oh. another thing.

have i said this already?

Disney's gonna make a movie out of the Shopaholic series, starring Isla Fisher as Becky and Hugh Dancy as Luke. I don't know them either, but Hugh Dancy's the guy who played Prince Char in Ella Enchanted (remember him?)

i'm not exactly jumping-out-of-my-boots excited, but i'm eager to see what the movie will be like. :)

comics for the soul

well not really, but i still hope you enjoy them. :D





today, we had a math long exam. whoopee.

danica went to banapple and i went with her. i bought three slices of banoffee pie which is now still sitting untouched in the fridge. total self discipline right there!

and um. hmm. nothing happens to me, really. my life is more boring than watching clouds pass by... (well actually medyo fun nga manood ng clouds eh.) but i'm not complaining. i'd rather have a boring, nothing-to-blog-about life than a life full of problems

oh yeah! the fun thing i'm actually doing is that i'm downloading PVs (promotional videos, i.e. music videos) of Johnny's bishounen... and well. you guys don't want to hear about that...

floweeeeeers

while writing a long paper on flowers and their symbolism in poetry is fun and all, it just makes me want to hit myself on the head and/or go to a flower garden and ditch the paper.

i wonder if putting pictures in my paper will earn me a low grade. or maybe my teacher (who is a guy but not quite) will like pictures of flowers. i mean, I like pictures of flowers. why won't he? maybe he'll want to go to a flower garden and give me an A. ;)

i just need a break. back to the papeeeeeeeer.........

my shoulder hurts a lot. i need to go visit my old friend, Salonpas.

happy EDSA!

best picture: no country for old men
best actor: daniel day lewis
best actress: marion cotillard

nanalo ratatouille!


don't mind me, i'm just studying for a potential lit quiz. :D

my lit teacher was going to give a free cut yesterday to watch the oscars. pero, nagkaholiday rin, so no free cut. :(


so anyway, feel ko ulit mag share, so here's my Lit short paper that i'm supposed to submit tomorrow. my mind wasn't working right when i wrote this so it might not make sense (MIGHT) but anyway, feel ko lang nakakatuwa siya so there you go. :D

I was in third grade when my mother enrolled me in a summer piano class. As a child, of course, I didn’t relish the idea of going to school every day when it was my chance to sleep until noon and watch TV for the rest of the day. Yet I was eager to try playing the piano. It was something a lot more different than what I was always doing at school. It was the chance for me to become like my Sunday school teacher, a pretty young lady who could play the piano and sing at the same time. It was, for me, the ultimate goal to achieve, although my seven-year-old mind did not think of it as a “goal”.

I had a wonderful time. I loved how my fingers would press down on the keys and there would be that soft lingering tone from the wooden contraption. I learned how to identify the different time signatures, how to find the middle C, how to tell a quarter note from a whole note.

At the end of the class, there was to be a recital for all the piano students. I was eager to show off my skills, and I was assigned to play “Mary Had a Little Lamb”. It was a very easy piece and I was confident. During the recital, I went up the stage as I was told to do, sat down on the bench, and played. It lasted for 10 seconds.

When I was done, I curtsied to the applause of the audience and went to sit beside my mother. “Why did you hit a wrong note?” she asked. Wrong note? What wrong note? I followed the score on the book! Turns out that the book, which was designed for beginners, only uses three notes for the piece, when the actual song has five notes. Thus, on my first recital performance ever, I made a mistake. And it wasn’t even my fault.

After that, I continued my piano lessons. Although I have stopped since entering college due to the busy schedule, I never forgot that first piano performance. That book could still be in print until today, I can’t be too sure, but there had to be other people who had the same experience because of it.

I don’t know if that day had any lasting psychological effects on me, but at least now I know that books aren’t always right.

i'll give a prize to whoever knows the title of that piano book :D

ym stat message of the day:

"Talent Scout=looking for talent. Boy Scout=looking for..."
-Christian Laron

Classic. :D

Random Stuff

Arashi's newest single "Step and Go" is such a happy song I can't help but want to share it to you guys. :D

Enjoy!



AND I UPDATED "UNTANGLED" AT LAST! CHAPTER 10 UP! GO SEE!

i haven't been doing this for some time but this just really has to go into my collection

YM stat message of the day:

there is no "i" in "team" but there is an "i" in "pie", and there is an "i" in "meat pie", and the anagram of "meat" is "team"

-Kasey Albano (an AJSS friend. she doesn't know i stole this from her though. ;) )

see? who can argue with that logic?

because i'm really bored

You Are Green Tea Pocky

Your attitude: natural and zen Peaceful yet full of life. Deep and thoughtful. You're halfway to tantric bliss!

What Flavor Pocky Are You?

You Are 7 Up

Understated and subtle, people warm up to you slowly. But once they're hooked, they can't imagine going back to anyone else! Your best soda match: Diet Coke Stay away from: Mountain Dew

What Kind of Soda Are You?

Your Superpower Should Be Mind Reading

You are brilliant, insightful, and intuitive. You understand people better than they would like to be understood. Highly sensitive, you are good at putting together seemingly irrelevant details. You figure out what's going on before anyone knows that anything is going on! Why you would be a good superhero: You don't care what people think, and you'd do whatever needed to be done Your biggest problem as a superhero: Feeling even more isolated than you do now

What Should Your Superpower Be?

Your Extroversion Profile:

Assertiveness: High Cheerfulness: High Activity Level: Medium Sociability: Medium Friendliness: Low Excitement Seeking: Very Low

How Extroverted Are You?

You Are Quite Worldly

You've done a good bit of worldly exploring, and you have an international perspective. And you're definitely looking forward to your future adventures abroad. You've got the passport, the desire to travel, and maybe even the language skills. Now all you need are the means!

How Worldly Are You?

You Act Like You Are 16 Years Old

You are a teenager at heart. You don't quite feel like a grown up yet, but you don't feel like a kid. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. You're quite rebellious, and you don't like being told what to do. You like to do things your way. You have your own unique style, taste in music, and outlook on life.

What Age Do You Act?

because everybody's taking it

You Should Learn Japanese

You're cutting edge, and you are ready to delve into wacky Japanese culture. From Engrish to eating contests, you're born to be a crazy gaijin. Saiko! I honestly did not cheat on this test. Now I really HAVE to go learn Japanese! >.<

What Language Should You Learn?

You Are An ISFJ

The Nurturer You have a strong need to belong, and you're very loyal. very true... :D especially the first part. X.X A good listener, you excel at helping others in practical ways. I do! well, at least, I hope I do. In your spare time, you enjoy engaging your senses through art, cooking, and music. true! You find it easy to be devoted to one person, who you do special things for. i'm not sure what this means... In love, you express your emotions through actions. Taking care of someone is how you love them. And you do it well! is this true? i do try to express my "emotions" with my family this way. oh wait. i yell a lot. does that count? At work, you do well in a structured environment. You complete tasks well and on time. i'm just a good crammer. and i'm proud of it. XP (joke lang, i sometimes suck at cramming din naman) You would make a good interior designer, chef, or child psychologist. wow. mga dream jobs ko. (except CHILD psychologist because i don't really like kids.) How you see yourself: Competent, dependable, and detail oriented that's only how i see myself, huh. so i'm not really like that? When other people don't get you, they see you as: Boring, dominant, and stuck in a rut now THIS is true. haha. bossy daw ako eh :P boring? AM I boring? (okay, don't answer that)

What's Your Personality Type?

life is like taekwondo

you get beat up a lot and some people don't care if they kick you a little too hard or if they miss the armor (in other words, you receive the full blow) and hit you somewhere that hurts a lot. and the thing is, it's all part of the game and people get POINTS for kicking you hard enough to knock you out. then you realize that you have to kick as hard as them to be able to win but you can't because their hands are in the way and you don't want to accidentally kick their hands. and because you're such a pathetic loser, you, well, lose. you lose the whole game and get an F in P.E. Yay.

Okay, I'm kidding. You probably won't get an F. But you know, that's the only part where I'm kidding.

Bye bye now, I'm going to go prepare for life.

oh yeah

i forgot to tell you guys this story, i've been telling it to EVERYBODY. so it feels like I just have to say it here too.

so kagabi, nanood kami ng play which was at 7 pm. so me and my blockmates and danica (wrong grammar but who cares?) went to katipunan for dinner. then pagbalik namin, tumawid kami sa overpass. then pagbaba naman, whoa, may noise barrage thingy! tapos pnajoin kami, humawak daw kami ng cartolina on which was written stuff like "blow your horns for jun lozada". nakisali naman kami. hahaha. wala lang. i know this is not really funny or anything, but i just had to share. :D

i have a pic of danica holding a cartolina that says "busina para sa bayan" and here it is:


ay joke lang. picture to come later since di ko pa masaksak cell ko (new phone!) sa pc. :)

it's hard to make post titles

may nagcoconcert sa baba. guess who? it's michael lim. the guy who sang the butterfly song nung inauguration ng audi (and he just sang it tonight)

it's not REALLY a concert, actually may chinese new year party lang and s/he happens to be the host/entertainer

well, ewan ko lang kung nakwento ko na to dati, i'm too lazy to go check but anyway here goes. nung inauguration, I was in the CR with a bunch of my friends, then biglang, surprise surprise, may pumasok sa CR. si mr/ms michael lim. well. laking gulat naman namin. i know that walang sign sa door that says "ladies" or kung meron man, hindi napapansin, or kung napapansin nya, baka feel lang nya lady din cya. so then pumasok cya, humarap sa salamin at nag ayos ng buhok. and then bigla na lang "MEE-O-MEE-O-MEE!!!" Nagvocalize nga. tinanong pa sa amin, "hindi ba kayo nagvovocalize?" (or at least something to that effect.)

how fun high school is. di ko nga naman tlga makalimutan.

so anyway, nanood ako kanina ng "My Bestfriend's Girlfriend". Yes, ung kay Marian Rivera at Richard Gutierrez. maganda cya (or baka mababaw lang ako. mas likely ata to) ayoko magkwento. haha. basta maganda. period.

on another note, rachel has a new link. it's over there on the side.

she's using wordpress. hmmmm.... should i switch?

EDIT: Well, Ja was nice enough to correct me. It's "SI-O-SI-O-SIIIIIII!" not "meeomeeomee". :P thanks ja!

yay nemu*nemu!

hellooooo

read nemu*nemu! >:D<

it's a super cute comic about two little stuffed puppies :)

click here!

so

have I talked about the newest addition to my (feeble) book collection?

no, i haven't.

I recently bought the book "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman (of Stardust fame) from the book sale at Ateneo for P200.

It was a children's book and has big fonts and only 185 pages.

Since I'm lazy, I'll just copy the summary/review from Amazon.com: "British novelist Gaiman (American Gods; Stardust) and his long-time accomplice McKean (collaborators on a number of Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels as well as The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish) spin an electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons. After Coraline and her parents move into an old house, Coraline asks her mother about a mysterious locked door. Her mother unlocks it to reveal that it leads nowhere: "When they turned the house into flats, they simply bricked it up," her mother explains. But something about the door attracts the girl, and when she later unlocks it herself, the bricks have disappeared. Through the door, she travels a dark corridor (which smells "like something very old and very slow") into a world that eerily mimics her own, but with sinister differences. "I'm your other mother," announces a woman who looks like Coraline's mother, except "her eyes were big black buttons." Coraline eventually makes it back to her real home only to find that her parents are missing--they're trapped in the shadowy other world, of course, and it's up to their scrappy daughter to save them. Gaiman twines his taut tale with a menacing tone and crisp prose fraught with memorable imagery ("Her other mother's hand scuttled off Coraline's shoulder like a frightened spider"), yet keeps the narrative just this side of terrifying. The imagery adds layers of psychological complexity (the button eyes of the characters in the other world vs. the heroine's increasing ability to distinguish between what is real and what is not; elements of Coraline's dreams that inform her waking decisions). McKean's scratchy, angular drawings, reminiscent of Victorian etchings, add an ominous edge that helps ensure this book will be a real bedtime-buster."

I loved the book. I love children's books, actually, more than old people books (heh) and although they are often not worth the money (since you can like, finish them in an hour or so) they're the books that are really memorable because first of all, they don't have adult themes that frankly, disturbing, and second, they have a kind of "deeper meaning" and are not pointless like chick lit books.

So there you go. :D

it's been a while

for the past week nag movie marathon ako since i recently discovered Video City Katipunan. 16 pesos per movie! VCD lang nga cya, but it's better than nothing.

And here we have it, Charmaine's Bite Size Movie Reviews:

1. Forrest Gump (starring Tom Hanks)- At first it doesn't seem like anything special, but the ending is what makes the movie bittersweet. Kind of gives you a new perspective on people in general.
2. Alex & Emma (starring Luke Wilson and Kate Hudson) - Your regular romantic comedy fare. Luke Wilson plays a novelist, while Kate Hudson is the stenographer he hired to type his novel. So throughout the movie, there are bits of the novel inserted in it. So it's kind of like a movie IN a movie. Fun stuff.
3. The Dust Factory (starring Hayden Panetierre)- This must be one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen. Not that it's bad, though, it's not. It's just hard to understand. Somewhere near the end you might get what it's saying, but it's still a big blur, mostly. Watch this if you want to get a headache (joke lang :P). Also,
   
4. Big Fish (starring Ewan McGreror and Billy Crudup, directed by Tim Burton) - This is my new favorite movie. No, seriously. There's this guy whose dad has been telling tall tales all his life. And throughout the movie, we get to know the stories the father tells about his life. So, well, I kind of just butchered it up right there. It's hard to describe. It's the kind of movie where you have to watch it to understand.
5. The Perfect Score (starring Scarlett Johannson and Chris Evans) - This is sort of an Ocean's Eleven movie, except with teenagers. They attempt to steal the answers to the SATs (their version of our NCAE except that theirs aren't as useless). It's not as good as Ocean's Eleven but it's okay...
6. Lovewrecked (starring Amanda Bynes) - Your typical girly movie, and since Amanda Bynes isn't your typical teen star, well, she does pretty well in this movie. It's a unique plot, in my opinion, completely different from what we usually see because in this movie, Amanda and this rock star become castaways. And well, the trouble ensues and of course, you know, in the end, she always lives happily ever after.

More coming soon! Marami pa akong movies na hiniram pero di napapanood :D