Korean movie

memorable lines from a Korean movie entitled "200 pounds of beauty"

"You broke my heart. Tissue won't fix it."
"God is the only one who can do everything. We humans do what we're capable of."

A: What do you like about her?
B: I don't know.
A: Because she's pretty?
B: Assholes like you would say so.
A: Because she's innocent?
B: Assholes like me would say so.

In My Playlist - Japanese Music

Japanese rock music.
L'Arc En Ciel. Gackt. Malice Mizer. Glay. Miyavi. Gazette. Kaggra. Dir En Grey.
Here's a picture of Hyde (vocalist of L'Arc En Ciel) -->
Japanese female singers.
Utada Hikaru. Mika Nakashima. Angela Aki. Ayumi Hamasaki. Yuna Ito. Anna Tsuchiya. Olivia. Kawabe Chieco. Ai Otsuka. Bonnie Pink.
Japanese pop music.
V6. Arashi. Kat-tun. NewS. midnight Pumpkin.
~All the amazing songs in the intro and ending of animes. Listening to the music even if i don't understand the lyrics makes it less distracting. I actually get to hear the beauty of the song. The head-banging drums, the awesome guitar solos, the vocal range, and the other instruments that make them so unique. It doesn't hurt that some of them feature really kawaii (cute) musicians.

Interesting Something

I was reading the Philippine Daily Inquirer earlier when this caught my eye. It's from an article by Gilda Cordero-Fernando entitled "Enjoy, be Pinoy; bahala na si Batman."

Born June 12, 1896, the Republic of the RP is a Gemini, good at connecting, good at loving-loving, good at texting and interpersonal skills.
Filipinos like to yakap, akbay, hawak, kalong, kalabit. We sleep side by side, siping-siping, we go out kabit kabit.
There's lots of us to go around. Someone always to listen to a sob story, even in a jeepney, to share-a-load or to share a TV.

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Linguist
The Pinoy is a linguist. As in. As if. For a while. Open the light. Close the light. Paki ganyan naman ang kuwan sa ano. Tuck in. Tuck out. Don't be high blood. If you're ready na, I'll pass for you.
Hayop; Hanep! Bongga ka 'day, feel na feel kita, kilig to the bones ako. Don't make wala, don't make tampo. Taralets na, babes, let's go, nababato na ang syota mo.
I'm inviting you to my party, please RSVP. Oo means "yes" or "maybe," or "yes of you insist," or "maybe if it doesn't rain."
"Yes" is also a nice way of saying "no." Yes, hindi kita sisiputin. "No," eto na ako at ang barkada ko. Please don't ask a Pinoy a question like that!
Just flows
She's not so exact, not so chop-chop, she just flows, and flows, Filipino time? Naku, huli din naman ang Kano!
The Pinoy finds time to be nice, to be kind, to apologize, to be there when you're depressed, to help you with your utang and your wedding dress.
The Filipino is a giver, never mind what it does to his liver, never mind what it takes. Hardships of the Third World don't dry up his blood, they just make him more compassionate, more feeling, of the other guy's lot.
Note that the maid sends all her wages home to ailing daddy. She is the OCW whose labor of loneliness created the original katas ng Saudi.
'Bahala na'
The Filipino is fearless, bahala na si Batman, which actually means Bathala na or "leave all to God." Okay lang if I die by bitay, okay lang if I live, okay lang if I survive by the skin of my teeth.
Saway ni Inay: Di ka naman Bill Gates, di ka naman French, mahirap nang magbuhat ng sarili mong bench.
Be Pinoy! Enjoy!

O, ha, Pinoy na Pinoy!

Dare mo Shiranai aka Nobody Knows

I've just watched "Nobody Knows," a highly-acclaimed Japanese movie released in 2004 which was based on a true story. It's a story about four siblings abandoned by their mother. The children all have different fathers and have never been to school. The very existence of three of them has been hidden from the landlord. The mother leaves behind a little money and a note, charging her oldest boy to look after the others. And so begins the children's odyssey, a journey nobody knows. Akira, the eldest, was played by Yuya Yagira, who is the youngest to win the Best Actor award in Cannes Film Festival. For a better synopsis of the film: http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/n/nobody-knows.shtml

It made me appreciate how much my family means to me, the simple joys of everyday life, and seeing the world through the eyes of a child. It was a depressing film but it was one of those art films that I love watching. Thanks to Fr. Nick Cruz, SJ (I never regretted signing up for his class), my love for art films has never waned although I've gone from European to Asian art films nowadays.

One Perfect Day by Adrienne Pierce

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I don't know you
Not sure I want to
You're far away, so far, so far
My resistance, it's the distance
I am far away, so far, so far

Just one day, it's over

CHORUS:
One, one perfect day
Let's keep, keep it that way
It probably wouldn't have worked out anyway
One, one perfect day
Let's keep, keep it that way
We probably wouldn't have got along anyway
Anyway

Stand on the star and close eyes, close
turn around, turn around till you fall down
Stand on the star, and close your eyes
are we getting closer
to the ground

Just one day, it's over

CHORUS

But I'll keep you still, still I will
I'll keep you still
Like a photograph, like a photograph I will
I will keep you still

We talked and on and on never wondering why
on the lawn until dawn staring up at the sky
And our mouths they were moving, our minds they were kissing
You smiled and said it is what you had been missing

I'll close my eyes, tell me pretty lies
Oh I won't speak
No, I won't say a word
I'll close my eyes, tell me pretty lies
cause when I speak the lines, the lines get blurred

CHORUS

Siopao Shape

Haha, Ana, sorry, i just have to post this.

Ang portable UFO ni Ana aka light fixture

Bumili si Ana ng light fixture sa mall para sa bahay nilang newly renovated at sabi niya ay foldable naman daw ang ilaw. But no! It turned out, hindi po siya foldable, gawa siya sa bakal at ang pinakamasaya sa lahat, siopao-shaped siya. Oo, siopao-shaped talaga ang tawag sa kanya sa narinig kong sinabi salesman. Isa siyang malaking siopao-shaped na ilaw na pwedeng i-hang sa ceiling ng bahay. At dahil sa laki ng ilaw, walang mapagkakasiyang karton at nakaplastic-wrap na lang siyang bitbit ni Ana mula sa mall. Take note, hindi lang siya mabigat kundi ubod pa ng laki (chest-high at mas malapad pa sa amin). At balak pang i-hand carry ni Ana kinabukasan.

Ana: i-hahand carry ko na lang to. pwede naman siguro na sa first row ako uupo at sa harap ko na lang ilalagay.
Joan: huh? di talaga pwede un. masikip sa loob ng eroplano at hindi magkakasya yan sa overhead bin o kahit sa harap pa.
Ana: hindi, pwede yan.
Joan: naku, baka makita mo na lang gumugulong yan sa loob ng eroplano!

Nang nagbalak umuwi, mahaba ang pila sa taxi stand at ma-traffic sa rockwell drive kaya naisipan ni Ana na lakarin mula sa mall hanggang sa dorm nila akay-akay ang naturang ilaw. Pagdating sa Gabaldon, nakaharang ang mga tao sa pag-abang sa prosesyon kaya kinailangan naming umikot para umiwas sa prosesyon. Pagdating sa dorm ni Ana, ayun, napagod na sa kakabitbit ng malaking siopao.

Hindi pa doon nagtatapos ang adventure ng siopao-shaped light. Kinabukasan, nagpahatid si Ana sa airport dahil mahirap nga namang mag-travel mag-isa kasama ang nasabing ilaw. Sinundo kami ni Melody (at nakakahiya talaga dahil buong pamilya ni Mel ang sumundo at naghatid sa amin sa airport) sa kanto ng P. Burgos at kinailangan isakay ang siopao-shaped ilaw. At dahil sa laki, hindi nagkasya sa likod ang siopao-shaped ilaw at kinailangan siyang kandungin ni Ana.

Pagdating sa airport, nagtaka ang mga kapwa pasahero at security guard na siguro ay hindi pa nakakakita ng siopao-shaped ilaw (portable UFO ika nga ni Ana) na bitbit papasok sa check-in counter at hindi nagkasya sa x-ray conveyor belt. Kinalaunan, naipasok na rin sa wakas at na-i-check in sa counter (dahil hindi nga pwedeng i-hand carry) ang portable UFO.

Finally, finals are over

Out of sheer boredom, I went to Starbucks, Rockwell Drive. I walked straight to Eunice's spot and stopped short. Uh-oh, I forgot. School has ended. Absentmindedly, I was expecting to see my friends at our usual spot. It's kind of weird, not spending my nights studying, cramming, reading the horoscope. Huh, summer hasn't dawned on me yet.

Friends, i'll miss our Starbucks nights this summer. I promise i'll keep reading our horoscopes and try to solve the crossword puzzles.