It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Everywhere. Almost everywhere. Christmas songs are playing. Decorations are up and they're no more prominent than when I go home at night. Christmas is here and there's nothing you can do about it.
Last year, I had to spend Christmas away from home. It was my first year to work in a city far from my home. It's an island away in fact. And it became my first time to spend Christmas away from home. December 26th wasn't declared a special holiday and I didn't want to travel Christmas night to go to work the next day. And so I decided not to go home for Christmas, opting to go home for the New Year Holiday instead. But Christmas isn't really just one day, so if I think about it I did go home for Christmas, it's just not on the 25th.
This year will be different. I have a timely rolloff from a project and I'm now entitled to paid vacation. And I will be taking it in the last two weeks of December. This year, I will truly be going home for Christmas. And I'm so happy.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
210th
This would be my 210th post and I can't come up with a real title so I'll just call this 210th. I should have been way over 300 posts already. I don't know why I'm not blogging as regularly as before. Kind of ironic, considering that I now have a personal Internet subscription.
Cine Europa 2008
Last month, I, along with friends from the office, went to see Cine Europa 2008 at the Ayala Center. We were mostly interested with the French movie, Les Chansons d'Amour (Love Songs), because most of us took up French 101 a year ago. Unfortunately for us, instead of the original schedule of 7:00PM, it was shown at the very beginning of the festival, 10:00 AM, which made it impossible for us to see it with us needing to work and all. And in its original timeslot was Beauty in Trouble, which we didn't really like. The next day, Saturday, I played badminton first, so I got to join my movie-watching friends only for Mozart in China, which was okay but not great.
6th Australian Film Festival
This weekend, we went to see the 6th Australian Film Festival also at the Ayala Center. On Thursday we saw the opening movie, Romulus, My Father, which was kind of boring to watch. We stuck around for the second movie, Ten Canoes, which was not as boring as Romulus, My Father, but boring still. On Friday we went to Razzle Dazzle, a mockumentary, which was fun. We had to go back work so we didn't stick around for a second movie. On Saturday, the last day of the festival, I played badminton first so I just joined my friends from the office for their second movie, Home Song Stories, which was frustrating because half of the movie's dialogue was in Chinese or whatever is the right name for their language, but there was no English subtitles. So half the time, we didn't know what the heck the characters were saying and sometimes shouting at each other. Overall, the three-day film fest was a disaster, I thought. Except for the opening movie with invited guests, each time we went to see one there were probably no more than 50 other people in the theater.
City of Ember
The company's Movie Night pick for October was City of Ember. But since the movie won't open in Cebu until November, the movie night was altogether cancelled for October. The alternative pick was High School Musical 3, but for some reason it was supposedly unpopular to the majority in the office. Well, if they've only seen HSM 2, then I can't blame them. That really was just a sorry excuse for a sequel and was just a way to keep the buzz while HSM 3 was being produced. But I thought the first HSM was superbly written with the songs quite inventive for a made-for-tv movie. I have seen a fair share of made-for-tv movies in Disney Channel, and often times I don't finish them because, well, they're just not that watchable. But the original HSM was a cut above the rest, as far as made-for-tv movie is concerned. Having said that, I have doubts about HSM 3 myself. After all, when's the last good Disney sequel (often times straight-to-video)? You have to go back to 1999 when Toy Story 2 came out and it wasn't even truly Disney's, it was Pixar's.
ThinkPad T60p
Can't wait. :-)
Cine Europa 2008
Last month, I, along with friends from the office, went to see Cine Europa 2008 at the Ayala Center. We were mostly interested with the French movie, Les Chansons d'Amour (Love Songs), because most of us took up French 101 a year ago. Unfortunately for us, instead of the original schedule of 7:00PM, it was shown at the very beginning of the festival, 10:00 AM, which made it impossible for us to see it with us needing to work and all. And in its original timeslot was Beauty in Trouble, which we didn't really like. The next day, Saturday, I played badminton first, so I got to join my movie-watching friends only for Mozart in China, which was okay but not great.
6th Australian Film Festival
This weekend, we went to see the 6th Australian Film Festival also at the Ayala Center. On Thursday we saw the opening movie, Romulus, My Father, which was kind of boring to watch. We stuck around for the second movie, Ten Canoes, which was not as boring as Romulus, My Father, but boring still. On Friday we went to Razzle Dazzle, a mockumentary, which was fun. We had to go back work so we didn't stick around for a second movie. On Saturday, the last day of the festival, I played badminton first so I just joined my friends from the office for their second movie, Home Song Stories, which was frustrating because half of the movie's dialogue was in Chinese or whatever is the right name for their language, but there was no English subtitles. So half the time, we didn't know what the heck the characters were saying and sometimes shouting at each other. Overall, the three-day film fest was a disaster, I thought. Except for the opening movie with invited guests, each time we went to see one there were probably no more than 50 other people in the theater.
City of Ember
The company's Movie Night pick for October was City of Ember. But since the movie won't open in Cebu until November, the movie night was altogether cancelled for October. The alternative pick was High School Musical 3, but for some reason it was supposedly unpopular to the majority in the office. Well, if they've only seen HSM 2, then I can't blame them. That really was just a sorry excuse for a sequel and was just a way to keep the buzz while HSM 3 was being produced. But I thought the first HSM was superbly written with the songs quite inventive for a made-for-tv movie. I have seen a fair share of made-for-tv movies in Disney Channel, and often times I don't finish them because, well, they're just not that watchable. But the original HSM was a cut above the rest, as far as made-for-tv movie is concerned. Having said that, I have doubts about HSM 3 myself. After all, when's the last good Disney sequel (often times straight-to-video)? You have to go back to 1999 when Toy Story 2 came out and it wasn't even truly Disney's, it was Pixar's.
ThinkPad T60p
Can't wait. :-)
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