Catch Me I’m In Love

I watched this movie yesterday and I thought I need to write a blog about it. So here I go.

The story was patterned to a very common love story, rich-and-poor-love-affair. And the characters was already used, Presidential kid fell in-love with a common people. But what I liked about this movie was that the writer was able to show a different angle of the story and that made it a unique one.

The movie was not the usual love-against-all-odds type. The characters did not struggle to fight their love with their parents or with other people around them. In fact everyone around was so supportive with them. No one took an effort to break them up. So where’s the conflict there?

How would you fight for your love if your enemy is yourself? Can you still fight for your love if your insecurities killing you? The biggest conflict in the movie was the girl’s struggle to fight their love with her own self. I haven’t seen any movie with the same storyline. In the movie, the girl had issues with her insecurities and what the “crowd” was saying about her being the girlfriend of the Presidential son. I don’t know if all the girls would agree if I say that, with us girls, when insecurities attacks it’s really hard to fight it off. Basically it was a love-against-yourself thing.

This movie made me realize how conflicting a girl’s mind can be.

Emo Day with Your T-SHIRT

It’s exactly a month since my cousins left for Darwin, AU and I’m missing them so much. At this time we still don’t know when will be the next time that we’ll see each other again.

I miss them much more right now because of the Harry Potter movie. I used to watch it with my little cousin Vane. She is my HP-movie-date ever since, but now for the second time we will be watching it separately. L

My younger cousin Vane, whom I treat like a baby sister, left me with her oversized-shirt. And since I’m missing her so much, I wore the shirt today.

Few Minutes Before Sunset at Boracay

Few Minutes Before Sunset at Borcay

This picture was taken at Station 1, Boracay Island, June 20, 2010, in front of Mr. Holidays Resort.

My First PhotoArt!

This my first PhotoArt!

Photography is my passion. I got so interested into photography way back in college. Back when digital camera was first introduce. Back to days when DSLR was not a famous gadget yet.

At first I thought I developed this interest because of my course but I was wrong. It runs in my blood. My Tatay was into photography as well. He have this manual Olympus SLR. Yeah! The old school SLR. And even an old school Polaroid.

If you are really into photography, I mean REALLY into it, not just because it's so "USO" nowadays, you would know that pictures from the manual SLR are way much better than those taken from the DSLR. :)

Forever and a Day

“It took me a day to fall in love and it took me forever to say goodbye.”

That was the line that made me curious about this movie. I expected a lot with this movie, because it was from Star Cinema and it was directed by Cathy Garcia Molina.

 The actors were good and the director too, but I was a bit disappointed with the story (not as disappointed with My Valentine Girls). The love story and scene progression was too fast. The story was not well established. As the story goes, there were two movies that came in my mind, A Walk to Remember and Love and Other Drugs.

The whole movie was like a localized slash copy cat slash collaboration of the two movies I mentioned. It doesn’t have any new element or twist in the story.

It was all about two people who accidentally fall in love with each other. The guy is one tough-stubborn man. The girl would leave a great impact in his life and bring in new perspective. One is dying and the other one doesn’t want to let go of his beloved.  But in the end he learned how to let go. In short it was a story of lovers struggling and fighting their love for each other against the unbeatable enemy, DEATH.

I am now alarmed with our movie industry. Sad to say most of the local movies are not worth to be watched on the big screen. 

MONTE CARLO

It was a planned movie date with my buddies Marel and Clea. It’s been a while since the last time that we watched a movie all together. First option was Green Lantern starring Blake Lively from the Gossip Girl series. But we heard that it wasn’t that good and it wasn’t a worth-to-watch-on-the-big-screen type. So we decided to watch Monte Carlo starring Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester and and Katie Cassidy. The latter two are stars from the GG series too. J

To be honest I was so out of loop for the current movies and I wasn’t aware what the movie is about. With Selena Gomez starring in it, I’m not so sure at first if I’m going to like it. I have two reason for doubting the movie, first, I don’t like Selena coz I think she’s just like the teenie-weenie-spoiled-brat-superstar. And second, after Clea told me that the story was about two-look-a-like-individual and the other one would be accidentally mistaken as the other one, I thought it’ll be like a copy cat from the Lizzie Mcguire movie.

But still we gave it a shot and were so surprised. It was an all good movie after all. We really have good laughs. It’s a good thing that we didn’t set our expectation so high for the movie. J

It was a story of an ordinary Texan girl named Grace (Selena Gomez) wanting to spend a good vacation in Paris.  After her HS graduation she was sent to Paris for vacation by her mom and stepdad but she’s not alone. She was accompanied by her blonde, happy-go-lucky, older-than-her best friend Emma (Katie Cassidy) and her miss-perfect, conservative step sister Meg (Leighton Meester). Emma and Meg were batch mates in HS and the total opposite of the other. They’re like cats and dogs. So it was not a good thing that they were together in one trip.

In Paris they had the worst tour package anyone could imagine and misfortunes started to occur. But their tour started to turn in full 360 degrees when Grace was accidentally mistaken as Cordelia, the stubborn, hard-hearted, spoiled brat heiress. They grabbed the opportunity and planned to pretend her just for a night, but in the morning they were all sent off to Monte Carlo and had no chance to escape it at all.

They have experienced their dream vacation and the life that every girl dreamed on, a life of a princess. They continued to pretend and as their journey continues, they realized a lot of things. Grace, found her heart for children in the charity. Emma realized that being a socialite is not the life that would make her happy. And Meg, let herself loose in a good way and had the taste of a real life; full of adventures and surprises.

They were loopholes in the story, but all in all, it was a good movie. It does make sense. It does bring a message to the viewers. Thumbs up for Monte Carlo!

Selena Gomez was good portraying both characters. Leighton Meester and Katie Cassidy’s chemistry was good as well. They were perfectly fit for their characters. J