the tale of the scatter brain

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i am standing in the center of the park (well sorta) facing a big blank concrete wall. it is huge. lying around me (forming a circle) are scattered bits and pieces of things: memories, fancy stuffs, memorabilias, scratch papers, notes, table napkins, toys, pictures, dvds and compact discs, broken casette tapes, peeled off posters and stickers...you know...stuffs. some are trash. some are useful. while some, makes up for feeding the appetite of fascination. and there are some that electrocute me in shock 'til i cried and beg for it to stop (letting go of those things that do so, is so easy...and then i kinda miss how it feels and so i go and pick it up again hehehe).

all of these scattered bits and pieces are the contents of my brain.
i suppose.
and i'm staring at the blank wall. looking for an answer to a puzzle that i can't seem to put together. trying to come up with one singular question to sum up all of these disjointed things laying around me. hoping. guessing. trying things out. i wanted to climb the wall. walk around it. but i know i can't. not at this very moment.

the wall is cold. i have to understand it. its silence. its being a wall.


The heart may freeze or it can burn. The pain will ease if I can learn... there is no future. There is no past. I live this moment as my last! There's only us... there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road... no other way. No day but today...
-Rent

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this is where i stop from drifting for awhile.
now it's time to sort things out...

the world's most dangerous road

if you're a driver would you dare to test your skills here?













looks fun right?... harmless. just a piece of road. i mean, we had that kind of zigzagging twisting road here in the Philippines. go to Baguio and try it out. but then again...this is NOT Baguio see for yourself ...











especially if you're the passenger makes you want to think twice hehehe

this is Bolivia's Road of Death. hands down the most dangerous road in the world. It runs in the Bolivian Andes, 70 km from La Paz to Coroico, and plunges down almost 3,600 meters in an orgy of extremely narrow hairpin curves and 800-meter abyss near-misses. A fatal accident happens there every couple of weeks, 100-200 people perish there every year. In 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank named the La Paz-to-Coroico route "the world's most dangerous road."

the buses and heavy trucks navigate this road, as this is the only route available in the area. Buses crowded with locals go in any weather, and try to beat the incoming traffic to the curves. It also does not help that the fog and vapors rise up from the heavily vegetated valley below, resulting in almost constant fogs and limited visibility. Plus the tropical downpours cause parts of the road to slide down the mountain. and if ever you fall down chances are this is more of an abyss than a mountainside. who knows... how many days before you ever reached the bottom of the rain forest below. or if ever you will be found. lots of wreckage, trucks, and visible reminders can be seen here (as i've read...).


the world's most dangerous hiking trail
now if there's the most dangerous road, this time around i'll let you take a peak at the most dangerous hiking trail in the world: Xian (Mt.Huashan)...






















actually, the pictures in itself are a bit discomforting. chains, padlocks, holes on the mountain side, planks hanging on the side of the muntain in a very dizzying height is really gonna make you a bit whoozy. and this is a very tourist heavy traffic area. with no safeguards and safety nets to catch you if ever you fall down.



source: darkroastedblend

unintentionally watching:

a movie review chapter 1

as the month of June rolls in...so is the first batch of movie festivals. first stop...the French Film Festival! bonjour :D for clarifications i've managed to catch only two (2) movies so far in the French Film Festival held at the Shangri-La mall in Mandaluyong City. Just been quite a busy bee because i've relocated offices once again. AND i got myself injured. nothing to do with work though. i'm at play when i sprained my ankle. which is really bad for my career as a freerunner hehe anyway, back to the movies... i happen to catch "Ah! Si j'étais riche" (If I Were A Rich Man) at the last minute.

it was a plan of whatever movie-we-happen-to-come-across-during-that-time thing. (snicker) and whoever it is available is pretty much welcome to accompany us in this last minute movie trip (we're spontaneous people you see hehe). it's also the second to the last day 'til the festival officially ends. it's also raining so damn hard. and i'm injured. but i wanted to see it before it ends. and a friend of mine is also so eager to watch as well with the same reason(s). Only, she arrived half an hour late and miss such a good film to watch. this film is nothing but the good ol' French dramacomedy. witty lines. simple story but beautifully told in an unobscure and weird kind of way.

The plot: Aldo Bonnard (played by Jean-Pierre Darroussin) is about to divorce his wife Alice (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) while his new boss, Gérard (Richard Berry), is a hypocritical man. Worse, he discovers that his wife has an affair with his boss. But one day, he wins a lottery of 10 million euros. He decides to leave his job and not to reveal the news to his wife until the day of the divorce.

it was more close to the heart of everyone. it's bright, witty, funny, charming, cynical, critical and surprising. it'll make you cry what with the emotional pain the characters have to go through only to smile at the same time. more like laughing with tears hehe it was really a pain in the ass but cute.

the second movie that we happen to catch (yes, its a "we" thing already...), is a very heavy drama set on the continents of canada and europe dealing with the rock and roll lifestyle—"Clean". starring Nick Nolte and Maggie Cheung. well, Nick really looked as if he had enough of being Hulk's father. he had aged. not clearly the Nick Nolte i remembered when i was a kid. Maggie on the other hand looked pretty much like Yoko Ono. but then that is just me. on to the story: a rockstar getting killed because of drug overdose and the blame was pointed at the wife, who was also a druggie and a controlling freak of a manager to her husband's career. they wanted her clean---free of drugs that is. she wanted her son back. the son that she left to chase her and her husband's rockstar dream. but she has to come clean. can she? would she be able to face her son after leaving him to grow up in the care of her husband's parents? would her son accept her as his mother? questions about responsibility, forgiveness, of turning a new leaf, of love, motherhood, and of being a woman. heavy drama, i tell you. good but pretty heavy. so heavy that we watched "Get SMART" afterwards :D


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we interrupt this program for a few short reminders:

BABY BLUES









Romeo & Don Quixote: Don Q being a man of honor, respected his lady Dulcinea's decision. "Don't ever make her cry." said the Don. "For i'll come charging on my trusted steed Rocinante, from afar, just to cut your head off with the blade of my strong and noble sword, if Dulcinea's tear would drop and graze her immaculate cheeks."

Romeo thus pledged his integrity over those words. "I'll see to it that i'll never cause a tear from her eyes to fall. Your lady Dulcinea. My Juliet."

Of the many leagues and of many adventures waiting to be told, news reached Don Q. He was saddened by the tragedy that came upon the beautiful love story of Romeo and Juliet. He has nothing but utmost honor and respect for Romeo. The pledge that he(Romeo) uttered that daylight before they part – he did in flying colors.

And all he could mutter is: "Romeo cried."


Now this story was never told in writing or in any spoken language–until today. Where leagues of countless missions, travels, and battles in the olden days of yore, that there came a time when the paths of Don Quixote and Romeo have crossed. From across the desert where Romeo resides as he escapes from his inevitable fate to where the comical noble knight Don Quixote was on a quest for an adventure. Though there are many differences of background, reasons and objectives...they are both outlaws of the wild desert. Don Q (for short), wandered away for awhile from Sancho (his*ehem* squire). Forming an alliance among the shades of each other's shadows in the burning heat of the sun, they journeyed on to a blind man's path to get out of the endless sand, sand dunes and sandstorms. Until they arrived on a town of which name I do not want to remember.


THE RUT bigeyedeer.wordpress.com
















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Back once again! This time i'll be crossing continents (and dreaming), that i'm roaming around the famous Hollywood back lots in LA.

First in review will be the comedy film Get Smart which stars Steve Carell (40 year old Virgin, Evan Almighty), Anne Hathaway (Princess Diaries) and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (The Mummy Returns, Scorpion King).It is a 2008 film adaptation of Mel Brooks (Robin Hood: Men In Thighs) and Buck Henry's 1960s spy parody television series in the US. This is a very old school slapstick comedy kind of movie. very witty and funny. especially, when you've come from watching a movie with a huge dose of heavy drama. hehehe. hey and Bill Murray was there (still reminds me of The Ghostbusters whenever i see him^^). Bungling secret agent Maxwell Smart, also known as Agent 86 for CONTROL, is on a mission to battle the forces of their evil crime nemesis known as KAOS with his more-competent partner Agent 99, (whose real name is never revealed) at his side. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreams of working in the field alongside stalwart superstar Agent 23. Smart will do whatever it takes to thwart the latest plot for world domination by KAOS. (courtesy of imdb.com)

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and then there's WANTED which stars Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, and Morgan Freeman. directed by Timur Bekmambetov. of which i've already dedicated a blog space a month back. need i say more? hehe wicked! one of the best movies this year^^


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from Europe to the US...we come right back across Asia with the Japanese Film Festival! \m/ i've only watched one rocking film from this film fest, but its worth it! yeah, after braving the rain, automobile traffic, long walk, work related stress, people bustling up and about, and the long line at the cinema entrance (which spans into two floors) – it's really worth the time spent seeing this film Linda! Linda! Linda!

it was some sort of a break from my infamous you tube and dvd watching activities. and i was really surprised that many came to see the film that shouts a girl's name in all its glory. and most were teenagers. which by the way, is also due to the fact that it was a free admission event hehe. in summary, Linda! Linda! Linda! is a movie about a teenage all-girls band in a Japanese school which has a Korean lead vocalist. Which is in fact, the general theme of the festival: the Japanese-Korean relationship. A very girl bonding-friendship-music movie. Not the usual girl bonding moments a.k.a sleep over type-let's fix your hair and make-up thingy. So no spice girls attitude here ha! more of old school punk rockers these girls are. it's more of how even though each one of them is different from one another (how quirky and moody some of them are), they are one in their goal. this is true to its form of how every individual brings something up to the plate and contribute to make music, because they love music. no matter if they are breaking boundaries or ideologies or even each other to understand each of them better. more like knowing the notes and how the bass would sound with the guitar while the drum beats pulsing rhythms to the tune of their ultimate cover song of punk indie musicians "Linda Linda Linda". Halfway through the film, the song gets stuck to everyone's head (specially mine haha) and even though it's in Japanese, you'd be banging your head and raising your fist forming horns shouting "rock on!" okay, i really miss going to the gigs... and this one made me remember what it feels like and sounds like being in one :D

and as a note: them girls reminds me some of our home grown female rockers here^^ may kamukha... hehe

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so here's the first part of the movie-watching happenings since June of this year. which happens to be my so-called gagong palaboy long standing blog entry. more of backlogs hehe. okay time to post this first :D

next...

soundtrack: Bagsakan Parokya ni Edgar, Francis Magalona and Gloc 9