why just now..

...that I learned to love watching movies?

Obviously, this is for the love of my bucket list again {which by the way, i won't be able to finish on time. sue me!}. Goal # 23 says Watch good movies. I put it there because I know I'm really not into watching movies and that I've been missing a lot already.

Having said that, I had to force myself to do something towards the completion of this goal.  With force, I mean I had to drag myself to St. Francis to buy DVDs and learn how to download through Vuze. I didn't even  know something like that ever existed.

So with the combined power of pirated DVDs {oops!} and downloadable DVD rips i finally got a copy of  my all time favorite movies - So Close and Now and Then, and two movies I've been wanting to watch {just because they're popular} - Avatar and Kimmy Dora.

  

23. WATCH GOOD MOVIES

And with that I mean upcoming good movies and famous flicks from the past which I missed watching {for heaven's sake, why}. I'm really not much of a movie-goer, it just gets worse when a certain movie I missed watching suddenly becomes the talk of the town. Oh dear, I can remember Avatar. How it inched its way to the charts with me having no plans of watching it. Few days {or weeks, I dunno} after, every single bus I flop myself into has that movie in their television screens. Either I wasn't able to watch from the beginning or was not able to watch it until the end. Not to mention they have bad audio and video. So, even being able to almost watch it for like four or five times, I hella have zero understanding of the story. I can only remember green alien-looking creatures. Aside from Avi {Avatar, that is}, I also have Kimmy Dora in mind. Call me a loser but I did not get to watch it. Everyone was talking about it then. Repeating funny lines and laughing at the craziest scenes. I have yet to figure out if I was on Earth while it was selling like pancakes on the cinemas {wacha think?}. And speaking of good movies, I would also love to be a bedbug on weekends to watch again, for the nth time, movies like Now and Then and So Close. The latter being the only movie that made me cry, EVER. Urggh, I'm saying too much. Enough! 

 

Surprisingly, I didn't stop after I was able to get what I originally intended to. I learned to love it as a past time I guess. Another good way to prevent myself from shopping aside from blogging, of course. I've been spending weekends for movie marathons, this weekend included. And if you haven't discovered, movies go best with MSG! Chips and dips, if you don't get what I mean. Hahaha!

just the right amount of MSG intake :P

too bad the baby munched on them too

And oh, before I end this random movie post, let me just share I finally have my favorite foreign actress in the form of Jennifer Aniston. I realized I like her while watching He's Just Not That Into You. I totally love the way she talks and the way she moves, sooo gorgeous. I've also seen Just Go With It. Yet again touched with the movie as it deals with the family. Any other Jennifer Aniston movie you'd suggest?

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on watching movies and fondue party

Just so you know, awesome is what comes to my mind when I think of the people I get to work with everyday. We are literally one of the best, if not really the best team. But no, don't think I am about to share work related stories. That would be too much. 5days a week, 9hrs a day, if you know what I mean. :|

I just wanna share how our awesomeness extends from the four corners of our cubes to outside the many floors of our building. You see, our onshore lead just got back from the US. She was able to get a unit from a condo only few steps from our office. Instant chillax spot for us. Ain't we lucky?

To start with, we had a fondue party. Aside from the ever reliable default food {you guessed it right, pizza}, we also had mallows, wafer and fruits to dip to our chocolate fondue.

pizza looove

fondue parteeey

We also watched Black Swan that night. It stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a ballerina who's completely consumed with her passion and who often hallucinates and end up hurting herself. The movie is a bloody psycho-drama which made me us shriek and cover our faces from time to time.

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Black Swan

Before calling it a day, we camwhored using our lead's MacBook webcam. Yeah, when vanity strikes there's no stopping it. Haha!

After the fondue party slash black swan night, we went there again to celebrate a teammates birthday. Tanduay Ice, chips and dips made the night.

And as if it's becoming a habit, we watched a movie again, Taken this time. Pretty much a new movie huh? It stars Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills, a retired agent of the CIA. The story revolved around how he saved his daughter, Kim, who was kidnapped by an Albanian gang of human traffickers. And per the birthday girl, the lesson of the story is to never idolize a rock band. Anobeee, akala ko pa naman "Don't talk to strangers".

happy birthday teh Pholeeet!!

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Taken

We also had so much fun recording videos of ourselves lip syncing ala Moymoy Palaboy. It was crazy fun night especially when we were watching our videos na. I wish I can share but I can't. It's humiliating. Hahaha! :))

prior to our Moymoy Palaboy stint

Aaannnndd speaking of movies, lemme just boast that I was able to watch Kimmy Dora finally. Hahaha! Loser much? But yeah, I was able to watch it only recently. Home alone by my apartment. Bursting into tears laughing all by myself. Felt Silly. But then again, I really am. =)))

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Kimmy Dora 

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