Posts tagged the lord of the rings

The Rotten Tomatoes Show recently posed the question, “Are you pleased with your current situation?” Well these movie characters were more than happy to respond, each with his own unique, deeply philosophical answer.

  • Marty McFly: NOOOOOOOOOO-OH!
  • Harry Potter: NO!
  • Capt. Steven Hiller: NOOOOOOO!
  • Sam Witwicky: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
  • Kevin Ward: No, Daddy, NOOO!
  • Derek Zoolander: (in slow-mo) NOOOOOOOO!
  • Dr. Otto Octavius: NOOOOOOO!
  • Woody: No, no! No! No…
  • Frodo Baggins: NOOOOOOOOO!
  • Henchman Flattened by Steamroller: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO-AH!

Appreciate the input, guys. And oh, good luck on that steamroller!

Win Some, Lose Some

My first ever memory of winning something was in third grade. A Milo caravan of some sort visited our school to serve free cups of the tonic chocolate malt drink as well as to give away some promotional novelties to schoolchildren. Our names were entered in a raffle. Up for grabs were Milo notebooks, pens and pencil sharpeners. I won a sharpener-cum-Alvin Patrimonio action figure.Three points!

Three years later, I won some money. I took home P2,000 cash after winning at an inter-school poster-making contest promoting environmental consciousness. Soon after that, I won even more dough in a nationalistically themed collage-making competition. Whoever said there’s no money in art obviously didn’t know how to make green drawings and patriotic arrangements.

Fast-forward to my senior year in high school, I was editor-in-chief of our school paper. I was sent to a press conference where the supposedly sharp pens of budding journalists from other schools in different towns and provinces clashed with each other. My editorial piece on jueteng impressed the judges. I won a shiny piece of paper with my name on it.

Attending university the following year found me abusing my thumbs for the sake of winning. I spent my free periods joining countless text-in promos from my then cellular service provider, Smart. For my first over-the-air triumph, I won a Nokia 3530, one of the first ever color phones tp be released, for being the top scorer in a The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring trivia contest. Afterwards, I claimed a sleek Samsung DVD player, the top prize in a similar contest for The Matrix Reloaded. Then came the greatest point thus far in my ongoing winning streak. Coming in first numerous times in a daily speed-texting/word-building game, I managed to collect, by the end of the promo, 7 Nokia 7250s and 33 P500 prepaid cards. Whew!

I graduated from college, and my interest in text-in contests carried on. I won heaps of stuff from radio contests, including my copy of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows. I also bagged a total of P50,000, give or take, after outsmarting other eager texters on an almost daily basis in yet another Smart speed-texting game. I thought of opening an account at Gringotts.

Now, I’ve become one of those hapless board-certified professionals. At some point, my job became so increasingly taxing that my preoccupation with joining contests began to wane. That my luck was evidently running out didn’t help either. I tried several rounds of speed-texting but, alas, my mind and thumb coordination wasn’t as quick as it used to be. Now, I’m working my bottom off full-time, trying hard to make ends meet. I wonder, where have all my luck gone? And, more important, whatever happened to my seminal Milo sharpener-cum-Alvin Patrimonio action figure?