A tribute to all Igors

Is this you?

Not that I know somebody who looks like that guy. (smiles... winks.. giggles.. give me a minute here.. cant help myself) Now back to those guys. They are called Igors. I dont really know if its synonymous to being an idiot or something. Neither would I call my seatmate an Igor, the label is too uhm.. let me see.. general. I'd rather call them stupid. I think I can get away faster that way.

I watched that underrated animation film Igor ( I called it underrated cause nobody dared or even cared to tell me it was out on the net). Ok to settle that, Yes, I do watch movies on the Internet. Yes its piracy. Yes I'm cheating and not helping. But no, I wont do children's parties. Now back to Igor, I was watching the movie while Kristine was chatting with me. Now that wont really count as a real conversation. But she was asking me all about those "ano gani ang english ng blahblahchuva". And the good man that I am, with full composure answered the questions without jeopardizing my movie outing. It was me and my monitor again. Alone together. Grab your popcorns and start reading.

Located in this world is a thriving village grimly named "Malaria". Whose economy was based almost exclusively on agriculture until a mysterious change in climate caused the crops to wilt, impoverishing the people. A newly-risen leader styling himself "King Malbert" (Jay Leno) eventually proposes a new economy based on the creation of increasingly sophisticated, bizarre, monstrous, terrifying inventions; an idea that soon becomes the community's cultural core. Thereafter the inventors of frightening machines, who are known as "Evil Scientists", become the ruling class and are depicted overall as commanding, arrogant figures. Those born with a hunch on the back (an evidently common deformity) are forced to become laboratory assistants nicknamed "Igor", who are treated as an oppressed lower class and often thought stupid by the Evil Scientists who employ them. The protagonist of the film is an Igor (John Cusack) who is scientifically intelligent, despite being shunned by his own master, Doctor Glickenstein (John Cleese). According to the film's premise, this Igor has brought a cynical rabbit named Scamper (Steve Buscemi) back to life from death, and had made him immortal, much to Scamper's chagrin. Igor is also said to have transplanted a human brain into a life-support robot, which is thereafter nicknamed Brain (Sean Hayes).

Now I wont really finish the whole movie for you guys. But the movie is your typical goody-goody movie where there's always a light at the end of the tunnel. The movie was thought to be very close to the Igors on the Terry Pratchet Discworld series, although whether it was intentional, we may never know.

Forgive me Dwardie... I ripped the picture..

Funny eh?

On Tanduay Bottles and The Bote-Bakal Man

I dont know about you but one part of my childhood that I cant really forget are those "bote-bakal guys". If that doesnt ring any bells, they are those guys who go walk around places everyday under the heat of the sun shouting "bote bakaaaal!" while on the background rings their bells or their unruly contraptions called uhm.. torotots (poot! poot!)... Now, if the bell signifies the ice cream man on some parts of the world, the torotot would probably be the puto man or the BB guys.
Now if it really counts for anything. What is the single thing you are reminded of everytime you remember the BB guys. For me, that would be the Tanduay bottles. Yes, the Lapads, Junior and the Long necks. Saved from those long drinking nights of your Dad and his pals. Tanduay has over a hundred and fifty years of history. It all began in 1854 when Don Joaquin Elizalde, together with his uncle, Juan Bautista Yrissary, and the Manila-based Spanish businessman and financier Joaquin Ynchausti established a trading partnership, which acquired the Manila Steamship Company. This alliance was named the Ynchausti Y Cia. Back to the story, now I have watched countless recycling ads and shows and the Tanduay bottles still stay on the back of my head.
I really am not into the recycling hype, its too bothersome for me. And of course, everybody else does find it bothersome. The BB guys never really tell you these things of course. Here's a link http://www.environment-green.com/. I bet those BB guys never really knew all about these things. But, admit it or not. They are the smallest unit of environment savers here in the world. Poot! Poot!