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Remembering the past

Last November 2, I went to Mount Carmel at New Manila (near Broadway Centrum along Aurora) to visit my dad. The space that housed his ashes is also shared with his brother and another space for his sister. Its been years since I last visited my dad, and months since I last went to a church. I know, I don’t anymore go to church and I seldom visit my dad. Although I still remember him, and always appears in my dreams at least three or four times a month.

They say dreams is way of communicating with the dead or even other people that are still alive. Others, tell that dreams are just thoughts that surfaced from the unconscious part of your brain. Whichever is true, I didn’t forget my dad. I believe that even when a person is already dead, if you still remember him alive then he probably is, not physically but just in our thoughts. I always remember him, specially when I’m watching a movie, since he and I used to go to the theater since I was a kid. We both loved Sci-Fi, action, and adventure genre. Sometime I wish he could see the movies nowadays, the movies he would have liked and loved. Movies based on science fiction and/or involving the future. Movies that are based from comics or books, movies that were recreated from old ones, movies that are a continuation from the past era (like the Highlander), and movies like Transformers which used the most modern effects technology has to offer.

When I watch a movie I know my dad would have liked, I always say to myself, “Dad, I wish you could see this.” I wished that he would have stayed and see the advancement of technology. The stuff that he could only see in the movies, and now in our reality. As for me, I get every chance I have to watch the latest movie, check out the latest gadget, read about the latest in technology. My dad is a man of science, and I am too. And I know that I won’t live long enough to see how much technology will evolve in the coming years.

I’ve learned a lot from my dad, and here are just a few “food for thoughts” I learned from him that until now I still remember.

  • If you are not a celebrity or a popular person and you want a lot of people to remember you, you can do three things: publish a book, plant a tree, or create a church.
  • In general, and average human only uses 10% of his/her brain, but there are two kinds who uses more than that percentage. They are the true geniuses and the insane. Geniuses typically use their intellect to improve (or destroy) the lives of humans. Their brain can handle the overload of using more than 10% of their brain. In the future, probably, humans who can use the higher percentage of their brain will initially develop psychokinesis talents like; telekinesis, telepathy, technokinesis/pathy, pyrokinesis, precognition, etc. On the other hand, people who can’t control (and full use) more than 10% of their brain becomes insane. Some of these people that have been branded as insane claims they can see the future/past or they can see ghosts, which I think they probably are telling the truth, it’s just not accepted as norms in today’s era. The mind controls everything consciously (like talking) and unconsciously (like our heartbeat), it controls our internal organs, and may possibly control external objects (mind over matter, telekinesis).
  • If you want something done immediately, do it today. He always reminds me that, because I’m lazy.
  • If you are going to point a gun at someone you’d better shoot it, else don’t bother pointing it at anybody. That probably didn’t helped.
  • Don’t match clothes that are colored blue and brown. I don’t know the logic behind this fashion statement, but until now I don’t wear a blue shirt with my brown pants.

There are more, but I think this post is getting longer and I really don’t like long posts as I don’t want the reader (if there are any) getting bored.

Back to the story.

After visiting my dad, I had lunch with my mom at Gateway (Cubao) then I headed back to SM Fairview while my mom went to another place for some errand. I have nothing to do at the mall so I looked for a good movie to watch. I’ve already seen Stardust and Resident Evil 3; and there are no other good movie that day (unless you are suggesting I watch a Filipino movie, which I usually don’t). I decided to watch Balls of Fury, a movie about a retired ping pong player hired by an FBI to go undercover at an illegal ping pong tournament or something like that. It’s a good time and money waster if you have nothing to do. After the movie I browsed around the video store for a couple of videos. As I was going to the cashier, I was surprised to see a familiar face from the past…
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VCD’s

I went to the mall again today. I went there just to buy a pre-paid card for my globe number. I didn’t leave just yet after that, I strolled around for a few minutes. I hate going to malls on weekends coz there are so many people. Yeah you know I hate crowds, but what can I do, I really have to buy that pre-paid card. I was also planning to watch a movie today, but as I looked around the cinema, there was nothing worth watching this week. Instead I went to the department store I bought a couple of VCD’s to add to my ever growing collection. I don’t know why, but I recently started buying “original” VCD’s every week. My “usual” routine every Saturday (or Sunday) was to go to the mall, buy VCD’s and a take-out from my favorite resto, KFC. Then go back home, watch a movie while eating hotshots, chicken burger, fries, and any other available meal from KFC. Today I got to buy a couple of videos; the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Serendipity, X-Men The Last Stand, Raise Your Voice, and Devil’s Advocate. I’ve already watched all of this, most at the movie theater.Here is a picture of the VCD’s taken using my webcam (and another excuse to show Belldandy again in my blog).

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Why these titles?
Lord of the Rings trilogy: well I want to watch an adventure movie today, so this is on my list.
Serendipity: I like the story of this romantic comedy about chance and destiny.
X-Men: The Last Stand: Finally I have completed all “Marvel Comics” movies to date.
Raise Your Voice: I’m having second thoughts before I actually picked this up on the rack at the mall. I like the story a little bit, or maybe because this reminds me of my ex (she likes Hilary Duff, I actually downloaded the movie Cadet Kelly for her because it was the second movie of Hilary and was never sold here in the Philippines).
Devil’s Advocate: I just like the story and because I watched Sweet November yesterday and it reminds me of the team up between Keanu Reeves & Charlize Theron (I find her cute BTW ^_^).

Till here… I’m gonna watch another movie again before I sleep.

Tagging: Erika (hamster hime) ^_^