it’s been an awful long time since i’ve last written. i miss the feeling.
i’ve been in makati ten days now, and i’ve had a lot of time to myself; a lot of time to walk, a lot of time to think, a lot of time to think about what to write but never enough time to write them. i regret having to squeeze them all in one post, but i have little choice. sigh.
i am helpless without my zee. four years ago, the first time i bought clothes by myself, i concluded that some things, like buying clothes, should be left to girls. i reinforce that conclusion. when left alone to do my shopping i end up buying too-expensive socks, too-tight slacks and too-large shirts, in colors that i’ve never worn before. each day begins with a resignation that i don’t know what the hell i’m wearing and by the time i reach the office i don’t even care anymore. -__- all the company cares about is that i don’t wear t-shirts of jeans anyway.
i found a copy of octavia butler’s “wild seed” in buy-the-book, a bargain bookstore near where i’m staying. the sticker price was 99 pesos, stuck over a 309-peso powerbooks sticker. ^^ i bought it as a gift to myself and finished reading it yesterday. it came very highly recommended by orson scott card, one of my favorite authors, but my official review of it was less than spectacular: i found it very nicely written (good), largely disturbing (okay) and painfully unresolved (bad). i would have liked anyanwu (the main character) to have had more of a victory over doro, especially after all the abuse she went through those hundred and fifty years. with the story’s conclusion, i found her to be much too submissive for my tastes. dammit.
note to self, do not mistake pasong tamo avenue for pasay road. and remember, stupid street signs use the names pasong tamo and chino roces interchangeably. i ended up walking a long, long, long way from sta ana race track to don bosco tech. inst. tonight because of that mistake. sprained my ankle too. lesson learned.
i have decided today that instead of buying jollibee’s hot choco drink each morning, i will buy from dunkin donuts on the ninth floor, for the simple reason that, unlike jollibee, dunkin uses paper cups. and as much as i like their pancakes, i will cease from buying them until they stop serving them on styrofoam. it’s not about global warming of tree-hugging or whatnot. it’s common sense. there are alternatives to polluting.
there is also something that i want you to watch, if you can get your hands on a copy and if you can stomach it. it’s a conspiracy-theory documentary about christianity, september 11, and american banking. it’s called zeitgeist, and whether or not you believe it, i think it is worth the watch.
ignore the introduction. the narration was unintelligible and the images of war were just hurtful. if you’re sensitive about your christian faith you can skip the first part entirely and jump straight to 9/11. the creator, the same guy who made “the god who wasn’t there”, has a habit of using sarcasm and irony that doesn’t really complement his arguments. and he presents some good arguments, really. being agnostic, i don’t feel the need to defend the christian faith so much and probably less prone to being offended that, say, a faitful christian, so if you do decide to watch the first part, try to do so while delaying judgement. if you don’t decide to watch it, that’s fine too.
the part about the events of 9/11 being orchestrated by the united states government itself scared me a little, and i’m inclined to believe it even now. the part about how the three buildings free-fell seemed eerily convincing to me.
the banking part was perhaps a little too conspiracy-ish for me. but it was good enough for entertainment, i guess.
lastly, a few words about movies.
hulk - 7/10. the fight sequence was hyped up way too much by my friends. i think i liked ang lee’s version better.
wanted - 9/10. a must watch. great concept, great plot, great cast, great action. the only reason it didn’t get a 10/10 is because the action still could have been better. they took a concept full of potential but didn’t take it as high as it could have gone.
four years ago, on my first birthday here in manila, i concluded that it was almost impossible to have fun on your own. you can be happy, you can be content, you can be entertained, but “fun” is almost impossible, and attempting it, for me, is quite painful. i reinforce that conclusion. watching movies alone is no fun.
i am helpless without me zee.
ok ra na. you’ll get used to it and you’ll learn how to do stuff for yourself later on.
I never thought you’re so honest on your fashion disability without your Zee!
it’s not so much a fashion disability as it is a fashion disregard. but when you work for international corporations in makati city, you have to pretend you know what you’re wearing. that’s kinda difficult / annoying for me. -_-
how about hancock? ^_^
my palalabs told me after we watched wanted that were scenes shown in the trailers but were not in the film’s final cut, like that kissing part between Jolie and McAvoy daw.. “Is this when we start to bond?” asks McAvoy. “Would you like to?” Jolie purrs. Then there’s a shot of the two smooching.
Saw the trailer weeks before pero wa ko karemember.. kaning mga laki, smooching scene ramay atngan, hehhe..
this may sound cliche frank pero kaya ra na, ^_^..
unfortunately, due to financial constraints I have not yet seen hancock. -_- i hope it is still out this monday.
i don’t remember seeing that part of the trailer but it might have been cut in the final film. i remember a scene with curved sniper crosshairs in the trailer though, and don’t remember seeing it in the final scene. but then again, i might have missed it while waiting for the smooching scenes, hehehe. kidding.
being in an international company, you’ve got to dressed like the company. seems like they are going to make you their drone.