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Yesterday, while adding a tagging feature on the website, several questions arose regarding tags in general. How is relevance weighed when searching for a particular tag? How many tags does a post really need? Who should ultimately decide the relevance of each tag attached to a post?

Working at an office is not much different from going to a movie shoot. You're the director, but you either don't have any work to prove yourself or your past films have totally bombed. So, although you do try to direct people to get stuff done, you have to be very careful.

I wish there was an email client (software) that embeds tags (key words) within each email so it's easier to search for what you're looking for. And I wish everyone used it to compose and send their emails.

One rainy day Sarah arrived home with her hair heavier than when she left for school that day. Staring at an umbrella having tauntingly placed itself in a spot impossible for her to miss, Sarah walked past a time machine sitting in the living room and headed towards the kitchen.

It seems our understanding of past movies change every time we revisit them. This is perhaps because the light that projects the films is never the same intensity, as well as because there will always be a newer film the light must pass through before reaching the older ones. Much like the cascading style sheets used in this website the films that come before and after affect each other; creating familiar yet newer images.

When I get cranky, I get cranky at others. When others are cranky, I get cranky at them. When everyone's cranky with their own issues, we get cranky at each other and some decapitations may ensue. But, when we're all cranky at the same person, thing, or an event, we can laugh it off together and actually enjoy being a bunch of cranky, immature grownups that we are.

I wake up in the morning with the need to know the time: my hand hunts for my phone, my eyes gasp for air, and four digits of visual data gets registered in my head. Although my memory insists that I must rise from my bed and head towards the bathroom, I instantly consider disobeying and suppress that thought for a moment with the back of my neck crying a rhythmic, acoustic pop. Here I realize that friction has begun.

These days time passes by so quickly. But the funny thing is that I've never learned to cherish time despite realizing my stay here is short.

It's late at night, much later than I intended to stay awake, and like myself, not every life form follows the human clock: there's a dog next door barking at something I do not care much about. Still, I at least signal that I am aware of its presence by turning my head towards the window. There I see my own reflection. There weren't any reflections during daytime when the sun was shining bright. In darkness, however, everything lit shows up on both sides of the glass. A street sign, a notebook monitor, my face, and my hands. Here I discover a balance: for them and myself to coexist, I need to be just as strong as the ones outside.

In dramas, the characters portrayed possess one or more extreme characteristics that help justify their actions throughout the progression of their narrative. To make this obvious manipulation less apparent, these characters are placed in extreme situations, requiring their stronger characteristics to emerge on screen. In the end, the quality of this balancing act determines how well the characters are developed.

It's very difficult for me to list anything top 10, mostly because I am a very indecisive person and it's difficult to make valued judgments on movies. But that would only make my indecisiveness worse, and it would only make me a more introverted person; unable to announce what I like in fear of changing my mind in the future. I have to start learning that when it comes to preferences, there is no right or wrong, especially when they're certain to change with time.

I've recently read a collection of interviews from a Korean movie portal site, CINE21. They interviewed some of the best screenplay writers currently working in the South Korean film industry. It was a very interesting read for me, since writing scripts is the most practical thing an 'aspiring' film maker can do that doesn't involve budgeting nor a crew of more than three. Don't remember which of the writers gave this advice, but he/she suggested that keeping a journal/diary can be helpful to writers.

The blind date started at 7:20pm and ended around at 10:00pm. I think we had a good talk, although I wouldn't know what she thought of our conversations.

There’s a moment in our life, while staring at distant moons, when we think about what we truly want in our life. But not unlike the cold, empty craters revealed upon the sun’s reflection, we have scars that exist in hiding, deep beneath our subconscious, which prevents us from attaining our life's goals.

I've been a student at the University of Houston for well over eight years, now, give or take one or two semesters. It's done, although I still need to make sure the beast is completely down (waiting for my grades from this semester).