[500] days of summer

saw [500] days of summer monday last week. i was supposed to write my review about it the same night, however - and, here comes the confession part - i have been too distracted with my new blackberry and facebook that i never got around to doing it.

i set out to do this review today, saturday (sep 12), and i don't think i'll finish at all. am switching back and forth between this blog and my facebook page. aaaaaaaaaahhh, facebook, what have you done to me?

i am stopping now. it is 730pm. i need to rush to alhambra, my friends rjay and roby are inviting me to dinner and i don't wanna be late, although at the rate am going, i am gonna be late anyways...

to be continued...

and i returned to this post monday noon.

[500] days of summer debuted at the sundance film festival this winter and was released to wide audience in july. i never got to see it at once as i was stuck with my deadlines at work. august came and i almost forgot about it until i started getting more active with facebook and saw how my friends were raving about the movie.

so on labor day last week, to avoid the traffic on the highway, i decided to pay edwards a visit and catch this love story and finally see what the buzz is all about.

the movie begins with tom and summer breaking up. [500] days of summer is not your eternal sunshiny summer days (as i initially thought back in january) but the 500 days that it took tom to finally understand his complicated relationship with summer finn (the summer in the title).

the movie has a winning cast and two charming leads in zooey deschanel and joseph gordon-levitt.

the story is not so complicated. it's your typical boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, and the complications that follows. what makes it more special is how it treats the subject matter with warmth care and incredible insight. it is like watching my own story unfold on screen! it was sweet torture.

there are no debates that could ever settle what constitutes true love, but this movie makes a good case for those who are still hanging on, holding on, in their beliefs that love, after all, comes to everyone and maybe it would take years, months, weeks, days, or hours from now --- but it will come.

in my case, my 500th day has yet to come but i am not losing hope. i know somewhere out there, someone waits for me in a coffeeshop or just on a cross street. i am not miserable anymore but i am not completely happy either.

when tom erupts in a joyous sing-and-dance mood after he discovered that he was in love with summer finn, i couldn't help but break into a wan smile - the exuberance of the moment makes me long for my own sing-and- dance moment, too...

i love tom, i love summer, i love [500] days of summer.

thank goodness, i finished. there are so many good stories to cover and i am just lazing around.

photo shock!

this is the AP photo that stirred so much controversy. it features a fallen marine (he later died) in afghanistan. it shocked everyone for its graphic content!

the marine's name is Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard and this photo was taken after an ambush.

this is not related to anything that's showbiz but his sacrifice to combat global terrorism, i thought, should be remembered with at least a few minutes of prayer. will you please?

here's the link to a story on how AP made its decision to make the picture public. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26762.html

back from hiatus

i recently bought a blackberry for cheap.

i was on my way to seafood city on vermont in LA and i chanced upon this radio shack offering blackberry curve for $19.99 (i had to purchase a 2-year data plan - but, of course) and i immediately grabbed the offer.

i have been thinking of getting one for sometime now. i wanted to experience the mobile lifestyle that's the current craze among several of my friends. true enough, just the day after i had my blackberry activated by sprint, i was already hooked on facebook mobile and was tweeting endlessly --- for hours!

i did not forget about my blog of course. i was busy the past weekends having interviews with kate beckinsale, gabriel macht (yup, that't the spelling), and aussie actor alex o'laughlin (who is appearing this fall on "three rivers" over at cbs - i think). the threesome appears in "whiteout" due in theaters later this month. i was at the ultra-chich luxe hotel in brentwood for the interview and i was so awed by the rich people having $60 dollar lunches!

last saturday, i was at the hollywood palladium in sunset for a late-scheduled interview with singer katy perry. the singer is behind the hits "i kissed a girl", "ur so gay", and "hot & cold". it was originally scheduled at 6pm and was pushed back to after 7. my 15 minutes was trimmed to about 5 minutes ---- sob... but she was fun and very, very nice.

i saw her concert after the interview and she gave a rousing show!

i am back!!!