I was reading Fr. Tito Caluag's Sunday column in the Inquirer today where he featured some of the wise words of Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle, who directed the opening ceremonies of this year's London Olympics.
Everyone knew it would be difficult to top the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremonies so Boyle and his team took the next best step! They just accepted that as fact and moved on. Instead of focusing on how to upstage what is the gold standard for these momentous event, Boyle decided to focus on the best that Britain could offer and the incredible wellspring of creativity these islands had.
Below is my most favorite quote from Fr. Caluag's column -
"In accepting their limitations, in acknowledging others were better than them, they attained the freedom to be creative. They showed the best of who they are. They excelled by simply being who they are and not worrying about being like someone else."
I actually enjoyed both the opening and the closing ceremonies of the London Olympic Games. Yes, it was universally agreed that Beijing was still the gold standard for that, but they were just so entertaining and the humor was just downright pat British that those events were able to distinguish themselves from the rest of the pack! I mean, One Direction in the Olympics, and Annie Lennox!! Worked for me!
Every Sunday, I look forward to checking the column of Mons Romulo in the Philippine Star to check out her question for the week. This week, she posts this intriguing question which is actually fitting for someone my age. Well, here's my personal answer for it and I was pretty surprised how long my answer was!!
"Learn to love yourself more. You are not ugly. You will be more handsome than most of your contemporaries in the years to come so get over that insecurity. If you can work with a dermatologist early on, invest on one. Papa was very handsome as a young man and you completely got his features except for his very chinky eyes.
You are not freakin' shy!! Just remember who you were in that fateful National Science Fair competition in UP Los Banos in December of 1983 when you practically were friends with everyone - in both the grade school and high school competitions. You were fearless when you approached each of them even if some of them were older than you by 3 or 4 years! Remember how many people congratulated you when you won, because you knew almost everyone and were friends with them. Remember how great that felt!
Stop being a drama queen! Your life will turn out fine! Your mother will mellow down and she will become a nicer person. Your siblings Vic and Michelle will become your best friends and will help you in both your businesses!
Don't stop being fearless. Remember what you did when you were still starting your tutorial business and how you had no fear going to the guidance counselors of IS Manila and Brent IS to blatantly ask for customers. You look young but your wisdom and confidence belies it.
Spend more time with the friends you value most. Most of them will immigrate and you will miss them sorely.
Take care of the hearts of some of the boys who will like you and love you. Don't be careless with them. They will be the nicest and most lovely men you will ever meet for the rest of your life. They will not hang on forever and deal with your bs. Remember, life will get easier for gay men as the years pass and years later, it's fine for the public to see men having relationships with other men.
Try to become stronger physically. Your body has a good athletic built so try to develop it now that it's in its prime.
Take down everyone's name and write them down. Facebook will be invented almost two decades later and many of the people you've met and made friends with in your late 20s and 30s will slip through the cracks since your memory of their names is very poor. So freakin' write them down in your diary, even if it's just their nicknames.
Start saving now! DON'T BUY CDs anymore! A better technology will come out two decades later which will render that obsolete. You will become a good saver so better to start you cancer fund now, twenty years earlier.
Keep your diaries and some of your souvenir programs. You will transfer houses several times and they will get lost in transit.
Invest in the stock market now!! You are a very objective person when it comes to money and you will hit the bonanza in some of the stocks that you've invested in."
HBO
dominates my programming choice for this week! Spots 1 and 2 go to the two last episodes of True Blood for this season, which I both saw this week.
Here are my favorite TV shows for the week ending September 28, 2012 -
#1 HBO -True Blood - Bill becomes 'Lilith'
#2 HBO - True Blood - Edgington bites a fairy
#3 HBO - How To Make It In America - the story becomes interesting as their model friend sleeps with Bryan Greenberg's ex-gf
#4 HBO- Radio Days- Woody Allen's bittersweet homage to radio
#5 HBO -Bored to Death - father likes son-in-law
#6 CNN - Open Court - feature on Steffi Graf and the other German players
#7 Nat Geo - Locked Up Abroad - escape from Mexican prison as a woman - Escaped? I Do!
# 8 Nat Geo - Air Crash Investigation - SAS collides with a CESNA in a foggy Milan runway
#9 -BBC World - One Square Mile: Tres Fronteras - the Amazon triangle of three countries, Peru, Colombia and Brazil
#10 - Jack - Big Bang Theory - bachelors party
Austin Butler is one of the reasons why I was hooked on watching The Bling Ring last night. His character was the only guy among five members who formed themselves to while away the time after school. They end up stealing high end stuff from the houses of Hollywood stars.
I was channel surfing tonight and I chanced upon this movie in the Diva Channel entitled The Bling Ring. I actually didn't know the title of the movie when I saw the first few scenes but I was just so hooked on what I saw, I decided to google the movie's title. After doing some research, I found out that this one was a true story. I like how they paced the movie and since this was a Diva Universal production, there is not so much gore or death, although I was thinking that some of the scenes seemed juvenile. Anyway,this movie is about teen thieves who break into the houses of the rich and famous and steal some clothes.
