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I hope everyone had a great and safe weekend.

I will be away from my computer Monday, October 6th and Tuesday, October 7th. I will see you on Wednesday, October 8th.

Here is a nice picture showing some of my cat friends fishing. Enjoy!

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Hi Everyone!

Well, we are in the middle of rainy season and August is the month where we, in the Philippines, get the most rain. It has been rainy nearly everyday this month. We have had some tropical storms to include a few typhoons. Right now, we are waiting on a new typhoon to hit the Philippines in the next 48 hours. Luckily, it seems the typhoon will stay in the extreme northern part of Luzon.

Days like this tend to make it hard for children. My big brother and older sisters have to leave very early in the morning to go to school. The school bus picks them up at 6:45am and brings them home at 5:15pm. That is a really long day to be in school. When it is rainy, it makes the air very moist and heavy and when school kids get wet they have to sit in class in wet clothes. That is why so many kids get sick during rainy season. KIds that don’t attend school yet, like me, have to stay in the house for long periods of time. I like to play outside and I miss playing with my friends different games like soccer. There are another two months of rainy season and then the weather will get better. The very best season in the Philippines is winter because the air is cool and dry. It is a beautiful time to visit the Philippines.

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Here is a cartoon from back in June to show you what my rainy days are like:

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Yesterday, I was able to watch the new movie Wall-E.

The movie starts in the future,where humans have trashed Earth to the point it’s uninhabitable. With no means to sustain themselves - plants have all died or are buried under garbage and humans have fled in spaceships where they live their lives and  are serviced by robots.
Back on Earth, WALL-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) goes about his daily, lonely job of compacting trash. It’s what he was built for and programmed to do, and there’s no reason for him to stop. He was inadvertently left turned on when everyone took off, so he goes about his work each and every day with only a cockroach named Hal as a friend. WALL-E has developed a personality over the hundreds of years alone. He collects items of trash that he then uses to furnish and decorate his home. He’s also developed an affection for the old movie  Hello, Dolly! and watches the old VHS tape over and over again.

Hello, Dolly! has taught WALL-E about holding hands and falling in love, and the lonesome robot has dreams of finding that someone special. After endless years of waiting, WALL-E’s shot at love appears in the form of a glistening egg-shaped drone named EVE. EVE was sent to Earth to check for any signs of life, and WALL-E falls in love for this state-of-the-art metallic cutie. He wants nothing more than to make a connection with this beauty, but EVE’s not on the same wavelength. Fortunately, WALL-E does not give up and when EVE’s sent back to report her findings to the people on board the Axiom spaceship, WALL-E goes along for the ride. Nothing will Wall-E from being with his new love EVE, not hundreds of thousands of miles of space travel, evil robots, or people who’ve lost all concept of what life on Earth was like before their ancestors all but destroyed our planet.

There is the message being taught about protecting our environment and not being so reliant on technology to do our everyday things.What is really neat is there are very few spoken words as WALL-E relies on the movements of a trash compactor wearing binoculars to convey emotions and move forward the story.Within 5 minutes WALL-E is no longer a mere robot but a real creature who feels things as deeply as humans.

Wall-E is really a great movie that I know I will watch many times. It is a great movie for children of all ages right up to 90+ years old!

I give Wall-E  Five Golden Binkees.

Here is a preview of Wall-E:

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These days, no one can avoid the news about the coming election in the United States of America. Everywhere on television, radio, newspapers and, of course, the Internet; the news is about the on-going “battle” between John McCain and Barak Obama. I asked Mama about these men and how they will become president of their country.

Mama said that Senator McCain is an older man who was a war hero in the Vietnam Conflict and has been a U.S. Senator for 30 years. Barak Obama is a young, less experienced U.S. Senator who has many new and inspirational ideas on how to make America a better and more kinder country. The people of the United States will vote in November on which one will be President of the United States of America.

Now, many people say that they could do a better job as president than these two candidates and that got me thinking…could I do the job? I ask my local play friends and they said that I would be a good president. I would do away with all wars. Countries would have to settle their differences by playing video games against one another instead of fighting wars where people get killed or injured. We would protect the environment and would protect all animals. Everybody would be allowed a good education and would always have enough to eat. Come to think of it, it is not hard to be a president.

My friends want me to run for president!

WOW! I didn’t think that it would go this far so fast. Mama said I could be president but I would have to go to school everyday and to be in bed by 9pm each night. Oh, she said no parties and no work on Sunday. I told Mama maybe it is better that I wait for a few years!

What do you think, should I be president?

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Hi everyone!

Today, I am going to do my first movie review.

I will be reviewing Monsters, Inc.. This is one of my favorite movies. Our review will, first, tell the story of the movie. We do that so parents and children can decide if it is a movie that is good for the family. Sometimes, there are “things” in movies, even children’s movies, that may not be right for a particular family situation. After giving the story line, I will tell you how I feel about the movie. So lets get started.

MONSTERS, INC.

The story begins in Monstropolis, a city inhabited by monsters, and centers around Monsters, Inc., the city’s power company. Monsters, Inc. sends its employees to children’s bedrooms, around the world, to scare the children, through teleportation doors set up on the work floor. The screams of children, which is bottled in metal cans, are then generated as electric power for the city. The chairman and chief executive officer of Monsters, Inc. is a crab-like monster called Henry J. Waternoose. The top scarer at Monsters, Inc. is James P. “Sulley” Sullivan, a furry, blue - green, giant who is partnered with the short, green, one-eyed Mike Wazowski.

The two of them are best friends and roommates. Sulley is a gentle and easy-going creature, while Mike is obsessed with his car and with marrying his girlfriend, the snakey-haired Celia Mae. Sulley’s main rival as a scarer is the chameleon-like Randall Boggs, who has the ability to change the color of his skin to match his surroundings, and is second only to Sulley in the scarer ranks.

As Sulley and Mike are going to work one day, they talk about the city suffering a power shortage because children are not as scared anymore because of over-exposure to television, making screams harder to get from the kids. Just before they are about to leave after a long day, the company secretary,Roz, asks Mike to hand in his paperwork. Mike had forgotten about it, and leaves it to Sulley to fill up his papers and hand them in, since Mike is in a hurry to leave on a date to celebrate Celia’s birthday. As Sulley reaches the work floor to find Mike’s papers, he finds a open door on the work floor. He knows that this is not allowed.

 After inspecting the door, Sulley discovers a little human girl behind it. Because Sulley lacks the access card required to open the door, he cannot return her home. Frightened, Sulley tries his best to hide the girl from coworkers, as it is believed that humans are toxic to monsters. After several misadventures, Sulley finally takes the girl to Mike, who is enjoying a romantic dinner with his girlfriend at a sushi restaurant. The girl escapes from Sulley’s attention at the restaurant, creating havoc amongst the monsters, and triggering the CDA (Child Detection Agency) troops to take action; Mike and Sulley grab the girl and hurry home, trying to avoid the CDA’s attention.

The girl stays overnight at Mike and Sulley’s apartment and is soon named Boo, for her habit of saying “Boo!” to surprise Sulley. The two come to know she is not dangerous as they thought, but still plan to return her to her world the next day to avoid trouble from the CDA. They disguise her as a monster and sneak her inside Monsters, Inc., where they lose and regain track of her two or three times. Eventually, Mike is caught by Randall, who offers to return Boo’s door to the work floor. When Sulley mistrusts Randall, Mike enters the door himself to prove its safe and is mistaken for Boo by Randall, who places him in a box and takes him to a room hidden in the basement of the scream factory. There, Mike is shown a large vacuum-based device designed to drain energy from children, called a Scream Extractor. Sulley and Boo, who have followed Randall, distract him and free Mike from the machine, leaving Randall’s assistant in his place.

Later on, Sulley turns up at the simulation room to teach new scare recruits what a good, loud roar is. Boo, who escapes from where Mike is hiding her, runs out in front of Sulley, giggling. Sulley pleads not to have to scare the simulation child but Mr.Waternoose forces him. As he roars, he inadvertently frightens Boo and causes her to burst into tears. After running away screaming, she trips; the hood of her costume reveals that she is the escaped human child. Sulley, guilty, looks up at the images of the scare in action, revealing Boo’s crying face. Sulley understands how children really feel when scared.

Mike quickly reports Randall’s scheming to Mr.Waternoose before he can seize Boo. But it turns out that Mr.Waternoose is in favor of Randall’s plan. Because of the decline in productivity, he fears for the company’s future, and sees Randall’s machine as the only way of ensuring Monsters Inc’s survival.Mr. Waternoose betrays Sulley and Mike, and sends the two into the Himalaya mountains through a one-way teleportation door.

The two stay with the Abominable Snowman at a cave until the Snowman tells Sulley of a village far below the mountain. After an argument with Mike, Sulley sneaks back to the monsters’ world through a closet door in a child’s bedroom in the village; Mike soon follows. The two confront Randall and attempt to rescue Boo from his grasp. Boo, no longer afraid of Randall, attacks him. Then Mike and Sulley push Randall through a teleportation door that sends him to a remote motorhome in a Louisiana swamp, where he is beaten with a shovel by the family living inside, who mistake him for an alligator. Mike and Sulley destroy the door Randall went through, thus ensuring that he doesn’t return soon.

Mike and Sulley then use Boo to lure Mr. Waternoose onto the company’s scare rehearsal stage. On the stage, Sulley angers Mr.Waternoose to the point that Mr.Waternoose yells out his wicked plan in anger: “I’ll kidnap a thousand children before I let this company die!”. Mr. Waternoose’s statement is caught on tape, and he is taken into custody by the CDA. It is also revealed that the secretary, Roz, was in fact the leader of the CDA and had been doing undercover work for the agency. Boo is soon sent home and her door is put through a wood chipper.

During his time with Boo, Sulley has learned that children’s laughter is much better than screams at generating power. Using this brand new approach, Sulley is made the new Chairman and CEO of Monsters, Inc. and the company is redesigned. Now the monsters enter through the teleportation doors and make kids laugh; in this way, ample power is created for Monstropolis, thus ending the power shortages in the city. Meanwhile, Mike has secretly reassembled Boo’s splintered door, and the only part missing from it is the wood chip that Sulley had salvaged as a memory of Boo. Mike shows this to Sulley, and Sulley puts the wood chip in place and the door becomes functional. Then, Sulley enters through the door to take one more peek inside.

Boo is heard but not seen, and the movie ends with a surprised and pleased smile on Sulley’s face.

DJ’s Review

Monster, Inc., a joint production of Disney and Pixar Studios was released just before Christmas 2001. The first time I watch Monsters,Inc., my mama and I watched it together. I have to admit that there was a few scary scenes but they were funny at the same time. Mama said the lesson to learn from this movie is “Not to judge people but try and understand them. Know that there is goodness in everyone even if they are different than us.” “It is better to bring joy and happiness than to bring fear and pain to people. Never take advantage of a person’s weakness and fear of things.”

I have watched this movie many, many times and I always enjoy it like it was the first viewing. I think that it is a great movie for children and even adults. I give this movie a four golden binkee award.

I hope that you enjoyed our review of the movie Monsters,Inc. See you tomorrow! 

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