Wednesday, November 28, 2007

I now have a new love..hehe

I became a fan of Shu Qi after I watched SO CLOSE, where she played as a computer hacker together with her sister. Before, I only thought Shu Qi’s somebody like Jeon Ji-hyun because they actually look the same, or at least, they have the same “aura”. Only when I read the cover of the VCD of the movie, I learned that she is no Ji-hyun but Shu Qi. Since then, her name comes buzzing in my mind, reminding me to watch more of her movies. By the way, after watching SO CLOSE, I got fond of watching action/thriller movies like Pearl Harbor, Behind the Enemy Lines, Enemy at the Gates, and so on. Shu Qi’s stunts made me want to watch more movies like that. In typing this entry, I remembered the moment when I watched So Close. I cried when Shu Qi was trying to defend her sister. ‘Though I know it was just a movie, because she acted so naturally, it made my heart melt so I cried. I loved her because of that scene. So anyway, Transporter 2 came and I learned Shu Qi’s acting as Jason Statham’s love interest. She acted so dependent-and-unable-to-move in that movie. I only wished she played a little stunt too. She was really sexy in there. Her third american (or is it japanese?) movie was EYE 2. I am not really fond of watching gory films, so, I never dared watching it even if Shu Qi’s one of the main casts… Anyway, one day, my elder brother brought a VCD at home entitled My Name is Nobody. I never expected that  Shu Qi will be there. Among the movies I’ve seen where Shu Qi’s part of the cast, it is in that movie where I felt really sad for her. Because in that movie, she was raped by a gangster. It really hurt me that much, because she’s so helpless, because in that movie, she played as a blind girl. It’s really, really frustrating. I love her pa naman. I waited and waited for more of her films but it was only then I saw this clip on the internet about this Chinese-KOrean film, My Wife is a Gangster 3 and learned that she’s playing the lead role. I was so happy. Eventhough it takes a long time to download stuffs from Youtube.com, I still waited patiently just to watch Shu Qi on the move again! I just finished watching it, so even if it’s already past 1:00am, I am writing this entry just to express how happy and pleased I was with the movie. It was so great. Two thumbs up!
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Sunday, November 25, 2007

I am (sigh) in love.

I think this should be the hottest chika here in chikamarket as I am about to tell everyone around the world and the universe that I am in love. This time, I am not inlove with myself but I’m inlove with this one person. It actually took me more than three years to validate if this feeling’s really for real, and now, it’s confirmed. I am inlove.

I have been watching Korean movies and tv shows lately and browsing all the profiles of the actors and actresses of the shows, and found out that Korean entertainment is way far better than we have here in the Philippines. This sounds so unpatriotic of me, but I think I am more than allowed to express how I feel in this blog entry. Maybe too, I already got bored in the way things go on Philippine TV nowadays. I can name a few Philippine TV favorites, but as I said so, not all. Now I understand why my friend Betsy wants to live in Seoul for the rest of her life.

I am not afraid to tell everybody the news that I am inlove–not with a filipino, but a Korean. I haven’t met this person yet, but I am dead sure I really like this person, even on TV. More than half of the people I know, knows about the movie My Sassy Girl, Windstruck, and Il Mare. So, what I am getting at is, I am inlove with the main protagonist of those films. This person’s not a “he”, but a “she”. She’s no other than (drumroll please).. Jun Ji-hyun / Jeon Ji-Hyun, the girl on TV. While I was downloading some of her wallpapers, I felt my knees melt. This is how I got it all confirmed. haha. I just like this person for she really appears good on-camera. Anyway, I have a list of favorite Korean TV shows/movies here, you might as well enjoy clicking and read its reviews. hhmm.. watch the videos from youtube if you like.

1. The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince (TV)
2. My Tutor Friend (movie)
3. 200 Pounds Beauty (movie)
4. Biscuit Teacher and Star Candy (TV) also known as Hello, My Teacher
5. My Sassy Girl (movie)
6. Windstruck (movie)
7. Il Mare (movie)
8. The Classic (movie)

Also, here’s a list of my favorite Korean personalities:

Females first

1. Jun Ji-Hyun (My Sassy Girl, Il Mare, Windstruck)
2. Chae Jung Ahn (The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince, Breathless)
3. Sin Yeh Jin (The Classic, April Snow)
4. Kim Ah Joong (200 pounds beauty)
5. Yoon Eun Hye (The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince, Princess Hours)
6. Gong Hyo Jin (Hello My Teacher/Biscuit Teacher and Star Candy, Sang Doo Let’s Go to School, Volcano High)
7. Shu Qi [though she's not really Korean and a Taiwanese, still, I'd like to include her in this list because I like her a lot. haha. No. She's not Korean but she has a number of Korean movies where she played as the main character. I think it is just rightful to include her, don't you think so?] (So Close, The Transporter, The Eye 2, My Name is Nobody, My Wife is a Gangster 3)
8. Shin Min-ah (A love to Kill, Volcano High, Beast and Beauty)

Now, the Men

1. Gong Yoo (The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince, My Tutor Friend, S Diary, Spy Girl, She’s on Duty, Hello My Teacher)
2. Lee Dong Gun (Stained Glass, Lovers in Paris, Sang Doo Let’s Go to School)
3. Kwon Sang Woo (Stairway to Heaven, My Tutor Friend, Volcano High)

Happy reading and watching, people!

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

chikadora

I’ve never met George Lindemann in my entire life. But there’s one thing I am so sure about him, he’s got to be popular because bloggers like me has to write something about him. Okay, I remember, he’s the one who is fond of collecting art works, ayt? Or was he a blogger himself too? Nobody knows.

Well, I’ve got some ART Jokes for everyone, enjoy!

1. A wealthy man commissioned Pablo Picasso to paint a portrait of his wife. Startled by the nonrepresentational image on the final canvas, the woman’s husband complained, “It isn’t how she really looks.”

When asked by the painter how she really looked, the man produced a photograph from his wallet.

Returning the photography Pablo observed, “Small, isn’t she?”

2. A famous art collector is walking through the city when he notices a mangy cat lapping milk from a saucer in the doorway of a store. He does a double take.

He knows that the saucer is extremely old and very valuable, so he walks casually into the store and offers to buy the cat for two dollars.

The storeowner replies, “I’m sorry, but the cat isn’t for sale.”

The collector says, “Please, I need a hungry cat around the house to catch mice. I’ll pay you 20 dollars for that cat.”

And the owner says “Sold,” and hands over the cat.

The collector continues, “Hey, for the twenty bucks I wonder if you could throw in that old saucer. The cat’s used to it and it’ll save me from having to get a dish.”

The owner says, “Sorry buddy, but that’s my lucky saucer. So far this week I’ve sold sixty-eight cats.”

3.

Walpole had lived in his loft for six months, and by now it was filled with the
paintings he had created. He worked day and night, stopping only occasionally for something to eat. He thought little about food and less about sleep. But what he thought about least of all was his rent.
As a result, his landlord now stood before him, demanding the three months’ rent
Walpole owed on the loft.

“Give me a couple of weeks,” Walpole pleaded. “I know I’m on the verge of making
some sales.”

“Absolutely not,” the landlord said. “You gave me that story last month. You won’t get
another day’s credit from me.”

“Look,” Walpole said, “think of it as an investment. Someday this loft will be famous, and you’ll be able to charge a fortune for it. In a few years, people will come into this disgusting loft and whisper, ‘Walpole used to paint here.’”

“Pay your rent now,” the landlord said, “or they’ll be able to say it tomorrow morning.”

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“And the Joke was on me…”

I slept in a friend’s house Monday of last week, and I was shocked when somebody knocked on her door and said “Ma’am, pwede bang mangarolling?” The two ladies, maybe around their 40s asked me if they can sing a christmas carol for us and then we’ll give some alms after. I am caught by surprise that all I said was “OK”. Then the two started singing “I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing, but I couldn’t see, but the joke was on me…I looked at the stars blah2x over my eyes, and I fell out of bed, hurting my head with that things that I said…” I wondered why they sang that classic song instead of a christmas carol..I was dumbfounded. When they cued me that they already ended, I just gave them some of my coins and they left. Haha! What was that?

Anyway, only at this very time that I remember that incident when I browsed over the internet and found some cool jokes. San Francisco hair transplant surgery helps a lot of cool people with balding heads, but it turns out that there more people who wear wigs than having themselves a hair transplant. Anyway, here are some hair jokes:

Science has found that only one thing can prevent baldness
…hair!

What do you call a bunch of bunnies hopping backwards?
A receding hare line.

The best thing about being bald is…
when her folks come home, all you have to do is straighten your tie.

What’s the difference between an ape, an orphan, a prince, and a bald man?
An ape has a hairy parent, an orphan has nary a parent, a prince is an heir apparent, and a bald man has no hair apparent.

What did the bald man say when he got a comb for his birthday?
“Thanks, I’ll never part with it!”

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Some time ago, I’ve met a Naples plastic surgeon who told me about the advantages and disadvantages of having a cosmetic surgery when you’re at your young age. I can vaguely remember all the things he said because I was just too young then. But, what I remember most was that when he said, never to have cosmetic surgeries at a young age because when you grow old, you’ll never want to look at the mirror again. What he said was quite funny for me, because really, as I have seen in the TV, those who went into cosmetic surgeries at their early 20s, they looked odd when they reached their 40s, and that they need to have another session of the surgery to make them look fine—which means, they have to spend another 100,000PHp again to have the surgery that would save them from humiliation.

I have found a cosmetic surgery joke in the internet, you might as well enjoy reading it.

A woman named Shirley was from Beverly Hills. One day, she had a heart attack and was taken to Cedars Sinai hospital. While on the operating table, she had a near-death experience. She saw God and asked, “Is this it?”

God said, “No, you have another 30 to 40 years to live.”

Upon her recovery, she decided to stay in the hospital and have collagen shots, cheek implants, a face lift, liposuction and breast augmentation. She even had someone dye her hair. She figured since she had another 30 to 40 years, she might as well make the most of it.

She walked out of Cedars Sinai lobby after the last operation and was killed by an ambulance speeding up to the hospital. She arrived in front of God and said, “I thought you said I had another 30 to 40 years?”

God replied, “Shirley! I’m sorry but I didn’t recognize you!”

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

thoughts, thoughts

I just wonder if I’d be confined in one of the San Francisco nursing homes when I grow old…or the question should be, would I want to see myself living there until I die in my sleep? Nursing homes are very common to most of the places outside the Philippines. It’s like everybody’s busy enough to care about their aging parents and/or relatives that they just send them over to places such as home for the aged, and the like. Well at least, in the States or in any first world countries, the aged have their own nurses that would at least render service and help for them 24/7. If you’re here in the Philippines, you would just find yourself having pity for those who are in home for the aged because they are not really attended that well.  I have once (or I think that was twice) visited a place where these oldies were confined. It is a place where NGO officials are giving them support and not the government. I was with my friends at church then. I remember clearly that most of the oldies really are happy upon seeing us entering the whole place. They were asking us lots of questions about what we do, what interests us and so on. And then, they start telling their stories. Stories that are like the ones you hear or read from your history class and history books. Some of them remember the date or year of the event that happend to them. Sometimes, they even tell you about the love of their lives, the names of their family members, sons and daughters, etc. as if you are that really close or as if you know them too. Remembering the time when we spent the whole afternoon with the oldies, I feel like visiting them once more. But everytime I have the chance, I just become so lazy and decide to not to go at all.
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New bout Ashley Simpson

It’s really fascinating to know that the 21-year old singer/actress Ashley Simpson just had a surgery like rhinoplasty Chicago last year. If I hadn’t really meant to look for people who just had rhinoplasty, I wouldn’t know if she ever got one. It looked good on her though, it’s as if you can’t tell if she really really had one or not. It’s because the thing is perfectly done that it’s  not that obvious that she had her nose pimped. Well, whatever reasons that she have for having herself go into this sort of stuff, who cares? Like what I said in my previous post, girls have the tendency to be an OC. and maybe, it’s most likely for girls to get bored with everything they see.
Take a look at the picture of Ashley Simpson after surgery:
 

 With the picture, can you tell the difference? It was nicely done, ayt?=p

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Do you ever wonder?

Do you ever wonder why most of the people who gets themselves pimped with Texas cosmetic surgery are mostly women? I don’t know what’s with girls that they are so inlove with the idea of changing the way the look, or some of their body parts will look. So far, it’s only Michael Jackson who’s a male celebrity who’s got himself a cosmetic surgery. Besides him, I don’t know anybody else. The thing with the prevalence of women getting themselves upgraded may have to do with the obssessive-cumpulsiveness (OC) of most of them. It’s like, when they know something’s not in order, or some part of their body appear this way than that way, they would like them changed or at least, repair. It’s with the obssession of getting everything in perfect manner. Well, you see, most of the girls are like that. I know many girls and ladies who are really OC with stuffs. Carmela, my bestfriend is undeniably an OC. Bytheway, I’m not really talking about the OC disorder and the very extreme case of it, it’s just the slight dash of the OCness that I’m talking about. Her Mom, Tita Connie, is an OC too. My mom, is OC in some of her ways, and so is my Tita Susan. My Tita Hilda is super duper OC too. and Tita Jojie is also an OC. Oh, I have to say that Ate Sweet is an OC too, and so is Jofe. If they go a little more of it, it’ll be no wonder anymore when I’ll hear them having facelifts or something. Girls will always be girls.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

the popular people do the blogging too

Now I am overwhelmed. I had not really known that there are many popular people in the Philippines who writes blogs as much as Neil Crespi do. If you’d like to know more about this, maybe it’s time for you to search in the google toolbar and find out lots of things (interesting things) in the internet. It’s like thru blogging, I and these popular celebs are equals and that they are really normal people too. I have just read three of the most interesting celebrity-owned blogs tonight. Those are:

1. Bianca Gonzales’ blog in blogspot. I’ve read a few of her posts and it’s just a very normal blog. She talks about her life, and life in general. Just like most of us bloggers do, we write what we have thought about. We write because it’s a way of expressing ourselves..and I’m so glad that this girl, Bianca, also has enjoys this hobby. Props to you!

2. Lea Salonga’s blog in Multiply. Wow. Really good vocabulary. I cannot seem to understand some words she have used in her writings..maybe those are really deep and old english, or slang, or so formal that it took me to dictionary.com to find out what those words mean. Nice blog, I’ve learned something from her tonight too.

3. KC Concepcion’s blog in Multiply. I am just bothered with the size of her blog’s header. It seems big enough for the webpage. It obvious that she likes colors because you can see it in the text. The content? I am surprised that she used a combination of filipino-english in her blogs. I thought she speaks pure english just like ms Lea Salonga do. Among the three blogs that I have read, I was filled with awe in the blogs of KC. She writes about life, what she had learned from church, and yes, life. With one of her entries, I was deeply touched and it gave me enough comfort not to think about the “little thing” that is bothering me right now.

God really moves in mysterious ways. I’m glad I am blogging right now.

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interes-thing

 
        The picture at the left is Adrianne Curry, the America’s Next Top Model winner who just had a breast augmentation. The result was actually good. As you can see, it made those bumpers look fuller and a lot tempting, I guess. Like the ones performed in any Toronto plastic surgery, it really is succesful. Unlike some of the clinics which we call bukot-bukot, the results in having those breast implants in good clinics makes the technology a good one. Many have actually reacted to Curry’s blurting-the-thing-out publicly, saying she should have not mentioned it to the media and hid it herself. But you know, I admire people like her who is honest enough to admit she has underwent a procedure. Some people or celebrity are that plastik to not to admit that they have their noses fixed, their buttocks firm, and the like, which makes the thing a lot more huge which will then leave them being left out by their fans. Why should any rich kid be not proud of having themselves undergone a certain procedure. It’s I think better to have those kinds of news around than being announced as pregnant or have been into a drug rehab or alcohol rehab facility. What do you think? Props to Curry’s big mouth. Now everything’s so huge. 0_o
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