Anything worth living for is worth dying for.
But what is worth living for?
That which only death can make eternal.

Dennison Uy
December 2007

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2007 was a great year for the music industry, with good releases left and right, a resurgence of supposedly retired musicians, and awesome albums from the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Kid Rock, and Avril Lavigne. Anyway, without further ado, here is my own personal list of top albums released in 2007:

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  Radiohead - In Rainbows (quite possibly the best album of all time)
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  The Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
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  Korn - Untitled
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  Maroon 5 - It Won’t Be Soon Before Long
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  Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
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  Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion
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  Ben Harper And The Innocent Criminals - Lifeline
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  The White Stripes - Icky Thump
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  Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
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  Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight
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  Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
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  Timbaland - Timbaland Presents Shock Value
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  Dolores O’Riordan - Are You Listening?
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  James Blunt - All The Lost Souls
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  Kanye West - Graduation
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  Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

I was originally planning to do a writeup of each album, but music, like art, is very personal and the best ones definitely need no explaining.

While I realize that most of the albums listed are rock albums, it should be noted that there were many great releases in all genres by artists like Tori Amos, Rihanna, Norah Jones, KMFDM, Paul Van Dyk, Chemical Brothers, Atreyu, Cartel, T-Pain, 50 Cent, Motion City Soundtrack, Foo Fighters, Rascal Flatts, Marily Manson, Mandy Moore, The Eagles, Serj Tankian, Amy Winehouse, just to name a few. I restricted my list to albums which I felt were very well made.

Check out my Last.FM profile to see what I’m currently playing.

[tags]Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Korn, Maroon 5, Arcade Fire, Mika, Ben Harper, Fall Out Boy, Linkin Park, Nine Inch Nails, Timbaland, Dolores O’ Riordan, James Blunt, Foo Fighters, 2007, best albums, music, roundup[/tags]

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According to the McKinsey Quarterly survey released January 2008, for a great majority of executives the events “that have had the most profound effect on their careers” originated “largely at work, not from family considerations or changed personal aspirations”, and that “the single most pivotal event in their careers occurred when they were around the age of 30, after they had spent about eight years in the workforce”.

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Personally, I’m still waiting for this “single most pivotal event”.

Well, I’ve already seen Brandon Boyd in person but I still haven’t met Thom Yorke in the flesh. Maybe I’ll just wake up one day, all rich and famous.

But then again people close to me know that my dreams are as simple as having one house in Baguio or Tagaytay and another one by the beach. Okay, a really big house. Okay, more like a mansion. Fine, I want my own island too.

I’m still waiting. Anytime now.

In the meantime, let’s all listen to “Videotape” from Radiohead.

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The comedian from Davao garnered 506,402 text votes or 32.17%, making him PBB Celebrity Edition Season 2’s Big Winner, followed by beauty queen Riza Santos (430,135 text votes or 27.33%) on second place, car racer Gaby dela Merced (406,892 text votes or 25.5%) on third place, and finally by model Will Devaughn (230,509 text votes or 14.65%) on fourth.

This makes Ruben Gonzaga the first male winner of the Pinoy Big Brother (PBB) reality show. All winners thus far have been women: Nene Tamayo (Season 1), Keanna Reeves (Celebrity Edition Season 1), Kim Chiu (Teen Edition), and Beatriz Saw (Season 2).

For a detailed coverage and more photos check out this article from the official website.

Ruben Gonzaga is of pure heart and I was personally banking him to win. I am very happy that he did, although Riza, Gaby, and Will are all winners to me. Congratulations Ruben, Riza, Gaby, and Will!

Update: now with videos!

Riza Santos and Ruben Gonzaga’s winning moment:

Ruben Gonzaga’s next-day interview on The Buzz:

[tags]ruben gonzaga, riza santos, gaby dela merced, will devaughn, pbb, pinoy big brother, celebrity edition season 2, big winner, winner, philippines, abs-cbn, entertainment[/tags]

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Every now and then I get spam either in my mailbox or in this blog’s comment section that I would seriously like to snap back at but of course they will never get it because these were probably done by bots.

Anyway I thought hey I could have fun ragging on them and at the same time send some negative juju their way … so anyway here goes:

Blog entry: Confused Ticketing Agent

Spam entry:

Link bait screenshot:

Snap back:
Hey Asia travel! first of all I would like to thank you for the link bait! If your spam bot grew a brain maybe he would realize that you were commenting on a nonsense post that has very little to do with the cost of travel in Asia. You may want to know that your comment got automatically sent to my spam bin, which means that 1) it never saw the light of day and 2) your automated link baiting WordPress site is already blacklisted by Akismet’s filters, which means it won’t be too long before your site gets flushed down the drain by Google. Good riddance.

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