How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days

So another movie review, eh? I just can't stop watching and reading books. Plus I don't have much to blog lately so I share my thoughts to you guys through the books I read and the movies I watch. I seem to have plenty of time to watch and read but less in studying. Oh well. 

How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days is about Andie and Ben. Andie is a columnist in Composure magazine. She writes "how to's" and her latest project was, yes, you've guessed it-- how to lose a guy in 10 days. She set out to find the guy with whom she is going to use with the experiment. That's when she meets Ben who has made a bet to make a girl fall in love with her in 10 days in order to get the advertising rights to a diamond merchant. So now, you see what's the conflict of the plot because I don't want to spoil (as always).

The movie is great. I think most of them are. It's funny and it's moving specially that scene where-- oops! No spoiler! It shows how Andie really did all those things girls do to turn off a guy but she can't push Ben away 'cause he's making her fall in love with him. And that's when I narrated the conflict. you really have to watch it! Do I sound convincing enough?! Yes? Good.

But I'm going to watch it again tonight.

"You can't lose something you never had" 

-Andie

Shakespeare in Love

This film was released in 1998. I only had the chance to watch it today, since I was like, 3 years old at that time. I regret only watching it now because it was such a great movie, I don't even know what to say. 

I bought a CD earlier today at SM Manila. It's a buy 1 take 1 promo, and I chose Shakespeare in Love and Atonement for 156 pesos. I just want to add that it was worth it! 

I don't really know if there really was a Viola de Lesseps in the real Shakespeare's heart (though I do think there's none) but the film gave a twist to the Shakespeare's story. It was very creative, using his novels, Romeo and Juliet, and Twelfth Night, plus his Sonnet 18. 

The cinematography was great. I don't really know how plays were done in the sixteenth century, now I think I know. Before I thought that his plays were done in larger stages than what was shown in the film. (You have to watch it to see). I was also surprised that only men can play parts in the theater. I was like, "So in the earlier times, Juliet was played by a man?!" I really can't get over that part. 

I want to tell you the story but I don't want to spoil much (for those who haven't watched it yet). All in all, it was a work of art. Plus, Joseph Fiennes is so hot! Lol. 

My Name Is Memory

I've just finished reading My Name is Memory by Ann Brashers. It was amazing! Very much different from the vampire, angels, fallen angels, werewolves kind of stories. I am very much encouraging you to read this book. Oh, how I hope there will be a second book because I feel that there will be one since there's that feeling of one wanting to read more. I think Lucy and Daniel's story is going to continue and I hope Ann writes a second book, I truly do.

The story's about Lucy and Daniel and how Daniel copes up with lifetimes of being with Lucy (which in her previous lives were called Sophia and Constance). Daniel has the Memory and he remembers every single lives he's had and how he first met Lucy and that in so many years, he's searched for her. He's seen her as a child, an old woman, a teenager in different times and with different appearances but still, he knows it's her.

I guess that's all the story I can narrate to you. It's such a very good-- the best-- story. It really fascinated me how different it is from all the stories that comes out. I guess what you can say about the book is that soul mates really do exist.

And while I was reading, I can't help but write some quotable quotes. Here they are:

• How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
• The petty workings of your birdlike mind brought you down, and forgetting was your only salvation.
• Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
• I can't describe how thrilling it was to be with someone like me, and how little of myself I shared with most people.
• As I've said, it's desire more than anything else that keeps us coming back for more.
• The regrets stay with you. They distort you over time.
• Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.
• She wished she could swap her days for her nights, her reality for dreams.
• Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.
• You remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
• Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.

If Walls Could Talk...

Kanina, nasa bahay namin si Pearl. Tapos nag-usap kami about things. Tapos basta habang nakikinig ako sa kanya, bigla kong na-realize na ang dami na palang nangyaring moments sa kwarto ko. May mga secrets-sharing moments, iyakan moments, tawanan moments, UDA (script-writers) moments, jamming sessions, sleep-over and what-nots. Karugtong ng realization na 'yon eh yung masayang feeling na narealize ko na sa mga bagay na nabanggit ko kanina, TNP ang lagi kong kasama. 

Sa maliit kong kwarto ko, nadala ko yung friends ko at nakita nila kung ano talaga ako. Sa ayos pa lang ng kwarto ko, which is magulo, kitang-kita mo na yung personality ko. And I'm happy na lahat sila nadala ko doon. Kaya ayokong mawala yung kwarto ko eh. It's part of who I am. Nandoon halos lahat ng mga importanteng bagay sa akin. Alam ko bawat crack sa kisame, bawat alikabok sa gilid-gilid, bawat umbok sa kama, at bawat papel sa singit-singit. Haha. Akala mo kung ano yung pinag-uusapan eh.

Ayon, ngayon ko lang nabigyan ng appreciation yung kwarto ko after halos 7 years kong pag-stay doon.

Nalulula ako sa bagong layout ng Blogger. Haha. Ngayon lang uli ako nagbukas, may bagong layout na agad. Nangagain ng t*nga ung bagong layout eh. Biglaan naman kasing nag-iba. Sana pinaunti-unti man lang nila, diba?! Haha.