Thursday, March 31, 2016

Another Top 10 Misleading Movie Trailers

Here's another one! Enjoy!



Top 10 Misleading Movie Trailers

This is a list that tricks us into something completely different at a later time. Enjoy!






The American Idol Farewell Post

The creator Simon Fueller said that it's not the end of the road, but it could be reincarnated for a new generation - come to think of it.

Me: Dream on, it's not gonna last. Reality television competition for talent is a fad, for I know American Idol did a really, really, really good job of having to be the #1 thing in the TV charts for most of the 2000s, even though the audiences leave for football, I had not only won the hearts of who and where are they from, but some of them went away right after Idol, and others are already famous even before I was there for Radio Disney and all of the kiddie whatnot with pop culture galore. Although I really did grew up within the millennials, some of you went within yours and some of you is in between. And is it time already? I know some of you including me is getting jealous of a new generation, but some of you can make something fresh for them as if you think that's inspiring to create like say, how about the HSM remake for a deviantART fanfic that focuses on my generation on the other side of my native place at this time, but not limited to East High: Home of the Wildcats? (HINT: It's the same ol' school where Miyako attended in the days of Grease, but over 40 years later.) Or probably, you're inspired by Gravity Falls, Fish Hooks, Steven Universe and MLP: Friendship is Magic for an original webcomic. Maybe it's about something completely original from the upcoming public domain works starting in 2019. Looks like a wake-up call, believe me. I know I'm not ready yet to move on from fanfiction to pro-literature (original fiction for example), but I'm all ready for a new, new generation to pop out once when the two oldest people in the world passes on and I have an emotional feeling that we had grown up so fast, it feels like we had known them for a long time since we and/or they are first met for the first time in any stage whether it's either peer-related, a kid around a young adult, or it could be a general-aged adult over a high school kid. *teary-face*

Y'all know times have changed, right? When I was born, the flipphones, faxes, landline phones, printers are such good times and very perfect for an office setting. When I was growing up, I had my eyes attached to desktop computers as things evolve from start to finish - everybody had their cellphone, but not anyone else in this world, the iPhone popped up when I promoted from grade school to middle school, the Great Recession and the afterward had affected our family - we moved back, my three grandfathers died at a very unlucky age of 13, we tried to get the job, but for Mom, it did not work, so she was a stay-at-home parent. Dad had been a children's pastor at Bellevue Foursquare Church for nearly seven years, and I think we're hitting the longest record of where we worship - Eastside is where I've been for the first seven years and four and a half months of my life. During my super senior year in high school, my mom constantly tried to look for a job, and I think she had two part-time jobs in the end of 2015. At the end of 2009 (right in early November) and for the first half of the 2010s (up until the day after the Super Bowl 49), we had Comcast (now Xfinity) in which some people despise and it literally stayed within the level of our income. We had suffered long enough that we already paid $100 per month on cable, and it's the same ol' commercials that keeps popping up over and over again. And then, there's Verizon. We had paid $200 per month. Thankfully, we got rid of cable and switched it to just free digital air to save money, but we had a little more of our income, but not too much. Half of us had switched to Consumer Cellular, but today 60% is on CC and 40% of us is still on Verizon. For the most part on the half of the 2010s, we had something extra in our household - Dakota was there. But today, she's not here and it's been six months since she passed on from an unexpected brain seizure within a day. Phones have evolved as a rehash of the original iPhone and inserted an inner-face camera for selfies. Social media within hashtags had already been part of our daily lives, and I already had a blog since 2013! Yup, look at how things changed.

And now that American Idol is coming to an end, I just want to say, "Thank you for everything! It means a lot to me, I would've been there for season 14, but it's too late: I had school and stuff to do." Now that I tell you everything, places come and go. Businesses go out and went into the trend. Buildings keep changing over and over again from time to time. All things great and small - some last for a long time and some just don't. Two viruses popped up from early to recent in my lifetime - Ebola and Zika. In the 21st century, the awareness for my disability has grown in popularity and I'm very grateful that 1 in 68 people have autism. The most common thing is through boys, but my mom had ever seen the first autistic girl in her life - this is me! I will be the first ever autistic girl to write fanfiction about my Sonic franchise for deviantART, and that will be The Shadow Saga and its prequel Time Bomb. Did you know Chris-chan had his infamous Sonic franchise on so many webpages to boost the trend? It's Sonichu! He's a popular troll, and I'm literally just nothing but deviantART, Blogger and Wattpad. Anyways, a few watchers for deviantART within the username shadhardblogger, thank you for subscribing to me. A few of my friends at that website, thank you "soo" much for the deviations via the notifications. Yahoo! Answers had so many people to ask and answer, opinions matter and I am affected by knowing that certain things shoved down my throat, and I like what they don't like other's opinions, what they comment, and what they relate to the same opinion. A few, if not, probably hundreds answered my questions and I just wanna say "Thank you for my help! You guys totally appreciate my work, a few of you had said my name, and a rare amount of you are like trolls (e.g. the Yogi Bear orientation with my "goffik" ULF straightness) and so far: two votes for Mother-Air's Apprentice. Guys, you need just a bit more than that."

Since next week will be the last hit of my entire lifetime, I knew I really did looked back on my childhood in recent day and I had the songs stuck in my head for me to add into my upcoming soundtrack. Are you ready to see the cover? On a count of three, we look. Ready? 1... 2... 3!

I think to be honest is a rough draft cover. Like it's neon all around with a guitar in a black background. I'm thinking of the final draft cover.
I can't wait to see you when you definitely look forward to my remake arrangement. American Idol will be dearly missed.

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June 11, 2002 - April 7, 2016

Friday, March 25, 2016

It Looks Like It's Spring Cleaning Season and I Was About to Work Hard on the Book Haul Review

So, come to think about it. I highlighted all of the stuff to work on and leaved out the ones that are completed, so I don't have to waste any further time reading and reading and listing them in my book list I've just read on my own, so anyways, I will never forget about the joys of being a real prep at Ault School which is a good thing, way better than the faker from East High (Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld). I will also never forget the book I was introduced to zombies (Boneshaker). I will never forget the double feature in two years' time between the beginning of Mad Science Institute and the zombie apocalypse. I will remember the time of trial and all the whatnot from the Deep South (Mockingbird Duology, Cage Bird). But there's more to come than I could only imagine, so I will be able to get back into reviewing books in order to make my post draft collection go empty on me. Anyways, it looks like we have more sunlight and more time to get the reviews going to catch up until I am officially good to go. Please be patient while I update the fundraiser post and work on the reviews as soon as possible as if time allows. Thank you, and have a great spring break! I'll see you when I come back.

And don't forget to check the book review page for any further updates!

Thursday, March 24, 2016

The Scott Pilgrim Saga Part 1

Series Run: August 18, 2004 - July 20, 2010
Location: Canada
Type: YA graphic novel
Genre: Comedy, drama, action, romance, fantasy

Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life


Plot:

(WARNING: Spoilers ahead, duh!)

The series begins by introducing Scott Pilgrim, a 23-year-old Canadian slacker living in Toronto with his gay roommate Wallace Wells. He is the bass player for a band called Sex Bob-omb, along with his friends Stephen Stills "The Talent" (guitar) and Kim Pine (drums). He has recently started dating a 17-year-old Chinese-Canadian high-schooler, Knives Chau. Though his friends consider this somewhat scandalous due to her age, Scott doesn't see a problem, as all they ever do is talk. One night, Scott begins dreaming about a girl on rollerblades whom he has never met before. He later glimpses her in real life and discovers that she is Ramona Flowers, a girl who has recently come to Toronto from New York after a rumored messy break-up with someone named Gideon. It is revealed that she can travel through an alternate dimension called "subspace" and that the purse she carries at all times is a portal to subspace as well. After Scott attempts to meet with her again, he receives an ominous email from someone named Matthew Patel, but Scott pays it little heed. Sex Bob-omb is preparing for a concert when Matthew Patel descends upon the stage and reveals himself as the first of Ramona's evil exes, who has mystical powers allowing him to summon "demon hipster chicks." Scott defeats him in a musical video-game-style battle, his final attack obliterating Matthew and leaving behind a handful of coins. Scott and Ramona decide to become a couple, provided that Scott agrees to defeat her six other evil-exes. When Scott asks if Gideon is one of them, Ramona's head glows.

(END SPOILER)

Rating and Review: This is such a great piece. It's worth 5/5 stars, and it's okay for ages 13 and up.

Volume 2: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Scott Pilgrim

Plot:

(WARNING: Spoilers ahead, duh!)

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World opens with a flashback to 7 years before the series begins. Scott and his friend Lisa Miller, high school students in Northern Ontario, want to start a band, but they need a drummer. This problem appears to be solved when Scott notices his classmate Kim's ability to play drums. When Scott finds out that Kim has been kidnapped by students from a rival school, he defeats the kidnappers, including the leader, Simon Lee, by kicking him off the roof, and rescues her. Kim joins Scott and Lisa's band, and dates Scott until they break up when he moves to Toronto. In the present, Wallace tells Scott that actor and professional skateboarder Lucas Lee, Ramona's second evil ex-boyfriend, is filming a new movie in Toronto. Scott awkwardly breaks up with Knives after Wallace threatens to tell Ramona about her. Scott then meets Lucas at his filming location, where Lucas beats Scott up and tells him about the "League of Ramona's Evil Exes" who have organized themselves to come after Scott. Scott defeats Lucas by goading him into skateboarding down a dangerous set of rails, where he ends up going too fast and bursting into coins upon landing. Having discovered Ramona is dating Scott, a furious Knives gives herself a hipster makeover by dyeing her forelock and attacks Ramona at the library. Knives confirms that Scott was cheating on her and Ramona simultaneously, and takes off. Meanwhile, Scott gets a call from Envy Adams, another of his ex-girlfriends, who asks him to open for her band The Clash at Demonhead that weekend. Speaking with Envy reopens Scott's unresolved issues about their breakup. Nevertheless, Sex Bob-omb show up to see Envy's band. The book ends with an epic opening by The Clash at Demonhead, where Ramona identifies the band's bassist as her third evil ex-boyfriend, Todd Ingram.

(END SPOILER)

Rating and Review: So, despite the cliffhanger, I seriously need more within' a burning passion! Anyways, 5/5 stars!

Volume 3: Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness

(WARNING: Spoilers ahead, duh!)

The Infinite Sadness continues the night that The Clash at Demonhead performs. After the venue clears out, Envy invites Scott and his friends backstage. Disgusted by Envy's new personality, Scott blames Todd for changing her and tries to attack him, but is stopped by Todd's psychic vegan powers. A flashback reveals that Envy, formerly known as Natalie V. Adams, was a mousy girl who gradually bloomed into a confident musical talent. She broke up with Scott once their band started to get noticed. Two days later, Envy confronts Todd about his cheating on her with the band's drummer Lynette, but Todd strikes her with his powers, shocking everyone. Todd and Scott have a battle, which Todd almost wins until the Vegan Police show up and strip him of his powers for violating his vegan diet (by eating gelato and a chicken parmesan). Scott headbutts the powerless Todd, who is reduced to a pile of coins, and receives an extra life in the process.
The Infinite Sadness also features extras, such as guest comics from Josh Lesnick, Alex Ahad, Andy Helms, John Allison, and David McGuire, as well as a map of the major characters illustrating their relations to each other. The title is a reference to the album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins.

(END SPOILER)

Rating and Review: This is the best ender to the first half of the series, and yet the good time to take a break in the end and come back for more whether I need it. 5/5 stars

To be continued... tune in next time for Part 2!

Blog Post Budget #1: The Early Childhood Makeover

So, here's what my dad and I were going to do for the early childhood makeover at church. Benefits and donations through fundraisers can go through these things I've written from the Lakeshore 2016 order copy:
  • butterfly climber - $299.00
  • colorful round carpet for 10 - $279.00
  • soft and safe community helpers - $35.00
  • dress-up tree - $60.00
  • toddler career costume set - $169.00
  • traditional lullabies CD - $10.00
  • Dreamland CD - $14.99
  • Quiet Time CD - $14.99
  • Lullaby Themes for Sleepy Dreams CD - $13.99
  • little hands piano - $19.99
  • classroom CD/cassette player with Bluetooth - $129.99
  • read and relax book station $399.00
  • real-working stethoscope - $9.99
  • classroom mailbox - $29.99
  • storage trunks - $24.99
  • three-way tabletop easel - $49.99
  • tabletop easel paper - $7.99
  • hardwood coffee table - $69.99
  • milestone boxes all-in-one - $199.00
Subtotal: $1,836.89
10% Tax: $183.89
Grand Total: $2,020.58

Here are the seven fundraising ideas to do and when:
  1. Rent-a-Youth Day - TBA
  2. Kiddie Camp - TBA
  3. Walk-a-Thon - TBA
  4. Math-a-Thon - TBA
  5. Trike-a-Thon - TBA
  6. Hoop-a-Thon - TBA
  7. Bowling for Bucks - TBA
  8. Flamingo a Yard - TBA
  9. Watermelon Eating Contest - TBA
  10. Guessing Game Jar - TBA
  11. Photo Scavenger Hunt - TBA
  12. Organic Candy Fundraiser - TBA
  13. Rose Promotion (first thing) - 5/8/2016
  14. Sponsorship Letters - TBA
(more could be found there @ http://oasc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100-Fundraising-Ideas.pdf if you want your own thing and/or do what we're gonna do)

Money in Progress: $0 down, $2,020.58 more to go

Updated 7/23/2020

End-Result: FAIL!!! (due to time constraints, finances, and other things in the way)

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

The Terrorist Attacks Continue with the Brussel Airport!!!

Three coordinated bombings in Belgium kill at least 32 and injure at least 250. So anyways, I'm paying the tribute in a moment of silence, using the Belgium flag.

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Thank you for an important memorial post, so anyways, please be safe as always and be prepared for the potential dangerous intruder, hacker, troll, enemy or terrorist by having to practice in case of emergencies and whether in case your device does on its own.

King Arthur and the Knights of Justice: The Review

After watching the entire series, endlessly I think:
"Knights! Knights! Knights! (repeat)"
"Excalibur, be my strength!"

The show's premise had King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table trapped in the Cave of Glass by the evil enchantress Queen Morgana. The wizard Merlin, unable to free King Arthur and the Knights himself, searches the timeline for replacement Knights. Merlin finds the quarterback of the New York Knights football team, Arthur King, as a suitable replacement. Merlin transports Arthur King and his teammates to Camelot after one of their football games and appoints Arthur King as their leader, with his teammates as the new Knights of the Round Table, and assigns them the task of freeing the true King and Knights. To do so, they must find the 12 Keys of Truth, one for each knight that only the knight in question can initially touch. Once all the keys are found, the real knights will be free and the team will return home. In the meantime, they pledge "....fairness to all, to protect the weak and vanquish the evil". The Knights are armed with special armor and are able to summon their respective creatures at any time when in battle armor. These animals, such as King Arthur's dragon, are emblazoned on their shields.

The series had a progressive story with both sides making progress towards their goals. Continuity was also established in the episodes which would be brought up in later episodes, along with some repeat minor characters, character relationships, and previously overcome weaknesses of the Knights. Despite the continual movement towards a resolution, the series is incomplete and ended abruptly during the second season.

You know the usual Saturday morning routine for Power Ranger fans who are into the Arthurian legend! But the transformations are somewhat repetitive as usual from the first episode and onward. Halfway there, I was thinking "Will there ever be the same ol' transformations in season 2?" Unfortunately, I was right, but the new thing that came with the segment is sound effects. In both seasons, there are different art styles. In season 2, what extended the episodes is lessons. At the end of each episode for season 2, either Merlin or King Arthur will show up and teach you guys some good virtues. The first fifteen episodes and episode seventeen are produced by Bohort Entertainment, but episodes sixteen, eighteen and onward are by BKN. In episode seventeen, I noticed the watermark "Amazing Adventures". Amazing Adventures used to be about the Saturday morning block of Discovery Channel or something before it was replaced by Discovery Kids. I was curious if animals and flowers crossover in thirteen devotional posts coming up. When the lesson segment shows up for the first time, I was thinking, "What are they thinking?! Do they watch too many synchronized cartoons with values at the end just so to throw in traditional value in order to shove down the street smart person's throats? I'm going nuts to force myself to post devotions as another way to increase the viewership with my blog because I'm sorry if I had wasted nothing new to do so but to just write, write and write. But still nothing to publish..."

When I'm two episodes away from the end of disc two, I was thinking, "Yup. I'm gonna stop for a moment because I've got some work to do for the blog." And so, I did asked my dad if I had the first three lessons to remember from the show to blog. He suggested if I was going to make a daily devotion book, but I probably think it's not going to work for now. My dream for the year 2016 was to continue writing "Where It All Began". If you don't know "Where It All Began", it's my 21st century literary criticism focusing on the book of Genesis in reflection to my current perspective. Hopefully, next year, it's "Meaningless in This World" with Ecclesiastes, same ol' genre from the same ol' perspective.

When I was at the end of disc two, I feel hopeless and confused with nowhere else to go but to take it easy and just put things off until later. Here's the quote:

"If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up someplace else."
- Yogi Berra

This is something that stands out in order to be the change everybody wants to see me talk, review, critique and discuss for hours and hours of non-stoppable fun for the whole grant of the Earth scholarship to have long term financial wealth. In reality, my dream to get paid for the first time seems like wishful thinking. My first paycheck outside work is when I was eighteen with the after-VBS daycare. Business-wise, it was absolutely nothing but just the first $5 from last year during my self-employment with home economics. "In order to be the change everybody wants to see me talk, review, critique and discuss for hours and hours of non-stoppable fun?" Don't you mean I referenced it to the quote from recently, as in "Be the change you want to see in the world." Earth scholarship? There's no such thing as an Earth scholarship (IN REAL LIFE)! There are a variety of scholarships you could choose from, but however, there is no Earth scholarship quite yet until I guess by 2050 when travelling to exoplanets become common and I think to my 54-year old self, "Nat's getting pretty old for some hashtags." You know what I mean? And I am nine months into the rest of my life besides the year of "Rebel Heart", so there's no going back. Instead, I need to succeed in everything as best as I can to become famous one day and be happy with what I already have. I haven't looked at the vacation getaways in my newly-turned decade of generalization yet (the 20s y'all know what I'm talking about - not the roaring 20s, or something that's approaching a few years from now, nor is the cold temperature, the real age where choices vary from time to time to make the rest of your life happen), but I'll look it up on my post from at least two months earlier because spring break is approaching and we probably have to go camping for two days. One of my teachers from the past term is going to Arizona and I've been there when I was four. I did not remember what happened as a little girl, but I was lost in time to kids' television shows. My grandmother noticed me and I barely saw her alive for a little amount of time. Remember from my introduction? I was baptized Lutheran when I was seven because of her last wish to not only me, but also to my two younger sisters as well. I was baptized Foursquare when I was twelve, same thing happened to the same ol' people except Grandma Marrujo's not here anymore and that's exactly what I wanted because I kept listening to the commitment to Christ Jesus, our LORD and Savior every single week a bit of time into the youth group. I was neither going to heaven, nor hell because one person from Yahoo! Answers said we exist from the moment we were born until the day we die, life was meant to experience everything, but you only live once. But how's that even possible to experience everything when you have religion, you tend to prohibit some forbidden things in this world such as with Hindus, they think cows are sacred, but Muslims don't eat any pork. As Christians, the diet varies from going strict-vegan to it's everything but the shellfish or something. I don't know what to do within my diet but to not eat anything processed and go for organic stuff with lots of nutrients to satisfy the hunger in order to survive. I would rather cook and do some self-employment fun! How about that?! It doesn't have to make any much sense. Come to think of the quote by Yogi Berra, one day I will open the Blogger's Club. I understand why it's important to work hard for the last bit of the quarter because I need to be quick like a rabbit.

In between discs 2 and 3, I pretty much had enough time to put in the final disc, press "Play All", sit back, relax and... review! Eight more episodes later, I realized why the second season is much like a sequel to the first season is because things could take on the rising action. (SPOILERS if you have not watched all 26 episodes of the show!) Like in episode nineteen where both sides of alignments end up in Miyako's day, in which they call the "1950s" as a mention of the time being where it's the golden days of Camelot park and everything. In episode twenty, I did not know there were manual-like planes back then, even before Da Vinci thought up one for future use in the later days where the Wright Brothers made up Kitty in 1903. In episode twenty-one, it's about the quest to Fear Island. In episode twenty-two, King Arthur retrieves Merlin's book from the hands of Morgana. In episode twenty-three, Morgana was attempted to enter the Round Table but Merlin stopped and defended her. She went away after her failures. In the semi-penultimate episode (which is twenty-four), the knights of justice cured the samurai enemies via the medicine from the bottle on a rainy and muddy day. In the penultimate episode, Elaine made her appearance and was the knight she dreamed of and recalled from her childhood, and the castle was covered in snow and ice? And last but not the least, in an unexpected series finale, Tone was kidnapped and hypnotized by Morgana, but was eventually saved by the other knights of justice. And that is where the company who produced it gets left off because they abruptly ended it. (end spoiler) The first season is good, but the second season does justice as a sequel to the first one.

According to Topless Robot, the show was ranked as the first of the two lists: Top 10 Most Ridiculous Adaptations of Aurthurian Legend (2009) and Top 8 Mostly Forgotten '90s Cartoons (2011). I know I had never seen the knights of the Round Table go Power-Ranger style like this before, but anyways, it's such a good show. I highly recommend for those of you who haven't seen the entire way there before. I survived, and um... yeah, good day! I'll see you whether I have to say. Talk to you later, folks!

Friday, March 18, 2016

I Know I'm Reaching the End of the Tunnel!

Just... I really want to thank God for this term! I am finding relief that this is getting paid off from all of the hard work that I did, despite the fact that I procrastinate sometimes and I felt the stress as a commonplace, but I think it's rather not normal for autism to deal with. Here it goes...


I survived the winter term! :)