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I am not a box
I have a lot of friends. At my age, I had managed to amass quite a number. Some of them are closer to me than most. A very select few can claim to know me fully, having spent time with me at all possible instances and situations. But even if we are friends, if you have only known me a few years, and have not even spent everyday with me, please do not presume you can predict how I am based simply on my character when I am with you and our circle of common friends. Really, I can be crass as I can be classy, be a snob as much as be the most congenial person. I am a fine princess disguised as a scruffy street urchin or the other way around. I can be scholarly and academic one moment and totally ditzy and stupid the next. One thing is for sure, unless you’ve lived with me for years and years and years, really, you haven’t seen and met and known all of me.
Cheerios! 🙂
Munting Saranggola: A Play on Child Cancer Awareness
After very successful and unforgettable performances at the Philippine Children’s Medical Center and Davao City, MUNTING SARANGGOLA, an advocacy play on Childhood Cancer Awareness will have 2 performances at the PETA Theater Center on February 4, 2014 3pm and 8pm. For the benefit of MY CHILD MATTERS PHILIPPINES. For ticket inquiries, please call the Philippine Children’s Medical Center at 9246601 loc 364 (Ana Avila) and local 314 (Fe Sisteberio). Student prices are available. See you at the PETA Theater Center!
Inihahandog ng My Child Matters Philippines at ng Philippine Educational Theater Association ang MUNTING SARANGGOLA: Isang Dula ng Pag-asa at Tagumpay Laban sa Kanser Isinulat ni Dang Bagas sa direksyon ni Melvin Lee February 4, 2014 | 3:00pm at 8:00pm PETA Theater Center
Insights on Disney’s Frozen
This isn’t a review, like I mentioned in the blog title. Reviews are too academic. Too anchored on technical and aesthetic analyses, IMO. So no, I’m not even going to attempt something like that. What I want to tackle is how I felt about the movie.
I saw Frozen after the MMFF movies had dissipated, a few days after New Year. I like it. Love it, in fact. There are parts that are funny, parts that would make you cry, and parts that would make you actually think philosophically about life, loyalty and having relationships.
I think Disney should make more of these types of themes and plots. No, I don’t mean plots that involve snow and ice and a moose that acts like a dog. I meant the story line that tackles love as something else other than one that is meant for a romantic partner.
I grew up with the old Disney princesses – Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty – all waiting for their Princes to carry them away to their happy ever after. That’s why kids those days, especially girls, grew up wishing for the one they love instead of looking for who they could love. Or simply loving whoever is there.
Don’t get me wrong, though. I still go mushy over those stories. And sometimes, I still do wish my Prince would come along on his white horse and we (the prince and I, not me with the horse) will fall in love and live happily ever after. But that’s just sometimes now. Most of the time, I know I need to find happiness where I am. Find the good in the gloom and enjoy being alone because being alone doesn’t mean I’m lonely.
More importantly, like in Frozen, and even in the movie Brave, love is one’s family. And that’s all one ever needs.
Why I Respect President Aquino
Took the words right out of my mouth. Very good perspective, IMO.