Sunday, June 24, 2012

A Moment To Remember - Saturday Blast

Last night, I watched three Asian Movies from my own beloved country Philippines, Thailand and the other one from Korea. Three movies about keeping your love for someone despite the challenges you may go through.


One More Chance.


I watched this movie with my super Kulit Yabs plus my super gaduper pretty Ate MYA. We have all this kulitan pa saying the lines all over again and making faces. So here's the story.....


Their love story began when they first met as students at the University of Santo Tomas: Popoy (John Lloyd Cruz) was majoring in Engineering while Basha (Bea Alonzo) was a freshman in Architecture. They were inseparable and did everything together — eating, studying and attending parties. Both their families loved them, they shared mutual friends and eventually ended up working for the same firm. Every single component of their lives revolved around each other. So, naturally, everyone assumed that they would inevitably get married someday, with Architect Basha designing and planning their dream house while Engineer Popoy building it. Everything could not be more perfect.
At least, that was what Popoy thought. What he did not know was that Basha was not as sure about their future as Popoy seemed to be.
All Popoy's nagging and excessive planning took a toll on Basha. Not only was she tired of trying to carve out her own mark in the hierarchy of the firm, but she also grew weary of Popoy always stepping in to fix things for her. One day, Basha told Popoy that she wanted to resign and move to a smaller firm where she could be given better opportunities to design independently, completely blindsiding her bewildered beau. She revealed the issue that had been brewing inside her for the past year: the real reason why she wanted to leave the company was that she was tired of Popoy and their relationship. She felt hindered by Popoy's constant attention and thought that she had never been given the chance to decide and plan for herself because he always did everything. Popoy was speechless and devastated. That same night, Basha broke up with him, reasoning that she needed the space to grow on her own.
Not knowing how to pick himself up after the love of his life left him, Popoy struggled to live his new life alone. Meanwhile, Basha followed through with her plans to resign from the firm. For a while, she drifted jobless, customizing T-shirts with unusual patterns and designs, until she was offered to work for a smaller firm. Accepting the offer, she began to feel the professional freedom she had been longing for. Popoy and Basha tried to live without each other but the ties that bound them made it difficult for either of them to completely move on, especially when their families and friends were constant reminders of the promises and dreams they had made during their happier days.
Slowly, Popoy moved on and discovered that there was life after Basha; on the other hand, Basha began to find her solitary journey to be harder than she had imagined, especially when Popoy began dating another girl. Although a part of her wanted to get him back, she reminded herself that the decision to terminate the relationship was hers alone.
Opportunity knocked on their door when Popoy's aunt commissioned them to build her house together. After initially feeling awkward, Popoy and Basha eventually warmed up towards each other, especially after memories of the five years they spent together resurfaced. Slowly and unconsciously, they fell into their old routines and found themselves enjoying each other's company once again. Both realized how much they had missed each other, at the same time acknowledging how much they each had changed.
But Popoy knew that giving in would mean that they would go back to how they were before, that she will just go on her way again and ignore him when she grew tired again of their relationship and he will be left alone again and hurt. - Wikipedia
If you haven't seen this movie oh goodness, you'll miss a part of your life hehe..

The ATM - A Thai movie 


This movie really made me laughing and giggling, despite there is no english sub on it and I think it was really crazy understanding the Thai language I find it really cute.


Sua (Ter – Chantavit Dhnasevi) and Jib (Ice — Preechaya Pongthananikorn) are like any other couple in this world except for one exception: for the past 5 years they have kept their relationship a secret since the bank where they are employed has a strict “No Fraternization” policy.


It’s not a big deal until they decide to get married. The only problem? Which one of these two Type-A overachievers will put marriage before a career and resign? With neither willing to take the leap of faith they both turn incident into opportunity when an ATM glitch in Chonburi province cashes out over $130,000 baht. The terms are simple: whoever is able to recover the money first gets to keep their job. The couple will turn into no holds barred competitors. Who will literally “go big” in their career or “go home” in this romantic comedy about what two people won’t do for each other in the name of love? It’s the age old battle of the sexes but this time around how can victory be easily declared in a war where there are no more traditional “rules of engagement. - Google


A Moment to Remember



The first segment of the film introduces the protagonists, a woman named Su Jin and a man named Chul Soo. The movie highlights their accidental meeting, followed by their subsequent courting despite the social standings that should have kept them apart. Kim Su-Jin is a 27-year-old fashion designer, spurned by her lover, a colleague who was also a married man. Depressed, she goes to a convenience store, where she bumps into a tall, handsome man with whom she has a slight misunderstanding. Following that, she returns home and, receiving her father's forgiveness, decides to start life afresh.
One day while accompanying her father, who is the head of a construction site, she coincidentally meets the man whom she earlier bumped into at the convenience store. He is Choi Chul-Soo, the construction site's foreman who is aiming to become an architect. Chul-Soo may appear like a rough and dirty construction worker initially, but exudes sheer masculinity in its most basic physical form. Su-Jin instantly takes a liking to Chul-Soo and in what is a refreshing change, actively courts him. There are many sweet events that take place in the occurrence of their courtship, eventually leading to their marriage.
The second segment follows the couple settling into married life. Su-Jin learns to be a housewife as her husband cares for her. As the segment progresses however, Su-jin begins to display forgetfulness, including an incident in which a fire breaks out because of a forgotten stove. While Chul Soo caught the fire in time, the seriousness of the incident and others like it draw them to seek medical help.
The third segment involves the revelation of Alzheimer's disease and the couple's consequent response to it. Su Jin is heavily burdened by the knowledge that she will forget her husband and hides it from him until he seeks advice from the doctor himself. Despite the disease, they make the commitment to stay together and as the disease progresses, the trials the couple go through increase because of Su Jin's consistent loss of memory. - Wikipedia


The fourth segment reveals Su-jin in the final stages of the disease and the grief Chul Soo experiences because of it. Yet he remains beside her, despite her lost memory, hiding his eyes behind sunglasses when he visits her so she can't see his tears. The end of the movie finishes off with Chul Soo replaying the first time they met in the convenience store with all her friends and family there. In the final scene, Su-jin is riding beside her husband in the car in the sunset, and he can finally tell her, "I love you."

Love is truly magical, sabi nga ni MYA dapat ang dalawang tao ay sumayaw ng sabay sa saliw ng iisang musika, na merong pagkakaintindihan at pagtitiwala sa bawat isa.

Enjoy watching the movie. 

Love is a choice and choosing him will always be my greatest happiness:) ..

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Young Blood: I'm proud of you:)


Off to office and got a text from him. ‘Read the inquirer page 13 J’ as the text message says.  This is my first reaction, texted him back, ‘ anong meron?’ and had one more glimpse to his text message. This wouldn’t be a bad news there’s a smiley face after the message.

I started asking officemates if they have inquirer newspaper. I was so curious of what should I read in Inquirer page 13. Got out and buy the newspaper and read the articleJ and also opened Inquirer’s site to read the ArticleJ.

Proud of everything you’re doing, from school, to work and your extra activities. One proud girlfriend for you, keep up the good work and more more more articles to read in InquirerJ

Friday, June 1, 2012

Pluto:)

May mga bagay tayo na minsan akala natin perpekto na, na wala ng hanggan, minsan naiisip natin na sadyang  mapaglaro ang tadhana… Di natin namamalayan may mga bagay na magpapasaya  sa atin ng higit kahit hindi man ito masukian ng sobra.
Hangad ko ang kaligayahan ng taong minsan gustong maging malaya at mapag isa ng saglit sa kanyang tinatahak na daan. Hangad niyang wag masaktan ang kanyang iniirog, na di lumuha sa kanyang pamumuni muni.
Akala ko noon walang ibig sabihin ang mga katagang, ‘gusto ko muna mapag isa para mahanap ko ang sarili ko, para malaman ko kung ako pa nga ba ito’. Alam ko na sa bawat katagang ito ay may matapang na nilalang, ayaw tumangis at mangamba.
Matapang nya pa rin sinasabi ng may ngiti sa kanyang mga labi na kaya nya pa rin at hahawakan nya pa rin ang mga pangakong minsan na kanyang binitawan. Masasasaktan siya, mapapagod ngunit alam nya na ayaw nya makitang lumuha ang taong nagpapahalaga at nagmamahal sakanya, sa kanyang pagnanais na kumawala muna, hangad at nais nya pa rin alagaan at tulungang lumago ang butil na inalaagan at minahal ng taon. Batid ng puso ko ang hangad niyang manatili at ipaglaban ang kanyang nasimulan.
Madami na akong narinig na kuwento, kanta at tula, nagpapahiwatig ng panandaliang kalayaan, hanapin ang sarili at muling  masilayan ang paghahangad na mahalin ang sarili ng buo upang maibigay din sa iba ng buo ang pagmamahal na iyon
Kakaiba ang kuwento nya, kakaiba ang pagpapahalaga nya sa kanyang nasimulan. At alam kong kakaiba siyang magmahal.. Hangad kong maging matapang siyang muli upang harapin ang mga bagay na nais nyang matupad kahit nag iisa…
Saiyong paglalakbay patungo sa Pluto sabi mo nga, saan ka man dalhin ng mga desisyon mo alam mo naman kung saan ka patutungo. Sa muli mong pagbabalik sakanya hangad kong mas maging matatag kayong dalawa at harapin ang bukas na magkahawak ng mahigpit ang mga kamay habang naglalakbay.
Ang iyong kahilingan sanay matupad… ngiti lang J, ngiti lang……


Thursday, March 29, 2012

Tulay Lingap ni Padre Pio

Colorful balloons for the kids
Working, us we all know is a job in where we are incorporated to ourselves and to a group of people where we can share our decisions, points of view and our attitudes. As we work and communicate with other people we build a community of persons helping each other to fulfill a dream and project that can help people in need.  Our steadfast dedication, come to know the validity and beauty of higher calling: to be MEN and WOMEN for OTHERS, constantly aspiring for excellence in all that we do.

The working committee
I’ve learned so many things in this group that unity, skilled workers, and dedicated people once put together in a job or project they communicate and strengthen the group to work together. Our group planned and strategized first the things that we have to do in order to get the work done early. After, the group came up with one unified task to be done: we formed a chain so as to facilitate the giving of food to the kids.
The people behind the feeding program


From this experience, I gained a lot of insights and learning’s about the dignity of work, the importance of perseverance in any attempt at achieving something worthwhile and meaningful in life; the value of teamwork in any group activity. Though this experience in Tulay Lingap ni Padre Pio was short, it contributed to seeing kids smiling. It gave me an insight into the plight of the poor who have nowhere to lay their heads. I was encouraged to treasure the little things I am blessed with and be contented with what I have. The spirit of sharing and giving was really evident among the group: each one shared his/her smile to those kids who were around.
         
Food
There are so many things that I could do to build a community in the near future; first I should persevere to do this building, form a group to help people in need; start to engage myself to community building program; come up with creative ideas to make money--fund raising project to sponsor the program and encourage our government to help in the community. Spreading the word about the community program to promote it and increase more volunteers who are willing to help. This are my plans, but this plans will not be successful if me, myself won’t act for it, instead of only saying I’ll try, I will and it will start today.


   
At ang bida sa programa ang mga Bata:)

CHOOSE WHO MADE YOU A BETTER

The Title is a bit confusing... learned from a movie I once watched alone, laughing hard...
We all know that in our lives we always wanted to become the hero of our own story. We never wanted to be the evil one, but always the good, because people are naturally good and the end goal is always to be a man of goodness. It is preferred that people are always remembered by the good deeds rather than the bad deeds they have done.  People would always look up to the hero rather than the villain. What really makes a hero and villain if ever I, myself would become one?
            I was once asked in a beauty contest, if I was to choose between the two characters in a movie, the hero or the villain, what would I be, and why? I have always put into my mind to be the hero, but in that competition I chose to be the villain not because I sought to be a bad person, but because I would like to uplift my personality from the shy type girl who is always been teased around, to the girl who’s ready to fight. I opt to have a strong personality who is ready to fight back and to face anyone without fear. It is a test for me to become a villain; since I have a very contradictory personality, a person who hates to fight even when people abused me of the compassion I show them. So as to why I always wanted to be the villain to experience the odd challenge that he brings to the hero.
            If I were to be a hero I would opt to become the “Good Guy”, for a straightforward reason that it is much better for a man to have a purpose in doing well. Our intentions and actions should always be balanced. If I desire to become a hero, it is for purpose and courage. To become a hero is not to uplift my name, because I have done well, but because my intentions are good and I have made my part, I have help a lot of people without asking for any reward and recognition.
            To become a villain is a challenging character, eloquent to all the oddness, evilness and wickedness he portrays is a difficult job to do, but if given the chance to be one I choose to be the anti-villain because I like the twist he portrays. An anti-villain has done bad deeds, actions, and behaviors, but for the intention of saving, rescuing and helping other people. I cannot really describe the twist and the challenge he shows. I neither would say he is good nor bad, because of its contradiction to what he illustrates and what would he give. He is a challenge for me to do bad actions just to help other people, because I may cause one person hate just to make one person happy.
            It defies who we really wanted to become in our own story, become the villain or become the hero. But what really makes a person happy is to be free of his own will and chooses what would really define his own characteristics in life. As persons, we may be the hero or the villain of our own life stories but it really depends on what we desire to choose that would help us to become better persons.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

CURIOUS GURL: STRANGE FRUIT



Strange Fruit: Persimmon

Whoah, sorry guys I’ve been away for almost 4 months since I wrote my last blog. Starting a new journey for 2012 and it’s all about food and curiosity. Curious about many things and I know I have a chance to really discover them each day this is my way of celebrating a new life for 2012.
 Since, I’m working already (I’m almost 2 years in my current job), I have the resources to buy things I haven’t tried before, so here yah go buy and taste.

Ate Elisse my partner in crime hehe, just introduces me to a radio station she always listens to, The Morning Rush with Chico, Delamar and Gino. Really crazy tandems, indeed they really make people happy by their kulitans and funny jokes haha. We usually listen to their podcast since I can’t wake up early. There is this one topic that I was so curious about, they were talking about this fruit how they love it if it was crunchy or not. It’s like this tomato like fruit. As Chico describes it whoala I said to my mind ‘Search for it and who knows there’s a store selling it’. I click internet explorer and type the name of the fruit ‘Persimmon’ whoot! It was like a tomato the way it was describe. The last thing to do now is to search for it!

Yesterday, because it was month end I had the time to have a grocery at SM Megamall, bought 1milk and 1 chocolate drink for me. I have to buy also some fruits, as I was walking around to choose some of it there you go PERSIMMON I just did found the fruit I was looking for, for 2 days already, lucky me I found it!
The last thing to do today is to taste it and if I will find myself again eating this fruit! Hehe hopefully my taste buds will like it!