20080728

THE BEST WAKE UP CALL


I am so not a morning person.

I go to bed at around 2AM the earliest, and like 4AM the latest.

Up at around 12NN the earliest, 2PM the latest. There was even a time I slept for 12 hours straight. Batugan. Haha.

So whenever I seriously need to get up early for a meeting, a shoot, an out of town trip, or just to run errands like going to the bank, I need the most effective alarm there is.

I hate the usual alarm clocks because they're not as noisy as they used to be. And don't get me started with them digital, battery operated ones. They break easily, and I just hate it when the battery's almost going, and the sound is next to nothing.

What I usually do is set my 3 cellphones to alarm all at the same time. Yes I can easily press on snooze and sleep for 5 more minutes, but my friend Dex gave me this tip: place your cellphones away from each other, and away from the bed. That way, you would have to get up and turn them off. And perking you up inthe process too. I put all of my phones in my bathroom, so the walk will surely wake me up, and the echo reverb will definitely irritate me.

But just a few days ago, I saw this alarm clock in Trinoma.

It's called The Flying Alarm Clock.

It's quite simple. When the alarm goes off, it sets off this very piercing sound of an airplane's engine. The propeller starts to spin, and eventually pops out of the base unit. The alarm will continue on until you find the propeller, wherever the hell it went, and snap it back in the base unit.

Genius no?

Grab The Flying Alarm Clock at Brookstone, 2nd Floor, Trinoma.

20080723

HEROES GRAPHIC NOVEL

DC comics just released Volume 1 of the Heroes graphic novel. Each Volume of course corresponds to each season. Volume 2 will be released before 2008 ends.

Saw this at A Different Bookstore at Serendra. Only in hard bound, and it's only P1200.

I want!

20080717

MARIAH REMIX CONTEST

Wanna remix a Mariah Carey hit and have the chance to win cash and an autographed copy of E=MC2?

Register, enter the contest and download the elements at

http://www.indabamusic.com/mariahremix