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Sunday, January 25, 2009

The Vatican in Youtube




Eager to prove that they're not a bunch of technophobes (we didn't forget that whole cell phones will steal your soul thing), Vatican launches their own channel in Youtube.

Official details revealed during the press conference last Friday, it's pretty easy to figure out what to expect. The Vatican Television Center and Vatican Radio are working with Google to post videos of the Pope and other church events on the channel, delighting the Catholic faithful, and those who eye the Church with curiosity.



Sunday, January 18, 2009

MP3, MP4, MP5? Watever!

I was checking out the newest tech gadget yesterday, and came across this oddity. According to Fonerange(NEPO MALL), what we’ve got here is an MP5, yes M-P-FIVE player.








As far as I know, there is no official MP5 file format. As best I can tell is that this is just some sort of marketing hooey, designed to deceive the public into thinking they’re getting their hands on something new and exciting. The P2400(BELOW) player looks like any other cheap MP4/MP3 media player, complete with a 2.5-inch color screen, an FM tuner and 1GB of flash memory. Amazing!

American Idol 8

Go back to:http://www.monacome.com/2009/01/2009-american-idol-8-season8-premiere.html




The wait is over! The 2009 American Idol 8 premiere / American Idol season 8 episode 1 is here to usher in another fantastic season of music, drama, intrigue and everything else that comes with this hit reality competition show. Simon, Paula and Randy, together with the new judge Kara DioGuardi, will once again start the season with auditions from all over America. We will see talent and crazy antics, laughter and drama, all in the way to choosing the next American Idol. Who will it be? The 2009 American Idol 8 premiere will be composed of a two-night episode that will pave the way and set the tone for American Idol season 8. David Cook, American Idol 7 champ, will hopefully be there to
recap the year that was, how his life changed since winning the crown last May. And I'm sure we will see the other American Idol 7 contestants as well.

Tune in to American Idol season 8 episode 1 / American Idol 8.01 (s08e01) as we welcome the hopefuls this season because one of them will be the next big star.

For all of you American Idol 8 fanatics out there, the full video stream of the 2009 American Idol 8 premiere / American Idol season 8 episode 1 will be available on this site very soon for those who prefer to watch it online. And I'm sure many of you will want to watch it again even after you have seen it on TV. Please check back for it regularly as the copy will be posted here very soon. In the meantime, here is a short entry on what to expect this season and a teaser of American Idol 8 / American Idol season 8.



The 'Wild Card' that was practiced in the early seasons of the show will effectively apply on March 5. The judges will choose among the eliminated contestants and choose three to bring back to the competition for a second chance. Also, the Hollywood round will accommodate as many as 36 contestants instead of the usual 24 to give more chance for the people to show what they got. And starting February 17, America will help decide who should be in the Top 12. One male, one female and the next top vote getter from the three split groups consisting of 12 people each, will earn the ticket to the final.

The ongoing recession has also forced "Idol Gives Back", a charity program conducted regularly by American Idol, to be canceled this season. The reason is clear, the producers feel that asking people to donate money for a good cause during a recession is simple not advisable. According to producers, they may include that portion in the future but it won't be on a regular basis.


American Idol season 8 Schedule


Tuesday, Jan. 13 (8:00-10:00 PM) Season Premiere, Part 1
Wednesday, Jan. 14 (8:00-10:00 PM) Season Premiere, Part 2
Tuesday, Jan. 20 (8:00-9:00 PM) Auditions Episode
Wednesday, Jan. 21 (8:00-9:00 PM) Auditions Episode
Tuesday, Jan. 27 (8:00-9:00 PM) Auditions Episode
Wednesday, Jan. 28 (8:00-9:00 PM) Auditions Episode
Thursday, Jan. 29 (8:00-9:00 PM) Auditions Episode
Wednesday, Feb. 4 (8:00-9:00 PM) Hollywood Round, Part 2
Tuesday, Feb. 10 (8:00-9:00 PM) Hollywood Round, Part 3
Wednesday, Feb. 11 (8:00-10:00 PM) Hollywood Round, Part 4
Top 36 Semifinalists Announced
Tuesday, Feb. 17 (8:00-10:00 PM) 12 Semifinalists Perform
Wednesday, Feb. 18 (8:00-9:00 PM)
First LIVE Results Show Finalists Advance
Tuesday, Feb. 24 (8:00-10:00 PM) 12 Semifinalists Perform
Wednesday, Feb. 25 (8:00-9:00 PM)
LIVE Results Show Finalists Advance
Tuesday, March 3 (8:00-10:00 PM) 12 Semifinalists Perform
Wednesday, March 4 (8:00-9:00 PM)
LIVE Results Show Finalists Advance
Thursday, March 5 (8:00-9:00 PM) Wild Card Round
Top 12 Finalists Revealed
Tuesday, March 10 (8:00-10:00 PM) Top 12 Finalists Perform



Quezon City Science HS students suspended over critical blog

An irate principal suspended four students of the Quezon City Science High School for 10 days over a blog that criticized her new policies in a move that is angering students, alumni and advocates of free speech.


The students were meted the 10-day suspension due to personal blogs critical of the QCSHS principal Dr. Zenaida Panti Sadsad. (N.B. This entry erroneously referred to this link:




but one of the four students has denied any role in it and said that this blog is not the subject of the suspension meted by Dr. Sadsad

While the local education office in Quezon City backed the students’ suspension, another report quoted a Department of Education undersecretary who urged teachers and administrators to respect students’ constitutional right to free expression.

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Repect Blogger's rights..

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Vampires: Are They Real?



Vampires are mythological or folkloric revenants who subsist by feeding on the blood of the living. In folkloric tales, the undead vampires often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early Nineteenth Century. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures, the term vampire was not popularised until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire superstition into Western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe,[1] although local variants were also known by different names, such as vampir (вампир) in Serbia, vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania. This increased level of vampire superstition in Europe led to mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism.



In modern times, however, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, although belief in similar vampiric creatures such as the chupacabra still persists in some cultures. Early folkloric belief in vampires has been ascribed to the ignorance of the body's process of decomposition after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalise this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death. Porphyria was also linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but this link has since been largely discredited.



The charismatic and sophisticated vampire of modern fiction was born in 1819 with the publication of The Vampyre by John Polidori; the story was highly successful and arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century.[2] However, it is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula that is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and provided the basis of the modern vampire legend. The success of this book spawned a distinctive vampire genre, still popular in the 21st century, with books, films, and television shows. The vampire has since become a dominant figure in the horror genre.



Here in Khenethics Vampire's are considered COOL
Special Mention: Robert Pattingson, Cutest vampire Ever..

Who is Stephenie Meyer?


Sunday, January 4, 2009

Twilight movie disappoints book readers

Addopted from: ABS-CBN News Online



The movie has its moments. My favorite would definitely be the baseball match. The vampires play it so hard they can only do it during a thunderstorm. Imagine a vampire who can uproot a tree hit a baseball with the same strength. Bang! Imagine two vampires body slamming in victory.

It was exactly how I imagined the game when I was reading the book.

The movie is based on the phenomenal vampire romance book, the Twilight series, by Stephenie Meyer. It revolves around Bella Swan, played by Kristen Stewart, who falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen, played in the movie by Robert Pattinson.

It’s a story of passion and restraint. Edward and his family are no ordinary vampires. Calling themselves vegetarians, they’ve sworn to spare humans and instead feed themselves with animal blood.

The Book




Let me talk about the book first.

Decades of practice have trained the Cullens to become almost immune to the smell of human blood. Edward himself is about a century old, although he is frozen at 17. They have been so used to their lifestyle that they decided to enroll themselves in high school and mingle with humans. The Cullens are nostalgic about their human lives.

But what happens when after almost a century of his vampire existence, when he thought nothing would surprise him anymore, Edward smells the sweetest human blood.

In the Twilight world, the smell of human blood varies. On rare occasions, a lucky vampire would chance upon a human whose smell would satisfy him the most, like a “personal brand of heroine.” To Edward, that was Bella.

It was difficult enough to stop himself from killing Bella the first time she smelled her blood. When Edward succeeded to control his appetite for her blood, he falls in love with her, an emotion he felt for the first time in a century. First love.

Twilight, the first in the four books of the Twilight series, is an easy book to read. It captivates readers with the eternal suspense on how—and if—Edward can control himself around Bella. One mistake could kill her or turn her into a vampire. Both are unacceptable to Edward. He intends to keep Bella alive, blushing cheeks and pulsating heart. As if it’s not a big challenge already to protect Bella from himself, Edward also has to protect her from the other vampires. She knows the danger but she doesn’t care.

The Movie




Now, let’s go back to the movie. It must have lifted more than half of the dialogues from the book, and they knew which ones the book readers have come to memorize.

Bella starts the movie reciting lines from the book’s preface. “I’d never given much thought to how I would die…. Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.”

And then later you hear Edward say, “I don’t have the strength to stay away from you anymore.”

I watched the movie with my two sisters. Overall, my younger sister loved it. I felt shortchanged. My older sister, who also read the book, didn’t like it as much. I overheard a noisy group of teenagers debating among themselves after the movie. “The book is better,” shouted one. “The movie was really good,” shouted another.

Mixed Reviews

The mixed reviews of Twilight are not due to viewers’ taste or age. It depends on whether or not you’ve read the book, and, interestingly, how many times you’ve seen the movie.

My younger sister, Noella, hasn’t read the book. She swooned. I felt shortchanged watching her smile everytime Edward flashed his vampire grin. She watched the story unfold in fascination.

While watching the movie, I didn’t feel the emotions I felt when I read the book. While the lines were straight from the book, the descriptions and writings that made the book full of suspense were lost in the movie. The distorted timeline in the movie was disturbing, too. I spent a good time in the movie house watching other people, wondering if I was the only one who was not enjoying the movie.

I have a big problem with the vampires in general. Edward is supposed to be the perfect predator. In the book, he was someone who looked like he just came out of a magazine cover and he speaks like he’s from a different era.

In the movie, Edward seemed to me as human as Bella. He sometimes slouched and was at times unkempt. The other vampires were not as beautiful and as graceful as they are supposed to be, too.

There was also the eternal awkwardness between Stewart and Pattinson, although my younger sister said she didn’t notice it. It was like they were reciting lines from an amateur school play. The book is full of conversations. I’m not sure it was a good idea to lift too many dialogues from it. There were scenes in the movie where the lines were original, and I appreciated them.

No justice to author’s imagination

Later after the movie, my older sister Kath sympathized with me. She said it was exactly how she felt the first time she watched it. It seemed to her that the movie had a low budget. But she said she appreciated the movie better the second time she watched it.







While we were watching the movie, I remember how she spent her time pointing to my attention some interesting scenes. In one scene in the school cafeteria, when Bella was telling Edward about the trip to La Push beach, the Philippine flag was in the background. Author Stephenie Meyer also made a cameo in one of the scenes where Bella and his dad were having breakfast in a restaurant.

Like many movies based on popular books, the first Twilight movie failed to give justice to Stephenie Meyer’s imagination. But I have to say that this first movie in the Twilight series is more disappointing than the first Harry Potter movie. I read both books before they hit the movies.




Nevertheless, like the Harry Potter series, I hope that Twilight will be able to make up for its shortcomings in the next movies. Twilight will have three more.


I personally Greet Joyce Gomez and all khenethics reader's and Twilight fanatics out there!