MOVIE REVIEW: DOUBLE FEATURE

THank God I had a game a while ago or else I'd really really be in trouble with all the junk I've been eating (Tostitos lime with french onion dip, microwaved pocorn, freshly boiled corn, junk from parents bacolod trip-butterscotch bars, mango tarts, squid rings, hopia, fishballs, torte de los reyes, meiji, baci, three musketeers, yummy pasta, calamares, picadillo, mushroom soup.........it never ends!)

But the other thing I've been doing the past three days is go watch movies in the Powerplant, which is so near and am blessed that the horrendous traffic jam in Central Makati did not reach my side of the Metro.

I have seen Bourne Ultimatum and A Love Story already. Tomorrow we plan on watching Rush Hour 3 (which I've seen already but don't mind watching again). But I really really want to watch the Simpsons..... anyone?!?!?

About Bourne Ultimatum, all I can say is that Matt Damon really pulled his international spy persona quite beautifully. I mean you even forget his dorky portrayal in the Oceans Eleven-THirteen trilogy as you see him do all those cool action sequences which makes you go....WOW. Go watch it. NOW. He will make your heart go thipitty-thump even if he isn't as cute as Brad Pitt... he grows on you. Basta! Go figure my attraction for so-called alpha males. HAaaaaay.

A Love Story on the other hand.... interesting take on infidelity. It really really tried to make itself interesting with switcheroo but all in all, I was more impressed by the acting than the storyline. Maricel being THE Maricel Soriano is really really a stellar actress as she looks like she could be your very own OB GYNE (with a deep dark secret) hahahaha. And Aga, well he used to be cuter heehee. As for Angelica Panganiban, now this here movie is the start of bigger things for her. Goes to show how she can be a character actress as she has the chops to get out of the sexy starlet race and on to more serious and challenging roles. (AND YES, for friends who know me, me watching this?!?! I didn't actually have say on this - mother and sister chose movie for the day - but surprisingly it wasn't a waste of time after all)

Movie again tomorrow???? What else is there to watch???

MY 6 DAY WEEKEND

And YES! It is official! There is no school tomorrow (Friday) as it is expected that there will be heavy rain which equals to traffic borne floods all over the city.

Thus I am now halfway through my 6 day weekend, with MOnday being a declared holiday (Whoever thought about moving holidays to the nearest monday is a genius! Kudos to you!)

So far, my usual day goes like this:

8 am: wake up to check phone for fated text

9am: receive text on cancellation of classes (insert dance of joy here)

9:0am: mass text all parents about no school day

9:03am: back to lala land zzzzzzzzzz

1130am: wake up.....watch tv, wait for lunch

12:30pm: LUNCH TIME

1:30pm:watch tv then fall asleep

3:00pm: attempt at being productive part 1 (but end up chatting in YM anyway)

4:00pm: attempt at being productive part 2 (figuring out if I should work on Explo stuff or DLSU stuff)

5:00pm: merienda time (forage ref, or better yet have food delivered)

6:00pm: decide on what to do after dilly dallying for two hours, surfing the net, finding funny things to email to friends, etc etc

7:30pm: oooh almost dinner time, schmooze some morein front of the TV

8:30om: dinner

9:30-12:00pm: waste more time

1:00am fall asleep

*waaaaah!

I'm enjoying myself too much here....... see what no school does to me?!?!

I'm turning into a couch potato tsk tsk

TOP 10 REASONS I LIKE BEING A PRE SCHOOL TEACHER

(in no particular order)

1. I get to laugh everyday with my students antics (ask me about the Gabby and the phone number story sometime)

2. I get the exercise I need from work (try running around with 5 year olds for 15 minutes and lets see how you fare!?!?)

3. I get unlimited supply of hugs, kisses and I Love Yous.

4. Working with kids makes me feel "young" too

5. I get to exercise my creativity (try planning a culminating program sometime, im sure the anxiety matches a PR person in charge of a big product launch)

6. I get to practice my multi-tasking skills (try being a mommy, daddy, yaya, cook, emotion coach, doctor, sports trainer, facilitator, researcher, psychologist, family therapist etc ALL IN ONE DAY)

7. I still have a life outside work! (YES, that means you! you workaholic! it is possible!)

8. Teaching is very unpredictable, and I now know and accept the real meaning of Murphy's Law.

9. I get to live longer (laughter is the best medicine right? (refer to reason 1)

10. Signal number 1 means no work for me! YAHOOOOO 2 days in a row and counting....

The Heroic Imagination

Read this http://edge.org/3rd_culture/zimbardo07/zimbardo07_index.html before reading any further (warning: lengthy but interesting)

I recently came upon this website which features "dangerous thinking"... in which every era has one. Remember that famous person (his name escapes me now...was it Isaac Newton?) who was considered a heretic during his day and age. He was imprisoned because he proved the science behind a rainbow when the acceptable "answer" in his era was that rainbows are miracles of God.

Anyway, what's interesting about the article above is that it talks about how social situations can be transformative, making really good, normal people into so-called monsters, as we get too used to seeing what is normally not acceptable, and accepting them as "normal".

Then again, doesn't the definition of acceptable or normal, or even what's right or wrong change too? Scary dont you think? Makes me wonder how the things we consider acceptable might not really be.

Prime example, like seeing the daily corruption going on in the streets, agreeing to pay off cops for simple traffic infarctions and saying its just normal because that's what we're used to seeing and doing.

Or say the simple freight forwarder who regularly deals with customs to bring in shipments, which then means he agrees to paying off customs brokers regularly because he needs to, as it's part of his job and it's the only way he can bring in his shipments or else he loses them because paying people off "is just the way things are done".

So till when can you compromise? Or should you at all? It's not that I'm taking the high road and saying I've never bribed a cop. I did once. And never again. Because the first and only cop I ever tried to bribe had the heroic imagination to say "Ma'am, masama po yan kasi kung ganyan na lang ang lahat ng pulis e wala pong mangyayari sa atin."

I mean bribing is like peanuts compared to the people who condemned thousands to die in Auschwitz, but still, you know.... am I just thinking too much?

This is what two days of having classes called of does to me.... think think think.....

printed wellingtons!!!

these are so cute!!! and you can buy them here already!!!!!

just let me know if you are interested, a pair of plueys cost php 1, 600.

a friend is a distributor here.... so it will be easy to order.

perfect now that its raining!!!! and yes! second time in a row this week...no school!!!!

*insert rain dance sequence here*

but now i have the perfect excuse to go out even if it rains hahahahahaha

I like this one

PUPPY LOVE

but im thinking this is cute too...

GO FISH

or maybe this?

SUGAR PLUM

there's also...

LOTSA DOTS

and....

ORIGAMI

or this...

SUBLIME

???? what to get?!?!?!?!?!