Oct 17, 2010

Life as We Know it


Rating:★★★★
Category:Movies
Genre: Romantic Comedy
October 13, 2010
SM Megamall Cinema 6
Advance Screening

In the romantic comedy Life as We Know It, Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) is an up-and-coming caterer and Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel) is a promising network sports director. After a disastrous first date, the only thing they have in common is their dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter, Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in the world, Holly and Messer are forced to put their differences aside. Juggling career ambitions and competing social calendars, they'll have to find some common ground while living under the same roof...

i so love josh duhamel

Oct 7, 2010

EAT PRAY LOVE


Rating:★★★★
Category:Movies
Genre: Drama
October 6, 2010
EDSA Shangrila Cineplex 2

EAT PRAY LOVE
A woman who once made it her goal in life to marry and rear a family finds her priorities suddenly shifting in director Ryan Murphy's adaptation of author Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir. In the eyes of many, Gilbert was a woman who had it all -- a loving husband, a great apartment, and a weekend home -- but sometimes one realizes too little too late that they haven't gotten what they truly wanted from life. On the heels of a painful divorce, the woman who had previously looked forward to a contented life of domesticated bliss sets out to explore the world and seek out her true destiny. Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner produce a film starring Julia Roberts.

Here are the most memorable quotes from the 'Eat Pray Love' movie:

Ketut (Habi Subiyanto): "Do not look at the world through your head; look at it through your heart."

Delia (Viola Davis): "Having a baby is like having a tattoo on your face. You kind of want to be committed."

Liz: "Hello God. It's nice to meet you"
Richard (Richard Jenkins): "If you could clear you all that space in your mind, you would have a doorway. And you know what the universe would do? Rush in."
Liz: "Do you always talk in bumper sticker?"

Liz: "I am so sick of people telling me I need a man."
Felipe (Javier Bardem): "You don't need a man, you need a champion."

Liz: "He just folded my delicates..."
Laundry lady: "Oh my God baby, you are in so much trouble."

Liz: "I remember an old catholic joke about a man who spent his whole life going to a church every day and prayed to the statue of a great saint begging "please, please, please, let me win the lottery." Finally the exasperated statue comes to life and looks down at the begging man and says "my son, please, please, please, buy a ticket." So now I get the joke, and I bought three tickets."

Luca Spaghetti (Giuseppe Gandini): "Americans. You work too hard, you get burned outYou come home and spend the whole weekend in your pajamas in front of the T.V."
Liz: "That's not far off, actually."
Luca Spaghetti: "But you don't know pleasure. You have to be told you've earned it. You see a commercial that says: 'It's Miller Time!' And you say, That's right, now I'm going to buy a six pack. And then drink the whole thing and wake up the next morning and you feel terrible. But an Italian doesn't need to be told. He walks by a sign that says: You deserve a break today. And he says, Yes, I know. That's why I'm planning on taking a break at noon to go over to your house and sleep...with your wife!"

Giovanni(Luca Argentero): "We call it "dolce far niente", the sweetness of doing nothing."

Liz: "So the holy truth of the whole adventure here in India, is in one line: "God dwells within you...as you." God's not interested in watching a performance of how a spiritual person looks and behaves. The quiet girl who glides silently through the place with a gentle, ethereal smile...who is that person? It's Ingrid Bergman in "The Bells of St. Mary's" – not me. God dwells within me...as me."

Wayan (Christine Hakim): "You have not had sex in a long time. I can tell by your knees."

Liz: "A friend took me to the most amazing place the other day. It's called the Augusteum. Octavian Augustus built it to house his remains. When the barbarians came they trashed it a long with everything else. The great Augustus, Rome's first true great emperor. How could he have imagined that Rome, the whole world as far as he was concerned, would be in ruins. It's one of the quietest, loneliest places in Rome. The city has grown up around it over the centuries. It feels like a precious wound, a heartbreak you won't let go of because it hurts too good. We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we're afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Then I looked at around to this place, at the chaos it has endured - the way it has been adapted, burned, pillaged and found a way to build itself back up again. And I was reassured, maybe my life hasn't been so chaotic, it's just the world that is, and the real trap is getting attached to any of it. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."

Felipe: "I'm also really into Phil Collins and Air Supply."
Liz: "You really shouldn't say things like that out loud."

Felipe: "Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself."

Richard: "You're going to have to learn to select your thoughts the same way you select your clothes every day. Now that's a power that you can cultivate. You want to come here and you want to control your life so bad work on the mind, and I don't think you should be trying to control a thing because if you can't master your thoughts you are in trouble forever."

and of course "Attraversiamo!" which is Italian for "Let's Cross Over!"

It's a good movie, makes you realize and wonder how your life has been.. I really want to travel around the world.. for now, am gonna start "my own box", and hope that someday i would finally got to the places and experiences that i've been dreaming of... the movie inspired me in some ways...

(not related to the movie story)
---> am really glad that there are still good people in this chaotic world.. well anyway since i am getting ready for a very busy day today which was really a very exhausting day cause i had 22 buses of tour at the zoo! so i don't have any plans to go out last night... but then again, i received a text from my cousin Mei and asking me to call Len which puzzled me and got me worried so i called Len and 1st thing she said was "where were you? am here at Shang and am waiting for you" which made me more confused cause i don't remember that were going out or we had agreed to meet... so i had to call Mei again to ask what the hell is happening here and more surprises come to my way cause someone else answered Mei's phone and telling me that they found it at a top of the ATM machine at The Fort! Oh no, not again... my cousin Mei had lost 8 mobile phones just this year (2010) and really freaked me out, to my surprised the girl who found the phone told me that they're gonna wait for a few minutes maybe Mei would realized that she lost her phone and would go back for it... I'm really thankful that there are still good people in the world... when i was talking to the girl again cause am getting her info so i would know where i could pick up the phone the next day since it's a bit late and we're wasting their time, she told me that a thin girl with a long hair was running towards them... thank god! Mei realized that she lost her phone when she was inside the cab and about to call me to tell me that we're gonna watch this movie! anyway, All's well that ends well! And i enjoyed the movie and the freebies that we got! Yey!

Aug 31, 2010

which i thought was a perfect day....


"Its the First Day of the Rest of My Life... It'll be Fun, It'll be Great... I Can't Wait"

It's a song from Trumpets Musical "Little Mermaid" back then... it was my super favorite musical locally... and i guess the lyrics just right for me for what i've been going through (again?! for the nth time)... Been plotting to post these lines to my Facebook Account... to show how mature i was to handle being left behind again... Yes, Norman left again..He left today for Qatar. I realized a lot of things... yesterday, i was kinda hopeful that this day would be perfect for moving on and starting a new life and a new beginning... But just as I start my day, my brother Marc was pounding to my door bursting with a sad news that our dog "Brando" died... ohhh great.... it was hit and run :(... i felt really sad... Brandon has been there for about three years in our family... and i paved through the day... am now nursing another asthma attack... tsk tsk...

but here i am, trying to turn around this "i thought this will be a perfect day"... i realized, i've missed a lot of things... just because i've been trying really hard on my relationship with norman... Now, this may not be a perfect day... but it will be a day that i will start to love myself more and listen to my self more... 

-mai garcia
"the best is yet to come"

Aug 22, 2010

Love... Life!!! Aiza Seguerra, Gerald Salonga & FILharmonikA




Aiza Seguerra, FILharmonikA and Gerald Salonga... what more can you ask for?.. it's actually my first time to watch a concert with a complete orchestra.. galing! I really enjoyed it, aside from the fact na sobrang lapit namin sa stage as in second row lang.. good thing about it, kahit full orchestra cya, aiza made it so casual kaya relaxed ang mga nanood, they're also wearing casual shirts, jeans and sneakers.. kakaiba talaga :)

watched it my highschool friend April, buti na alng niyaya nya ako... sobrang gusto ko talagang panoorin ung concert na un, wala lang kc ako kasama... too bad, i left my camera kaya cellphone lang ginamit ko.. sorry sa quality ng pics...

it was a blast! aiza did twenty songs, na may stories behind... from start of a lovelife, being in-love, losing a lovelife, moving on, healing and finding a new love life again.. hayyy am sure naman, lahat nang andun nakarelate, one way or another...here are the list

1. Runaway
2. Kiss from a Rose
3. Someone to watch over me
4. Kahit ika'y panaginip lang
5. Sana'y wala nang wakas
6. Hiram
7. Forever and a day (not sure of the title)
8. You oughta know
9. Gaya ng Dati
10. Wind beneath my wings
11. Bette Davis Eyes
12. Everytime
13. Bituing walang ningning
14. Aiza's original song! sayang didn't get the title.. super ganda pa nman
15. In my life
16. Man in the Mirror duet with Ryan Sojor
17. I'll be over you
18. Pagdating ng Panahon
19. Iris
20. Huling El Bimbo (full energy 'to)

feel good concert... loved it! thanks april for inviting me here.. and to allan & ryan who patiently waited for us... and for the cocktails afterwards sa cable car! hehe bangenge rin ako ha....at sa business proposal na hindi magpapatulog sa akin ng ilang araw.. whew... hahahaha

Jul 2, 2010

i have to keep my self busy

good thing theres:

my friends
my pampasayang crushes
plants vs. zombies
at looklet.. hehehe

      

Apr 12, 2010

viva italia! gelato! (i wish), billiards & zero degree beer!




April 10, 2010
Bellini's, Mini-Stop & Tuhog, Tsibog, Busog

another adventure with friends, we went to Belinni's Resto @ Cubao... reminiscing popoy-basha movie hehehe "one more chance".. our librarian randel, kahit laging nakasimangot.. cya talaga ung excited.. favorite movie nya un eh, word for word kabisado hehehe...the food & ambiance is great! authentic italian dishes talaga... after that, we craved for ice cream... cyempre mini-stop ice cream! (ayan tuloy sumakit tiyan ni francis bwahahaha!) since may dalang tako si randel, sayang nman kung di gagamitin.. so we headed to brickroad..kaya lang close na... so we end up sa junction... hahaha sa "tuhog tsibog busog" hmmm wala silang bucket pero okay na rin kasi they have "beer below zero" sarap at higit sa lahat libre ang laro ng billiards.. o di ba.. hehe

Mar 27, 2010

Girls Night Out! Jacuzzi Style




It's my cousin Claire's Birthday! we decided to celebrate it in unusual, exciting, fun & most of all relaxing way! loved it

Mar 10, 2010

miss you like crazy quotable quotes...




watched the movie twice... i love it! ang daming quotes na sapul.. hehe
mang temmy to allan:
"isa lang ang puso mo..dapat isa lang ang laman niyan..kailangang mamili ka..pero pag namili ka, may masasaktan..kung hindi ka naman mamimili, dalawa silang sinasaktan mo.."
mia to allan:
“Bakit ka ba nagpa-panic? Kahit nga hindi mo ako hinahanap nagkikita pa rin tayo!”
lolo yuli
"Time is meaningless when you're in-love"
jm to daphne:
"Ate, you don't have to love her. You just have to accept the fact that i do."
allan & daphne
Daphne: What's wrong with my condo?
Alan: What's wrong with my house?
Daphne: Are you looking for a fight?
Alan: I am looking for a reason to fight for you. For us! Eto ako...old..musty...falling apart...and practically not your type...
allan to mia:
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry kung nasaktan kita, at kung nasasaktan pa rin kita, I'm sorry kung hindi ko natupad lahat ng mga pangako ko.... I can't change the past 2 years, and take away all the pain that i've cost you, but if you will let me, i will spend the rest of my life making it up to you..."
mia to allan
"Sorry?sorry saan? sorry dahil sinaktan mo ko? sorry dahil pinaasa mo ko? sorry dahil hindi ako ang pinili mo? dalawang taon sinubukan kitang kalimutan.. tapos ngayon guguluhin mo ako kasi libre ka na? kasi kaya mo na akong mahalin? eh PUT*NG IN* mo!"
ryan to allan: (nakalimutan ko name ni ryan eigenmann sa movie eh)
"my point is, love isn't the only reason why we choose to leave someone.. or stay with them"
mir to mia
"i don't care if you feel that i don't deserve you, if you love me less or if i love you more. what matters is mahal na mahal kita."
mir to allan
"Fate gives us one chance, you had your chance and you blew it. This is my chance now, there's no way in hell you'll come between us"
allan & mia
allan: bakit pa tayo pinagtagpo kung paghihiwalayin din tayo?
mia: allan, kung pinagtagpo man tayong muli, maybe it's not for a happy ending. Maybe it's a second chance to end things" (eto fave ko :( sapul)
mir to mia:
"i always love you. but you always love him. "
hehehe la lang senti mode.. yun lang naaalala ko eh




Mar 8, 2010

February 25, 2010 HS Get-together




Date: February 25, 2010
Location: Metrowalk-Misato Bar, Chicago KTV and Starbucks

another highschool get together! it was fun and so glad na mas marami kami this time.. hahaha bumawi ang justice, ang dami nila ngaun...

thanks guys! til next time.. hopefully sa susunod mas madami na tau..

ang mga dumating:

justice: warren, gagay, hazel, jason, michael and arlene
service: mai, emas & rona
love: menchie & ronda
compassion: lorena

Jan 8, 2010

Highschool Get-together 2010




January 7, 2010
Ronda's Place
Mayfields Park Residences

An impromptu get-together.. sayang maraming di nakarating.. hayyy but we had so much fun.. i hope next time.. mas madami na tau, mga classmates :)

thanks s inyong lahat!

we missed you jac, lorena & daddy bear (joseph)