Monday, July 19, 2010

3D Movies


It's been a while since I blogged, but I really felt like venting.
I went to see "The Last Airbender-3D" and spent over $40.00 for Beng, Aria and myself! OMG! This cost more than our dinner at the Chinese Buffet.
For this movie...There was no other choice option, but to see it 3D.
Lately, I have been checking out with different 3D movies how much of the film is actually 3D. It seems the movies only turn 3D on the action part of the movie.
What was more frustrating watching "The Last Airbender 3D" was only 25% of the movie was 3D. There were moments I felt that the 3D would have been awesome, but nothing!
I am beginning to think this whole 3D biz is just another way to rake in more money from us viewers even more so after watching the same movie on cable. It's just getting ridiculous. Soon we are going to see romantic comedies in 3D for no reason.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

YO-YO, Inc.


Hey Guys,
It's been a while since I wrote a blog and that's because I have been busy forming my own Non-Profit 501 (c)3 Filipino-American Performing Arts Organization called YO-YO, inc. Our motto is: "Making Filipino-American Heritage part of American Culture"
It's about bringing the American History contributed by Filipino-Americans through the Performing Arts and making aware of the Filipino-American presence in the US being the highest of all Asian Races in the US according to the US Census. Did you know the first Asian immigration was Filipinos recorded as early as 1763 in Lousiana? These are the things we highlight when perfoming. We have 3 divisions in YO-YO, inc. which I will use my blog to introduce to you all at a later time. We are in Facebook. So, check it out our photos and become a member! Salamat (Tagalog) Mahalo (Hawaiian) and Thank You!

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

ARIA's Design wins Best Bedding in NYC


We just found out that Aria's contest design for BlissLiving was entered in the HomeTextile Show in NYC. (Here's the article from last year's design about her winning last spring 2009 in Rockville, MD. http://www.blisslivinghome.com/contest.php
And she won for best bedding design TODAY. I'm just a proud papa!

Best New Product Winners Named at Show
Read the full article at:
http://www.hometextilestoday.com/article/CA6717512.html&

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY on DVD

Last night, I watched "Paranormal Activity" and I will say this...It is the MOST SCARIEST movie on DVD YET(Not to mention very hard to watch alone at home without being spooked). No Lie! It's much like "Blair Witch", but the camera work is a heck of alot more tamed and won't get you ill from motion sickness. There are times when it drags, but it's about a couple trying to prove paranormal activity in their new home with a camera 24/7. The scare factor is the stuff you notice obvious to the eye while observing hours of this security tape. What I thought was even more clever about the DVD was the way it was formatted to watch. A simple typed font "Play Movie" or "Play Movie w/ Alternate Ending" and the movie just ends as well. No menu, no advertisements, no trailers, no music to help the scare factor...Just a simple "Play Movie" or "Play Movie w/ Alternate Ending". So if you're into a good stay-at-home scare...This is the movie!

Monday, December 21, 2009

BY SPECIAL REQUEST...



Around the 80's, I went out to one of the hippest clubs, "TRAX" on a Thursday Night-College Night.
Ya see, It was free to get in BEFORE 9pm. After 9pm, you had to pay $10.00.
Having absolutely nothing to do,except play volleyball and watch the lightshow syncronized with un-club music before all the club music started to"Boom, Boom, Boom, deafing our ears,a friend of mine who was bored as I was, asked if I would go splits with him for a pitcher of beer.
Not thinking clearly from the boredom, I decided to make things interesting.
"I will pay for that pitcher of beer, if you would do a shot with me" I said.
Of course, he smiled and said, "Yes"
Another friend followed us to the bar as well as I asked the bartender to set us up with 3 Kamakazi shots.
Well, we must have had the foreign bartender in training that night because these shots were in a lowball glass. Excited, we all down that round and ordered another...and another...and another...chased with that pitcher of beer. Ughhh...And it wasn't even 9pm yet.
My friends were drunk and I,too was drunk, but became sleepy leaning on the rail. The management kept waking me up telling me, "You can't sleep in the club"
Finally, 10pm rolls around and a friend who just paid to get in, shakes me and says, "Hey, Boy! Wake Up" Instead of waking up, I started to spew a fraction into the dance floor below me to what was to become a disaster ready to happen. My friends stared to get nervous and said, "Joe, Bring Ron to the restroom". So he drags me down the stairs and into a crowded hallway.
standing right behind him I say, "Joe, I don't feel good and I don't think I can hold it. He yells, "You have no choice...You have to hold it" I yell back, "Joe, I can't hold it" He yells back, "HOLD IT!"
So, I place my hand over my mouth trying to hold it in. INSTEAD...It became a fountain of vomit all over this crowd of people. Ughhh..It was like a horror movie.
People were yelling ans screaming, "Ugh..Somebody threw up on me"
Joe didn't care about the crowd anymore and pushed his way threw the crowd and threw my drunk ass in a stall. The rest of the night from that stall, I was hearing men cursing the person who threw up on them as they were wringing out the vomit out of their shirts. I was way too drunk and scared to come out all night until the restroom sounded empty. Even my friend Joe left me. Ughhhh..As I promised the "Porceline God" many times..."Please..I will never get drunk again!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

JEAN ANNE KAIN...

I always said, "You haven't worked Dinner Theatre unless you have worked with Jane Baeckman, Phylis Goldblait and Jean Anne Kain.
I got to work with these 3 dinner theatre divas in West End Dinner Theatre's production of "Mame" as "Ito"
Almost 20 years, I was performing "Mame" at Toby's Dinner Theatre and Jean Anne happened to be there in the audience.
Over the holiday weekend, I was sadden to learn that Jean Anne passed away on November 25, 2009. (Sigh)

Friday, November 27, 2009

PLEASE VOTE for ARIA

Today is the open online voting for the Washington Post Holiday Wrapping Paper Contest until December 4th
Please vote for my daugther, Aria Curameng
Click onto "contest" and vote for entry #1 that has the teddy bears, jack-in-the -boxes and the international dolls.
I highly appreciate it! Thank you in advance! Spread the word!