Kobe Paras Plays for UP Maroons

I have never watched a UAAP basketball game in my life.

When it was required, as a freshman, to watch the matches of UP, I would just sign in my attendance at Araneta, and then I would leave 10 minutes later. Bad student!

Anyhow, that might change if this boy plays well.

I will be joining a legion of my 'sisters' who pretend to watch basketball 'the game' as opposed to watching 'the boys' in the game.

I will now know what Vice Ganda has known all along. Charot!

Movie Review: The Autopsy of Jane Doe kept me at the edge of my seat!

There's a good horror movie showing this week in local theaters called 'The Autopsy" but I'm afraid it will be pulled out immediately because nobody knows about it.

In fact, I had a 'private screening' of it in an SM theatre tonight, I was the only one watching - which made the experience even creepier.

I heard about the movie during the 2016 Toronto Film Festival which is one of the best barometers to measure whether a movie - horror or not - is worth watching. The TIFF has now become the Oscar barometer for nominations, and this movie had a solid screening there.

The whole set-up of the movie will already give you the creeps. The two main characters, a father and the son, both coroners - and played solidly by Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch (who is as cute as ever here!) come face to face with a beautiful corpse whose state of her innards do not match the flawlessness of her outward state.

In a way, it is a claustrophobic movie, as everything happens in the family morgue, and aside from the beautiful Jane Doe, there are three other corpses with them, which makes things even more creepy.

I've had to cover my eyes several times because the autopsy procedure is so graphic and I cannot bear to see so much blood and guts spilled around, even if I know in the back of my mind, they are just prosthetics.

The first hour is set up so fabulously but unfortunately, the climax was not like Get Out's which was a slam bang affair!

Recommended for watching with a date who also loves horror flicks.There are many scenes which may need some 'cuddle' moments.

Lewis Tan: This Hunk is Driving Me Loco!

I don't really know much about Lewis Tan except that they say he's in Deadpool.  Ok, not quite the movie I enjoy watching.

Anyhow, this guy is a hunk! - in the truest sense of the word!  I couldn't get my mind out of him. It's Lewis Tan's face and body wherever I go now!

Whew!  Well, these attractions usually die down but man, Lewis, you're driving me nuts with how sexy you are!

My Daily Thoughts - January 26, 2018

Well, the new year is already into its first month so let me begin changes in my old habits so that I achieve the goals I want in life.

First is to lose this weight.  I am already at 246 pounds and I really really want to lose all this unnecessary weight.  I want to be lean looking.

So to do that, I will try intermittent fasting which my friend Argel did, and he looked much thinner now!

So I will start it later, Saturday, January 27, 2018, and my window for eating is between 4PM to 12 midnight.

I will just have to take note which time I took a last bite, so I can take in my time to start eating on Sunday, which should be around 2PM.  That means my last bite should be at 10PM.

I think I can do that.  I really wish I could do this everyday!!

Wish me luck!

Another thing I want to implement today is walking!  I have to walk!!  Just to lose all these weight!!  And of course, to save money.  So no more riding Grab for this coming week and ride public transportation.

Let's compare budgets:

This computation is only for Monday to Friday - January 29 to February 2.

Budget 1 is to go cold turkey and really avoid Grab riding.

*Going to school - 50 + going home (39) = 89 pesos per day -  267 pesos per week + gym days (140 + 34) = 441 pesos per week

Budget 2 is to ride Grab on tutoring days

* Going to school - 50 + gym days (174) + 1050 (tutoring days) = 1274 pesos per week

Budget 3 is to ride Grab everyday

* Going to school - 1750 + gym days (174) + 1050 (tutoring days) =   2994 pesos per week

Budget 1 = 441 * 4 = 1764 per month

Budget 2 = 1274 * 4 =   5096 per month

Budget 3 = 2994 * 4 = 11,976 per month less 1,100 (Grabrewards) = 10,876 per month

10,876 - 1764 = 9,112 savings ******** which can go to concerts and traveling etc.

* And anyway, walking is good for my health 😶😶😶

Movie Review: Christopher Plummer Shines in 'All the Money in the World'

It's amazing to see Christopher Plummer, who is already 88, deliver such a tour de force performance in Ridley Scott's movie, All the Money in the World, for a role that had already been done (by the disgraced Kevin Spacey), so it had to be reshot.

Otherwise, nobody would watch the movie!

He played the billionaire Paul Getty in the movie and the way he handles himself shows glimpses of the billionaire's eccentricities, greed for more money, and the icy demeanor he has shown to his own flesh and blood, even when they need him the most.

I am not going to divulge much of the movie except that both Michelle Williams and Mark Whalberg are good in it.

It's set, once again, in Italy (two Italian set movies in 2 nights!) but this time, it's gloomy and dark because of the movie's theme and the events it presents.

There is a particularly violent scene where a vital body part is cut off, so I hope for your sake, that you've eaten all your popcorn by that scene.

There is a lot of discussion about money in the movie and the dangling of threats and demands which may be a no-brainer to family-oriented societies like the Philippines.

Is there a way you can measure how much you love a family member? Your son, your father, your grandson?

In this movie, everything is calculated that it almost already bordered on the absurd and ridiculous.

I'm sure you'd leave the theatre thinking, with all that MONEY in the world in Getty's stash, why did it have to reach such a long standoff?

Haagen-Dasz Ice Cream Addict!

One reason why I decided to settle in HK before was that I could always buy Haagen Dasz ice cream at any 7-11 store!

So when I get a fix for it at weird hours of the day, like 2AM, while I'm writing, I just go down my flat and walk to the nearest convenience store!