Another Perfect Day

Because of finally letting the reality of acquiring INC for thesis sink into my system, I decided to have a little break and spoil myself a bit. See? I’ve changed. I am not the usual withdrawn and bothered girl that I’ve known myself to be for twenty years. This time, I decided not to feel lost for once even though my grades this semester are all crashing down, like airplanes that are meeting their tragic end. Haha. Even through we didn’t finish comm200, even though we got an almost failing grade for our radio production in bc107 and even though I wasn’t able to submit a major paper in journ113, I still don't feel like submerging into paranoia. Haha. Delinquent? Not really... Just taking things easy.(haha)

My own version of a soothing release doesn’t really involve much of what its supposed to be because, as I’ve told before I am a person who is easily pleased and finds happiness with the most trivial thing possible. And this time, I found happiness in watching “Here on Earth” and laughed real hard in reading this really funny book by Bob Ong (Bob Ong equates hysterical and contagious laughs). I bought the movie and the book on sale yesterday. And since I just got rid of my journ109 whole-day class yesterday, which practically drained the best of me, I decided to please myself with the petty things that I bought.

Here On Earth is a really nice movie. It starred my next-life-lover Josh Hartnett and LeeLee Sobieski and Cris Klein. I dunno but the movie was not shown in theaters in 2000…and from then on, as a self-proclaimed Josh Hartnett lover, I’ve been wanting to watch the movie. So, from the moment that Chiqui showed it to me in a video store, there were never second thoughts. I bought the copy. =) The movie is a bittersweet romance of people who found true love with each other’s hands…uhm, it practically has an overused plot, which revolved around finding the love of your life but realizing that she has cancer and is about to bid you goodbye. But then, being the hopeless romantic that I am, I still loved the movie! Even though it only seemed like a recount of A Walk To Remember, I was still moved by the movie… and was still caught teary-eyed on how two lovers show how love surpasses all. Haha.

My Bob Ong experience is divine (as ever). It was a reunion, two years after reading his first book, Abnkkbsnplako, which practically ached my stomach and brought me into reviewing the MTV version of my grade school days. “Bakit Baligtad” is way way funnier than his first book, I swear! The guy just got this intrinsic power to make you laugh without trying too hard. His antics are unbelievable! In the book, he wrote about all things Filipino. The man just knows us too well. I am amused on how he details the slices of life of Pinoys, on how he depicts the rural and urban life that we have. But then aside from the hardcore laughs that the book offers, BobOng also depicts how socially relevant his book is through providing an implied realization on how are we as Filipinos…on how better and worse are we as people. I haven’t finished the book yet and I’m planning to finish it real soon right after my works are done.

*Yeah, yeah, yeah… Josh Harnett and Bob Ong are all it takes to make me happy. =)

It’s just that, because of the things that ate up most of my time for the past few months such as thesis and internship, I know that I owe myself a little pampering to ease myself a bit from the demanding works that I have in school. This semester is really the “IT” semester for me who needs to divide my time from the demands of thesis-making and the anxiety of internship. At last, I am proud to call myself busy. (hahaha…) That finally, for half of my life, I believe I am using the best of my time with some things that matter. =) Its actually fun to experience being able to do the things that real journalists do. With all the legwork that sometimes becomes too much literal and the mind-boggling writing process, I am on the verge of acquainting with the world that I might be living in the future.

Even though I am not making the best of the things that do, at least I am giving every little thing a try… and this time, my “trying” doesn’t necessarily involve the worries, the drawbacks, and the paranoia that I’ve grown myself with for years of studying. Now I’m finally learning to enjoy what is at hand and even enjoy the company of friends that bear the same tired muscles as I do.

Now that I’ve had my own version of loosening up, I am in for the next work tomorrow and even the weeks after. This is like going back to the real world after a few minutes of daydreaming. This is really earth-back-to-me kind of thing but it’s still fine, I am still happy. See? I’ve really changed. =)