stardust

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Other

stardust may very well be on my list of favorite movies this year only because jeri watched it with me. on that count, i give it five stars. but it still doesn't make my roster of movies i so hearts in this lifetime.

because...
claire danes is in it and can i just say i strongly dislike her? she gives yvaine a bad name and she took away the mystique of stars. not too crazy about her 'moment' [that cheesy one where she talks to the mouse-tristan about love]. it was rather disappointing. for that i give it 2 stars.

it wasn't as morbid as i'd imagine it would be. too much expectations. haha. and the set isn't as lord of the ring-ish or harry potter-ish since the production design could do a little better. great PDs make the viewers want to be in the movie. stormhold just wasn't too appealing. oh well. i give 3 stars on this.

i lavet because...
michelle pfeifer is the bomb. i loved how she portrayed her character that i actually hoped she'd kill yvaine and take her heart like she was supposed to. i absolutely wanted the villain to succeed this time. oh boo claire danes. i give it 4 stars.

robert de niro's captain shakespeare knocked me off my feet. i swear i love that man in a boa. :) *winks* five stars baby!

and okay the plot was all good, translated into the movie, not so great. but still magical so i guess that merits four stars. i'm all for fairytales and cheesy happy endings. [although i still wanted yvaine to die and not tristan... oh wait, that's the book].

on the average i give the story of my life [yes, i am a star thankyouverymuch] a 3.8 roughly a four and a whoot whoot.

wedding bells

october twenny two oh seven. archbishop's palace. crowne plaza galleria.

my cousin ate margot tied the knot with the funny kuya oliver [erm, he's the tall guy somewhere here]. yey! it's official. :D she's my only girl cousin from my mom's side of the family. i've been excited about this day since i was sixteen [haha] and finally, ta-da, she has walked down the aisle. theirs is one of the love stories that's so nice to tell about. and gosh, i absolutely hearts the part where they declared their vows. *swoon* they sound beautiful, too. hehe.

naturally, camera lovin' is part of the day. awe yeah. there are more photos of me and my sibs than the couple, harhar.

happy marose day!

looking into the future...

that's bound to be as brilliant as she is. maria rosario. naks parang napakabait noh. hehe.

marose is petite and outspoken. i remember her as my blockmate who recited a lot in comm 1. she seemed like the elocutionist type of high school cliche. you'd think she's somewhat meek and mild but  i bet some of our classmates called her small and terrible. i wouldn't know for sure because i see marose differently. i wonder though if there was a more fitting word that would rhyme with small [because that, she definitely is, haha].

marose is driven to greater heights and i can't imagine her anywhere else but the top. because she deserves to be there. awe yeah, we'll meet at the stars, right? :D

mare... napakauliran mong kapatid at anak, sana paulanan ka pa ng Lord ng maraming naguumapaw na biyaya. hindi dahil sa magaling ka, kundi dahil mahal ka Niya.

i pray that you start making sense of why you were given so many talents and strengths that you may use them to achieve amazing things. where you are now is where you were meant to be... to build your character to prepare you for a bright future. i am confident of what you will become someday. i am blessed to call you friend, mare, superfriend. :D

may peace, joy and love abound in your life. jeremiah 29:13 says, "and ye shall seek me, and find me, when you seek me with all your heart." may you find the Lord and His goodness in all the things you are experiencing right now.

i love you dearly. i hope to see you soon. :)

when i can't be in baguio...

... baguio comes to me. :)
at least [some of] the people who matter.

the ISOT invasion

so these great graduate team [some active, others retired *nyahar*] members get together after the wedding and invade the isot campus of which the legendary aboy daen is administrator.

QT together, dinner, breakfast, coffee abound... with much-missed updates and discussions on everything under the SON. :)

praise God for the reminder of THOSE times.

first time nga nila ikasal

i get all sentimental and gushy around weddings [what gay kid doesn't?]. planning and preparing for this day was all heart and soul from the couple. for the whole week, it rained in the afternoon, but no rain poured on october 13, 2007. the sky was a perfect shade of blue for a garden wedding. the Lord really is so good for allowing clear skies on this day.

as kuya carlo and ate weng were reading their vows, i was all teary eyed and really, really happy that finally, they're making it official.

welcome mr. and mrs. carlo raquel! :D

pre-wedding or windang moments

"first time mo ba ikasal?"
when stress gets the best of your usually normal and steady mind, this is what happens. hello wedding bells. at least kuya carlo and ate weng get to unwind before the big day.

the wholesome-st bridal shower and stag party in the whole world. superrr funn. :D

half of the efc

katzky and me trying to be cosmo chicks. hahaha.

silaban sila ng buhay tas sigaw tayo ng sunog! sunog!

because i am very secure of my race, my being, and my heritage, i hardly make comments about what others say about Filipinos and the Philippines.

but this recent one just makes my blood boil. and i hate teri hatcher for mouthing the lines [not that she wrote it, i just hate her]. because bad lines should be nipped in the bud and i take the whole production team [actors, writers, directors and all] accountable for a distasteful attempt at being funny. the line is not funny at all. even if another country is mentioned, this kind of dialog is plain disgusting.

and then i wonder what's going to happen to that 'all-superior-white-race' *pwe pwe* if the medical people who got their diploma in some med school in the Philippines DID not save their crappy asses. last time i checked, we took care of your sick [insert whatever here].

and if that is your idea of acerbic humor, that shows just how tad desperate you are to sell. and grah.

[to be continued]