Autre temps, autres moeurs.

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I made this once but it was dead after March. I can't remember what year it was though. Since I think I'm already old enough, I hope I could manage to pull this off.

This means I haven't watched the whole movie.
This means I like it.

January

1. Rosario
2. Black Swan
3. Flipped
4. Exam
5. 3 Idiots
6. The English Patient
7. The King's Speech
8. Case 39
9. A Prophet

February

1. Good Will Hunting
2. La fille sur le pont
3. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
4. The Prestige
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
6. Oto-na-ri (HUHU SO GOOD)

March

1. Orlando
2. Tangled
3. Blue Valentine
4. Red Riding Hood
5. Easy Virtue

April

1. Vintner's Luck
2. Catch Me... I'm In Love (asfghjkl;')
3. 10 Things I Hate About You

May

1. Rio
2. In the Name of Love

June

1. Gone With The Wind
2. X-Men: First Class
3. Heartbeats
4. X-Men: The Last Stand
5. The Last King of Scotland
6. Death Bell
7. Death Bell 2
8. Centurion
9. New York, I Love You
10. In The Mood For Love

July

1. Last Night
2. Belle de Jour
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
4. Mayohan
5. Teoriya (Father's Way)
6. Niño
7. Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank
8. Ang Sayaw Ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa (The Dance Of The Two Left Feet)
9. Ligo Na U, Lapit Na Me (Star-crossed Love)
10. Un Diuta Y Mundo Samarito
11. Walang Katapusang Kwarto
12. Every Other Time
13. Nino Bonito
14. Bahay Bata
15. Rakenrol

August

1. Zombadings 1: Patayin sa Shokot si Remington
2. Dogtooth
3. Cowboys & Aliens
4. The Bourne Identity
5. Crazy, Stupid, Love
6. Senior Year
7. Amok
8. Bisperas
9. Mission Impossible
10. Jane Eyre
11. A Passage to India
12. Hanna

September

1. Limitless
2. Oro, Plata, Mata
3. The Princess and the Frog
4. Bad Teacher
5. Tribu
6. Brideshead Revisited

October

1. Crying Ladies
2. Glorious 39
3. Christopher and his Kind
4. The Phantom of the Opera Live at the Royal Albert Hall (technically a movie o.o)
5. Darjeeling Limited
6. Murmur of the Heart
7. A la folie...pas du tout
8. Midnight in Paris
9. The Graduate
10. Kramer vs. Kramer
11. The Scarlet Empress
12. Memento
13. Farewell, My Concubine
14. Happy Together
15. Das Experiment
16. Fanny och Alexander

November

1. Conan the Barbarian
2. Water for Elephants
3. The Blair Witch Project
4. Paranormal Activity 3
5. Munich
6. Forbidden Games
7. Sansho the Bailiff

December

1. Insidious
2. Days of Being Wild
3. Melancholia

I'm fine, thank you.

I just hate feeling helpless and alone at the same time.

No, I will not write a lot because I might say things I'll regret, but I want you to know that I am happy with the way things are right now between us.

I have been tolerating you because you do not cannot tolerate. I think you know this already since you've iteratively emphasized how your zodiac sign defined you from the start. But just in case, here's showing how saying what I feel or not giving up my arguments is just a waste of time:

• "[You] need great self-discipline, because [you] are able to recognize the qualities in [yourself] that make [you] different from other humans, and to know [your] utterly conventional natures can be used for great good, or great evil."
• "[You] relate to fellow workers only as leaders and can be blunt to those [you] dislike to the point of cruelty."
• "[You] are too demanding, too unforgiving of faults in others, perhaps because [you] are not aware of the shortcomings within [yourself], and extravagantly express [your] self-disgust in unreasonable resentment against [your] fellows."

So tell me who's "so stupid" enough to tolerate you when all your friends do? They tolerate you because you tell them "that's who you are" and there's no other way of changing that because you cannot modify your zodiac sign. I've had enough after you implied telling me that "it's so stupid to tolerate" last Friday evening.

A lot did notice you do that, by the way.

Anyway, I hope you'd be really happy and you'd find someone who's not afraid to change you or hurt you to make you better. As for me, I just do not want to return to what we were once was because that relationship will just lead us to ruin. I hope you'll be happy for me too; maybe not now, but soon. And I hope someday you'll understand why I wouldn't want to talk about this any longer.

Downton Abbey is undeniably one of, if not, my favorite series. I have been watching a lot of TV shows ever since I was fourteen and I think I have gathered enough years of experience to back me up when I say that Downton Abbey is a gorgeous drama which is unparalleled in comparison. From the brilliant production to the moving acting, Downton has certainly everything that could get anyone hooked in no time.

I love Series One, I could say that with pride. When I watched its first episode on a lazy October afternoon last year, I am instantly drawn. I was glad I've had the chance to watch the first two episodes one after another, and by and by I've waited albeit impatiently the succeeding episodes in sheer excitement. I felt deprived every time I see the next episode's preview, with the agony of waiting for a week before you could get a glimpse of what's next, and it did turn out to be better as it progressed.

When Series One ended, I applauded it. It was overall outstanding, in every sense of the word--with the Earl of Grantham announcing the War of Britain against Germany, one cannot help but be in awe with a lot of feelings. The characters' faces are all unified in doom, signaling a significant change that would scar their lives forever. With this very promising premise, I had high hopes and expectations that Series Two would be more mind-blowing and heart-breaking.

But Series Two came and went. I watched the first episode and it did bring me joy; I am filled with a lot of thoughts after seeing how things would be from now on. The war is brewing and the boys are caught in it; Matthew have had a fiancee in the character of Miss Swire; Mary had never lost her feelings for Matthew; Sybil is coming of age by being a nurse with the prospect of Branson's love. These developments have surely given me a reason why Season Two could be a great story unfolding at one of the most colorful eras of Modern History.

Now that it has ended, save for the Christmas Special, I am sad to say that I am frustrated in so many levels. Series Two didn't disappoint in a lot of ways; the costumes are still grand, the set as lavish as the former, and the characters showed outstanding acting. However, the most important factor of all--the script--has given me nothing but a comedy and a farce as Series Two progressed. Jullian Fellowes is a great writer before this point. I loved Gosford Park and The Young Victoria to bits, but what has happened here?

I can sense an unpolished and rushed work, where the plot is written solely for the purpose of earning money and having a blonde drama. Cliche and frustrating subplots embedded in every episode with little or no character development at all comprised Series Two. What Fellowes did is to inject many ridiculous and weak subplots instead of concentrating with the foundation and maturity of the available characters.

In particular, I have been asking the absurdity of these subplots. Why did Fellowes chose to:

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The writer gave us a lot of open doors that turned out to be empty rooms, and in the end I find myself tired of staying because no hint of progress or maturity has given me a reason to do so.

I'm sure we wouldn't want to be the scapegoat of a friend's vent of frustration by having an obviously directed pseudo-diffused rage fit at us for being so imperfect. If our concept of friendship involves shoveling up our friend's faults to their asses everytime we like to, then we are gravely misguided. No one likes tactless people.

Forgiving and forgetting are independent of each other, I know that. Do not mask something we have not still forgiven by saying we haven't still forgotten it. Mature people are the ones brave enough to forgive because they know that people make mistakes. I personally wouldn't forgive unless otherwise solicited, but I know how to give it to people who deserve to live a burdenless life.

Maiintindihan ko kung uungkatin niyo ang pagkakamali ng isang taong ayaw matuto sa kasalanan niya, pero kung paulit-ulit niyong isasampal sa isang tao ang mga pagkakamali niyang matagal na niyang pinagsisisihan, hindi kayo marunong magpatawad.

A friendly advice from yours truly.

My parents and I went to Tagaytay to unwind yesterday. It's noteworthy to know that this city is an hour and half's worth of drive from our house.

This is a photo spam of me and my parents, more than anything else.

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Sembreak has been okay. I have been saying that every sembreak, but yeah it was always okay.

I've decided to put this up just in case I wonder what my last sembreak shall be. As I am now, I completely forgot what I did last year. Haha! One of the things that suck when it's sembreak is the fact that I have really nothing to look forward to. We do not go to places this time of the year, and (now) I remember how (I think) last year I was the only one at home in the Philippines among my cousins. My family usually goes out every Summer or Yuletide seasons.

I could elaborate, but as it wasn't so uneventful, it could really just be told in bullets.

• Saturday: Hang out with Ja and Jake at Makati. Photowalk at the MBD and watched POTO live at the RAH come evening.
• Sunday: Grocery (ata?) at ATC.
• Monday: Started making my practicum report (again) to remove my incomplete. Met with Robin and Kevin at Alabang just to talk. Went home early because I asked my parents to pick me up.
• Tuesday: Continued making my practicum report. Met with Robin and waited for Ralph. Talked and walked. Wait, now I cannot remember if it was Wednesday when we did this.
• Wednesday: Made my practicum report all day, I guess? I really can't remember. :o
• Thursday: Have my practicum reports signed at HRMall. I went with Sarrah as she was removing her incomplete too and spending the first week of sembreak like mine. It's disheartening that only two people from our section got grades from practicum. While I made more or less twenty pages of reports, the other sections required more or less five pages. Some just even required a single page. :/ I miss April and Mara! HAHA. I hope my AGSIP friends and I could hang out again!
• Friday: Went to Elbi and met up with Sarrah again to pass our completion requirements to our adviser. It was postponed to Monday for college sec reasons. Joined her and Robert to Festival and ATC later.
• Saturday: Scheduled my dentist appointment and went to Mom's office. We went to SM Southmall after for a few errands.
• Today: Went to Tagaytay with my parents. They took me to different churches around Tagaytay, which maybe a sign that I need some Divine Intervention or something.

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