As the countdown begins…..

•July 30, 2008 • No Comments

Last week has been a very busy week for me. Hey, who’s complaining right? Well, for starters, Cocoy arrived last week on a beautiful Tuesday night. We started rehearsing with Black Coffee Sundae on Wednesday, and I must say, our rehearsals were a bit productive. Although, some polishing here and there, but nevertheless, we enjoyed revisiting some of our the songs that we used to play 10 years ago(Yup, that long!)

Anyway, last Monday night, I rehearsed with my other bands Kage and Persona Non Grata as well. Then, last night, Black Coffee Sundae was in the studio recording some of our original materials for possible souvenir or maybe radio airplay(I’m hoping to send one to any of the radio stations). We recorded the drums, bass, and keyboard tracks for ”World in your hands,”  and “Daydream.” Cocoy did some vocal tracks on both songs, but he wasn’t really happy with the demos, so he might try to re-record the vocal tracks on Thursday (That’s tomorrow night!)

 The two other songs “Earth Angel,” and “Worth” will be recorded next week. We are hoping to have everything down on tape, that way, we’ll be able to mix the songs before Cocoy leaves on Aug 21.

Tonight, I’ll be rehearsing with BCS and Pandora for Saturday’s event. Hopefully, everything is good to go on Saturday.

By the way, this coming Friday (August 1) BCS and Pandora will drop by at Monster Radio BT 105.9 to do some plugging on the upcoming gig on Saturday and possibly do 3 to 4 songs as well. The show will start at 10pm with BCS doing the honors of opening the show, followed by Pandora at 1030pm.

Hope you guys will tune in as well. Whew!

The reunion that I’m looking forward to….

•July 17, 2008 • No Comments

No, it aint a family reunion. Rather, its the reunion of my former bands “Black Coffee Sundae” and “Persona Non Grata” this coming August 2, 2009 at (where else?) The Outpost. I have never been this excited and at the same time tired as well from organizing this event. Basically, I’m doing most of the legwork(major assist on the poster done by future “Mrs. Quijano” Roda thankyouverymuch! ) and coordinating with the venue and the bands on this gig. Roger (Persona Non Grata) and Cocoy (Black Coffee Sundae) have been coordinating with me as well. Thanks to the technology of Yahoo Messenger, we did just that. Whew! Gotta get back to work. I’ll post more details as I finalized everything.

For now, just a short background of my former bands for those who are puzzled as to who they are:

Black Coffee Sundae - Led by Enrico “Cocoy” Reyes on lead vocals and guitars, Benjamin “Jam” Quijano on lead guitars and vocals, Garret “Chimo” Pesodas on bass and vocals, and lastly Jericho “Jerc” Limosnero on keyboards. This band formed way back during our collage years at our former school. It started with us four, and Jerc eventually joined the band afterwards. We played alternative, rock, pop, bubble gum pop music. We wrote some materials hoping to turn them into a debut album. Sadly, we broke up in the early part of 2000. Since then, all of us went our separate ways. Cocoy went to the Middle East to work there. Jerc got married. Jam was with the bands; Cattski and Persona Non Grata for a while, but then quit and is now working in a callcenter. He currently plays for Black Waters. Garret on the other hand, ended up as a bassplayer for Persona Non Grata and Serendipity. Currently, he plays for Kage and has a dayjob.

Persona Non Grata - Led by Roger Looney on vocals, Anthony “Jaan” Quijano on lead guitars and vocals, Jam Quijano on rhythm guitars, and Garret Pesodas on bass. This band was formed after the demise of Black Coffee Sundae. Our genres consists of classic rock and alternative.  We managed to write and record one song in the studio called “Find a Way” and a Rolling Stones cover ” Paint it Black.”

Later on, Jam Quijano and Garret Pesodas both left the band to focus on their respective bands (Cattski and Serendipity). The band shouldered on and enlisted Christopher “Popoy” Calumba to play bass for the band. The band then started writing songs and managed to record some of it at Phoenix Glide Studios with recording engineer Galen Salvadore at the controls. We recorded “Four Bad Days,” “She’s so Far away,” and “Red Horse.” Then, in the middle of 2002, the band decided to call it quits, citing Roger’s new job position in another place, and Jaan’s decision to quit the band.  Roger is currently the director of a company in China. Jaan currently plays with Kage and Postmortem, and works as a technical trainer at a callcenter. Popoy currently plays with Space Radio and Sinister 6. He has a dayjob as well.

a Saturday night gig to look forward to…..

•July 15, 2008 • No Comments

You’ll know if Steven Seagal enjoys kicking asses when….

•June 17, 2008 • 1 Comment

1. He’ll give you that semi sarcastic smirk, before unleashing his devastating-bonecrushing moves on ya. 
2. He’ll ask you some questions, and before you answer them, he already has those answers for ya: Bones breaking!
3. He’ll stare you straight in the eye and then ask you to tell your boss that he’s looking for him. Then? Bones breaking!
4. He’ll stare you straight in the eye. Notice that his eyebrows come together in his forehead? That’s the pure sign of armageddon. Advice? Run faster!
5. He’ll tie his hair in ponytail fashion. The guy likes his hair tied. It makes him more macho.  Another hint to get the hell away from him as fast as you can.
6. He’ll start asking you questions and if you’re giving him those run around of an answer? Better make sure you have insurance dude!
7. He’ll sit down on a chair, telling you that he’s unarmed by placing his gun on the table. If you think you got him surrounded with your merry henchmen? See your dentist the next day.
8. He’ll look at your merry men of friends. I’m guessing he’s counting how many teeths these people might lose today.
9. He’ll look around for any more of your merry friends so he can have a decent workout. He wanted to jog today. But seeing your merry friends gave him a nasty appetite for teeths.
10. He’ll give you that sadistic smile of his. That my friends, is Steven’s version of an angel of death look. See you in the afterlife!

How to be a karate kid in one week

•June 2, 2008 • 2 Comments

1. Move out of your city and move to another city. (Ideal place? Tawi-tawi)
2. Make friends with them newbie friends. (Clearly, there must be some friends without fireams out there)
3. Pretend you know karate by throwing some of them Jacky Chan or Jet Li moves (three out of ten newbies would fall for this crap!)
4. Flirt with a new girl, who’s ex-boyfriend happens to be a leader of a communist gang (What did I tell you? This gets better!)
5. Challenge the new girl’s ex-boyfriend and his merry henchmen to a fight, and get yourself beat up for some sympathy from the new girl afterwards
6. Look for a friendly neighborhood handyman who looks like a Mr. Miyagi (If there aren’t, your friendly neighborhod faith healer will do.)
7. Ask him to train you karate, if he refuses, tell him how quack his motives for healing are.(Guaranteed, voodoo magic on your sorry buttocks!)
8. Tell him you’ll wash his old worn out bicycle.( Wax on, Wax off should be used)
9. Tell him you’ll paint his house with dutch boy paints (Side to Side should be used in this manner)
10. Tell him you’ll scrub the floor on his house by using a coconut shell( Saandaa Floorr technique!)
11. Tell the ex-boyfriend that you’re ready to face him again.(Make a poster and advertise this showdown for pure publicity!)
12. Challenge each of the ex-boyfriend’s henchmen to a mano to mano fight.(Ala tournament, that way you can ensure to beat their sorry asses. Read: No more gang up afterwards!)
13. Get yourself beat up by the ex-boyfriend to get his ego into tubular high(That’ll give the audience something to hate for!)
14. Rally yourself by using the crane technique to kick mondo ass(Wait! This wasn’t part of the training?Where the heck did you learn this?Ralph Macchio?)
15. Hit him in the nuts or better yet sweep his sorry-ass-for-an-excuse leg!
16. Savor the glory for a moment (First thing tomorrow, pack your sorry ass out of there, before ex-boyfriend daddy and henchmen hunt you down with actual mondo fire power!)

 

Viva! Le Chuck!

•April 23, 2008 • 4 Comments

Another blog episode! This is another installment of spanking another guy like I did with Robin, the boy wonder in my previous post.

I found it very interesting to learn some of the unsolved mysteries of the universe.  Thus, I chose this  unsolved mystery human being for yours truly to spank with.

Here’s another dose of life’s greatest unsolved mysteries: “The Chuck Norris Saga.”  

 Don’t get me wrong with the spanking business, Carlos Ray Norris Jr. (better known to the world as “Chuck Norris”) happens to be one of my all time favorite action hero.

He comes out guns blazing in “Missing In Action” to riding them motorbikes punishing terrorists in “Delta Force” to the cowboy riding without the brokeback malice in “Walker: Texas Ranger” to being idolized by a wannabe martial arts kid in “Side Kicks.”

Overall, the guy is primo “101% pure power-beefed up-money back-guaranteed-walking assault- lethal weapon-of a man!” 

But there are things that I noticed about Chuckie’s movies, which is somewhat of a mystery as well.

I shall dissect them in no particular order: 

1. He doesn’t die in almost all of his movies. (That’s like viewing one hundred or so of his movies, and clearly he did not die in any of those movies!)

2. Holy! Fist of Fury! He did die fighting Bruce Lee in the movie “Way of the Dragon” right? (It doesn’t count since, he didn’t die in the line of duty as a soldier! Geez! give the guy a break!)

3. He either portrays a has-been soldier, a sergeant mc coy!, a colonel braddock, a walker texas ranger, or some commando. (With the exception of “Side Kicks” where he played a martial arts master. Finally! no guns for this prime stud)

4. His methods of martial arts moves are either disarming his opponents with his famous “chuckie chops” or using his ”chuckie” side kicks to knock them teeths down.

5. His awesome “never-leave-home-without-it” Chuck Norris hairstyle.  (Yup, it’s gotta be the hair mon, gotta be the hair!)

6. His favorite choice of weapons are either an Uzi or one of them big o’l guns that really hurt like s#$% (Even Granny Goose would go gaga over this awesome display of fire power!!)

7. His unlimited hairy or so chest hairs! (Geez! That’s weird, now where did this come from?!)

8.  How he doesn’t break a sweat just by swatting them flies or mosquitoes in seconds. (Okay, that one I made that up. Although it’ll make a good scene right? Mr. Miyagi hello?!)

9. His clearly patented ”chuckie” beard ( See number 7 for the reason!)

10. Lastly, his fetish for headbands everytime he kicks some major arse! (Yup, the guy is fond of wearing these in some of his movies! It’s true..oh yes it’s true!!)

Now you know what I think about Chuck Norris, try visiting this website: www.chucknorrisfacts.com  to learn more what others think about him.

Till the next blog, I’m outta here amigos!

And Brewskis for all!

•April 21, 2008 • No Comments

I’d like to thank Mr. Jigz Arquiza for featuring my blogsite on Sunstar last Saturday! I owe you a case of brewskis mon! Thanks a lot for the help!

Holy Blogsite! It’s the Robin Express!!

•April 21, 2008 • 2 Comments

I was watching some videos on the Youtube the other day, when I came upon some old videos of the tv show ”Batman.” I smiled with glee, reminicing the days, when I used to watch this show back in the 80’s. 

This show was created in 1966. Pretty old you might say!

Adam West and Burt Ward, collectively known as “The Dynamic Duo” were the actors who donned the costumes portraying Batman and Robin respectively. 

Anyway, while watching some of the episodes of the tv show, I couldn’t help but noticed how Robin would utter some of those famous ”holy lines” of his, which to some can sometimes be downright weird especially when he says it at the spur of the moment.

I decided to do some research on those famous “holy lines” and came up with some interesting quotes from the boy wonder himself. (Disclaimer: These do not reflect my views,  just got this from the net dudes. Try surfing it!)

Robin’s Holy List:

Holy Sardine!
Holy Nightmare!
Holy Merlin The Magician!
Holy Long John Silver! A Pirate Parascope!
Holy Glue Pot!
Holy Polaris!
Holy Demolition!
Holy Halloween!
Holy Heart Failure!
Holy Costume Party! That’s The Penguin!
Holy Hallucinations!
Holy Marathon Batman! I’m Getting A Stitch.
Holy Captain Nemo!
Holy Bikini That Was Close!
Holy Heatbreak! Miss Kitka
Holy Almost!
Holy Jumble! 
Holy Kleenex Batman! It was right under our nose and we blew it!
Holy Rosary Batman, it’s the Pope!
Holy No deposit! No return!

See? Told you it can be downright weird. Now here are more quotes.

Robin: “Whoa! You came down that pole like a pro, Alfred.”

Robin: “The batcomputer is none too frisky today, Batman.”

Robin: “Well, we’re dressed for investigating, so let’s investigate.”

Robin: “Sorry, Batman. I slipped on the Baked Alaska.

Robin: “Catwoman mentioned an assault on Mount Gotham.”
Batman: “But where is Mount Gotham?”
Robin: “I don’t know… Holy Alps! I’d better brush up on my geography!”

Robin: “Ole, Batman! Ole!”

Marsha to Aunt Hilda: “You bumbling old hag, you’ve failed again.”
Robin: “That’s no way to talk to an old lady!”

Batman: “Let’s go Robin, we’ve nary a second to lose! Vamanos!”
Robin: “Right amigo!”

Batman: “I’m glad you’re up on your foreign languages, Robin. They come in handy when fighting crime.”
Robin: “Si, si, Batmon.”

Robin: “I bet even Shakespeare didn’t have words for such villainy!”

Robin: “This’ll teach that crook to be a litterbug. He should put trash in the proper waste container!”

Batman: “Robin, take the word ‘bank’ and spell it backwards.”
Robin: “K-N-A-B. Knab!”

Robin: “They’re throwing fish at us!”

Robin: “It’s all a blur. Like a horrible day-mare.”

Robin: “There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip, Batman.”

Robin: “The way we get into these scrapes and get out of them, it’s almost as though someone was dreaming up these situations, guiding our destiny.”

Robin: “Batman, I don’t dig this.”

Robin: “Joker’s blackmail threat isn’t worth a tinker’s darn.”

Batman to Catwoman: “The odds are about right, four against one.”
Robin, coming out of hiding: “Four against two, Batman!”
Batman: “Robin!”
Robin: “I couldn’t resist. You were taken in by her, but I’m too young for that sort of thing.”

Robin: “Gosh, that’s some ergo, Batman.”

Batman, pointing: “What’s that?”
Robin: “I guess I’m tired, but it looks like alphabet soup!”

Robin: “I never knew there were no punctuation marks in alphabet soup!”

Robin to Black Widow: “You she-devil! Have you short-circuited Batman’s brain?”

Bruce: “I don’t know how you constructed this playroom as a surprise without us knowing about it, Aunt Harriet.”
Dick: “Or this slot car raceway. It’s the coolest, Aunt Harriet!”

Robin: “I’ll take the emergency bat-tunnel. It comes out on Highway One and I can catch a bus to Gotham City.”

Robin: “I’d sooner see the Russians in the Hexagon than Penguin!”

Batman: “We’ll go out the window and down the batropes. Otherwise we’ll be mobbed.”
O’Hara: “Mobbed? In Police Headquarters?”
Robin: “The flower children think we’re cool, man. Like, we turn ‘em on, you know.”

Batman: “Shall we, Robin?”
Robin: “Let’s, Batman.”

Dick, getting on Batpole: “What happened to the signs, Bruce?”
Bruce: “Alfred removed them to put a new coat of paint on the Batpoles.”
Dick: “Good ol’ Alfred.”

Bruce, after giving Dick his first car: “Remember, this isn’t the Batmobile.”
Dick: “Don’t worry, Bruce. Highway safety is every citizen’s prime responsibility.”

Batman: “One blast of cool air kills these blooming cannibals far quicker than they can devour any human repast.”
Robin: “Gosh yes!”

Robin: “Beach bums. We should have worn our baggies.”

Robin: “You know I wouldn’t fight a female, even a small army of females!”

Alfred: “Thank heavens, master Robin. I despaired of ever seeing you again.”
Robin: “The despair was mutual, Alfred.”

Batman: “Don’t forget to drive on the left, not the right.”
Robin: “I won’t, Batman. I learned that when we got our international driver’s licenses!”

Alfred: “Master Robin! I just heard you were dead.”
Robin: “You heard wrong. Uh, wrongly.”

Robin: “Pip-pip, chin-chin, and toodlio.”

Robin, outside a women’s changing room: “We can’t step into that most hallowed and forbidden no-man’s land without closing our eyes.”

Dick, reading in the library: “Gosh, Bruce. That Genghis Khan was quite a guy.”

Batgirl: “He’s so authoritative. So confident.”
Robin: “The more you work with Batman, the more amazing he seems.”

Dick: “Gosh, Bruce, those muskrats and muskdeer sure are musky.”

Robin: “It’ll be a cold day in August when we’re scared of you, Riddler!”

Batman: “Nice listening, Robin.”
Robin: “Awww, gee, it was nothing, Batman.”

Robin: “We give crooks no quarter, but we always deal with them fairly, too!”

Robin: “Awww, come on, you crook. You can’t be all bad!”

Robin, looking at a book: “Gosh, could it concern us?”
Batman: “It certainly could. Look at that title.”
Robin: “The Truth About Bats.”

Aunt Harriet: “Now you march yourself straight over to that piano, young man!”
Dick: “Golly G minor, Bruce, do I have to?”

Dick: “Wise up, you guys, life isn’t this easy!”
Suzy: “Well, that’s easy for you to say, you’re the ward of that rich millionaire!”
Dick: “That has nothing to do with it!”

Dick Grayson (in disguise as a ‘bad-boy’, about Bruce Wayne): “What a skin-flint! If I didn’t swipe dimes from the butler I wouldn’t even have cigarette money.”

Robin: “Holy New Year’s Eve, he has me in his famous trick streamers!”

Cheerleader Suzy: “Gee, imagine being taken to jail by a chauffer.”
Bruce: “The Wayne Foundation for Delinquent Girls is hardly a jail, Suzy.”
Dick: “Heck no, there are teams and clubs and everything.”

Robin: “No clues here, Batman. No secret writing. It’s just what it looks like - a perfectly ordinary asbestos book cover.”

Robin (to Batman, when facing Bookworm’s henchmen): “Six of them, two of us. The odds are in our favour.”

Batman: “Smells like soup.”
Robin: “Darn good soup.”

Lisa (to Batman, handing him a card): “Excuse me, the kidnapper dropped this as he was leaving. Perhaps it might be of some help?”
Robin: “Clues are always helpful.”

Batman: “Put your flippers up, Penquin!”
Robin: “We caught you with your feathers down!”

Batman (looking at map, attempting to determine of secret entrance to hideout): “If my trigonometry is correct, it should emerge right here.”
Robin: “I’ll never neglect my math again.”

Batman (untying Robin from torture device): “Robin, are you all right?”
Robin: “Just a little sore, Batman, that’s all.”
Batman: “Well, one of Aunt Harriet’s good, nourishing meals will set everything right.”
Robin: “I sure worked up an appetite.”

Robin: “Alred, if ever we had need of our brain power, it’s now.”

Alfred: “Should we not have informed the police and requested their aid?”
Robin: “I didn’t dare chance it. They’re great guys, Alfred, but they can be a little heavy-handed too.”

Robin: “I bet Batman is the only one in the world with a hand steady enough to paint false fingerprints.”

Alfred (dressed up as Batman): “I pray our deception succeeds, Master Robin.”
Robin: “Just puff out your chest and look virile, Alfred.”

Robin: “Is there anything lower than a lawyer who mocks the law? Or an artist who takes up crime?”

Now, we can’t let Robin have all the fun without mentioning the Dark Knight and his comrades now do we? 

Reporter: What about the exploding shark?
Batman: That was an unfortunate animal who chanced to swallow a floating mine.
Batman: Confoudit, the batteries are dead.
Robin: Gosh Batman, the nobility of the almost-human porpoise.
Batman: True, it was noble of that animal to hurl himself into the path of that final torpedo. He gave his life for ours.
Batman(reading one of riddler’s riddles): What has yellow skin and writes?
Robin: A ballpoint banana.
Batman: Of course.
Alfred: Bless my dustpan!
Bruce Wayne: This nasty soup we’re in is largely of my own brewing.
Penguin: DE-lightful!
Riddler: DE-hydrated!
Batman: Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb.
Commissioner: Penguin, Joker, Riddler… and Catwoman too! The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate!
Robin: Holy Halucination!
Batman: I wish it were Robin, but it’s not, it’s 5 dehydrated pirates… rehydrated!
Robin: Anti-matter, you mean they won’t be coming back?
Penguin: Happy happenstance!
A Sign: Foam Rubber Wholesalers Convention
Robin: And turn off the ventilation system.
Batman: Robin is right, the whole security council may have been dehydrated.
Action Sound Titles(as pirate plunges into ocean): Ker-Sploosh!
Batman: Let’s go, but… inconspicuously… through the window.
Riddler: We shall spring them from The Joker’s Jack-In-The-Box, through that window, out over the sea, and into the waiting arms of The Penguin’s Exploding Octopus!
Admiral: We haven’t done anything foolish, have we?
Batman: Disposing of pre-atomic submarines to persons who don’t even leave their full addresses? Good day, Admiral!
Batman: Yet, an exploding shark WAS pulling my leg…
Commissioner: The Joker!
Batman: Pretty FISHY what happened to me on that ladder…
Commissioner: You mean where there’s a fish there could be a penguin?

There’s more where that came from, but then I’ll have to post a very long blog for these. Heck, it might even bore you to death. 

I’ll spare you the agony of reading a very long list of quotes. So, if you happened to be a fan of these quotes, do yourself a favor and browse the net and search for those other quotes.

What will happened to the dynamic duo? Will this be the end of the caped crusaders? Will this blog site reveal the true nature of their evil personality? Will Robin finally reveal his deepest desires for our favorite dark knight? Tune in next time….same blog time…..same blog channel….

A wandering mind tends to have some sort of reaction?

•April 18, 2008 • No Comments

When I was a kid, my mom took me to see our friendly neighborhood doctor for another one of those routine kid checkup. When we arrived at the clinic, the doc’s secretary gave us the okay signal that the doctor is ready to see us. Inside the room, I found myself marvelling at different kinds of pictures and drawings of what appeared to be cartoon characters. 

I was so engrossed looking at the pictures on the wall, when suddenly a hard object struck one of my knee, making it jerk upward without me doing it!

I looked at my doctor who just smiled and asked if it hurt. I told him that it didn’t hurt, in fact I was surprised why my knee moved like that. The doctor told me that this kind of reflex is called a ”knee jerk reaction.” He stated that this is an automatic response to which a reaction to one’s knee gets when sharply hit.

Now, I really didn’t care about it’s origin back then, since my young mind was full of wandering thoughts and wasn’t too keen on the idea of finding out what it means. Not until recently did I learn to give a hoot about it, when I was given this topic as a writing assignment. So, as any mild mannered writer would do, I did some research on this topic and found some sort of explanation on what this term means. 

Here are some of the facts that I found on the net:

 Meaning: 

 An automatic response to something.

 Origin:

From the tendency of the knee to jerk involuntarily when hit sharply, properly called the patellar reflex.

This was recorded by Sir Michael Foster, a noted English physiologist in his Text-book of physiology, 1877:

Striking the tendon below the patella gives rise to a sudden extension of the leg, known as the knee-jerk.”

 The term also began to be used figuratively from the early 10th century onwards. In October of 1921, a famed New York newspaper columnist named Oscar Odd McIntyre wrote in his New York Day-By-Day column in The Coshocton Tribune. Here is an excerpt of what he wrote:

Itinerant preacher stemming Broadway on a soap box. And gets only an occasional knee-knee-jerk reaction

Another website that I came across has this form of explanation as well:

The knee jerk is, in anatomy/physiology, one of the “reflex” reactions. The nerve signal travels from the point struck just below the kneecap to the spine and triggers the muscle response. The brain is not involved. Thus the main thrust of the idiom as used to denote an “unthinking” reaction, with the implied insult.”

So, you don’t have to be a doctor to know what the term means.  With just one click on the search option on the net, voila! and presto! instant answer just like that.  Sheesh, I sound like a magician uttering those words..better get back to work before my mind starts to wander off again..*ouch!*

 

It’s basically a Catch 22! A what?!

•April 18, 2008 • No Comments

I was watching a movie on tv the other night. If it was on HBO,  Cinemax, or Star Movies I don’t know.  My mind wasn’t really paying attention to the upper right logo of what channel I was watching during that time.

My fingers were on the remote the whole time so it’s like they were doing my mind’s bidding, switching on channels while my mind sits comfortably at his “high command” of a post and just lazily staring at the tv screen without any effort.

Anyway,  I was watching this one movie and heard one of the actors mentioned “Catch 22″ as a form of explaining it to one of his comrades on a situation.

Now, we have heard people use “Catch 22″ as an expression and we usually hear that from tv shows, radios, or movies. But we never bothered to look it up on what it really meant didn’t we?

Well, to some lazy bums (that includes me!) ”Catch 22″ is a form of explanation for a situation where one thing must happen in order to cause another thing to happen, but because the first thing does not happen the second thing cannot happen as well.

An example would be like this: “If you don’t have a place to stay, you can’t get a job and with no job, you can’t get an apartment.” 

 Now then, since we already know what this expression means, it’s safe to say that in the world of conversations and the likes, we can try to somewhat inject this kind of expression on a given situation or scenerio. But, be extra careful as well in inserting this expression, whenever we try to use this idiom.

We also have to make sure that we do not sound like having too much raging jargons on our system or possibly were from another planet or something.   

You’ll be hearing more of this term or expression regardless if it’s on a movie, a tv show, or someone from another country who enjoys having conversations with you. At least this time, whenever someone mentions that expression, you won’t have to search far and wide for what the heck that means.  

Now I know what it means, and as my favorite cartoon GI-JOE  would always tell me at the end of their show “Knowing is half the battle”.  Yo!! Joe!!