Best Wishes, Jo and Dom!

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Remember her? 

my pretty bff

 

That’s my dear bestest friend, Jo. She’s getting married today. 🙂 

To Jo and Dom, I still cannot believe you guys are getting married before us! But don’t get me wrong, I am so so so happy for you. 🙂 I am a bit sad because I am not enough of a party person to pull together a party for you Jo (or maybe your cousins and girlfriends already did?), but I know you don’t expect anything like that from me, Hehe. But seriously. 

We’ve known each other since we were kids, back when things were so simple and it was safe to play hide-and-seek under the light of the full moon. I don’t know if I ever told you this, but back when we were maybe seven or eight, that summer when we hung out a lot, I wrote in my diary that you were probably my best friend. And you are. 

We have certainly gone a long way since, and our interests now are probably as diverse as night and day. Yet I still feel a deep connection to you; something that I hope will never ever disappear. 

Today you will walk down the aisle and marry the man you have been with for the past… how long has it been? I don’t remember. I haven’t seen you together since back when you were still just friends 🙂 but I know he’s a good man, and that he makes you happy. In a few months, the distance between us will be even greater, as you leave to join your husband. I will miss you, just as I have in the past ten years that we haven’t been neighbors, but I won’t be sad about it. To be honest, I am excited for you. You will be having a brand new beginning. Not only will you be married now, but you will also be a Pinoy expat. 😉 Oh, and your mom won’t be too far away. For a change, you will be within reach of the two people you love most in the world, without having to count the days until their next flight out. 

I love you girflriend. Take care of yourself and the family you’re building. This early, I am volunteering to be your first baby’s godmother. 🙂 Oh, and be sure to come home when my turn comes. 😉 

Rin on the Rox

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In February last year I mentioned Rin on the Rox in one of my blog posts. I even included one of my favorite videos of them, their cover Leona Lewis’ Better in Time. I was on YouTube again earlier today and decided to checkout their channel. I did get to listen to the single they released over the summer last year, but it wasn’t really my type of song. I listened to their other covers, until I noticed one that had only Erin, without Rox in the video.

I read a fan’s blog post about the change too, and he led me to a tweet from the duo’s Twitter page saying that they were only taking a break. There was also an assurance in another post that they were still the best of friends, but Rin on the Rox was taking a break and they had decided to go a different path. That is sad. Erin, I think, was the first to put up her own channel on YouTube and she continued to post vids of her singing, just for fun, she says. Here’s my favorite of her posts:

Then back on their twitter page, I found a link to a video that Roxanne posted. She has her YouTube channel too, but not very manyvids posted yet. I found one of her cover of Kyla’s hit, Because of You:

I know they sound amazing on their own, individually, but they sound so much better together. I hope they sing together again soon, and maybe even continue with their music career. Here again, to compare, is my fave cover:

Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (movie)

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I blogged about reading The Lightning Thief last week, now here’s my take on the big screen version. Checkout the trailer:

This is one of those films that really followed their own take than stay true to the novel that was originally written for young kids. First I would like to say that I liked that movie and think that it is still worth watching. But I will also have to say that I like the book more. Okay, so we say that very often but this time is a bit different. I actually felt disappointed and a little let down. I guess I was expecting a lot from a Chris Columbus film.

Percy Jackson was supposed to be 12 years old when the series started. The actor looks nowhere like he was in sixth grade. He looks more like a highschool freshman or even older, and resembles Zac Efron of HighSchool Musical fame. He is cute though. 🙂 As for Athena’s daughter Annabeth, wasn’t she supposed to be blonde like her mom? I like her, she’s pretty and has personality, but she just didn’t fit the description. And where was her cap of invisibility?

Clarisse, daughter of Ares, was nowhere in the film. Now I wonder, if they ever come out with the sequel, how do they introduce her and her history with Percy? Oh, Ares was nowhere in the film too.  And come to think of it, was Kronos even mentioned? There was no Oracle too, and no quest.

I’m also not very happy about how they presented Camp Half-Blood Hill (Mr. D was missing too). It seemed so medieval. The boyfriend says it was very Spartan-like. The Camp was supposed to look like just any other camp, and the campers wearing shorts and t-shirts. No, in the movie they wore armors and they had old-school cabins. Chiron also knew beforehand who Percy’s dad was, instead of having to wait for it to be revealed. So that meant that Percy didn’t have to crash at the Hermes cabin at all.

There were other points of departure from the novel, and I probably won’t be able to name all of them now.

In terms of special effects, we felt like the movie didn’t do so well specially in the beginning of the film. Eventually though, you kinda started to appreciate it. So I guess it just wasn’t consistent? Medusa’s snakes looked great…

And Luke, he didn’t get much exposure even when he turned out to be the bad guy. They didn’t show him teaching Percy sword fighting. And he didn’t look like he had a scar on his face, it was flawless and didn’t look like he needed an acne scar cream, lol. Well okay I don’t think he had acne problems at all, but the scar he got from his earlier quest was, I think, an important facet of his personality…

Now I realize that all I’ve got to say are criticisms, aren’t we normally like that? If I didn’t read the book prior to seeing the movie, I might have appreciated it more.  All in all, it wasn’t a very memorable movie.

Since posting about this book and watching the movie, I have read books 2 and 3, and have liked them even more. There is more excitement in the next books. I just started with the fourth book today.

I ordered Ginger!

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I have put in an order for my very own Epiphanie bag, I’m going with Ginger, despite the bright attractive color of Lola. Hehe.  To remind you of how it looks like:

Ginger (click the picture and check her out at their shop)

 

To be honest, I was reluctant to place the order.

1. The site does not accept PayPal so I had to use my Credit Card.  It’s not the CC usage that got me worried; it’s just that I am supposed to be buying the bag using my online earnings.
It’s virtually free, really. Here’s why: the money I earn off my blog all goes to extra spending money. I don’t feel guilty spending it because it didn’t come from my regular salary. But, if I see the charge on my credit card bill, even if I end up withdrawing my PayPal money and use that to pay, I will feel the impact of the spending. 165 is a lot of money to spend on just one bag. Still, the boyfriend agrees with this purchase. I deserve this camera bag. Maxine deserves it. 🙂
 
2. The bag will be delivered to the hotel where my friends from work will be staying next week. They are travelling to Seattle for training and I grabbed the chance to save on shipping. But they’re not there yet, they leave on Sunday. Of course I had to place the order ahead of time because I can’t pay for next day shipping. I just hope all goes well with their trip (ie that it pushes through) otherwise, what will happen to my package?
 
But more than anything, I am excited! I can’t wait to have Ginger home in two and a half weeks! 🙂
 
I have more news to share. My weight loss adventures are here again. Hopefully this time I will actually shed some pounds. I didn’t end up taking any of these fat loss pills, but I am taking a meal replacement drink paired with health supplements. Today’s just the second day and unfortunately I have eaten some stuff I shouldn’t have. But I am still confident. 😉  This first stage takes five days and depending on the results, I’ll either extend it or to move on to another stage. I’d love to say more about this, but I gotta run. My eyes are droopy and I don’t want to pass off the chance to get to sleep as soon as my head hits the pillow.

MIA

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MIA. That is me.

Let’s just say that I’ve enjoyed non-verabear.net related activities lately and they’re keeping me away from posting.

We should be back to regular programming sooooooon. 😉

Oh by the way, I have subscribed to my own feeds to receive an email for each post I publish. Doing so made me realize that my photos are not showing up in my feeds. I figured that it’s because I never did disable hotlinking to my images.

Problem is, I need to edit my htaccess file, and I can’t find it even when I’m logged in via FTP. Grr.

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