Zoombading Pataying sa Shokot si Remington

Yesterday I got a treat from a friend and we watched together at SM San Lazaro in Tayuman, Manila. the indie film “Zoombading Pataying sa Shokot si Remington” It was really a total laugh trip watching it. This kind of movie you like to watch when everything around you seem all so intoxicating, the pressure from work, and all other things, this one really will make you laugh you lungs out right in your seat and you won’t regret paying P150.00 because the movie is all worth of your time and money and I bet you won’t go out in the theater without that big smile painted your lips and  though it’s a comedy about gays, gays, and more gay thing this will never let you empty handed of good moral lessons that the movie trying to impart to its audiences, and that it’s the word R.E.S.P.E.C.T  in all sense of the word. For me as one of the those people watching the movie, what comes to my mind is for others to learned that everyone is entitled of respect regardless of his gender, status, belief  and religion. We all have place in this world and we all have choices that for some are not acceptable or not politically right we all know that deep inside us we feel that by making these choices we become free and happy and that is all that matters.  The movie is focus on the main character in the movie Remington played by Mart Escudero a guy that was born straight. When he was young he always treated and called out loud fellow homosexuals “Bakla” and making those poor gays feels uncomfortable and ashamed whenever he bullied them by calling them bakla in public. One day when he and her mom went to commentary he saw a gay played by a credible and veteran actor Roderick Paulate who was superb in playing gay role from then and now. He mock the gay by calling him “Bakla” and because of that the gay got mad and he was cursed that when he grow up he will 

become gay. Fast forward to the present

days a few days before his 21^st birthday the cursed manifested. He talk gay lingo and dress skimpy body fit shirts and shorty shorts. All the gay attitude one by one manifested and in short Remington was turning gay and on top of that there is a serial killer on the loose whose killing gays by hair dryer shoot gun that he steal from a geek student that invented it which can determine if an animal is a gay, but if it’s used to human it just not determine the person is gay but killing that person at the same time. Remington knows inside him that there is terribly and unspeakably wrong in him, something that he can neither explain nor fight. 

A strong feeling that making him torn between his best friend Jigs (played by Kerbi Zamora) and his love interest Hannah (Played by Lauren Young) and for this he consulted witch doctor and it’s all comes back to him, a memories of himself as a six-year old boy who made fun of all the gays in town come rushing back. Most importantly he remembers the moment he was cursed.   

That was fifteen years ago; now the spirit of the curse has come to life.  Now what Remington should do is to choose: accept his fate that be will forever become gay or fight it and to top it all up, along the road of finding the answer to whatever happens to him now he must also sort out his feelings for the girl he loves and the his bestfriend whom he had sudden lusting attraction, a best friend that just confide to him that he accept him whoever and whatever he is. Whatever the outcome of the movie is who what Remington did is for you to answer by watching the movie yourself but what I can only say to you whether he succeeds or not of fighting the feeling that creep and grows inside him and by answering who the real serial killers that killed gays in his town? Remington and all the people around defiantly learned something from their experience that teaching them to become a better person and learned to respect others

Starred by:

Mart Escudero as Remington 

Together with stellar cast like;

Lauren Young

Kerbie Zamora

Janice De Belen

John Regala

Angelina Kanapi

Leandro Baldemor

Daniel Fernando 

and with a special participation of:

Roderick Paulate and Eugen Domingo

Directed By:

Janice Castro

 

Back Again

Its was almost 1 month and 8 days since I left TRG Philippines Inc. and do the most challenging and hard decision that I have made this year so far. It was a tough decision but  looking back now, I feel that at that time that I don't have any option or choice at all. When I tender my resignation last May 26, 2011 everything turned out to be quick and fast. I finished my clearance at the office and finalize everything. Saying your goodbye is something that was hard to do especially when you saying it to those people that mattered to you but that's how life really is.  It was hard to say my goodbye to all the memories that I have for the almost 2 years of stay at The Resource Group but life is as they all says is  NO PERMANENT and always a CONSTANT CHANGE. I just woke up one day that everything is no longer the same and no longer what it used to be. My heart was full of bitterness towards some people that I feel that never fond of me and those people that I feel betrayed and hurt me but then I realize that my wont be able to move on and continue my life without releasing all this bitterness inside.

Right after my resignation I decided to have the ball start rolling and that I don't have any option of slack up because my family needs more than anything now. I have to make sure that  I will be able to pay our monthly bills which I am afraid that I will be late in paying it as I no longer have any source of income as of the moment.The process of undergoing the same tedious process of applying is really tiring but then when you got the job offer all the frustration, failure, anxiety are all gone. Right now I am contentiously trying to move on and starting my life a new. Another new challenges, new friends to be with, new company to work with, a new life that looking at and hopefully this time around this is something that for keep, something that I will be enjoying, something that is a will be more successful career wise and something that I will be proud of.

Titanic in 3D

February 4, 1998, 13 years ago when the movie Titanic was shown here in the Philippines. the movie who written, co-produced, co-edited and directed by the Oscar winner director James Cameron soared a phenomenal US$1.8 Billion ticket sales worldwide and was set as the world's highest grossing movie of all time. In the Philippines the movie banked a whooping $4.8 Million which is equivalent to P194 Million at that time.

The movie is an epic romance and disaster film about a boy and girl from different social backgrounds meeting during the ill-fated maiden voyage of RMS Titanic. RMS Titanic is the name of the largest passenger steamship in the world it owned by White Star Line. On April 14, 1912. Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City and sank on April 15, 1912. The  director of the film James Cameron get his inspiration to the film to his fascination to shipwrecks and his idea to show his viewers the emotional message of the tragedy that he would like to convey through the film. The film indeed was very successful and bagged several awards and nominations and needless to say the Oscar wherein the movie gets 11 awards and that include the Best Picture and Best Director for Cameron.

The movies become the highest-grossing film of all time until it was surpassed by the movie  Avatar in 2010 who ironically directed by the same director James Cameron. Now, 13 years after  when the movie was shown and when the whole world fall in love with the character of Rose and Jack which I think one of the most popular known characters in a film in world who portrayed and launched the career of  now one of the most sought after and best actors and actress of present century in Hollywood Kate Winslet and Leonardo De Caprio.  The movie is said to be re-released in the year 2012 in 3D coinciding with the the ship Titanic's centennial year since it's first and last voyage. According Paramount Pictures  and it's director James Cameron when they announced that the mega blockbuster movie will be converted and remastered into 3-D or three dimensional film for theatrical re-release on April 6, 2012 which will marked the 100th anniversary of Titanic's history sailing which happened on April 10th 1912.

According to Cameron, "There's a whole generation that's never seen ‘TITANIC’ as it was meant to be seen, on the big screen. And this will be ‘TITANIC’ as you've never seen it before, digitally re-mastered at 4K and painstakingly converted to 3D. With the emotional power intact and the images more powerful than ever, this will be an epic experience for fans and newcomers alike."

The movie stared by  Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, Billy Zane as Caledon Nathan "Cal" Hockley, Gloria Stuart as Rose Dawson Calvert and directed by James Cameron among others and distributed by Paramount Picture.

Graduation

It's graduation day for some colleges all over the metro, some they held last March and some was back in April or this month of May, this is something that making you feel good inside, its make you feel proud that after a long years of studying, after those gruesome 4 years and for some 5 years of studying in college you finally arrive to the finish line in one of the journey you took when you graduated in High School, you finally wear that dark color Toga that will symbolize your accomplishment as a student, and that is to finish your college up to very last moment. Also you held in your arm that piece of paper that stated and your very own name that affirmed your success and that indeed finished that long, exhausting. demanding and rigorous race. Finally you can make your parents honored  and proud at the same time relieve that you finally able to finish that they have work hard for for the last four years of your college life. The Diploma will serve not just a recognition and affirmation to you but also it is consolation for you and your parents for working so hard. it will serve as  trophy for us and to our parents success. Finishing college is truly a milestone in once life, it is something that we can be proud that while we are marching through music of graduation hymn as if we are telling to the world our great happiness that after all those days of hard works, sacrifices, patients we are able to finish the battle to succeed.

These are the things I missed, this are the thing I wasn't able to accomplish and making my mom feel that moment of triumph. That feeling her son calling his name on stage and handling him his diploma, that feeling of relief, of happiness, of being proud of the first accomplishment her son had and her accomplishment for being a responsible parent, that despite all the odds, the problem that come her way, despite all the hard works she did for making both ends meet she was able to let her son finish his college. It was really indeed frustrating and rather disappointing as I was the only one my mom can lean to, she trusted me that I may finish my college and the thought that I can help her out in supporting the family which I can say that I am able to do today, though it could be a little bit more different when I was able to finish my study and it was just one of the regrets I have and one of my biggest failure in life. Back in college It seems that life is so easy, life is so plain though it was really complicated. Back in college I always plan my life and that kind of attitude that even today I still do practiced though my mind is open to the possibility that not everything that you plan will go on the same way you want it to be, I learned that in life we can definitely make plans, make draft of what we should do, or what would be are short term or long term goals but it still gonna be in the hand of our almighty God to determined if it will work or not the way we wanted it.

End of the World

I have ran into an article which I happened to read about the news which was spreading in the US about the end of the world. Hard to believe right? but it was what the president of the so called Family Radio a non-commercial 24 hour listener supporter, Christian radio broadcasting network in the United States that is based in Oakland, California, Harold Camping a Christian preacher said that the Rapture or the gathering of all good people on earth to meet Christ will start in May 21, 2011 and the end of the world will take place five months later which will be on October 21, 2011. This prediction rose a lot of controversy in the Christian world. other people would state a Bible verse in the Book of Mathew which says something about the time and date of when the World end.  It's stated that; "No one knows about that day or hour (pertaining to the end of the world), not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

In my personal opinion, The end of the world has been a long, sensitive  and complicated topics to discuss with because many who think otherwise will definitely contradict and many great people throughout the pass century that pass claim a lot of predictions of the end of the world and the time has come for repentance and do good things in order to be save because whether we like it or not  the world that we know, the people that we have meet  along our dreams will no longer be the same again. but this when you think of it in a different perspective this people who claim all this end of the world are just a mere people only and not God! this are the people who happen to have knowledge that other men hasn't but it doesn't mean to say that they have the whole truth about the time and date the existence of me will all be all gone and the world will just end because ONLY THE FATHER WILL KNOW IN HIS PERFECT TIME.

Personally, I believe that end of the world could happen any moments if our GOOD GOD decided so, even today while I am writing this blog can be the time that this world end because our GOOD GOD has the power to do and undo, pursue or delay whatever impending things to happen but it's gonna be in his own hand not in the vast knowledge of men, the problem of human is that we always trying I suppose and in my humble opinion attaining the knowledge and wisdom of God but we wont be able to do so, because the more we try, the more we become evil. Repentance should always happen everyday not because the end is coming and it should be our practiced everyday because everyday can be the end of the world, everyday ca be our last time on earth, as much as every given day is God's gift to mankind that we live another day, that we witness the beautiful sunrise that promises us of beautiful tomorrow and that I guess what we should thank for and not to waste our time and thoughts of thinking when will be the end of the world. We should remember that God has the power to give and the power to end if he chooses to end the world today it will happen today and the world will just end at the wink of God's eye. For now lets just live our life and leave our dream because in this way we can  express our gratitude to God for giving us another chance of a new life.  If on May 21, 2011 and five months after that the world that we know still stand here showing its beautiful sunrise then I guess a MAN made another shameful mistake to GOD that I guess need repentance.

Note: Harold Camping is also predicted the world end back in 1994 when he claimed that there was a very high likelihood that the world would end in September, 1994, although he did acknowledge in the book "the possibility does exist that I could be wrong.

"No one can attain the knowledge of God but by humility"