Breaking Dawn Part I: A Review

I have read Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series from the first book up to the last one (Breaking Dawn). Watching the movies and comparing them to the book was what I was doing eversince I first laid my eyes on them. Yesterday was the first day of that movie here in the Philippines so I bought myself a ticket not only because I loved the story of the last book but also, excited as I was, I wanted to know how Bella and Edward look on their wedding day. The trailer added my excitement for that movie:

I've watched the 8PM show. It ran for less than 2 hours and I shall say it was so far the most improved Twilight series movie because the effects were great. Among the things I loved were:

1) Bella Swan's wedding dress, if I would be marrying someone, I might pattern my dress to hers

2) the wedding setting, it was "magically amazing"

3) Bella's transformation into a vampire, how Edwards venom traveled into her system and transformed every piece of her into an immortal is impressive

4) Bella's Dad, his emotions is what every dad should feel on his daughter's big day. It was touching.

5) Jacob Black's act when he thought Bella died upon conceiving the baby

6) Isle Esme, the best rest house I've seen so far. I wanna go there!

7) The wolf transformation. Haha. It's cute.

Still, between the book and the movie, I vote for the book. People should read it before or after watching it so they can appreciate the real whole story. Some of the best parts were shortened and omitted in the movie. Hmm.. I think, Robert Pattinson should have given more emotions to Edward's reaction to Bella's pregnancy. I rate his acting as 6 out of 10. Bella, on the other hand, should have had a happier and excited reaction despite the fact that she should be a nervous-bride-walking-down-the-aisle. 

Who has a face like that on her wedding day?

The wedding gown would have been more gorgeous if she had a better aura. I love the dress but I think I love the wedding nightmare she had the night before their wedding more than the wedding day itself. Her reaction was really off. Their vows and how the director filmed it -- one of the best wedding vids I've watched (although I know it was just a movie).  I won't spoil the movie further. I can't wait for the second part!

PisoBid is definitely not a scam.

PisoBid is an online auction and is not for minors (18 years old and below). I got curious on how the site works so I registered. Like other new users, I intend to search on the feedbacks of people on that website - if it is a scam of not. I have read the blogs and comments from TechnoKyle and StrawHatJP and concluded that PisoBid is not a scam. All the bidders need is a strategic mind to win the bidding.

I actually salute the people behind the website. Their minds in coming up with this idea, a penny auction site (as they call it), are brilliant! Again, PisoBid isn't a scam. Here's a brief summary of some items won by the bidders (refer o the table below) or you may want to check out this link to view the recent winners.

Bids	Estimated Cost	Highest Bid
₱1000 Cellphone Load	₱1000	₱2.43
₱5000 Zara Gift Card	₱5000	₱4.94
Apple iPod Shuffle worth ₱2800	₱2800	₱2.60
₱500 Starbucks Gift Card	₱500	₱2.19
Apple iPod Nano 8GB	₱7200	₱19.31
Samsung Digital Camera SH100	₱10990	₱9.41

Bidders should remember that 1bid is NOT equal to ₱1 but at most ₱16.67, that is, if you have purchased 12 bids for ₱200.

BID PACK PRICES
Bids	Price	Actual Money You’re Spending
12	₱200	₱16.67/bid
35	₱500	₱14.29/bid
100	₱1000	₱10/bid
350	₱3000	₱8.57/bid
650	₱5000	₱7.69/bid
1400	₱10000	₱7.14/bid

If you won e.g. ₱5000 Zara Gift Card at a bid of ₱4.94, the site would earn as much as ₱8234.98 from the people who participated in the bidding, but highest bidder will only shed out ₱4.94~₱5.
To sum it all up:

Bids	Estimated Cost	Highest Bid	Number of Bids	PisoBid Earned (1bid=₱16.67)
₱1000 Cellphone Load	₱1000	₱2.43	243	₱4050.81
₱5000 Zara Gift Card	₱5000	₱4.94	494	₱8234.98
Apple iPod Shuffle worth ₱2800	₱2800	₱2.60	260	₱4334.20
₱500 Starbucks Gift Card	₱500	₱2.19	219	₱3650.73
Apple iPod Nano 8GB	₱7200	₱19.31	1931	₱32189.77
Samsung Digital Camera SH100	₱10990	₱9.41	941	₱15686.47

I repeat, in my opinion PisoBid is not a scam but just another product of great entrepreneurial mind. In order to not feel cheated, we should spend our bids wisely. I haven't tried bidding yet. I still have 5 free bids on my account. I have thought of a strategy, which I choose not to disclose in this entry. Happy reading! JJJ

'No Other Woman' Night Out

I went to Glorietta 4 to meet my high school friends and classmates, Ivy and Jecy, to watch the most talked about movie, No Other Woman staring Anne Curtis, Derek Ramsay, and Christine Reyes.

Since we will be meeting at around 7PM, I stayed late in the office to finish my reports and other stuff. I got there at a quarter before 7PM to meet Ivy who bought our movie tickets already since had the nearest office among us three (Jecy in BGC, me in Shaw). Jecy came minutes before the movie started.
The movie house was full so Ivy wasn't able to choose three adjacent seats for us. Jecy and I sat in the same row but we eventually sat together since the guy and I exchange seats while Ivy was two rows ahead of us. The movie wasn't heavy as other movies on adultery. The movie was rated R but sure has a lot of lessons to learn. Here's a list of my favorite lines:
1) Ang mundo ay isang malaking Quiapo, madaming snatcher, maagawan ka.
2) You will only be called a mistress when there’s an emotional attachment. I’m not a mistress.
3) You can call me whatever you want,SNAKE, BITCH or OTHER WOMAN, but I promise you, I will never be a PATHETIC and BORING housewife.
4) Sabi nila, a way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Sa ganda mong yan, siguro madami kang alam na shortcuts.
5) Alam mo kasi ang marriage parang exclusive village. Kailangan mong bantayan para hindi makapasok ang mga squatters.
6) Kapag ang lalaki, maya't maya nagpalit ng babae, OK lang yun! Basta sayo umuuwi. Pero pag ang lalaki may suki nangkapit, dun ka na lumaban!

7) Pare-parehong puta lang yun! Ang mayaman bumibili ng hermes sa mall, ang mahirap bumibili ng hermes sa greenhills.

Actually, most of my favorite lines were the ones delivered by Carmi Martin. She was totally hilarious! 

Hmmm... Overall, the movie is really good! Anne Curtis, I can't believe she will be good in acting (as compared to her Chubi Del Rosario love team moments acting. LOL). Her acting scenes which I really love are: (a)when she went after Derek Ramsay and beg for him to not leave her; (b) when she had a catfight with Christine Reyes but she just let her spank her selflessly. I really took pity on her but she deserves it for having a relationship and falling in love with a married man. About Christine Reyes' acting, she is also good, except for the most dramatic part, when she told her husband that Anne told her they are having an affair, which turned out to be a laughing stock in the movie house because her voice is so deep like it underwent a vocoder editing or something. Haha. And compared to Anne's english, hers was not that ok, especially when she said this (refer to the italicized phrase):

       Charmaine: Why don’t you have dinner with us tonight, pa thank you ko na rin dahil 
                         kinuha mo ang asawa ko.

      Kara: I’m sorry?

      Charmaine: Bilang supplier ng furniture para sa resort niyo.

I think it would be better if she said it in Filipino because there's something wrong with the delivery of words. Haha. But still, I love that movie. Nice bods, nice lines, great story. I just hope the writer could have not only focused on the adultery case but also to Derek's relation with his father which was left hanging.

After the movie, we headed to Starbucks to catch up on each other's lives. I missed them. I just hope our friends who were supposed to be with us that night should have told us they weren't coming but we still had fun though. 

Our only picture. Blurred pa!

Next movie project: Private Benjamin! Haha

Header At Last

I opt to keep a minimal design on my site since an overdecorated blog is such an eyesore to me. Well, I never think that way before but I got so fed up in changing my site's design that I ended up having borders and some two to three colors in it (which I then loved, by the way). So, since I am having more time in doing  nonsensical things, I tried making my own personal header. But before I came up to this: 

I, at first, had this:

but it was soooo plain. so I added the definition of my site's title. There's not much difference, isn't it? By the way, the "nomenclature" (I suddenly missed science because of that word) of the word is discussed in the About Malaisms page. 

I don't know if people find the header cute, but their opinion would not make me change it. I like the simplicity of it. :)

The New Page

 I added another page on this blog- the Food Trip page! Yeay! :) I have been plannning to make a separate site for that, which I may do just in case I still don't know how to add entries on a separate page. I'm actually having a hard time in knowing how to do that. Help.
I made my first food trip entry for this blog. You may wanna check out this link

http://madashlai.blogspot.com/p/food-trips.html