"3 things I have seen this week July 2017 # 3 - Rain , Floods and a Wrong Stand"

"3 things I have seen this week July 2017 # 3 - Rain , Floods and a Wrong Stand"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr. MD

This week has been a rainy and floody one as Gorio gores everyone with the horrendous on and off rains that makes you want to stay at home but are unable to do so for reasons that are only up to you.

So the 3 things I have seen today are:

1) The Rain - Because I just can't miss it especially if it is messing with my schedules. And because of the off/on sporadic downfall you have to hurry or be caught in it. Suffer with wet clothes and wet feet. The wet clothes I can probably suffer through but having wet feet when they ought to be dry is a pet peeve of mine. So not only did I see the rain. I got poured a whole lot by it.

2) Floods - So in my none acceptance of the fact that I will not be working for one day I tried to the brave thing. Brave through a storm and hope for the best. It was ok at first since Waze said I could be at my clinic in an hour but when I was near R.Papa in Caloocan and the ETA was still at 41 minutes after 20 minutes I had to make a decision to turn back. And I did just in time to see a couple of floods already forming. Almost got trapped by the rising waters near Tullahan bridge.

3) A wrong Stand - 

When politicians make the statement of not jumping the bandwagon and risk commuters and children's safety it just seems like a bad stand. A whole wrong one since if a person has no important business then they should not be out in the kind of weather that has been tormenting us for the last 3 days. The Vice Mayor from QC just seemed to make a stand for the wrong reason somehow.

So there you go. I think I will be seeing more floods and Rains in the future. Hopefully I would see of that vice mayor less.

"Loona/Choerry - Love Cherry Motion MV reaction: The Innocent with a Hot secret"

"Loona/Choerry - Love Cherry Motion MV reaction: The Innocent with a Hot secret"

by:

The Vole 

The 3rd and last member of the Loona/Eclipse sub unit has been revealed. It is Choerry. I think it is pronounced as Cherry but it is still spelled that way. Korean Cherry? Choerry? Ok then.

So her debut song is entitled Love Cherry motion. I don't know what a cherry motion is and I don't want any naughty thoughts to creep in here because this song starts out as an upbeat cheery song that is filled with girl goodness and energy. That is until you reach the beat drops and there are two of them where essentially all Choerry says in the first one is Ah Ah Imagine while dancing sensually. Akin to the dance stages of Kim Lip and Jinsoul.

I understand that these 3 will be a sub unit and so this song will still be touched with that sense of sexiness.Hence the song feels like an innocent girl with a hot secret.The drop beat starts with Choerry eating a Cherry too.So I would leave that all up to you. Ah Ah Imagine.

Purple pervades the entire video from the shores where we first see Choerry , to her outfits , to the fields where we last see her. Pretty Purple Choerry. Welcome to LoonA.

I particularly like that shot in the end with the 3 colored moons existing with each other. While I would not like that to happen on earth because it will create really gigantic waves I like the hint that the next subunit is about to appear.

"Hyolyn X Kisum - Fruity MV reaction: Sweet Soloist Deal"

"Hyolyn X Kisum - Fruity MV reaction: Sweet Soloist Deal"

by:

The Vole

On the sad heels of Sistar breaking up and with their company revealing that Hyolyn and her desire for a solo career as the reason for their break up is this new song.

Given that the beautiful and talented Hyolyn has been doing a lot of solo work(Which I love) this song which is light and playful and danceable might just remind fans still bitter over the girl groups breakup and with Hyolyn getting a lot of the soloist benefits( I don't see enough Soyou projects for example.)

Kisum is also on the track presumably because they don't want Hyolyn doing all the work. Hyolyn can rap when she wants to. This probably explains why you hear Kisum but not see her in the MV. More for Hyolyn!

It is not saying that the MV is devoid of other lovely ladies. It is full of them in every frame. It also includes the ad placement for bottled Lipton Iced Tea which I think is the whole reason for this MV in the first place. An MV length CF for the Fruity Iced Tea. 

Overall I love this song and don't mind seeing more of Hyolyn in the coming years.Ah to go solo and to reap all the sweet deals. Well played Hyolyn. Well played.

"Jay Park Feat. Sik K - Yacht MV reaction: Those shoes!"

"Jay Park Feat. Sik K - Yacht MV reaction: Those shoes!"

by:

The Vole

This MV features a lot of things that I like. There is Jay Park and Sik K. Perflow , Holy Band and 1 Million Dance crew. The song makes you want to break out and dance. It makes you want to listen to it even on the background. What I don't like about this MV is about the 3 inch deep water that they all have to constantly dance in what looks like very expensive pairs of shoes!

I am looking at all the slick looking dance moves maybe even find myself dancing to it but I find myself being horrified at the thought of all those shoes being ruined by the water. All for the sake of Art I guess.

If you turn on the subtitles for the MV you can see comments from Jay Park himself. Things like "So you want subtitles wait for the English version." I think the English version will have words that are a bit raunchier or more mature lyrics. Or at least more mature lyrics that I actually understand in context hahahaha.

In any case this is a great song and I await the English version.

"The Scorpion God: Feeling the Sting."

"The Scorpion God: Feeling the Sting."

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

So I opened my Hour of Devastation fat bundle and I was excited about all the EDH goodies that I was able to get and I am raring to upgrade some of my existing EDH decks with the new cards but one card in particular stood out for me. My lone mythic card of the whole bunch and that was the 3rd god whom I did not write about. The Scorpion God makes an appearance as if to mock me. "So you don't want to write about because my other brothers seemed cooler huh , so let me make an appearance and let's see how you deal with it."

So here I am finally writing about the 3rd god who in my opinion seems underwhelming when compared to the other too but I guess if I can write about the Meandering Tower shell then I can write about a 6/5 god with recursion.

So at 5 mana , 3 colorless and Rakdos colors of Red/Black The Scorpion God is something that thrives on the death of other creatures , especially weakened creatures. Those that have -1/-1 counters on them when they die for whatever reason.

So board wipe with a Garruk's wake for example and all 3 creatures on your opponents side of the board turns into card advantage for you. While there are a lot of draw spells in Black and Red this particular drawing capacity that circles around the god is something now. So the point here is to put a lot of -1/-1 counters on your creatures or your opponents.

The color that takes advantage of these -1/-1 counters with token production is Black and Green , producing Snakes with Hapatra and Scarabs with nest of scarabs. Creature advantage is great since you can swarm away when necessary. If you want to play with the Scarab God with these cards though then you will be entering Jund Color territory which is not at all bad , I just don't know the survival rate of Jund in current standard right now but in EDH this could be the key to possible good build.

When I was listening on the youtube channel The Aetherhub and Seiben was talking about the fight between Rhonas and The Scorpion God an idea came to me about how to put the latter's ability to great use. He himself could finish off creatures and I don't mean Just pinging them to death at 3 mana cost at a time with his ability.

You could attack with him and then use the ability to finish off really big creatures or maybe even to weaken a big blocker , someone who have 5 power or so that could kill The Scorpion god when they butt heads. When you pull this off not only have you killed an opposing creature but reap the benefits of a card draw as well.

No one in my playgroup has raved about using The Scorpion God yet and I just might surprise everyone by using him as a commander soon. A 6/5 that has the possibility of recursion is not that bad to have and if you use him as a commander you can opt to put him in your graveyard and he can come back to your hand at the end of your turn. Sounds great to have in a commander right? The other 2 gods have this two but those are different monsters on their own.

So what do you think about the Scorpion God? What combos do you think would he fit in?Keep on brewing.Time to upgrade.

"Midweek Magic July 2017 # 24: Foiled by a Scheme"

"Midweek Magic July 2017 # 24: Foiled by a Scheme"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

This whole month of July has been Bant struggles for me. Oddly enough Approach of the Second sun in my deck has provided me with one or two wins and this day I thought that it might provide me with a much needed win to boost my confidence in my improvised Bant deck.

So I was able to cast the 7 mana spell and as it again peeked through my Library and it seemed that I had enough time and life to win as the Archenemy in our game something weird happened. The Scheme that was supposed to help me turned out to be my downfall.

I drew the scheme A Reckoning Approaches that lets me look at the top 6 cards of my library. Normally I would be happy because it would let me put a massive creature from these 6 cards that I looked at and then put the rest of the cards at the bottom of my library in any order.

Today was different as the 6th card in my deck was my Approach of the Second Sun that I was hoping would let me snatch away the win.And to add insult to injury among the 6 cards that I looked at none of them were creatures. So I basically drew a dud scheme and buried my win condition all in one turn.Both me and my opponents blew out air through our mouths. Theirs of relief. Mine of absolute frustration.

It also didn't help that A Reckoning Approaches showed a Second Sun resolved in it's art. I guess the reckoning that approached was meant for me as I lost this game. 

"Saying Yes"

"Saying Yes"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

"I'm the one who needs your love. Just me and you ,Let's have a rendezvous." V sang as he showered.

"Is that Sik-K sunbaenims Rendezvous?" the sweet voice asked , a bit muffled by the wooden door. When the showering V did not answer YuuA poked her head to see him completely naked and pretended to cover her eyes but still have enough gaps between her fingers to admire him.

"Hmmmm?" V said.

"I was asking about the song you were singing , is that the one by Sik-K sunbaenim?"

"Yeah. I heard it the other day and could not get it out of my head. It kept reminding me of us." V said as he washed the last soap suds on his body. 

"I think the girl in the MV is his girlfriend , She is 2 years younger than me but I envy her body proportions" YuuA said handing V a towel while still covering her eyes with her other hand.

"Of course you are aware that there are about a hundred other girls who envy your body proportions more." The Dragon said , toweling himself , not minding how the dancer was looking at him.

It amazed V that YuuA was still not aware of how people feel about her. Having fans that were both vocal online and in person didn't assure her of her status as one of the most famous idols that ever came out in the decade of Kpop.

"You flatter me. I don't know why you still do."

"Merely stating facts." V said wrapping the towel and motioning for the girl to move out of the door. "Now please stop pretending that you don't see me through that hand and let me through so I can get some clothes on me."

YuuA turned a bit red but did as she was asked. 

"V , I wanted to ask a favor from you." The girl asked shyly. Far from the confidence that seemed to exude from every pore of her body during performances. "I was hoping that you would say Yes."

"Yes." V said as he tried picking clothes from the closet. 

"You don't even know what it is I am asking. I might ask for your kidneys." YuuA had followed him into their room and sat on the bed still looking at him.

"Ask then. But the answer is still yes."

YuuA ran toward him and hugged him just as he was unwrapping the towel from his waist. V looked as her.

"So you really are asking for my kidneys aren't you? Please don't ask for both of them though. I need at least one to live so I can be around you and you could ask me more favors in the future."

YuuA only hugged him tighter."Of course I won't ask for your kidneys. I want you to be around me." She sniffed.

V could hear it in her voice , she was about to cry again. After all that she went through he vowed not to make her cry but she said that sometimes when she cried it wasn't because she was sad. Most of the time she cried because he made her happy.

"I was about to ask you something silly but I guess if you already said Yes , I could ask you anything in the future and you would still give it to me right?"

"Of course. I might look human right now but I can grant you that wish. Dragons Honor."

YuuA said nothing. Smiled to herself and continued to hold on to V. And the Dragon held her back because he knew this was another one of those days.Days that she just needed to be held.