Best Actors: Eddie Garcia & Nora Aunor

Nora Aunor and Eddie Garcia bolster Pinoy Pride after winning top acting honors at the 7th Asian Film Awards.

Eddie Garcia won two trophies for playing a grouchy gay man waiting for his death in the company of his dog in "Bwakaw". Aside from bagging the Best Actor Award, he also won the Best Actor People’s Choice Award.

Nora Aunor’s "Thy Womb" performance also got noticed at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in Australia where she was named Best Actress. Brillante Mendoza also bagged the Best Director prize for "Thy Womb".

(Photo By: Courtesy of Albert Sunga)

Bituin Walang Ningning

I watched yesterday "bituin walang ningning" on cinema one on TFC. Sigh, everytime I watch the movie "bituin walang ningning", I always have teary eyed in the end. Wala lang, ganda kasi ng song eh. So simply but deeply meaningful. My ultimate OPM song actually. Korni? LOL

Ploning

oo nga pala, i wached the movie ploning last week, i don't remember when but i watched the DVD where i bought it last december in the philippines. actually, i really wanted to watch the movie at rockwell tent, in makati city, on december 4, 2008. the exactly day that i arrived in the philippines. but i was so tired from my flight, so i slept na lang in my hotel. ahihi. anyways, the movie is about, waiting devotionally for someone, keeping secrets, not showing what's inside the heart but very helpful to others. that's ploning in judy ann santos' role. the movie was nominated for the entry to the 81st academy awards for the best foreign language film category. yes, pinoy pride! but ploning did not make it. that's so sad. but somehow the movie was adored abroad. and the funny thing was when i watched the movie, i was eating salted cashew while i'm watching. because you can see in the movie how they produce the salt and the carmelized cashews. wala lang. ahihi. and you can see the other side of the philippines, specially the island of cuyo, palawan. they're speaking cuyonin. actually. di ko ma gets. bisaya ba yon? but all the casts learned the dialect for the film. ganda sya, kasi, dalawang beses ko panuod at dalawang beses din ako na luha. ahuhu. this is it.

Ang Tanging Ina N'yong Lahat

watched this movie at MOA. ahihi. yes, super funny itong movie. sa umpisa pa lang, sasakit na chan mo! this is it.

100

hay, grabe, ganda ng film na 100. ganda ng gawa, galing galing ng mga artista. lalo na si mylene dizon. i fell in love with mylene dizon sa movie. galing nya. saka si eugene domingo, she shows her other side. kakaiyak sya sa huli. ahuhu.

"According to filmmaker Chris Martinez, his official entry to Cinemalaya is a "celebration of the senses and what life has to offer." His goal was to do a film about death in a young fresh way. By doing so he believes he celebrates life. 100 chronicles the last three months of a cancer-stricken woman (played by Mylene Dizon) who has a list of things to do before she dies. Her list of tasks, mostly dealing with closure and practical matters, covers the worldly and spiritual worlds as people close to her share her last days. The film examines the betrayal of the body, celebrates the senses and contemplates the end of life and how to live it. A light-hearted, briskly paced, youthful take on a classic subject, 100 stars today’s most exciting performers such as Mylene Dizon, Eugene Domingo, Tessie Tomas, TJ Trinidad, Ryan Eigenmann, Simon Ibarra, and others. Under the creative supervision of Marlon Rivera, 100 is written and directed by Chris Martinez." - Dagupena Dreamer

Ang Pag-Ibig Ay Walang Hangganan

3 early in the morning i decided to watch a movie again. i watched "batanes". starring iza calzado and ken chu from the taiwanese boy group "F4". introducing, joem bascon. and also starring, bembol roco, daria ramirez, sid lucero, coco martin, glaiza de castro, mike tan, julio diaz and aleth dela cruz. the movie is soo romantic and the place is soo fantastic. i really fell in love with "batanes". i hope, one day, someday, i can visit the place. and the song. i soo like the theme song. "nag-iisa, wala ka na - noel cabangon". naging familiar yung song sa akin kasi, marck shared it on his blog, tapos na challenge pa nga ako, kaya gumawa ako kaagad ng poem. but i love the theme song, sung by jolina magdangal "hanggang dulo". the song is also composed by noel cobangon. hay, so romantic. this is it.