Break the Loop!

I finally got to watch Looper, together with a "date" last Sunday. (Ayown eh!) We watched Skyfall and this movie. Ask me why I was so giddy to get out last weekend? Well, I just found out that my teammates at Sabre went to Dallas for training and will be in Krakow next year, barely two months after I resigned, so I wanted to chill and get my share of enjoyment for once! (Bitter mode! HAHA!)

Anyway, going back to Looper. The storyline was deserving of the positive response I've been hearing, definitely one-of-a-kind must-watch movie. I liked how the sequences of events tied up together, however still not up to par with the untouchable "Inception" on my list. The action sequences were mediocre and could have been better executed. I also thought something was lacking in the overall pacing of the movie, but still, it's really, really gooooood so nevermind my mumbling...

Sunday was a nice break from my routine \m/ and my date was nice, he told me that if I really couldn't stand staying in my old company, it's better to leave anyway, so who cares about Dallas? Anyhow, I am happy to be coding again since most of the work I had been doing at Sabre was checking log errors for the last months I was with them. I also am relieved to be working with my old pals at 77 :)

De La Salle University Professors --- Really Now?!?!

Did you really feel the need to comment about the RH bill? Please review the core values in your mission vision statement:

SERVICE (MORES)

DLSU is committed to being a resource for Church and Nation and being socially responsible in building a just, peaceful, stable and progressive Filipino nation.

If you want to comment as individuals, please do so without dragging the school's name along with it. I firmly believe for proper sanction from the school administration for these professors.

Perfect Symmetry

Keane's coming to the Philippines this October and I researched for some of their lesser known songs - and I came upon this one - I just loved the lyrics.

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Artist: Keane
Song: Perfect Symmetry
Lyrics:
I shake through the wreckage for signs of life
Scrolling through the paragraphs
Clicking through the photographs

I wish I could make sense of what we do
Burning down the capitols
Wisest of the animals

Who are you, what are you living for
Tooth for tooth, maybe we'll go one more

This life, is lived in perfect symmetry
What I do, that will be done to me

Write page after page of analysis
Looking for the final score
We're no closer than we were before

Who are you, what are you fighting for
Holy truth, brother I choose this mortal life
Lived in perfect symmetry

What I do, that will be done to me
As the needle, slips into the run out groove
Love, maybe you feel it too

And maybe you find, life is unkind
And over so soon
There is no golden gate
There's no heaven waiting for you

Oh boy you otta leave this town
Get out while you can
The needle's running out
The voices in the streets you love
Everything is better when you hear that shout
Woooaohhh
Woooaohhh
Woooaohhh

Spineless dreamers, hide in churches
Pieces of pieces of rush hour buses
I dream in emails, worn out phrases
Mile after mile of just empty pages

Wrap yourself around me
Wrap yourself around me

As the needle, slips into the run out groove
Maybe I'll feel it too
Maybe you'll feel it too
Maybe you'll feel it too
Maybe you'll feel it too

I dream in emails, worn out phrases
Mile after mile of just empty pages

Desigual

I am fascinated with prints these days and I saw this brand Desigual while browsing in FB. They sell these nice printed dresses... I just wanted to post :)

Untold Pinoy Stories

I chanced upon this blog and been reading some interesting stories of Pinoy celebrities, heroes, and politicians. Loved his writing style, also the intrigues and histories behind some of the most famous names in show business! Must read for all tsismosos and tsismosas out there! :)

Robin Scherbatsky and I

I've just finished the whole seven seasons of How I Met Your Mother and I think a lot would kill me for this, but I love Robin Scherbatsky! Somehow I find myself relating to her character, aside from being absolutely gorgeous (jk!), we share a common insight on parenting: we don't like to have children.

I will be judged when I say this, but I don't like my parents. I love them, but I don't like them. They provided me everything that I needed growing up. However, they also think they own me and they never hesitated to make that a known fact - that parents own their children and they can do whatever they want with them. Robin shared the same history, with her dad naming her as his "junior" despite obviously being a girl.

Thinking about it, I know where Robin's fear of having children stems from:
- the idea that she herself would become the controlling parent that her father is;
- that her father would also claim ownership to her son/daughter, being the "root" of the tree;
- that her tomboyish nature won't ever fit as a maternal figure; and
- that she never felt that having a family was her source of her happiness.

Of course, there's the whole idea of taking care of another one's life and being responsible for it, knowing that she herself cannot put herself together well enough, which, I also think is caused by her parent's disapproval of her.

During the past seven seasons though, a lot of other ideas came to play for Robin: Lily and Marshall's new family, Ted's determination to find "the one", and her undeniable chemistry with Barney. All her life, she knew she didn't want to have a family yet when she found out that she can't have children, she just wasn't as sure anymore. J.K. Rowling once said in her speech, "There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you." and here is where Robin is having a hard time with. The thought of turning her life around is tempting, but she's scared that she won't make it work and is having second thoughts about leaving her past ideals behind.

Anyway, I am looking forward to how this series would end, it captures a lot of informative twenty-first century psychoanalysis for the mid-20's and early 30's working class and how they cope up with relationship, career, and societal issues in their lives. And yeah, I love Barney, he's Awesome! :D

P.S. Yep, nag-away nanaman kame ng nanay ko, thus, this blog entry.. XD

Diosdado "Dado" Banatao, Father of Semiconductor

Been reading and researching about Diosdado "Dado" Banatao since watching his Bottomline interview with Boy Abunda last Saturday. He's said to be the Father of Semiconductor and the Filipino Bill Gates, a multi-billionaire Filipino technopreneur in Silicon Valley. Despite of his low profile, he's rumored to be even richer than Henry Sy or Lucio Tan. His life story and philosophy is really inspiring, having described working for Meralco "not exciting enough" and "didn't pay much" for a hard job as an engineer when he was offered a job there as a newly grad in Mapua. What I loved most was his dedication to learning and humility to serve and help the poor. He says that education is the key to poverty eradication, and because of that, one of his philanthropic efforts is to send poor engineering students to college. Indeed, he's a true Filipino we should all be proud of. :)