Divine's Wedding

Last Saturday, I was at Kolambugan for Divine's wedding. Divine was one of my first boardmates when I first came here in iligan, so we were kinda close.

Here we are, Gersha, Karen, Jonah and me plus the bride, Didi, the night before the wedding. The wedding dress was just gorgeous.

The three of them gets to be bridesmaids while I get to sing some songs for the wedding. I kinda liked my outfit that day (I had to do my own make-up too!). The only thing I didn’t like about it is it made me stand out. I was the only one wearing a mini in the wedding. That’s what I get for letting my little sister ela pick my dress for me. On top of that, I had to change shoes with Gersha, who, being Gersha, thought it is ok for a bridesmaid to wear 4-inch sneakers to a wedding. I had to lend her my trusted 2-inch cream shoes while I suffered for how many hours wobbling with those heels. I normally don’t wear heels because most of the time, I’m taller than the people I’m with. Definitely my feet started hurting like crazy after around 30 min. Here's how the outfit looked like:

So anyway, I only get to sing two songs. I didn’t have enough time to practice because I already arrived at Friday, but I’m fine with that. I probably would have shamed myself had we pushed through with the original plan. wahehehe.. I get to assist Karen during the reception, so I was kinda the emcee too. I finally have a new profession! In fact, at Karen’s wedding, I get to be the singer and the emcee. Waaaaaa~~~!

Ok. Why is it that most of my close friends are getting married? I have another college barkada who's bound to get married this summer. And last February, my roommate got married too(where I got to be a wedding singer, and Karen got to be the emcee).

One thing I like about Divine’s wedding(other that because there was so much pink around) is that everything seems to be at their proper timing. These days, a lot of weddings occur because a child was already conceived outside wedlock.That isn’t the case with this wedding.

Somehow I want my wedding to be like that. It won’t be the pagkabonnga of the event, or the fine bridesmaids, or the wonderful cake, or the music that will make it all work out. It’ll be the person who will wait for me when I finally walk down that isle; it’s going to be the love story behind all the pastel colors and the white wedding dress that will matter most that day. Whether it’ll rain or shine, whether there are 500 people or a mere 50, everything will be perfect.

Divine’s wedding left me with a feeling that somehow, I want a wedding too. One thing that I realized though: As of now, I just want a wedding, not yet marriage. I am far from ready for that. And so, I must wait. (for my prince to grow up to be a king).

SO finally I got to watch C.S. Lewis's Voyage of the Dawn Treader and here's my review about the movie.

To start off, I've been a big fan of the Narnia Series since I was in 3rd grade. My parents bought me "Prince Caspian" for my birthday and I've been hooked into the whole series ever since (the series actually brings back nostalgic memories back when we couldn't afford books yet and I had to borrow books from the library). I've read the all of the 7 books at least 5 times one summer before 5th grade. yep, that's how addicted I was.

Needless to say when I finally got to highschool, and I can already afford books, I bought the whole series, lost some of the books, and bought them again, and lost them again. Hehehe... I wonder how many Narnia books I've bought in this lifetime.

Enough with that. Back to VOTDT.

Compared to The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, and Prince Caspian, VOTDT original story is sort of like a series of adventures, so it doesn't really have an action-packed climax. I kinda wondered how are they going to portray that in the movie without making it boring. And so the movie-people did was I was kinda expecting: they changed the story.

Of all the three Narnia movies, VOTDT has the most altered story line. The biggest alteration is the reappearnce of the white witch, and on Edmund's dream too. They kinda left out a lot of good parts too, like the actual appearance of Ramandu, the actual means by which Eustace was transformed into a boy again.. and the most disappointing one: Caspian's love story with Ramandu's daughter (they shouldn't have made a Caspian-Susan love team in the first place).

Actually, too many alterations took out the depth from the real story and the original characters. Eustace is supposed to be my favorite character in the book and sure, in the movie, he got the exposure that he deserved(he kinda narrated it, sort of), but still, there could have been a better portrayal of him. I kinda didn't like the actor they casted for the role. Although I'm giving Will Poulter a chance (Actually, I think I'm starting to be a fan of his, and i'll probably watch"Son of Ranbow", which is his first movie ever). If they'd still continue the saga, he still gets to be in 2 more movies, and probably he'll live out to be the Eustace that he's supposed to be by the time "The Last Battle" is out. But somehow I wished they didn't made him blond. I know it's lame to complain about that, but Eustace is supposed to be black-haired (And Edmund is supposed to be blond, but Skandar Keynes was such a cuuuuuttttiiiieeee so I had no problems with that). He did a good job at being annoying though.Hehehe.. And yep. His extended time as a dragon kinda worked out because he got to battle the sea serpent and all, it also kinda made the transformation more effective. Reviews seem to imply that he's one of those actors who are new in the industry but are quite good already. So probably there's potential. =^_~=

I have a lot of things to rant about why this movie is such a bad adaptation of a classic book, but I admit I had some fun watching.(I don't really have high standards in movies in the first place and I prefer light films too, which is what VOTDT is)

I realized while I was somewhere at the middle of the movie though (after I got over the initial shock regarding the numerous alterations), that what's nice about the changes is that I didn't know what's gonna happen next in the movie. That spared the people I watched the movie with of me spoiling what's gonna happen next. At the same time, I get to really watch because I didn't had to explain the littlest details and the dialogue (I've gotta to admit that at times it's much better to watch downloaded movies from my laptop where there are subtitles, instead of the big screen, especially here in Iligan where the sound system at the movie house is just baaaad)

I loved some of the lines from the movie but the credits go to C.S. Lewis for that, and not the movie makers (In fact they left out a lot of good dialogue.huhuhu).

my favorite quote (or rather, exchange):

Lucy Pevensie: Aslan, will we ever meet with you in our world?

Aslan: You shall.
Lucy Pevensie: How?
Aslan: Because there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

Also, a little something that I liked what the fact that they mentioned Jill Pole's name at the end of the film. It's like a promise that there will be another Narnia film coming up. =^_^= Jill Pole happened to be Eustace's companion at "The Silver Chair", which is the next book in the chronicle.

So my overall rating is: average.

My recommendation: Watch the movie, but don't expect too much.hehhehehe

Things I Want

It's a Sunday morning and I have a full day ahead of me.

Last night I spent at least two hours watching vids by bubz. I just discovered her the other day and I've got to admit, I like her better than Michelle Phan, probably because her tutorials are more practical.

Here's the url of her youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/bubzbeauty?blend=1&ob=4

It's so frustrating how all I can really do is watch the tutorials instead of really getting to follow them. It's mainly because:

1) It's impossible to wear make-up in MSU-IIT without standing out.

2) I don't have a make-up set.

Of course I can always try them at by boardmates(both of my roommates are from the College of Business Administration and it's much more legal to wear make-up there than in our college), but i sure need some of these IMMEDIATELY first:

1) more eye-shadows (I've only got 6 colors so far. rather pathetic)

2) white pencil eyeliner

3) black pencil eyeliner

4) brown pencil eyeliner

5) concealer (of different shades)

6) a darker shade of foundation

7) make-up brushes

8) mascara

9) eyelash curler

Unfortunately, all of these cost a lot and I have to save up for the wedding next week. O well. Some things will just have to wait. By the way, I'm glad there's HBC, where I can buy make-up that aren't so expensive and are pretty ok in quality nonetheless. (Or I might start looking for an online job so I can have the cash I need to buy the stuff I want..waaaa.)

Happy Birthday Sandra!

Sandra's birthday was last Dec 17. This is a little something I made for her. I thought the color red suits her best because of her fierce personality. (open picture in new tab to view in full size!)

Christmas Vacation 2010

This is probably one of the best christmas vacations ever. Our cousin Armela, who was like our fourth sibling when we were younger, came back from the US after 5 years. That's why every single day of our vacation were packed with activities. There wasn't a single day that we didn't get to go out of the house. We were either at the mall or somewhere else outdoors. Here are some snapshots of how my christmas vacation went.

My mom with her siblings and my grandparents. Reunited at last after who knows how many years.

My cousin is a painter. Just recently she discovered that doing make up is a kind of art too so she used me as a guinea pig to practice on. HEhe. This is on the same day I got home from a 17-hour land trip with zero hour of sleep for the last 36 hours. Notice the eye bags.

zipline at lake sebu's 7 falls!

When we toured around the 7 falls. This is the 2nd falls i think.

The tour guide and my sister prescilla snickering about something again.

lake sebu

Here is my father, and pre, our youngest.

Dole Pineapple Plantation:

KTV at Piyesta, Robinsons. This is ela's treat:

pre and her bamboo canon:

papa helped her out after her first bamboo canon exploded:

Christmas eve, at my tita's house, where we played card games, and painted the loser's face with lipstick. Fortunately, I didn't get any mark on my face.

Christmas at my other tita's place. Here we have Ysa, who is my cousins daughter, and my two other cousins, biboy and am-am. Pre, being the youngest in the family, tend to play big sister when she's with our younger cousins. (although at times, she tends to play big sister with me too. I admittedly lost my status as the eldest child in the family.T_T)

With papa and ela on the same day

Laag with Shadawn, where I get to play around with his camera:

Rosal Beach, Gumasa!

New Year's Eve!

Kuya Paulo and his 10-year gf ate Pau

First peek at my Uncle's library. I was in awe of the books. Papa had to push me out when they had to lock it up again. Why in the world would you lock up a library???

Ela and Me. Pre is nowhere to be found inside the house because she was too busy annoying our mother with her firecrackers.

New Year at Lola's farm

Jan 2 at the airport when Ela had to go back to Manila. :(