2 Movies, A Birthday, A Party and A Funeral

This was one hell of a weekend...not my typical weekend. In a matter of three days, I've managed to see two really cool Spanish films for only P60 bucks, met new and old people, play arcade, get myself a bit drunk, embarrass myself a little, and attend a funeral. If I was to rate it out of 10, it'd probably be a 9. I had a blast.

Starting off with Friday, it was CBE day. Supposedly, that night was the session with my cousins but I think there was a slight confusion. So the night before, Ikay and I just decided to go see the movies in the Spanish Film Festival in Greenbelt. It was all set. My date with Ikay. That day, I went to my Markres class as usual. I didn't really expect anything because a group was just going to report. To my surprise, the classroom didn't look anything like a classroom. Instead, the group designed it in a way that it looked like a huge board game. So we had a game and it was really fun. We could've won, if not for Ted's stupidity of throwing the giant dice. Oh well. After class, my carpoolmate Toby and I went to G4 to check out the coffee conjunction for our Markres class (we didn't want to go to Cavite for the class field trip). When we got there, we found out that it was useless going there. After 3 minutes in G4, we went back to La Salle (talk about waste of time and gas). Since it was CBE day, my friend Jam was going to perform for the variety show and he's been inviting me to watch one of his gigs, and it was the only day I could see him perform. Besides, he was a rapper and I'm really not into rap. I must say, they were really good. And they weren't the kind of rappers with the bling blings I was expecting. I was able to appreciate their performance a little. Of course, being a good friend and all, I screamed and cheered really hard for them. Oh and by the way, that John guy whom they said was this freestyler shit champion was sort of good looking. PWEDE. I was supposed to watch Sponge Cola perform but they were stuck in traffic and since I had a date, I wasn't able to wait for them.

When I got to Greenbelt, it was about 7:05pm. Ikay said the movie was going to start at 7pm, which meant we were late and she hasn't arrived either. I even thought it was gonna be at Greenbelt 3. After a few minutes of looking for each other, we headed to Greenbelt 1 and decided to still watch "Smoking Room" even if we were 20 minutes late. I was kinda tired already but I still really wanted to watch the movie so I did. It was filled with conversations and they were all close-up shots which made me fall asleep in some of the scenes. But I still got the message and it was really cool. Basically, it was about this guy who works in this office and he wanted to have a smoking room. He asked for his co-workers signatures for his petition and the movie showed all the conversations he had while trying to persuade his officemates so join him in his petition. In the end, he only got 5 signatures, including his, and obviously that's not a lot and there's word circulating that if he doesn't stop making a big deal about it, he'll have his ass fired so those 4 guys were telling him they didn't want their signatures in the petition. Because of that, he got really mad that he set this one room in the office on fire. Then at the end of the movie, the conversation of 2 guys from the office were voiced over. One of the scenes in the movie was that there was this guy who was talking with another guy and he was telling his paranoia on how he imagines people he sees from the street would just suddenly stab him and kill him or by how seeing a wire can make him think crazy things like this wire being stuck in his eye or something and he's asking his friend if that was normal. The voice over at the ending was like the conclusion of what seems like that weird guy's therapy. And the other guy was saying how the city can make a person really crazy, how routines can make you insane (and boy can I relate to this!). To simply put it, the movie was about the thin line separating madness from normality. Come to think of it, nothing's really 'normal', right?

After the first movie, we had our dinner in KFC. We both didn't have money and I haven't eaten in KFC for months! I asked Ikay how she was, we talked about ourselves and everyone else. My non-existent love life, her forever loyalty to her neo and how she's "trying" to move on (Hehe!!!), her gross "sugar daddy", my gross admirers, and our prospects whom we'll never meet in a million years. Haha!!! Well, it was fun...

Next movie: "800 Ballas". That was a cute one. It was really funny. It didn't have a lot of those artsy-fartsy shots art films usually have and that was a relief. (I was too tired already to see another one of those that night). The story was nothing I've heard before, the characters were funny, the script was hilarious and witty. I'd like to see it again, actually. Comedy, Action, Drama and slightly pornographic all rolled into one. Haha! The story of a man whose madly in love with making his western movies...only they did it live everyday for tourists in this huge lot where there set is built. He's been doing it all his life and they used real bullets and all the shooting with the running horses caused his only son to die. Years after, his daughter in law who now lives in an enormous house in uptown Madrid along with his bratty kid son and her mother-in-law continue with their lives without him. The death of his son was very painful for his wife and daughter-in-law that they never talk about him or his son anymore. When the bratty but very smart kid accidentally sees the picture of his father in a cowboy suit, he questions his mom but gets nothing from her because she obviously didn't want to talk about it so the kid ended up getting answers from his grandma. She told her grandson that his grandpa works in Almeria as an actor so the very next day, the kid goes to Almeria. All the funny things happen and basically, once the mom finds out what happened, actions starts. Reality mixes with the show without the people realizing it. It was kinda like Big Fish in a way that the people don't know which stuff the grandpa says is real. It's touching and it's a really memorable movie and I'll try and look for it.

That was the first part of my weekend...

**Thanks Ikay for the company ren. We should do that more often! =)