Fidelity refers to the extent to which the sound is faithful to the source as the audience conceive it. In the film “She’s on Duty”, what we see is also what we expect to hear and this makes the action movie realistic, credible and intense. In the scenes like, No-young swiftly driving the motorbike we can hear piercing sound of the engine, this made the audience feel the intense or the speedy motorbike. The scene also where the “tik-tak” of the clock was amplified gives us cues to look at the watch and lead us to its depth meaning, where Jane did not throw it and instead she fix and used it. Another scene that prove fidelity is when the Jane and No-young were talking and he ask her what is she reading a bell suddenly cling and that help her answer his question.

All told, the film has a good match between the views, the images or the action and its sound that complement both of the audience senses that made the film very convincing, accurate and lifelike action film. The viewer takes the sound to be coming from its source in the digenetic world of film, then is faithful, regardless of its actual source in production.

Noy--Review

The film was basically a product of favors: from then-presidential candidate and now-president apparent Noynoy Aquino, his family, and his campaign team, who allowed Santos and his crew the opportunity to shoot the presidential campaign from the inside. As such, it never fully acquires a voice. It relays its message. It is what it is, and no matter how it gathers every vanity in cinema like mixing documentary footage with obvious melodrama, it remains to be at most, a limp and flaccid political statement if not an absolutely helpless failure.

The footage of Aquino's campaign, integrated into the film via Noy's work-in-progress documentary, is nothing more than ornamental. Shot using murky and jerk digital format as opposed to the rest of the film's elegant film cinematography, most probably to emulate the immersive quality filmmaking, the footage is at its best, like when Aquino's discussion on the state of Cebu's power was serendipitously interrupted by a short brown-out and he bounces back with a witty retort, revelatory of some of Aquino's endearing traits. Mostly however, the footage is no different from the thousands of footage that were aired in each and every news channel during campaign season: crowds, motorcades, politicians making promises, celebrities endorsing; with only one difference, Coco Martin, disguised as a journalist, is there. There could be something to say about fact, in the form of Aquino's campaign, and fiction, in the form of the character of Noy interacting with Aquino and his team, interacting seamlessly in the documentary footage, but as it is, everything feels put-on and cosmetic at best.

Thus, Noy is nothing more than a disposable drama that disguises itself with the most current of political flavors to achieve only a appearance of relevance. It tries to walk the talk, juxtaposing a grandly operatic tragedy with the insistent promises of change of Aquino's presidential campaign, but it only succeeds in talking more talk, throwing around mere suggestions of the grey areas of Aquino's campaign without actually creating any pertinent discourse about anything. 

“Twenty-five years after Edsa, where are we on that promise?”

As the 15^th President and as the son of Filipino hero Benigno Aquino and Former President Corazon Aquino, he is not exempted to those other former President who cannot solve the main problem of our country—Poverty.

June 30th, 2011 marked the first year of President Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino III as the 15th President of the Philippines.  His much-anticipated first State-of-the-Nation Address (SONA) had been positively and negatively received by the masses.  Poverty is still existing and unfortunately escalating. Beggars and dislocated indigenous peoples are now enduring in the streets. Poor people eat, sleep and wake up in bangketas, esteros and karitons without even realizing why they are in such condition. Christian Monsod also said that “It is not only guns that kill. Poverty kills. It is slow death from hunger, from diseases that we thought no longer existed, from the loneliness of a life with an empty future. It is also the dying of dignity”. The inequality of income has not changed since Edsa and that since studies show that there is very little of a middle class to speak of, this means that 99 percent. But why are we still locked in this problem? There is nothing wrong with Politicians having wealth and power and special connections, but there is something very wrong about the great imbalances and the use of these advantages to influence the politics and policies for their own interests or deny or delay justice to the 99 percent of our country. This, this must change. Empowerment program for the poor must be called. A program designed to provide care for indigent mothers and keep malnourished children in public schools was a positive initiative to prevent the poorest from falling in society. It should also cover environment nurturing and rehabilitation, climate change adaptation, housing, rural and urban poor infrastructure, among others. Cart off also the war and conflict between regions and people. Let justice be swift and indiscriminate, especially in cases between the rich and the poor. We should also never forget the guardianship of our environment. The government has so far failed to take aggressive steps to address environmental degradation and the ill effects of climate change, including coming up with early warning systems, stopping logging, and mining.

The task today is no less heroic than at Edsa it is liberation from the yoke of poverty that would make democracy more meaningful to the poor. Mr. Aquino is too preoccupied with putting his predecessor, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, to jail for alleged corruption and electoral sabotage that he has forgotten to stimulate the economy and create jobs. Overcoming poverty requires the decisive reform leadership from the center. Filipinos must join force on, calling on the President to refocus the whole governance system in support of the aspirations of the poor.

Tightly Unlocked Security

Video surveillance, electric door locks, finger prints scanner and security robots are stuff that our University wants to have but unfortunately we cannot afford all of these expensive high tech security measures and so we are still relying to our tight security guards.

Every day, every morning, every lunch, every hour—a long line of student across the University entrance is a constant scene where people might deem that it is neither a line for relief goods nor a line in SM Malls. And because of this distressing line and plus the  “OA” security guards (as the student label them) in inspecting their bags, shoes and ID’s, lot of students are annoyed and irritated that it consume their time and becomes late in class. And sometimes though you’ll just have to buy something outside even if you don’t have a bag you still need to fall in line together with the furious students. Do they think it is a little hassle?

Somehow in some case I understand why they are so strict in these cases especially when the LCD’s and laptops were stolen, and I know that in every institution there is always rules of security system that must be follow design to meet its unique needs, but knowing that this University is intended for the poor why do they still need to pass security measures like not allowing velvet and flat shoes inside the campus? Does that matters on how a student will behave? Or having the proper hair cut for the boys? Does long hair establish bad manners? With our firm security measures does that really pass the standard for effective security management? There are a lot of things to scrutinize inside the campus. More than inspecting the ID’s we wear, the bag we hold, the shoes we own, the hair cut and hair dye we have. It is securing the student safety and not the students’ style.

My Christmas'2011

God is so good to me that He always give problems to test and keep me this strong. My advent season last year was really in the verge of breaking apart. My prayers were all the same every day, every hour, every minute even in every second—to have my family beside me that Christmas. And with such a blast I never doubted God. He even included almost all my relatives with me to celebrate His day. Thank you Lord! 

 with my brotha!

 ate tina and ate rona, you guys are so brat. "pamasko" is just for kids! haha

 My papa and Zyrich! :)) lolo na si papa :))

Me. Nanay and pat :)) W e love you nanay! :)

UPDATES!

Alright! Been busy in school for this past weeks. Haven't been writing any good and sensible articles. But surely will do it when Le is not busy. But for a while I got the chance to watch this movie "Iron Jawed Angels" in our Gender Relation class. The movie was all about Alice Paul- a  feminist hero and resident bad-ass of the American suffragette movement. Her efforts  brought about the 1920 constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.

And a question was thrown to us :  In the scene were Alice Paul (Swank) was thinking about the new name for their organization, Ben Wiseman (Dempsey) was taking care of his son, what does it signify? How does it play with the current society?


In the past years women were the victims of discrimination, in a number of different things. They also have built their stereotypes of being just simply a woman, lady, sex object or a mother. Women have no rights to join in any political discourse but only to finish their simple jobs at home. But when Alice Paul rises and got the guts, everything slowly changed and progressed.


In the scene when Alice Paul is awake, thinking of the name of their organization while Ben Wiseman was taking care of his child proves only that   everything was slowly progressing and changing the stereotypes of women to not being only a mother type but also have rights equal to men. The scene surely goes to show that men taking care of his child (a woman as a mother should do) and women indulging herself in a political discussion (a man should do) signifies that they are both capable of doing those different acts and thus they are equal.  Ben Wiseman taking care of his child and letting him go to sleep is an act that does not really suit for a man to do because he is ought to engage himself in politics and not of only taking care of his son. While Alice Paul thinking of a new name in her organization does not also fits to her role. This situation or scene shows a revision of both roles in the society, that a man can do woman’s work while a woman can do man’s work.

In our current society simply replicate also the message of the scene. As we can see and experience now, we had the two women presidents in the country, the former pres. Cory Aquino (the first woman president in Asia) and former pres. Gloria Arroyo. We also have women senators and congresswomen. This implies that in these days a woman can rule a country and can join in a political discourse.

CodeNamers/ ACG

Friendship is the best relation one can have ever in his entire life and usually building your circle of friends happens during your high school days, like forming a group and naming it. This is the high time where you can find your best friends or sometimes tough times to test your friendship. It has been 7 years where my friends and I formed a group and name it “ACG” [I forgot why is it ACG]but unfortunately we didn’t survive the quest of amity. [Fast forward! Let’s  not just talk about the reason behind it. Haha]

                                                                the "ACG"


Meet the ACG
1. Vien (Vivien Acaylar)

The artist! well, she is a really really good artist! I adore her hands for that!  We became friends when we were in elementary. She is always on the go and has a good heart also. Well, i can't say bad things to her coz she's kind, pretty and brainy and like me we can't stand out if the height will be the standard.Haha. Though we got a conflict back then, she still remains as my friend. We hang out here in Manila or province as well. Thumbs up for the artist! :) Love you vien. (wala ng magtatampo)


2. Tina (Kristina Fabellar)

Well our friendship was really test before. Super mega test! that's it! But before that, she was really good friend to me. She shared her problems and i shared mine too. She lean on my shoulder, I lean also to her. I love how she support each of us when we want to do or achieve something. She's  friend you can turn to when others leaves you. We became close  enough to annihilate the gap between us. But i guess time really heals everything. I do not see her that much now, but I hope we will soon get attach to each other. I super miss my bonding with this girl. Miss you tina!

But then, as we all became mature (as I know. Haha) providentially on our last year in high school, we mingled and built new friendship with new ones and end up naming our circle as “CODENAMERS” or simply as CN. Why codenamers? It is out of the blue where we assigned a name or should I say a “codename” to each one of us and started calling it to ourselves instead of our name. And then that’s it! A new group was formed! Our codename may sound stupid to you or might get you hungry. But one thing is for sure. It was unique and astounding! :)

                              sorry edited si bevz. haha, wala kasi sya e :)

                                    Celebrating Christmas with them :)

                                          happy moments with them

Meet my CN Family [Alphabetical order! Haha]

1.  “Balutz” (Abigail Uba)

I never really thought we will be such as good best buddy friends. I first saw her when we are in grade six—it was a journalism seminar, we’re from different elementary school anyway. Then the second was my first day in high school. We are both in a special science class. At first there were nothing going on between us. She has her group back then and I have mine as well. But after year round we casually talk and became closer in our third year stay in HS. This girl is a bomb! I super enjoyed (enjoying) her company and I hope she enjoys mine as well. I love how she appreciate things and how she honestly but serenely gives her opinion about certain topics or issues. Seriously, she's demure but became” loka loka” coz of us! Haha. She’ll be my forever “balutz”! I love you Abi :)

2. “Grudge” ( Beverly Arceo)

Another Epic friendship story! She became my classmate when we are in grade 1 and 2, just a classmate: no more no less. And then I transferred to another school that’s why maybe, we didn’t get the chance to be more acquainted to each other. Fast forward again to HS days, still we didn’t talk that much. But instantly became closer to each other because of the “Parliamentary debate” [School division contest] and then became buddies when we started mingling and plus the fact that we have the same way home (so apparently we go home together). At first I thought of her like, she doesn’t have time to go out and have fun with friends’ coz she is really into studying! You know some brainy lil girl but that was an epic fail! Haha. She’s so crazy when you get to know her. She can really drop down that book and make kwento about this or that! She’s really madaldal! Haha! I thought no one can beat me with that, but then again, it was an epic fail! One thing I super admire with this girl is that you can make her roll in floor laughing with your corny jokes. I swear you’ll never be “lugi” when you’re in front of her.  She already! I miss you girl!

3. “Rakator” (Jane Mabagos)

This girl is zany! Yes! That’s the right term for her, haha! Since the day I met her when we were grade 2, the way she act, she pose, she speak, huh! It’s still all the same. You’ll never have time to frown when you’re with her. I guarantee that! She’ll make all the possible jokes and pose just to make you smile! I love everything about this lady! Aside from being zany, she’s also frank! No no no! Don’t you ever get wrong this girl coz seriously, what she say-she does. However, when a friend is in need, you can always count on her. She is the girl to the rescue! The sweetness is also in her list. Yes! She is sweet, she’s zany, she’s frank, and of course she is a friend.

4. “Kwek” (Ronna Mugar)

You are lucky if she is your friend. She got everything! She’s pretty, (well all of us are pretty! Haha), she is kind, she is everything nice! She is brainy as well, and of course she got the HEIGHT! Haha! She is the bestest! I first got acquainted with her in my childhood days. I super can’t recall that event, all I remember is that she and of course her family came to our house. And then that’s it. Fast forward, when she transferred in my school (grade 5) and then a split second we became friends. And more than friends, like bestfriends. I am so proud, so happy and so thankful that God gave me this girl. She already! Haha! I love you kwek! And will miss you! You should take a bunch of care when you’re already in Portugal! (note: she’ll study abroad na kasi)

5. “Kikiam” (Rubie Caballes)

Last but not the least! My kikiam! The “amazona” in the group! Haha! She is perfectly imperfect!  I love how supportive she is to us, and everyone. This girl is also crazy! And of course the “RK” – RICH KID! Haha. Everyone thought of her like really amazona, a super strong lady that anyone should obey (especially our boys. Haha) but there is always a soft spot on her that sometimes no one can see but us. I love how she can handle pressing matter so smoothly! I love how she shows her sweetness to us, like mugging us, slapping us, walloping us and stuffs like that! Haha but really she is sweet in that manner. You can also and always count on her when you have problems especially when it comes to money and boys! Haha! I love you bi!

These girls are like a family to me. Without them I don’t know life can be. They will be my forever super girl friendship! I super love you my babies

Much love -----------MIKKI :)