Let's Do The News! (May 29, 2012)

You were saying that you've checked around the refrigerator and the pantry and you found out that there's not enough snacks for us, now?

Yes indeed. And just look at it! Look how horrible it is when you see a ref and the cabinet empty handed.

How about the cereal?

We don't have milk!

Oh! You have cereals...

Most cereals we have like Corn Flakes are rubbish!

Why?

No taste! I only prefer cereals like Frosted Flakes, Trix, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and Special K.

Oh I see. Speaking of which...what did you do?

I bought something next door such as Nestea, some Ice cream, some diet Coca-Cola, and that's it...To fum the habit.

Oh okay....

Now anyway, I picked up some news that our favorite Boy Pick Up is going to have a movie this June 6, 2012. It's titled BOY PICK UP THE MOVIE.

(ooohhh)

BOY PICK UP?

Indeed. This movie will delve deeper about Bubble Gang's tamed pickupista. It stars none other than Ogie Alcasid as BOY PICK UP, Solenn Heusaff, and Dennis Trillo as Bagwis, who serves as Boy Pick Up's main rival at the movie.

Wait! Bagwis? Main rival of Boy Pick Up? I thought it was Dahon because...um...you know, Dahon likes to throw everything he got but his tactics get foiled by Boy Pick Up.

(audience laughing)

That's different but still Dahon is here in the movie. Antonio Aquitania to you. Also coming are Boy2 Quizon as Push Back, the Moymoy Palaboy duo as Sukli and Bagoong, and of course Sam Pinto as Neneng B. Arriving on the movie were Gwen Zamora, Jackie Rice, Ellen Adarna, Sarah Lahbati, Diego, Eri Neeman, Pepe Smith and Lilia Cuntapay. And that wouldn't complete without Michael V as Mcbits! AYT! AYT! KATAHIMIKAN! KATAHIMIKAN!

(audience laughing)

Scoop: http://www.gmanetwork.com/films/articles/2012-05-28/33/Boy-Pick-Up-The-Movie-in-theaters-beginning-June-6#list

Oh, I'm so wanna see that film. It's just another one of Bubble Gang faves get the movie treatment. The next big thing since ANG SPOILED.

You know what I like about Boy Pick Up?

What?

Some say...he's explosive...

BAKIT?!

BOOM!!!!

(audience laughing and applause)

That's Boy Pick Up catchphrase! BOOM!

Henyo ka Pick Up!!

(applause continues)

I'm so into that! Now, anyway. Bad news.

What?

You know K-On? It's a mega popular manga turned into anime and last year's movie. Now I picked by some info that the manga's high school edition ends this June 28 while the college edition ends this June 9.

Scoop: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-05-26/k-on-manga-high-school-edition-to-end-in-june

Hold on...High school edition? College edition? What was that?

Remember back in April 2011, moments after the part of the manga where the K-ON movie came from, the K-ON manga spawned two stories; the college edition highlights Mio, Yui, Ritsu, and Tsumugi in their college days while the High School edition highlights Azu-nyan, Ui, Jun, and others moments after the original four were graduated.

Oh, never heard of that....

There you go. Sad to say that both of them are reaching the grand finale.

(Awww)

That was verified at the July 2012 issue of Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Carat magazine. Very sad indeed to see K-ON manga coming to a complete end. :-(

Yeah, you know what's more bad news? I saw something that a Lexus IS F and the Lexus IS250C modified by Fox Marketing for the SEMA Show got crushed.

(awwww)

Yep. Both SEMA Show Lexus cars got crushed. Too bad. And we have some footage here, let's see...

I wouldn't realize that both of these Lexus IS models got crushed even those that are modified for display at the SEMA Show. Aw...Off to the junkyard in the sky...Anyway, Aston Martin, they displayed a concept car that it turned out to be the replacement to the DBS at the Lake Como Concorso d'Eleganza.

Aston Martin AM310 concept

Scoop: http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2012/05/aston-martin-previews-new-dbs-with.html

Wait a minute. This looks like the Aston Martin Virage but what's it called?

It's a concept car called the AM310. No further details for now but by the looks of it, I think it looks more of a potential thoroughbred. There's no denying that this future Aston is going to be....

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH....

(audience laughing)

What's bothering you?

I don't think I'm going to like this kind of Aston because...this is more of a Virage...S. Kind of...

(laughing)

Anyway, I have someone who has psoriasis, which is a skin condition that causes skin redness and irritation. Now, I picked up some science news that running reduces the risk of psoriasis.

(ooohhh)

Scoop: http://ph.she.yahoo.com/running-may-reduce-risks-psoriasis-162826424.html

Wait...Running reduces chances of psoriasis?!

Beats me, but that's science. That was a study biased by Brigham and Women's Hospital from the USA. Most women who love to do cardio workout reduces the risk of psoriasis.

Hmmm...That's good. I guess I should be running right now so I won't get psoriasis.

(laughing)

Now, anyway, Busou Shinki, Konami's popular customizable toy line, I heard that they will get their very own TV anime on Tokyo Broadcasting System.

(oooohh)

Scoop: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-05-24/konami-busou-shinki-action-figures-get-tv-anime

Yep. You guessed it. Busou Shinki anime is coming and those behind it will be quite different from the Moon Angel web anime you saw a couple of months ago.

Busou Shinki....that popular Konami toy line....I heard that they did have two PSP games a couple of years ago you know.

Uh-huh, and they inspired three "CHARACTER SONG AND SPECIAL RADIO RONDO" CDs just so you know...Now anyway, the people will work for this upcoming Busou Shinki TBS anime are;

Director: Yasuhito Kikuchi (Infinite Stratos, Macross Frontier)

Series Script Editor: Masahiro Yokotani (Maria Holic; Steins;Gate, K-ON! scripts)

Character Design: Takahiro Kishida (Madoka Magica, Cheburashka Arere?)

Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Ryouma Ebata (Blue Exorcist; Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW's animation director's assistant)

Animation Production: 8-Bit (Infinite Stratos, Aquarion Evol)

Whoa there! The Busou Shinki anime will have staff from Infinite Stratos? Blimey...

Despite that, this is just another Konami product get an anime. Back in 2010, a Konami PSP game, Okami Kakushi, spawned an anime series. I never saw it but it's terrifying. That's it. Very terrifying.

(laughing)

You'd never forget that there was another Konami-related stuff spawned into anime. It was SENGOKU COLLECTION.

Check out the official site: http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/sencolle/

You know, just by looking at some Konami-related stuff turned into a TV anime, it's got some commanding presence. The presence of a SOLID SNAKE...

(laughing)

Yeah yeah...Blah blah blah blah....

And that's the news. Now, Honda Fit...it's now on its 2013 Model Year and this time, it has additional models for the Honda Fit...

2013 Honda Fit lineup

The Fit Hybrid variant now gets the RS variant. Yep, that's right. HONDA FIT HYBRID RS. The sportiest evil twin of the Honda Fit Hybrid. It has the 1.5L VTEC engine with IMA and it's available with either a CVT or the hairy-chested 6MT. This HONDA FIT HYBRID RS has a feature too similar from the Honda CR-Z. Switch it to ECON mode and the ring goes green. Switch it to normal and the ring goes blue. Put it in SPORT and the ring goes RED!!! I like it. It's another hybrid Honda mated with a 6-speed manual transmission.

For the ladies, there's a Fit that is suitable for the typical Japanese woman. It's called the She's variant, available in 1.3L and 1.3L Hybrid models. What you expect on the Honda Fit She's are everything too girly. From its pinkish color, pink car key, pink stitching, and everything too feminine. Something only a 20-year-old Japanese girl with a driver's license would want.

2013 Honda Fit Hybrid RS

2013 Honda Fit She's

Scoop: http://autoc-one.jp/news/1070900/

URL: http://www.honda.co.jp/Fit/

And attention those who played THE IDOLM@STER 2 on the Playstation3. Coming this June 1, IM@S2 PS3 DLC Catalog 08...the one with...oh dear. This is exclusive to the PS3 version. It's the one with...ドレッシーアリス (costs 1500 Yen), レイニースズラン (costs 750 Yen), ランダムカラービューティ (costs 750 Yen), and デジタルスペースクラフト (costs 750 Yen). It seems new. A new song titled オーバーマスター will cost you 1800 Yen. It takes a flappy-paddle head to spend those. What are those? This looks new.

URL: http://www.bandainamcogames.co.jp/cs/list/idolmaster/im2/ps3/dlc/catalog8.php

Guys, meet the Lotus Cortina...

Now when I wasn't born yet and my mommy is still a kid, there was a kind of car that was made in the 1960's and it was proven to be a performance car icon. This classic you can find on Forza Motorsport 4's Top Gear Car Pack is known to be the DADDY OF SUPER SALOONS.

The Good Old Days...

This is the Ford Lotus Cortina. First produced in 1963 and it's only available in White with Sherwood Green stripe. It started out in life as a Mk1 Ford Cortina but Lotus performed some modifications on it, which includes the steering, suspension, 1500cc twin-cam engine, and a speedo that reads up to 140mph. This Lotus-tuned 1500cc engine produces 105HP, which is twice the power of the normal Ford Cortina. 0-60mph time of 10 seconds and a top speed of 108mph, meaning that the needle won't reach up to the limit. Despite that, this Lotus engine that give life to the modified Ford Cortina still harbors a spirit that best kept for Lotus.Cars. Not only power enhancements are involved but weight loss is also a part of the Lotus Cortina courtesy of aluminum doors and aluminum hood, 20kg less than the normal Ford Cortina but remember, this is much lighter than its rivals. Think about it, if you put it with a drag race against the Austin Healey 3000 Mk III, sorry to say that the Cortina will kick the Healey because it's lighter than the Austin Healey.

Scenic Route with the Cortina. How lovely...

Most car magazines praised the Lotus Cortina due to its striking performance and with the gearbox derived from the Lotus Elan, rumor has it that it can hit nearly 50mph in first gear and 70 in 2nd gear. Those Forza faithfuls who tried the Cortina really liked its gearbox because of its accuracy and the handling that is somewhat not so bad. It's not so skittish, it's not so unstable, it's as delicate as a piano concerto. In the race between power and size, this Lotus Cortina is not to shabby on that situation.

An icon steps in the Top Gear Track

For some delicious tidbits, the Cortina was heavily involved in motorsports. It was homologated to 1000 units and its race debut was in the Oulton Park Gold Cuo where it finished 3rd and 4th. In 1964, the Lotus Cortina led Jim Clark won the British Saloon Car Championship. That's not all, racers Jackie Stewart and Mike Beckwith became victors of the Marlboro 12-hour race. A 1-2 victory by Alan Mann Racing at the Motor 6 hour International Touring Car Race at Brands Hatch is just another example of Lotus Cortina-related wins.

There are so many stories involved about the Lotus Cortina taking part in motorsports, even rallying, but with this, this has the best racing pedigree than you can possibly imagine. A Ford Cortina retooled by Lotus, this is just something we admire and we love to call it a legend.

ITC280 Update 8

What I learned at week 8:


1) Here is an example of a loaded query string
formhandler.php?id=5

2) Here is a loaded query string as viewed in the source of a list page:
<a href="view.php?id=5">My PHP Book</a>


3) Here is what the above would look like in our actual code of a list page:
print '<a href="view.php?id=' . row['BookID'] . '">' . row['BookTitle'] . '</a>';


Score:

Test # 6: 61/100 (61%)

NOTES:

As of now, I should be doing that Assignment about List/View Pages. Since because I don't have classes tomorrow due to the Memorial Day holiday, I have plenty of time to finish it but there is a bit of a problem. I haven't started my project yet. I can't decide what will my project will be but I suspect, my head is all about cars.

That's it! Maybe instead of the kittens or muffins, because Mr. Bill Newman had it with those, I decided to use those as that List/View assignment. There are some requirements on my assignment due this Wednesday..


1. A list/view application featuring the look and feel of your website (theme), that correctly displays at least 20 records from a database table of your creation.  Each view page must have it's own image.
2. A link to your List page (with an appropriate name) in your application's navigation
3. A link to the SQL file you used to create the table and insert the data (on your construction page

I should be doing it now....

That is all

Mon Tulfo guested on Gandang Gabi Vice?!

On the May 27, 2012 episode of Gandang Gabi Vice, Mon Tulfo guested! In the midst of the Santiago-Tulfo fight that has been in the news for so long, it seems that Mon Tulfo really did guested on Gandang Gabi Vice but really? What's Mon Tulfo doing here? Maybe he's just trying to cool him down with a little chat with Vice Ganda.

Oh well. It's good to see him guested on Gandang Gabi Vice!

Bulilit Brownouts

Oh, if our former Bulilit Ella saw this, that's getting interesting because on that May 28, 2012 episode of Goin Bulilit, they spoofed the fantasy teen drama, Aryana, as a drama that is "pang-lupa na, pang-dagat pa" AROWANA. Get it? Arowana! Speaking of which, some brownout gags occurred. During brownouts, the Santiago vs. Tulfo issue gets a Goin Bulilit treatment as Raybart Santiago beaten up some cameraman while the Tolfu brothers warn Raybart and Baretta to watch out. Meanwhile, Goin Bulilit does a music video of Taylor Swift's TODAY WAS A FAIRYTALE. Then, what if there is such thing as BOTTOMLESS SOPAS? Yum! Sopas that never ran out even in the rain!

With sopas gone bottomless, our "makata" bulilits talk about what's TRENDING TOPIC that we LIKE, SHARE, AND POKE. It all ends with a READY GET SET GOIN game of LET'S CROSS THE BRIDGE WHEN WE GET THERE!

When in Monaco...

Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber wins the Formula One Monaco GP race. This turning into a random selection because the past six races involves six winners. Welcome to the winner's circle, Mark Webber! I wonder who's next on June 24's Europe GP at Valencia?

Race - Webber makes it six winners from six races 27 May 2012

       

Red Bull’s Mark Webber held his nerve throughout a nail-biting denouement to the Monaco Grand Prix, forging another little bit of motor racing history as for the first time ever a sixth different driver won the sixth race of the season.

But Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg, Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso and Red Bull team mate Sebastian Vettel were all nose to tail in his wheeltracks, covered by a 1.3s blanket after a desperate chase in which none of them could ever relax.

Webber took the lead at the start and held it from Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, but the McLaren driver lost third to Alonso during their sole pit stops. Vettel, meanwhile, had started on soft tyres in contrast to the super-softs on which the rest of the top 10 were obliged to start, since he hadn’t set a time in Q3. Thus he ran a much longer first stint and was able to take the lead as Webber, Rosberg, Alonso and Hamilton made their stops.

The race then became a fight of Red Bull team mate against team mate as Vettel and Webber traded lap times. Vettel held on until the 46th lap, hoping that the forecast for heavy rain would come true so that he would then have been in the pound seats as he nursed a lead of around 17s.

But the rain held off and eventually Vettel had to come in for his set of super-softs. The stop dropped him to fourth, but crucially he got out fractions ahead of Hamilton, who had Ferrari’s Felipe Massa on his case throughout the race. At times in the closing stages the top six were within 3.1s of one another, but in the final couple of laps Hamilton and Massa faded.

It was tense stuff as the gaps opened and closed like a concertina around the tight little track, and very light rain for a short while at Mirabeau added to the challenge. It was driving of the highest calibre as none of them made any mistakes, and in the end Webber held on to win by 0.6s with Rosberg another 0.3s ahead of Alonso, who was another 0.6s back. It was fabulous stuff.

And it didn’t end there as the nature of the track boxed people in and prevented much overtaking, as a beautifully-judged drive by Paul di Resta kept him ahead of Force India team mate Nico Hulkenberg by just a second, with Lotus’s Kimi Raikkonen only 1.4s further back. The Finn had a disappointing race for Lotus, and was hounded throughout by Bruno Senna who finished only 0.4s adrift to take the final point for Williams.

In the end, after a dramatic race of his own from the back of the grid, Sauber’s Sergio Perez grabbed 11th after Jean-Eric Vergne, an early pit stopper, was obliged to come in late for fresh rubber and thus lost the seventh he had earlier stolen from a struggling Michael Schumacher. Toro Rosso put their man on intermediate tyres just in case the rain came, but the gamble failed. It arrived 10 minutes after the chequered flag had fallen.

The Frenchman thus finished 12th, while Heikki Kovalainen gave Caterham a major boost with 13th place. The Finn had been in tough form all afternoon, holding off an off-form Jenson Button until the Briton spun his McLaren late in the race exiting the Swimming Pool and then soon retired. Kovalainen and Perez are under investigation for an incident in which the Finn kept the Mexican out wide in Ste Devote, obliging him to go into the escape road, but later Perez overtook him by cutting the chicane in a tit-for-tat move.

Behind them, Timo Glock was Marussia’s sole finisher in a race of high attrition, ahead of HRT’s Narain Karthikeyan.

Schumacher had a brush with Romain Grosjean at the start which spun the fancied Frenchman’s Lotus into immediate retirement, while further back Pastor Maldonado went from hero to zero by damaging his Williams’ front wing in the traffic and also quitting. Schumacher and Grosjean are under investigation for their incident. 

Pedro de la Rosa’s HRT stopped, as did Kamui Kobayashi’s Sauber, then Caterham’s Vitaly Petrov, who set a brief fastest lap after an early tyre stop, ended his day in the pits with electrical trouble. Schumacher lost seventh to Vergne late in the race, then stopped with tyre problems. Charles Pic’s Marussia failed him, and Toro Rosso’s Daniel Ricciardo also failed to go the distance.

A hugely exciting race leaves Alonso at the head of the world championship chase with 76 points, ahead of the Red Bull drivers on 73 apiece, Hamilton hangs on in fourth with 63, Rosberg comes up to fifth with 59, then Raikkonen is sixth on 51 and an unhappy Button drops to seventh on 45.

In the constructors’ stakes, Red Bull lead with 146 to McLaren’s 108, but Ferrari draw level with Lotus on 86 apiece, from Mercedes on 61 ahead of Williams on 44 and Sauber on 41.

Scoop: http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/5/13399.html

Mitsuoka K13 Viewt

For almost two decades, the Mitsuoka Viewt (光岡 ビュート) is much more of a Nissan March in Jaguar Mark 2's clothing. This time, the new Mitsuoka Viewt still has the same Jaguar Mark 2 clothing while using the Nissan March K13 as its basis. If you think that this K13 Viewt may just be an alternative to the Autech March K13 Bolero, well sorry to disappoint.

2013 Mitsuoka Viewt

Like the previous model, the K13 Viewt still...um...pretty much the same. Is it all new or just a...you know, a nip tuck? To differentiate it, you should look to the side view that is broadly similar to the Nissan March K13 and the new back as well. If the outside view wasn't too good enough to solve, how about getting to know the K13 Viewt's interior?

2013 Mitsuoka Viewt interior

Okay, the K13 Viewt's interior is pretty much more of a coach-built version of the interior you may find on the Nissan March K13. In some models, you do get a clock but you don't if you're opted for the sat-nav option. What's more, the leather around the Viewt's interior are everywhere, providing more luxury for the passengers despite the compact sizing and this could be more of a big shot if you're driving through at some prestigious academy in Japan. Those classy high school students would think to you that you're riding a vintage car and that's sosy. What a sosy car, you'll look. And that's too sosy if you're some blonde Japanese teenage girl.

Under the bonnet, it still has the HR12DE engine mated with the XTRONIC CVT transmission. This engine churns out 79PS of power, 106Nm of torque, and that's about it.

Available colors are Wine Red Metallic, British Green, White, and Black Metallic

My comment:

Even it still has the same Jaguar Mark 2 design, this K13 Viewt is much more of a sosy version of the Nissan March K13. This is much more like a high school girl in a wealthy socialite's body giggling about her first kiss while she was in 5th grade. You wouldn't blame to see this one approaching in the streets of Tokyo and everyone would be completely fooled that you're in to that car that is more retro futuristic. Seriously? Yes my fair lady. This is how your ojousama do all the time while she's at school. Now you know.

Photo: Mitsuoka Motor