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I’ve been thinking of the wife, so I guess it’s about time to be romantic.
Images of you keep appearing in my mind. Every little thing you did when we were together - the way you wiggle your lips in your sleep, trying not to wake up. Keeping you from scratching your healing burns and that too. Wiping your back when you’re sweating. Your pinches from behind. Your hugs and kisses. Your bites. You feeding me.
I hope I won’t lose this feeling even though it’s too difficult for me. Missing you is the sweetest torment that I can forever partake.
April 22nd, 2008
“The Children of Huang Shi” is a true story during the Japanese occupation of China. An English journalist’s journey to becoming a great man. George A. Hogg was a British journalist who went to Nan Jing to record a bloody oppression of the Japanese towards the Chinese. He failed to report to the world because he was caught and was nearly beheaded if not for Chen Hansheng. To make the story short, he eventually landed in an orphanage where he took care of “the children of Huang Shi.”
I liked the film not only because of its real nature, but it was an act where one man established a relationship with children who lost everything and learned to love him as a parent. Although there were some who failed, he saved many and taught them many things. I especially applauded the scenes where they journeyed for the silky road and it showed cooperation between these boys through thick and thin. They were helping each other to survive. I thought it was a spectacle.
April 21st, 2008
It’s been a while since I saw a HK film that is worth watching, so “Dragon Heat” (aka “Maang Lung”) deserves an entry in my records. It’s noteworthy. This flick is consistent enough to get you stuck on your seat. The actions are good with these young actors as Interpol agents. It didn’t have the ultra powerful skills that most HK films give their protagonists. Sammo Hung wasn’t the supermaster of all which I kept waiting to appear, but it didn’t. They were all normal soldiers here. The only downside was the role of the snipers. They were snipers who couldn’t hit - they were terrible…well I guess except for the fact that Maggie Q is one hot sniper!!!
April 19th, 2008
Last night I saw on DVD Julie Delpy’s film “2 Days In Paris”. The film hit home. The film has so many features that I will probably miss most of them in this entry. “2 Days” is about a couple - an American and a French – who stopped over in Paris for two days on their way back to New York from Italy. The French girl was reunited with old friends and lovers. Delpy, who wrote, directed and produced this flick, brought out, in my opinion, everything that is negative about the Frenchies. But she didn’t miss the assault on America either.
What hit home really wasn’t the stereotypes. It’s the main theme which is being out of place. I have been feeling out of place these past months. “2 Days” visualized the feeling of being out of place for me. You become passive externally, but deep down inside you are in a revolution. The feeling causes paranoia, jealousy, and pessimism. Paranoia because you don’t belong in a group and thus don’t understand their ways yielding you to believe that they are not the friendlies. Jealousy comes into play and I will withhold my reasons. Pessimism arises because all you would think about are negative things. Those things won’t be visible, though. They are all kept inside you and you become passive outside as a defense mechanism. You show them that you are not out of place while you are wishing that time will come that they visit your own world and kick them where it hurts.
Watch the movie and you’ll understand my feelings.
April 18th, 2008
Felixberto Baguyo, Jr. posted Wage Increase A Must where he stated that wages in the Philippines aren’t rising despite the rise in cost of living. He pointed the reason that the government did not want to incur additional cost to the investors – who are foreigners and are growing in population. He is correct, however that is not why my heart is heavy on this matter.
OFW population keeps rising. We work for foreigners, while the foreigners are invading us ecconomically and making use of our resources to further advance their economies. Basically what is happening is that the foreigners are taking advantage of the resources that our social studies teachers are praising that we have plenty of, while our own people are shipped outside the country to become slaves of other nations.
It’s really frustrating because we should be the ones to take advantage of our own resources, but what is the government doing? We are deprived of our own possession, instead they are offered to the our masters. We don’t realize it yet, but we really are being colonized. We are once again under the control of other nations.
[pending entry on OFW coming soon]
April 17th, 2008
With the Yankees on a losing streak and I wanted to get back on my movie woes, I went to Blockbuster last night at around 10PM to rent a couple of films. This time, I didn’t go with romance or comedy. I tried my luck on thrills, so I rented Guy Richie’s “Revolver” and “Shoot ‘Em Up“. I started with a Richie flick and I wasn’t disappointed.
“Revolver” has all the formula for a Guy Richie flick plus a psychological touch. As a matter of fact, it really is a psychological film on ego. A man’s battle against himself. Jake Green (Jason Statham) planned a revenge against the person who brought him into prison for seven years. However, at the dawn of his vengeance, he was interrupted by two loan sharks who were actually guiding him to know his real enemy. These two men happened also to be the ones who taught him everything he knows about conning and playing “the game” of chess. Eventually he realized that his real enemy is his ego.
I have long believed that living is a game and it is ourselves as the opponent. I did not know about ego other than it is the self. At the credits of the film, experts on ego commented or rather stated what they know of ego. Dr. Chopra said that there never is an external enemy, rather it is the real enemy’s projection that we have an external enemy so that we won’t suspect the ego to be the enemy. Our ego is manipulating our mind to believe that another human being is the enemy. We spend a lifetime trying to defeat that enemy. What we don’t know is that it is ourselves that opposes us. It is my perception that gives me the idea to hate and try to overcome something; the external entity is only a medium to whom I exert my frustration because I am made to believe by the ego. I always say that life is not precious because it has a known ending. We are nothing but pawns in this game called life. However, like any game, we shouldn’t cheat so that we can end the game.
“Revolver” will definitely be part of my top list. I wouldn’t think twice a Guy Richie film.
April 10th, 2008
After thirteen years, William Gates is no longer the richest man on the planet. According to Forbes, Gates dropped from first to third place this year. The richest man now is Warren Buffett. I wonder what these people do with their money. For the complete list of Forbes’ annual list of richest people [read this].
March 7th, 2008
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