Online Converter

Last semester was kind of tough for me because I have to convert some files like videos from Youtube, then I have to convert PowerPoint stuffs that I needed for my Finals presentation and it was a bit stressful. But that wasn’t that long until I discover this site (I so love this site!) that provides answers to all your ‘converting’ problems. Go check this website for more information: http://www.media-convert.com/

FREE cool fonts

If you’re looking for new and great FREE fonts try checking out this site: http://www.dafont.com

This site offers a lot of fonts with themes and you can type in the word to see if it matches with the font (very cool!).

Guitar Tuning

I was tuning my guitar the other day, and I was having a hard time tuning up the strings so I went online to check some websites that offers online tuning. I searched on Google (www.google.com) and I found this site: http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/onlinetuner.html
This site helped me big-time! The string tunes sounded clearly and it was very-very easy to use.

Advil on the run.

I’m not feeling well today so I went to the drug store to buy some medicine for my headache. I asked the lady at the counter what medicine is best for headaches and she recommended Advil to me and so I bought some. Advil’s effect was really fast! It took a shorter time than my regular pain reliever. So, I strongly recommend Advil if you guys have headaches.

Mr. Gump

I've never met anyone like Forrest Gump in a movie before, and for that matter I've never seen a movie quite like "Forrest Gump." Any attempt to describe him will risk making the movie seem more conventional than it is, but let me try. It's a comedy, I guess or maybe a drama, or a dream.

The hero, played by Tom Hanks, is a thoroughly decent man with a low IQ, who manages to become involved in every major event in American history. And he survives them all with only honesty and friendliness as his shields.

And yet this is not a heartwarming story about a mentally retarded man. The movie is more of a reflection on our times, as seen through the eyes of a man who lacks pessimism and takes things for exactly what they are. Watch him carefully and you will understand why some people are criticized for being "too clever by half." Forrest Gump is clever by just exactly enough as those people whose IQ is greater than his.

Forrest Gump is born to an Alabama boardinghouse owner (Mrs. Gump – Sally Field) who tries to correct his posture by making him wear braces, but never criticizes his mind. When Forrest is called "stupid," his mother tells him, "Stupid is as stupid does," and Forrest turns out to be incapable of doing anything less than profound. His classmates who turned out to be as bully as they could be lead him to a miraculous incident that made the braces finally fall from his legs, and it turns out that he can run like the wind. That's how he gets a college football scholarship, in a life story that eventually becomes a running gag about his good luck.

How funny it may seem but it wasn’t that long when Forrest Gump became a shining star. He became a football hero when he was still in college, becomes a national hero when he was jam-packed for war in Vietnam that bagged him a Medal of Honor award, and then for several years of staying in a hospital after the war, he began to face himself not using a gun but a Ping-Pong racket and a ball, not long after his ping-pong craze he became a Ping-Pong champion, then he began fulfilling his friend’s dream, he became the shrimp boat captain, at first it was a little low but because of his faith to God, another miraculous event happened to him that led him to become a millionaire stockholder (he gets shares in a new "fruit company" named Apple Computer), and he became the man who runs across America and then retraces his steps.

I wonder what the movie is trying to say. From one perspective, it implies that intelligence as measured by IQs and the general idea of what "smart" is, is a very unnecessary trait. But I think one can look beyond that and say that childlike innocence, which can be considered stupid, has its rewards. Throughout the movie, Forrest Gump is in situations where other people harass him but he never takes offense at any of the insults thrown at him except, of course, when his girl Jenny is being abused. The fact that Gump doesn't take offense, I think, is what keeps him content and made me realize that he is indeed not completely stupid, at all.

The movie is ingenious in taking Forrest on his tour of recent American history. I highly commend the director for his cleverness as he uses computerized visual legerdemain to place Gump in historic situations with actual people.

Forrest Gump bumped in with many famous personalities over the last half of the century including Elvis Presley and Nixon, thanks to computer technology. The account of how Gump is responsible for the gyrations that is so characteristic of Presley is very telling of the motives of this movie. Gump is contrasted to the famous males, who are idols in today's society, and it appears as though he is better off in comparison: Gump's choices in life seem to determine his friendliness, no ill-feelings or grudges, and is not greedy with fame or money and successes. Contrast this to the choices his lifetime girl friend Jenny makes: she wants to be famous and rich, but ends up being a druggie. The people she is surrounded by are all of a dubious nature: a sexually-abusive father, a show audience more interested in her naked body than her folk-music playing, and an abusive hippie-boyfriend.

Watching this film made me think that Forest Gump is a new kind of a role model; he's a nice boy, a friendly person, gives his best no matter what the situation may be, a reliable friend until the end and a person that has incapability but never makes it an excuse for him to become a normal person.

Forrest Gump for me is a movie hit. Many people claim it gets them in touch with their "inner child". Some attacks it for the view that low IQ is a necessity for maintaining the child-like attitude Forrest Gump has. Forrest Gump never grows up or matures in the movie. He never becomes a man and remains a boy throughout. It is implied, at least, that his "stupidity" is what allows him to do this. This may or may not be true, but it is just a movie in the end. Most people in his position would not be so fortunate as he. And what about the converse: if you are intelligent, does this mean you cannot be child-like forever? That's not true, and I think the movie did a good job in showing that anyone can retain their inner child as long they never grow up or become mature. What a magical movie.

ChickFlicks

I’m a big “chick flick” fan. I love watching mushy, romantic, girly movies maybe because I can relate to the characters of the movies and it really gets my attention. It’s like I’m watching my own fairy tale movie.

Here are my TOP 10 chick flicks:

(#1 most favorite flick)

1. The Notebook: The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who disapprove of Noah's not wealthy family, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and gets engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, then, with her love for Noah still alive, stops by Noah's 200-year-old home that he restored for her, "to see if he's okay". It is evident that they still have feelings for each other, and Allie has to choose between her fiancé and her first love.

2. If only: After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha (Hewitt), dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight (and nearly broke up), a grief-stricken British businessman, Ian Wyndham (Nicholls), living in London gets a chance to relive the day all over again, in the hope of changing the events that led up to her getting killed...

3. Serendipity: “Can once in a lifetime happen twice?” The story is about destiny, love and faith. Jonathan (John Cusack) and Sara (Kate Beckinsale) are drawn together and take a chance on love. They meet unexpectedly then part without expectation when she decides they must let fate determine if they are meant to be together. Years later, they are both engaged to others but cannot give up the dream that – despite time, distance and obstacles that conspire to keep them apart – they will one day meet again!

4. A walk to remember: Love and loss throughout two very young lives. Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan - two people who find themselves unexpectedly thrown together after a practical joke between Landon and his friends which leaves a boy in hospital, as punishment Landon is forced to partake in some after school activities including the spring play. The truth of the matter is Landon can't act, so he acquires the help of the beautiful but some what invisible Jamie you see Jamie doesn't need to be noticed, she is quiet and keeps her self to her self most of the time, Landon and his friends always make fun of Jamie as if it is a day to day task, but one day Landon brings up the courage to ask for her help with his lines, through trials and tribulations leading up to this play Land some how falls in love with the beautiful ministers daughter abandoning his friends to be with her Landon shares a true love with the girl, but a heart breaking secret lies between the couple, can they save their relationship and make all their dreams come true?

5. City Of Angels: “She didn’t believe in angels until she fell in love with one.” Two of the brightest stars in Hollywood spark the biggest romance under the heavens in City of Angels. Nicolas Cage is Seth, an angel who must decide if he’ll forsake immortality and become human – on the chance that he woman of his dreams might love him. That woman is Maggie (Meg Ryan), a pragmatic heart surgeon who doesn’t believe in angels, until she meets Seth.

6. The Hot Chick: “An attractive and popular teenager who is mean spirited toward others, fins herself in the body of an older man, and must find a way to get back to her original body.” Jessica Spencer (Rachel McAdams) is convinced that she has the perfect life. She’s the hottest, most popular girl in high school, captain of the cheerleading squad and dating the dreamy quarterback. But she gets a big dose of reality when she wakes up in the body of a 30-year-old man (Rob Schneider)! She quickly discovers that trading on your looks isn’t so easy when you’re a girl who constantly needs a shave. And until she can figure out how to change herself back, Jessica must find a way to win the Cheer Competition, go to the prom, and win her boyfriend back – all as a guy.

7. 50 first dates: “The ultimate bachelor will face the ultimate challenge.” Starring Adam Sandler (Henry Roth) and Drew Barrymore (Lucy). Henry lives an enviable life in a Hawaiian paradise, spending every night with a beautiful tourist in search of an island fling. It is a sweet life with no strings attached, until he meets Lucy. He and Lucy hit it off from the get-go, but the next day she acts like she doesn’t know him (she has a short-term memory loss, so every night all memory of her day is erased). But Henry, a man in love will go to any lengths to win over the girl of his dreams.

8. Sleepless in Seattle: “The romantic film that started it all.” Tom Hanks stars as Sam Baldwin, a widowed father who, thanks to the wiles of his worried son, becomes a reluctant guest on a radio call-in show. He’s an instant hit with thousand of female listeners, who deluge his Seattle home with letters of comfort. Meanwhile, inspired in equal parts by Sam’s story and by classic Hollywood romance, writer Annie Red (Meg Ryan) becomes convinced that it is her destiny to meet Sam. There are just two problems: Annie’s engage to someone else, and Sam doesn’t know – yet – that they’re made for each other.

9. Alex and Emma: “Is it love or are they just imagining things?” Based loosely on a true love story. Alex and Emma is a romantic comedy starring Kate Hudson as Emma and Luke Wilson as Alex. Alex is an author whose writer’s block and gambling debts have landed him in a jam. In order to get loan sharks off his back, he must finish his novel in 30 days or he’ll be dead. To help him complete his manuscript he hires stenographer Emma. As Alex begins to dictate to her his tale of a romantic love triangle to the charming yet somewhat opinionated stenographer, Emma challenges his ideas at every turn. Her unsolicited yet intriguing input begins to inadvertently influence Alex and his story and soon real life begins to imitate art.

10. Something’s Gotta Give: Academy Award winners Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton star in a sparkling and sophisticated romantic comedy from acclaimed writer/director Nancy Meyers which proves that in matters of the heart, sometimes you can teach an old playboy new tricks. Harry Langer (Jack Nicholson) is a hip-hop music mogul with a libido much younger than his years. He has the world on a string – and a string of beautiful young girlfriends to prove it. During a romantic rendezvous with his newest girlfriend, Marin, at her mother’s Hamptons beach house, Harry develops chest pains and eventually winds up being nursed by Marin’s reluctant mother, Erica Barry (Dina Keaton) – a successful divorced New York playwright. In the process, Harry develops more heart pangs – the romantic kind – for Erica, a woman who is right for him in every way.

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