BIG GRIN

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Holidays are in.  Everyone is excited to spend this time with their families, so do I. I am a student, like any other, I am exhausted and stressed with the school works and stuffs loaded by my academic activities. And these types of holidays are heaven to me. I can bond with my family and comfort my mind a little bit.

Christmas has approached. But before that event came, two days before, my parents had a misunderstanding resulting my father did not sleep in our house for a night. I thought they were really going part ways. I don’t wanted it to happen so I prayed really hard, in the church and every night. And thank God, my father went home a day before the Christmas and they were okay now. Maybe my father realized that my mother is telling those stuffs for his welfare (my father is a little bit drunkard and my mother stopped him).

We went to church together, as far as i can remember it was the first time that we have gone to church together in  Christmas eve. And I am really happy. after that mass, we waited until 12 and greeted each other.

Though we do not have an extravagant celebration, as long as our family is bonded together by our Lord, i am extremely happy.

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Say it Loud

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If you have something to say and they have ignored it, say it loud.

If you want to be heard, say it loud.

If you want to stand by your foot, say it loud.

If you’re confident, say it loud.

If it is important say it loud.

If you have something to say, say it loud.

 

but don’t shout.

 

just say it loud and CLEAR.

 

If you have the voice, say it loud.

If you’re on the right track, say it loud.

Don’t mute yourself.

Our voice is precious as gems.

Words might be painful as knife and precious as diamond, but what important is, we must say it loud.

truth hurts, but it is necessary…

to live in fidelity, is like breathing fresh and unpolluted air.

Collect all your strength and courage and YOU must say it loud.

 

Say it loud.

in any form, in any expression.

bring it out from yourself.

it’s time for you to be heard and to speak.

stand in a stern posture. breathe in and SAY IT LOUD.

say it PROUD.

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Title: The Healing

Director: Chito Ronio

Main Characters:

Seth: The one who referred her friends to Mang Elsa and force her to heal them.

Jed: Son of Seth, and half- brother of Cookie

Cookie: the last person healed by Manang Elsa

Chona, Dodie, Greta, Ding, Alma, Kakay : the persons who have healed by Manang Elsa, in order.

Manang Elsa: The healer.

Dario: the soul eater of the dead people that have been healed by Manang Elsa

Melchor: Brother of Manang Elsa who stopped the group of Seth, and killed Dario.

Synopsis:

Seth brought her father to a healer named Manang Elsa, after a day, her father was well as if he had never experienced stroke, because of the miraculous event, her friends gathered up also to be healed, while Jed, her son saw what happened to her grandfather, he referred his half sister to his mother to be brought in the healer, at first Seth refused, to her son and friends but in the end, she brought them to Manang Elsa. Melchor told the group of Seth, that his sister will cure no more and she has sick, but Seth force her to heal. They were all healed after the day, but the murders started. But first, Seth could see crows in her house then she could see the doppel ganger of the persons that have been healed.

The people murder other people then murder themselves; the pattern is chronologically, as they were healed by Manang Elsa. Before the death of Kakay, Janice( friend of Seth) and Seth went to Manang Elsa, but Melchor told them, that she died, killed by her patient Dario, Melchor told them that his sister brought the life of a person that supposed to be dead, that’s why the people that Manang Elsa healed after she brought the life of the dead, will die if they could see their dapple ganger. The only way to stop the cursed is to kill Dario.

After Kakay murdere herself, Seth took an action for the last people that have been healed by Manang Elsa, which is Cookie. She and Jed isolated her in a place far from her family, to be watched. After that day, Seth went to Dario, she attempted to poison him, but she failed. When Seth got back to the house where Cookie was isolated, she find that all the furniture were misplaced and not long after, She saw the dapple ganger of Cookie, and it attempted to kill her but she had escaped.

They thought that the cursed had stopped when Cookie escaped from her dapple ganger but, it does not until Melchor gunned Dario down from his prison.

POSITIVE POINTS:

  1. The originality has in the story, I never seen a movie, international nor local like this. This Movie makes proud that I’m a Filipino, that we could think original and we are so creative.
  2. The healing has used symbolism that makes me think, like the colors, at first I did not understand what was that for, but as I kept thinking, I figured it out (maybe).
  3. The healing wasa movie that could line up to the international horror movie just like “The Road” and “Sigaw(ECHO)”
  4. It does not shown instant gratification but it lets the audience think.
  5. Ms. Vilma Santos shown that she is ageless in her passion.
  6. The camera shots were used wisely and brilliant.
  7. The sound effect and transition effects were good.
  8. The pacing of the camera shots and focuses were balanced.

CRITIQUING POINTS:

  1. I have noticed some, most especially the reaction of my friends who also watched the film.  I noticed that they don’t want to think, they want the movie get them want they want.
  2. In the scene where Seth’s Friend and her were having a meeting, I notice that Ding, lost his headroom for a second.
  3. In the scene where Ding was shooting, it seemed like we were playing counter strike, maybe they could use tracking from side angle of him from the rooms, not showing his victims but only his emotions, to lessen the violence seen.
  4. I have notice in the same scene, one victim that has been shot but he crawled, while the others were dead.
  5. The scene where the dapple ganger of Cookie (Kim Chiu) avoided the jar that Seth thrown to her, it’s been the comedy scene to the film, maybe she should not avoid the jar, she let it hit her to tell audience that they are powerful and firm.
  6. The film I think has the disunity, from the expression of Cookie when she woke up after she was back to normal.

RATE: 5 reels.

Breaking Dawn Part2

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Director: Bill Condon

Main Characters:

Cullen Family and their witnesses: protect and testify that Renesmee is not an immortal from Volturi.

Volturi : The classic Vampires who impose vampire rules by torturing and killing.

Bella : New born Vampire, mother of Renesmee

Edward: Father of Renesmee

Jacob: Renesmee’s ment to be.

Renesmee: Half Vampire. Daughter of Edward and Bella.

Synopsis:

Bella woke up as a Vampire and Renesmee grew faster. When Irina saw Renesmee, she was threaten that Renesmee might kill their race, she when to Volturi to tell what she had seen; meanwhile Alice saw what will happened, she and Jasper leave immediately to find a half vampire similar to Renesmee and she told her family to gather many witnesses to testify for Renesmee, before Voturi came and kill her. Voturi came, Aro the supreme Volturi touced by Renesmee testified that she is not an Immortal, Irina was killed and that provoked the war. But before the war had started, Alice came with Jasper and she showed her vision, that Volturi will all be killed if they will start a war.

Critiquing Points:

I never thought it would be as epic and as amazing as it is at first. All I can say is, It is a worth watching movie, the best movie I’ve seen this year. Three-letter word will define the movie. WOW.

Mr. Bill Condon did give justice to this movie, so as Kristen, Robert and Taylor and all the casts and the whole production.  Every scene was a must watch and breathe taking most especially the fight scene between the volturi and the Cullen’s with their witnesses. It was superb, I cried and it felt like it was a torture for me, my heart hurts, seriously I don’t know why. I am not a fan at all, but I was moved by this movie. The movie was full of emotions, audience could feel it all, anger, sadness, triumph, as if we were in the scene.

The fight scene was so brilliant. The suspension, thrill excitement and all, I feel like I released it all when I watched it. Tears fell from my eyes. I hate Jane most especially and all the Volturi but thanks it did not happened. I swear if that happened, I will curse her.

Renesmee was so gorgeous; the character was well suited to Mackenzie Foy, the innocence in her eyes and the sweet face of hers and more. She’s perfect.

The effects were so great and it looks like the reality. So as the camera angles and movements it had.

I could not see flaws from it, maybe some technical aspects such as the fast pacing of some camera movements from the first scenes.  But all in all, it was an AMAZING movie. Surely it’ll hit. It’s all worth the wait. And all I can say is W-O-W. See it for yourself.

5 stars out of 5.

taken2quadTitle: Taken2

Director: Oliver Megaton

Main Characters:

Bryan: Husband of Lenore and father of Kim.

Lenore: Wife of Bryan that has been kidnapped with her husband.

Kim: The Daughter who saved her parents from Murad Kranisqi

Murad Kranisqi: the one who kidnapped Bryan and his wife to take a revenge for his son.

Synopsis:

Because of their grievances when Bryan killed Murad’s son, they took revenge to him, they kidnapped him together with his wife. With Bryan’s intelligence he made sure the safety of his daughter which led to saved them. With the guidance of her father, Kim escaped from her kidnappers and brought the gun to her father, later on Bryan got escape from them, but he left his wife to the kidnappers to save his daughter that in the hand of danger.

The kidnappers got his wife; she was wounded that’s why she was so weak. In order to save her, Bryan had to fight and defeat all her kidnappers. When they were all down, and when he found their leader, Murad. Bryan made a deal with him but he did not comply to him, so he had killed him. The death of Murad will take another revenge from their race.

POSITIVE POINTS:

  1. The story was indeed an amazing one.
  2. The suspension, action and thrill were in there!
  3. The Camera shots were superb; it let the viewers know what’s going on in an instant.
  4. The sound effects that had used made the film more exciting and more thrilling.
  5. The wide shots were WOW!
  6. Every scene was a breathe taking and you must remember all the elements that they had put, for it have relation to the end of the film.
  7. The story was delivered well in the film.
  8. The script was so brilliant.
  9. The characters were so perfect with their emotions.

CRITIQUING POINTS:

  1. There were absences of head room in the first part of the film.
  2. The pacing of the camera when the characters were talking sometimes were fast.
  3. The movie blurred sometimes.
  4. In some way, the camera was shaky.

RATE: 5 reels.(highest)

Misadventure of Three Sisters

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Charming’s Angel is our name; we consisted of Me, Dea, and Diana. Originally, we have Efren as Charming and us, as his Angels. The tale started on our first year in High School where Dea and I were classmates and at the same time we shared the same school service. Since then we sat beside wach other until we got along so well.

While, Diana was my classmate since first grade yet we do not consider each other as super friends, until she sat beside Dea and I, and the rest was history.

One hot and sunny afternoon, after class, we decided to walk home. Dea and I were wearing plain white shirt and our skirt uniform matched with our rubber shoes. Meanwhile Diana wore our blouse and skirt uniform complimented with her rugged shoes.

Because we did not bring our umbrellas, we suffered the tremendous punishment of the sun. Sweat run from our sulky faces.  We did walk for silence; it was an unusual for me, because I knew we were so loud.

We were walking along the side of high way, Dea was on my front, Diana was on my back, no one spoke until he passed by. Who is he? Well, he made our day so hilarious and adventurous.

He was known as “Richard” he has mental illness, one of our classmates told us, that he is harmful and he could chase anyone he like.

As he was passing by with his walkman on his ears, our exhausted and sweating body awaken. Dea thre a suspicious look at me, then I threw the same look at Diana when she saw the presemce of Richard after her. And that time, frighten beheld us.

As I was eyeing Richard and Diana as well, I saw he stopped and he turned his back to us. I started to scream. Ideas from what one of our classmate said flooded my mind. Diana started to run, from my back she swiftly changed her place on the front of Dea who started to run also and I did not notice that I am also running.

Running, as if the danger was after us; that death was chasing us; running faster than a horse. While running, I saw Diana closed her eyes while summoning her mother. Meanwhile Dea was so eager to get her butt out of the scene. Me? I was laughing. Laughing out loud.

I am so keen observant that time that I noticed every person we passed by wearing confused looks towards us. I don’t know why, but I could not turn my head 360° while I’m running, it was difficult.

Because we were in high way, there were plenty of vehicles that day, yet they could not stop us from running, instead they will stop for us. Drivers yelled at us, but who cares we can’t hear them, and the only care we have is to escape from Richard.

We were near at the end like, I thought, when a huge pig appeared together with its master, maybe it was ready to be slaughtered. The man kipped on waving his hands to us to stop, but he failed, he was the one who stop and the pig cried, as he pulled its collar.

I remember I fit myself between a tricycle that had stopped and a jeepney that thanks God was parked. The driver yelled at me, but I don’t care, I just need to get out of this chase.

As we were running furiously, we cannot feel the weight of our bags and our soaring feet.

And as we reached the end line ensuring that we have run far enough from Richard, we fin’lly stopped. Gasping vigorously our breath as if it was the last we were going to breathe. We were gasping and coughing while chatting for how long, I could not remember. Still we were ensuring ourselves that we were farther to be caught.

As we were chatting, our lungs kipped on pumping and pumping air because we were lacking some fresh air but still we were laughing so lout. Laughing at ourselves because we realized he did not chasing us at all.

 

The Woman behind the Camera

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She’s an actress, in spite of her age. A promising one, she starred in many teleseryes as well as in films. We’re proud of her. I am proud of her that she was our professor and is my professor.

She’s in her 60 or 70, I think. She has a lot of white hair yet it is long. She is a conservative, neat and pleasant woman. Her eyes are surrounded by bags, bags full of hardships. Indeed her age could be seen in her face, but age is just a number. And she is our educator.

Miss Rustica Carpio. An educator, an actress. Indeed a career woman.

She’s been the first dean of our college, before we got here in PUP.

And on our second year here, she’s been our professor in the subject of Television production and writing. As I could remember, the class was in the morning. As she entered the room, she had always smile on her lips. She always makes sure that everyone was paying attention to the speaker. And she always has prize whenever we came early.

What funny about her was, whenever there were reporters in the front, she will placed herself in the left side of the room and as we, her students were drown to the lesson given by our classmate, slowly she would close her eyes to took a very, very little nap, and whenever she felt the weight of her head, or the class would start to murmur loudly, she would wake and hissed pointing to us and signed to be quiet.

We could understand why she was like that, because at that time, she was starring in a teleserye entitled “100 days to Heaven”. Maybe their pack up reaches when sunlight exploded.

I remembered, we have given the chance to watch one of the films she starred where she received the best supporting actress.

“Tarima” was the title, it was a story of devotion and love. It was a bit erotic, yet Miss Carpio shown an exemplary performance, no wonder she deserved the award.

Television production and writing seemed not her forte, but still, I learned from her.

But everyone was delighted to her, for she had our attention. Whenever we had a recitation, she’d given my classmates Php. 100.00 and sometimes religious souvenir she bought or she has.

Now, she is our professor in our major elective, Film Writing. And I could notice that she’s lively when she was teaching. Her aura was different from the last time she handled us. She seems so energized and full of conviction.

Unlike before that she would took a seat and just observe, now she’ll stand and write something on board. And unlike before she’s not taking a nap, she’s wide awake when she teaches. And like before, she always wear smile. Film Writing is definitely her thing.

Now, she doesn’t want to see ladies, especially in her class wearing short shorts, she would say “you are candidate for raping” and the whole class would laugh. Her facial expression is funny when she caught last meeting one of our classmates who worn short shorts, even if he is a gay, ma’am was so worried and as if the blood drained all over her face.

Now, I knew she’s doing “ARYANA” a teleserye of ABS-CBN.

Whenever our other professor asked us, who was our professor back then on the subject of Television production and writing, and we would answer “Ma’am Rustica Carpio” they would answer… “Oh.. yes.. she’s good!”

And she is truly and remarkably awesome. In spite of her age, she could inspire and make people happy.

 

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Hi there! How are you? Are you feeling good? Come here, have a seat. I’ll tell you something.

You know what? I’ve been here since 1994. Yes. I’ve been here for 18 years and still counting. Am I Healthy? Maybe? Why do I say so? Because sometimes I feel clean, sometimes I feel dusty. But I am more thankful that they’re not making fun out of my body. It’s still pure. Can you see? It’s white. Rather than my other brothers… they have lots of tattoos around their body. Full of sentiments coming from you, but I’m lucky, doodling is not your habit. Thanks!

Amm, may I interrupt you for a while, can you please pick up those trash? It causes the clogging of my blood. Yes. And please, don’t take away that thing you’re butt is comfortable to seat to. That’s my organ. I cannot breathe properly if I don’t have even one of them. I’m maybe a bit selfish, but please that’s my request. Ok thank you…Let me proceed.

Every time they are in my arms, YOU are in my arms.  I am protecting you. Yes! I am, but not from bad people but protecting you from idiocy. Let me think, you cannot see that right? Because all you want is to leave me. Leave me unclean and unorganized. And that made my heart sad. But that’s okay, there’s someone I know that after you left, he’ll clean me and sets my parts. And I am thankful to him, even though I cannot entertain him because I choose to entertain you, but he has more care about me.

But I am happy because I am helping you and I am part of your life, I am part of your success but it seems like you never notice me. At first I am so essential to you, as you can excuse my feelings and sorry if my sentiments offend you, but as time passes by, you’ll just sit and leave. And sometimes you don’t want me, you are moving to my other brothers. And that makes me jealous.

Sorry if I’m lacking, that I cannot satisfy your comfort. But I can hear your complaints, Sorry that I cannot do anything about it, because as you can see, I can’t move. Hehe. So please don’t blame me or them.

I know that sooner you’ll leave me, but I am happy to be left here because at last you heard what I wanted to say and as I said, I know I am part of your success. Thank you for picking up those trashes and not taking away a part of my body. And I am pleased to have you and to shed you. Please take care of me, as I took care of you.

 

Sincerely yours,

Room105.

Beautiful Inside and Out

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Name, Keenalyn Lara, Age, 19. Youngest of the three. Broadcast communication student at PUP. My classmate, my sister, my friend, one of my best buddies. In three years we’ve been friends, I have known a lot about this bubbly girl.

Originally, she doesn’t want to be enrolled in this course, all she wants is to be a police woman. But I am thankful that she never pursued that, because if that happens, I’ll write someone’s profile sketch.

She always complaints about her extra tooth, but we never see it as her hindrance, her beauty still stands.

She loves cracking jokes, she never fails to make us smile. When she laughs hard, avoid her touch, sometimes it hurts.

She loves Coco Martin and most of all Channing Tatum. I don’t know why, all I know is, she will fight for the two whenever you put a not-so-good words upon them.

She loves to dance, don’t get shock when she dances whenever she wants to.  This lady also has a beautiful voice; no doubt she’s a talented person.  I remembered a secret that only the two of us plus one of our classmate who ought to be the person we need to perform for, were involved and until now, it’s hidden. I remembered how we hid from our friends, we were like spies at that time, we run, we kept our heads low, and we always hid, to excused ourselves, we lied. We used “Bato-bato pik” to tell who should go first, and at last we failed. That was the funniest moment I had with her.

She’s not a secretive person, she always shares what are her problems and feelings, and I admire that attitude of her, she’s not shy to share her loneliness or happiness. I saw how she shed her tears, when she confessed to us, her feelings from someone. I saw her frown when she had problems. I saw how she got mad, when we accidentally turned her song off, but in the end, she smiled and treated us ice cream.

Respect is important to this girl, when she was whipped by stress, she got easily angry. She’s witty in her own way. She has sense in fashion. She may have an extra tooth, lacks height, short tempered person, but she possesses a true beauty, not only from outside but also inside.