my sister is soo hooked up with these korean movies and i couldn't blame her. i've seen some really good, tragic yet funny korean movies. i wish filipinos could make such movies, hindi na lang yung laging happy ending. pwde naman yung sad minsan. it makes the story sometimes more convincing and realistic. yesterday she insisted that i watch this "daddy long legs" korean film and its not bad actually. next to windstruck and my sassy girl, its my third most fave korean film (not that i've watched a lot but i did have my fair share of those films). anyway, its got a certain twist into it. the story goes like this:

there's this girl who's got a ten-year crush on this guy and she's been following him around since high school to college (yep, she worked hard to get into the same college with him) and even when he was working, she also managed to get into the same company where he works. anyway, that girl got sick. she has this disease wherein she loses her memory. it didn't say in the movie what disease though but i assume its something like alzheimer's. so the girl wrote herself an email to be delivered to herself in a year to remind her of the guy that she is so in love with, just in case she loses her memory of him. then the girl went on a "sick leave" because of her disease.

here comes the twist. the main character, Young-mi, just got accepted as a headwriter where the girl and the guy in the story works. as one of the company's privileges, Young-mi was allowed to stay in the girl's place because she's somewhere getting cured.

Oh btw, Young-mi is the one with Daddy Long Legs (it is a book that tells the story of a young orphan girl, Jerusha Abbott, who is unexpectedly sent to college by an unknown benefactor who is a trustee of the orphanage where she grew up).

Young-mi receives the emails that the girl sent to herself. She meets this guy at the "morgue" (thats the terms they used for library) and falls in love with him, all the while intrigue with the girl's story. guess what? the guy she fell in love with is the same guy the girl has a ten-year crush on!

here's the other twist. she assumed that the company's director is her daddy long legs and when she confronted him with it, she was shocked with the awful truth. the truth is that: the email sender was not a girl but in fact a GUY and guess who that guy was??? well, i'm not telling. hehehehe..

oh, guys, you better watch this film! its so creatively written! and soo tragic! shocks. if this happens to me, i'm gonna go crazy, i swear!

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in one of the scenes in the movie, when young-mi and the morgue guy were sitting on a hill, watching the night sky, he told her the story about stars.

"before, there were no stars at all. and then, the people learned to love. each time they do, their love was sent to the sky to become a star. that's why there are so many stars in the sky. because there is so much love in the world that we just don't know of."

and then a falling star appears in the sky...


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i've heard this somewhere, i just dont know where. but it said that, LOVE and COUGH are the same- you can't hide it. i guess that holds true. you can't hide either talaga. but you can pretend...?? hehehe

anik...anik...

i have been super busy. been through a lot of changes lately...

first and quite a bit depressing talaga, the retrenchment in our company finally hit our department and it cost us around 6 people in all, including mah ate patty. i'm so sad coz my blogger guru won't be at the promo room na.... waaaahhhhh

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Work’s hell, as always. I haven’t even told people that we got a new alaga from siyete. Siya na yun, if ya know. I also went to Laguna for my alagas’ Hamon ng Nginiig. Shocks this is quite an experience! We went there in search of this haunted house. The challenge was to find the clues leading to that black paper that will tell you that you are now a member of the astig league of nginiig but you have to go through heaps of “spine-chilling” places to find the clue. Anyway, maoui, gabb and kuya roden were there. The taping rolled just before 1am last sept.16 and maoui was the first to go in- alone! Without a cameraman! She needs to hold the camera and take footages of herself while inside this creepy house. I’m not exaggerating here- the house is really creepy even on the outside. And its not just because its already 1am but because it really is. The story was that a little boy fell down the stairs in the house and he was in a coma after that incident. At that time, people didn’t really know daw what to do with someone in a coma so they buried the kid alive. Now the little boy haunts by the stairs of the house. Also the real owner of the house still haunts the place- ala bahay ni LOLO. Maoui didn’t finish the challenge but gabb and kuya roden did. Haaay, with all those stories plus it was raining heavily that night, sheesh! I went back to the van and slept… well, I tried to but hey, I was worried noh. We got back around 8 am the following day (it took us almost 2 hours at SLE because the rain caused flood in some areas and may ibang sasakyan na tumirik. Anyway, I went home and found out that there was no electricity in our area! And to top it off, there’s a wake just outside our apartment! That was very comforting. I just came from nginiig and umuwi ako sa walang kuryente at may lamay pa! crap.

Last Saturday, I had a terrible day during field work and it was total chaos. For me ha but you wouldn’t really know if you wouldn’t ask how I was. It was such a bad day- kulang sa tulog, lipat sa location, nag empty batt, di ko naitext ang boss ko coz wala ngang batt, dumating pa si lola kaya nagka-hassle sa pagsundo sa akin coz her flight was super delayed (from 8pm ETA naging 10:15pm! Duh!!) and when she got home, I was supposed to sleep but of course, I had to go down and see her first. Not that I’m complaining but its been a long day talaga.

Half of my Sunday was spent at Harrison plaza for asap mania. I had problems pa going there coz I didn’t know how to get there so I troubled people pa for directions. Btw, some people saw us on tv laughing, clapping or cheering for rico barrera (d first housemate to be eliminated from pinoy big brother) and I heard we really looked stupid, courtesy of my brother. Another long day of working and so when I finally got home, I took my much needed sleep and rest (but wasn’t able to eat even) and woke up 7am the following day na. ha! That’s how its done!

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I saw greg behrendt last week at oprah, talking about his book “HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU” and it re-awakened something that I should have long since instilled in me. Labo ba? Hehe. Basta yun. May naalala lang akong mga dapat kong ginagawa. sayang I wasn’t able to go to his book signing and stand up comedy sa greenbelt.. oh well. For the girls out there who don’t have this book yet—better get one. It’s a must-have! And guys, buy it for you girl friends. It would help if you read the book as well. You might learn a few things also. It is sooooo insightful and absolutely true! I agree with what the things that he said in the book. Basta go get a copy and see what I mean.

Breakable

She cries.

And for that she considers herself breakable.
She cries and hides.
Crying is not tolerated,
One of the principles she so rightly stick to.
But when it hurts
And when her heart feels like bursting
And there' a lingering pain running up
To the edge of her fingertips,
She cries.
Silently at first.
And, this usually happens,
When crying takes the best of her
And she can no longer take it,
She cries and weeps like there is no tomorrow.
And still, no one hears her.
No one rushes to her side to comfort her
And soothe her pain.
No one holds her hand and
Tells her that everything's going to be alright,
Even if it seems unlikely.
No one is by her side.
She is alone.
Realizing this,
She then looks in the mirror
And resolutely fixes herself up.
Now, she is, yet again,
To the world,


Unbreakable.