"Fromis_9 - Glass Shoes MV reaction: Idol School is in session."

"Fromis_9 - Glass Shoes MV reaction: Idol School is in session."

by:

The Vole

While watching Fromis 9, the girl group that emerged from MNET's Idol surival series called Idol School , I became a little confused.

I could tell Koreans and they were all singing in Korean but the song and the visuals of this song really feels like you were singing to a Japanese song. From the driving steady beat of the song that is punctuated by different instruments without missing that steady beat to the school uniforms and the graceful steps that you normally see on Jpop Idol groups.

Of course the Koreans would also be into this but this was a bit dizzying for me a bit. I was not able to watch Idol school and for certain only know Lee Chae-yong who is a trainee for WM Entertainment , the same company that produced my bias group Oh my girl.

The benefit of surviving idol school is very much apparent as all of these girls truly are visuals in their own right. It would really just depend on you to choose a bias. There is a girl here who looks like Binnie from Oh My girl and I mention that because the actual Binnie might have longer hair in their comeback.

The MV follows Fromis 9 as they do school arts stuff and hang out in an attic room that is all sunny and bright with the warm tones of autumn. In contrast to that the parts where they do most of their dancing are in bubble gum pink or green colors. Before Fromis 9these dance moves were usually something that Lovelyz would do but Fromis 9 is showing that they have it all. Great Visuals , Vocalists and Dancers and hopefully with Mnets backing they can attain fame in the girl group department of Kpop.

"Midweek Magic December 2017 #47: Iconic Masters - Be careful what you wish for"

"Surprise!"

"Midweek Magic December 2017 #47: Iconic Masters - Be careful what you wish for"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

We have a joke in my play group about Iconic masters when we saw the full spoilers.

"Ang sakit siguro kung magbabayad ka ng mahal para sa isang pack tapos ang makukuha mo lang eh Hypersonic dragon."

We all laughed at the thought while secretly hoping that this would not happen to any of us but then one should really be careful about what one wishes for because no one is really sure who would be listening.

So as I pulled my third pack for Iconic masters at Spiral Valenzuela and had friends like Troy Angeles video what would have been my success I scissored the top of my pack and peeled off the commons one by one. And when it came to the rare at the end I instantly saw the 4/4 power toughness and the Izzet colors. God no! I secretly hoped that it was something else and my mind raced to the Iconic masters spoilers and could not come up with another creature who was 4/4 and in Izzet colors.

The joke was made real and surely enough the Hypersonic dragon made it's appearance. I should really be care about what dragon I would call , out of all the dragons in this set I had to be stuck with this one.

And yeah the joke was on me yet again.

"When you see this in the morning..."

"When you see this in the morning..."

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

The sight of a gigantic dragon that dwarfs the surrounding city landscape in the morning as I wake up will not really send me into despair. Not even seeing Emrakul the Aeons Torn or The Promised end in the flesh would do that to me. 

Nope. I will feel fine if these creatures make an appearance because if they do then it means that the world I live in has underdone a fundamental change. We have entered into the realm of the fantastical or magical and creatures of this caliber demand fantastical or magical means to eliminate or contain. 

So here are a couple of things that I would do if I saw gigantic dragons outside my window.

1) Go to my Mad scientist type neighbor and ask if I could borrow that rare Ultra pokeball that he has been keeping in his underground lab all this time. I don't see a Mew2 anywhere but that dragon is right there. It helps to tame one don't you think?

2) Contact my buddies at that hidden base off the coast of Mariana's trench and see if they can send over a couple of Jaegers my way. Heck A dragon is not a Kaiju and might have different motivation than them but you need something huge to combat something huge. Unless you plan on being squished in between dragon paws.

3) I will telepathically reach out to a planeswalker buddy of mine. Usually has face paint , dresses hood up and all in blue. You might know him , Jace Beleren who probably has a version I can talk to in the multiverse. I would probably borrow a spare Utopian Vow or an Imprison in the moon spell. Those spells are cheap. I am sure he could spare me one or two.

And these are the three things that I can think of on top of my head. So how would you deal with this dragon? 

"Super-duper death ray: Through and through"

"Super-duper death ray: Through and through"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

I have never seen trample on an Instant spell before. I guess this card deserves it. And hopefully something of the same thing can come out in a future set. Wizards of the coast has this funny way of experimenting and finding what we like and printing a card like it in standard. Just ask all the other players who were around when Unglued and Unhinged were released. 

For 1 red and 2 generic mana you get to deal 4 damage to a target creature. Normally players want to cast lower costing spells or spells that can also target other players. Burning someone can be fun after all. This card gives you the option of atomizing something from 1-4 toughness creatures but it's advantage is that it has trample and the excess burn can also be used to hit the target creatures controller. So if you just killed a 1/1 you also get to deal 3 damage to that creatures controller. So opponents better have big creatures on their side to shield them.

Otherwise this is going to be a through and through.

"Midweek Magic November 2017 #46:Skullbriar , How to survive you?"

"Midweek Magic November 2017 #46: Skullbriar , How to survive you?"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr. MD

There is an aspect of Magic that I live for but seldomly get so that in the rare occurrence that it happens it gives me great satisfaction. And this is  the phenomenon I like to call as an "Ikot Puwet moment" or in English getting someones panty in a bunch although I don't think the last statement is appropriate as I normally assume that none of my male playgroup mates wear that article of clothing. As far as I know. 

So anyway in a recent game (11/24/2017) I decided to run another set of Commanders for our EDH games and in the middle I pulled off my last commander of the night. My all time favorite Skullbriar. I was going against Jus with his Ur-Dragon deck and Janry's Muzio artifact deck.

I can feel their frustrations mounting as Skullbriar attacked and grew larger and larger. With the help of a Corpsejack Menace and later a Necropolis Regent my favorite graveyard Elemental reached 23/23 in power and was sure to end someone in my next turn.

To make matters worse I have already attached a Whispersilk cloak on it. And this made my opponents even more desperate and so as always I became the archenemy yet again in an EDH game with just 3 players. 

The panic button was hit when Jus was able to destroy my Whispersilk cloak with a Rain of thorns and then a sweep from Janry with a Devastation Tide. Disaster and imminent loss was averted but I still had the pieces to win in hand but was eliminated by Dragons that were already set up.

I was groggy from taking medications and I must admit that when Skullbriar grew to those proportions I was awakened just a bit. And the looks on my opponents as they kept on trying to come up with a solution. Yup. Magic really has it's moments.

"Doc In , Doc Out Espesyal Letter to Patients:Exotic Sakit Edition"

"Doc In , Doc Out Espesyal Letter to Patients:Exotic Sakit Edition"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

Dear Patients,

Mga di masyadong minamahal , gusto ko lang pong liwanagin na ang mga sumusunod na salita ay di mo makikita sa mga medical text book at di mo ginagamit sa pagsabi sa akin na dapat kung idiagnose sa iyong sakit:

#Napasma

#Nabinat

#Nausog

#Nanuno

#Nabati

#Nilalagnat sa loob

#Nilalagnat laki

#Naduwende

#Namatanda

#Namamahay

#Nadaanan ng masamang hangin

Ngayon isipin mong mabuti kung ako ang magsusulat ng mga ito bilang findings o final diagnosis ng sakit mo , pustahan di ka matutuwa kaya pakiusap po ng maayos sa inyo wag po ito ang sabihin niyong dahilan kung kayo ang nagaabsent o nalelate ng pasok.Uulitin ko po na sila po ay di sakit at di pinapangalingan ng sakit ng tao.

Ok.Sige.Balik trabaho na ulit. Nauusog ako sa mga sinasabi mo sa akin eh. Lawayan kita diyan.

Di masyadong nagmamahal,

Doc June

"Cafe Blues"

"Cafe Blues"

by:

 Aven R. De leon/ Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

I 

Sitting here with nothing to do

Sitting here missing you

And here I am wondering 

If my phone will ring

II

Yet silent it stays

I feel out of place

And actually kind of hungry

thinking of turkey

III

Maybe you might be there

It would only be fair

I'm crazy , you're insane

Can't get you out of my brain

Like a needle in a pile of hay

There are so many things I wish I could say

but maybe not today.

11/15/2017 Coffee Project , QC 11;03am

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Editors Note:

This is the 1st poem in a series of 4 where my daughter Aven and I collaborated on making poems while we hung out. Quite a fun bonding experience with the right person and Aven in her young age has shown how bright and creative she is when crafting words out of thin air. I wonder where she got that from?