New Technology… a Threat?

The development of science and technology creates big changes in everybody’s lifestyle, from what we wear, and we what we intake in our body to every single thing around us.
We all enjoy this big changes and how this high technologies benefits us. Does we forget some primitive things are still best to use and practice despite the millennium dilemma.
Foods cook from fire and twigs are surely more tasteful than the one cook over the stove. And pizza and breads that is baked in the “Pugon” or the traditional oven using charcoal is a lot better too.
Above all what this traditional thing matters most is its safety and quality assurance that will not put our health in danger.
Currently the whole world is facing the distress of the alarming news of milk contamination in China and Hong Kong. Milk products from China is contaminated with chemical melamine that has killed 4 children and hospitalized 53,000 children for kidney stones caused by the tainted milk.
It’s quite frightening especially for the working moms who rely on formula milks for their babies. Though our government has banned all the dairy products from China, we still could not assure the safety of our children’s health.
Because of the fast track of development of our technology, mother forgets the basic yet the best thing they could provide to their babies, the benefits and advances of breastfeeding than using formula milks.
Before the China contamination outbreak, most parents failed to check the contents of the milk they buy in the market.
Ingredients of formula milk that can be found in the label at the back of the container are not safe and ideal. The main ingredient in all formula milks is Whey which is a waste by-product of producing dairy products particularly cheeses.
Other ingredients of milk as you try to check are Coconut, Palm and safflower oils. These oils are use in many snack foods like popcorn in theaters that is least expensive oil.
Formula milk is only one of the thousand products technology provides that is harmful to our health. Awareness is the most important thing you should do before using anything. Not all available in the market is good for you.
Advertisement on TV’s grabs the people from buying their product, beauty products that may be harmful to your skin and shampoos and conditioners that may make your hair dry or may cause baldness.
Accordingly, Conditioners contains silicon that could cause head cancer. An alarming message that is passed on me through Friendster (December 2007) about that certain shampoo on the market that contains Formaldehyde. Formaldehyde or commonly known as Formalin is being use to preserve things like dead bodies in funeral homes.
These products may contain less amount of this chemical but as we use it every day it will be stored on our scalp. You may later notice excessive hair fall and unfortunately develop a cancer.
I automatically check all the shampoos in every grocery and stores I’ve gone to and only3 shampoo brands do not contain Formaldehyde. I then inform all my friends I have on my phonebook list.
It makes me think how our grandparents have their hair look great while using only gogos and coconut oil.
So before you grab on what technology has to offer, check it first before you apply or use it. Prevention is still better than cure…you might put your health and of your family at risk!

The Hottie And The Nottie

The Hottie and The Nottie is a romantic-comedy movie of the year featuring Paris Hilton, Christine Lakin, Joel Moore and The Greg Wilson.

It strikes the screen in US as a blockbuster hit earning $9,000 on its first day. It is directed by Tom Putnam as his first full-feature film and written by Dawson’s Creek writer Heidi Ferrer.

The story was about Nate Cooper (Joel Moore) who could not get together with a woman. He can’t forget his childhood crush he meets in first grade and their times together in elementary, Cristabel Abbott (Paris Hilton).

Cristabel has grown up into a really hot chick and Cooper sends out to the beaches of California to meet her geeky best friend June Phigg (Christine Lakin).

Everyday Cristabel jogs on the beach with many suitors who try to catch her eyes that include an albino stalker. But because of Cristabel being best friends with the same ugly little girl Nate met in First Grade, she still remains single.

Cristabel won’t go out for a date if her best friend doesn’t have one. And when Nate and Cristabel hits off after he was able to re-introduced his self to her, she refuses his offer for the date because he wants him first to find a boyfriend for June.

But the guys he sets for her turn coil with her looks. As they spend time together and became friends, June finally turn out from his cocoon after her make over with the help of a dentist friend who works part-time as a model.

Nate then realizes that she might be the girl for him!

Smother

Smother is a drama-comedy film directed by Vince Di Meglio and Tim Rasmussen. The film is about the life of a man whose life was thrown into chaos when at a time he gets into a difficult situation.

Noah (Dax Shepard)has just lost his job as a Physical Therapist. He was planning to start up his own practice but gets abstracted when his slightly crazy, overbearing mother Marilyn Cooper (Diane Keaton) shows up in his door with her bags and 5 foster dogs in tow on Haloween.

Marilyn is a kind of mother who will wake you up at 6:30 a.m. and drop in into your place on unannounced visit. She left Noah’s father after a big clash where she accused him for having an affair with another woman.

Making the situation worst, his wife Clair (Liv Tyler) wants them to try to start a family when he was still not ready to have the responsibility.

Noah’s life was in distress thinking of the pressures he have plus the presence of someone he’s been trying to escape but he always find her in every corner of his house and won't quit smothering.

Trying to get his life together, Noah has to cope up to make ends meet, keeping his mother out of mess and avoiding his wife advances.

R-Point

R-Point is a horror film directed and written by Su-chang Kong. The story was set on 1972 in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Timeline before the film are from 11 BCE to 939 CE when the Chinese soldiers killed many Vietnamese villagers. Their bodies where dump into the lake which was covered and erected with a temple in honor of the dead Vietnamese.
In Mid 20th Century, French Jacques and Paul with other French colonist stay on the island and settle in a plantation that were then killed at some point during the Indochina War.
In 1970, Some Americans were shot down in their helicopters over that island and killed. Battalion 53 goes missing somewhere on that island in 1972.
The movie then set in 1972 when a group of South Korean soldiers from battalion 53 wasn’t able to report back from that strategically important island during the Vietnam War. That island is 150 kilometers south of Saigon that is referred to as R-Point.
After being missing for six months, they were presumed dead until they receive a shortwave radio transmission from R- Point. It keeps repeating a message saying “Donkey 30, Long-Horned Beetle do you copy? Donkey 30, Long-horned Beetle, do you copy? We are dying…” that continues to transmit at irregular interval over the next three months.
The sole survivor of the team, LT Choi Tae-in insisted that he saw all of the men dying and that he was the one who collected their dog-tags but the HQ prompts to dispatch a search-and-rescue party to find the missing men. Just recovering for the hospital, LT Choi was sent to R-Point that is so called as the Bermuda triangle like area.
With the platoon of psychos, hicks and nuts, they went to discover the source of the signal.
The men then set to sail to the R-Point and took 2 photos of the expedition team after they dock upon their arrival. But after proceeding to the jungle not long after that, they were ambushed by the Vietcong. For 5 days, the motley crew digs up a mansion where they were shot by invincible Viet Cong. They later realize it was a haunted mansion by people who were massacred 100 years earlier by the Chinese.
One of the members goes down one by one… who will survive? Discover the mystery of R-Point!

Death Race

Death Race is an action film directed and written by Paul W. S. Anderson. It is the 1975 film Death Race 2000 remake that is base on the short story “The Racer” of Ib Malchoir that is starred by Jason Statham on the lead role.
The economy of the United States has fallen into disaster within four years from 2008, and for profit, many private corporation run most prisons across the nation.
The Terminal Island Prison is the focus of the movie where a race of cars armed with various weapons and armor called the Death Race is broadcast to the world via internet. One would try to win and survive in doing the race.
The movie started by a nearly ended race between a famous masked driver known as Frankenstein accompanied by a female navigator and Machine Gun Joe (Tyrese Gibson).
Joe destroys Frank’s car that ejects his navigator after his defensive system fail and leave Frankenstein dead or critically wounded.
Jensen Ames (Jason Statham) is sent to prison after he was framed for his wife’s murder the same day that the steel mill he works at closes. The murderer who is masked intruder points a finger-gun at Ames before it leaves.
In the prison he is coerced by Hennessey (Joan Allen), a prison warden, to become the new driver of Ford Mustang own by Frankenstein.
Hennessey knows that Ames baby is left in the care of the foster home and his chance of going out is to join the race. According to her, the prisoners are freed upon winning the five Dearth Races.
He will just take on the mask of the legendary Frankenstein who had already 4 wins at the time of his death. That will mean that he will only be taking one race to win.
Death Race is broken down into three stages. The first two stages, Stage 1 and 2 is the stage that the drivers must survive. The last stage which is the Stage 3 is where they should win that will add to the count of their freedom.
As Ames joins the race he finds out the real purpose of his imprisonment and will find revenge for the murderer of his wife. Will he able to win the race and be free to take care of his baby?

Babylon A.D.

Babylon A.D. is a science fiction film that is base from the novel of Maurice Georges Dantec, Babylon Babies.
Vin Diesel stars the rule of Toorop, a mercenary who live in a survivor’s code kill or be killed. In the near future, the world is monitored with thousands of satellites and observes our every move.
Many planets will be a war zone: while the rest of the planets become a collection of teeming megalopolises, wretched way stations and vast wastelands punctuated by areas left radioactive from nuclear meltdowns.
A hardened warrior like Toorop could live the world that was made to him. He then receives his new assignment that is to smuggle a young woman name Aurora from a convent of Kazakhstan to New York City.
He is to take charge of Aurora and his guardian sister Rebeka on their embark journey 6,000 miles from Eastern Europe through refugee camp in ‘New Russia’, in a pilfered submarine across the Being Straight and then through the frozen tundra of Canada and Alaska and finally to New York.
While thinking that it was just an ordinary mission, he later found out that Aurora bears a twin who has the potential of becoming the next messiah. Many wanted to have hands over them…he later understand that he could be the protector of the only hope of the future mankind.
For the first time in his life, as he faces many obstacles, he has to make a choice: walk away and save his self or make a difference.