Last Friday, me and my friends went somewhere in Manila to buy pirated DVDs. We went there through riding several public transportations — 1 long Jeep ride and 1 verrry long ride of the LRT to Manila. I saw different schools while on the LRT ride, most of them I’ve only heard of/seen just recently and yeah, we passed by College of St. Benilde (represent!) as well. Friends were making a big deal when we passed by Vito Cruz station, I wonder why? When we got to our destination (Carriedo stop), the DVD shop or shall I say HEAVEN on EARTH (for DVD pirates, haha!) was just in front of the LRT exit! I thought we would walk farther to somewhere hot but paradise was just a few steps away. 😛
Are you confused what does the Evan Almighty poster got to do with my post? Read through the whole entry to find out.
Unfortunately we didn’t shopped for DVDs when we got there, yet. We ate lunch first at KFC! 😀 It was super far from the LRT station so we had to walk a thousand miles just to get there, few more steps from the KFC branch we’ll be in Quiapo church already. KFC was full of people, God! 😐 I’m not claustrophobic but I just don’t like crowds (yet it makes me wonder why I go to concerts a lot), and lines for that matter. Anyway, we got to eat and had a good time. After that we looked for the infamous camera stores in Quiapo aka Hidalgo, we found it and I was able to look at DSLRs, for only 5 minutes.. Haha. My brother and my other friend went to look for music instruments on our way back to DVD heaven.
I bought a lot of DVDs when we got to DVD heaven, lol. You gotta hand it to the Chinese people for doing such a great job at pirating this stuff. I was looking around at first and was astonished when I found some rare movies such as Scarface, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and The Shining on their racks, I grabbed them at first sight and had them tested. And they already cracked Blu-ray discs to DVD-9 format, or maybe I’m wrong, but the quality is superb and just amazingly clear!
All in all I bought 7 DVDs: Scarface, The Shining, Evan Almighty, American Gangster (this is for Alex, aww yeah I’m such a nice sister), Across the Universe, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Borat.
Two days later after that, I decided to watch one of the DVDs I bought and picked to start on Evan Almighty. I loved the first movie, Bruce Almighty so I definitely expected to enjoy the 2nd one. And I did! But I didn’t expect the movie on teach me something that I’ve never known before. As cheesy it may sound, a comedy movie made me realize something about God. 😕
As the comedic scenes rolled in, I was laughing my ass off on every laughable scene as much as possible. I especially liked the “SHEEEEP!” scene. The whole movie is really funny, may not be to you, but it is to me. 😛 Anyway, if you’ve seen the movie, do you remember the scene when Evan’s wife took the kids and settled somewhere because they felt that Evan is going crazy because of the whole ark ordeal?? Then a scene rolls in where Evan’s wife and the kids are watching the news while eating a meal at a bar and she wanted to order something and God (disguised as the store waiter) talks to her? He says this to Evan’s wife…
Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?
Then everything just started to make sense to me! Very, very true! The existence of having trials in our life makes sense to me now. We pray to Him to ask for something that will bring benefit to our life, and then a time comes that we get faced with different obstacles (or trials) for a period of time that will make us work hard in order to survive and conquer that situation. In the end, we receive a result that’s similar to what we asked Him but most of the time we don’t notice it. So, as I see it, we can’t put every “miraculous” event that happens to our life on Him, but we should give credit to ourselves as well. Things happen for a reason, as the saying goes. He wants us to believe in our strength that we can accomplish something with our own skill and strength and not be dependent on the Higher being that is God.
The main character in the movie wanted to “change the world”, and he prayed for it. Next day he is chosen to build an ark to “save” the people from the trouble that’s going to happen. Crazy as that sounds, he still continued to do it and in the end, he made a BIG change! :dance: The difference with Evan compared to Bruce, is he used the opportunity wisely than Bruce because he just abused it and played with it (people who saw the first “…Almighty” movie would know!) So the next time you find yourself in trouble, don’t be put down by it, think of it as an opportunity. Oh noes, late realization for me, no? I don’t go to Church that often! Sorry na.
And today, I watched Across The Universe. Confusing at first, cause it’s the second musical movie I’ve watched after HSM but as you watch throughout the movie it’s really, really good. I need to watch it again though so I can understand it fully. The singing is just superb, especially Dana Fuch’s singing. Which brings me to this question: Why isn’t she that popular?!?! Mixed emotions felt through the movie, I say. And, ooh lala, Jim Sturgess is :heart: ! *hint* He may just be on the next edition of my layout, haha!
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buti naman at walang nangyari senyong masama dun, kasi kasi madami balita dun, kahit ako takot na pumunta dun, yahaha!
Damnittttt. I forgot to answer the question and now my comment is nowhere to be found! Mahaba pa naman yunnn! Gahh. Anyway… I guess I just have to rewrite that.
Buti ka pa nakapag-dvd shopping and movie marathon ka na! Target ko rin yan this summer e, which btw is nearing to an end. Boohoo. Lol. Haven’t watched Evan Almighty yet, only the first one. Imma put that on my list.
And yes, very true. God gives us the opportunity to do things by ourselves. He gives us all those trials and challenges to make us realize something and be strong for ourselves. He’s there to guide us when we’re going in the wrong direction and strengthen us when we’re weak, He lets us at least see the light at the end of the tunnel when all we see is darkness. But in the end, it’s all us who makes the choices and our destiny. It’s up to us if we want to be strong, to learn something, or to see that light. It will always be our decision. Sooo… hooray to God! 😀 And to us as well for surviving years of living in this cruel world that we all still can’t seem to figure out. Wow! That’s.. deep! Haha. Anyway, just to share, I don’t go to church often last year but now, it’s been a big change, I always go to church every Sunday with my family. It’s been a sort of bonding with the fam but nothing can beat praying intimately by yourself, at least for me cos you’re like hanging out with Him, just you and Him. In some point it’s okay to not go to church often, what matters is that you believe and have strong faith in Him. 😀
Yay long comment. lolz.
where is this dvd heaven you are talking about? hahaha. as in, right dun pagbaba sa exit? do they have music cds too? 😛
Halla, ang loser ko. Evan Almighty lang napanuod ko sa mga movies na yan. :)) Di kasi ako mahilig manuod ee. Ewan ko nga din kung bakit ee.
Anyway, maganda nga yung movie, funny siya chaka may sense talaga. I mean, yung it touches your heart talaga. Unlike ng ibang movies na iba yung dating. Diba? Connected kasi siya kay God. Ang galing nung naka isip niyan. 😛
hi ate anna! remember me? 😀 napanuod ko na yun Borat sa HBO.. patawa… haha… mahilig ka po pala sa comedy.. hehehe
Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a good movie, Anna.
I LOVE YOUR LAYOUT, you know that?
try mo tumawid sa underpass dun…then punta ka sa Hidalgo street ata yun (basta tatawid sa underpass..teeehee), dun mas madami pang DVD’s! as in magsawa ka sa sangkaterbang DVD’s dun. and yeah, one of my favorite places din sa quiapo is Hidalgo. i drool every time i see the cameras there. Quiapo = paradise. hehehe.
yeah, put Jim Sturgess here! He’s hawt!
ooh ate watch breakfast na.. you’re sooo gonna love it! 😀
Nasa kadulu duluan na ata ng mundo ang place namin, wala nagtitinda masyado dito ng pirata eh. madaya talaga. Hahaha ang daming debede. hahaha. :worthy:
the issue of God is so complex that i can’t begin to understand and that question just made my brain hurt 😛
wow great movies anna. hmm naglipa talaga ang nagbebenta ng pirated ngayon pero aaminin ko nabili din ako sa ganyan ang laki kasing tipid. haven’t seen evan almighty only bruce almighty, mukhang okey ha sige hahanapin ko din yan pagbumili ako.
I love love love Bruce Almighty! Beeeeyutiful! HAHAHA. I haven’t watched Evan Almighty, though. 😛
Breakfast at Tiffany’s the best! I so love Audrey Hepburn. She’s awesome. 😀
Jack Nicholson’s face is just SCARY. 😐
Grabe talaga ang mga Chinese! Matatalino at napipirata ang DVDs kaso yung iba kapag may sub, nahuhuli. 😛
Nung pumunta kami ng classmates kosa Quiapo after namin magovernight sa isang hotel (kasi after prom yun), naghanap kami ng mga napakaraming DVDs, jusme, nalunod ako sa sobrang dami, may mga porn pa nga eh! haha. X)
Fave ko yung Evan Almighty! Ang galing nung Act of Random Kindness noh? ARK. 😀
yay! Y!M emoticons! i love! ;)) great choice of movies. 😛 yeah, i’ve watch evan almighty last year. and it really touched my heart.
we’re the one whose making our life by making good choices. but we always think that he’s the only one who are making our success. but we don’t realize that we ourselves are the one who made. but God’s always there in our side in everything we do.
haha. ang nonsens the sinabe ko. oh well. :))
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bwt your comment at my post, nanuod ka pala ng HSM onstage? :)) of what? he doesnt have a primetime show now, but he’s busy on his album. and he’s also an ambassador of B4USurf and DepEd spokesperson. 😀 😀 share lang! :whistle: