2010 in Review

This is my obligatory year-end post.

All in all, it was a good year for friends, work and money.

Things I’m Happy About This 2010:

• I’m happy my parents spent most of 2010 not fighting.
• I’m happy to have met a lot of great people this 2010, most notably Janice and Roan.
• I’m happy to have bonded with a lot of people this year. 2010 gave me lots of opportunities to bond with my friends from college, both DevComSoc friends and ADS friends. I think I was out with two of my good friends every Friday for a whole month sometime between August and September.
• I’m happy to have left a bad relationship.
• I’m happy for the chance to be jobless for exactly 2 months and 2 weeks. It gave me a chance to catch up with friends, catch up on the series that I watch and catch up on the books I read.
• I’m happy to have a great job now.
• I’m happy with my new officemates.

I had a pretty great 2010. And so I pray to God that He give me a better 2011.

A Note To Ex-Lover 1

Dear Ex,

Whenever I hear “Just When I Thought I Was Over You”, I think of you. Even if we broke up 4 years ago and here you are, about to marry in two weeks and a kid on the way.

I want to leave you here in 2010 and I don’t want to bring all my sad thoughts of you and what could’ve been in 2011. I just want to finally get over you within the last few hours of 2010.

I just want you to know, so far, you are my greatest love. Sometimes I do think and tell myself that we wouldn’t have worked out anyway. But we wouldn’t know now, would we? But we broke up for a reason, although I can’t remember what. I just know it was a combination of our mistakes and miscommunication on both sides. But sometimes I think it was mostly because of me.

You are such a great guy. I sometimes lie awake at night wondering if I’ll ever meet someone who will love me like you did and treat me like you did. You treated me like your queen. And I know you’re giving the same treatment, if not more, to your fiancee.

I don’t know if we will ever be friends like we were before we even thought of becoming a couple. So far, whenever we get together with our friends, I am not really comfortable and I’m reminded that it would’ve been easier to have stayed together and how comfortable it was. And to be honest, I’m not really looking forward to that get together we talked about having recently. I don’t think I want to spend any more time with you. Spending time with you just brings back memories of what was and things that could’ve been.

I will forever cherish the time we spent together and you will always be my yardstick, until Mr. Perfect-for-me comes along.

Wish me luck as I wish you much happiness in the future with your future wife and child.

Sincerely,

 

 

Rosario

Dear Mr. Manny V. Pangilinan,

Before tonight, I was really looking forward to watching this period film. Plus, I like Jennylyn Mercado. Jennylyn Mercado in the title role of a period film sounded good to me. And so I almost forced my mom to watch the movie with me tonight.

And so we went. Boy, were we disappointed, photography and cinematography aside.

Mr. Pangilinan, I would just like to ask, what was the point of you allowing the scandalous story of your grandmother to be made into a movie? There was no denoument. No resolution. No saving grace, well, except for Dolphy (that best supporting actor award was well-deserved). It just seems like you aired dirty laundry of the family. Or are you donating the proceeds of the film to your uncle? But if you were doing the latter, couldn’t you afford to give financial assistance to your family members?

There was a part in the ending narrative where Hesus (Dolphy’s character) was telling the audience that he hopes by telling the story of his mom, he can help his mom find forgiveness/atonement/whatever it was he was helping his mom find that she couldn’t while she was still alive. And I’m like, how? By showing her life as an example of the result of poor choices? I bet 90% of the audience in the Glorietta 4 already knew that before seeing the movie.

Would’ve been better if we found out that you were a descendant of Hesus. Rosario would’ve recovered a little bit of what was lost, somehow, in some way. It’s kind of a bummer to just find out that she died a pauper whose bones can be found in only God knows where. I think it would’ve been better if we found out a bit of closure…like, did she work after parting ways with Carding or did she just waste her life away before dying? Did she turn to God because of the hardships she experienced or did she lose her faith? Do you understand what I’m trying to say?

Oh, and Jennylyn was disappointing too. I couldn’t feel her. Not once did I feel that she was hurt. Not even the part wherein she was asking for forgiveness from Maria Rosario, aka Soledad. I got more emotion from Vicente who seemed to look like he was about to hug her out of pity.

Anyway, Rosario, your grandma was very pretty. It’s no wonder why she was pursued by a lot of men at the time.

I’m not sure how this can be resolved but maybe you can do something about it in the DVD. Maybe do great featurettes to be included in the DVD to expound more. I promise to buy that DVD if it includes great featurettes.

Sincerely,

 

 

Music Monday: Howie Day: Longest Night

I wonder how many Mondays it has been since I last posted my Music Monday entry?

Anyway, I discovered this song through one of the TV shows I watch. Guess what? :)

I tell you, TV shows sometimes can be the best resource for discovering new music.

 

Hope you liked it as much as I did.

Vacation Leave!

I am so happy to be blogging again. I’m on first mandatory leave since I started working for my new company. I get another one and a half days off after the Christmas. After that, I’ll have to work really hard because the team and I will be doing the year-end reports. That’ll probably take up the whole night.

Hmm…what else has been going on with me? Nothing much. I’ve still been watching my favorite shows. So let’s have a little run-down:

Gossip Girl – Hmm.. Yes, Juliet Sharp was really annoying but she did have a reason. But I’m not saying that it’s a good enough reason to try and destroy Serena. Oh, and who didn’t love the little twist about Lily van der Woodsen? Turns out she was the reason why Ben Sharp (now we find out that he’s Serena’s teacher at the boarding school) is in prison. Sneaky bitch. Plus the fact that she’s trying to sell Bass Industries as quietly as possible. She deserves whatever’s coming to her. By the way, I’m still not loving the Dan and Serena pair. I’d prefer that Serena be with Nate. Oh wait, maybe we’ll see Nate mature a little. Then we can see that pairing happen.

The Vampire Diaries – Very nice cliffhanger. We won’t see a new episode until January. I just have to say Michael Trevino’s acting here was very much on target. I could see the pain he was undergoing. The pain in the transformation scenes weren’t forced. Caroline and Tyler…there may be something there worth exploring. Let’s see who she chooses.. Matt or Tyler. Elena and Stefan together again…Yes! Damon and Rose are not good together. I think Damon needs someone as badass as he is.

Glee – I hope Charice shows up soon. I hope Kurt moves back to New Directions with Darren Criss’ character. I hope Rachel and Finn work out their issues soon and get back together. And wasn’t that a tear-jerking scene near the end of their Christmas episode? Artie walking! Yay!

Burn Notice – I’ve finally finished Season 3. Onward to Season 4.

Family Guy – I’m hoping to watch the latest episode tonight, if not tomorrow.

White Collar – almost done! I’m about to watch the second to the last episode of Season 2. Can’t wait for Season 3 to start.

Spartacus – I’ve just started to watch this. There might be some potential here. I’ve noticed that it’s like “300” on TV. I wish great health towards the actor who plays Spartacus and hope that he overcomes his cancer.

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Okay, for non-TV related events:

I got myself the latest iPod touch after months of indecision between the iPod touch and the Blackberry Bold 9700. I had the iPhone 4 in mind but figured that since it’s a 2-in-1 gadget and should I lose it, I’ll be losing not one, but two things: my phone and my music player.

My next goal is the Blackberry Bold 9700. I’m saving that for my birthday.

Yes, I know I posted earlier that I’ll be getting the BB 9700 but because of Globe Telecom’s LOUSY CUSTOMER SERVICE, I’ve decided to wait. More on Globe’s bad customer service as soon as they get my issue resolved.

Right now, what I’m doing is blogging while I get my iPod software updated to 4.2. And based on my internet speed, the counter says that I still have 3 hours to go. So what I’ll probably do is be busy with downloading the album covers and filling in the missing data from my iTunes music.

Anyone can recommend a better ISP?

What else? I’m enjoying my work so far. My new team mates have been great so far. Charls will be joining us next year and I’m looking forward to it.

Hopefully I’ll be able to get my parents a great Christmas gift soon. I’ll probably do some Christmas shopping tomorrow after work. I really don’t want to do some shopping after the 15th, the day being a payday for most people. It’ll be traffic hell, for sure.

That’s it!