You have to see these to believe:

Rug Clock: only turns off if your full weight is on it. (But how would it know if your full weight is on it? What if its default weight is 200 lbs. and you happen to weigh only 100?

Every time you poke it to set off its alarm, it rises slightly, forcing you to eventually get up completely.

Touching it would send a jolt of electricity to you.

The clock’s connected to the Internet. Not turning off the alarm will transfer your money to a charitable institution. At least it’s going to a good cause.

When it sets off, the puzzle pieces fly away from the clock itself, and you have to reassemble it to turn the darn alarm off.

Check out these awesome ads I found online:

Apparently, in the old school hand-drawn days of Disney, they recycled animations from different movies to make it easier for them to create the films.

Here are just some examples:

“The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh” and “The Jungle Book”

“Snow White” and “Robin Hood”

For more of these, click here.

Is it bad? Not really. Knowing that they drew these by hand, I’d still say that they did a pretty good job on their cartoons. It’s just interesting to see the similar scenes they’ve made.

Warning: This entry, unlike most - if not all - will be pretty serious, so if you don’t really like politics, feel free to skip this.

So yesterday was the burial of (former) Pres. Corazon Aquino, known as the icon of democracy of the Philippines, and the first female president of this country as well as of Asia. It was crazy how a lot of people went and attended, not only the proceedings yesterday, but also in the past few days. I wasn’t born at the time EDSA Revolution happened, and I was just a baby while she was serving her term. As a consequence, I couldn’t really appreciate what she’s done for the country. I know about it cognitively, and I do admire and thank her for doing what she did, but I couldn’t really internalize it.

That is, until yesterday. We’ve been watching the proceedings on TV, and it gave me goosebumps just how much she was revered. Hearing the eulogies given made me realize that even though I didn’t really know her, she was genuinely a good person, and maybe that’s what’s important in the end. Even though she came from a well-off family, she had a simple lifestyle before and after her presidency. She didn’t put on airs - she was just a really down-to-earth person who has a healthy respect for everyone that she met. One great thing about her is that she didn’t really plan on being a president, but she readily took on the challenge and had the courage to stand up for what she believed in, for what was right, and that’s something that Filipinos should never lose sight of.

How ironic that the country lost her during the tenure of the second woman president here in the country, and you can’t help but compare how their statuses are: the first one, who was really fighting for the rights of the people (who she seemed to consider as her extended family, especially given how close she was to her very own) and the second one, who probably can’t be any more corrupt than she already is (at least, I hope so).

R.I.P. Cory Aquino. I might not have known you, but you really are one of the country’s heroes.

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