Sketched 3.0

Graduation photoshoot. Aftermath. (From left to right: Tags, Me, Jing, and Rael)

Lym — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:25:32 +0000

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: graduation, photos, photoshoot, picture, senior

Friends, Facebook, and Forever Alone

Lym — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:42:59 +0000

You see their pictures building up on Person A’s Facebook account. You looked at that controversial-looking album because the album name is a foreign word which you can’t read because the album was not even named using the alphabet that you’re familiar with. Anyway, you looked at the photos and saw the happiness that Person A and Person B were portraying. Being a quasi-redneck that you think best fits your personality and socio-economic whatever, you thought about how you failed as a friend, how you failed as a Facebook friend and worst, how you failed as a social animal. Way to go. Don’t ever run and say that you’re “#ForeverAlone” like you really are.

And did I even say that you’re not even friends with them? Context clues. Mirror please.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: anti-social, fake

On Sex Videos

Lym — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:28:26 +0000

Sex videos. The last time I heard about those, aside from the Katrina Halili-Hayden Kho incident, was when I was in first year colege. What 2012 brought us as a remnant of 2011, is a sex video of Janelle Manahan and her murdered boyfriend Ram Revilla.

No sex, no sex video. I was about to say period. Case closed. However, looking at the other side of the incidents about sex videos (or “intimate” video) that spread like wild fire on the internet, apart from the “no sex, no sex video” mentality, the absence of technology that has a capability to record videos also means there would be no sex video. In short, two (or more) parties could have sex and they will never be caugt on tape BUT the video-recording function of even the simplest cellphone exists and remains a menace to potential victims.

I feel sad for those women who became victims of sex video scandals. They’re not an AV-idol like Maria Ozawa. Some women even did it with that person for the first time — all recorded for all the denizens of the WWW to see and hopefully, ignore — without their knowing it. Sexy star or not, these videos affect the private and the not-so-private life of individuals as they helplessly get all the shame (and fame, in a bad way) as the videos go out of hand. The people’s perceptions about them could change and the victims have no control over what people would think and say about them.

So here’s the catch:
Video-recording gadget + sex = sex video
better yet, no sex, no sex video.

Better safe than sorry. There may not be a Peeping Tom or a Sneaky Swiper around but it pays to be sure. Better yet, just don’t do it. (Sorry, Nike)

Filed under: Media Tagged: controversy, internet, sex videos, viral

Hi 2012

Lym — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:04:32 +0000

Hi 2012! A lot of things happened last year compared to the previous ones. Here are some things that I look forward to for this year:

Have a graceful exit (err, graduate)
Get a job (me, teaching? Yeah)
Meet new people (wait for me, future students!)
Play online games (again)
Read books (aside from thrillers)
Watch movies on the big screen (Sorry, iPod/PC)
Attend concerts (Something Western this time)
Go to new places (I don’t know where)
Talk more (get out of that shell!)
???

It’s still early to anticipate the other things because I’ll know more about what’s yet to come in the next few months. This year has to be exciting. And this is not necessarily a new years resolution.

Filed under: Life Tagged: 2012, bye 2011, New year, to do