Movie Review: "Young Victoria"

 “Do you ever feel like a chess piece yourself? In a game being played against your will.”
~The Young Victoria, (2009)

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I found myself in a state of boredom today since my shift at work got cancelled for the third time this week. So, in the middle of it all, I got an urge to watch a movie. However, all I had in my downloaded folder was the movie, Unborn. The scaredy-cat that I am just refuse to watch it after hearing how one of my closest girlfriend had to sleep with the light on for two weeks straight. I don’t even know why I downloaded that thing in the first place, I guess I blame it all on curiosity. Teehee.

So anywho, I decided to justwatch a movie through online streaming. There were a bunch of movies there that I’ve been meaning to watch, however, “Young Victoria” caught my attention. The story is basically about the rise of Queen Victoria (more…)

Remembering Michael Jackson

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

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Yesterday, today and tomorrow are days of mourning for the world. Michael Jackson, the world-reknown King of Pop, died yesterday at approximately 2:26 pm in the UCLA Medical Centre due to Cardiac Arrest. According to the Jackson’s lawyer, “for the last many months, and almost more than a year, this family has been talking about the use of medications by Michael and warning he was going to wake up dead…” (more…)

Summer Time!!!

Summer is officially here for us Torontonians!!! YAY!!! I’m loving the weather. I’m loving the heat. I’m loving every minute I spend outside. I’m excited to go camping again. I’m looking forward to my Montreal Trip in August. I love wearing flip-flops. I love my summer dress. 

I just L.O.V.E. Summer.

ps. Don’t you find this guy good? Cause I do. Subscribing to him is a definite must.

Philippine National Day in Toronto and My Lack of Attending Initiative

Good eye sniper. Now I’ll shoot, you run.
~Coheed and Cambria’s A Favour House in Atlantic

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Philippine National Day is celebrated here in Toronto to commemorate the Independence Day achieved by the Filipino people over a hundred years ago. It is held at Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square, and by being there, you can actually experience a nostalgia for the old country… Well, somewhat.

Personally, it’s not really my cup of tea to attend it. Most of the guys whom I actually know, only go there to “score” on Filipino girls. I see it as a gathering for 1st-generation-Filipino-teenager-wannabe-gangsters-immigrants to flaunt their supposed “coolness” to people who don’t actually give a damn. You may perhaps be asking why I have this so much contempt on these type of people. So let me tell you the story of my experience there a week ago…
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True Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder

  Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
~Franz Kafka

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I just thought of sharing this video to you all. I was randomly fidgeting with my MSN Messenger when this link popped out of the advertisment page. It was really agonizing to watch how this beautiful lady ironically ruined her face by inducing cooking oil into her skin, in hopes of achieving a softer skin. It made me think of how many people out there, not only women, have succumbed to the promise of “beauty” through cosmetic enhancement procedures such as steriod and botox injections.

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