I am your brother, your best friend forever

... but could you, like, keep it down a bit?

Introducing the next William Hung, the guy who in less than seven minutes became instantly more famous than you or me, now recognizable worldwide for his singing than you with your excellent karaoke skills can never be... Renaldo Lapuz!

Somehow, American Idol really has a way of bringing out the strangest people from the nooks and crannies of America. On the one hand, you could consider this shameless (he really is without it, yes?) attempt at notoriety and the corresponding ridicule inherent in the way Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and the producers treated him as sad. Opportunistic of the looneys of America, even.

But when you consider that this guy -- and all the others like him -- dressed up to be noticed , edited, parodied and mocked on TV and Youtube for now until the end of time -- it's not sad anymore. He is getting exactly what he was asking for.

Which is more than what can be said for the rest of us.

I think I just peed in my pants

The new MacBook Air is amazing -- but it's sans DVD, CD drives. And no Firewire either.

However, it's a real beaut --- and I bet the fanboys and fangirls are praising Steve Jobs to the heavens anyway.

At USD 1,800 for the 1.6GHZ version, it's not cheap. you'll still need to shell out for an external DVD/CD drive. But hey you'll be the coolest guy / girl in the coffeshops now.

Or you could, like me, stick to whatever it is you're using at the office, and buy an ASUS eee PC (at a sixth of the price) to impress the strangers at the Starbucks instead.

Yeah, am sourgraping. And, no, I haven't bought an eee just yet, either. : )

How come I haven't been blogging lately

Blame it on Facebook. The video above says it -- and explains it all.

Sorry.

I heart BATANES and Iza Calzado

It's been ten years since I last visited Batanes, the province. I miss my ever cheerful Ivatan friends, the rolling green hills, the jagged cliffs, the pebbled beaches and the super clean fresh Batanes air.

This movie brings back those memories -- and makes me wish I had the cash to fly over whenever I wanted to. Alas, I am still a cog in the wheels of industry -- ergo, too poor to go off and do what I really wanted to do.

And so too, poor reader, are you.

So, let's both just go and watch this trailer of the beautiful Batanes (and Iza Calzado) together. Over and over again. (Watch the movie on the big screen, alright? Saw it last night.)


Batanes is beautifully shot. And Iza Calzado is just plain beautiful.

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If you want to know more about Batanes, click here.