Normally, in any given year, I would be passionate in supporting one, two, sometimes, three movies during the annual Oscar derby. It was even more exciting when they expanded their nominations to ten slots in the Best Picture category - since it allowed more 'normal' movies to be nominated.
However, I have been strangely ambivalent to the roster of Best Picture nominees this year, although undeniably most of them were box-office successes and were technically competent. Well, I haven't seen all of them yet, but with the ones, I've seen, I haven't really been moved that much.
Well, I usually leave the films I'm least interested in to watch last, and I usually watch what I think interests me more, first. But this year, all the ones I thought I'd be interested in, just, well, bored me. Les Miz, Argo, Silver Linings - all disappointments. I still have to see Lincoln, Amour, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty. I liked Life of Pi but it didn't stir me enough.
Oh well, I hope at least one of the five Best Picture nominees I haven't seen yet will turn out to be an emotional gem for me. Otherwise, 2013 will go down as the year, I didn't feel passionate about any of the Oscar Best Picture noms.
I was able to watch The Iron Lady on DVD and I was not, at that time, too impressed with it. However, I caught it again on HBO, while having my lunch and I was pretty hooked! I was amazed at how Meryl Streep just loses herself into Margaret Thatcher's character! It's amazing! Really well-deserved Oscar win!
Anyway, here are my ten favorite TV shows for the week ending February 22, 2013 -
#1 HBO - The Iron Lady
#2 TV5 Monde - Fais Pas Ci, Fais Pas Ca - Santa n'existe pas
#3 TV5 Monde - Fais Pas Ci, Fais Pas Ca - coat homeless
#4 Bio - My Ghost Story - Haunted Hotel
#5 Bio - My Ghost Story - Spirit Seekers
#6 CI - Medical Detectives: Funeral Services
#7 CI -Born to Kill: Aileen Wuornos
#8 Cinema One - Giddy Golly Yop
#9 CI - On the Case: Tangled Past
#10 Diva Universal - Law and Order: SVU
Honey gave Dylan and Laura a box each of chocolate cookies last night which they can bring to school as baon! I tasted one of them and it was soft and yummy and it had sprinklings of chocolate in it which made it really masarap!
My friend Jenny and I have a weekly food trip where we try new restaurants around ABS and GMA and the Timog-Morato area. Not the expensive type of restaurants, but the tinier ones that serve comfort food.
Jen introduced me to bagnet and empanada last week and that was pretty delicious.
This week, it was my turn to choose the place and I picked this shawarma place right in front of ABS-CBN, the main building. Sadly, the food was not so good so I better not write about it.
However, I tried the burger from Backyard Burgers, the resto beside it, and I loved the burger!! The patty was juicy and tender and it had enough veggies to make it look like a real burger! I'm definitely going back here and maybe try the bigger burger!
This is the first cake we ever had from Cara Mia and it's delicious, I love it! You can actually eat that rose! It's a chocolate cake with a rose on top, also made of chocolate!
