Mario the Tubero : Nintendo’s Finest Playboy

A few weeks ago, my 7 year old sister got her Nintendo DS and was easily caught by the Japanese company’s slew of AWESOME games. Nintendo is cool because its games never gets old. Mario Bros. Pokemon, etc. I grew up with these games and saw the protagonists as real time heroes.

But now that I am "more mature" and capable of seeing more things in a different perspective, I’d like to discuss in this entry my fascination of the character that revolutionized console gaming : Mario, the plumber.

Mario is a plumber by profession. A lousy one at that. As such, he’s supposed to deal wih delta faucets, tubes, pipes and wrenches on a daily basis. But for some reason, he spends most of his time (if not all of his time) running after the most coveted Princess Peach and eating mushrooms to make himself "big". If you think about it, Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario’s creator) really has a twisted sense of humor and I’m sure he knows why as well. (more…)

Email versus Fax = FaxMi

I was browsing my calling card / contacts booklet (how 1992 of me) and I observed that almost every person has a fax number under his / her phone number and mobile number. It seems, that despite the Internet Age, the fax remained resilient and significant in the business world. It’s like a status symbol or something. More than the ability to receive pages of information, it also tells your market and competitors that you can be easily contacted and you provide more avenues of communication. There are times when I am tempted to get a fax line and fax machine myself. Talk about peer pressure. Haha. 

 Truth be told, this whole fax phenomenon really puzzles me to the bone since the email can practically do everything a fax can (and more) and yet, everybody still opted to maintain their fax numbers. Prior to the Internet Age, it was quite understandable why people needed a fax line. I’ve always thought that at the dawn of the Email Age, certain things like fax machines, stamps, mailmen and postal mail would one day cease to exist. But no.. especially here in the country. People are still crazy about fax numbers. Everybody still has to have a fax number. Personally, I find fax machines inconvenient. Sure it looks cool. But it’s bulky and the fact alone that I have to look for a nook to cramp that big contraption is enough reason to discourage me into getting one. The email on the other hand, can be accessed anywhere via any computer, wherever you are in the world, anytime, without worrying about the telephone and electric bill trying to give you the chokeslam in the next month’s utility bills. (more…)

Home TV Shopping Therapy. It Works!

I was watching the Home TV Shopping Channel last night and I noticed how the goods being sold are getting more and more ridiculous over the years. I remember back in the channel’s pilot airings when the only things they sell are within the "bounderies of logic". (veggie cutters, frying pans, excercise machines) Nowadays, it’s like show after show of absurd inventions. Even the 365 variations of kitchen knives are starting to bore me.

Next to JackTV, AXN and Star Movies Chinese, Home TV Shopping is probably one of my favorite TV channels. Seriously. It showcases man’s ingenuity and ability to innovate up to the point of aburdity. Hence, things become more interesting.

My favorite is the showcase of different skin products. Anti-aging lotions, breast augmenting creams, height boosting capsules, hair growth shampoos and acne removing products. All claim that their product is the modern-day Elixir / Sorcerer’s Stone / Holy Grail, Resurgence, etc.

You also got to love the testimonials. Every ad has one. Once cannot help but be amazed when the frail, acne-infested kid becomes Brad Pitt-like after using some Chinese herbal cream. Deep inside, we feel better for that kid. (more…)

Open Letter to the Knee-Faced Plagiarist

My supposed blog vacation will be temporarily halted. I came across Kris’ entry about plagiarism and I could not help but make an entry about it myself. Apparently, somebody was stupid enough to copy some of my posts and pass it off as his/her own. The knee-faced twit was brave enough to do it’s ninja tactics on me. Thanks to the closely knit I.PH community, such acts of tomfoolery and deception was brought to our attention immediately. 

Dear knee-faced plagiarist,

Greetings fag! My name is Wits Suzara. I would like you to know that I know you copied my blog posts and posted them in your blog. Not only did you not ask permission first, but you just had the rotten guts to claim it as your own. I would have been more than willing to allow you if you only asked. But you didn’t. Moreover, you did not only copy from me but also from several responsible and intellectual bloggers as well. You want publicity? Well you’re not going to get it fart. I will not name you or put your link here in my site. No, I’m not going to do you that favor. (more…)

Busy Like a Pollen Jock

If you would kindly look at the date this entry was posted and the date the previous entry was posted, you could fairly deduce only 3 things why it’s been a while since I’ve put anything in this site : 1) I’m extremely busy 2) I’m extremely lazy 3) I’m dead already. Obviously it’s not the third one unless it’s a ghost typing away in this old "Made in China" keyboard. (It’s the one that makes that annoyingly crispy noise everytime you type.) So now it’s down to number 1 and number 2. If you say number 1, then you’re wrong. If you say number 2, then you’re also wrong. Why? Because Spongebob is yellow and I said so. You’re wrong because it’s both. So the answer is 1.5. Reader <– Fail. (more…)