Shrek 3: RomRom’s 1st

“Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play;
No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day”. - Thomas Gray

Princess Fiona’s (Cameron Diaz) ailing father in the movie laid his head to final rest (finally!), my sis’s injury prone-car, on the other hand, broke down “for good” last nite; That means, my 3 yrs old nephew too, gets fair share of misery since the boy’s sleep-committed mom loathe smart cabbies on Friday. Poor RR, my third eye saw him weep ala King Harold’s musician frogs upon learning he'll be Dad’s scorer-clapper again in Karaoke session. My Sister’s 2nd son who grew dancing w/ Willy on Wowowee was born with an amazing appetite for moving - causing his calves with premature muscles. As an adoring Tito, I am obliged to bring him out so he could flex those mighty legs while getting sneak-look at homesick-nerds (grrrrr..they made him sick with Hellos). Sunset signaled him to change costume and I noticed he’d picked the one w/ SHREK’s printed image. My bulb switched-on: “bring him to Shrek the movie!” Cloud of suspicion lingers, will he make it w/o his no. 1 chaperone-granny on the side? (mother stayed home for primetime soaps).

After some tricks for the treat, I had the Tickets for 2 at the exquisite Grand Buheira Cinema w/c also bestow us the chance to breath fresher air around Sharjah’s panoramic Corniche. It was the last day of showing so I expect smaller audience and theater but not expecting it to be undersized in both - a Ghost theater and a miniature of a real one. Assuming we’re inward bound to Haunted House, the boy exhibited mild apprehension and I deem he’l be screaming and crashing mirrors in the darkened hall like the terrible girl in Xmen did. But my assumption fell-short. He had princely smile instead as soon as the green-skinned Ogre and his multiplying shreklets (the naughty babies) came into view with dozens of other astonishing fairytale E.T’s. Donkey (Ed Murphy) and PussyCat’s (Antonio Banderas ) hilarious swapping of body parts by Merlin’s failing wizardry gave him snickers while the film’s magical stunts stood his little feet in wonder. My acknowledgment went to two Extras. Cinema’s extra tools that elevated him and his Tita Bang's provision of xtra diaper - saving our public reputation when his "call of nature" attacked (whoaah..i’m a certified nanny now!).

Its cool to be a part of my nephew's first walk to the "big" reel. I can mirror my bygone innocence in the kid’s face when father brought me to Lito Lapid’s “Leon Guerrero” (hmm..quite a history). I knew Tatay was watching me more than the film as he wanted me to enjoy the thrill of a new experience, of a bonding that won’t return again. Disyney’s 3rd installment of Shrek is entertaining amidst deficiency in story. So far, It’s not Mike Myer’s finest dubbed but Romrom will someday count it as the best being his very first, - and Im glad, I'm with him.

Patalastas Muna..

On Baygon
Amo: Day, eto ang Baygon Chalk pamatay ng ipis, gamitin mo sa pader.
Maid: Opo, Ati.
Next day…(Nagulat ang amo sa nakasulat sa pader…)
“Epes mamatay kayong lahat”

(si Inday talaga, sarap gawing ipis)

On Huggies
Pulis: Bakit mo inihagis ang bata sa bintana?
Yaya: Sinunod ko lang po ang utos ng amok ko.
"Sabi po ng amok ko, ‘wala na tayong Pampers,

I-Huggies mo na lang si Baby".

(pulis pakikulong na ung Yaya, pls) :)

On Milo
Former Pres Erap was asked to endorse the healthy drink. He agreed on one condition: - he's goin to use his own script in a form of four-letter-word , here it goes -M - Masarap na masarap ito.I - Inumin ng nakararami.L - Lasap na lasap ang lasa.O - OVALTINE, THE OLYMPIC DRINK !!!!!! (si Erap talaga....)

On Colgate
Mother’s not familiar w/ the word toothpaste, but one thing she knew and favors... “Ang paborito kong colgate sa lahat ng colgate, COLGATE”!! (got it mom!) :)

And the Big Winner is….

Wish well, be well." - [Turkish Proverb]

Via sky cable power, we’d seen Pinoy Big Brother Season 2’s ultimate episode and much to our ecstasy, grand prize went right to our pet-bet Beatriz Saw – “Naga’s Sassy Girl”. BEA had won the audience’s crucial nods with her unpresumptuous, sparkling and brazen persona. So whose not fond of her signature witchlike chuckles? (irksome, tho’), her marathon moment of honing gazillion of pencils after faithfully digging them?, bruises and wounds she welcome for dad? And forbearance over consistent provokers - picture-perfect of what one must own in Kuya’s camera-occupied quarters; and I confess, like 90% of my show-mates, her ability to sail aptly against the roaring tide inside for the sake of living her noble dream is appealing to the senses, making me one of her advocate.

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As anticipated prior to the finale', there’ll be ample of common ravings, sour rapings and colourful speculations especially when the legendary “pagpapakatotoo” (sincerity) issue knocked in the program’s tricky frame. An acid test which brought, not just the curtain but the whole house down and on-fire. Bombshell w/c made and broke each contender, with their strewn morals felt and seen by outsiders alike.

Wendy’s gossip material case, yet coupled with downside is also notable. Had the latter grasped the idea that her daily onlookers are soap opera fanatics, she could, in her own drama, would made it on the top. In paradox, her not being “plastic” (actually egocentric) surfaced out of control. And as she consented her hidden monster to reign over, she went haywire, sidestepped with regret the margin of public respect and wane herself from their latent adulation. Brutal frankness which transforming the Beauty Queen’s charming visage into the wicked aura of Bella Flores & other notorious screen-kontrabida.

In relevance, my buzz is not just about Bea the Champ or Wendy the Prodigal, I stressed on Filipino’s proper collective attitude in every given milieu at all times. PBB’s ethical lessons no matter how grating is comforting knowing that upright insights are still what people matters to Pinoy the most at the very end. It is something money can’t buy, something the naked eyes can’t see. Playing politics or showbiz, not sounds good but sometimes work for good if like Bea, we know how to play the trade right. With that in us, we can bring home the bacon, too.!

On OFW Taxation

“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them”. – Tiberius Caesar

Is it APPEALING OR APPALLING? As a struggling OFW for barely a decade, I therefore went for the second. I supposed my distressing case is a common scenario, - common to all Filipino so I need not to elaborate all the damaging emotional sacrifices to join the league of my motherland’s so-called “Modern Hero”.

This is in response to a case study research titled “The Economic Impacts of International Migration” penned by Tereso Tulao, Michael Cortez and Edward See of DeLaSalle University who bodly narrated: "the possibility of increasing and internalizing the cost of international migrations are considered to reduce the economic ills it has generated".

This profit-making proposal to clarify, were for now, a scheme aiming high to benefit the nation so I can pardon the trio regardless of their subject’s intensity/sensitivity and I’m not going to be one of those who will fiercely bombard them. The proposition sounds clever (for them), but why so at our own bloody expense? Or it is because we were baptized as Hero so they need to see us breathing our last?. Better pay might be a working expat’s reward from toiling abroad but PLEASE note that we’re previously charged or we’re in fact been paying our Government the cost of the tough decision we’ve made for ourselves and for our family – principally, thru our legendary remittances.

Similarly, we’re not liberated with travel taxes fee upon exit to labor abroad and Overseas Employment Certificate fee (OEC) if we successfully got one and return to Country for respite. Both are strictly mandatory. As an abiding citizen, we conformed with the ruling, even it mean shelling out from our emergency funds and letting go a valued day just to pass the great Phil-Overseas-Employment Agency (POEA) queue alongside battalions of fellow Balikbayans EVERYDAY. But for another Tax? Cmon’ that’s insane. I am civilly telling these brainy that: “Hello Guys,”, time for mindset change! we’re nearly reflecting here what we’ve gone through in our beloved Philippines. The pay-cheque in exchange of our terrible homesickness & struggles doesn’t actually meet the costly demands of foreign living and that of emerging financial pressures of our scholars back home. In short, the greater part of us can’t frequently feed an extra mouth in this dry times. We aspire to survive too and save for rainy days, so that if its our call-time to retire, we wouldn’t turn up as country’s additional economic liability. And till the day, I can genuinely trust my hard-earned dollars to those (I bank on) accountable hands in position, there’s no way these Fantastic 3 would demand from me - I’l be the first to volunteer!.