'yan ang load ko ngayon.. hehehe! i wasn't planning on using 'yung binili kong call & text card the other day. i'm trying to tone down on using my cellphone load. super magastos kasi ako lately e. pero may biglang nagtext sa akin kagabi.. at di ko na-resist ang di mag-reply.. :D
GEGE -- Hi musta na? :) nagstart na pala ko sa tv patrol sa police beat
biglang gumanda ang araw ko.. eh feeling lugmok pa naman ako kahapon tapos timing na nagtext si Gege, also known as Ms. Gretchen Malalad. astig! :) i congratulated her at sinabi ko pa na manonood na pala ko ng news palagi.
btw, i had this dream last night na nakatira daw kami sa malaking bahay. much like the house na tinirhan namin sa Gen. Tinio when we were in elementary. and i had a brand new laptop at may bago daw kaming tv sa kwarto ni Abbie. may cable din. hehehe!
Christine (Anne Curtis) can think of 101 reasons why her dad must not marry her mom. The number one reason is that Georgia (AiAi de las Alas), her mother, disappeared from her life twenty years ago and never came back.
Now Christine is confused: Why does her father want to marry her mom, who had caused them so much heartache?
Christine tells her father that she will go to the Philippines to find out if Georgia is indeed worthy of his love. However, her real plan is to look for evidence to discredit her mom in her dad's eyes, so she can prevent the wedding. With the help of her Pinay yaya, Nanny Ninonu (Eugene Domingo), she captures with a videocam every little imperfection that she finds in her mom.
When Christine goes to her mother's town in Malabon, what starts out as an investigation turns out to be a hilarious yet touching journey for both mother and daughter. Christine's outrageous attempts to expose her mother's flaws are all foiled, as Georgia also comes up with hysterical schemes to win her daughter's love. Meanwhile, things get more riotous when Nanny Ninonu's blind heart falls for Junjun (John Lapus), who is obviously gay.
Again and again, Christine is frustrated as no matter how she tries to harden her own heart, she cannot help but fall in love with her mother's town and its people, especially Val (Luis Manzano), Georgia's anak-anakan. Through Val's eyes, she reluctantly begins to see what it means to have a real mother.
Despite his feelings of attraction towards Christine, however, Val is suspicious of Christine's intentions. What happens if he discovers Christine's secret plot to discredit Georgia ? Will Georgia have a place in Christine's life? Can Christine learn to accept Georgia as her mother, even if she discovers a dark secret in her mother's past?
Eventually, Christine's search for her mother's faults leads her to a discovery of true love. In trying to uncover her mother's hidden scandals, she manages to unlock her secrets to heartfelt motherhood and simple happiness.
the cast & director of "Ang Cute Ng Ina Mo"
believe it or not, nung Sunday ko lang napanood ang movie na 'to.. hehehe! nakahabol pa eh noh? sa SM san lazaro pa naman 6 lang sinehan, kaya swerte na may naabutan pa kami. last week ko lang actually nayaya si Armie. sabi ko sa kanya, kung gusto niya manood. eh sabi niya wala siyang pera, sabi ko naman libre ko siya pero sine lang. hehehe! pumayag naman. pero di ko pa alam nun kung meron pang malapit sa amin na nagpapalabas ng movie na 'to ha.
i did say na naiwan lang ako sa bahay nitong weekend di ba? then Sunday came at pumunta ko ng Morayta to meet with Elvie. may binigay kasi ako sa kanyang teddy bear and sabay na din kami nag-lunch. sandali lang kami nagkasama kasi break lang niya nun in her final preboard exams.
feeling very happy 'coz i got to see one of my good friends.. i was in a jolly mood pagdating ko ng bahay eventhough it was really hot. katanghaliang-tapat ba naman. eniweis, kakain pa lang nun ng lunch sina Mama at Armie. i rifled through the Sunday edition ng diyaryo namin and found the movie skeds. sabi ko kay Armie, "meron pa pala nung 'Ang Cute Ng Ina Mo' sa SM san lazaro oh.. gusto mo manood?"
siyempre andun din si Mama kaya ayun kaming tatlo na manonood. i even went online para makita ko lang 'yung time ng movie. para siguradong masisimulan namin. there was this 1:10pm, 3:15pm & 5:20pm (if my memory serves me right. hehe!). sira kasi ang sasakyan that day kaya commute lang kami.. kaya tiningnan ko lang talaga eh 'yung pang-hapon. and unwittingly, niyaya na din pala ni Mama si Raymond. kasi sabi ni Armie, gusto din daw ng kuya niya na mapanood 'yun. ayos lang naman, carry ko pa naman ang pang-sine nila.. sine lang talaga ha. hehe!
so it was settled na papanoorin namin 'yung 3:15 then diretsong simbahan na for the 5pm mass. i guess it was past 2pm when Mama said na magsimba na nga lang daw muna kami. nakakahiya nga naman na mauna pa ang pamamasyal kesa sa weekly obligation mo di ba? so we attended the 3:30pm Children's mass, nilakad lang namin galing sa bahay. after the mass, sumakay kami ng Retiro - Divisoria na jeep. nangingiti na nga lang on the way to SM, kasi nun lang ulit kami nag-commute with Mama. at sa jeepney pa, di taxi. bonding ituh!
after paying for the tickets, si Mama naman bumili ng snacks namin sa loob. halos di nagkakalayo ang binayaran ko sa tickets sa binili niyang food & drinks namin. nagulat nga ko at isa sa mga binili niya eh Chicken skin. ayos lang sana kaya lang 'yung suka.. ang hirap hawakan sa loob ng sinehan. at medyo naaamoy ng mga katabi namin. ahehe!
as for the movie, sobrang nakakatuwa siya. ako, si Armie at si Raymond must have been one of the noisiest there, sa kakatawa namin. pagkatapos ng movie, dun na din sana kami kakain ng dinner. the prob was offline ang Chinabank, Bancnet kasi 'yung ATM ni Mama. so 'yun, diretso uwi na lang kami. nag-withdraw na lang si Mama sa malapit na bangko sa amin at bumili ng Pares for our dinner.
like i said, bonding talaga ituh! sayang nga lang at wala nun si Papa, na nasa Hong Kong ulit at the time.. and si Abbie na pabalik pa lang from her outing. i'm glad na something as simple as watching a movie together -- ngayon lang ulit namin nagawa. at kahit papano, masasabi ko na treat ko 'yun. super lapit na din kasi ng alis nila papuntang States eh.
apart from OOTP, i've been waiting for these movies to come.. and next week, sana walang maging aberya, manonood ako ng Spiderman 3 with Abbie, Rheanne & her sister, Aigee. sa Pirates di ko pa alam kung sino makakasama ko.. pero i was hoping ang bespren ko ang kasama ko sa Shrek. ahehe!
home alone ako ngayon sa bahay.. but i really don't want to elaborate.. kaya that's that.. eniweis, here's another set of quotes. kasabay lang 'to nung love quotes.. hehe! sa totoo lang ayoko na i-send ang mga 'to sa text kaya pinost ko na lang.
If you want your friendship to be strong, never forget to tell your friend his bad qualities. - Himanshu Sharma
A true friend will always remain close to your heart. - Himanshu Sharma
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. - Richard Bach
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. - Henri Nouwen
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. - Marlene Dietrich
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. - Mark Twain
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. - Charles Caleb Cotton
True wealth can not be found in your bank account. It can only be found in those you call friend. Those with whom you share your deepest feelings. And those who accept you for who you really are. - Mary Vandergrift
It is a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. - Benjamin Franklin
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. - Jim Morrison
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. - Donna Roberts
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. - Thomas Hughes
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. - Octavia Butler
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. - Katherine Mansfield
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. - Goethe
after three weeks, ngayon ko lang nagawa ang entry na 'to.. ahehe! i just want to share 'yung mga pinuntahan naming mga simbahan nung Holy Week. ang tagal na din kasing di nagagawa 'yung talagang Bisita Iglesia na matatawag. the last time we've done it nung trip namin sa Ilocos. 14 churches in all, from sa hotel namin sa Ilocos going to Baguio.. to date, that was the coolest station of the cross ever. kasi we get to see these historic churches.
eniweis, eto na sa wakas.. in order of course! from Lourdes Church na malapit sa bahay namin, until sa Ermita Church kung saan nag-25th wedding anniversary sina Papa at Mama. sinubukan ko naman makakuha ng pics ng mga 'to kaya lang iilan lang ang nakita ko sa internet. sayang, sana pala kinuhanan ko din noon 'yung bawat puntahan namin. eniweis, i also made a slideshow of the pics namin.. :D
lately, i have this habit of searching sa internet ng mga quotes para ma-i-forward pag nakaunli ako. i compiled a lot weeks ago.. and i do mean a lot. a great number of them from Wikiquote. i got different feedback from my friends. Elvie even asked kung ok lang daw ba ko kasi andami ko daw mag-send.. kung in love daw ba ko.. huwwaaatt???!!!
eniweis, here's some of my fave.. siyempre di ko na 'to sinend pa sa iba.. baka ano pa ang masabi nila.. hehehe! well, tsaka mahaba sila. wala ko tiyaga mag-type.. hahaha! :D
All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us. - from The Wonder Years
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. . . . When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. - from The Goncourt Journals
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love. - Neil Gaiman
If I love you, what business is it of yours? - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. - Emma Goldman
I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heals our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. It is our connection to God and to each other. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"How come we don't always know when love begins, but we always know when it ends? - from L. A. Story
101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived by Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan & Jeremy Salter
1. The Marlboro Man 2. Big Brother 3. King Arthur 4. Santa Claus (St. Nick) 5. Hamlet 6. Dr. Frankenstein's Monster 7. Siegfried 8. Sherlock Holmes 9. Romeo and Juliet 10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 11. Uncle Tom 12. Robin Hood 13. Jim Crow 14. Oedipus 15. Lady Chatterly 16. Ebenezer Scrooge 17. Don Quixote 18. Mickey Mouse 19. The American Cowboy 20. Prince Charming 21. Smokey Bear 22. Robinson Crusoe 23. Apollo and Dionysus 24. Odysseus 25. Nora Helmer 26. Cinderella 27. Shylock 28. Rosie the Riveter 29. Midas 30. Hester Prynne 31. The Little Engine That Could 32. Archie Bunker 33. Dracula 34. Alice in Wonderland 35. Citizen Kane 36. Faust 37. Figaro 38. Godzilla 39. Mary Richards 40. Don Juan 41. Bambi 42. William Tell 43. Barbie 44. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 45. Venus and Cupid 46. Prometheus 47. Pandora 48. G.I. Joe 49. Tarzan 50. Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock 51. James Bond 52. Hansel and Gretel 53. Captain Ahab 54. Richard Blaine 55. The Ugly Duckling 56. Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) 57. Atticus Finch 58. Saint Valentine 59. Helen of Troy 60. Batman 61. Uncle Sam 62. Nancy Drew 63. J.R. Ewing 64. Superman 65. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn 66. HAL 9000 67. Kermit the Frog 68. Sam Spade 69. The Pied Piper 70. Peter Pan 71. Hiawatha 72. Othello 73. The Little Tramp 74. King Kong 75. Norman Bates 76. Hercules (Herakles) 77. Dick Tracy 78. Joe Camel 79. The Cat in the Hat 80. Icarus 81. Mammy 82. Sindbad 83. Amos 'n' Andy 84. Buck Rogers 85. Luke Skywalker 86. Perry Mason 87. Dr. Strangelove 88. Pygmalion 89. Madame Butterfly 90. Hans Beckert 91. Dorothy Gale 92. The Wandering Jew 93. The Great Gatsby 94. Buck (Jack London, The Call of the Wild) 95. Willy Loman 96. Betty Boop 97. Ivanhoe 98. Elmer Gantry 99. Lilith 100. John Doe 101. Paul Bunyan
i was looking for an info on the reality show Big Brother, when i came across a tidbit of an infomation na kasama nga si Big Brother sa mga wacky surveys na ganito. this is an excerpt from the book "101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived" by Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan & Jeremy Salter. though you may not agree on some, nakakatuwa pa din makita 'yung names nina Betty Boop, Luke Skywalker, Superman, Mickey Mouse, etc. :)
karir na 'to! hehehe i was going to post a different topic today kaya lang nakita ko na lumabas na ang international trailer ng Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. so naturally i opted for the trailer. and i saw this picture at Mugglenet.com - 'yung ad para sa IMAX.. yey! siguro naman merong 3d nun dito noh.. naubos na nga daw ang seats for Spiderman 3 sa IMAX in SM Mall of Asia eh.. :)
i just found out about this sa Mugglenet.com.. paging Rheanne! hehehe kelangan natin magpareserve sa IMAX ng maaga pag na-release ang version na 'to dito.. :D here's the article about it:
Warner Bros. Pictures' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to feature IMAX(R) 3D finale
LOS ANGELES, April 19 - IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that select scenes of the IMAX DMR(R) version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be digitally converted into An IMAX 3D Experience(R). IMAX Corporation plans to use its proprietary 2D to 3D conversion technology to transform approximately 20 minutes at the end of the film - which is being digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience(R) using IMAX DMR (Digital Re-Mastering) technology - into IMAX(R) 3D. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be released in IMAX(R) theatres and conventional theatres on July 13, 2007, and Warner Bros. Pictures will be the exclusive distributor of the film to IMAX theatres worldwide.
The film is based on the best-selling J.K. Rowling book and is the fifth installment of the widely successful Harry Potter film series. The previous installment of the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire which opened on November 18, 2005, shattered numerous IMAX 2D box office records at the time and has grossed more than $20 million in IMAX theatres worldwide.
"We are so pleased to be bringing audiences yet another outstanding Harry Potter film to the big screen in both 35mm and IMAX theaters," said Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures. "This is the Studio's biggest franchise to date, and we expect this highly-anticipated fifth film to play phenomenally well in all theaters throughout the summer."
"The Harry Potter films are an enormous draw all over the world, and this film should prove to be no different," added Veronika Kwan-Rubinek, President of Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures International. "The last 20 minutes in IMAX 3D will add a new element of excitement to the Harry Potter experience, making this a must-see for fans of all ages. We're looking forward to a long and very successful run."
"We couldn't be happier to help bring this Harry Potter film to life in a new way," said IMAX Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs Richard L. Gelfond and Bradley J. Wechsler. "IMAX theatres are the only place to experience this year's most anticipated movies in the world's most immersive format, and we anticipate that moviegoers will want to enjoy Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix featuring scenes in IMAX 3D more than once."
"We are delighted to once again work with David Heyman and the Harry Potter team, and Warner Bros. Pictures on another memorable Harry Potter movie," added Greg Foster, Chairman and President of IMAX Filmed Entertainment. "We know that through the magic of IMAX, fans will already feel as is if they are right next to Harry, Ron and Hermione in IMAX's larger-than-life 2D format, and we are thrilled to treat them to an even more immersive experience with the finale of the film brought to you in IMAX 3D."
