Listening to the powers of...twisted tongue twisters!!!

S.A.P. #6

Just before me and my fellow SAP classmates were dismissed, our miss gave us one more task before we go on our very merry (christmas) way: Tongue Twisters!
She made us read tongue twisters with themes concerning Christmas.

Such as:

'Bobby brings bright bells.'

And...I would love to share the other two but because of my poor and slowly degrading memory because the notion of Christmas-fever and 2011 nearing my head I could not remember the other two more twisters that twisted my delicate tongue whose ability is better off tasting Christmas Ham than being challenged about speaking random nonsense about bright bells in its impossible speed rate.

Anyway, since the start of the Holidays, I've been checking sites that specialized on tongue twisters and their significance:

In the bygone times, people pronounce spells and hexes in the form of tongue twisters, mainly because it sounds strange and is said to 'manipulate the mind'. Pretty paranormal, huh?

According to the Guiness World Records, the hardest tongue twister in the English language is this: 'The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.'

Tongue twisters uses alliteration and rhyme, unfamiliar constructs of loanwords or other ways of using language features to make the words more difficult to articulate once the speaker says it fast.

The following tongue twister had someone won a grand prize in Games Magazine during the year of 1979. It goes like this:
'Shep Schwab shopped at Scott's Schnapps shop;
One shot of Scott's Schnapps stooped Schwab's watch.'

Of course, our native tongue twisters are, hands down, still the best twisty twisters that can get our spittle flying just to pronounce the words clearly!

Palakang kabkab, kumakalabukab, kaka-kalabukab pa lamang, kumakalabukab na naman!

Pugong bukid, pugong gubat

Pitumput-pitong puting pating

Notebook at aklat, notebook at aklat, notebook at aklat...

Ang relo ni Leroy ay Rolex


Then, my ever-first Tongue Twister that I had happily succeeded in twisting in my tongue!

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled pepper?
A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?

I was at least seven or eight when I accomplished in saying the tongue twister perfectly.

Anyway, a tongue twister's primary goal is to amuse everyone whenever we see someone struggle in pronouncing these words in their fastest possible.

I hope tongue twisters still survive even in the future, because it deserves a rightful place amongst golden shelves of entertainment and art, right there next to stand-up comedy, Glee and Limericks.

Now, since this blog is over, I'll just practice a new Twister here:

A flea and a fly in a flue
Were stuck so what could they do?
Said the Flea, 'let us fly!'
Said the Fly, 'Let us flee!'
So the Flea and the Fly flew from the flue...

In the Magickal World of Narnia

S.A.P.#5



Just recently watched Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader and, as expected, it did not disappoint! Ever since watching the first movie, I have persistently waited for the upcoming sequels and knew that the next would be better and more interesting.

The Chronicles of Narnia, written by C.S. Lewis, tells the many stories of children who come from our world and is magically transported to Narnia to help its land in battling evil forces that threaten it. In all the seven books in the series, it mostly has the Pevensie siblings as protagonists of the story, with the exception from his fifth book 'The Horse and his Boy', it features a different hero and one that does come from Narnia itself. Recurring elements include talking animals, magical phenomenon, numerous mystical places, the Good vs. Evil archetypal plot and, of course, the Lion Aslan.

So far, Walden Media has presented three films, 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', 'Prince Caspian' and 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'. Hollywood, of course, has done some revisions but only for the sake of filling censored gaps C.S. Lewis failed to write in his book. You see, Lewis was writing for children and so he didn't depict any violent situations that should describe a certain event. For instance, in the 'Lion'; in the film, the directors were ever okay in showing the big, climactic battle of Peter and Aslan's Army versus the White Witch's, while in his book, he emphasized more on how Susan and Lucy went back to the Witch's castle to rescue the prisoners and didn't go into full detail of the battle.
There are more actually in all of the movies, but I think the scriptwriters of Nania films did a good job of making the Narnia plot more solid and intense and un-Fairy Tale-ish, making the audience (me included) feel the grand scale of the adventures of the Pevensie children.

Narnia, unlike traditional fairy tales, has taken different folklores ad myths to a whole new level of adventurous spirit, emphasizing that children, no matter the age, do have the abilities to do the most impossible possible. And perhaps Narnia would have another need of them when the time comes again...

Everyday Paranormal-Provoking ghosts by just talking to them (Spooky!)

S.A.P. #4

Ghost Lab is a documentary series showed in Discovery Channel, televising the different adventures of Brad and Barry Klinge, co-founders of their own Paranormal Investigating Team called Everyday Paranormal.

I have watched the first season of Ghost Lab last summer and is now waiting for the second season (well, actually we're watching some episodes on the Net now, hehe).

Anyway, one of the most interesting parts of their investigative styles is communicating (in Brad and Barry's cases, they provoke) with the still earth-bound spirits that haunt a certain location or building. And they didn't have to do Seances or any other traditional supernatural way of doing it.

Using technology to record data, the Klinge brothers and their paranormal investigative team communicate with them to prove, or disprove, if the place really is haunted or gather evidence of paranormal phenomenon.

If you want to see the Klinge Brothers and the rest of the Everyday paranormal team in action, search them on YouTube or follow this link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azY0Jezip-E.

Ghost Lab isn't that really scary to watch, and maybe that's why I can still stand watching it XD.

The difference between 'Pis' and 'Pis'

SAP #3

For people who had mastered the grammar and pronunciation of English(pipol op da Republic op da Pilipins, lisen ap!) by non-English-native speakers, people who are not trained by it tend to see this as a sort of 'ka-artehan'--for the elite, of for those who wanted to be seen highly. This is especially true to where I'm standing, as people who talk to a person always using the American slang and its informal speeches see this unappealing in a sense that they wished that this person should live in the States instead.
But I'm not going to blog about that. I'm going to talk about how important grammar and pronunciation can be when you ARE speaking in English.
I'm going to narrate a bunch of stories.

Friend: 'May pisbook ka?'
Me: (pisbook? Fish book?)'Fish book?'
Friend: 'Pisbook! Yung online!'
Me: 'Ah, Facebook! Sorry...'

Friend #1: 'Wanna me go with you to CR?'
Me: 'Sige.'
Friend #2: 'What did you say?'
Friend #1: 'I'm gonna, like, escort her to restroom for a while.'
Friend #2: 'Ah, okay...'

Mom: 'Gusto mo ng Hush Brown?'
Brother: 'Sapatos? (thnking of Hush Puppies)'
Mom: 'Ba't mo kakainin sapatos?'
Me: 'Baka Hash Browns ata yun.'
Brother: 'Ah, o sige...'

A joke I remember goes like this:

English - Visayan:
Peace - Pis
Fish - Pis
Face - Pis
Pace - Pis

For me, learning to pronounce the words correctly whenever we learn new languages is as important as learning how the language works. You never know if this could lead from misunderstanding to fights.

Hearing Balthier's voice--Magnetism through speaking

S.A.P. #2

Whenever my younger brother plays his video game, Final Fantasy XII, I would watch it and wait for how our two most favorite characters will react to their quest and crack up a wise nugget or so.
If you want to know who our favorite characters are, their names are Balthier and Fran, Sky Pirates in the fictional fantasy world of Ivalice, where most of their adventures are happening.

For a short description, Balthier and Fran are sky Pirates, Balthier being the suave, British-accented and cocky Human, while his partner, Fran, is a Viera, a tall and lithe creature who are mysterious and odd as their trademark rabbit-like ears.
What makes them my favorite characters is that the way they stand-out is because of how these two work together in a sense that they are reminiscent to Han Solo and Chewbacca's partnership.

But anyway, I'm not going to talk about how much of a fan I am and describe them. I'm here to talk about how Balthier wins fans by his sharp looks and even sharper witty lines.

Just hearing Balthier's voice (mind you, he's voiced by a Brit!) and how every line he says to any of the characters exudes confidence makes him every bit more interesting, therefore creating a sort of magnetizing charm. (Great. Just what a fan girl would EXACTLY say about her favorite). His masculinity also redefines it in a sense that he doesn't have to show muscles or brawn to be masculine.

Anyway, if you don't believe me, just watch this short video of him
(Great! Just how a fan girl WOULD show it)

Miscommunication in our everyday lives...

S.A.P #1

Miscommunication happens when the speaker's message did not fully reach the listener's ear, and there fore might send a wrong message back, or the listener will decode the message in a wrong way, therefore will result in an argument or so...

Miscommunication happens to me more often than not because most of the time we don't speak clearly or we heard it wrong. I live with grandparents actually, and miscommunication happens a lot and I have to be patient.

There was one time yesterday when I was asking my grandmother what type of hair product is she using, but she only answered back by saying that I spray the hair product now on her hair. I never repeated the question anymore since I saw what the hair product is.
Another time happened when I was talking to my grandfather on his office. I asked him if he was going to pay for my tuition fee next semester, but he answered me by saying that my dad can't afford to pay big money again for my brother. The unconnected answer I got from him made me repeat the question again until he did answer me rightly, although he wasn't aware that he had misheard me. But of course, it's understandable when it comes to your grandparents when you talk to them, since they are somewhat impaired in hearing now and you have to be patient about it.

But it sometimes gets into your nerves when the one you're talking to is almost as old as you and still can't hear you, or perhaps isn't even listening to you.
One example was when I was asking my brother, who was in the living room while I was in the kitchen, about a part on the newest video we saw on YouTube that was so funny. But then I was surprised he answered me back by saying the we can watch the new funny video again on YouTube...

Even though I try my best in clearing my throat to speak clearly (and loudly) to the people in the house I live in, sometimes I wished they could hear or speak as clearly as possible, or else a wrongly heard message can lead to disastrous results.

The Final Fantasy Mania! Can't get off my head, even!

Ever since the start of Semestral break, I couldn't stop exercising the thoughts of making a Fan Comic about Final Fantasy! And now that Sem break is over and with X-mas vacation only a few wishful weeks away, I finally said to myself, 'Why not?'




I chose to make a Fan Comic about Final Fantasy XII since this is the nearest Final Fantasy reference I have (my brother's playing it in his PS2 and I can't miss a single story episode of it!). Furthermore, FF-XII is actually, according to most die-hard players and videogame reviewers, the least popular FF franchise because it was a bit tad different compared from its predecessors, emphasizing on how very different the style of the storyline is and the characters having not enough ounce of Super 'oompf' factor in them--except the two Sky Piratical characters, Balthier and Fran, who are the only real stand-out characters in the FF-XII plot.

Anyhoo, even though it was deemed not the most popular game, the gameplay won over me and my brother. But these are not enough reasons for why I want to make a different story about FF-XII.
Since fans of the FF franchise thought FF-XII was not the greatest, I thought maybe a different story would make it the greatest! And also a very different heroic character would make the themes of FF-XII more promising than the young too-archetypal and static Vaan of the FF-XII!




the protagonist Vann of Final Fantasy XII




Princess Ashe (center); The ever-handy and clever duo Sky Pirates Balthier(left)and Fran(right) - major characters of Final Fantasy XII.


Final Fantasy isn't the first kind of Fan Comic I wanted to do since I was introduced to the world of gaming.

There was Devil May Cry



My plans for DMC were that I make two different stories: one is about Dante's untold teenage years (with Dante sporting the white hair-do, not from the latest DmC plot!) and about the mysterious woman named Bea and her connections to his father's death. The second would be about a mysterious man named Anthony Villert, whose duty is to rescue Dante (from a little after DMC 2 storyline) and escape from the depths of Hell when Dante went there to duke it out with Argosax the Chaos. Anthony is paired with the help from a new hero named Sigmund Cassius, an Immortal man with extensive knowledge of the Demon World, and together they travel to locate the long-lost portal that was used by Mundus himself when he plunged the world into a hellish nightmare to rule it 2xxx or so years ago.

Another work I've been doing is an original fiction entitled 'Bloody Klutzy'. This was influenced because of Twilight, but I'm not a fan of the juvenile fiction that many claim to be a number one work of literature today!
I made the idea of 'Bloody Klutzy' because I wanted to take paranormal, blood and teen-thriller themes in a more wackier, slanderous and upbeat way, make it more 'natural' and 'unnatural' all at the same time! (Good luck with that, though!)

Oh well, as for the makings of my Final Fantasy Fan Comic, I'm still designing the characters, the settings (a lot of research must be conducted!), the title and the story lines to make it totally superb than the last one.
Hope there's still some time to finish all of my Fan Comics and original fiction novel!