MASAKER

I had a 3 hour chit chat with a mother who survived a massacre. Their househelp attacked her family with a kitchen knife that led to the death of her husband and 11 year old son. She survived the ordeal and still managed to double check her catering business due the following day all the way to the hospital while her belly was ripped and her intestines dangling like christmas lights in Ayala. Now, thats tenacity of the spirit. I think it could be a new angle to Nike's Just Do It line only gruesome. Or simply business is business. Or professionalism at its finest hour.

I am amazed that in all the tragic stories i have summoned from years of doing human interest research they are all laced with humor so dark it can be an episode for The Simpsons.  

I am amazed too that people really say gory things that happened to them casually and with fleeting fondness that makes me think killing as depicted on film is just an exagerration. Well, having your intestines come out is just so weird much more being killed.

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The last Pinoy flick i watched was this Regine-Piolo movie and, again, i watched it because Eugene Domingo was in it. She was down spat an actor whom i never get tire of watching. Fans of her acting should've seen her on stage in Welcome To Intelstar a year ago as a call center boss orienting would be agents in their office. She's just so brilliant. Regine, for the first time, didn't reek of contrived cuteness like what she did in a movie she made with Christopher de Leon. By the way, i saw that movie on cable and it was a big chunk of flak. I realized her character peg in that movie was that of Bridget Jones. Tanga tangahan effect matched with bohemian wardrobe and colorful friends on the side plus planted artiste behaviors with her not being inspired to paint. Painter din pala siya dun. Puhleeez  Luiz. Boyet's character is some uptight widower meddling in computers so that he would look boring in contrast with Regine's colorete character. Another Puhleez Luiz! Its one of the most irritating and wrinkling films that i saw on cable and of Regine's.

Piolo Pascual was oh well handsome. He's beautiful on screen. Beautiful is boring.