Gagambang Tao

Saturday
Slept the day before at Tita 9's in preparation for Emp's wedding bash in Intramuros. Prior to that, I met the Geloman and his wedding planner cousin in Aristocrat then we checked out Ermita Church and a hotel near it. Geloman's scheduled to be wed too this year thus the scouting. Tisk tisk tisk. The barkada was biting the dust one by one. O pota, walang hihirit ng kung kelan ako. Suntukan na lang. Haha.

We should be trying the ogre-look. I can't help smiling.
L-R: Jumping Johnny, Phatboy, Hesukristo, Bad Beef, Jestoni Alarcon

Twas quite hot for an early afternoon wedding at San Agustin's. It sure was hillarious to see the Shak Boyz in their formal wears. It's not everyday you'll get the chance y'know. Photo ops lang and then the reception was held on a nearby garden compound. My opening prayer indicated the formal opening of the second most important part of the occasion after the "exchange of vows"... the chicha time!! Kaaaainan na!

Shakkattendance: Ninong Oberon, Sponsor Pork, Sponsor Arvs, Phatboy Jason, Jumping Johnny, Marky Mark, Mayor Gelo in Suit, Gyudon Warrior Jake Pookiemonster, Bestman F Pantyman, Fred 10g, Kim Possible, syempre si Groom Emp and Bride Jaycee

That's the most serious pose we could make.
L-R: Mark, Gelo, Arvs, Obi, Jason, Jaycee, Jake, Emp, Pork, Fred T., Fred E., Kim

Welcome to da Shak fold, Jaycee and Emp Junior... ahuhuhuy! Classic ang regalo namin sa mag-asawa: a very durable, non-stick pan! Panghampas kay Emp kung sakaling loloko-loko. After mangulet sa reception, trippings kaming pumunta sa tambayan sa Katipunan ng mga naka formal attire. Gelo even played network games on his black suit. Fluffy arrived at Hobby Haven to catch up with the boyz. Tambay sa Shak afterwards.


Sunday
Attended the noon mass at the Malate Church with Sponklong and Idol Pinsan. Watched the Mayweather-Dela Joya match at Tita 9's afterwards. By 4pm, I stormed the Rob Malate cinemas with the bro to watch Gagamboy 3. I was also able to buy another Star Wars book that day. This new set is about the next series of events after the "Dark Nest" trilogy. Need to catch up with my banyo reading soon. Onga pala, I bought two kiddy books for the twins: starters in Alphabet and Numbers.


Spiderman 3
Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!

Spiderman is back and this time he's prepared to snatch his Mary Jane for a wedding proposal. Everything started well as Peter Parker continued his regular stints as a photographer for the Daily Bugle while his wall-crawling alter ego is fast becoming a beloved icon in the city. On the other hand, Mary Jane Watson hits it off as a broadway performer on a sassy local theater. Happy happy!

Enter catastrophes!

A convict (believed to be the gunman of Peter's uncle) escaped from prison and, by a freak accident on some physics lab, was transformed into Sandman - bent on stealing moolah for the hospitalization of his sickly daughter. Harry Osborn's back too with a hipper costume as the New Goblin, still wanting to avenge the death of his father which he blamed on Spidey. Along came an alien psymbiote that hosted itself on Parker's suit, making Spiderman vulnerable to corruption when he wears it. To top everything, MJ was sacked for a bad performance and our geek guy, Parker, was in danger of the same fate within the Daily Bugle as a competition surfaced in the name of Eddie Brock, a freelance photographer.

One event lead to another and in a bizarre intertwining of fate, everything fell on the wrong side of things for Spiderman. He eventually seemed to be loosing the love of MJ as she sought comfort to their bestfriend Harry Osborn which on the latter part of the movie used this leverage to make Peter's life more miserable by inciting the breakup of the lovebirds. Down in depression, Peter gathered strength to move on by wearing the psymbiotic "Black Spider Suit" and thus fall into taint. With it, he sought revenge against the Sandman and humiliated Eddie Brock... and dated his love prospect, Gwen Stacy.

Later in the film, Peter Parker would be able to forcibly take off the psymbiote which apparently has a weakness for loud soundwaves. Coincidentally, Brock was in the place where Spidey removed the Black Spiderman psymbiote and the alien entity transferred on Brock to gave birth to the Venom!!! Wait... TO THE VENOM!!!! *insert thunderous sounds here*

Venom, spiteful of what he suffered from the hands of the web-crawler, tagged along with Mister Sandman to kill Spidey, using MJ as a bait slash hostage. Spiderman, being renewed from his brief exposure to the "dark side", battled it out with the two villains in vain. In came, the spunky New Goblin, who turned to the "light side" when he realized Spiderman din't actually kill his father. He aided to the death of Venom and Sandman's cheesy shift to consider "talking it out" with Spiderman instead, but the eventual payback was his own filthy rich Goblin life.

Maybe it's the hillarity of the badboy Peter Parker and his swinger antics but I didn't like how this sequel turned out to feel lighter than its predecessors. Sure, I had good laughs on most of the comedy lines but that's exactly what's upsetting. I believe the movie should better off making viewers go "oooohh" and "aaaahh" rather than laughing their arses off their seats. Don't take me wrong though. The CG effects were awesome *insert triple exclamation marks here* Have you seen how Sandman first restructured his body from the sandpit? That's just wicked! Total hands up on the quality of effects and production.

The down side...

There were several sub-plots for the major roles in the film (Brock, Parker, Miss Watson, Harry, Sandman, and even briefly, Gwen) tied into one cluttered storyline. OK, the writer pulled off bridging these sub-plots to be coherent enough for viewers to piece it all up along the film. However, in exchange for this, the character developments were done hastily in a poor attempt to just give each of them enough time to have a real "effect" on the narrative flow. That, I don't dig. As usual, there's a LOT of happenings that would challenge the laws of physics and logic but they were tolerable enough since the movie was comic book-adapted anyway. But mind you... some really looked outright dumb like on the last parts of the film when Sandman just suddenly got into his wits and "sit it out" with Spiderman for some tear-jerky talk and sympathetic make up... AFTER POUNDING SPIDEY FIST AFTER FIST OF GOD KNOWS HOW MANY TONS OF SAND TO DEATH earlier on that same scene!!!. Bwahehehehe.

The casts are cool. Nuff said on that. The only person lacking for me is Gwen Stacy (Dallas Howard)... so so performance. She's not one of those comic book character anyway so yeah... oks lang. The others fit their roles like nuts and bolts. Hands up on that too. I also liked (always liked even on Spiderman 1 and 2) the way how the writers portrayed Spiderman as someone who was as vulnerable to his "human" problems as he was when he's on his alter-ego mode. Napaka "human" niya so to speak.

To sum up, the movie has considerably awful flaws but the mix of light approach to the mood and some very sympathy-inducing scenes would actually make you think your money's worth it. I did. It's a "fun" movie to watch in the most shallow meaning of the word, but not the "classic" material that is worthy of such a cool iconic hero. Six gulamans worth!


Monday
Just went home early (Alleluia!! Alleluia!!) and played with the twins. They liked the books! Lei was mewling like a cat when she saw the kitten pics. Ang kyut kyut.

Painted my miniatures afterwards.


Tuesday
Went to Gilligan's with my friends. Astig ng mga phone nila so I thought of goofing around with those, took shots of myself and set it as their wallpapers without em knowing. Behehehe. Ganti na lang sila kay Bakex... ang super ultra hi-tech phone ko na Nokia 3758! Haha. Kung meron man nun. Shot lang kami tas nag-uwian na din.

Menu -> Option -> Set as Wallpaper

Gagambang Tao

Saturday
Slept the day before at Tita 9's in preparation for Emp's wedding bash in Intramuros. Prior to that, I met the Geloman and his wedding planner cousin in Aristocrat then we checked out Ermita Church and a hotel near it. Geloman's scheduled to be wed too this year thus the scouting. Tisk tisk tisk. The barkada was biting the dust one by one. O pota, walang hihirit ng kung kelan ako. Suntukan na lang. Haha.

We should be trying the ogre-look. I can't help smiling.
L-R: Jumping Johnny, Phatboy, Hesukristo, Bad Beef, Jestoni Alarcon

Twas quite hot for an early afternoon wedding at San Agustin's. It sure was hillarious to see the Shak Boyz in their formal wears. It's not everyday you'll get the chance y'know. Photo ops lang and then the reception was held on a nearby garden compound. My opening prayer indicated the formal opening of the second most important part of the occasion after the "exchange of vows"... the chicha time!! Kaaaainan na!

Shakkattendance: Ninong Oberon, Sponsor Pork, Sponsor Arvs, Phatboy Jason, Jumping Johnny, Marky Mark, Mayor Gelo in Suit, Gyudon Warrior Jake Pookiemonster, Bestman F Pantyman, Fred 10g, Kim Possible, syempre si Groom Emp and Bride Jaycee

That's the most serious pose we could make.
L-R: Mark, Gelo, Arvs, Obi, Jason, Jaycee, Jake, Emp, Pork, Fred T., Fred E., Kim

Welcome to da Shak fold, Jaycee and Emp Junior... ahuhuhuy! Classic ang regalo namin sa mag-asawa: a very durable, non-stick pan! Panghampas kay Emp kung sakaling loloko-loko. After mangulet sa reception, trippings kaming pumunta sa tambayan sa Katipunan ng mga naka formal attire. Gelo even played network games on his black suit. Fluffy arrived at Hobby Haven to catch up with the boyz. Tambay sa Shak afterwards.


Sunday
Attended the noon mass at the Malate Church with Sponklong and Idol Pinsan. Watched the Mayweather-Dela Joya match at Tita 9's afterwards. By 4pm, I stormed the Rob Malate cinemas with the bro to watch Gagamboy 3. I was also able to buy another Star Wars book that day. This new set is about the next series of events after the "Dark Nest" trilogy. Need to catch up with my banyo reading soon. Onga pala, I bought two kiddy books for the twins: starters in Alphabet and Numbers.


Spiderman 3
Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!

Spiderman is back and this time he's prepared to snatch his Mary Jane for a wedding proposal. Everything started well as Peter Parker continued his regular stints as a photographer for the Daily Bugle while his wall-crawling alter ego is fast becoming a beloved icon in the city. On the other hand, Mary Jane Watson hits it off as a broadway performer on a sassy local theater. Happy happy!

Enter catastrophes!

A convict (believed to be the gunman of Peter's uncle) escaped from prison and, by a freak accident on some physics lab, was transformed into Sandman - bent on stealing moolah for the hospitalization of his sickly daughter. Harry Osborn's back too with a hipper costume as the New Goblin, still wanting to avenge the death of his father which he blamed on Spidey. Along came an alien psymbiote that hosted itself on Parker's suit, making Spiderman vulnerable to corruption when he wears it. To top everything, MJ was sacked for a bad performance and our geek guy, Parker, was in danger of the same fate within the Daily Bugle as a competition surfaced in the name of Eddie Brock, a freelance photographer.

One event lead to another and in a bizarre intertwining of fate, everything fell on the wrong side of things for Spiderman. He eventually seemed to be loosing the love of MJ as she sought comfort to their bestfriend Harry Osborn which on the latter part of the movie used this leverage to make Peter's life more miserable by inciting the breakup of the lovebirds. Down in depression, Peter gathered strength to move on by wearing the psymbiotic "Black Spider Suit" and thus fall into taint. With it, he sought revenge against the Sandman and humiliated Eddie Brock... and dated his love prospect, Gwen Stacy.

Later in the film, Peter Parker would be able to forcibly take off the psymbiote which apparently has a weakness for loud soundwaves. Coincidentally, Brock was in the place where Spidey removed the Black Spiderman psymbiote and the alien entity transferred on Brock to gave birth to the Venom!!! Wait... TO THE VENOM!!!! *insert thunderous sounds here*

Venom, spiteful of what he suffered from the hands of the web-crawler, tagged along with Mister Sandman to kill Spidey, using MJ as a bait slash hostage. Spiderman, being renewed from his brief exposure to the "dark side", battled it out with the two villains in vain. In came, the spunky New Goblin, who turned to the "light side" when he realized Spiderman din't actually kill his father. He aided to the death of Venom and Sandman's cheesy shift to consider "talking it out" with Spiderman instead, but the eventual payback was his own filthy rich Goblin life.

Maybe it's the hillarity of the badboy Peter Parker and his swinger antics but I didn't like how this sequel turned out to feel lighter than its predecessors. Sure, I had good laughs on most of the comedy lines but that's exactly what's upsetting. I believe the movie should better off making viewers go "oooohh" and "aaaahh" rather than laughing their arses off their seats. Don't take me wrong though. The CG effects were awesome *insert triple exclamation marks here* Have you seen how Sandman first restructured his body from the sandpit? That's just wicked! Total hands up on the quality of effects and production.

The down side...

There were several sub-plots for the major roles in the film (Brock, Parker, Miss Watson, Harry, Sandman, and even briefly, Gwen) tied into one cluttered storyline. OK, the writer pulled off bridging these sub-plots to be coherent enough for viewers to piece it all up along the film. However, in exchange for this, the character developments were done hastily in a poor attempt to just give each of them enough time to have a real "effect" on the narrative flow. That, I don't dig. As usual, there's a LOT of happenings that would challenge the laws of physics and logic but they were tolerable enough since the movie was comic book-adapted anyway. But mind you... some really looked outright dumb like on the last parts of the film when Sandman just suddenly got into his wits and "sit it out" with Spiderman for some tear-jerky talk and sympathetic make up... AFTER POUNDING SPIDEY FIST AFTER FIST OF GOD KNOWS HOW MANY TONS OF SAND TO DEATH earlier on that same scene!!!. Bwahehehehe.

The casts are cool. Nuff said on that. The only person lacking for me is Gwen Stacy (Dallas Howard)... so so performance. She's not one of those comic book character anyway so yeah... oks lang. The others fit their roles like nuts and bolts. Hands up on that too. I also liked (always liked even on Spiderman 1 and 2) the way how the writers portrayed Spiderman as someone who was as vulnerable to his "human" problems as he was when he's on his alter-ego mode. Napaka "human" niya so to speak.

To sum up, the movie has considerably awful flaws but the mix of light approach to the mood and some very sympathy-inducing scenes would actually make you think your money's worth it. I did. It's a "fun" movie to watch in the most shallow meaning of the word, but not the "classic" material that is worthy of such a cool iconic hero. Six gulamans worth!


Monday
Just went home early (Alleluia!! Alleluia!!) and played with the twins. They liked the books! Lei was mewling like a cat when she saw the kitten pics. Ang kyut kyut.

Painted my miniatures afterwards.


Tuesday
Went to Gilligan's with my friends. Astig ng mga phone nila so I thought of goofing around with those, took shots of myself and set it as their wallpapers without em knowing. Behehehe. Ganti na lang sila kay Bakex... ang super ultra hi-tech phone ko na Nokia 3758! Haha. Kung meron man nun. Shot lang kami tas nag-uwian na din.

Menu -> Option -> Set as Wallpaper