POST IT; My Blogging Experience

Social networking sites continue to be the world’s fastest growing medium of modern communication. By using blogs, chat rooms, email or instant messaging, you are able to connect with family, friends or with the world at large. Such websites are useful internet tools that help you to keep in touch with other users as well as to meet new people with similar interest whom you may share your commentaries, views or stories.

Different people have different purposes on why they maintain accounts in websites. And whatever these purposes are, one must know his stand in the social media.

That is why studying online writing is important to internet users. It is not just about posting anything under the sun, or giving yourself the freedom to express your feelings, thoughts or sentiments in any way you want. Nor it is a means to hurt other people, to defame or contradict one’s view or idea which you think does not agree with your own.  And yes it is possible, as possible as anonymity is in the social network. Some people may lie about their identities in real life so that they are free to do their own thing online. Being someone else in the internet allows them to do so. It is the reason why sometimes, we do not really know who we are dealing with in any social websites.

But this is not how responsible online writers do their works. They know that the proper use of social networking sites is one of the standards they are ought to follow. It’s because as a responsible user you are aware of every detail that you post over the internet.

A social media campaign reminds us: “…what we posts online stays there forever…”

Once information is posted online, you cannot take it back. It remains on the internet even if it has long been deleted from the sites.

And this is what online journalism taught us…to understand the standards and guidelines in posting your comment, blog or article. Procedures and techniques aren’t really of much important for even an out of school kid would learn how to do so. It is the ethics that we learn that really counts.

His nightmares caused the teenager Nathan Harper (Taylor Lautner) the uneasy feeling that something is wrong with his identity. Until one day he accidentally discovered a missing child’s picture found by his neighbor and schoolmate Karen Murphy (Lily Collins) in a website. Little boy Steven Price was an image of himself.

Unaware of getting himself into trouble, Nathan called the website’s0 owner. Eventually they were attacked and his parents, Kevin (Jason Isaac) and Mara (Maria Bello) were murdered. He was able to escape together with Karen and immediately called the police. CIA operatives Frank Burton (Alfred Molina) said he’s in danger and a team will be sent to pick them up. But Nathan’s psychiatrist Dr. Geraldine Benneth (Sigourney Weaver) warned him not to trust Burton and revealed Nathan’s biological father – a CIA agent named Martin Price (Dermot Mulroney) who stole a list of corrupt CIA operatives from Viktor Kozlow (Michael Nyqvist). So the website was completely a trap.

Instructed by Dr. Benneth, the two headed to a safe house where Nathan found his father’s cellphone and a photo and address of her real mother Lorna Price. Just as Nathan was beginning to figure out his true identity, Kozlow’s men kept on chasing them. Soon he realized there’s no safer place and no one but Karen can be trusted. He had to stop running and face the danger because it’s the only way he will survive.

The film ended up with Martin Price who killed Kozlow and called Nathan to apologize.

For a young actor like Taylor Lautner, the movie was quite a good start. It maybe panned by critics but the character that he has and the movie itself need not be compared to famous stars who had already accomplished lots of successful movies. Sometimes it takes someone a little more effort and time to make it to the top. Not everyone can hit the bullseye on the first shoot.

Cinema's Next Attraction

PEEP AND LAUGH...ONCE MORE!

Parodying the James Bond secret agent genre, Rowan Atkinson had successfully made his way to the silver screen with his renowned 2003 action comedy film JOHNNY ENGLISH. It was a spoof spy thriller where Atkinson plays the lead character with John Malkovich, Natalie Imbruglia, Tim Pigott-Smith and Ben Miller in supporting roles.

From the direction of Peter Howitt, the movie opens with Johnny English who was working as a secret service agent at British Intelligence. English has a fantasy about himself as ‘Agent Number One’—the best man of the MI-7 organization.

When an unexpected plan to steal the country’s Crown Jewel came to the service’s knowledge, Agent One was quickly assigned to the case and was quickly dispatched to six feet under. The British spy’s funeral was attacked and all his replacements were assassinated. And only one hero was left—Johnny English—who always dreamed of being a sophisticated man of action. Along with his assistant Angus Bough (Ben Miller), he went through his mission and later had discovered the person behind the evil plan, the French businessman Pascal Sauvage (John Malkovich). English’s attention was caught by a mysterious Lorna Campbell (Natalie Imbruglia), whom he had met in a social event and had joined him throughout the case.

Through his comic acting, Atkinson as Johnny English starred the movie with a refreshing sense of humor that made it really entertaining. He’s indeed a professional and an exceptional comedian. Not to mention the dialogues, his funny acts and how he managed to change expressions of his face gave the movie a creditable performance on the big screen.

That was Johnny English… “He knows no fear. He knows no danger. In fact, he knows absolutely nothing!”

And wait there’s more! After 8 years comes the next attraction… he is given one more chance. A sequel, JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN is to be released on October 28 of this year.


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