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I am angry. Why in the world did this happen. I  thought this was going to be a sad story. And it is but it has made me angry that a person rose to power with the ideals of killing people. I  saw Schindler's List when I was a teen, roughly the same age when Anne wrote the diary. I remember it being a big deal at the time. But I didn't get to have any emotional weight to it. It appeared as something that only grown ups talk about.

"You have to go through that pain at some point because if you live constantly confined with your unwillingness to go through pain, you do not develop into who you are supposed to be." This was from a podcast episode of the Art of Charm with Russell Brand. 

Antifragile, is like if the stoics had a 21st century background in risk, volatility and randomness.

Oktubre na pala. Lumipas na ang huling siyam na buwan. Dahil bihira ko magsulat sa tinubuang salita, Ang hirap!  Kakaiba rin na kelangan ko pang gumamit ng Google Translate, para sa sariling wika. I'd thought that I'd be in a way worse situation back when I was imagining what the near future will seem like around March/April. I guess it lends some credence to what some people say that to an extent, our fears get way too overblown on our own. We have a tendency to underestimate our own. Pero dahil ganun na nga, masaya naman. Steady. Steady lang. Okay na steady. Kaunti nalang pasko na! Woohoo! Bakasyon.

It is like if the mouse in Tom & Jerry, met up with the human versions of Jerry, and had a ball with Slapstick and Visual comedy. The Christmas-sy feel and music to it reminds me of Home Alone.  It must have spawned the later art that came after it.   Stuart Little and that Rat from Ratatouille would be happy seeing this movie. I haven't since this film since I was in grade school. I remember watching it via VHS over and over as a kid. It triggered a small trip to memory lane: sitting at the living room with the family eating some kind of corn chips or cheese crackers.  I remember being so fascinated and engrossed over this. Reading some of the "adult's" reviews about it now, it doesn't seem like they have the same sentiments. Sure in the grand archive of cinema, this movie probably makes a minuscule mark compared to some of the giants at the time, but  my experience as that kid some 20 odd years ago remain the same.    Nice to revisit t...

Haven't written something personal in a long while. I recently went to a close friend's wedding. Now I've been to weddings before but there's something different when you're much closer in age to the couple. Weddings I've attended before, they were fun. But the thoughts then went nearer to "This must be something what grown ups do." A change in time. Fast Forward a couple years. We're now the adults. The grown ups. Is this what grown ups do?  Life happens.  We make decisions. We made decisions. We still do. What are you trying to say? I am just glad. To have been able to participate in a milestone for other people.  This is a quiet time. I made a post here somewhere before. Something I thought of as a quiet kind of happiness.  This is one of them.

It's easy to box in as a fairly simple story. In the beginning, it seemed like a princess meets a commoner type of story; at the middle, it appeared as a coming of age film; at the end, it's really more an exploration, an adventure movie.  One does not always see a female lead in what Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn could have been riding in.  I guess we're in that time now. It's a good movie to watch with a daughter; or a niece.  Sacha would be a great model for young girls.