Busy Busy Week
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afunaThis week I:
* helped my sister's boyfriend with his website, earned pizza. It's a good deal, since I'm not actually doing much work/design. Just need to point him in the right direction when he gets stuck, and he takes it from there. Also, he doesn't take it out on me when he gets frustrated by technology, unlike most people I help (most people I help only once).
* went out to watch RPG Metanoia with friends on the last day of the Manila Film Festival. RPG Metanoia is the first 3D fully-animated Philippine film. I still can't tell if they're boasting about it using 3D-glasses technology, or if they're boasting about it being entirely in CGI. Maybe both!
It apparently took five years to make, and it is so Philippine-flavored I am ahahahhahaha :)
Nice things:
OMG the details! They had fried bangus, and it looked just like the way we do it at home. And also their vegetables were pakbet :D Noticeably recognizably pinakbet with the string beans and the diced squash and eeeeeh ahahahaha.
OMG the calesa pulled by a mechanical horse! I loved the legs of the horse :D :D :D
OMG the tricycles and jeepneys. Eeeeeh SO CUTE. I WANT.
OMG OMG THE CORNY JOKES. But corny in a way that is so Pinoy ahahahahahahhahahaahhaa. Everyone in the theater laughed at all the right moments :D
Ummmm. My group and I kinda laughed at some of the wrong ones too, like when they were trying to explain the tech behind how the online game was spreading as a trojan virus and taking over peoples' minds through the game because it used to be a European astronaut training program which put people into cryogenetic hibernation using subliminal messages and, after said program was discontinued for lack of funding, got turned into a MMORPG to recoup the losses. The main action storyline involves a superduperspecialunique item that gives a player god mode status, which takes over its user's mind and traps him in the game, then spreads to every player this guy attacks AND THEY CAN'T TURN OFF THE SERVERS OR ANYTHING because (I forgot) AND THEY CAN'T TURN OFF THE COMPUTERS OR ANYTHING because (I forgot). I am pretty sure they deliberately made it over the top so that everyone would realize that it was just handwavium and go along with it. I WENT ALONG WITH IT.
Anyway, OMG the kids! They act like kids! They talk like kids! They bluster like (some) kids I know! They are, you know, young! and idiotic! and good at heart! and occasionally really really stupid but totally there for one another! And they are really corny and pa-usok (uhhhhhh. smoke, uhhh, blowing smoke? what is that term? I don't know!)
Random line which had me falling over and snickering:
"Your mistake was that you only think of this as a game" (said in this ridiculously dramatic tone by the person who would eventually get sucked by the god-mode item, turning the game into reality)
Anyway, it could easily have fallen into the cliche of preaching about how technology is bad for you, but despite the long montage showing how much fun it was to play older/classic Filipino games, there was enough humor and affection for the game that it wasn't preachy.
The movie did stray very close to cliches surrounding friendships, but it was so... so warm and backhanded humorous I think I don't mind.
The final battle was ridiculous and the ending was umm. I am tempted to use the term "deus ex machina" except instead of the gods riding in on a machine, it's the machine failing and okay I AM NOT MAKING SENSE but let's leave it at that.
ANYWAY. Yeah, pretty fun if you're Pinoy and into gaming; lots of inside jokes involving the two. Probably doesn't make as much sense if you're outside both contexts though!
* went out with my friend J to a factory outlet for skin care products. Stuff I usually find at PHP 800 branded, is less than a hundred here. Possibly a bit smaller, but not eight times smaller! So I'm trying it out and I hope that the quality is okay. (Supposedly, this store supplies many of the derma clinics, so!)
Dropped by SaveMore to pick up crackers for if some random person knocks on my car window. Somehow ended up buying baking chocolates and honey.
We ended up along T Morato and randomly picked Sentosa, a new Singaporean Chinese restaurant, for dinner. It's so new, it hasn't even officially opened yet, ahaha :) So we got a ten percent discount. Win!
Sentosa is pretty good. We ordered the xiao long pao (a bit smaller than I'm used to, but xiao long pao is usually so heavy, this was a welcome change), pad thai, and fried catfish with tamarind sauce.
And then next door to Dezaato Pan for some ice cream that tastes like Ferrero Rocher. Along the way, we talked about medicine, food, and then somehow the topic of fat shaming came up. LET ME JUST SAY I am relieved at how well that conversation went.
Now we're just hanging out, trying not to fall asleep, and looking at local coupon (groupon?) sites, so we can plan our next outing together :D
* helped my sister's boyfriend with his website, earned pizza. It's a good deal, since I'm not actually doing much work/design. Just need to point him in the right direction when he gets stuck, and he takes it from there. Also, he doesn't take it out on me when he gets frustrated by technology, unlike most people I help (most people I help only once).
* went out to watch RPG Metanoia with friends on the last day of the Manila Film Festival. RPG Metanoia is the first 3D fully-animated Philippine film. I still can't tell if they're boasting about it using 3D-glasses technology, or if they're boasting about it being entirely in CGI. Maybe both!
It apparently took five years to make, and it is so Philippine-flavored I am ahahahhahaha :)
Nice things:
OMG the details! They had fried bangus, and it looked just like the way we do it at home. And also their vegetables were pakbet :D Noticeably recognizably pinakbet with the string beans and the diced squash and eeeeeh ahahahaha.
OMG the calesa pulled by a mechanical horse! I loved the legs of the horse :D :D :D
OMG the tricycles and jeepneys. Eeeeeh SO CUTE. I WANT.
OMG OMG THE CORNY JOKES. But corny in a way that is so Pinoy ahahahahahahhahahaahhaa. Everyone in the theater laughed at all the right moments :D
Ummmm. My group and I kinda laughed at some of the wrong ones too, like when they were trying to explain the tech behind how the online game was spreading as a trojan virus and taking over peoples' minds through the game because it used to be a European astronaut training program which put people into cryogenetic hibernation using subliminal messages and, after said program was discontinued for lack of funding, got turned into a MMORPG to recoup the losses. The main action storyline involves a superduperspecialunique item that gives a player god mode status, which takes over its user's mind and traps him in the game, then spreads to every player this guy attacks AND THEY CAN'T TURN OFF THE SERVERS OR ANYTHING because (I forgot) AND THEY CAN'T TURN OFF THE COMPUTERS OR ANYTHING because (I forgot). I am pretty sure they deliberately made it over the top so that everyone would realize that it was just handwavium and go along with it. I WENT ALONG WITH IT.
Anyway, OMG the kids! They act like kids! They talk like kids! They bluster like (some) kids I know! They are, you know, young! and idiotic! and good at heart! and occasionally really really stupid but totally there for one another! And they are really corny and pa-usok (uhhhhhh. smoke, uhhh, blowing smoke? what is that term? I don't know!)
Random line which had me falling over and snickering:
"Your mistake was that you only think of this as a game" (said in this ridiculously dramatic tone by the person who would eventually get sucked by the god-mode item, turning the game into reality)
Anyway, it could easily have fallen into the cliche of preaching about how technology is bad for you, but despite the long montage showing how much fun it was to play older/classic Filipino games, there was enough humor and affection for the game that it wasn't preachy.
The movie did stray very close to cliches surrounding friendships, but it was so... so warm and backhanded humorous I think I don't mind.
The final battle was ridiculous and the ending was umm. I am tempted to use the term "deus ex machina" except instead of the gods riding in on a machine, it's the machine failing and okay I AM NOT MAKING SENSE but let's leave it at that.
ANYWAY. Yeah, pretty fun if you're Pinoy and into gaming; lots of inside jokes involving the two. Probably doesn't make as much sense if you're outside both contexts though!
* went out with my friend J to a factory outlet for skin care products. Stuff I usually find at PHP 800 branded, is less than a hundred here. Possibly a bit smaller, but not eight times smaller! So I'm trying it out and I hope that the quality is okay. (Supposedly, this store supplies many of the derma clinics, so!)
Dropped by SaveMore to pick up crackers for if some random person knocks on my car window. Somehow ended up buying baking chocolates and honey.
We ended up along T Morato and randomly picked Sentosa, a new Singaporean Chinese restaurant, for dinner. It's so new, it hasn't even officially opened yet, ahaha :) So we got a ten percent discount. Win!
Sentosa is pretty good. We ordered the xiao long pao (a bit smaller than I'm used to, but xiao long pao is usually so heavy, this was a welcome change), pad thai, and fried catfish with tamarind sauce.
And then next door to Dezaato Pan for some ice cream that tastes like Ferrero Rocher. Along the way, we talked about medicine, food, and then somehow the topic of fat shaming came up. LET ME JUST SAY I am relieved at how well that conversation went.
Now we're just hanging out, trying not to fall asleep, and looking at local coupon (groupon?) sites, so we can plan our next outing together :D
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Date: 2011-01-09 04:31 pm (UTC)I now have this craving for Dusit Thani's catfish flakes with green mango and bagoong rice. WOE.
Thankfully, Glorietta isn't but a five minute drive from the house. It shouldn't be too hard to find an excuse to go, right? RIGHT?
*grin*
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Date: 2011-01-11 03:55 am (UTC)OTOH I suppose if I lived that close to the yarn store instead of about an hour away, I would never be able to leave *snerk*
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Date: 2011-01-11 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-12 04:44 am (UTC)All this talk of yarn made me go and play with all of mine last night :DD