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Note: The WALL-E links each go to a different website. And spoiler alert. This is not a review. I’m just blabbering about it. Do not read if you do not want to be spoiled.

I’ve watched WALL-E for like 3.5 times (I was so drunk last night that I passed out half-way) and I don’t think I’ll get tired of watching it (tch, of course I will sooner or later). Ocassionally, I’d say “WALL-E! EEEEEVAh!” out loud from my WALL-E hangover. It’s a very likable movie. Although I don’t really count it as “Fantastic!!!” but it moved me and made me cry a tear in some parts. It had a lot of “Awwwww” parts.

WALL-E is a movie almost 800 years into the future wherein Man has become almost god-like with his ability to go into space and create robots to do everything for him. However, with Man’s technology, the world had become so polluted with unrecycled waste and it came to a point that Earth had stopped becoming livable. So the humankind went into space, supposedly a 5-year space cruise, while the planet was being cleaned up… but 700 years later, they were still in space.

The main character, WALL-E is a robot that is programmed to compact trash and arrange them properly and neatly into cubes that would remind you of building blocks. The movie actually started giving the audience an aerial view of the city with towers of compacted trash. In the end, after about 700 years, the other WALL-E robots had “died” and he was the only one left. Because of his hundreds of years of toil, WALL-E had developed a personality that he watched movies on an iPod magnified using… something, he befriended a cockroach, he collected interesting trash here and there and he tried his best to segregate his finds.

EVE, who looked like a product of Apple, was a robot of the future, highly advanced, and more good-looking than WALL-E. She becomes WALL-E’s love interest in the movie. She starts off as a disinterested, emotionless robot and ends up like WALL-E, full of emotions.

What I liked about this movie is the animation didn’t feel so much like an animation. I mean, it’s CG and everything, but it wasn’t very colorful (in the Earth scenes) and it almost gave a rustic feel to it. It can be plainly a kiddie movie or you could analyze it for deeper meanings–either way, you’re sure to enjoy the movie.

I personally would take both aspects of it. An animation to be enjoyed by kids, and a story with a deep meaning, a message for mankind. Basically, Man is Evil. Man, when given an opportunity, is lazy.

In the movie, the humans were given the chance to live in space while being served by robots 24/7. They didn’t need to walk. All the needed to do to have something done was to push a button or two or give a command. And everything will be done for them. Even their food can be served in a cup (hamburger in a cup, anyone?) so they don’t have to chew. So with the lack of gravity and physical exertion (nevermind exercise, but they hardly move at all), their bones shrank and they became big balls of jelly fat that they could hardly even walk. And because life in space was so convenient, they kind of forgot the existence of Earth.

They lacked a health insurance plan. They didn’t really need something like medigap since it was an all-expense paid “space cruise” but seriously, they needed a health advisor or something.

It took an old robot full of emotions and who loved the Earth to make these humans open their eyes and see their surroundings and appreciate what they see. With the fast pace of technology, who knows when we’ll be able to reach that kind of world. In a hundred years? 50?

I give this movie 5 stars.

Any my favorite quote in the movie is by the captain.
“I don’t WANT to survive. I want to LIVE!”

Star Star Star Star Star.

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I just watched this movie because someone forced me to watch it. And I was sleepy but I couldn’t sleep, so I thought that if this movie would bore me, then good, I’d be able to fall asleep.

I must say that I am quite pleased with the movie. Like Yu said, “It was a rollercoaster of emotions.”

When one guy was running to get gunned down, I was screaming in my seat (I was in bed, but wth) “Run! Run! Run!” I needed to yawn but I manage to keep my eyes open because I didn’t want to miss a scene. Of course, I was watching it with subtitles because the accent is a little weird.

Likes:
The plot itself. Two hitmen take a vacation in a God-knows-where place to one of them, and a wonderland for the other. They’re taking a vacation because the one who didn’t like the place accidentally killed a boy and he was getting eaten up by his conscience. The story progresses as the two men experience a change of views on life and death. It also shows reality in a sense–aside from life and death, there’s racism of skin color or citizenship, discrimination for personal looks, prostitution. The ending was also wonderfully …

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Ready for more crappy singing? Yes, right?
Well well. Here is my version of One More Time, One More Chance. I might re-sing it someday if I ever remember or feel like doing it. But this will be it for now. I might be going out later to buy a new cabinet for my noodles and maybe check on some treadmills because I’m so out of exercise now…

misan - One More Time, One More Chance

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I went to SM North today to watch The Spiderwick Chronicles. It was a pretty good movie. I was literally on the edge of my seat in some parts of the movie and trying hard not to scream or cheer on the characters. Watch it!

After parting with Sarah and Lori, I bought some groceries. I bought some fruits–honeydew and musk melon–and greens like lettuce and something else. And non-fat milk. and Coke Zero.

and a lot of instant noodles. xD

Kind of defeats the purpose, I know. But I haven’t really had the time to eat the said instant noodles. So it’s alright.

I bought some diet pills from one of my teammates before, and I haven’t taken any of it after the first week and a half. It should be an everyday thing… but I always forget. It’s that fat-burner thingo I don’t know.

BUT AT LEAST!!! I try to eat fruits and vegetables… I eat salad whenever I have the chance. =_=” I’m still getting fatter. *sigh*

Graduation is just around the corner. I already have to start having a dress made. T_T It has to be a Filipiniana dress. Why can’t it be just an ordinary beige/ecru/white dress so I’ll still be able to wear it one day? Why does it have to be a Filipiniana dress I’ll never ever wear ever again? A waste of money. I’m starting to wonder if I should even attend it. Oh welllll… *sigh*

Diet. Diet. Diet.

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There’s this song that I heard a couple of months back. It’s the anime movie Byousoku 5cm or 5cm per Second. Well, the song is old. I know I’ve heard it somewhere before when I heard it from the movie… I mean, when they used it for the anime, it was kind of like a revival, as what we would call it here. And the movie is actually a series of segments, or short films, basically about relationships and distance.

I liked the movie, although I can’t give a full review right now. I’ll have to watch it again. But I kind of was able to relate to this movie. It was a little slow all throughout the movie… as if it was moving 5cm per second, but it was at a pace wherein you wouldn’t want it to rush nor slow down.

For a person like me who’s got a lot of close friends online, who I might not ever meet, distance is such a big thing and a small thing at the same time. The distance doesn’t keep us apart from being friends, but there are times when you wish the distance wasn’t there at all.

The ending song for the movie was what made me think of a lot of things. It made me think of the past, the present, and the future. Even before I was able to find a translation, just the mood of the song and from what little I could understand from it made me think about the what if’s in my life… the what could’ve been’s… It made me think of the things I wanted when I was a child, and the things I wanted and never got, which is probably a lot. It made me think about the dolls I saw and wanted and never got. It made me think of the other toys I had wanted. It made me think of the playhouses and the swing sets I wanted to have.

For the present, it made me think of the things I have to go through now, the things I let go in the past and now living with regrets and what I’ve got left, the things that make me ask myself, “Am I Happy?”

For the future, it made me think, or wonder, if I’ll be in the same state or the same place where I am now. Will I be able to move on for good, and all that emo stuff.

Ah.. Well… Here is the song that I want to share today. The translation is from Hunting the Elusive and lyrics itself can also be found in one of the comments.

One More Time, One More Chance
Lyrics and Vocals: Masayoshi Yamazaki
Arrangement: Toshiyuki Mori

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This is the theme from one of the Japanese movies that I really really liked. Swallowtail / Yentown was directed by Shunji Iwai, a great director whose works are movies that I really liked as well.

Anyway, I’ve always liked to sing this song but I couldn’t find any karaoke for it. I heard it sung in an Idolm@ster Xenoglossia Character Single Kikuchi Makoto (Hirata Hiromi) and it made me want to sing it >_< even more. So … I found the chords here but it wasn’t that nice. I mean, it wasn’t that complete, no Intros or Extros or something. So I just added A - D - A - D for continuity.

I hope it sounds nice to other people’s ears. It sounds nice to me >___> (except when the strings make this weird sound). There’s also this part at the end where I should’ve filled it with something like “heeyyy yeaaaahhh” but bleh… I felt like my fingertips are about to split from playing the guitar too much. So… after like ten times of restarting from the start every time I make a mistake, I just did cut and move. =_= So you might hear weird changes in sound.

I got the link for the romanized lyrics with translation from wiki.theppn.org.

Swallowtail Butterfly ~Ai no Uta~ (Acoustic)

Lyrics: Chara, Iwai Shunji, Kobayashi Takeshi
Music: Kobayashi Takeshi
Romanization & Translation: Kristin Olson

Cover: misan

Tomatta te no hira furueteru chuucho shite
Kono sora no ao no aosa ni kokorobosoku naru

Shinjiru mono subete poketto ni tsumekonde kara
Natsukusa yureru senro wo tooku made aruita

Kokoro ni kokoro ni itami ga aru no
Tooku de shinkirou yurete

Anata wa kumo no kage ni ashita no yume wo oikaketeta
Watashi wa uwa no sora de wakare wo omotta

Yogoreta sekai ni kanashisa wa hibiitenai
Dokoka ni toorisugiteku tada sore wo motsu dake

Karada wa karada de sunao ni naru
Namida ga tomaranai dakedo

Koko kara doko e ittemo
Sekai wa yoru wo norikoete iku
Soshite ai no uta ga kokoro ni hibikihajimeru

Mama no kutsu de hayaku hashirenakatta
Nakanai hadashi ni natta hi mo

Sakasa ni miteta chizu sae mou sutete shimatta

Kokoro ni kokoro ni mahou ga aru no
Arashi ni hane hiroge tobu yo

Watashi wa uwa no sora de anata no koto wo omoidashita no
Soshite ai no uta ga hibikidashite…
Watashi wa ai no uta de anata wo sagashihajimeru

* * * * * *

Swallowtail Butterfly ~A Song of Love~

On my still palm it trembles and hesitates
In the blue of this blue sky, my heart grows lonely

After I stuffed into my pocket all the things I believe in
I walked a long way along the railroad tracks swaying with summer grass

In my heart, in my heart there is hurt
Far away, a mirage is wavering

In the shadows of the clouds you were chasing a dream of tomorrow
Distantly I thought of parting

In this soiled world there’s no echo of sadness
Somewhere you pass by, carrying only that

My body becomes honest in itself
And I can’t stop my tears, but

No matter where I go from here
The world will continue to overcome the night
And a song of love begins to echo in my heart

I couldn’t run freely in my mother’s shoes
I didn’t cry, even on the day I first went barefoot

Even the map I was looking at upside-down–I threw it away already

In my heart, in my heart there is magic
Wings, open in the storm–you’ll fly

Distantly I remembered you
And a song of love began to echo in my heart
By this song of love, I begin to search for you

* * * * * *

Romaji and English translation: Kristin Olson
kolson00@yahoo.com

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I met with Lori yesterday and we watched Stardust. But before that, of course there was planning. And before we met, she called me up for a final confirmation.

Anyway, at the end of the conversation…

Mi: So… 1 pm, right?
Lori: Yeah, 1 pm.
Mi: That means 2 pm right?
Lori: No, around 1:30.

XD We ended up meeting at almost 2pm because of lack of public transportation. =_=

\o/

STARDUST WAS GREAT!

I really went to the mall with Loraine without any idea on what she wanted to watch since I didn’t know anything about what’s out in the theaters so I just went along with what she wanted. But I certainly don’t regret going with what she wants (I hardly disagree with her, and she gives great opinions).

Stardust sent us flying past the Stratosphere and back to Earth!

… I know, I know. I know what you’re thinking. I just had to do it. >__>

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I remember watching this movie, Yentown or Swallowtail Butterfly. It’s a Japanese movie set in Japan during the 60s when the Japanese Yen was like gold. One of the most symbolic scenes there was when the young female protagonist got a butterfly tattoo and “grew up.”

When I watched that movie, I developed a fascination for Butterfly Tattoos –their beauty, designs, colors, and every thing about it.

Looking at tattoos, there’s this website, BullseyeTattoos,that has thousands of tattoo designs in different categories. The butterflies section alone has more than 900 designs to choose from, and you can get these designs in just three easy steps, then you’ll be on your way to having your very own butterfly tattoo.

They also have an article on butterfly tattoos and their meanings and other information. So pretty… I wanted to have butterflies on my blog layout before because of my fascination, but gave up on it because there weren’t any nice layouts with butterflies that time… Oh well. :D

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Someone play this for me T_T

it’s from Ai Otsuka’s DVD Drama “Tokyo Friends” … i’ve been wanting to sing this song for ages but couldn’t figure out the chords. Now that I have chords, they look hard but I couldn’t get the strumming right… T_T SIGH.

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The UPFI Schedule for this year’s Eiga Sai (Japanese Film Festival). I’ve not been watching for thepast four years though. Either I had a class and/or I was just lazy. OMG. Why am I so lazy? Someone save me (/>_<)/

Anyways, Eiga Sai is going to be held in other venues, not just at UP, but since I’m studying there anyway, I might as well. Here is the schedule and line-up for the festival.  All showings are FREE. and I love free stuff.

UP Film Institute

Gonna watch the 5pm shows, I think. From these movies, I’ve seen Kamikaze Girls and Gaichu. I want to see the rest. >_< Good thing my classes are just until 3:30 or 4:00. XD I can stay at the faculty room until 4:30 I guess.

It’s just that there seems to be more and more Japanophiles these days. It’s annoying, to be honest. I don’t know why. I feel like they’re so…. so…. trying hard. >_<

I’ll check FSS first if they have the other movies. Although… It would be nice to watch free movies in a theater. It’s free anyway.

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