Movies/Music/TV

And I Love You So

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We had no intentions to go out and see a movie yesterday. But we did, and we had a good time.

I was teary-eyed at several points in the movie, and so was my big chuck of a boyfriend! Haha. I hope to never have to go through such pain. Seriously.

I plan to scrap a page for this but hadn’t done any until now. Maybe tomorrow I can get down to it. Maybe.

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned Scour.com before in this blog and I don’t even remember how long ago I started using it as my default search engine. I used to have another service that allows me to earn very little money for every search I did, but I noticed that my earnings didn’t budge after several days! Anyway, so I switched to Scour.com. I actually don’t remember how to earn more points, and how much each point converts to, but I just use it regularly for searching about stuff.

I used it to search for the keywords I was given for an article writing gig. I searched for images thru the service, and even looked up moving companies San Francisco. More recently though, I searched for WP themes again.

I found a new theme that’s got me deciding to relaunch a photo blog. It’s on http://verabear.net/digitalmemories but it ain’t ready yet.

Julie & Julia

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TGIF!!!

I so want to see this movie. I have no idea when it’s showing here but it’s already premiered in Hollywood.

I’ve got a 100 choco truffles to make for tonight. Then oat bran muffins. Then cinnies finally 🙂

Ooohhhh, if you’re on Entrecard but not yet on Adgitize then you may be interested in this, please check it out 🙂

Kids Praise and Cookies

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After walking to McDonald’s to meet up for brunch with the boyfriend, we walked to Hi-Top a block over to buy dog food and some brown sugar. I felt like making chocolate chip cookies and though I didn’t look at the recipe I wanted to try, I knew I’d be needing brown sugar.

On the way to the grocery, I saw that the House of Praise was already open. Though I was across the street from the open doorway, I saw the rack of Kids Praise and I was drawn to it.

We went in, then out five minutes later with this:

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As a kid, I grew up listening to and singing along with Psalty. How many albums were there? I forgot. But we must have had all of them! Everyone at Sunday School knew the songs and we’d often perform them in the annual shows we’d mount.

I must admit, I still could not help but remember my Aunt when I started listening to this album, but that need not mean sad thoughts.

One of the dreams I’ve had, or one of the things I listed as stuff I’d rather do, may soon start to happen.

I intend to start teaching my nieces and nephews the songs in this album, and if they want to, we’ll mount a mini performance for friends and family. What a wonderful way to learn about Jesus, and cultivate their talents right?  Today our kids, tomorrow Sunday School. Haha.

And what a coincidence too. While I was baking cookies today, I heard the kids singing outside. And they weren’t singing their usual picks – Love Story, Jai Ho, etc – they were singing tunes they learned from Vacation Bible School. Yay!

So I can’t wait til we can start doing this, but I’ve got to map it out first, have some sort of schedule. I hope they’d buy into this, the big girls too.

Tributes

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The world was shocked with the news of the passing of two pop culture icons: Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett.  Having been born in the ’80s, we grew up seeing both of them on TV.  We sang and danced along MJ’s hits and enjoyed his MTVs.  We followed their sometimes controversial lives too.

Recently (before their deaths), they were on the public eye once more. Farrah’s Story premiered back in May. It’s a documentary of her battle with anal cancer.  At the time of the premier, there was some buzz about it. I was hoping to watch the whole documentary on YouTube but only found part 5.  Even with just that part though, one can already be moved by her story.  I hope they show the full docu in the Philippines.

Here are two video montage of Farrah’s, both prepared before her death.  There are many tributes posted by fans but I chose to showcase these two because the music wasn’t heavy, and the photos of Farrah show her just the way I see her in my mind.

Oops. The embed feature is not enabled for the other video, so here’s the link to it instead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJSDU3eyIaA

The Jacko was also in the news recently as there’s a scheduled World Tour signaling his comeback. His life was riddled with controversies and I must admit, it was the issues involving kids that had me turning away from him.  But no matter how he led his personal life, it cannot be denied that he made great music that has influenced many many others.

There are so many video tributes for MJ, but this is probably my favorite acoustic rendition of Thriller:

I didn’t know Emily Elbert, but I like her and will try to find more of her music.

Here in the Philippines, the YouTube famous Dancing Inmates also prepared a tribute for MJ whose Thriller music video was their inspiration for their most popular performance:

License to Wed

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I had very little sleep on Friday night, then the boyfriend and I went straight to Trinoma after I rendered about 4 hours overtime at work.  I was hungry. I was sleepy. But I still had a fun time at the mall. I’m weird like that ‘no? Going to the mall gives me cheap thrills. Haha.

I did pick up a pink blouse (completely unplanned) and containers galore for my baking supplies. Seriously. We have so much fun going through that section of the mall. Haha 🙂

When we arrived home, my parents were on their way out. I felt sooo lazy, I plopped onto the couch just in time to see License to Wed.

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It already started by the time I tuned in but I continued watching it anyway. The first scene I caught was Sadie’s parents’ anniversary dinner, just as Ben was about to propose.  I kept watching because I found Fr. Frank’s pre-wedding course interesting.  It did seem quite brutal – as if he was trying to break them up. No one was in on the plan, I mean no one from the couple’s friends or family.  I guess that made it a real test, versus a controlled one?

I think it was great that in the end, Sadie had some realizations too about how both of them had shortcomings.

It wasn’t a very memorable film though. Not very profound. Even a little predictable.

It kept me awake for another hour on Saturday, which meant sleeping at past 6PM then only to wake up the next morning – 14 hours later! Saturday was a blur to me. I watched this movie instead of logging online to post, drop ECs or go through Adgitize.  Which also means I was basically offline for close to three full days, some revenue lost there.  But that’s okay. Sleep is important.

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