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I've seen the rain fall in Africa
I've touched the snow of Alaska
I've felt the mist of Niagara
And now I believe.... in you....
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How far we've come
And how far to go
Rain does not fall
On one roof alone
To a different beat.
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***will post my reviews of the FOB concert & Cirque du Freak book 1 when I'm in a not-so scatterbrain mood.

Might be off to watch Fall Out Boy in a few hours. I say "might" because the tickets are still not with me yet -- they're with my friend and I'm waiting for his text message come 5pm when he leaves the office.

Have a happy hearts day & a great weekend tomorrow!

I'm off to read more, walk and play with Goofy the doggie and watch DVDs.

Tah!

Yesterday, I finally made a 5 minute trek from my office to the newly-opened Fully Booked branch in Greenbelt 5 during our lunch break.

The bookstore is huge and I found a lot of the titles that I wanted to get -- some I've only seen when I was in England but didn't get to buy since books [and everything else] is expensive there.

My head was totally reeling and I couldn't decide!

At the end, I ended up with nothing. I didn't walk out with a huge smile on my face and a huge plastic bag of books. Nada. Non. I just thought about Mount TBR in my room, my mom's room and my shelves at the basement and I realized -- "I've got to get lessons on how to speed read."

So.. I'm starting to sort through Mount TBR and hopefully I'll end up reducing the mountain to a small hill before I start acquiring some more.

I'll really miss the comfort of this Makati office. So sad that we're moving to another building in a month or so's time. *sigh*

Last Friday, I got a chance to watch "Seven Pounds" starring Will Smith & Rosario Dawson.



Below are my musings on the movie without giving away too much spoilers.

What if you made a mistake, a mistake that you cannot undo? What would you do?

This is exactly what Will Smith faced when he was involved in an accident that had killed 7 people, including his beloved wife.
Once a promising engineer, he had turned his back on his successful life, and took the identity of his sick brother, an IRS agent, to help find people that he would help... by donating his organs to those who need them the most.
His plans suddenly come to a halt when he fell in love with one of the people that he wanted to help [played by Rosario Dawson].

*****

Such a sad, sad movie. Imagine having to live with that accident on your shoulders, thinking that your mistake ended the life of others who may have had so much more potential, a future to look out to.

I personally wouldn't do what he did in the end of the movie, but hey, it's his choice.

The movie was not presented in a normal manner -- it goes backwards and forwards. Forwards in a sense that the present is presented from past to present; while the past has been presented as a flashback -- where the most recent event happened, and the initial cause of the accident has been at the end of the movie.

I would definitely give this movie a rating of 3.5/5.

You could opt to watch it on the movie cinemas, but if you could catch it on a DVD, then feel free to do so.

Personally, with the sky-rocketing prices of movie tickets, it's best to choose movies that you'd want to watch on the big screens, which, in my preference refers to those big, blockbuster action movies that you would die not to watch without the surround sound.

oooh how I want them soo badly....

**photos from temptalia.com

Got this from a second-hand bookstore today.



Trade paperback.

Wallet damage: P80.

Off to find book 2.

Tah!

Rants:

• My trip to Batanes has been cancelled. : Zest Air does not fly to that destination anymore so I've asked for a full refund of the ticket. Downside? The refund will arrive in 15-30 days! What a long time to wait! :S
• My prom dresses has been borrowed. Wonder if I'll ever see them again?
• My weekend movie/telly show marathon did not go as expected. Only got to watch "My Best Friend's Girl" but it was not really worth watching. I was bored nearly the whole time. :

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Raves:

• Went to Book Sale in Festival Mall last Saturday after mass. OMG they've got lots of titles that I was interested in: David Sedaris, Ann Brashares, Arthur Golden. They're a bit pricier than the other titles available but for a very good condition trade paperback, I think it's worth it. I went home with a copy of Sophie Kinsella's "The Undomestic Goddess"
• It was sale in Festival Mall also so I got a mass-market paperback copy of a book about Rembrandt for only P50.
• Got to watch an episode of Medical Investigation. Didn't finish the entire series though.
• Got invited to one of the most awesome weddings around. It was held at Fernwood Gardens last Feb 1st. The venue was absolutely exquisite, the food was also divine. Kyla performed a few songs too. =) Loved the waterfalls, fountains, and the exotic animals [parrots, swans, koi fish].

-- till the next time :) Hopefully I'll get to post some more stuff when I get my DSL connection at home.