I, Chino Yray am now officially announcing that ChinoYray.com will be back this April 2007.
While in the progress, "Breathing Spaces" OR my new blog is now up and serving people all over the net for something you guys surely do not want to miss either. haha
http://blog.chinoyray.com
Is this how existence should be? Everyday we do the same thing, same routine and though there maybe slight differences on what we do each coming day, we will always be stuck in this everyday sickness.
Some people would ask me–why write this now? Valentine’s Day is almost over. My answer would be… It’s because dating on Valentine’s day is a cliche for me. Why? Can’t you date if it’s not Valentine’s day? People have this notion that they have to get dates when it’s Valentine’s day. It feels like some kind of a "contest" during this season.
First things first. This is for the guys who don’t have any idea or the guts on how to ask a woman out, talk to women or just get their attention. This is for the guys who loves a woman but can’t get that woman. This is not for those who disrespects a woman, who intends to just break a woman’s heart after dating or let’s just say–jerks & players. (but most likely, if you’ll read this and take some notes from it you’ll be called a "jerk" even you don’t intend to be one. but don’t worry it’s just a social norm)
Also, this is for those who wants to LEARN and are willing to change. So don’t ask me "what if I don’t want to change? I want women to love me as I am" BUT what if what you really are is a BORING, NOT GOODLOOKING and NOT SO CONFIDENT guy? Would you help me help you?
Read more here. OR here. (this is not my real blog so you have to visit my real blog in order for you to read some more.)
if the links didn’t work it’s http://vinyray.spaces.live.com and http://chinoyray.livejournal.com
Herpes.
Herpes.
I don’t have herpes okay? Okay, the title is just to get your attention. I just want to say that if some of you guys are wodering why I haven’t updated this stupid blog is because I moved to a less stupid blog. LOLZ (sorry for the word)
http://vinyray.spaces.live.com and http://chinoyray.livejournal.com
CIAO!
There has been a lot of movement in Bill Gates’ camp since 2005. And almost the whole world noticed it already. 2006 is big for the great company already and by 2007 it’ll be bigger since it’s the date MS scheduled for us the official retail release of Windows Vista.
Microsoft at the moment is giving the public a test on how Vista would look like, sound like and feel like. Vista’s Beta builds and RC1 has been downloaded over 2million times already. MS Office 2007 Beta 2 has been download bandwidth reached more than 3 million Giga Bytes already and Windows Live content is getting bigger and better.
It’s noticeable how great Windows Live is. From http://www.live.com ; a regular internet user can already get all he/she needs in one website and get them in a much better and aesthetic-wise and performance-wise way. Live Search is already magnificent. One feature I loved most on it is the image search. NO NEED TO BROWSE OTHER PAGES! It’s all there in one page. Also, when you hover your mouse on the thumbnails, a java prompt showing the details and zooming the image is so good and efficient. Another feature of the Live image search is, when you click the image, IT DOESN’T NEED LEAVE THE PAGE! In fact, the "thumbnail page" will become a side panel (specifically on the left) and the page where the image is, will be shown on the bigger panel JUST ON THE VERY SAME PAGE! Now talk about efficiency and saving memory resources for your PC!
Windows Live (I believe) will be the ultimate next-generation desktop necessity in the near future. Windows Live Mail Desktop can already replace Outlook and anyone’s email service. (though, you need to have a POP3 mail account to be able to integrate your email accounts to Live Mail..of course.. hehe so good news for those who use GMAIL!) The color scheme of the Live Mail is also customizable so if the default color hurts your eyes, you can just change it.
The next best thing Windows Live released is the Live Messenger! Talk about stability and STYLE! Live Mail Desktop and Live Messenger has the same window scheme–very simplistic, stylish and most of all, NO MENU BAR! (you can choose to have it or not to have it but the default setting is, there’s no menu bar.) Instead, Microsoft placed another box together with the basic three..(minimize, restore, close) so that will make it four. The fourth is the menu. Windows Live also has this thing going on with Yahoo which is, the crossplatform messaging. You can send instant messages to your Yahoo friends from Live Messenger! and vice versa! NOW WHAT’S UP WITH THAT!
FYI: I migrated to Live messenger since YM is so buggy and I haven’t used it normally (doesn’t run normally for me) for over 4 months now.
Also, the synchronization of all the Windows Live software (gadgets as windows live call it) to the site and to your Windows Media Player! The song you’re currently playing in Windows Media Player 11 will be your status-in-real-time in Live messenger (if you chose it as your Live Messenger status)
Last but not the least… almost all the Windows Live gadgets can even tell you in an instant if there’s activity in your MSN Spaces/Live Spaces (blogging space of Windows) right down to your Live Mail or Live messenger. No hard feelings but, I can see already that many of us here in LJ will migrate to Live spaces. ( http://spaces.live.com )
Actually, I already made my own Spaces account: http://chinoyray.spaces.live.com
The features are great. Everything is customizable. You can even change the layout of your blog or space by just dragging the boxes. Add lists, remove features you don’t want and fully customizable theme and layout in short.
Microsoft is making a big change and it’s very promising. (Zune is even more stylish and better than iPod) Their Revolution has begun and they’re sure that the tides of war will not be against them.
Kudos to Microsoft! Good job guys! Do more! Create more!
I’m now moving my blog to:
http://chinoyray.blogspot.com
http://minkeyouranos.blogspot.com
There’s this "formal" questions we need to answer in a private forum on where I work. We needed to fill up some questions (which are really needed) then, suddenly at the end of those "formal" questions, our boss asked:
Answer to the eternal question, what is love?
I messaged her (the boss) in YM and told her "Is that question really necessary? It’s a laugh trip!" Of course, she said no but for the fun of it, all 4 of us who answered the questionnaire answered that question too. LOL. To tell you guys honestly, that event happened January 2006. So why am I writing about this now? It’s because I realized, I have so many articles, paperworks, tempapers that talked about love and until now, IT HAS NOT BEEN POSTED IN MY BLOGS!
We all have this kind of LOVE in our minds; love is for couples, feeling romantic, looking for someone who’ll give us that "spark" OR that we call "magical feeling" OR looking for relationships. Well, that’s for the majority. The church may define love as something which is given by God to all mankind. Our parents may see love for their children as–to care, to nurture, give their children what they want, what they need, be with their children, play with them and many more. The thing is, with the SO-many-definitions of love, what is the real meaning of love for us?
We’ve debated this once in one of my Philosophy class and I think with love so vague and so meaningful, there will be no one definition or ultimate fact about it. I came to think that it’s not really for describing or defining since it’s meaning will depend on the individual. Depends on how the individual sees life and his experiences in life. Ever wonder why people won’t have the same definition of love? Why some people hated love? Why some people don’t believe in love?
In search for the answer to my questions in the previous paragraph, Google.com gave me this definitions of love:
deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction; "their love left them
indifferent to their surroundings"; "she was his first love"
in the hay: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with
this man?"
sexual intercourse) between two people; "his lovemaking disgusted her";
"he hadn’t had any love in months"; "he has a very complicated love
life"
gives a little pleasure ("I loved that movie") to something one would
die for (patriotism, pairbonding). It can describe an intense feeling
of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it
usually refers to interpersonal love. Probably due to its large
psychological relevance, love is one of the most common themes in art.
The majority of modern movies have a love story and most pop music is
about love.
Did you find a similar definition of love from your point of view to there? If you’ll analyze those given meanings of love, they don’t have a connection from one over the other. Well, except for those that implies almost the same thing. But do you find your own definition of love something similar to those given above?
So many questions, so many answers and until now love is a mystery we can’t solve. If you’ll ask me, I’ll define love as a mystery that revolves in these values–honesty, trust and faith.
We give our trust to the people who love us and who we love (in consideration of all the definition of love and kinds of love given above). We became faithful in our own simple way of showing it to those we share love. e.g: parents, friends, special someone. Last but not the least, honesty. We may say that we’re not really sometimes honest to some people we do love (like parents or friends.. lolz) but if you’ll re-think of it, love developed from sharing our experiences, conversations of heart and just by being honest to ourselves to these people we love.
I’ll ask the question again:
Do you find your own definition of love something similar to those given above? Maybe yes? Maybe No? But still, love has it’s own definition amongst us. I have my own definition of it (which is the paragraph before this). and so as you… right?
As I end my long talk and your long read, I want to share you guys my answer to that eternal question back then:
What is the answer to the eternal question: What is love?
Love is something that you give it away… give it away… give it
away… love is something that you give it away.. and it comes right
back at you… 
hahahahahahaha
Ok.. I know.. I was silly back then… 
Good day!
Omen - A miraculous sign, a natural disaster, or a disturbance
in nature that reveals the will of the gods in the arena of politics or
social behavior or predicts a coming change in human history. Greek
culture held that if the gods were upset, they might visit the lands
with monsters, ghosts, floods, storms, and grotesque miracles to reveal
their displeasure. Comets might appear in the heavens–or phantom
armies might fight in the clouds. …
That’s the definition of the "Omen" given to my be Google.com but what about the movie "The Omen"?
The movie "The Omen" is similarly related to that definition but it’s embodied by a child, born at the 6th day of the 6th month of 1996? LOL. Signs as said in the bible was pointed by the movie which may at first sound freaky(since, they compared it to real life "disasters" that happened in the past). The so-called Armageddon in which the devil will send it’s own to let the humans destroy themselves until no one survive.
Ok, I think I have to end talking about what an Omen is.. since I first wanted this to be "my comment"/review on the movie and not a discussion about the "omen".
The very first thing that almost everybody at the theater that time (with me) noticed is that the events in the movie IS SO PREDICTABLE! Most of the events will give you a hint/hunch/feeling of what will happen next. Some maybe predictable but still THEY ARE SCARY (I don’t need to tell which part is that since I’m not a spoiler.. =P). Those scenes will give you a hint that the certain scene will be scary and might also be considered as a "staged" warning BUT still… the following WILL STILL SCARE THE HELL OUT OF YOU! even you expected something will happen there. It’s such a teaser… knowing something will happen, the movie let its viewers anticipate it and knowing that, those style of filming really amplifies the scary-factor of the movie.
Regarding the casts, you’ll get bored of Julia Styles and might want to ask her if she’s really acting or what. (no tears on that room cry?! tsk tsk…) Liev Schreiber did a good job. Portraying as a "real" diplomat who uses his intellect first before on deciding on something. The role really fits him and he did a great job!(I think I said that already… lolz) Also, as John Moore said in an interview, Liev performed well that he really got the essence of how all of us(people) today would act in superstitions.
Mia Farrow (the nanny) is also freaky. Though she’s one of the original "The Omen" cast back in the 1970+ something movie, it’s quite nice to let her do that role and her portrayal of it was superb. If I would remember it right, she’s the "diplomat’s wife" in the original movie. Last but not the least, Seamus’ (Damian in the movie) eyes were very scary. Those eyes really gave me that feeling of evil within him.
All in all, though I felt good in watching the movie, I can’t hide the fact that it was so predictable. (AND I HAVEN’T WATCH THE ORIGINAL! HECK! I WAS BORN 1986.. lolz)
Predictable as it is, John Moore, make use of that predictability to tease the watchers and amplify the feeling of getting scared!
TWO THUMBS UP to the movie! It’s a must-see!
There’s this question that almost everybody of us doesn’t know the "right" answer and rather just believe or NOT to believe on it. The question is…
Do you believe in Destiny?
Definitions:
Destiny or Fate concerns the fixed natural order of the
universe. It is the invincible necessity to which even the gods must
accede, as the Sibyl of Delphi confessed. Destiny is fate, personified
in Greek culture by the three Moirae (called the Parcae by the Romans),
with a Nordic counterpart in the three Norns. The "doom of the powers"
in Norse mythology is Ragnarok the battle which even Odin must
inevitably face, at the end of the world.
ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often
personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of Destiny"
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything
that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better
fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of
circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
Anyway, we all know that destiny is something that will happen in the future in which we are not sure of, how it will go or what will be the outcome of something that will happen. Do you know the story of Oedipus the king? Oedipus’ destiny has been foretold his parents knew what will happen. As much as his parents wants to counter Oedipus’ destiny, it still did happen. (I’m sorry but I won’t tell the whole story of him here… just try to read the story here.)
However, I myself happened NOT to believe in destiny even I know that story and ever since. My counter-argument about it has been always "it is US who creates our own destiny." It is our own choices that will make our own future, our own fate or our own destiny. As Jean-Paul Sartre would say, "man is condemned to be free." Our life will not be dictated by someone, something or anything. It’s our choices that we encounter in life that will be the structure of something that will happen in the future in which we don’t have any idea.
BUT is it really like that? Are we sure that no one else (not even GOD) and only ourselves is directing our own lives?
I’ve been thinking about this for a long time now and some things do make sense and some things don’t. Events that happened in my life was truly unexpected. But when I think of it and reminisce in the past, EVERYTHING has been connected. I feel like I’ve been pre-determined and that destiny might be real. Almost every events that happened between my life (middle of childhood and adulthood) seems to me as obstacles to really pursue and "challenge" me in my destiny.
Things that I did expect to happen didn’t happen in the past, but now, after remembering my wants and whom I want to be back then when I was still such a crybaby, things that happen now has been really what I want back then.
example:
Kiddy days: fascinated by arts, loved arts etc….
Puberty–to–teenage days: sway of dreams from those of the childhood days to something else like "nursing", "being an OFW", "to be a priest", "to be a programmer", and etc…
Present: almost everything you wanted back then is happening now.
There really is no logical connection on those events but it seem to me that almost everything that happened in the middle has no use for today.
BTW, most people only started believing in destiny when they fall in love (as observed by psychologists and even me). Lovers try to connect things why did they meet and almost everything in the past up to the present.
Now that this things are starting to make sense for me, MY MOTHER (yep.. she saw me writing this) even agreed to what I’m saying regarding what’s happening to my life today compared to the past! LOL.
What’s worse is, her definition of destiny is about GOD dictating our own lives.
Why continue living if there’s someone up there creating a future for us? Does it mean that if you’re really destined to be poor then you’ll be poor when you die? Does it mean that if someone is destined to die at "this" age, he/she will die at that given age?
I guess, that this word–destiny will have it’s own truth only in believing or not believing in it.
Now, I would like to return to my very first question in this article…
Do you believe in Destiny?
My answer? I still don’t know.
Note: 1st things first. I would to remind everyone that the title may be "Water World" but this is not about the movie 11 years ago. This blog has nothing to do with that movie.
It has been a year now since we left our home town (san pedro, laguna) and started living here in Sucat, Muntinlupa. It’s been great here in Posadas. There’s a Dencio’s restau nearby (which is just a walk away from here) and also 19east–where almost everyday, celebrity bands and singers perform there. The way to school and office is also VERY easy and so accessible. From the travel time of 2 hours from San Pedro to Manila is now down to 30-50minutes from here in Sucat to Manila.
Although there are advantages in our decision to move here in Sucat, there are still disadvantages that are very drastic. It’s only here that we 1st time encountered how was it like to be flooded. YES, it’s our very 1st time to experience a flood inside our house. I think that was back 9-11 months ago (rainy season).
Last night, it started raining again. And as WE expected, water comes in our floor. My cousins and I removed the carpets, move the electronics to the 2nd floor, lift the sofas and, place it in wooden chairs, and watch the water as it goes up. It’s now common to me and I accepted that it will always flood in here. But for my Mom and Dad who got home 10pm last night from their outing in Zambales, they were depressed of what happened again.
They arrived 10pm, open the gates of the garage and saw me spilling out all the water from inside the house to the drainage outside. Yup, there’s still water in the house the time they arrived that’s why they were so depressed. I felt their sadness. I saw it in their eyes especially in my father’s. He helped me mop the floor after draining the water. He’s quiet. I’ve been telling him stories and talking about stuffs but he’s just quiet. About my mother, she just went up to their room for she can’t even look at the floor and see what’s happening. She’s almost crying. I can hear her sniff.
After cleaning the house, my father went up to their room. My cousins and I just continued to play in the PC. It’s the only way I can ease the pain for myself. Temporarily. It’s hard for me to see them in such a state. Luckily my brother was out that time (he was in Laguna, visiting his girlfriend) and he did not saw the depression our parents showed me.
Wait… my brother is in my friend’s list! lolz. He might read this.
Anyway, that’s all for today. Reactions/comments/prayers would be so much appreciated… well.. if people do visit my blog. hehe.
