What Would My Titas Say: Kita Kita Movie Review

Finally got to watch Kita Kita last week a few weeks ago.

Wasn't really planning on seeing this film as I was preparing myself for a movie marathon during the Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino week. I realized I have missed a few good movies on the big screen lately so when a friend said she wanted to watch, I say why the hell not.

Traffic was so bad going to Town that we decided at the last minute to make a U-turn and watch in Festival Mall instead. Apparently, the cinemas there are almost a hundred pesos cheaper. (I have been watching movies lately in random Ayala Malls so I was surprised with the price difference. Turns out, Festival Mall was way cheaper because seats were really old, the floor for the cinemas was almost empty, and it's as if it was from a different mall, compared with the new wing.)

I like how the movie started with a light, clear storyline. The narrative of Lea's (Alessandra de Rossi) character was easy to digest in the first ten minutes. If they had made that longer, it would be borderline boring.



Cue lead actor. The introduction of Tonyo (Empoy Marquez) in the movie was written with lots of wit in mind. It seemed as if Empoy was just being himself.

Sigrid Andrea Bernado couldn't have pulled this movie off better as a writer and director. I loved how each angle and shot was well chosen for each scene. And all that happening in Japan! Sulit yung binayad namin sa sinehan!

Yes, this is me, giving this movie a thumbs up. On the other hand, I have way too many thoughts during and after the movie that I just have to let out here.

As a blind Filipina living alone in Japan, I couldn't imagine how will get through the day. Nakakakilig at nakakain love, sabi nila. But it all got too unreal for me when Tonyo narrated how he fit in Lea's life. At some level, it is stalker-ish. For me, it really knocked me back to reality upon learning Tonyo just broke up with his girlfriend, was trashy, followed Lea around and was instantly smitten with her kindness. If I were Lea, "Kuya, hindi ako rebound girl." I couldn't blame Lea though. She's a tourist guide for crying out loud, she's naturally a people person. But she broke up with that cheating boyfriend of hers, and loneliness was creeping its way up. The tita in me is screaming, just because you got cheated on, you shouldn't go for the next guy who's showing kindness to you. If she found out sooner she was stalked, I don't think she'd still like him that much.

Setting aside these comments, would I settle for a Tonyo? Probably not at this point. Maybe when loneliness eats me alive.

I recommend people watch this movie. Sulit. Then tell me watcha think. ;)

Ps. Masarap sya panoorin with Potato Corner fries. :D

Grocery Shopping for the Long Weekend.

I was contemplating earlier tonight whether to do grocery shopping tonight or next week. I wouldn't want to risk the long lines tomorrow, with the long weekend and payday combo coming up. So I decided to drop by tonight at Shopwise Alabang to buy lunch baon for tomorrow and Tuesday.


Then I stopped when I saw this:

Yes, readers, Shopwise has done it again. Discounts are given to their Wisecard and Wisecard Elite cardholders. And it lasts for three days, beginning yesterday (27October) up to tomorrow (29October). I guess they really paid attention to people's cash flow this month. Way to go Shopwise!


And so did I panicked and gave in? My 35 day challenge last month taught me to say no to this event. A few months ago, I would've grabbed a cart and bought everything I think I would need and assumed to have saved on tonight. But willpower and discipline got over me. I just got what I need and paid at the counter less than I expected. Okay, I admit, I took a couple of items that are serious impulse buys but hey, I got them at 10% less. And since I have developed a habit to start Christmas shopping early, I realized they can serve as gifts for someone during the holiday.


Oh well. Tomorrow is the last day of the discount madness. Let's see if I will be able to hold off panic buying for one more day. To everyone else who would be doing groceries for the long weekend, GO TO SHOPWISE. It's just worth it. =)

Craving Much.

Here's a random thing about me and donuts.

So last week I mentioned to Niq that I want Starbuck's Top Pot Donuts.

And then during BOP week, I think most Amchamate would love it if Krispy Kreme became an official sponsor since the participants snakc on them every once in awhile.

On my last birthday, I had donuts from GoNuts Donuts.

Err. Random thoughts on donuts. Am hungry. Really want a KK donut. But apparently they don't have a branch anywhere in southern Manila, which is pretty ironic since they have a very, very far branch up in Angeles, Pampanga.

Oh well.

Will check out Festival Mall later to see if anything catches my attention.

Yeah, The Bad Boys Are Always Catching My Eye.

And this is the daily dose of random Monday morning rush buzz. Yep, there will be random rants after this sentence, this will be a quick post and it's up to you if you care or not.

So it's Monday. I woke up late. But I got in the office on time. Buzzer beater, pare. ;-) I am sooooo happy to finally arrive on time, on a Monday at that. At this point, I want to blame my past tardiness to Stresstabs and the irritating urban traffic, and weird Pinoy human traffic. I blame Stresstabs because it has a weird side effect on me. I am more sleepy now than before. Therefore I've been oversleeping, I think.

Anyway, human traffic is when pedestrians just can't get over the average 5.3kph rate of walking. You know what I mean. Oh how I miss walking in the streets of Hong Kong. Surprisingly, Chinese people walk fairly fast (pretty much like the Westerners) and they don't bump into each other. Now that's the kind of human traffic I need in Alabang. Not that I'm against strolling or taking your time with walking, but I hope these people do mind not obstructing the whole sidewalk. They can do that in malls or parks. (Just not always at the mall.)

*Now I'm really missing Hong Kong. Better start saving up again.*

Speaking of saving up, I managed to lower my monthly spending by 25% and I am thanking the little game Niq and I have. They say it takes 21 days to break a habit. Every time I'm at the 15th, 16th or maybe 20th day, I revert and succumb to my old ways. Pfft. And last week I have to admit I did just that, and it's really because I couldn't resist it! I think this site should help in breaking the habit. :-)

You see I was psyched last year when a former co-worker of mine has this huge bottle of hand sanitizer that you can spray sitting on his desk. I was so hung up on the item that I kept bugging him to tell me where he got it, and he told me that it was bought at a department store. And I tried looking for it for a month in different branches of that department store, but unfortunately failed. And just last week, I finally found what I've been looking for. (Is that a line from a song?) Of all places, I found my new spray hand sanitizer at Bench! :-) I forgot to take a picture but it comes in three scents, lavender, mandarin burst and the regular scent. I got the mandarin burst.

*Will upload picture some time later. And probably a separate review. :-)*

I think there's still space for one more rant. ;-) And I just have to let this out because yesterday, I was working. (Pfft, I know. Haha! My fault anyway.) The laptop I was using yesterday was not installed with plug-ins for me to listen to Magic's Sunday countdown, so I resorted to tuning in to MTV. This is what I hate about mainstream. Whatever song you hear on the radio, is probably the same ones playing on TV, and everyone else's Ipod. And hearing songs over and over again, and literally everywhere, just makes me want to gag. (I support Indie and new artists more than mainstream artists. Hooray for originality and new blood!)

So after about ten minutes of Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, Lady Gaga and Beyonce, something new to my ears played. Which I definitely had to share with Monique. (And that's a different story.) You see, there's just this something in bad boys that really make my head turn and go after them.

  

As far as I know, Alexandra Burke won some reality show in UK a couple of years back. And this song just rocks my socks. ;-)

*Do the bad boys always get the good girls? ;-)*

And oh. On some random internet search, I found this:

 

Hooray for the Olympics! :-D