkano kaya?
Siege: maghosto na lang kaya ako?

Reaction #5, Jeromee:

Jerome: di ako pwede
Jerome: porn star gusto ko

Reaction #6, RD:

RD: san?

Reaction #7, Kureiii:

Kureiii: san mo nakuha yan malaki ba sahod
Kureiii: sideline ako dyan
Kureiii: di pla ako pede
Kureiii: 20 plang ako
Kureiii: underage

Pahabol Reaction, Kamotenista:

Kamotenista: pwede ba ako dun?...
Kamotenista: pwede pa ang toothpick sa ganung career? aba sayang din yan mahal ang mabuhay ngayon..kaya dapat kapalan ang mukha....
Kamotenista: aba, lalaki din ako

I was surfing, lurking and reading my friends' blogs* one after another like I usually do. I was held up by Hiro's profile and ended up reading everything in there, including the pets page (stupid Kameko who ran away). Then, I ended up reminiscing about how I started with all these web related stuffs and even ended up with a web related job. XD

I guess I never blogged about it yet, but everything started when I was so goddamn BORED. Then, there was this teacher who told me, "You're bored? I'll teach you something that might interest you." And so, she started typing something in the Notepad with the lines:

<html>
<head>
<title>Hello World</title>
</head>
<body>Hello World </body>
</html>

She showed it to me and I went like, "WOOOOW! How did you do that?! That's cool!" And then she told me, you could use Microsoft Front Page to start off with learning it. And so I did. For days I started clicking here and there to change colors and stuff at the design window while peaking at the codes so that I may know what to do later on until such point where MS Front Page can't satisfy me anymore and so I started searching the net for more in-dept tutorials. My first site was in Geocities (uhm, yeah, I'm already blogging here using LiveJournal after I moved out of DiaryLand where my very first blog was). Then after, I met Kuya Enjay and he told me, "Why not buy your own domain rather than having it hosted?" Then after, I discussed with him things regarding domains and hostings and stuff. And after a week of brain cracking, I ended up with a name I really love and can't let go no matter how many new names I thought of replacing it with - Beyond Eternal. And so, my very first domain got registered. =D I guess I shall keep the domain name until the day I die. Or maybe, I'll have my children inherit the domain name too and to my grandchildren and to their children and grandchildren, thereafter. =P

'Til now, I haven't came up with a cheesy explanation of why I named it Beyond Eternal so my reason is always shifting from here and there. But the main idea of how I chose it is simple:

1. I wanted a very generalized name that I could use even if I shift from different kinds of site and different kinds of layouts. This was my main concern because I know myself well enough that I get bored easily.
2. I wanted the name with a word that depicts "boundlessness" to describe my (or a person's) limitless capability to learn. We learn something new every single day and even if we spent our entire lifetime reading educational books, we can't always know everything. There's always a room for learning.
3. And most specially, I wanted it to have a dark and elegant feel to it. Simply because I like anything elegant and dark at the same time.

Going back to my story, after that I used Beyond Eternal to try this and that. For wanting to create a better layout than the crappy old ones I used to have, I learned to click here and there too, using Adode Photoshop. And then, since I am a clean code freak, I learned the proper xhtml way and then later on came CSS to make my life easier with coding until such point that I wanted a simple guest book that have features exactly like how I wanted it to have that I learned PHP. Basic PHP is not that hard since I do have programming backgrounds and I've always been fascinated of how if else statements choose things depending on your condition and how for loops kept on repeating.

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* As far as I was reviewing proper English for the Proofreading Guidelines for Eien no Shoujo that was long delayed due to my inevitable and most prioritized bad habit, procrastination, this is the correct form of it even though it looks stupid. And this is one of those simple yet stupid mistakes I always commit. I never get used to it. Geh.

OMFGOMFGOMFGOMFG!!!!!

I opened my mail and....

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