do congratulate me, it’s my 3rd day of being facebook free 🙂 funny though, i almost logged in today because i thought it was sunday. It really feels like it’s sunday, the heat included. Oh well
Category Archives: musings
blufish
After the evening service at the crl in UP, carlo and i headed to eastwood to meetup with his old choirmate, beckbeck. Most of the restos were closed so that narrowed our choices of places to eat. We almost settled for pho’hoa but decided to try something different. We eventually dined at blufish at the new eastwood mall.
Ordered manhattan chowder, louisiana gumbo, calamari salad and paella royale. A bit pricey but very good food, especially the paella. I liked the chowder and the basmati (or was it pilaf) rice they used for the paella.
After dinner, we hoped for desserts but since none were open, we headed for starbucks katipunan instead for some coffee and more chitchat about rollercoasters, new zealand and wax jobs. Fun, relaxed evening. Wish thered be more of this. It almost 2am and we just got home and the new episode of ugly betty has finished downloading so we’re watching that before turning in for the night hehehe cheers! And good night
pogi ate e.t.’s nose
😦
we got home late tuesday night after meeting up with ninang may and tito ivo and we found e.t. on the floor in the sala. pogi (the sharpei) got e.t. out of bed from the 2nd floor and dragged him down. worse part is, e.t.’s nose was missing!
here was how he looked 20 years ago (photo lifted from ebay)
here is how he looked after the crime
ive had this stuffed alien for 20 years. despite the fact that he has become mangly, scratched up and ubberly grey, i loved this toy. and i have him with me all the time! i cant even begin to explain the horror of this catastrophe. pogi has been grounded indefinitely.
here’s another earlier photo of happier times. oh, wait. johann was also attempting to swallow e.t.’s eyes. what is it with kids and stuffed aliens?
respecting and paying tribute to this lenten season, i have decided to keep off facebook (and farmville) until Easter sunday. so far ive been successful today. the only sites open on my browser the whole day were gmail and wordpress. on account of a not so busy cyber-life, i was able to do a little organizing with my files, transferring some to my external HD and clearing up about 26gb of space on luna. yey! and i was also able to organize my closet haha tomorrow will be church time
ive been downloading mostly animated films the last few weeks. at lunchtime carlo, jhem and i gorged on carne norte with potatoes while watching disney’s hercules. the film is more mainstream than atlantis but it’s no less fun. but i still cant get over disney’s pocahontas. they released a 10th anniversary dvd of pocahontas 5 years ago and i only learned recently that they added the essential “if i never knew you” song in the movie.
ive always loved the music of pocahontas, partly because it reminded me of the dramatic score of bernstein and sondheim’s west side story. i was totally caught unaware by the new scene of the 10th year anniv version. i was already choked up by then and i was saying i didnt remember them singing in the theatrical version. but they continued singing so i ended up crying like a sissy. the last time i cried hard watching an animated feature was with the Iron Giant. that’s another story.
go watch the 10th anniv version of pocahontas, it’s the only version you should be watching.
i didnt think i would be saying this but i believe we shouldnt be doing our laundry just yet. wala pa nahurot ang sanina sa cabinet! sometimes it pays to just stay at home 🙂 save the earth! haha
triptych: jhem
here is another short film we worked on for a class project back in 2002. we were tasked to group in teams of 5 (me with mike talampas and marco dela torre, from the salamin group, plus jm epilepsia and dennis domingo). the plan was to create a triptych of sorts with jm, mike and myself directing 1 episode each. marco scores the whole thing, dennis writes the screenplay, mike handles the camerawork and i edit everything. i have yet to upload the first two shorts but here’s the 3rd part, which i directed and edited. i was heavily influenced by lynch’s mulholland drive here. mind you, this was produced in 2002, and some sets we shared with the other shorts in this triptych. it was fun producing this but please dont take us seriously. hehehe
triptych: jhem stars ezer marin and reena david, two of ateneo’s best student actors and bestfriends of my cousin tootsie. most of our actors in triptych turn out to be ateneans. this short used to be titled jake but rockstar god and bestie jhem claims this is his story. ergo the change of name
🙂 cheers!
salamin unearthed
so i finally decided and got to uploading the short film we worked on back in 2001 when we were dreamers. salamin was born out of ambition and drive to be the next big-shot filmmaker of the decade. nearly 10 years later, here i am burned out and i havent even directed a short film since 2004. but i hope this reminds me of things i lost. like passion, ambition, creativity, vision and a future with the elusive oscar.
official website here. watch the whole thing here:
cold onion rings, alice in gateway and a p300 masssage
yesterday we went to gateway for dinner and a movie. burgoo was a huge disappointment. tim burton’s alice in wonderland could have been more wonderful. i reckon it could have been lord of the rings-ish but the screenwriting didnt soar as much despite the multilayered original material. good thing the massage we had afterwards was beyond expectations 🙂 always welcome after days of shoot.
our search for food led us past the burgoo restaurant in gateway and we were enticed by a photo of its shrimp and rib platter. we also ordered soup and an appetizer. the food was cold, dry and utterly disappointing. wasting good food would be sacrilegious but this was not in any way good. and despite being very expensive, we ate about 40% only and left the rest behind. it was rather heartbreaking (heartbreakingly expensive!) and frustrating, and we didnt even have the energy to bring this up with the management. apparently there are other accounts by friends who’ve had the same experience with burgoo restaurants. how can management continue with this kind of service? and the waiter had disturbingly pink lipstick on. i had nightmares afterwards. carlo also writes about this experience in his blog.
with a heavy heart, we trudged to the cinemas on the top floor. in a nutshell, depp’s performance was wonderful and i loved helena’s red queen. anne hathaway drowned in her plum lipstick and white hair. mia’s alice was a wonderful look, and the fashion was gorgeous. but the movie didnt have to be in 3d i think. tim burton is known to weave fantastic tales and paint gorgeous landscapes but when it was time to recreate an insane world and make it his home, this movie came as a letdown. the plot was too thin for such a crazy world. depp’s mad hatter was a surprise. beneath the layers of makeup and silk, he showed human emotion that transcended his character from being just a 2-dimensional cartoon to a living breathing creature. i miss the pink fur of disney’s cheshire cat but this version’s blue eyed wonder fascinates. this is this decade’s Hook and just like the spielberg pan, this confused and divided its audience.
after days of preparation and shoot, carlo and i sought to get a massage. after the movie, we headed for the one near his office in kamuning. an hour and a half later, we were renewed and ready to farm peas, white mellons and zombies again. love it ! cheers and have a good day.
Im currently in a really shitty state right now. This may be because of two things. One is that i might be burned out. I realized that this morning before my alarm went off at 2am (in preparation for a shoot). Ive been having a really shitty time preparing for shoots and meetings, terminally lazy and id rather sleep or stay at home all day. I eventually became emotional because im so stressed and caught in a place i dont want to be in. I need to break free.
benjamin padero 