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Fun idea from bridescafe.com.  It gives your wedding so much more character.  Plus nothing beats a wedding where thee guests are eager participants right?You never know, one of your guests might be a professional photog in the making.

Sorry haven't been updating in awhile... As you know wedding is less than a month now and there's been a lot of last minute wedding preps and house things that needed to be taken care of.  Plus I recently got some freelance gigs that took some valuable blogging time.

Anyway, this has been a late post I still haven't organized photos from the House of Vanity fashion show and the Philippine Fashion Week.  For now this is silly blogger being all happy about finishing the 5k run at the recently concluded Adidas King of the Road.


I always question my sanity in the middle of a run.  "Why oh why am I doing this once again?"  It just seem insane for someone like me, someone who abhors physical activities to be doing one marathon after another.  And it's not like I ever REALLY run.  No, I just do walkings and at most 3 burst of running spree.  I actually heard a fellow runner asks someone, "Kung ayaw mo ng tumakbo, may magsusundo ba sayo?" Needless to say no such luck for poor sloth faker runner me.

My only complaint in this year's Adidas' KOTR is that there are more cars than usual.  I think they should completely block off the path the runners take during a marathon.  Hire more cops to oversee the traffic.  It's scary when you are running oblivious to the world and suddenly a loud honk invades your day dreaming privacy.

Next year, let's see if madness comes to me once again.  For now happy with my 1:10 time.

The fiance and I were lazily watching television when we saw this gigantic Burger King Whopper featured on CNN.  Greedy-glutton blogger here thinks she can finished this in one sitting.

Burger King created the 7-layered Whopper in celebration of the release of Microsoft Windows 7.  Too bad it's only available in one of my fave cities on the planet, Tokyo.

Photocred: Tokyomango.com

Yesterday was the official closing day of Cinemanila Film Fetival.  I'm glad that I was able to catch 3 films from this year's festival.  I would have love to have seen those films in a span of more than a day but Howie and I decided to do a Cinemanila day-marathon.  So that's 4 films all in one day.  Addict!!

First Film: Talenttime
Country: Malaysia
Synopsis: A talent show competition makes Melur, a Malay-Muslim girl and Mahesh, an Indian male student crosses paths.
Verdict: Howie said he's recommend it to others.  There were some pretty interesting shots, funny moments but overall I wasn't a fan.  I think the really cheezy subtitles ruined it for me. "Why won't the sun shine as bright?!?!"


Second Film: Little Zizou
Country: India
Synopsis: Set in contemporary India, it tells the story of Zizou as he deals with the chaos that his prentend-prophet of a father brings to their little community.
Verdict: Love love love.  Very modern.  Has tons of light funny moments.  And though the movie deals with a rather heavy topic, it's not laden with the usual third world sentimentality that clouds most directors from the region's works.


Third Film: Chengdu, I Love You
Country: China
Synopsis: Two love stories, set in 1976 and futuristic 2029.
Verdict: CRAP! Ok it had really awesome technicals so at least for film students there are some things to look forward to.  But storywise - it was just such a bore.  Too bad because this was the first film the fiance got to see (busy with errands during the screening of the first two films) :O  We needed to wash away the stain this film left hence we run around Market Market to be able to catch the 9:25 screening of 500 Days of Summer.  (Less than 5 minutes from one film to the other..Addict!)

Fourth Film: 500 Days of Summer
Country: USA, not part of the festival but again, we needed to wash away the feeling of eww-ness that Chengdu, I Love You left us with.
Verdict: Probably one of the best non-love stories I have ever seen.  Crisp funny dialogues.  Very witty lines.  Believable characters played exceedingly well by Joseph Gordon Levitt (Mr. Cobra Commader himself hehe) and Zoey Dechanel (whom this girl's fiance loves)

Spoiler

Favorite heartbreak line.  This was the first time Tom (Joseph) and Summer (Zoey) saw each other after she got married.  This after swearing to the high heavens that she wasn't the commitment-marrying type.

  Summer: I woke up, and I realized
  Tom: You realized what?
  Summer: What I was never sure of with you.
 
  OUCH!

I knew this day would come.  I just didn't think it would come this soon.  But lately I don't feek like updating my Twitter account. I have stopped posting pictures at Facebook and haven't attempted to stalk anyone in weeks (wow!) I wonder if this is just a fleeting feeling or a sign that I have outgrown social networking sites..

Ahh love.  One of my top most fave topics in literature.  And yes, I am one of Those. Those suckers, who still believe in the whole love at first sight, love conquers all, you and me against the world fantasy.  What friends say is cheezy I think of as romantic.  It's silly but I get absolutely happy and giddy when I realized that someone whom everyone castoff as an insensitive shmuck turns out to be nothing but pure mush when face with love. (altogether now, Sobrang cheezy!)

I recently had another piece made by Kristine Dee, a frou frou-y Gold bracelet.  You might remember me gushing over one of her creations on a previous post.  Well last week I received an invitation from Kristine for tonight's opening of the Triad - An Approach to Futurism Exhibit at Firma in Greenbelt.

Kristine Dee, together with two other jeweler, Michelline Syjuco and Pauline Syjuco will have their strikingly gorgeous pieces exclusively displayed at Firma until October 25.


Photo cred: from kristine's website

Our wedding invites are finally out! Yay... I love it.  Thanks to Beth of Printlane for painstakingly glueing the little swarovski-like crystals.  It's the guests' first impression to our wedding and OC-bride me is extremely happy to know that it's been getting all praises from everyone we've handed it out to so far.  They are loving the understated classiness of it all. Looks very posh daw cause of its simplicity and of course the swarozskis that fiance and I searched high heavens for, (Ok, silly me is nagbubuhat ng sariling bangko once again hehe!)  I especially love the fiance's friends reaction.  Boys are so easily impressed I tell you hee.

Yay! After being postponed twice due to our extremely unpredictable weather, the gang is finally pushing through with our much anticipated annual mooncake dice games tonight.  Last year, dear friend Finkers and Monsee won, so hosting duties befalls them.

I love Mooncake events because it's one of those non-birthday/non-Holiday times that we get all 30 to 40 of our friends together.  But yeah, good conversation asides, I still want to win, damnit!


I never win anything.  Anything beyond the second to the last prize.  I was quite happy that when I met the fiance we have up the ante with our overall haul of prizes, mainly due to his dicing abilities.  I am crossing my fingers that after four years, I finally get to take home the grand prize tonight!