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photo courtesy of tere

LiveSound sang live (redundant?) last saturday afternoon sa jam88.3... wooohooo! astig. masaya. salamat sa mga nakinig! at sa mga criticsss. ahahaha. i had fun. =)

aint it funny

basta it's just so funny when people say things about you... claim that you are this and that and blahblahblah whatda f ever... buh whadeyouknow??? it turns out you aren't really what they say you are. and the funnier thing is you prove them wrong but they weren't around when things unfold to make them eat their words. so you just laugh hard kasi wala ka rin naman nang magagawa dahil mas naging tanga sila kaysa sa'yo.

one more funny thing is how people forget the golden rule. kaya you'll end up laughing really really hard when people who wronged you get their karma.

and isn't it also funny when you want to have someone pero you're just making a fool out of yourself? tas you try to make yourself busy with lots of other things. tas you find yourself typing a blog entry like this.

now that is not funny. it is hillarious.

plugging

yey! nagising ako today and for that, magpa-plug lang ako...

LISTEN to jam88.3 tomorrow, saturday, 4pm... we'll be guesting there.

WATCH the lynn sherman show on sunday, 930pm at rjtv channel 29... =)

malapit na pala 1st birthday ng blog ko. it's gonna be next week. everybody's invited sa celebration! and yes, tumatanggap ako ng regalo for mah blog! hehehe. =P

i liners

i knew taylor would win.

i was for mcpheever.

i am excited for lynn sherman show's second episode.

i really really really want to spend a few days in batanes before 1st sem starts.

i will be debt-free soon.

i hope.

i saw your name on tv.

i just saw it... period.

i want to let people know that if i do not wake up tomorrow, it think it has something to do with the pain i'm feeling at the back of my skull.

i can tell that it is something really really painful and everytime it throbs, it sends pain throughout my skull and down my left shoulder and throat.

i will rest now, this may just be stress.

i will wake up tomorrow.

i will.

the da vinci paranoia

This summer's (perhaps this year's, too) most controversial film opened literally against all odds last May 18 worldwide.

Many liked it. Many did not. Many were impressed. Many were disappointed. Many waited in line for hours to buy a ticket. Many protested against its showing. And if anyone would lose his/her faith after watching this film, he/she would simply be nothing but an idiot.

The Da Vinci Code tells the exploit of Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) and Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou) as they solve a murder in the Louvre, an incident which leads them to unravel “the greatest cover-up in the history of mankind”.

However, Da Vinci is more than the anti-Christ the religious have condemned it to be. It sparks hope for the “redemption of all the oppressed” as it talks about the “truth” about the Holy Grail; a logical explanation of how in hundreds of years religion, particularly Catholicism, displaces women. The discussion was direct to the point and daring. However, director Ron Howard fails to redeem the oppressed in the fashion they deserve to be redeemed. Da Vinci leaves no concrete conclusion on the interesting plot it created, making it a movie mainly bashing the Opus Dei.

The thrilling musical score accents well the fine cinematography. The opening scene was among the few best moments of the film. Montage of eyes in the paintings and a curator being chased to his death creates a height of suspense that welcomes the audience into the breaking of the code.

Generally, Da Vinci is an OK film. No drastic change occurs among its viewers. All the hype, most of which are protests, ironically worked for the benefit of the film. As it continues to rake in lots and lots of money, the viewers would care to argue more about its being unfaithful to the book rather than it shattering their faith. All these bashing and banning of the film are really absurd and unnecessary.

I suggest we all watch Da Vinci and laugh hard when the credits roll. Not because it is a bad film. But because some people are so paranoid over a film that wouldn’t even hurt a fly.

on all fours

tagged by e.s.

Four jobs you have had in your life:
1. sold candies to my grade 2 classmates
2. tindero in a craftstore we used to own
3. recording artist (kuno)
4. creative director & PM for The Lynn Sherman Show

Four movies you would watch over and over:
1. In The Mood For Love
2. Got 2 Believe
3. Moulin Rouge
4. a Zhang Ziyi film

Four places you have lived in:
1. Paco, Manila
2. Parañaque City
3. Culiat, QC
4. Diliman, QC

Four TV shows you love to watch:
1. Pinoy Big Brother (all editions)
2. CSI: NY
3. Sex & The City
4. Alias

Four places you have been on vacation:
1. Laguna
2. Baguio
4. Cebu
5. HongKong

Four websites I visit daily:
1. Friendster
2. Peyups.com
3. Yahoo Mail / Gmail
4. my blog

Four of my favorite foods:
1. pistachio or any pink colored ice cream
2. tiramisuuuuu
3. anything that has cheese on it (four cheese pizza -->utimate!)
4. seafood pesto

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. in bed with someone
2. inside Big Brother's house
3. Batanes
4. Dresden, Germany

Seven friends who I have tagged that I think will respond
1. Patti
2. Prech
3. Kriz
4. Raymond
5. Irene
6. Ygraine
7. Katz

macgyver for a moment

remember the old tv series Macgyver? (uyyy kunwari daw hindi alam kasi di na nila naabutan yun... hehehe) well ONLY just in case you don't lemme refresh your memory gravely affected by ageing (kidding! =P)... Macgyver is this ex-secrent agent guy who inventively uses common things to create improvised devices to 'save the world from impending doom'.

a few hours ago, i just experienced being macgyver even for a few moments. so this is what happens to me who experienced (and will still experience) in the last few days irregular sleep patterns to no sleep at all.

what happend was that when we arrived home from popsie's birthday treat, we found out that the main door was locked from the inside and we did not have keys to the two backdoors. what a birthday surprise! and as if i wasn't myself, i just did a macgyver. i was able to open the door not with a key nor with a fonecard. whatever that was, i just cannot blog for safety reasons (but i can ym it if you're really interested).

am laughing about it. i just can't get over the idea that i was macguyver for a moment. and then realizing that sometimes if not all of the time, the solution is just around you or even within you. it just takes the right time for everything to be in the right place and also some luck. now it's making me ponder how to be macgyver in dealing with life... and not only with doors.

happy birthday golden boy!

happy birthday mr. montejo!

candid-acy

courtesy of reen
thanks!

to all moms with love

you sing a sad song just to turn it around

got home in parañaque at around 8.30 and ghad am so dead tired. my legs are so killing me. my alak-alakans are throbbing. my feet are sored. and i smell like carbon dioxide.

i had too much west ice today. ghaaad. too much. around 12-14 of them. dang. it's hell not good.

i haven't felt this tired in recent memory. strange day. that's what you get using 4 different kinds of public transportation in an hour and a half just to get home from school. i do need a car of my own. hahaha, just a wishful thinking. i should first learn how to drive.

am home alone right now. my kuya hasn't returned home from work. and my parents rushed all the way to may father's hometown in laguna this afternoon. i figured out somebody passed away. i just do not know who. they didn't tell when they called me to say they're on their way to laguna and not to diliman to pick me up. and i don't know why i did not ask who died. they didn't tell who either. now it's so freaky here in our house. i am hearing noises outside and back in the dirty kitchen. i am more afriad of burglars than ghosts. so i just locked myself inside the house. i feel safer now.

i need to rest. how i wish our house is a big spa. doobidoodum. well at least, we have this old foot massaging machine. it will do. it should.

missionary

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3

QUICK FACTS:
directed by J.J. Abrams (creator of Alias, and Lost); 2006; 126 minutes running time; Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt; other actors include Laurence Fishburne, Keri Russel, Ving Rhames, Jonathan Rhys Meyer & Maggie Q

ANDRE SAYS:
Exciting na kaagad ang unag sequence ng Mission: Impossible 3, riveting enough that it kept me literally at the edge of my seat. Nagsimula ito hindi sa simulang-simula talaga ng kuwento ngunit sa huling quarter na ng kuwento, pagkatapos ay saka nag-flashback sa tunay na simula ng kwento. Isang magandang technique dahil sa huli ng ulitin ang eksena ay may twist pala. Whatever that is, I won’t reveal yet for the sake of those who haven’t seen M:I3 yet.

This third installment of the American James Bond is quite different from the first two and even from the similar films such as James Bond. Here, we see a secret agent/spy character na hindi na chickboy. In fact, sa pangalawang sequence pa lamang, engagement party na ni Ethan & Julia (his doctor fiancée), at sa kalagitnaan ng pelikula ay kinasal na sila. Kadalasan, ang mga matinik na action heroes na matinik din sa chicks ay nakukuha lamang ang kanilang leading lady sa katapusan ng pelikula ngunit wala naman talagang closure at seryosong relationship na nagaganap. Kadalasan ay magtatapos pa nga ito sa sex lamang. Case in point: the latest James Bond film, Die Another Day.

At dito na nga umikot ang kwento ng M:I3. Paano nga ba ang buhay ng isang secret agent kung naisin na niyang mag-settle down at magpakasal? Ang sagot, simple at predictable: masasama lang ito sa gulo.

M:I3’s story however different remains uninteresting. In the middle of it, I kept asking myself, what the hell is the mission? I was expecting it could be another save-the-world-from-evil stuff when it was saving the damsel in distress, after all. Having seen the first M:I (where Ethan has to prove he was being framed up) and M:I2 (where Ethan has to retrieve the Chimera virus from the wrong hands), I expected the third one was something bigger than the Chimera. Oh but no, I expected too much and now I am ranting.

So there, the mission was for Ethan to save his wife from Owen Davian in exchange of this ‘Rabbit’s Foot’ Ethan has to steal. There goes another damsel in distress character. However, she redeemed herself in the end when she was able to protect her husband when he was incapable of fighting. With the way the movie ended, I sense that there will be a part 4 that would be a true continuation of this 3rd installment. What the hell was the “Rabbit’s Foot” and why on earth it was that important? This was really left unanswered which I believe would be the possible story for M:I4.

One thing I liked about the movie is the villain, Owen. I love his character. He is fearless and possesses a real strong disposition. Hindi blabbermouth pero nakikita mo talaga sa mukha niya na seryoso siya at papatay siya. Nga lang, siya ang namatay. Pero astig ah, iba siya sa ibang mga villains. Pansinin nyo.

The action sequences were ok. Nothing remarkably special however, talagang nakaka-kaba ang mga ito. I easily got involved. My heart was beating terribly fast and I held my breath until the sequences end. Musical scoring and effects were effective to me. Kaya ganun na lang ang reaction ko. Cinematography and camera movement swept the hell out of me especially those scenes that show great heights. Being acrophobic, I who was just watching felt as if I was the one jumping from a building or at the top of a very high place. Grabe, cathartic ang cinematography.

If M:I2 under John Woo’s direction had his trademark flying doves, M:I3 under Abram’s direction he other hand had the touch of Alias, which Abrams created and co-wrote. The very thought of a secret agent having to deal with his work and creating a family is Alias enough for me. Pati na rin yung ahas sa agency. Woosh, Alias has lotsa those. The movie also included but very minimal references to the past M:Is, one is the classic scene from the first where Ethan is suspended with a rope inches above the floor.

Generally, the movie was quite a disappointment for me. It just had lots of other plus factors which make me like it somehow. Overall, it did not have the appeal of its predecessors, M:I3 could easily be mistaken as another spy movie and not a Mission: Impossible movie.

ANDREW WEIGHS:
Strengths: hot hot hot Jonathan Rhys Meyers; a refreshing Ethan Hunt that is more tuned to his emotions and soft side; breathtaking action sequences with sweeping cinematography; oh and did I mention Jonathan Rhys Meyers?

Weaknesses: loopholes in the plot; the very idea of Mission: Impossible 3; lacks the x-factor; Tom Cruise is getting old for the role; less gadgets; not so well directed

1-10, 10 being the highest, I give the movie a 6.5

ano daw?

Your _____ is ...
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Your kiss is ...	romantic
Your hugs are ...	protecting
Your eyes ...	sparkle like stars
Your touch is ...	appreciated
Your smell is ...	refreshing
Your smile is ...	compassionate
Your love is ...	much desired
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got this quiz from prech. haha. feelungerz nanaman ako.

swertihan

lucky me

wala lang. di pa pwedeng ikuwento tong part na to. yung next item na lang muna.


lucky & me

tapos na yung unang commercial na ginawa namin sa pinag-iinternan ko. "Bora" yung name ng project at para ito sa Globe 3G. naaliw lang ako tuwing napapanuod ko sa tv yung commercial na to! hehe. heto ang ilang frames sa 45 second tvc:

her name is wendy, the cab girl

barber shop scene. isang false barber shop ito. sinet-up lang nila yan! the cellfone guy is eduard. at his right is apollo (yeah, the guy from 'bilog'). guess what? the other newspaper guy was supposed to be john apanay! hehe, pero ewan, pinalitan ata siya.

luis, i swear, is better in person. this was shot on location sa brittany bay in sucat. nice place!

the "girlfriend" is kai. she's so0o0o nice. and so0o0o pretty too!

can you find me here? hahaha. goodluck.

FYI, this is an unpaid ad in my blog for Globe! =P

we also had just finished shooting another tv ad last sunday and monday. also with luis manzano. and guess what? here's the scoop! it was around 2am na. then the asst director told the director of photography, "direk, frontal na tayo." tas narinig ni lucky who was still sitting at the set. ginawa niya, he stood up and said, "FULL FRONTAL DIREK???". and while he was saying this, he loosened his B-E-L-T, unbuttoned his J-E-A-N-S, and pulled down the Z-I-P-P-E-R!!!. like, Ho0o0o0ohHhHmahgodDdDd. from where i was sitting, i had a clear view of the bulge his undies formed. and it was... ***. mehn! cmon, magstrip daw ba sa set? i was stunned.

mapapanood na rin itong commercial na ito soon. too bad, the camera wasn't rolling when he did this. tsktsk...

lucky e

now this part is dedicated to e.s. ahahahahahahaha! malandi ka!

religion quiz

hmm... hindi ako familiar gaano sa taoism. kaya di muna ako makakarelate masyado. ang alam ko diba sila julio at julia, tao yun? hehehe. mga kambal ng tadhana. hehehe.

You fit in with: Taoism Your ideals mostly resemble those of the Taoist faith. Spirituality is the most important thing in your life. You strive to live by all of your ideals, and live a very intellectually focused life. 40% spiritual. 20% reason-oriented.

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