Quick ReyViews atbp

Yes, you read it right . Yagit . This was drawn on September 12, 1984.  Hehehe  Brings back memories, huh?  Not that I am a fan of this afternoon soap way back in the 80s.  But the 80s wouldn’t be 80s without this Looney Tunes of a soap. Aired after Lunch Date (if my memory serves me right), the soap starred Connie Angeles, Ernie Garcia, Janet Giron (who portrays Eliza--she’s the one on the left), Jocelyn Cruz as Jocelyn (beside Eliza in the drawing), Tomtom (the dark and fat boy--where’s he now?) and Zeny Zabala as Aling Claudia.  The soap was a huge hit that Viva Films made a movie version of it.  (Trivia: Magnolia Sabas sang the soap’s theme song superbly.) I can’t recall the plot of the soap except the fact that I had fun watching these yagits . Guilty pleasure!! It seems that every day of every week, there’s a big chase scene where Aling Claudia (Zeny Zabala’s campy acting is tops!!!!) pays off three to four goons to kill Eliza, Jocelyn and Tom...

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial.  It is one of my all-time favorite movies (along with the Superman series).  The first time I saw this was way back 1983.  I remember that it was shown on January 4.  And I remember watching it on the first day along with my brother and my father.  I was really wowed by the movie!  To the point of buying an E.T. rubber toy.  There were two variants, one with the glowing finger and the other wa s just plain old E.T. pointing to nowhere.  I remember seeing an E.T. drawing in one of the comicstrips in Bulletin Today (now, it’s called Manila Bulletin ).  I can’t recall if it was done by Roxlee or Monlee, but it inspired me to draw E.T.    I also remember reading an article or a review… or maybe, someone mentioned it, that E.T. is just like Christ.  Although E.T. was not sent to save mankind (he was accidentally left on Earth by his flying saucer), he died, came back to life and "ascended to ...

nos·tal·gi·a, n. -  a bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past. - American Heritage Dictionary I don’t know what bit me but I found myself rummaging through my old things a couple of weeks ago. What I really wanted to do was gather all my old pocketbooks (horror and mystery, mostly) and donate them to St. Joseph’s College’s library (my alma mater).  I never really got around to the donating part.  But I was able to put all the pocketbooks in four big plastic bags and set them all aside.  You see, what happened was, I got sidetracked by a lot of old stuff I found stacked, filed, stowed in the cabinets, drawer, bookshelf, even inside the pocketbooks. Old pictures, old greetings cards. Old letters. Old address books/phonebooks. A scrapbook. There were clipped articles of things that interested me then. I can’t believe that I kept some of my notebooks from high school. I even have a binder covered by cut-outs of superheroes from comicbo...

Rating: ★★★ Category: Books Genre: Literature & Fiction Author: Richard Bachman / Stephen King Blaze was written in 1973 and was revised by Stephen King to somewhat update it for the times before releasing it under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. It tells the story of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr. (Blaze for short) and how he led a life of petty crime and tried to pull off a kidnapping, with disastrous results. You see, Blaze was mentally-challenged. Thanks to his father who was the cause of his mental retardation. The storytelling switches from the present day to flashbacks so we discover how Blaze came to be. When I was reading it, the sense of doom for Blaze was already there. You know that it wouldn't end well for our hero. And at the back of your mind, you want Blaze to really get away with the crime. But there's no turning back and you can't do anything about it but witness how a promising child (Blaze) has turned into something he didn't want to be...

As far as I can recall, this is the first stage musical I watched...again!  So what's the difference this time around?  First, two original cast members have been replaced by another husband-and-wife team: the role of William Barfée previously played by Richard Everley is now being essayed by Lorenz Martinez; the role of Marcy Parks which was played by Thea Tadiar-Everley is now ably acted by Shiela Valderrama-Martinez.  I have been wowed by the original cast members so I was curious as to how the Martinezes fare in this rerun of Atlantis Productions' The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee .  And shall I say the Martinezes were able to fit into the roles left by the Everleys "very nice, very nice, very, very, very nice" !  Martinez's tenor is so distinct that you won't have trouble understanding what he was mouthing off (that's one of the major problems of some local productions when they stage English plays--enunciation! And if they really enunc...

shall i give up my friendster account or not? yes   5 no   0 I am trimming my social network online to just two.  And I think Friendster should kick the bucket.  What do you think?

Rating: ★★★★ Category: Books Genre: Other Author: Jeffrey Archer w/Prof. Francis Moloney Written by one of the world's best-selling author, Jeffrey Archer assisted by Professor Francis Moloney, The Gospel According to Judas, by Benjamin Iscariot is one entertaining read. The concept itself is ingenius: the format of the narrative is written like one of the books of the Bible. The narrative is told through the eyes of Judas' son, Benjamin. And everything's backed up by researches and notes that is found in the book's glossary. When I was studying religion subjects in college, one of our teachers said that Judas was bent on having an uprising against the Romans, having in mind Jesus as the leader of the said revolution. This is who Judas was in this historical fiction. The whole novel reminded me of the film The Last Temptation of Christ. When I watched the movie by Scorcese, it's like watching Jesus of Nazareth by Zefirelli. Except that at the last 3...