To celebrate the first year anniversary of my lappy toppy this coming October I am reposting this blog which i originally posted last 25NOV2009 in FB.
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One reason that convinced me to buy a laptop was a good friend’s generosity.
Her offer of the “charge it to friendship muna” payment scheme played a major role in wiping out my hesitation into plunging in this major expense.
Seventeen years of friendship entitles you to this kind of privilege, an overflowing supply of trust.
But behind the financial assistance the primary reason why I have, in the first place, considered having this piece of technology is my love of writing. Or is it love of typing?
I don’t know how I managed to convince myself that I can’t write good stuff unless my fingers are striking a keyboard!
It’s like there’s not enough surge of creative juice when you’re just using a pen and paper, the once upon a time very dependable tool I used whenever I feel like writing.
Unfortunately, the gush of the so called creative juice I have been expecting did not come. There was a complete absence of the “feel like typing”.
Blame it to Facebook and a friend’s enthusiasm in sharing her computer games, songs, movies and her discovery of her own laptop.
What would eventually stimulate my fingers to hit the keyboard is not the rush of creative juice brought about by the excitement of having this new toy but by an overwhelming feeling of melancholy.
But that's another story I wish to share when I can look back at what happened and just laugh at it.
Obviously, I have been bitten by a bug called realization. It's not the pen and paper or the laptop.
Emotion kindles my love for writing. It is my creative juice =)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Of Watching "Sa'yo Lamang".....
Being the jologs that we are and to somehow celebrate my best friend's birthday last Saturday, Lala, Jijet and I decided to watch "Sa'yo Lamang".
It was not a spur-of-the-moment decision as Lala and I have been planning to see the movie a week earlier but our busy schedules just wouldn't allow us.
I never thought I'll ever be grateful to boredom as it sets in while I waited for the doctor in Makati Med.
More than an hour of waiting my fingers started itching and it started texting on its own volition. I think I've texted at least a quarter of the people in my phone book - Lala, being one of them.
As she ranted via text of how full her schedule was on her birthday, I asked her if she was too busy too even see a movie......
In less than an hour, after a week of planning, we were already in the cold and dark nook in G4 with the jologs like us, the boyfriends and husbands who were forced to see the movie, the bored and the critics – together we we’re watching “Sa’yo Lamang”.
The movie was good but don’t be alarmed this is not an attempt to review a film.
This is just to share one particular scene in the movie which not only made me cry but made realize how powerful God is.
Again, don’t be alarmed. I promise not to be preachy =).
Though I know that this is going to be one hell of a tear-jerker it was still a surprise for me and Lala to see Jijet wiping tears off her eyes 20minutes after the movie started.
We were both giggling as I mimic the way Jijet weeps in silence in my left side while in Lala’s right side someone scandalously sniffed with all her/his might.
Though we were making fun of the people crying around us I was sure that soon it will be our turn.
What I was not expecting was the scene that will finally bring Lala and I to tears.
It was not a mushy and dramatic line in a confrontational scene that led to the falling of my tears in my right eye.
It was not even the scene. It was just one line………I believe in God.
It was what Bea in her role as the eldest in the family uttered when she finally recovers from her shock after seeing her mother (Lorna Tolentino) shaking in her bed.
And together they prayed, I believe in God, the father almighty, the creator of heaven and earth……….
Bea, as she stood in one corner watching her siblings gather around their mother to warm her and stop her from shaking, was a picture of each one of us every time we’re in a situation where we feel helpless.
At first we feel at a lost, we don’t know what to do and where to go for help then all of a sudden we realize we have God to help us through all our difficulties.
When all else fails, most of the times, that’s only when we turn to Him for mercy and once we do the feeling of relief comes in an instant.
I believe in God…………so short a line yet so powerful!
We’ll, that’s how far I’d go sharing my realization and sharing the movie.
As promised, I wont be preachy…………just sharing!
It was not a spur-of-the-moment decision as Lala and I have been planning to see the movie a week earlier but our busy schedules just wouldn't allow us.
I never thought I'll ever be grateful to boredom as it sets in while I waited for the doctor in Makati Med.
More than an hour of waiting my fingers started itching and it started texting on its own volition. I think I've texted at least a quarter of the people in my phone book - Lala, being one of them.
As she ranted via text of how full her schedule was on her birthday, I asked her if she was too busy too even see a movie......
In less than an hour, after a week of planning, we were already in the cold and dark nook in G4 with the jologs like us, the boyfriends and husbands who were forced to see the movie, the bored and the critics – together we we’re watching “Sa’yo Lamang”.
The movie was good but don’t be alarmed this is not an attempt to review a film.
This is just to share one particular scene in the movie which not only made me cry but made realize how powerful God is.
Again, don’t be alarmed. I promise not to be preachy =).
Though I know that this is going to be one hell of a tear-jerker it was still a surprise for me and Lala to see Jijet wiping tears off her eyes 20minutes after the movie started.
We were both giggling as I mimic the way Jijet weeps in silence in my left side while in Lala’s right side someone scandalously sniffed with all her/his might.
Though we were making fun of the people crying around us I was sure that soon it will be our turn.
What I was not expecting was the scene that will finally bring Lala and I to tears.
It was not a mushy and dramatic line in a confrontational scene that led to the falling of my tears in my right eye.
It was not even the scene. It was just one line………I believe in God.
It was what Bea in her role as the eldest in the family uttered when she finally recovers from her shock after seeing her mother (Lorna Tolentino) shaking in her bed.
And together they prayed, I believe in God, the father almighty, the creator of heaven and earth……….
Bea, as she stood in one corner watching her siblings gather around their mother to warm her and stop her from shaking, was a picture of each one of us every time we’re in a situation where we feel helpless.
At first we feel at a lost, we don’t know what to do and where to go for help then all of a sudden we realize we have God to help us through all our difficulties.
When all else fails, most of the times, that’s only when we turn to Him for mercy and once we do the feeling of relief comes in an instant.
I believe in God…………so short a line yet so powerful!
We’ll, that’s how far I’d go sharing my realization and sharing the movie.
As promised, I wont be preachy…………just sharing!
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