all nonsense

i really don't understand the concept behind Pinoy Big Brother... I tried watching the show one lazy day and I just got bored to tears. Five minutes into the show and I was like, 'Okay so what's the big deal?' The show is a total bore! Sorry if I offend the sensibilities of PBB fans. I don't find it fascinating at all to see these young fine creatures going around the house doing domestic stuff. I could find other productive things to do or watch a more interesting show. Watching PBB is like, 'nakiki-usyoso sa kapitbahay' which is really not my thing in the first place. I might as well spy on my neighbors if that is the case. Sure, the show's contestants are good-looking but that's about spells the difference. The show is all hype and publicity, no substance. Once again, this only proves the never-ending fascination of pinoys on other people who don't seem to know how to mind their own business. To quote a line from a classic movie, 'Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!'

PELÍCULA (4th Spanish Film Festival )

Greenbelt 1, Cinema 1 & Cinema 2

Schedule:


Sep 29 Thursday

Días contados
La flaqueza del bolchevique
El bola
Noviembre
Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto
Barrio


Sep 30 Friday

Crimen ferpecto
Intacto
Los lunes al sol
El juego de la verdad
Todo sobre mi madre
Héctor


Oct 1 Saturday

Barrio
La buena estrella
El juego de la verdad
Crimen ferpecto
Planta 4ª
Tesis
Astronautas


Oct 2 Sunday

El bosque animado
Los lunes al sol
Héctor
Torremolinos 73
El abrazo partido
El bola
Noviembre


Oct 3 Monday

Soldados de Salamina
Barrio
Días contados
Astronautas
Los lunes al sol
Intacto


Oct 4 Tuesday

Días contados
La flaqueza del bolchevique
La buena estrella
El juego de la verdad
Crimen ferpecto
Planta 4ª


Oct 5 Wednesday

Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto
Noviembre
Todo sobre mi madre
Te doy mis ojos
Soldados de Salamina
Extranjeras


Oct 6 Thursday

Torremolinos 73
Barrio
Tesis
La ley de Herodes
Te doy mis ojos
La flaqueza del bolchevique


Oct 7 Friday

La buena estrella
Tesis
El bola
Abre los ojos
Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto
Mar adentro


Oct 8 Saturday

El bosque animado
Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto
Planta 4ª
Todo sobre mi madre
El juego de la verdad
Torremolinos 73
La ley de Herodes


Oct 9 Sunday

Intacto
Tesis
Mar adentro
Te doy mis ojos
Astronautas
Crimen ferpecto
Héctor


Oct 10 Monday

La buena estrella
El abrazo partido
Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto
Subterra
Soldados de Salamina
Abre los ojos


Oct 11 Tuesday

Los lunes al sol
Extranjeras
Tesis
Planta 4ª
Días contados
La flaqueza del bolchevique


Oct 12 Wednesday

El bola
La ley de Herodes
Crimen ferpecto
Noviembre
Te doy mis ojos
El abrazo partido


Oct 13 Thursday

Soldados de Salamina
Subterra
Torremolinos 73
Intacto
Todo sobre mi madre
Abre los ojos


Oct 14 Friday

Días contados
Astronautas
Los lunes al sol
El juego de la verdad
Te doy mis ojos
La ley de Herodes


Oct 15 Saturday

Subterra
El bola
Noviembre
Te doy mis ojos
Planta 4ª
Torremolinos 73
Mar adentro


Oct 16 Sunday

El bosque animado
Todo sobre mi madre
Héctor
Soldados de Salamina


Audience Choice

La buena estrella
El juego de la verdad

cine europa @ the shang

Schedule :

23 SEP (Friday)
1 PM Step by Step
4 PM Villa des Roses
7 PM Buttoners
10 PM Dog Nail Clipper


24 SEP (Saturday)
1 PM The Spanish Apartment
4 PM Kroko
7 PM I Love to Love
10 PM A Man Not Wanted


25 SEP (Sunday)
1 PM Twinni
4 PM Millions
7 PM Extranjeras
10 PM Faithless


26 SEP (Monday)
4 PM Twinni
7 PM Step by Step
10 PM Villa des Roses


27 SEP (Tuesday)
4 PM Buttoners
7 PM Dog Nail Clipper
10 PM The Spanish Apartment


28 SEP (Wednesday)
4 PM A Man Not Wanted
7 PM Dying to Go Home
10 PM Kroko


29 SEP (Thursday)
1 PM I Love to Love
4 PM Faithless
7 PM A Man Not Wanted
10 PM Extranjeras


30 SEP (Friday)
1 PM Villa des Roses
4 PM Step by Step
7 PM The Spanish Apartment


01 OCT (Saturday)
1 PM Extranjeras
4 PM Dying to Go Home
7 PM Kroko
10 PM I Love to Love


02 OCT (Sunday)
1 PM Millions
4 PM Dog Nail Clipper
7 PM Faithless
10 PM Dying to Go Home

rock on!

Mig Ayesa should've won the Rockstar:INXS gig. I know I am being biased. But he was that close to winning... Too bad! =(

girl in the city

i always believe that a girl should be capable of living on her own at one point in her life. Going solo has its own rewards after all. For the most part, one can readily admit that the first few months (even years) of independence are the hardest. Coping with a lot of things such as loneliness and depression could prove to be difficult at first. Most especially when it comes to handling finances. Naturally, since one only has herself to rely on, one is forced to overcome obstacles/difficulties. Thus, a girl could learn to look for an apartment on her own, navigate the streets, run some errands, ask for directions without looking so utterly perplexed or clueless, do groceries and even find the best buys around the metropolis.

I have done that myself. After exiting the confines of my alma mater, I insisted on living on my own and bid for my independence. I have experienced scouting for the cheapest place to live during the first year, most of the time ending up compromising other considerations such as privacy, accessibility and of course, security. I have learned to clean up my place once I moved in, arrange things in their proper order and make myself dinner (merely opening a can of tuna will do). Money matters gave me a major headache when I was still starting out in the city. And since asking relatives for financial support was out of the question, I had to make do with what little money I have. Once I've experienced stretching my salary to the extent that my dinner consisted of one order of a personal-sized pizza from greenwich shared with another cash-strapped college classmate just so I can make ends meet. There were times when I just felt helpless. There were times as well when I felt lost and disoriented and not sure of myself.

Oh yes, I have also experienced having butterflies on my stomach during the first few weeks on my first job. I couldn't understand why I had moments of panic, one of those feelings that makes you wanna bolt out the door. And yet in all of these adjustments and trials I have encountered, there's only one thing I have noticed. I have never in my entire life replaced a single light bulb in the many places that I moved into. It has always been ready and brand new everytime I move to a new place. Otherwise, the landlord's househelp would just replace them. I know, replacing a light bulb could probably the easiest thing a girl can do around the house if she's living alone. I would love to try that sometimes. Plumbing is a major problem too. Usually, if I couldn't do anything about repairs, then tough luck! I just leave it be. I have to admit I'm a bit clueless when it comes to home repairs. And please don't give me all that crap about me being a 'girl' for not being an expert on troubleshooting the house. Anyways, a girl can just learn to do it if she really wants to. One can just buy one of those books for dummies, you know.

I once saw this survival book from humor post a couple of years ago. Everything's in that book, whether if you're a city girl or a country girl or a traveller/jetsetter. You could easily find solutions or answers from the most difficult to the downright silly stuff if in case you found yourself in that particular situation. I should've bought that book when I saw it. The only thing that stopped me then was the availability of moolah. I happened to be broke when I chanced upon the book. I bought a different survival book a couple of months back but it wasn't that complete. These days, I still try to resolve matters the way I know how, sometimes I get help from friends. As far as I know, I'm still a work in progress when it comes to troubleshooting my life.

hollywood dream

i had a funny dream last night. I found myself in the middle of a grassland, in the open field where there was a war going on. A war you say? Yes it was a war indeed! There were soldiers all around me and I was with several girls trying desperately to hide from all those flying bullets and missiles. I think I was wearing a school uniform of some sort. And just when you think that was the only piece of action, think again! Tom Cruise appeared in the middle of nowhere dressed in combat trying to help us find cover from those bullets and missiles. Next thing I know, the setting changed and he was sitting across the dining table from me looking kinda pooped but still devastating and just having some small talk about our relationship(?!). Apparently, he came to see me right after the war. How sweet! So now I have a premonition that I am going to end up marrying Tom Cruise, har har! Yeah right!

sounds like a broken record

Disclaimer : no offense meant to the fanatics of the following...

SEVEN EFFECTIVELY ANNOYING SONGS PLAYED OVER & OVER AGAIN:

1) Tell Me Where It Hurts by Nina, or was it MYMP or Kyla?

2) Love Moves in Mysterious Ways by Nina/Kyla/Sarah Geronimo?

3) Especially For You sung by Nina/Kyla/Sarah Geronimo?

4) Constantly(?) interpreted by Nina, or was it Kyla again or Sarah Geronimo?-- is it obvious that I can't tell them apart?

5) Through The Fire again by Nina (i prefer the original version)

6) All songs sung by the Sexbomb bimbos

7) All songs sung by the sexist, masochistic Masculados

8) Just A Smile by Barbie Almalbis (frankly I like barbie but this song could really get into my nerves sometimes, especially if it reminds of the close-up reality showdown)

as seen on TV

TOP FIVE ANNOYING ADS:

1) palmolive shampoo's "bounce" commercial (with the ridiculously bouncing girl)

2) creamsilk with ricky reyes ("para ka na ring nagpa-salon!" -ugh!)

3) close-up search for next model couples (teens with fake, "pilit" smiles to show off their pearly whites)

4) studio 23's barkada trip segments (I know this isn't an ad, but enough already!)

5) basically all shampoo ads from procter & gamble, unilever (one can't really tell the difference)

* perhaps McCann-Erickson, Ace Saatchi, et al could give us a break?

love poems by pablo neruda

Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Sonnet LXXXI

And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.

Love and pain and work should all sleep, now.

The night turns on its invisible wheels,

and you are pure beside me as a sleeping amber.

No one else, Love, will sleep in my dreams. You will go,

we will go together, over the waters of time.

No one else will travel through the shadows with me,

only you, evergreen, ever sun, ever moon.

Your hands have already opened their delicate fists

and let their soft drifting signs drop away; your eyes closed like two gray

wings, and I move

after, following the folding water you carry, that carries

me away. The night, the world, the wind spin out their destiny.

Without you, I am your dream, only that, and that is all.

Sonnet XXV

Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own:

I wavered through the streets, among

objects:

nothing mattered or had a name:

the world was made of air, which waited,

I knew rooms full of ashes,

tunnels where the moon lived,

rough warehouses that growled 'get lost',

questions that insisted in the sand.

Everything was empty, dead, mute,

fallen abandoned, and decayed:

inconceivably alien, it all

belonged to someone else - to no one:

till your beauty and your poverty

filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.

positively passive

...and so I'm back from my rest day. Nothing grand happened you see. I spent it merely hibernating (except maybe the time when the pipes bursted and I was hosed with dirty water). My boyfriend was out of the house most of the time the past few weeks and I never get to spend quality time with him. He's always catching a flight to numerous business trips within the country. Being an architect who foresees landscape projects nowadays, I guess he has to see loads of 'landscapes' all over the country. By the time he gets back from one those trips, he's too exhausted already and almost always preoccupied with work stuff to be doing anything else with me. Don't get me wrong, I am not one of those clingy girlfriends who would just pine away for their boyfriends when they're not around. I do like my own space sometimes. In fact, I get irritable when I see my boyfriend around all the time. I merely want to spend some time with him whenever possible, go out watch a movie or something. Sometimes being together, we just end up fighting over something so unbelievably nonsense. I guess I can't do anything about it. Today he's off to Ilocos for god knows how long. My days are so uneventful, it has become a routine so much so that I want to break the monotony, so help me god...