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I didn’t really have a nice start of my 2006… If only every teardrop is gold, I could have been very rich by then… you figure out why I said that… hay nako, I couldn’t imagine that I was really wasted back then… crying for something that as I recall now would just make me shake my head and bow down and admit to myself that I was really stupid back then… but now I’m good hehehehe….

2007… to start with, I have a lot of new things in my life.  The first new year that I’m away from home (after 30 years).  Aside from missing the traditional Hi-chi and the fiesta ham, I also miss my family.  I really thought I was going to cry that night but I well I thought that in order for me to divert my attention, I should keep myself busy.  I was kinda busy.  I cooked those oily and heavy food for my housemates hehehehe… hey the thai is really heavy ha!  Media Noche without your family wasn’t so bad after all.  Mind over matter lang.

After dinner, I was suppose to go with Pajo sa rooftop to watch the fireworks but chickened out at the last minute after hearing Wang’s story last year of the firecracker almost hitting him.  I don’t really know what got into me that I went online instead of continuing the Niptuck episode I was watching.  To cut the story short, I got the shock of my life when I unexpectedly received a friendster message from a person who I thought would be last person to write me one.  Imagine the shock that my hand was cold and shaking and my heart was really beating fast.  Let me tell share a little secret… I was kinda excited what the message would be and without wasting time, I read the letter.

It was an apology letter of an incident that happend almost a decade ago.  It’s really a good start for my new year.  Althought I have long forgiven those people involved in the incident but maybe the letter was a form of closure of the open wound I have always been carrying with me all along.  Honestly, I’m glad that person made the move… Like what that person said in the letter and I quote "It’s gonna be a New Year and I thought - well this is the perfect time to try & make things right if not better."  I can only agree nevertheless… And did I give a shit on the apology letter?  Ofcourse I did!  APOLOGY ACCEPTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After the acceptance, I felt so goooood!  I can’t help myself but smile.  I guess I am at peace now.  I remember telling my bestfriend after that it’s now 2 down and 1 to go.  (Why 2?  Basta 2 and who are these 2 and who’s this 1?  SECRET!) hehehehehe

It’s a good way to really start my new year since I read the message first hour of 2007 and I have finally did what I wanted to do a long time ago…. I have finally had my eyebrows tattoed!  Yeah…. UMULAN BUMAGYO MAY KILAY NA AKO AT PERMANENT NA ITO!

Happy New Year Everyone!  Hopefully, this year will be a good one for all of us! God Bless!

My very first tv series marathon started with Sex and the City.  I remember that I got it from a friend for 50 pesos per cd back then.  Let’s just say I was able to complete the whole I can’t remember how many seasons that really made my pocket thin back then.  Thank God for the DVD 9, not only that it saves me a lot of money but it saves me from standing up and changing disc. (Tapulan ra gyud gihapon kaayo oi!)  Next series on the list is the very famous

Meteor

Garden

series 1 and 2.  I watch the 2 season a couple of times… you can’t blame this girl for falling in love with Hua Che Lei that time hehehehe can’t help it, he’s really cute.  I even brought the cd here in

Manila

to watch it again but alas it was one of the things stolen when my room was ransack but some stupid heartless thief!

Then came Endless Love, yeah the guy is a cutie (Won Bin! I mean the other guy not the main guy) but I don’t really know what happened, I fell asleep watching it. I also remember buying chinese series online (bidshot)… Love Storm which starred Hua Che Lei again (still in love with him that time) but my goodness, the English captions were really bad… they literally interpreted the Chinese words word for word which ofcourse gave out really funny and weird interpretations.  Story wasn’t so good but who cares, I just wan’t to see Hua Che Lei… and it made me realize now that I still I have 1 set of Hua Che Lei and San Chai that I haven’t seen and I bought it last year… Mars pala title nun… tsk tsk tsk…. Mahanap nga…..  Oh and one of my favorite Korean drama, Memories of

Bali

… I love Jo In Sung (Paolo)… hay!!!! he so cute!!!!! Tall, lean and cute and well his character is really weird but nevertheless he is still delisyoso!

            It seems that I’m very much inclined watching Korean tv series already that my bestfriend would often tell me… Bef, you should start watching American tv series and not the Korean love story.  So mussy beffy??? Well, can’t blame your beffy to be hopelessly romantic (yeah right!)  She told me, I’m sending you 24, it’s really nice and full of action (well, my Bef was so much into Jack Bauer…. Jack Bauer stuff like his car and all).  I wanted to start watching it but I don’t really know what’s stopping me hehehehe… not my type??? I guess so…

            Fast forward, my sister lent me some of her Korean movies she’s been watching.  I watched it as well coz when she relates it to me the movie would sound nice and funny and interesting but well, so so lang although there are other movies there that are really nice. Movie marathon on Saturday nights…. (what a boring life right?)  Anyway, my Bef was into Grey’s Anatomy and then Prison Break.  She’s been telling me about Grey’s Anatomy and a friend of mine in the states has been telling me about it as well and well I became curious and finally got copy of it and well watch.  Well very interesting and nice.  Meredith, McDreamy, Burke, Christina, George and Izzy…. They became a part of me now not to mention a part of me and my Bef’s life… we’re so much into them… sleeping 4:30 am doing the tv marathon and I squeeze in to watch 1 episode as I get myself made up in the morning before going to work…. Like I said before, I’ve always wanted to be a doctor back then that’s why the series is really interesting for me and ofcourse the drama… At first, I was so kilig with Burke and Christina but on the later part, I’m really starting to hate Christina… a manipulative bitch! 

There’s lot of morality issues on Grey’s Anatomy.  Sleeping with a married man (Meredith didn’t know Derek was married) which brings me to the next TV series I have just finished watching.  Another MD related series.  Niptuck… if I thought that Grey’s morality issue is kinda high, well Niptuck is 3x higher… whew! Bestfriend sharing everything… work, son and girlfriend…. You really have to be mature and open minded enough if you will watch this series….. aside from the bloody operations in the OR, incest relationship, transvestite issues, sharing custody… name it and you’ll have it…. The story might be super complicated but I assure you guys, it’s really a good series… a very interesting one that would really want you to finish the whole 3 seasons in one sitting.  I remember saying to myself all the time “Di na pud ka matulog ani Tin” yeah yeah yeah sleeping one time at 4:30 am in a weekday and atleast 2 am after that… sorry I just can’t stop… the story is getting interesting every single episode… hay… finally nahuman gyud but I can’t wait for the next season….

Same thing happened before when I was watching Prison Break.  Hay kaguapo gyud ni Wentworth Miller (Michael).  He is the guy in Mariah Carey’s video… they say he is gay but well he is still yummy… Very mysterious… It’s an action series… and for the first time, the hopeless romantic Tina is watching it…. I should give credit to the writers of the tv series, very cleaver… you can really never guess what will happened next.  Basta maka inlove gyud ang face ni Michael bahala na bayot… hehehehehe But I just hope there will be a little romance between him and Sara (the doctor).  I remember my Bef telling me that Sara will die and I just can’t accept it so I read the episode guide in the net and found out that I was fooled by my Bef about it.  Nice try beffy! You got me there but I’m glad she is not dead yet…hehehehe

            January 11… Grey’s Anatomy will finally resume and January 22 for Prison Break.  I hope the dsl in Dumaguete will be ok so that my Beffy can download the episodes.  Well, the DVD 9 can only hold enough so my Beffy is providing me with new episodes not covered in the DVD sold in the “market”.  Thanks beffy for patiently burning a vcd for me and sending it to me regardless of the cost…hehehehe…. That’s what you call Beffy bonding guys!  Beffy, download me Niptuck as well please!!!!!!!!!!!

            Tonight, I’ll be starting the partial episodes of desparate housewives season 3…. Hehehehe like Kuya Germs’ signature line…”WALANG TULUGAN!” J

part2 of my blog….

Nov. 17, 2006…. 9 am, I called my bef…. "Happy Birthday beffy, I have something for. I shipped it at lbc… do text me if you received it…"

She’s still clueless… a minute later Chu called me up to update that my bef is really clueless and chu’s is holding her giggles about it…. no clue at all she said…

FAST FORWARD, almost 1 pm, I boarded the plane…. wheeew!!!!! waiting period is agonizing me… we’ve been stagnat for almost an hour… grrrr…. finally, the plane took off… knowing me, before the plane takes off, I would dooze off but maybe im really anxious and excited, I finished reading at 300 pager book… wheeewww!

Around 3 pm, im in dumaguete already with my handcarried bag of mc donald rice burger and kfc zinger for my folks (can’t step into our home if I don’t have it with me… might be sleeping outside if ever…) with the 3 dozen white roses from dangwa (hey manila pa yan galing ha kasi la daw white rose sa dgte… tnx to heidi…. trip to dangwa was cool) and finally I saw my sundo… no other than Papi (ang bugtong itik sa akong amiga)…. well very funny because night before, he didn’t just ask me a favor to buy white roses for his buko pie but buy him a card as well… well so much for my bef’s dilemma of always wanting her bf to write her a card, an idea pop in my mind of letting  him write 30 gift cards… ehehehehe….. his dialogue was… help me!!!!!!!! hehehehe but nevertheless he did it hehehehe….. (kapoy sulat pap?)

After card writing and taking papi’s bike to the motor shop finally the drama continues… Papi calls bef to go down to go to Sans Rival for a snack, gosh waiting was again agonizing. Kadugay gyud nanaug… and we’re parked somewhere in the middle of the street in a chevy silverado… so imagina unsa kadaku na sakyanan ga babag sa dalan…. Papi told me to hide but I told him no need coz my Bef would usually don’t mind who is inside the car… she would just open the door and jump right in… (a lot of speculations on what would be my Bef’s reaction before my surprise were discussed… and finally her reaction was…).  True enough she didn’t notice if someboday is with her buko pie inside the car, she immediately open the door and there’s my face telling her Happy Birthday… the reaction priceless… if only I was able to take a snapshot of her reaction… it would really be awesome… she was literally shock!!!!!!!! Shock with big eyes for about two seconds…. but she has to move coz we’re in the middle of the street and it’s  busy street fyi…. She can’t believe that im really in Dumaguete to surprise her….. but im sure her reaction was that she’s really happy that I surprised her…. i was happy as well… and i showed her my gift which surprised and made her smile some more…

True indeed that this trip is well worth it…. it’s been a while that I get to spend my Bef’s birthday with her…. worth it coz I made her smile… worth it coz I get to attend our other kabarkada’s birthday and worth it coz finally I WAS ABLE TO EAT BENG’S HALO HALO AGAIN IN LEE PLAZA!!!!!!

EVERYTHING WAS WORTH IT!!!!! IM HAPPY AND MY BEF’S HAPPY…. An excerpt from her text to me before we retiring at night…. "What can I say???? I had enough for my 30th birthday because ur here to celebrate with me.  Thank you so much bef! I was shocked u came but I know u love me that much because I love you more… Nice card because we have a nice friendship. Touching messages that really touch my heart. Wonderful prayer that really make our friendship strong. Ur not just my bestfriend but my true friend and my soul friend, u care, u love and pray for me.  Thanks for everything! Ur my bestfriend forever!"

I told my bef… ELLEN NOREEN LEE… we are bestfriends for life… Happy Birthday Beffy and I wish that you will have an answer to what you have been praying for a long time ago!!!! Love yah!!!!!

Every year, my bef (bestfriend) Beng’s usually dialogue if her birthday is coming is…. "Bef, it’s my birthday, aren’t you coming home?" and my answer would always be "Bef, ur beffy bya is so poor and very expensive ang plane ticket!"  Honestly, I really want to go home every year….but I just have to consider a lot of things… plane fare and absences… well last year, i dont work on saturdays so I’ll be absent for 1 day only but not I have work on saturday which is really impossible for me to go…. ok… let me start how the concept came in…

Bef’s cuz told me to pick up their gift for her… well her so called… "Sis naa na pud ko ipablinddate nimo… blinddate means meeting with the vendor in bidshot hehehehe… and she asked me, "you’re bef is turning 30, she might be given a big party coz next year she might get married na, aren’t you coming home?…. I told her "Wish ko lang!" and that night, a close buddy called me up and naturally I told him about the idea coz he is planning to go dumaguete in time for my bef’s bday…. he’s an angel because he told me that he’s giving me his free mileage so that I can go home and just pay for the taxes of the plane ticket! Weeehheeeeeeee!!!!! was my initial reaction but then I realized that i’ll be absent for 2 days and my mind started calculating…. hmmmnnn pila man mawala sa ako sweldo ug muabsent ko….. calculator dayun sa cellphone…. is it worth it ba???? I was at the MRT station that time so pakipot pa… told him…. i’ll think about his offer…. If there will be no big party, i won’t go… that was my line… travelling from Ayala station to Boni station till the elevator in cityland… i keep thinking, I keep calculating…. think, calculate, think, calculate…. even at the wee hours of the morning (hehehehe watching pda uplate pa kasi)… still thinking and finally I came with decision… IM GOING HOME…. IM SURPRISING MY BEF! IM GRABBING THE FREE TICKET!!!!! IM GOING HOME!!!!!!!

Well, I never wasted time, I call Bef’s sister and told her the plan… Nobody should let my Bef know im going home…. they should keep it a secret for her to be really surprised…. at the back of my mind…. God help me,,,, secrets can’t be kept ra ba gyud sa ako bef, she always has a way of knowing it……. My original plan of the drama would be, i’ll take the earliest flight to dgte on nov. 17 and surprise her during misua session…. i’ll tie a big ribbon on my nect with a signage saying "Im yours today, tomorrow and on sunday… just take me to the airport on monday (ganda ng rhyme ano?) and it should be my sis-in-law who’s going to pick me at the airport and with a little drama that my bef should go out of the house to get my gift for her and it’s me in a ribbon but unluckily that plan didn’t materialize… my schedule trip is at 1 pm… got to think of another plan….

Nov. 17 is fast approaching, I don’t have my ticket yet… d pa naprocess ang mileage…. am I really going????? waaahhh ang pressure grabeh gyud…. and I can’t think of a gift yet…. my presence is not enough… I should give her something that will remind her of bday…. I was thinking mosaic but well expensive man and it will take 15 days and I have barely 10 days…. the pressure grabeh gyud……

Finally, 1 week before her bday, I’ve seen the nicest gift…. photo mosaic at lbc… well…. what would be my concept???? our picture in a mosaic??? and suddenly a very good idea poppep out! Fafa Piolo’s picture!!!!!! hehehehehe…. all our pictures in a Fafa Piolo picture and faith interven coz I get the most useful gift ever, fafa Piolo mosaic mouse pad… cool….. The gift was placed in a nice box… I was thinking of a good wrapper for the gift, hmmmnnn starstudio magazine… hmmnnnn piolo pictures… I wasted no time, gathered all piolo pictures that I can get… initial plan was only to wrap it sa mouse pad then I’ve come up with best idea of creating a collage of Piolo’s pictures in the box… brilliant… all piolo items hehehehe….

I am a year older now and hopefully a year wiser…. hehehehe…. looking back with my life last year made me realize that a lot… i mean a LOT of things happend that year….

Work….

At the start of my birthyear (its different with just year), i was still with the company I was working with the previous year.  Then transferred to another software company but well things just didn’t work out… the people there were ok… great! but I think amidst all the things that was happening to me that time, i just wasn’t into… I wanted to start picking the pieces of my life again… the best way is to change my lifestyle, my routine and my all… to go back to my old, strong and jolly life… and i think moving to a new job now without the internet helped me a lot… keeping myself busy most of the time… if previously I would often say that "kadugay sa oras", now I often say the opposite…. can you believe its me????

Internet….

Have I cope with the "no internet" routine???? You bet I did! heheehe…. I’m used to checking my mails weekly… almost 100 mails to check or rather read or errr delete??? hehehehe i’ll live by….

Gym….

You heard it right… im enrolled in Slimmer’s World. Yeah, yeah, yeah… i must admit im no gym buff but aside from the fact that i like to stay healthy (yeah right!) and lose weight for Chu’s Wedding (grabeh man gyud nakong tambuka during the holy week!) my sister is so into it and somehow her enthusiasam is contagious…hehehehe

Here’s my routine… do the dance routines around 7 till 8:30 and 8:30 onward, threadmill… definetly with the monitor/tv just in time for SA PILING MO… baduy ba? yeah right! magpakatotoo na tayo…. the story is really nice… who cares if its a Juday-Piolo starrer… the story is good…. im not the only one who’s hooked into it but a lot (right beffy?)

Hay… something just happend last friday… i was so darn frustrated at the gym… last week, i was in the gym from tuesday till thursday and saturday (pahinga friday coz it was my BIRTHDAY!) and i was able to go back just last friday since my sis-n-law and niece… yes my nashy came to visit and my beffy was here also so priority priority…. I would never exchange them with anything at all….anyway, back to my frustration…. grrrrrrr….. i was so excited with aerojam… it was so nice and cool and i love the steps… but i guess it was just not my day…. it was the last day of the dance instructor and it was the 2nd session of the day with the same participants… i can’t cope with phasing…grrrr… why didn’t I enrol earlier… I could have been dancing well with them! hay buhay…. another frustration of the day…. my reservation for the threadmill with tv was cancelled due to being late for 2 minutes… grrr… i should have not done that stretching anymore… again… I should have followed my instinct… i never learned!

Mah Friends….

I miss my chat mates… i miss you bro (duane), i miss you jhetty pooh, zieee, kokak and ofcourse bf….

I miss my text mates…. to my suncell buddies, guys I know you’re wondering why im not sending forwarded messages to you… the girl is really busy… pasencya na!

I miss my friendster…. i miss checking ur profiles guys hehehehe… and those new pictures… hey bro, darn i missed the first glimspe of ur baby izzy!!!! Hey Q, i miss reading ur blog na…

Oh well that’s life… right?  But then again, I’m happier now… I have little achievements so to speak with my work, with my promises, with my goals in life… slowly but gradually… im getting there… so help me God

Almost a month with no internet access…. i miss my daily routin of checking my mails, friendster, chatting in ym!!!! even my pinoy big brother update… I lost track of it all… good side of it is it makes my time worthwhile… work work work…. but i still miss getting in touch with my friends….well.. somehow… another good point it that it drives me out of temptation… hmmnnnn… wonder what could that be???? but most of all I miss making blog and reading other’s blog…. haaaayyyyyy…. got to save some…. we do have internet wifi access at home but geezzz… this poor soul has no computer to access it… oh well… it’s my choice to move to a new career then I have to live with it coz if not… tsk tsk… my starbucks prize from a friend will be gone! hehehehe…. thank you for netopia and lunch breaks hehehe…. mizz chatting with mah friends… hey guys… i miss you all…. do leave a message okies… well still get in touch dont worry… and for pinoy big brother… it can always wait…

Can you be friends with your X?

It is possible but it will take time.  As long as I’ve forgiven him whole heartedly and wala na ang bitterness.  In short, yes but definitely not in the near future. (JT)

Wait for the right time that you can overcome him/her. (BC)

If you believe in the saying time heals then maybe we will be friends somewhere in time. (KM)

Past is past.  You’ve done your part and probably you can’t do more, so take it or leave it! (RA)

Depende if he’s worthy to be my friend….  If hi and hello lang ok lang…I don’t want to have enemy in this world (EL)

Am I starting to sound like Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) in Sex and the City?  What made me think about this topic for my blog… Before your malicious minds starts to roll, here is the whole story…

I received a forwarded text message from a friend and in return I replied and asked how is he doing which is our usual greeting.  He said he’s cool and he ask me back and I answered we’re cool which prompt him to tell me that its from a song of Gwen Stefani, Cool and I said I know.  The next conversation was about the song.  Here is the lyric to give you a good understanding of what we were talking about…

COOL – Gwen Stefani

It’s hard to remember how it felt before

Now I found the love of my life

Passes things, get more comfortable

Everything is going right

And after all the obstacles

It’s good to see you now with someone else

And its such a miracle that you and me are still good friends

After all that we’ve been through

I know we’re cool 2X

We used to think it was impossible

Now you call me by my last new name

Memories seem like so long ago

Time always kills the pain

Remember

Harbor Boulevard

The dreaming days were the mess was made

Look how all the kids have grown, oh

We have changed but we’re still the same

After all that we’ve been through

I know we’re cool 2X

Yeah, I know we’re cool

And I’ll be happy for you

If you can be happy for me

Circle and triangles

And now we’re hanging out with your new girlfriend

So far from where we’ve been

I know we’re cool 2X

The lyric of the song itself is like a story and if you get to see the video, you’ll be the judge if the situation is awkward or not.  And then as our exchange of text goes on, I asked him if he’ll be friends with his ex and he said in due time if the time is right and if he is ready.  He asked me the same thing and I said we agreed to be friends before but circumstances came in so we have to let go of it.  In other words, it was too soon but then I told my friend that like him I’m open to that idea in the right time.  Probably if you’re going to ask me when the right time is… I only have this to say… I don’t like to have enemies no more… Faith will just have to work for that to happen.  When is that? God only knows right dear? J

But anyway, after that conversation I read the lyrics again and suddenly I remember another friend of mine who’s in that situation… well, more or less… I sent a message to him right away and told him that the song reminds me of him and he said can totally relate to it.  Believe it or not but they’re an example of the COOL song.  Theirs is beyond we can expect that they’ll still be friends after what happened.  They were engaged and soon to be married but that didn’t happened.  Yeah, it was not a smooth sailing ride at first but when they finally find forgiveness in their heart, they became best of friend (the real sense of it… best friends!) 

We used to think it was impossible

Now you call me by my last new name

Memories seem like so long ago

Time always kills the pain

An excerpt from the song, time always kills the pain… I think that exactly what happened between the two of them.  But for me, it more on forgiving and accepting each other fault and moving on with the life that they chose that made them friends again.

Going back to some scenes in Sex and the City when Big visited Carrie at Aidan’s country home.  Tension between Aidan and Big was there and the two guys has to release it in a messy and physical way and after that, Aidan was already listening to Big’s broken hearted story of his current beau.  The story maybe a fiction but I guess in one way or another, it happened in real life…

So I think the question now is no longer that we can be friends with our exes but when can we be friends with them and how to befriend them?  Questions like who should make the first move, how should you react, is it the right time already?  Questions keep coming and only then if you will face this situation can these questions be answered.  When are you going to face this situation?  Like I said earlier… Faith will have to intervene and God only knows when. J

P.S.

Do post your comments if you agree or even if you don’t with this blog.  I’d love to hear your share of story/thoughts also….

I’m not over with the “Close To You” fever… I’ve heard a lot of Bestfriend love story so might as well write about it or forever hold it in my mind… J

WARNING:  The stories I’ll share might have happened in real life.  My apologies for whoever is affected but let’s put it this way that these stories are just product of my imagination ok? J

WHY CAN’T IT BE?

You came along, unexpectedly,
I was doing fine in my little world
Oh baby please don’t get me wrong
‘Cause I’m not complaining
But you see, you got my mind spinning

They’re just mere acquaintance like they know each others circle of friends but they were never close.  A simple hi and hello or an exchange of smile is their way of communicating until they were given a chance to know each other better.  They find comfort with each other’s company.  He was her protector, she was his confidante.  Human as they are, their relationship blossoms to the next level.  One day, it transpires to them that the love they’re feeling of each other is beyond friendship.  BUT…

REFRAIN:
Why can’t it be
Why can’t it be the two of us
Why can’t we be lovers
Only friends
You came along
At a wrong place, at a wrong time
Or was it me

… Why can’t it be the two of them? BECAUSE both of them are committed to someone.  Oftentimes when they’ll get a chance to talk about their “platonic” relationship, the phrase “you came along at a wrong time” comes out.  And both of them would just sigh and often think that if only they could turn back the time.

Baby I dream of you every minute
You’re in my dreams
You’re always in it
That’s the only place I know
Where you could be mine
And I’m yours but only
Till I wake up

To spare their love ones from hurting, they have to draw a thin line between being best of friends and lovers. 

“If I can’t be with you in the real world, in my world I am with you.  I am yours and you are mine and no one can break us apart…. Until I wake up!”  An excerpt from another song… “Sa panaginip lang kita mahahagkang tuwina, doon lang!”

Who knows where this relationship would lead both of them.  Who knows if their dream would come true and they’ll end up together.  Only their destiny can tell…

FOOTNOTE:

More best friend in love stories in my next blog…. J

I have always been a fun of sariling atin movies…. Baduy? Jologs? Yeah yeah yeah…. I love reruns of old Sheryl, Christina and Manilyn movies… If I like the movie, I can watch it again and again… It brings me back to my childhood memories of watching a Snooky-Albert movie "First Love, First Kiss" with my sister for oh boy… i think we watched it 10 times or more….. it was like every morning and afternoon during summer break in grade school i guess.  But hey, nothing can beat my all time favorite movie "Pretty Woman"…. I always watch it when I go home to my hometown… say an estimate of hmmmnnn…. 30 times and counting….

What does this blog have to do with the sariling atin movies…

well… this year, i’ve seen 3… as in 3 tagalog movies in the big screen… start of the year was Mano Po 4… super funny…. chinese practice with multiple wives… ako legal wife!  I think it’s really happening in real life… i think in one way or another it happend in my circle of chinese friends and even family

Lesson learned: If you are the legal wife, get what’s intended for you… even a "baldado" husband…

The next movie i’ve seen was the Piolo-Juday starrer… Don’t give up on us Baby… (Waaahhhh, hey, i wanna share a little secret about that title… hmmmnnn…. it almost gave me false sign…. the song was hunting me when I was so confused…) Anyway, lets forget about that… It’s a very nyc movie… as a movie critic, I would have wished Juday has no Ryan… she and Piolo could have been more playful if she was not committed in real life like their previous movie… Till There was You (another favorite of mine).  A friend of mine told me that after watching the movie, she was kinda afraid of the possibility that her long-time relationship might end like that… that whoever might fall for somebody  instantly… (hey, dont worry my friend, stay strong and in love with each other and put God in the center of your relationship then that ending will just happen in that movie right?) Let me give you a little synopsis of the movie…

A successful engaged lady went to Sagada to find her bestfriend who happens to be the fiancee-on-the run of her brother and found a new love there with a happy go lucky - simple living musician… But hey, it no super fairy tale that the girl will give up everything in favor of love… but the guy adjusted to the girl… he made a career out of his beautiful voice and well… they got married and live happily… atleast more realistic than the usual "you and me against the world movie"…

Lesson learned: True love comes when you least expected it…

The lastest movie I’ve seen last nyt was "Close to you"… a John Lloyd, Bea and Sam Milby starrer… Another feel good and kilig movie…

Its a story about a girl torn between a habit and a dream… HABIT happens to be her bestfriend who’s always there for her and who’s secretly in love with her and the DREAM happens to be her childhood crush who is a celebrity (singer in a famous band).  Aside from the fact that some scenes are taken in Dumaguete… hay, Sillimanians can really relate and can smile if they’ll see the movie.. with the SU church on the background, Oriental Hall, Science Complex and the Amphi Theater and those beautiful acacia trees and ofcourse mga student in SU who are now officially "artista" in the big screen… Anyway back to the story, the girl thought she was in love with her Dream Boy and turned out that all along she was in love with her bestfriend… oh well, dream boy was broken hearted and bestfriend was happy… cute??? yeah if you can relate to the story….

Girl: Bakit di mo sinabi sa akin na mahal mo pala ako!… Ang sabihin mo duwag ka!

Boy: Oo duwag nga ako… Bakit kung sinabi ko bang mahal kita, mag I I love you ka?

Girl: OO!… Hindi ko alam….

Leason Learned: Don’t keep it to yourself… maybe she feels the same way too…

Sister: Ate, you’re confuse between a habit and a dream…

Leason Learned: Who knows, you might be in love with your bestfriend unconciously and you might be good together… because you compliment each other….

But what if its just a one way process and might screw your friendship?  Would you be willing to give up your friendship in favor of letting your friend know the real feeling or keep mum about it to save the friendship???? Again, its your choice….

I know I gotta be strong
But ’round me
Life goes on and on and on, and on
I’m gonna dry my eyes
Right after I have my one last cry (DONE!)…

And so I did… today is a new day… heads up athie… (right zie?)  I made a bet with my friend Pat and the judgement day is on Saturday… I have to win the bet… I have to win it… It doesn’t matter that is not a fancy dinner or something… starbucks lang but its the will that counts…. basta, I have to win! I have to!!!!

I just want to share the very encouraging words Pat told me last night about my 3 years in a row tears whatever… he said:

"mama, nakagrandslam ka na… d na mangyayari na mag 4th time pa yan, kahit sa championship sa basketball, la pang na nag champion tuloy2x hanggang 4th time…. so next year will be different na!"

Atleast those words comforted me…. tnx Pat… ur really a dear friend….