"Lovelyz:Wagzak MV reaction: Beach Lovelyz"

"Lovelyz:Wagzak MV reaction: Beach Lovelyz"

by:

The Vole

Before I start I would like to say how unfortunate it is that Jin would not be joining this comeback and I wish her well and hope that she recovers soon from her health issues.

Wagzak is Lovelyz latest offering that has a summer feel to it. It is light and bubbly as the Lovelyz themselves and in my opinion this group has always captured that feel and they don't even need to be on the beach for it.

Yein has grown up so much in this MV and it seems that she has eater a lot of the facetime reserved for Baby Soul , Jin and Jiae. Heck no one can blame anyone for wanting to see more of the Lovelyz Maknae.

Jisoo and Mijoo also share some light moments here with Kei and it is great to see that they are also having fun. I don't understand the push for Sujeong to be sexy but they are letting her go off with mid ribs and showing more skin lately. She deserves the attention and being an IDOT fan I don't mind this as well. Woolim has been right in pushing her to do this.

The song is light and catchy , not too heavy on the trap beats but the song does take advantage of them here or there. 

All in all I don't see how this song will fare now that Twice has come out and Black Pink will also be promoting until the end of July. Here is hoping the the Lovelyz fare better than how I expect them to in this tough July 2018 run.

"On Being Alone."

"On Being Alone."

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

Was I always alone? I turned to my own inner thoughts about this now that my daughter feels the same way as she enters high school.

I remembered not caring about if I was popular or not because it was a small school and people would know about you regardless if you like them to know you or not. My daughter told us that she has been experiencing culture shock from transitioning from a small close knit school into a big one where everyone is ultra competitive or falls behind in a very big way.

She is growing up conscious of the differences in people and their statuses and she is smart to figure this all out by herself that makes me proud because I always felt that during that age I was too naive to even care.

I remembered that I was too consumed by the things that I were doing to care what people think of me. I was the leader , I was the head , I was the top dog and no one could do what I do especially during those times that I was juggling so many things but succeeding in them nonetheless. If you can call it success. 

I was alone and I did not mind. It gave me time to think.To process things. It gave me time to create new things. There were no distractions. Oh I had friends but none of them were at school because I felt that only a handful of people really did understand who I was when I was in high school.

People who cannnot categorize you always felt that you were weird and were an aberration when it comes to their normal world views and categories. And people always have that need to categorize. I belonged to neither and I belonged to all which did not sit well with everyone , I guess.Only when I entered UP Bagiuo did I understand that what set me apart was something that I can be accepted for and was the norm in College. 

I have often told those closest to me that I did enjoy college more than highschool in this regard. Personally I enjoyed high marks in high school in all of my activities when it comes to school and church but it was in College that all this creativiy would come into focus and I would find a big part of myself by being friends with the same kinds of weirdos and the diffrent kinds of weirdos that even the ultra smarts of the college was not able to label.

Weirdly enough I feel like I should tell all of this to my 12 year old. Highschool might not be the place where you find it all but it surely is a start to know who you really are and the things that you would want in the future.

I see so much of myself in her when I was at that age. That drive to do things and the need to excel.I really should not tell her some of my views because a part of me wants her to remain the same no matter what her age.

There is always time in the weekend.We will have out talks.

"Bolas Won't Let Me Quit."

"Bolas Won't Let Me Quit."

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

It is no secret to some of my closest friends that I have been feeling a bit saturated with Magic lately. I have been actively advising others on how to make their own decks but I have not made a deck of my on in the past few weeks.

Granted that I recently acquired a Daretti from my good friend Mark as well as my attempts to edit my Marath deck to no apparent success.

Despite getting a lot of killer cards and great deals on cards that I wanted I feel a little bit saturated. So much so that I was considering taking a break from Magic after our planned Draft or Sealed Tournament on Thursday.

The big question was how I can take a break from Magic when I have been playing it consistently during the midweek. I had no answer to myself as well.

When Thursday rolled around everyone was excited to open their packs of Magic 19 or Core 19. I was hoping to get a Crucible of Worlds but I was greeted back by an old friend.

None other than Nicol Bolas himself who had come in the form of Nicol Bolas , The Ravager. 

To add an extra layer of fun , all 6 players involved in the Sealed tournament rolled a die and got to pick off packs in a bag. The packs were already jumbled in that big bag and well the die rolling even added a whole new dimension of randomness.

When we got all 6 packs we all ripped through it. And in my first pack Lo and Behold , Nicol  Bolas appeared. As if to say to me , What the hell were thinking of taking a break? Now that you have me you need to make a deck around me.

And build it I did. I decided to play Grixis and was happy that I had enough cards to support Nicol Bolas. I would win 2 rounds before we all ran out of time and now the dragon seems to whisper. "Build my deck."

I'm on it.

"Midweek Magic 2018 #23 : Building Xenagos"

"Midweek Magic 2018 #23 : Building Xenagos" 

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

For a few weeks now I have been amazed at the efficiency at which Xenagos has been killing me and my other group mates. I have tried to steer of creating my own version of the deck but one day as I was trying to desperately improved on the Marath deck that I ended up with it dawned on my that I have gathered enough Red and Green pieces that I would be able to create my own version of the deck that Jethro has been killing as with. I need to put a little twist on my own in it though and I wondered what that would be.

Among the pile was the R/G Manland Raging Ravine which I think will be a great addition since it is something that cannot be countered and grows steadily the more that you use it.

Another card that I included though I had reservations was Magamatic force.Sure it was 7/7 and it is one of those that I have not played with and since my whole Battlebond opening phase I have had 2 copies of the behemoth just waiting for a deck. And this seemed a deck that needed it.

Another card was another card that I had with me for over a decade which is my Copperhoof Vorrac. A Mirrodin rare that never really quite found a home for one reason or another but in this Xenagos deck that I was building it felt like it was a great fit and so in it went.

As another improvement on the deck and as a surprise I added Triumph of the hordes. It might work or not but at least I had another option to go ahead and infect someone. I really missed doing that.

"Oh My Girl Banhana - Banana Allergy Monkey Jap. Ver.MV reaction:When You Are Allergic to Bananas. "

"Oh My Girl Banhana - Banana Allergy Monkey Jap. Ver.MV reaction:When You Are Allergic to Bananas. "

by:

The Vole

Cute Maknae Arin , Binnie and Candy Leader Hyojung officially made their Japanese debut as Oh My Girl Banhana in Japan a couple of days back and the Japanese version is looking mighty good. With the girls in casual dresses over the monkey uniforms that they wore in the Korean MV version.

This is also the first time that we get to see the whole of Oh my girl in the Banana Allergy Monkey dance altogether. YooA was not in the dance parts of the Korean MV as she probably got caught up in another schedule.

The story board for the MV remains pretty much the same where the 3 monkey girls are made fun of for having their allergies and of course they feel awful that everyone else can have Bananas except for them. 

The Banhana girls for even teased with Bananas a lot by the other members here.  The quality of the shots , lighting and over all pacing of the MV is much improved. The lighting is more subdued and the Banhana girls are more down to earth on this one. More like the party atmosphere feel that they wanted from the original MV.

I just have two problematic things to point out. The stylist gave Arin a pretty dress that almost shows off her cleavage. Whoever you are. Naughty Naughty. Please don't do that in the future. There are enough Miracles complaining about this being a Loli song.

And. 2. The other members(YooA , Jiho , Seunghee and Mimi) basically blended milk , ice and bananas that they gave to the  Banhana girls at the end of the video. Shouldn't have they all died from their so-called allergies? And was that a mean joke or were they being supportive of their friends. Who knows the 3 Banhana girls might have X X over their eyes in the next frames. Then again they were dancing to the very end so it might seem that they didn't really have Banana Allergies after all. 

Overall I wish that this song will be loved in Japan and so will Oh my girls official debut next month. Let's keep on supporting them Miracles! 

"Leaving A baby in a Fortuner Video"

"Leaving A baby in a Fortuner Video"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

There is a video circulating on the internet of a concerned citizen finding a 2 year old who was left inside a Fortuner along Metrowalk. The parents of the boy was found after 5 minutes by a guard and they even got mad at the guard for looking for them as if the guard was in the wrong.

A 2 year old baby in a Fortuner with no one to accompany him , without air and panicking as he was alone. What kind of monsters would leave their child like that? And then people find out that his parents were out drinking in Metrowalk. 

I probably would have thought of a scenario were they were meeting some clients for a business meeting and they cannot afford to have the child in the meeting but then again why the hell would I justify a monstrous act? 

Kung nagalit ka pa dun sa concerned na tao sa anak mo dahil naistorbo ko sa pagiinom mo habang naiwan yung anak mo na walang kasama eh sobrang galing mo na talaga. Bakit ka pa naganak? Bakit mo pa sinama kung gaganyanin mo lang pala?

In some other world there might be a perfectly logical explanation for all this. Unfortunately we are not in that other world. And Children should never ever be left like this.

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The Mom in an interview said that they were not drunk but she went to the bathroom and was on her way to feed another child , a 6 year old. She had left the 2 year old in the Fortuner because he was asleep. Tulfo was not buying it as she was gone for more than 10 minutes. Despite her apologies she tried to shift anger at the concerned citizen who wanted to smash their car window to save the child. Tulfo would have none of that though and the last update was that this mom would report to the DSWD. Sheesh.

"Sagot"

"Sagot"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

I

Unti unting tumiklop ang talukap ng mga mata

kakaintay sa mga sinasabi mo na di dumadating

Di ko na alam kung ito ba ay tama

ang alam ko lang kailangan ko na talagang malaman

II

Ano na ba ang sagot mo sa mga tanong?

Malabo pa din pa para di mo maramdaman?

Parang tanga tumitingin kung sasagot ka pa

alanganin na ang oras pero ito di pa pumipikit

III

Pero bakit parang may liwanag na sa labas

eh naghihintay pa din.

Siguro mamaya. Siguro bukas. Siguro sa susunod na araw.

O siya siya siya. Itutulog ko na lang.

IV

At sa pagpikit lumabas din ang hinihintay. 

Di na malamang mababasa. Binura na ang mga natira.

Pinatay ang laptop at tuluyan nang umalis.

Oo.

July 9 2018 8:05am Little Tagaytay , Valenzuela City.