Urduja

Well, it’s definitely not the first Filipino full-length animation. Before this, there was Panday (which became a TV series), then spawned the Captain Barbell animated series, then I think there was this Ibong Adarna back in the 90s.

Anyway, this June 18, watch out for the new Filipino animated movie Urduja.

It looks promising and should be fun to watch. Although drawn animations are a thing of the past, it’s good to know that the Filipino movie producers are willing to explore other medium of entertainment. It’s good that it’s not based on Hong Kong, Korean, or Latin soapies.

So, we’ll just have to watch out for more of Urduja soon.

“Shock”ing

Here’s more TFA episode from OptimusConvoy. The 25th episode called “Autoboot Camp“.

It seems like Bumblebee’s becoming more troublesome than the one in G1.He’s more childish and arrogant than ever. It’s a good thing that Bulkhead’s always around to help him out.

Anyway, in this episode, Bumblebee reminisces the bootcamp he was in before he was stationed to work at space bridges (see episode Transform and Roll-out). He’s with Iron Hide, Long Arm, Bulkhead, and the alleged Decepticon, Wasp.

In the bootcamp, the bots were under the training of Sentinel Prime. They had to show their unique abilities just like what the kids did in the movie Sky High, in which they also got their monikers afterwards.

But just find one interesting continuity problem here, in the G1 episodes, Iron hide is one of the oldest and most experienced Autobot firstly introduced. Him and Ratchet are of the same era. But in this episode, Iron Hide is in the same batch as Bumblebee which either means that Bumblebee is as old as Iron HIde.. or.. Iron Hide is a noob like Bumblebee.

But that’s not the catch of this episode. Stick till the end and you’ll find out a cool character intro.

Download here from veoh.com

Society of Ultimate Villainy?!? Really?

Finally! OptimusConvoy has uploaded new TFA episodes.

Here’s episode 24 of the Transformers Animated, “SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy“.

B-list human villains fighting the Autobots which leads to a better villain, Swindle.

Swindle didn’t change much compared to the G1 version. He’s still the weapons hustler/entrepreneur he was with the Combaticons. Save that he’s now a humvee rather than an army jeep.

Sure wish they’ll come up with the Constructicons and Combaticons soon.

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We Stride for the Children

My Mommy Beautiful

Well, Dr Seuss was the one who opened the door. I guess it’s up to Michael Alexander and M.D. Salzhauer to go in and push the envelope.

Dr Michael Salzhauer, from Miami, wrote My Beautiful Mommy book, which comes complete with cartoon-style illustrations.

He says it’s to help four to seven-year-olds prepare for their parents’ plastic surgery so they aren’t shocked by the results.

But the book, which tells the story of a little girl whose mother gets a tummy tuck, breast implants and nose job, has been criticised in the US.

It follows the mom through first consultation until after her surgery as she explains to her children what is going to happen.

At one point she explains to her daughter, “You see, as I got older, my body stretched and I couldn’t fit into my clothes anymore. Dr. Michael is going to help fix that and make me feel better.”

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Je Vois Rouge

It’s not often that my wife ask for something. And when she does, it’s because she really really really really wants it.

In college, we’d save money by eating just fried chicken skin (“proven” ba yun?). And she’s ok with that. When we started off with our own family, we just had this single burner stove (something like this) and she still managed to cook the best food for us. From fried tokwa to her ginataang adobong manok, we’ve always enjoyed her cooking.

She was never a high-maintenance girl, but because of her, we managed to creep ourselves from something like rags to not-much-but-enough-yet-wanting-more-of-it-ain’t-that-bad-of-an-idea-so-help-us-God riches.

We even have a catering service because she loves to cook AND earn money. So.. that’s all she wrote.

While I don’t know what women wants, I know what my wife wants right now. A kitchen. A big kitchen. A big red kitchen. This is what she wants.

She deserves that the world can offer. So for her, this year, I’ll start to give her this big red kitchen. Something like this French kitchen. By God she’s going to get this.