"hi miss"

Okay, I know more than a few people who would be ready to smack me the minute they see this. But just because it's the month of February, I'm posting some lines from a well-forwarded email.

"Geometry b fave subject mo? Kasi kahit anong angle ang cute mo" <-- just warming up

"Hindi tayo tao, di tayo hayop. BAGAY tayo" <-- getting there

"Ako na lang mgbabayad ng tuition fee mo, pag-aralan mo lang na mahalin ako" <-- WAHAHAHA!

I know, these are just horrible (but undeniably funny).

the other sister

I am not writing about myself here. I'm writing about a movie from the late nineties.
Although the similaritty of the plot has glaring similarity with Benny and Joon, the tones are very different.

While there were tender moments in the movie and scenes that may you feel squirmish and almost embarrassed (that often make good romantic movies in the first place), I felt that the movie dragged on. Halfway through the movie, I wanted to fast forward.

The movie was a bit too heavy for me and somehow, I didn't feel much relief from my anxiety building throughout the movie. It was like a cocktail that is unbearable toxic and sweetness in your mouth did not linger as the aftertaste.

I don't think my heart could endure sitting thorough this again.

I would say however that the movie was well cast. Juliet Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi were SUPER B. Hahahaha.

new moon

I just finished reading the sequel of Twilight. The book is predictable, even the title by itself will tell you what it is about. And even if the title was Twilight II, the author did more than hint on what was coming in the succeeding book anyways.

There were less of the kilig moments. Hahahaha. Did I just type that?

I am still not convinced that she is a genius, but I would go as far as saying that I would be on with the third book soon.

twilight, the book

I just finished reading the book, and I can totally understand the reason behind the bestseller.

I will still not put it in the list of my favorite books, but I would say that it has an appeal.

I'm not sure if men and boys will enjoy this as much as girls. I wrote girls, with this I mean, young women as I am sure that it was the young woman in me who enjoyed the book.

It had a formula plot. The most good looking guy in school notices a clumsy, helpless--but very brave and supposedly unique individual who doesn't realize that she is special. She is oblivious to her appeal to the opposite sex and insists on selflessness (of course I would be the first to say that there is no such thing and that I could back that up with specific sections of the book, but as this is a book for young adults, and this is not the time to debate over technicalities, I will put a halt to that trail of thought). No serious creativity, but it had moments.

Overall, I'd say that it's not bad, I however want to point out that this is a mood book, I don't know if there is such a term. What I mean simply is that, you have to be in a certain mood to like this book. There would be books that you can't put down--even when you have to, this isn't--unless, as suggested by the term, you are in a certain mood.

(If you still can't get it, it is like the movie Sideways. The first time I saw it, I fell asleep, on my second attempt, I realized that I actually love it. Mood movie.)

vampires

I think there is only one person I told this to.

I guess it was just almost never the right time to talk about it.

When I was a kid, I imagined the fangs of a vampire to be hollow--with a vacuum. Think fountain pen. I imagined that with it, they would rip the skin, get into the flesh and the vacuum will do the trick--like twin syringes.

I realize of course that there was some over thinking there. The fangs are solid. And blood sucking is manually performed by the vampire. I haven't met a vampire, what more inspected vampire fangs. But I'm quite confident that those pointy things are not that complicated.

what do you know, jon snow?

I've had a copy of the Jon chapter that George RR Martin released a few months back, a teaser for A Dance with Dragons. This is the second, the first released chapter was Tyrion's. For some reason, I never got into reading it until today.

"Do not be so certain." The ruby at Melisandre's throat gleamed redly. "It is not the foes who curse you to your face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking and sharpen their knives when you turn your back. You would do well to keep your wolf close beside you. Ice, I see, and daggers in the dark. Blood frozen red and hard, and naked steel. It was very cold."

"It is always cold on the Wall."

"You think so?"

"I know so, my lady."

"Then you know nothing, Jon Snow," she whispered.

The last line gave me goosebumps. And just like that, I'm back anticipating the next book.

rafa in polka

Nadal <-- Australian open champion :)

I bet the polka shorts had something to do with it.

(Maybe I should wear polka to the gym, then I could be at it for more than four hours)