The Fifth Marauder

melancholy 'melun`kâlee
[n] a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
[n] a feeling of thoughtful sadness
[n] a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
[adj] characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

i've been feeling pretty melancholic lately. and the kind of music i listen to does not really help. 80% of my music collection consists of slow sad songs that when listened to by a depressed, brokenhearted person will drive him or her to commit suicide.

it got me thinking, why am i so sad? there is a saying that goes "the happiest of people necessarily does not have everything, they just make the most of everything that comes in their way." maybe that applies for other people, but not to me. it is a serious character flaw of mine, believing that the grass is always greener at the other side of the fence. not liking something unless somebody else beats me to it first.

i know considering my position in life right now, i am lucky than most people. i have a dysfunctional family, but a family nonetheless, i eat more than 3 times a day, i have a roof above my head, and clothes to wear. i have the luxury of bumming around all day, read books, watch tv, and go online till my eyes bleed. but i am getting tired of how my life revolves around these three things, namely tv, books, and internet. i want change. i want contact with other people. i want to go out. i want something to do other than watching reruns of old shows (not that there's something bad about it). i just want a life different from what i have right now.

why is it so hard to be happy?

abc turned the new york times best seller into a made for tv movie. and no matter what the reviews say, i think the movie turned out great. it was a 3-hour long feast for the eyes, the script was the bomb (well maybe because mitch albom was the one who wrote it ), michael imperioli and the guy who played the soldier eddie were cute, and not a scene from the book was omitted.

although i had a criticism about the 5th person. it could have been better if the filipino child they got had a filipino accent. and the make up wasn't very convincing. the child's skin was supposed to be burnt. it was freakier when mitch albom described it in the book.

well i the reason i found the movie enchanting is because i read the book. it was a nice book, one of the best ones i've read. although i cried more in the movie rather than the book.

and now i can't help but wonder, who will be the 5 people i would be meeting when i die?

i am taking back on what i have said about rory not choosing tristan dugray over dean. i realized after watching that post-thanksgiving episode that dean is actually a nice sweet guy. i am beginning to love his character. he has been treated like dirt by rory twice already and still he wants to be friends. and that jess guy. ugh. i hate him. he's so cocky and weird. he really is a younger version of luke, with the angst and cynicsm and all, but i dunno ithat kind of attitude is just more acceptable with the diner guy. some people might think it's sweet how he really likes rory, but please he didn't have the decency or the respect for what dean might feel when he was making a pass for rory. i still stand by the opinion that rory makes the worng decisions when it comes to guys. well i guess the creator wanted it to be that way because in real life, we would always make stupid decisions like rory (and sometimes lorelai too!), thus creating the role of "the one that got away". i love this show! and the best part about this is that guys come and go, but the bond between lorelai and rory never breaks. it's a girl power show! hehe

i love pinoy movies. to the point that sometimes i had to watch them alone because none of my friends would be caught dead inside a movie theatre showing one.


last christmas however, i have seen malikmata. i liked it. it even gave me the creeps. well because i am different from most people. i am a wuss. and i have seen it alone so it was twice as creepy for me. and now, spirit of the glass. it had the old actors from malikmata. maybe the producers liked the rapport of those actors with each other that they made another movie a year later with them in it.

i bet if i had seen this movie on dvd or something, i wouldn't be as scared. the effects with the background music was a great team. i screamed and gasped at the right moments. blurry marvin agustin was better than than the close up marvin shot. because he doesn't look really scary. and i keep on remembering his marvin-and-jolina days. now that's funny.

personally i wouldn't have seen it if it weren't for the hot guys in the cast, namely jay aquitania, his friend (whose name i don't know), and of course, drew arellano. so what if he's short? i don't care. he's hot.

and lastly,ana capri should win an award for "most creepy character in the movie". at least people are paying to see her now with her clothes on. hehe.