Archive for February, 2012


Script Writer

These are truly people who deserve our respect. If it wasn’t for them we would stay at home bored and with nothing to watch on our TV’s. We would be home but we would still be in some kind of prison. Well, okay, we would just communicate more with each other and communication would be a greater part of our daily routine.

As you suppose rightly the job of the scriptwriter is to write scripts. This might seem as an easy task, but nowadays when there are thousands of series and millions of stories told how could one create something that hasn’t been told already. I’ve heard that for the CSI movies, there are scriptwriters that just come and go – they just give the ideas and the main scriptwriters then do everything else in order for that idea to become a movie that we see (or a part of series). Scriptwriters are people of art who need to have an endless source of ideas that haven’t been realized already. They need to find the extraordinary in everything and turn it into something that all people would like watching. It’s great, when you begin your career you have the idea that you’ll never come to a mental block because you have thousands of ideas. Two reasons are going to change that with time, the first one is that you’re going to forget most of the ideas you already have thought of and the second is that you’ll have the feeling that the story would have already been told. It’s not that simple, nobody likes to copy from the others and get booed for that when the public sees the result on TV, but it might happen. There still isn’t advanced enough technology to create a database that compares scripts and tells if there is just too much similarity between them.

The scriptwriter also has to be a good team leader because nowadays movies have at least 5-10 scriptwriters who compile the ideas for the show. You need to be a good listener because sometimes even the most menial of ideas turn out to be genius. Sometimes the idea that sounds ridiculous or already used is the most unique. A scriptwriter has to be a very observant person because he could get hundreds of ideas in his everyday routine if he has the ability to see the artistic part in it.

 

An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

It’s winter and there is a much greater chance that we get sick. It might be due to the weather conditions or because there is somebody else who is sick and you got it from him. It’s flu season and it’s a boom of people buying anti-flu meds, but isn’t there another set of safety precautions for us not to get sick.

If you just stay at home and enjoy your hot coffee or tea there is a much smaller chance that you will get sick. If you aren’t in contact with any people who are sick, then your chance to get sick is also very small. Also, even when you are at home, be sure to wear warm clothes because if you get cold you are going to get the cold instantly. The idea behind not getting cold is to always keep your body temperature at a constant. If it’s 37 degrees and you go out in the cold, where it’s 0 degrees, there are some chemical and biological reactions which occur that make you sick.

You can also stay home and enjoy a hot soup while playing with your kids of friends. This is the best time to call your healthy friends and play a game of monopoly. Since this is prohibited for people under 18, it might not be that interesting now that you’re over 18, but give it a try, you never know how fun one lithe thing might be. So let’s get back to preventing that flu. You could actually drink two or three tablets of Paracetamol per day, because it not only fights against pain, but fights with the symptoms of the flu, because of its active substances that conduct him. Another option is to have a lot of exercise. By sweating our body lets go of all of the toxins and things that we don’t need in a fluid form. That’s why there are people who want to get sweaty when they are sick, because this is a way of cleansing. I’m not saying that this is a good idea because being sick usually drains one’s energy and when you have no energy it isn’t really sensible to go and have hard physical exercise. But still give it a try.

Well this is pretty much it, just try to keep yourself away from cold foods and drinks, spicy food and anything else you can think of that irritates your throat. Once you begin coughing you are going to get irritated again then cough again and all the way like that until you begin feeling better.

The truth is that there is no way to find the perfect place to live. You just have to make it all by yourself. You just get in a complex of a few rooms, nothing more but 4 walls multiplied by a few times. There is nothing inside and everything is white. There is going to be a lot of work ahead of you but you know that when you finish it it’s going to be the place where you are going to spend a large part of your life.

You might say that you don’t always get into an apartment and it’s like I described it. There may be furniture and all other kinds of things that don’t belong to you. I know that you want to start your life from the beginning and throwing everything away from the previous owner is the right first step. It’s a moment that decides the rest of your life. Once you get into it and begin decorating and so on, you will get fond of it. It’s just like having a baby. You don’t get instantly in love with it, some time needs to pass and when you take care of it you realize how important it is and how it couldn’t survive without your help. Make sure that everything you plan and do in the house is made so that there won’t be any regrets. You might think that you will have the money to do a redecoration but you certainly won’t have the energy. If you are going to do everything from the beginning and do it step by step, you might even work in the house or apartment for more than half a year. This is a lot of time and you are going to love that home. It’s just like buying a new telephone. You want to make sure that there aren’t any scratches on it for a long time because you want to keep it new.

Make sure that there is a room in which you will put things that you like the most. I’m talking about pictures, an aquarium maybe and a few plants. The idea is for you to be able to relax in the room no matter what. It’s supposed to be that place where you can stay in peace and tranquility. It should be a place where you feel secure, comfortable and relaxed, where you can think over your problems and find a solution to them. Or you might want the opposite effect: a place to escape from the problems. If you have a loved one but you don’t find comfort and you don’t feel like you could tell them your most kept secrets, then what is the use of being with them? It’s the same with having a house. What’s the point of having just any if you can’t customize it to your needs. For the people who have business careers, it’s very important that their home is very cozy because the job is stressful and boring at the same time, so when they get home they need to be able to relax.

 

Cartoons Now and Then

I remember being a kid and watching cartoons. These were to die for! I mean, there wasn’t anything funnier than cartoons on TV and the characters back then were somehow realistic in their fantastic world. I know that it’s impossible for a cat to talk or even use a parachute, but it’s way more realistic than nowadays cartoons, like Ben 10.

I think that cartoons play a great role in the bringing up of children. They can unleash the full potential of a kid’s imagination, but they can also ruin you. I fear that it’s not too good for kids to watch too unrealistic cartoons. I mean it’s great that there are cartoons that can help the kids think in an unorthodox way, but I wouldn’t want my kid to be asking me every 10 meters of our walk if there are some zorbons or any other ludicrous names which he can attack and kill. And that’s another problem, the modern cartoons are filled with violence. I know it’s not direct violence and it’s not shown in such a way which will directly make a kid aggressive, but if the kid sees his favorite character fight and kill some monsters, then we can only wonder why they are aggressive to each other.

And, cartoons nowadays are somehow convincing in a bad way. I remember Looney Tunes and the good old tunes in which you didn’t have to remind a kid not to fire up dynamite because it would blow up the house and stuff like that. I remember when we only needed to be told one time that animals don’t talk and that this is unrealistic. If I told a modern kid that his favorite toon character is unreal, he’d most probably swear at me, telling that I’m a liar. And even if we were told and knew that the characters (such as Porky Pig) are unreal, we still watched our cartoons with interest. And besides, have you even realized how much classic music you have learned from toons like that? Most of the cartoons had classic music as a background, which we didn’t really pay attention to when we were little, but when you hear it now you will have the strange feeling that you know it from somewhere.

I do believe that there are still pictures that can be good to our kids and that don’t addict them or require them to buy some extra fan stuff. I miss the good old days. I would probably be happy if I had a Donald Duck T-shirt, but we could live without it. I can’t imagine a kid watching Ben 10 and not having one of them fancy watch thingies.