The bitterest thing that i got from having a summer obligation (freaking internship!) is missin out the 'Pahiyas' Festival and our town's very own 'Mayohan' sa Tayabas. Its actually very very fun. Especially the Pahiyas. The colorful houses. The sidewalk finds. The street events. The foods. The crowd. EVERYTHING. Too bad i didn't able to enjoy it! :( Not even a single glance of the parties and event every night. Bugger! I remembered last year when we we're there, along with my friends. It was sooo fun! oh yeah, that's another thing to be sorry about. You see, in this time of year is the only time that i get to see my good ol' friends. We go there together and just hang around. And this year it didn't happen. Ass hell miss them :(

Anyway, being such a loser .. boo! i might as well share with you guys some photos of the recent Pahiyas festival. Enjoy!

When i was young i thought that being on television is so cool. People love you and adore you. That's just like WOW! You're rich, beautiful and glamorous, well actually every wonderful adjective can be used to describe them. Whenever a celebrity comes to our town or have a show in the mall, the crowd gets wild. Shrieking girls and whistling guys are always present. -i always hate these scenes. It's like they'd die if they just touched the hands of these celeb people or if they got waved at. I always wondered of how they live their lives. But of course i know that like anyone else, they're just normal people who eats, laugh and even pee. It's just that, when you're a typical probinsyana (country girl) who lives far from the metro, and sees these people very seldom, maybe you'd also think of them as those 'very-hard-to-reach persons'.

However, as expected, this perspective of mine changed as i studied and lived in the Metro. Especially when i used to be always at ABS-CBN compound (the Philippines no. 1 TV station). These almost perfect people in our eyes who are being shrieked at and patronized at the malls in the provinces are just merely normal people here in the city. They wandered and shop at malls and people just ignore them. At ABSCBN vicinity, they we're not like celebrities at all. You can see them walking in shorts and simple tees. Eating, chatting and living peacefully. Nobody even yells with excitement along with their presence. And as for me, being part of these people's world. Okey don't think to much. I didn't entered the glitz and glamour world like them. What i mean of being a part of their world is being an intern in their beloved station. Anyway, anyhow i got used in seeing them like bumping to an ordinary person. And yes. i do get starstrucked most of the times still, but seeing them often, there's no much shock factor anymore. Come on. We are people and they too are people. They have families and dogs. They pray and run. They get sick and get bruises. They're not gods and goddessess for God's sake. They are again PEOPLE.
So when i see a very proud celebrity in our province' malls or town events i can't help but shake my head. They act so famous and yabang (boastful) yet they are nothing in the city. HAHA!

-just a thought from someone who now moves inside the world of Glitz and Glamour. :))

Tomorrow is indeed a very big day for Christians like me. It's Easter Sunday and i thought of posting something about it. I was supposed to blog on different easter celebrations of different countries, bec i too is curious of how various races from around the world commemorate Jesus' resurrection. But as i googled, i bumped into something more interesting. The Songkran festival in Thailand. Haven't heard of it? so do i. Ü Well, you know how much i love Thailand so i got interested in aknowledging something new regarding this festivity. Hehe.

Okey, Songkran is like Thailand's New Year celebration. It is celebrated every year from April 13 to April 15 and coincides with the New Year of many Dai calendar (possibly also Thai lunar calendar) in South and Southeast Asia. So what does it have to do with Easter sunday? Songkran and Easter sunday is pretty much alike in some ways. Both are celebrated within the same period of week. Both are sacred and significant to Catholic and Buddhist people. Both are a time of cleaning and renewal. And both have traditional ways of celebration.


Here in the Philippines, Easter sunday is celebrated by the Filipino families through outings and picnics. Some are actually having a plunge as early as Maundy Thursday. It's like a small reunion for manybecause it's the only time when almost all the members of the family are available. Although if i come to think of it, it's absolutely nonsense. I mean c'mon, why would you rush on those resorts and beaches when you know that there are probably hundreds or even thousands of people who are going there also? How can you possibly enjoy a very crowded pool or beach?
i guess its the essence of rejoicing that Jesus is alive again huh? *shrugs*

In our town, it's also celebrated this way, but there's this particular tradition that i also don't understand the logic. And as much as its being fun for others, i really really hate it. LOL.
Well that is what i'm talking about. People on easter morning splashes water on the streets. Boo! They throw it in the form of a bucket, hose, pales, glasses, everything that can hold liquid that has a rim to splash it on somebody. It's so insane right? i really hate it. It's okey if they do it within themselves and their families, but hell NO! They throw tons of water to every people who passes by. Doesn't matter if you're riding on a tricycle or a car or simply walking. Expect that you'd be wet whatever you do. Crap! Just like what happened to me and my mom in a trike last easter. We we're about to go to a friend's house, when we happened to passed by this street with super uneducated people --okey sorry for the term fellow countrymen but that's just what you showed. Anyway, they threw like a hundred gallons of water on us. And to think that i was wearing jeans that day! God!! that's Jesus' resurrection but forgive me, if i had a gun at that moment i would really shoot them all! HAHA! i swear.


Now you noticed something? This picture is no different from the second picture right?. Both have wet kids on the street. But if you're thinking that these is from the Philippines also, then think again. This photo are Thai kids on Songkran festival. Yes! its also their way of celebrating their New year, a good splash of water. It is actually being done as a ritual of bathing the Buddha images that parades the streets. But like what is happening in our town nowadays, these throwing of water also turns into a bad behavior for some. There's water fights and accidents due to several splashing of water over people riding in vehicles.


See what i mean. Same religious event, different religion. Same time period, different country. Same celebration tradition, different race. If i'd be living in Thailand i will probably stay home on Songkran festival as what i promised myself this coming Easter. Better safe than wet. HAHAHA!

Okey, i totally got this idea from Bianca G.'s blog. HAHAHA and like what she said, it spreads in the internet like mad so she just goes with the flow. And yes! i want to make my own list too It's actually fun reading peoples random facts and trivias etc. Well, here goes.


1. i only went to kindergarten once. No prep school or anything of the like.

2. i never had a 6th grade graduation.

3. it takes me 45 mins up to 1 hour to be asleep.

4. it takes me more than 30 movements in bed before i sleep.

5. i don't like cocktail parties.

6. the first real drawing that i made was betty and veronica when i was 7.

7. i usually like cold weather. Hot weather irritates me a lot.

8. i tried to watched all of Drew Barrymore's movies when i was in high school.

9. our neighbors think that i'm a shy type of person. my friends thinks the opposite way.

10. i always wanted to experience playing in the rain and climbing a tree.

11. as a kid, my 'porma' was cargo pants, big boyish shirts and rubber shoes.

12. the only place that i reached in the north was Baguio.

13. my very first travel out of the country was in 1997.

14. i only had 1 barbie doll. i don't like brushing their hair but i owned a lot of battery operated toys.

15. when i was 6, i was supposed to dance at a school program but i accidentally destroyed one of the 'pahiyas'. it made me had a tantrum that i didn't danced.

16. i don't eat okra and ampalaya.

17. i spent half of my childhood years with my cousin Marc Joseph Hsu.

18. i wanted to be a left-handed person. i don't know why.

20. if i had one bite of chocolate i wouldn't stop until i had another, and another and another.

21. i'm good at remembering scenes and dialogs in movies.

22. i enjoy watching classic cartoon series. until now.

23. strolling and wandering alone is fun for me.

24. i've been to lots of different places in the Metro more than my parents ever knew. i never ask permission. hehe

25. i want to learn how to speak Thai.

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My first reaction when I saw my friend wearing this genuine Francis Magalona dogtag was "O my God!! meron ka nyan? (you have that?)" I was in awe. I can't help but ask questions continously. And to satisfy my total struck I borrowed it from him for awhile and wore it. I'm not really a fan of Francis M. and I'm definitely not a hippie person but when I had this chain on my neck, there's this urge somewhere in me wanting to own one. I don't know, it is kinda weird. Maybe because of the Patriotic spirit that Kiko left with it. I don't feel baduy wearing it. It actually makes me feel proud wearing kiko's "three stars and a sun". It's just like wearing an identification card saying "One proud Filipino here".

A man like Francis magalona is like a legend already. A true artist who knows how to use his talents right and inspires others to do it as well. As i've said before, Im not his fan or anything but I cried at times when I was able to watch those tributes for him in television. His love for the country is something that all the Filipinos should look up to. Its just sad that he has to leave this soon. But his short life has absolutely touched millions of people, especially the Filipinos.

We might be living in a Kaleidoscope world but Kiko had tought us to have One love for we are all Magkababayans. Bon voyage Master rapper. May you have peace with our true master. :)

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I just finished watching The 81st Annual Academy Awards and i just have to blog it. I must say, Oscar's really is a very big international event and like anybody else, i too anticipates it very much. Good thing our local network aired it live via satellite. :) Anyway, i can't help but be amazed of how Benjamin Button swept numerous awards. I can't blame them though, this movie really is superb. They deserve every award they got. And oh, i just love how they put up Nicole Kidman to give an introductory speech to Angelina Jolie as one of the nominees for best actress. I had to stop watching Sawan Biang on my computer and turn to my television. I mean hey, i love the both of them and they were being connected in this event. That's just so cool! Too bad Angelina didn't won. But Kate's winning is fine also. I had liked her eversince Titanic hit the seas of the earth up to the movies and man, she has the talent to be an oscar award winner. As for the other awards, i don't really give much attention to it. HAHA. I'm contented and proud that Changeling and Benjamin Button got it to the Oscars and Kate won. Being nominated is already an achievement, what more if you'd won? :)

Here are the complete list of winners:



Best Motion Picture
WINNER: "Slumdog Millionaire"
· "The Curious Case of Benjamin button"
· "Frost/Nixon"
· "Milk"
· "The Reader"

Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role
WINNER: Sean Penn in "Milk"
· Richard Jenkins in "The Visitor"
· Frank Langella in "Frost/Nixon"
· Brad Pitt in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
· Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler"

Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role
WINNER: Kate Winslet in "The Reader"
· Anne Hathaway in "Rachel Getting Married"
· Angelina Jolie in "Changeling"
· Melissa Leo in "Frozen River"
· Meryl Streep in "Doubt"

Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role
WINNER: Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight"
· Josh Brolin in "Milk"
· Robert Downey Jr. in "Tropic Thunder"
· Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Doubt"
· Michael Shannon in "Revolutionary Road"

Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role
WINNER: Penélope Cruz in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
· Amy Adams in "Doubt"
· Viola Davis in "Doubt"
· Taraji P. Henson in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
· Marisa Tomei in "The Wrestler"

Achievement In Directing
WINNER: Danny Boyle for "Slumdog Millionaire"
· David Fincher for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
· Ron Howard for "Frost/Nixon"
· Gus Van Sant for "Milk"
· Stephen Daldry for "The Reader"

Adapted Screenplay
WINNER: "Slumdog Millionaire," by Simon Beaufoy
· "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," screenplay by Eric Roth, screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
· "Doubt," by John Patrick Shanley
· "Frost/Nixon," by Peter Morgan
· "The Reader," by David Hare

Original Screenplay
WINNER: "Milk," by Dustin Lance Black
· "Frozen River," by Courtney Hunt
· "Happy-Go-Lucky," by Mike Leigh
· "In Bruges," by Martin McDonagh
· "WALL-E," screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon; original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter

Achievement In Music Written For Motion Pictures (Original Song)
WINNER: "Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire" Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar
· "Down to Earth" from "WALL-E" by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman
· "O Saya" from "Slumdog Millionaire" Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam

Achievement In Music Written For Motion Pictures (Original Score)
WINNER: "Slumdog Millionaire," A.R. Rahman
· "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Alexandre Desplat
· "Defiance," James Newton Howard
· "Milk," Danny Elfman
· "WALL-E," (Walt Disney) Thomas Newman

Achievement In Cinematography
WINNER: "Slumdog Millionaire"
· "Changeling"
· "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
· "The Dark Knight"
· "The Reader"

Achievement In Film Editing
WINNER: "Slumdog Millionaire," Chris Dickens
· "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
· "The Dark Knight," Lee Smith
· "Frost/Nixon," Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
· "Milk," Elliot Graham

Achievement In Costume Design
WINNER: "The Duchess"
· "Australia"
· "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
· "Milk"
· "Revolutionary Road"

Achievement In Art Direction
WINNER: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
· "Changeling"
· "The Dark Knight"
· "The Duchess"
· "Revolutionary Road"

Best Animated Feature Film
WINNER: "WALL-E"
· "Bolt"
· "Kung Fu Panda"

Best Animated Short Film
WINNER: "La Maison en Petits Cubes"
· "Lavatory - Lovestory"
· "Oktapodi"
· "Presto"
· "This Way Up"

Best Live Action Short Film
WINNER: "Spielzeugland (Toyland)"
· "Auf der Strecke (On the Line)"
· "Manon on the Asphalt"
· "New Boy"
· "The Pig"

Best Documentary Feature
WINNER: "Man on Wire"
· "The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)"
· "Encounters at the End of the World"
· "The Garden"
· "Trouble the Water"

Best Documentary Short Subject
WINNER: "Smile Pinki"
· "The Conscience of Nhem En"
· "The Final Inch"
· "The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306"

Best Foreign Language Film
WINNER: "Departures" - Japan
· "The Baader Meinhof Complex" - Germany
· "The Class" - France
· "Revanche" - Austria
· "Waltz with Bashir" - Israel

Achievement In Visual Effects
WINNER: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
· "The Dark Knight"
· "Iron Man"

Achievement In Makeup
WINNER: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Greg Cannom
· "The Dark Knight," John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan
· "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

Achievement In Sound Editing
WINNER: "The Dark Knight"
· "Iron Man"
· "Slumdog Millionaire"
· "WALL-E"
· "Wanted"

Achievement In Sound Mixing
WINNER: "Slumdog Millionaire"
· "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
· "The Dark Knight"
· "WALL-E"
· "Wanted"

Ive been kinda busy this past weeks so i haven't been blogging that much. There are lots of school events that kept me away from the web. Although I noticed on my live traffic feed everytime i visit my blog that i had a lot of foreign visitors lately. Most of them are arriving from google to my Thai lakorn post (Borisud Bumbut Kaen). Which goes me to thinking that it may be anticipated by different races all over the world that much for them to search it online. It's not that much of a shocker to me though. I myself is so addicted to it. The actors are just superb! Too bad it'll end next week. :( But i believe most of the non-thai followers are very eager to watch it on full english-subbed version. Unfortunately, the subber which i posted hasen't finished the whole episodes yet. You have to understand her though. She has her work while subbing at the same time. And the translations are being sent to her by another person who is also working, i think.

Here's some links of other uploaders on YT. (Complete raw videos)
ATEAMforum
05051968sayavong
Ruchaneewan
Novova
rassvong
thinkjaden
nunnaruto
sirilakky
PoUyYyYyY
Quantitive
strawberlair
joyfultomcat

With chinese subs:
KAChineseclub
ATMChineseFanclub
ATiCharTChineseWeb


I didn't know they're these many. LOL

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Video from argemv
Aww, i loved it from the first time I saw it. Really melts my heart T_T I love the concept, the song, the style, the kids, the grown-up ones, the bitter sweet ending, everything! It had been the talk of the town since it hit the screens nationwide. And I must admit, I'm a fan of this commercial. I really am. Congatulations for a job well done Ronald. :)

BTW, i saw this classic 1989 english version of the TVC with the same concept. Its as cute and sweet as the new Tagalog version. Both unique in different ways, both melts my heart.Ü
Video from macrosunshine