Lilipad, lilipad, takure! (Time Quest)

14th French Film Festival | Manila

 

 

The festival opens on Friday, June 5, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.

at the Grand Atrium Level 2 of Shangri-La Plaza

 

 

The 62nd Cannes film festival marks a milestone in the history of Philippine cinema as Brillante “Dante” Mendoza becomes the first Filipino to be awarded the “Best Director” prize for his film “Kinatay.” 2009 will also be remembered as the year that saw five Filipino films in the different sections of the festival: “Kinatay” in the Official Competition, “Independencia” by Raya Martin in Un Certain Regard, “Manila” byAdolfo Alix, Jr and Raya Martin in the Special Screening, “Sabongero” by Janice Perez and “Manong Maong” by Aissa Peñafiel and Miguel Ocampo in the Short Film Corner.  

In celebration of this event, the 14th French Film Festival in Manila will be held from June 5-14, 2009 at the Shang Cineplex of Shangri-La Plaza. It will feature a retrospective of 14 French films which have been presented at the Cannes film festival, as well as a sneak preview of the Filipino film “Independencia”, which premiered at Cannes earlier this month. 

The festival will open on June 5 with the film “Home” by the famous French photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand. Shot entirely from the sky in high definition,“Home” is a documentary about the stunning beauty of our planet and the alarming danger it faces. It will also be the first movie to be released simultaneously on all media (theatre, TV, DVD and Internet) across 5 continents, as part of World Environment Day, which also be celebrated worldwide on June 5 (www.goodplanet.org). 

On June 12, Independence Day, the festival will present a sneak preview of“Independencia”. Produced by Arleen Cuevas, the film has received assistance from the French government through the Fonds Sud Cinema, a grant offered by the French Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. 

There will be four screenings each day of the festival. All films are open to the public with free admission on a first-come, first-served basis. The French films that will be screened include François Truffaut’s “Les 400 Coups”(1959), André Téchiné’s “Ma Saison Préférée” (1993), Michael Haneke’s “La Pianiste” (2001) and Benoît Jaquot’s “A tout de suite”(2004). For screening schedules, you may call 633-2277 or visit www.spot.ph. 

For Filipino cinephiles who will not be able to attend the Manila screenings, there will also be a French Film Festival in Cebu which will run from June 19-21 at the Ayala Center Cebu. This event will feature many of the same films that will be shown in Manila. 

The French Film Festival is organized by the French Embassy to the Philippines, together with CulturesFrance and Alliance Française de Manille, with the generous support of Shangri-La Plaza, the Shang Cineplex, Pioneer Films and Spot.ph. The French Film Festival in Cebu is organized through the efforts of Les Amis de la France and with the cooperation of the Arts Council of Cebu, and Ayala Center Cebu. 

The logo of the festival shows the intertwined laurel branch of the Cannes Film Festival and a coconut branch to symbolize the strong cultural ties between France and the Philippines through cinema.

 

ÇA BRULE
Director: Claire Simon
Cast: Camille Varenne, Gilbert Melki, Olivia Willaumez, Kader Mohamed, Marion Maintenay, Morgane Moré, Jean-Quentin Châtelain, Nabil Radi, Mathieu Bagnis
Running time: 1h 51mn
She lives in the Var, she has a horse, and she’s angry.
The exalted love story of an adolescent 15-year-old, with a local man: Jean, 37 years old, teacher, voluntary fireman, married and father of two. It’s the beginning of vacation and the eternity of summer.

A TOUT DE SUITE
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Cast: Isild Le Besco, Ouassini Embarek, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Laurence Cordier, Fotini Kodoukaki, Catherine Davenier, Nicolas Pignon, David Ayala, Odile Vuillemin, Léonor Graser, Emmanuelle Bercot, Olivier Augrond, Sabri Lahmer, Fatiha Chériguene
Running time : 1h 35mn
Set in the 1970s, A Tout de Suite is the story of a 19-year-old girl who discovers that her lover, seemingly a Prince Charming, is actually a thief who has just committed murder. “Tout de suite,” instantly, her safe and comfortable world is turned upside down and she is swept into an adventure that takes her from Spain to Morocco and Greece.

LA PIANISTE
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Magimel, Annie Girardot, Anna Sigalevitch, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel
Running Time: 2h 10mn
Erika Kohut, 40 years old, is a respectable piano teacher at the Conservatory of Vienna. Living a single life, hardened by a possessive mother, she is a musician who leads a frustrated sex life. Frequenting peep shows and watching porno films, Erika dives into a morbid voyeurism and practices masochism. Until one day, when Walter, a 20-something student falls in love with her. From this affection is born a troubled relationship, emotional and perverted, between master and disciple.

MARIE JO ET SES DEUX AMOURS
Director: Robert Guédiguian
Cast: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Jacques Boudet, Yann Trégouët, Frédérique Bonnal, Souhade Temimi, Maïa Sevleyan, Frédéric Garbe, Danielle Stefan, Jacques Germain, Axel Koehler
Running Time: 2h 5mn
Marie-Jo loves her husband Daniel dearly, but is also passionately in love with her lover Marco. She is torn between the two, with tragic consequences.

FLANDRES
Director: Bruno Dumont
Cast: Adélaïde Leroux, Samuel Boidin, Inge Decaesreker, Patrice Venant, Henri Cretel, Jean-Marie Bruveart, David Poulain, David Legay
Running Time: 1h 31mn
In Flanders, Demester other and young local men enlist as soldiers to fight in a distant land. He also falls in love deeply with the young Barbe, even accepting her strange ways and her many lovers. Tragically, the war exacerbates the relationship between them, leading them to extremes.

 

UN SECRET
Director: Claude Miller
Cast: Cécile De France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu, Mathieu Amalric, Nathalie Boutefeu, Yves Jacques, Sam Garbarski, Orlando Nicoletti, Valentin Vigourt, Robert Plagnol, Eric Godon, Philippe Grimbert, Quentin Dubuis, Myriam Fuks, Michel Israel, Arthur Mazet, Annie Savarin, Yves Verhoeven
Running time: 1h 40mn
A story of passions and dark family secrets, as told through the eyes of François, an only child who creates a make-believe brother and imagines the past of his parents. On his 15th birthday, a family friend reveals to François a disturbing but illuminating truth.

DIX-SEPT FOIS CECILE CASSARD (Seventeen times Cecile Cassard)
Director: Christophe Honoré
Cast: Béatrice Dalle, Romain Duris, Jeanne Balibar, Ange Ruzé, Johan Oderio-Robles, Tiago Manaïa, Jérôme Kircher, Julien Collet, Lisa Lacroix, Assaad Bouab, Fabio Zenoni
Running time: 1h 45mn
17 fois Cecile Cassard is seventeen portraits of a young woman who attempts to rebuild her life…

L’ESQUIVE
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Cast: Osman Elkharraz, Sara Forestier, Sabrina Ouazani, Nanou Benahmou, Hafet Ben-Ahmed, Aurélie Ganito, Carole Franck, Abdelah Benabdelah, Leticia Gutierrez, Rosalie Symon, Olivier Loustau
Running time: 1h 57mn
Fifteen-year-old Abdelkrim, aka “Krimo,” is madly in love with his classmate Lydia. But he worries about what a declaration of love will do to his reputation.

A solution presents itself : coerce Rachid, Lydia’s partner in the play Le jeu de l’amour et du hasard (The game of love and of chance) by the famous playwright Marivaux. What Krimo does not dare to admit, Marivaux does. It becomes a real challenge for Krimo.

HOME
Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Running time: 2h
In 200, 000 years, humans have disrupted the fragile balance on which Earth was living for 4 billion years. Global warming, shortage of resources, endangered species: humans are jeopardizing their own living conditions. By the end of the century, the relentless consumption will have exhausted almost all of our planet’s natural resources. But it is too late to be pessimistic: we have barely 10 years left to reverse the trend. We need to become aware of our abusive exploitation of Earth’s gifts and change our way of life.

Home is a travel notebook, showing landscapes captured from a bird’s eye view above. This film calls for a new awareness, inviting the viewer to stop for a moment in order to look at our planet and realize how we treat her treasures and her beauty.

JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Director: Daniel Vigne
Running time: Lorant Deutsch, Philippe Torreton, Sara Forestier, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Élodie Navarre, Julien Courbey, Jocelyn Quivrin, Daniel Duval, Armelle , Jean-Pierre Malo, Sylviane Goudal, Romain Rondeau, Mélanie Maudran, Jean-Paul Farré, Jérémie Lippmann, Mathieu Bisson, Fabienne Babe, Nicky Naude, Virginie Desarnauts, Emmanuelle Galabru, Jean-François Perrier, Héloïse Godet
Running time: 1h 40mn
Paris wakes up on the morning of September 5, 1661 to much noise: Fouquet, the King’s Counsel, is arrested upon order of Colbert, and the young Louis XIV has just become sole ruler of France.

While other artists offer their services to the Divine Monarch, one man affirms his support for the destitute Fouquet: the poet Jean de La Fontaine. Colbert swears to make the rebel surrender, the only artist in the kingdom to put his art above the King. Hence, La Fontaine, even in his misery, stands up to his convictions. Without regret, he resists the persecution and writes the Fables, which become deadly pamphlets against a despotic and decadent regime.

VAN GOGH
Director: Maurice Pialat
Cast: Jacques Dutronc, Gérard Séty, Bernard Le Coq, Alexandra London, Elsa Zylberstein, Corinne Bourdon, Lise Lamétrie
Running time: 2h 35min
Under the care of Doctor Gachet, Vincent Van Gogh arrives in Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890. This is the most productive period of his life, as he finishes hundreds of paintings and drawings in a span of weeks. And yet it is also his most torturous, as he lives out his last days torn between love and despair.

400 COUPS
This film is part of the Antoine Doinel Saga
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy
Running Time: 1h 33min.
This largely autobiographical film by François Truffaut tells the story of the young Antoine, an adolescent with a reputation for being a troublemaker. But is he really a troublemaker, or just a victim of harsh, uncaring adults?

MA SAISON PREFEREE
Director: André Téchiné
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Chiara Mastroianni, Carmen Chaplin, Anthony Prada, Bruno Todeschini, Michèle Moretti
Running time: 2h 5mn
A story of a brother and a sister, both doctors, who are forced to confront what they have made of themselves as their mother slowly loses her sanity.

RIDICULE
Director: Patrice Leconte
Cast: Charles Berling, Fanny Ardant, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Giraudeau, Judith Godrèche, Gérard Hardy, Urbain Cancelier, Marie Pillet, Philippe Magnan, Carlo Brandt
Running time: 1h 42mn
At Versailles, in the year 1780, everything is being given away: commandments, ribbons, awards, pensions, honorific titles and administrative responsibilities. But because there are only a certain number of prizes available, a competition ensues in the court of King Louis XVI. The honest Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy, descended from an ancient, noble and bankrupt family, enters into this center of corruption. Will he be able to resist all of its temptations?

ZIM AND CO
Director: Pierre Jolivet
Cast: Adrien Jolivet, Mhamed Arezki, Yannick Nasso, Naidra Ayadi, Vincent Grass, Pierre Jolivet, Nathalie Richard, Nicolas Marie, Maka Kotto, Abbès Zahmani, Jean-Philippe Vidal, Guilaine Londez, José Luis Roïg, Hubert Delattre, Francis Leplay, Simon-Pierre Boireau, Michèle Goddet, Joakim Latzko
Running time: 1h 30mn
Zim, 20 years old, faces a dilemma: either find a real job, or go to prison. He’s not the lazy type, and looks into the classified ads. But the only job he finds requires him to have a car and a driver’s license in 10 days! Neither of which he has. Good thing Zim has tricks, and best of all, friends: Cheb, Arthur et Safia. And to avoid going to jail, they’re ready to do anything … at least, almost!

Screening schedule:
(Note: Schedule is still subject to change)

JUNE 5
7:30 PM Opening Night – Home

JUNE 6
12:30 PM Les Quatre Cents Coups
3 PM Ridicule
5:30 PM Ma Saison Préférée
8 PM Van Gogh

JUNE 7
12:30 PM 17 Fois Cécile Cassard
3 PM A Tout de Suite
5:30 PM Marie-Jo et Ses Deux Amours
8 PM La Pianiste

JUNE 8
12:30 PM Zim & Co
3 PM Flandres
5:30 PM Ça Brule
8 PM Home

JUNE 9
12:30 PM L’esquive
3 PM Un Secret
5:30 PM Jean de la Fontaine
8 PM Les Quatre Cents Coup

JUNE 10
12:30 PM Ridicule
3 PM Ma Saison Préférée
5:30 PM La Pianiste
8 PM Van Gogh

JUNE 11
12:30 PM 17 Fois Cécille Cassard
3 PM A Tout de Suite
5:30 PM Zim & Co
8 PM Marie-Jo et Ses Deux Amours

JUNE 12
TBA (Filipino Films exhibited at Cannes)

JUNE 13
12:30 PM Ça Brule
3 PM Ma Flandres
5:30 PM L’esquive
8 PM Home

JUNE 14
12:30 PM Un Secret
3 PM Jean de la Fontaine
5:30 PM Les Quatre Cents Coups
8 PM Van Gogh

Happy Puso 2009

This site has been dead for quite some time. I’ve been wanting to post updates since christmas but I never had the chance to do so. Or there have been a lot of things to say I couldn’t seem to find enough words and time.

More than half of my 2008 Wishlist came true.The birthday and christmas combined. The best part I think is finally getting a stable job which I’ve kept for 8 months now (wow that is surprise really). I am Teacher Fran. And despite the irony of being one (from a dropped out film student) makes life even weirder, but lighter in a way. God how I love saying that word. Lighter.

I moved out of home 2 years ago. I kept a temporary roof for a year, then moved out again. I need not to go into details since the drama part is over. So over that I could laugh all day thinking I was too stubborn to carry my backpack alone. I was so young then. Not that I’ve grown that much now. But I am better now. Ang yabang lang. But yes, I am.

Just two weeks ago I was again in the verge of fluctuation. Yet again I had good friends to back me up. Not really saved my ass, because I pretty much know now that no one’s my saviour but myself. And if there’s one thing that I really have learned for the past two years of standing on my feet, it’s appreciation. I kind of lacked tons of that before. or I really had but wasn’t vocal enough to assure people what I felt sincerely.

Kaya para sa inyong mahal ko, eto mula sa puso ko (in no particular order):

Bestfriend – dahil ikaw naman talaga yun. hindi man “best” as operative na word, alam mo naman na ikaw pa rin yun. Ikaw lang yun. Malapit na tayong mag-isang dekada. Pag mga lola na tayo magbibilang pa tayo ng dekada (pero mas magaling pa rin ako sa math).

Diyosa ng Makiling – dahil ikaw rin ang diyosa ng buhay ko. Sa buhay ko, puno ng alaala mo, natin, ang 2008. At para sa susunod pang mga taon, punuin pa natin ito ng rollercoaster rides na mga alaala.

Tsong – dahil ikaw ang pinaka-fair na taong kilala ko. And I owe you big time pare. Sayo lang din ako nakikinig. Pusanggalang kulot kase tayo pareho. At sige na nga, miss na kita (kiligin ka naman kahit konti, since feeling mo kras pa rin kita).

Boyfriend – dahil ikaw ang pinakagwapo sa lahat, haha. Hoy, wag mong sirain ang buhay mo, di kita dadalawin sa libing mo pag natuluyan ka sa hithit laklak mong buhay. Bente uno na ako, at bente uno na ring taon tayong nagmamahalan. Tayo na nga lang di ba? At alam ko, talikuran man ako ng mundo, may babalikan ako sa palosapis para akapin.

(Ex)Housemate – idagdag mo pa diyan ang pseudobestfriend, adik buddy, emo outlet, dreamcatcher/weaver, at art (art-art) partner. Ikaw rin si worst enemy (sabay batok). For the good times, bad times (really bad times), and HIGH times. Ikaw ang aking weed. At sige na nga, wine.

Breakthrough Friend of the Year – kahit di mo ko bessy pagkat ako lang si betty, ikaw pa rin ay mahal sa puso ko. Kahit seloso ka. Kahit pinagpapalit kita sa pusa. Ikaw pa rin si
Mekong. At ako ang iyong Mutya.

Buddy – dahil ikaw ang tatay ko. Ikaw lang ang pwedeng sumermon pag naleleyt ako. Or pag inaabuso ko ang katawan at oras ko. At di lang halata, isa ka sa pinakamabubuting taong kilala ko (hoy pautang nga, haha).

Teacher – what i am now I greatly owe it to you. Thanks, not only for trusting and believing in the great possibilities that I can do, but for teaching me to trust and believe again.

Annual Friends – dahil kahit isang beses sa isang taon lang tayo nagkakasama, hindi kailanman mamamatay ang samahang ito.

TGIS/Sclub/Gimik/Berks – sa paniniwala at pagtitiwala, salamat. Alam ko namang mahal niyo ko. At opo, babalik ako ng pag-aaral, in time.

I’ll be a happier puso if someone gets me that FINAL SET ERASERHEADS ticket. Please. Please. Please. Sayo na ang puso ko ng buo. Isama mo pa ang free cleaning ng bahay mo.

just like a pill

Your Daily Tarot Card Go to: Yesterday | Today | Tomorrow

Tuesday, December 9 The Devil The Devil represents wild behaviour and reckless abandon. This is a card synonymous with temptation and addiction. At its worst, this card embodies evil, but at its best represents ambition, impulsiveness and pure devotion. You should be acutely aware of the destructive influences in your life and gather the strength to overcome them.

Wish List for Christmas 2008 (dahil naging mabait akong bata)

 

1. music box
2. harmonica
3. a set of new sketch and paint materials
4. a personalized notebook/journal
5. 2009 Planner
6. ukay spree (dress, pants, cardigan!)
7. quirky shoes (high cut, knee high or boots!)
8. a dreamy pillow and a security blanket
9. salon/spa/massage service
10.  trip to anywhere
11.  free tattoo service
12.  a deck of tarot cards
13.  Rayban shades
14.  pocket watch
15.  dream catcher
16. any piece of art (without fart)
17.  something I love to read¹
18.  something I love to watch²
19.  something I love to listen to³
20.  something I love to eat⁴
21.  someone I love (as if)

¹ Books | Literary Text

1. Persepolis, The Story of a Childhood | The Story of a Return (Marjane Satrapi)

2. Cowboy Kate and Other Stories (Sam Haskins)

3. Griffin and Sabine Series

4. Sandman Series (Neil Gaiman)

5. Postcards, True Stories that Never Happened

6. Walls that Wow, Creative Wall Treatments without Painting (Jonathan Fong)

7. 1608 (Neil Gaiman)

8. Lady in the Water, a Bedtime Story (M. Night Shyamalan)

9. Watchmen (Alan Moore | Dave Gibbons)

10. Number the Stars (Lois Lowry)

11. Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)

12. Wasteland (Francesca Lia Block)

13. 1001 Cranes (Naiomi Hirahara)

14. The Mailbox (Audrey Shafer)

15. Fashion and Advertising PAGE ONE, The World’s Top Photographers Workshops (Magdalene Keaney)

16. Wolves, Illustrated (Emily Gravett)

17. Zen Shorts, Illustrated (Jon J. Muth)

18. Guess How Much I Love You, Illustrated, 10^th Anniv Ed (Sam McBratney | Anita Jeram)

19. Sin City (Frank Miller)

20. Rurouni Kenshin Manga

21. Imagine magazine

22. The Last Man

23. The Adventures of Tintin box set

24. The Diary of Anne Frank

25. Peter Pan

² Films | Series (Movie date or DVD)

1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Casper movie
3. L Word
4. House
5. Californication
6. Weeds
7. Blindness
8. Michel Gondry Collection
9. BTX
10.  Honey and Clover
11. Hayao Miyazaki | Ghibli Collection
12.  Tenkuu no Escaflowne
13.  Neon Genesis Evangelion
14. The Diary of Tortov Roddle (Kunio Katou)

³ Music Albums | Songs

1. The Last Five Years Musical
2. KT Tunstall
3. Vienna Teng
4. Cynthia Alexander
5. Radiohead
6. Wicked Musical
7. Imogen Heap
8. Paolo Nutini
9. Moon River
10.  Fly me to the Moon

 

⁴ Food | Drinks

 

1. Cinnabon
2. Becky’s Tuyo Jar
3. Krispy Kreme (a box of Original Glazed, Caramel Kreme Crunch, Dark) Chocolate)
4. Dairy Queen caramel shake
5. dark chocolates
6. Chocnut
7. Crumpy spread
8. Mom and Tina’s  lemon squares
9. Bellini’s
10. green eggs and ham
11.  Heaven and Eggs pancakes
12.  pork sinigang
13.  A&W vanilla

Piling Obrang Vidyo 2008 (POV 5)

 

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piling obrang vidyo 5

Babayi | Santi Obcena | The Philippine Fashion Week (Spring|Summer 2009)

Babayi is a study on innovation, with much respect to tradition. It is an urban take on the modern Filipina as a woman who is not afraid to break away from monotony and dance to her own rhythm. A being of power, passion, and grace. A goddess personified.

Babayi debuted as part of the New Generation Collection at Philippine Fashion Week Spring Summer 2009, held at the Func

The Nautilus

The Crescent Moon

The Kimona

The Poet

The Secretary

The V

The Beach Goddess

The Pamaypay

Alunsina

The Mother Goddess

Ang Diyosa ng Makiling

Why I find it so hard to express, the words aren’t just enough, I guess – how proud and happy I am, for this one great artist, and one rare friend.

I love you Santi Obcena. I just can’t help but weep again and again every time i see your creations. You are a true babayi to me – a Goddess personified.

on streets, avenues, and scouts*

These Streets – Paolo Nutini

Cross the border,
Into the big bad world
Where it takes you ’bout an hour
Just to cross the road
Just to stumble across another poor old soul from
The dreary old lanes to the high-street madness
I fight with my brain to believe my eyes
And it’s harder than you think
To believe this sadness
That creeps up my spine
And haunts me through the night
And life is good and the girls are gorgeuos
Suddenly the air smells much greener now
And I’m wondering ’round
With a half pack of cigarettes
Searching for the change that I’ve lost somehow

These streets have too many names for me
I’m used to Glenfield road and spending my time down in Orchy
I’ll get used to this eventually
I know, I know

Where’d the days go? When all we did was play
And the stress that we were under wasn’t stress at all
Just a run and a jump into a harmless fall from
Walking by a high-rise to a landmark square
You see millions of people with millions of cares
And I struggle to the train to make my way home
I look at the people as they sit there alone

Life is good, and the sun is shining
Everybody flirts to their ideal place
And the children all smile as a boat shuffled by them
Trying to pretend that they’ve got som space

These streets have too many names for me
I’m used to Glenfield road and spending my time down in Orchy

I’ll get used to this eventually
I know, I know

These streets have too many names for me
I’m used to Glenfield road and spending my time down in Orchy
I’ll get used to this eventually
I know, I know

Life is good, and the girls are gorgeous
Suddenly the air smells much greener now
And I’m wondering ’round
With a half pack of cigarettes
Searching for the change that I’ve lost somehow

These streets have too many names for me
I’m used to Glenfield road and spending my time down in Orchy
I’ll get used to this eventually
I know, I know

These streets have too many names for me
I’m used to Glenfield road and spending my time down in Orchy
I’ll get used to this eventually
I know, I know
You keep telling me so

* a trip from maginhawa to palosapis, to jp rizal, to 18th ave, and to sct. rallos.

LIGHTYEARS

 

LIGHTYEARS | Album: Fruitcake
Artist: Eraserheads
Label: BMG Records Pilipinas
Released: 1996 

Big dipper north of nowhere
Outside the room inside my mind
Look forward to tomorrow
But can I leave yesterday behind

How it feels so strange
To have grown and changed
Now it’s not the same

‘coz time, slips and slide into another place
And try, as we might to understand each other
Doesn’t really matter where you are
It always seem so far
‘coz you’re lightyears away
You’re lightyears away from me

Little dipper south of somewhere
It looks much closer than it really is
I held it in my hands
But you’re forever out of reach

Far as the eye can see
Nothing is meant to be
Doesn’t mean much to me

But oh, if I only had a rocket ship to fly
I’d be right there in a minute
But it doesn’t really matter where you are
However near is still so far
‘coz when you’re lightyears away
You’re lightyears away from me

Far as the eye can see
Nothing is meant to be
Doesn’t mean much to me

‘coz time, slips and slide into another place
And try, as we might to understand each other
Doesn’t really matter where you are
It always seem so far
‘coz you’re lightyears away
You’re lightyears away from me

Look forward to tomorrow
But can I leave yesterday behind

 

Never felt this bitter and sad over a missed event. Because it wasn’t just any event. It might be half-done and bitin to some. But missing that half-done history was simply missing the whole experience. To the twenty-thousand people who sang with ely, raymund, marcus, and buddy – you are lightyears fortunate compared to this miserable dumb soul.

Bitin man ang ligaya, at least nadala nila kayo sa alapaap at mga alaala sa saliw ng kinseng awit. Samantalang ako ay magtitiis sa youtube.

The Thank You Girls | Charliebebs Gohetia

“The ‘Thank You’ Girls” is a Visayan film with a gay lingo twist.

Tired of losing in all the beauty competitions in Davao City, five dysfunctional gay beauty pageant veterans decide to travel north to Cagayan de Oro City, in the island of Mindanao.

Their mission: to conquer the grandest competition of beauty, personality 
and brains in the whole province.

They believe that being city dwellers, gays in the province will never 
stand a chance against them.