Smile (why is there a need to wear it?)

"SMILE an everlasting smile... a smile can bring you near to me."

~ Words, by the BEEGEES

It's a matter- of- fact that SMILE has this sense of protractability-effect to the other person once you initiated it. Everyday does it happen, we just don't notice how its consequence has stirred the behavior of the other person; nor we ourselves tend to overlook the emphasis and significance it has offered.

this SMILE-sincerity driven, spontaneously drawn out by me just a few hours ago while walking back home has been imprinted in my collective thinking that's why until now, im reliving the moment thru this blog.

it was a lonesome walk going home, with the air so blinding, mixing with the summer heat of the desert, almost making the skin on my face so malleable and about to melt but there is no sweat coming out of it. The roads and the paths are almost as deserted as a lonely dark alley... but alas, someone came in view, a walking soul like me with something in his hand. And in the background were cars passing by once in every 4 minutes...

Our paths has finally came to a full view with this soul around 50+ in age with a distance between us of prolly around 15 meters, out of nothingness, i drew a smile-unfull (as if shyly about to blast it out full wide open for the fear of not being acknowledged) and he made a slow, assisting smile widely open with a nod.

it was entertaining, so perfect a stranger, though i know for sure a fellow Filipino... amazing to know that my initiation of smile led to a positive response. and so i kept on walking... about to meet another nationality... i smiled. and he smiled back. with a nod as well.

methinks that living things attract fellow living things. where there is a living thing, you get to get pulled into the habitat of the other without prior knowledge that it does exist. Well, im talking literally.

same thing with SMILEs... it's a win-win impromptu act that generates equal response (though not all  times) in most cases esp in states of barrenness in environment. it feels great, who knows making 'em smile could be a moment of joy in a spur of the moment, completely letting 'em forget the worries they carry on their shoulders. Even at least just for a moment. It does count.


PRECAUTIONS:
- dont wear your smiles like you want to flirt
- wear it spontaneously   :-)






~mAc

Christopher Nolan

"I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. 

They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.”

~Christopher Nolan

Everyone's ranting and raving about Inception. The box office kicker by Christopher Nolan. I still haven't watched the flick, yet i'm getting so much into it that i'm having a wishful thinking to be in Manila or somewhere where there's a moviehouse to watch to.

The goodness of it all when dissecting what's all about a motion picture is when you are in-line with the thought of the director, what i mean is, if the way you understand what the film has to convey is in parallel to what the director of the movie is trying to deliver.

Most of the time, i'm immersed to flicks that will leave a question mark at the end of credit rolls, that it would spark a conversation to your partner/s (someone whom you've watched the film with) whether you got the meaning of it, or, the essence of the film. Not to say, not only the plot, not only the story... but the mere fact that a "CLOSURE" is established in your mind after watching the film.

I reckon that there are two films of Nolan's that got me spell-bounded. Call me a no-witty boy but it's good to be honest. Lemme tell you the first film- The Prestige. I watched this with Claudine (my call center buddy) back in Mall of Asia, i enjoyed the flick, the thrill and all... but it did not come in full circle (to me) about the story. Later did i know that there are two main twists in that movie.. that is, Hugh Jackman (The Professor) is the same guy who offered help to Christian Bale (The Great Danton) in adopting his child. The 2nd twist that made me fully understand the story was learning that Christian Bale has a twin.

The second film that until now, there are remnants of unsolved curiosity in my head is the film - Memento. This film has all tangled up. It's in a reverse order. The sequence is so wittingly crafted that the climax of the film was delivered in the beginning. Yet, as the story unfolds, methinks as an audience felt the need to know how it had all started? Like how on earth did the protagonist came into having an anterograde amnesia? There are still scenes in the movie which are unintelligible to me, like when was the "black and white" sequences came to converge with the color one?

The above are just minute details on how Christopher Nolan's mind and well-crafted arts could tickle, stir, arouse both our imagination of thought and creativity. It is an understatement to say about  fascination and engrossment.

So now, i'm trying my best to avoid spoilers of the movie Inception so as to measure my level of understanding if i will get the plot and story right. It's different when you get the level of satisfaction that your mind wishes to achieve.

~mAc

Do you have FAITH?

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable

~H.L. Mencken

I woke up one day, stricken by life's complexities and difficulties. The thought of it made me shiver, it's undenying that life in this world in general is getting worse each day. I don't have to paint in your mind the horrendous events breaking on the news. Neither the poor nor the rich could escape from this wrath. Everyone has it's burden (as you read this, i know you're going to reflect on yourself, what's troubling you at the moment) to face and handle. Reality check, they say that to live each day is a grand thing but we have to acknowledge the fact that sadness is mundane, that sailing rough is not out of the ordinary anymore.

At times, we are crushed by the many tests in our journey, sorrows almost unbearable to handle and it's as if, we can no longer move our foot forward to face what's going to happen next. Emotions deepen especially when our focus seems endless along the horizon, where muted silence is the only company in our grief and the longing for constant happiness slowly vanishes within our hopes of hope.

Above all these, we are still alive. Enduring, forever battling what life has to offer. I asked myself how come i'm still in to it?, how come i've gone this far?. It boiled down to one of the moral foundations established as early as childhood. That each day that passes by, this moral judgment is being cultivated, where conviction on it's power increases as experience flows, as the tests of life transpires in every moment - to prove something and would always light a piece of wisdom that is somehow carved in the heart. I call it FAITH, it is believing and holding-on to things yet to happen. It is the solemnity and peacefulness of the mind and heart to things unseen. Things unseen that are impossible for the human mind to decipher and grasp, yet you have the prowess to believe in it signifies that you have faith.

In all walks of life, we have our own unique culture. Unique ways on how faith got established inside of us. I know what i believe, i know what i'm holding-on to. I know the promise - it's not yet delivered, it's unseen at the moment, intangible like the wind. But i have faith in it.

How about you? Do you know what you are waiting for?








~mAc

Top 3 Benefits of being Consistent in Writing on Your Journal

"Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it"

~David Sedaris

Having a journal - may it be a restricted blog or a handwritten diary which contains the everyday-happenings occurred in your life both with highlights and the sidelights of the day is a whole course of a meal quite fulfilling and satisfying. My below top three reasons are only in effect if consistency is observed.

1. It's a creative way of continuous learning in mastering the art of expressing your thoughts. Not only does it enhance your writing skills, it makes you explore a plethora of vocabulary.

2. An effective way of releasing emotions & feelings: may it be on the extremes, it's your world to paint, it's your choice to deliver- and it's free, no one's suspending you. Psychology books suggests that writing as an outlet of your emotions provides a healing drug to the tired brain.

3. It serves as a blueprint. Time will age up... memories gone. But if you have a day-today journal, documented and published for your own eyes only. This will serve as your guide, your cheatsheet, or could even be a memento. Lookin' back, reminiscing and learning from the past at your own expense is still the best wake-up call, for you've been into that situation before, you just have to relive the moment.

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Top 5 Reasons to Upgrade your iPhone 3GS to OS 4 ( iOS4 )

The most powerful iphone OS yet to date is available now for download since yesterday. Yes! The iOS 4 is finally here.

Pre requisites before installing
- Your iphone must be the 3G version or a 3GS (iphone 3G wont support multi-tasking, 3GS does)
- Your iTunes must be version 9.2

My gut feeling said that I must download and implement it on my device ASAP, even without reading the feedback through forums etc.

And so I updated my iTunes and after a restart, I connected my iPhone 3GS and checked for updates, it detected the iOS 4 so I clicked on continue. There it went!

The process for the whole update took approximately an hour. I ended up sleeping while waiting for it to finish.

After a whole day of tinkering and test driving the new OS, here's my TOP 5 REASONS why you should upgrade your 3GS phone to the new iOS 4:

     1. Visual effects for the FOLDERS feature is breath-taking. Folders are essentially beautiful in their functions. It's a drag-and-drop mechanism that you can easily customize your docked icons. How to do it? Tap and hold an icon then drag-and hold it on top of another icon until a box appears and that's the only time that you have to release the hold. Presto, the two icons are now inside the box where it will prompt you for name or label. Do the same thing for all the icons you want to put inside that box.

     2. Camera! Gives you now the option to zoom in and out, tap on the screen where you want to focus and you can zoom the camera

     3. Photos, gives you albums and places, good thing to note here about places is the capability of the phone to record where the pictures were taken, giving ala-google map pointed flags on each location. It sorts out the pictures based on location where it was taken. Cool huh!

     4. iBooks, hell yeah! If you're a bookworm, booklover. This is it for you. I just tried recently downloading some free books over the ibookstore, pretty neat! I cant say enough. It's flawless.

     5. Multi-tasking feature.., iphone gurus eversince the beta version are saying that this is the best that iOS4  can offer. I'd say, 75% of it is true based on my experience. The main question here is how to launch the "multi-task bar"? Here's how - Double click on the home button and it will give you a taskbar on the bottom, where you can scroll horizontally while in portrait mode and vertically while in landscape. Tap and hold an icon in the task bar and it will give a minus sign on the icon, which lets you close the running app (pretty simple huh!, it's like the concept of deleting an icon from the main menu).

The main dish here about multi tasking is the ability to run multiple app on the background without sacrificing your battery life (oh yeah! This is tested by me).
Say, im downloading a book from the iBook, then I opened another app like twitter, I really don’t have to wait for the iBook to finish downloading. While posting a tweet, the book is in the process of DL, when I get back to the iBook again, the DL is done. Main benefit of this would be on games, you dont have to close a game app just to jump or switch to another app. Sweet huh?

When you launch the multi-task bar, and scroll to the left, it gives you the option of LOCK portrait mode, I found this very helpful, whenever im in bed reading a book, the phone can be locked to portrait mode which disables the automatic landscape mode whenever I switch positions. Haha! This is really nice. Along with it is  ipod's icon navigations.

On the downside, I missed the SB (sidebar) Settings which can be availed thru jailbreaking and installing Cydia. Where a swoosh of a finger can launch the sidebar. I was thinkin that Apple has implemented the multi-taskbar launch via swoosh of a finger, instead they used the "double clicking the Home Button". That is just one of my negativity on this change of platform. (we'll see when the jailbreak for iOS 4 is released)

Recap, I know it has more to offer, there were no regrets in executing this new OS. I'm beginning to get more and more of a "connection" thing with this phone. It's absolutely fantastic!




PS: if you are unsure if your phone is originally UNLOCKED, please get some more info before you upgrade to iOS 4.




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