Oscar 2009 Pick

I had my own pick in this year's Golden Globe Winners and i was able to predict Kate Winslet and Health Ledger wins, i hope this time i would be able to predict all major awards for this year's Oscar. Its just a prediction anyway, who knows the Oscar will come across my blog and consider my side hehe..

Slumdog Millionaire - my Best Picture for this year's OSCAR, aside from almost swiping all the Best Picture awards in different award giving bodies, it is also doing well in the box office.

Ron Howard - Slumdog will win the Best Picture, but Ron Howard would still take home the award for Best Director for the Film Frost/Nixon.

Kate Winslet - although she is not nominated for the movie Revolutionary Road, its ok, coz it would be her acting in The Reader that would really give her the first ever Oscar.

Mickey Rourke - Its never too late for actors to have Oscar trophy, while Sean Penn has one already, this time it would definitely go to Mickey Rourke.

Amy Adams - after seeing her in the many movies along with Big Stars lately, i could say Amy is really one of them and i think this time she would win her first Oscar too.

Robert Downey Jr. - his acting in Tropic Thunder is really awesome, although Heath Ledger did well in the Dark Knight, i think others deserve the win, and besides he could benefit no more from it. That is why Robert will win for this year's OSCAR for supporting role.

WALL-E - after watching this cute animated film again and again and could have been nominated for Best Picture, I could really say this would win for sure as Best Animated Film this year.

ICT Week: Green IT Celebration

Last Jan. 19-23 STI-College Zamboanga celebrated the ICT Week with this year's theme "Green IT". The simplicity of the theme suggests how technology should be contributing to the preservation of the environment instead of making it worst. For almost a week, ICT students as well as students from other department (Nursing and BA) celebrated and enjoyed the different activities like PHP and Adobe After Effect Seminars, Film Viewing of IT and Environment-theme films, Programming Competition, PC Assemble/Disassemble Competition and the Interhigh-school Quiz Bowl Competition. PSITS also successfully launched the Computer Museum this year, though we don't have yet the actual old machines and computer devices we still managed to have it launched with photos(its a good start anyway!).

These are some of the photos of different activities for the entire ICT WEEK

The Winners of INTERHIGH SCHOOL ICT QUIZ BOWL (On the left is the 2nd Placer, Ayala National Highschool, the Champion on the middle, Filipino-Turkish Tolerance High School, and on the right 3rd placer, WMSU-Integrated Laboratory High School.

Mr. Ryann Z. Elumba, our Excellent Speaker in Animation After Effect Seminar and Forum.

Me with Mr. Ryan Elumba and our ever supportive head in ICT Department, Sir Mike Tandoc

Everyday we live, we laugh, we cry and we let go..

What if things are going backward? What if you grow old by getting younger? What if life seems to be too long for you to live while you see the rest dying? What if? These are the questions that you would ask yourself after watching the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I don’t really know if I will to believe Mr. Button’s case. Although his life was just a product of one’s imagination, a fiction, a piece of literature for us to be entertained with while we get bored, it was really worth it. It made me realized that mystery of life lies on every second you live with, the opportunities we grabbed or even those we missed. Every day we live, laugh, cry then we let go, as Benjamin said when his father died “You can be mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You can swear and curse the fates. But when it comes to the end, you have to let go.” It may be the hardest part, but what’s good about letting go is an opportunity to start all over again.

Back to the real world..

Its school time, everything would be back to normal. No more endless time of chatting with friends and unlimited sleeping hours. Its work work again, where life really is, where things have to be taken seriously all the time. But after almost three years in teaching career I still don't know if i'm making any difference in my life and the life of other people, my students or my co-employees. Everything the same to me it seems. I don't know what it really means, but there is something in me that seeks another comfort. Another environment to start with something new, with another people and with a new life. Now i really understand how life can be very difficult.How I wish this would be easier than I imagine it to be.

The Final Top 10 World Wide Highest Grossing Films

The Dark Knight remains as the highest grossing film of 2008 and so with the rest of the top 6 films that maintain its spot since November 2008. Meanwhile, latest releases Quantum of Solace and Madagascar 2 break into top 10 and kicked off Sex and the City and The Mummy:Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. The newbies occupy position 7 and 9 respectively.

The following is the complete list of Highest Grossing Films of 2008
1. The Dark Knight - $996.9
2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull - $786.6
3. Kung Fu Panda - $631.9
4. Hancock - $624.4
5. Iron Man - $581.9
6. Mama Mia! - $572.2
7. Quantum of Solace -$539.6
8. Wall-E - $507.3
9. Madagascar Escape to Africa - $462.3
10. Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - $419.6

Source: boxofficemojo.com