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I've just finished watching Moon Child, a movie starring Hyde and Gackt. Hyde played the role of a vampire, Kei, while Gackt played as an orphan, Sho, who once saved Kei from death. In return, Kei looked after Sho and became his mentor. The rest are here.

 

I like the story of this movie. I even like how Hyde and Gackt did their respective roles. I admired Hyde (more) in his acting skills and the way he delivered his lines. He was underact. Kewl. I might reckon him as one of my favourite actors.

 

I may sound like over-rating Hyde and neglecting Gackt. Soyo koto nai. I just found Hyde mysterious and fascinating. Gackt did good. But he was so flashy. Part of the role. He looked like an Italian capo when he paid Hyde (Kei) a visit.

 

It was fun watching this movie, minus the cinematography. There were humour and deep thoughts. It was a story of friendship and loyalty.



Music:
Gackt and Hyde - Orenji no Taiyou

While watching TV minutes ago, I saw a man taking a bath using a tabo. The camera moved down and showed that he was sitting on a basin, which is where he gets the water for bathing. It was a cycle. Then someone, with the use of a tabo, took some water from the basin. It was a young boy. The bloody part about it was that he drank the water.

I don't want such thing to happen to the people in Metro Manila. Hades, imagine the little children... the pregnant women... the sick... worse of all, imagine yourself doing what the boy from TV did. I wonder where the common sense of those people responsible for a planned housing project went.

Let's help save La Mesa Watershed. Please sign the petition in LaMesaEcopark. Thank you so much.






Music:
Cocco - Yakenogahara

Shags! I feel sick. I think I have a low grade fever. My head is bloody aching. I need to sleep and get some rest (as what Jam had been insisting). I'll call great grandfather first then I'll be off to bed. I need to have CBR. @_@

I think I now know what I've been looking for in the net. I was looking for some company. How childish. -_- Otoosan, okaasan, doko ga?

 

The past and coming weeks are making me busy. But I was glad I made it to Mega and G4 yesterday. I've met and known new people. I am really thankful. After next week's MCN-1 finals and CPR return demo, I'll make myself buys again. With DrumMania. I'll improve my skills and do better this time. Of course, I'll also do better in my studies. ^_^

 

 

I watched Under the Moon with kuya Roy in Shang. Ianne and Shim were also supposed to watch the movie, but due to minority reasons, they were left behind.

 

I went to Shang after our BLS training. I watched Face alone. The ticket lady inquired my age and asked for my ID. Haha! Did I not look 18 when I was there? *lol* Well, the reason for the inquiries were not questionable.

 

I don't want to explain further. There was just violence. Period.

 

 

 

 

08 September 2006. MSN Class -  started reading Robert Ludlum's The Scarlatti Inheritance.
14 September 2006. 22:50 - I finished devouring the book.

I think this is the first RL novel I finished in a short period of time. Not that sure though. After The Matarese Circle, this is the second RL novel that is my favourite.

Elizabeth Scarlatti is my favourite character in this novel. She's just so graceful and intelligent and so clever. I like her strength and power. She reminds me of Kate Blackwell from Sidney Sheldon's Master of the But Elizabeth is better than Kate. I also like Matthew Canfield because he's so ordinary. He was not like those other protagonists in Ludlum's novel. He was so human. I just like it. Andrew Scarlett, Elizabeth's grandson, appeared as a wise young man to me. He was also brave. Such a likable man.

I had fun reading this book. I was just having a little trouble with the manners of speech used. A lot of profane and invective words were used. But then, it was the time of war. Times of trouble. The other thing I had trouble with was the dialogue in German. I don't know German; just very, very few words. Ludlum had some characters spoke in German. There was no translation.

This book, like the other novels of Robert Ludlum, sent me an unwritten message. Only the intellectual can appreciate these.



Music:
Hyde - Shallow Sleep

The colder it gets . . .
the hotter it gets.

Three years ago SFPD Homicide Investigator Kate Gillespie was in pursuit of a suspect who murdered a hooker in a sleazy motel, and she nearly lost her own life in the process. The shooter escaped into the San Francisco shadows and the trail went colder than the grave.

Now Kate's appearance on a Bay Area "crime stoppers" TV show produces new leads that carry her back into the sordid world of drugs and prostitution -- and point her toward a local crime boss whose missing wife is possibly linked to multiple men and multiple murders.

But when a dangerous knot of betrayals, secrets, and criminal cover-ups starts unraveling, Kate can only hope she'll be as lucky as she was on that black night at the Twin Palms Motel. Because the only way to the truth leads directly into the line of fire . .

07 September 2006. I was reading Robin Burcell's Cold Case from 1300H-2157H. It was a nonstop reading mode. But it was fun. I miss Inspector Kate Gillespie and now FBI officer Michael Tolland. But I found a new favourite book character. Nick Paollini. Haha! He reminds me of Jack Sparrow!

This novel, I'd say, made me lost. There were so many suspects I couldn't figure out who was the culprit. Well, I never did! Haha! Robin Burcell is cool. I'm now on a hunt on her other novels: Fatal Truth and Deadly Legacy. She's the reason why I like homicide novels. ^_^



Music:
Mario & Nesty - Never Say Goodbye

ARANG (아랑)
Song Yoon Ah and Lee Dong Wook

I've just finished watching this movie. I thought I had to wait months before I could watch this. Perhaps I had to wait for ABS-CBN's action whatsoever. I knew this movie because I was checking on Lee Dong Wook's discography and found out that he just had a movie, his debut one. I didn't know it. He's been a tv actor for years then I'd read "his debut movie"? I was really suprised. So I thought it'd be interesting. I wanted to know how he acts in the big screen.

 

The heroine of this movie, So Young, was played by Song Yoon Ah. I saw her in some of Arang's trailers and I thought there's something about her that's interesting. I found out one of them. I saw a picture of hers that made us look alike. *lol* I thought I was just having an imagination, but someone agreed. =p

 

Okay. Back to business.

 

 

 

 

This movie has two/three genre: suspense/thriller and horror. I'd say it's both a half-success and a loss. It did well as a thriller, but failed as a horror movie. Our own Sukob did better. No. I should not compare both films. It's unfair to Direk Chito Roño.

 

Just thinking over, I think the reason why I said it's half-successful as a thriller was my failure to point out something crucial in thriller stories. I think it's an evidence that I've been NOT reading novels for a long time. >_< I wonder if Arang is a book, would I be able to point out what I missed? Maybe I just lost tract of the movie's time so I wasn't able to reckon some things. Yes, I did lost tract of the movie's time because I was trying to focus on how SYA and LDW did their acts in this movie.

 

This is Lee's debut movie and I could say he tried to do his best. I saw no trace of My Girl's Seol Gong Chan or Hanoi Bride's Eun Woo. Thank goodness! But he did reminded me of a music video where he was featured.

 

So Young's character was not in par with the female cops I've read in novels. Something's missing. I don't know. Maybe I'll find it out if I start reading novels again.

 

By the way, Kim Ok Bin was also featured in this movie. She appeared at the first part.