Posts under the 'Entertainment' category

Things I Love in December

December 22, 2014 by Anna — 6 Comments
Filed Under: Entertainment, Musings

Time sure flies fast! In 3 days, it’ll be Christmas day here. But in the Philippines, we all know that Christmas starts as soon as we hit the month of September! 😛 Also, maybe it’s just me but it’s more exciting to celebrate during Christmas eve than Christmas day (the morning after). Don’t know, it feels like a normal day after that. Same goes for New Year’s Eve/Day. Thoughts?

I believe this might be my 2nd to the last OR the last post for this year. In that case, happy holidays/Merry Christmas to you!

Have you prepared for the most joyous event of the year? Let me guess: You’ve exhausted your yearly savings from all the gift shopping for your family and friends. Me? I have been ~~selfish~~ naughty this latter part this year (#treatyoself) and bought all of the things I want for myself that I can afford for now. BUT BEFORE YOU THINK I AM AN AWFUL PERSON — know that I did my share of selflessness and gave my friends and relevant people their gifts earlier this year. I quite like to spoil people when I give them gifts.

Do gifts always need to be wrapped in fancy packaging? Does gift-giving always need to be done on certain days of the year? It doesn’t have to be like that, right? Why would you wait, when you can do it now? When there are other days you can do it, you have 364 other days to choose from! Yeah — I’ve done the act of selfless giving, reached my quota.
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On This Week's Earcandy Albums

November 18, 2014 by Anna — 8 Comments
Filed Under: Entertainment, Reviews

Rarely do I go with the flow when it comes to discovering music, old and new. With that said, I recently went out of my cave to check out what’s new in the music scene these days. Is there anything good playing in Top 40 radio stations, online or IRL?

The last time I checked out what was new, I think Disney celebrities were dominating the charts or something. Miley, Selena, Demi.. One Direction, Taylor Swift, and um.. Justin Bieber? Lol

This week, I ended up with these albums. A few hours of music video-hopping on YouTube will do some good for the procrastinator. I think, some of the factors that would make me decide if an album or a song is good by my standards is if it meets either of the following: a) relaxing to my ears; b) sounds cool (but not like hip cool, more like easy listening), c) and if I can play it in the background without being distracting. Other important stuff would be the lyrics and the melody of the song.

Leighton Meester – Heartstrings

I had no idea she makes music! I was pleasantly surprised as soon as I listened to a song from this album that I immediately looked for the rest of her songs. One word to describe ALL the songs in this album and her voice: LOVELY.

Song/s that reeled me in: Entitled, Good For One Thing
Reminds me of: Lana Del Rey (I don’t know why, so don’t ask)
Would I keep this album: DEFINITELY. I love it already, so yes! I even wish I can have a physical copy of this album.

Cinemalaya X and other movies

September 13, 2014 by Anna — 3 Comments
Filed Under: Entertainment, Reviews

Posting this late on purpose because I did not want to influence anyone on their choices in this year’s Cinemalaya X’s film festival should they stumble on my post while doing a Google search for which movies to watch.

Now that a month has passed, I think it’s safe to post what I thought about it. 🙂 Yes, other than the films I watched during Cinemalaya, I also had the time to watch a couple of movies out of the roster. One of them was on the same day I watched 2 other films first. So it was like binge-watching at the cinemas all day. Yes, at the end of the day, it wasn’t a good feeling. It gave me a headache after lol.

Without further ado, here are my thoughts about the films I watched in Cinemalaya X. I hope I won’t slip in a spoiler or two. Also, I’m not one of those serious movie critics. I just wanted to share what I thought of them. 😀

#Tuhog Symposium (DLSU Manila)

July 19, 2013 by Anna — 1 Comment
Filed Under: Entertainment

In my entire stay at CSB during my college years, I can count the number of times that I have visited our sister school, DLSU. Now that’s not exactly a good thing because that only means that the reason why I can count the number of times I’ve been there is because I haven’t visited that much at all!

To count, and from what I remember, I visited four times during college. First was to pickup my ticket for Graphika Manila 2007, second was during their Animo Jumpstart event because Up Dharma Down was part of the bands who were going to play, third was to accompany a friend to watch Silent Sanctuary, and lastly when I had to report a student there (thanks AC for hooking us up, haha!) for a project in one of my classes.

Would you believe that every DLSU visit, I always, always seem to get lost around that school?! LOL I guess I’ll never get used to big schools. I’m perfectly fine just being confined in one building, thank you very much. Just imagine if things turned the other way around, I’d be studying there.. I would probably end up being late all the time. :))

Anyway.. my DLSU frustrations aside, I would like to share my experience in going back to that school 5 years later. (Sorry for the very long ‘intro’, lol)

Last Tuesday became the 5th time I paid a visit to DLSU. This time I was not a student anymore. I have no business to do there, so why the visit? Well…

The non fangirl-y version of it: Tuhog, a maindie film by Star Cinema and Skylight Films, had its symposium in the school. They’ve been going around schools around the metro since last week (I think), and this is the school that’s closest to me that I could go to if I wanted to watch and get some insight from the people behind this film.

~~Fangirl version: This guy. YUP.~~ =))

As usual, the same with all my previous visits to this school.. I got lost before I found my way to the place where the talk was going to be held. Ugh. Mave accompanied me as much as she could. Funny, she’s actually not from DLSU and she was more familiar with the place.. haha!

The room was starting to be full when I entered. Apparently, I was already late.. but it’s okay because it hasn’t started yet. =)) Glad we got seats near the front too!