Hana Yori Dango: Final Movie to End Live-Action Drama

After two television series, the live-action adaptation of Yoko Kamio’s Hana Yori Dango (Boys Over Flowers) manga will end with the Hana Yori Dango: Final theatrical movie, which will screen in summer of 2008 in Japan. The romantic comedy centers on a girl named Tsukushi who struggles with life in a clique-filled private academy and her feelings for the boys in the most elite clique, F4. The movie will take place one year after Tsukushi’s graduation ceremony (which was the last scene of the second television series) as a major incident brings the five main characters together.

The series stars Mao Inoue, Jun Matsumoto, Shota Matsuda, Shun Oguri, and Tsuyoshi Abe will all reprise their roles as Tsukushi, Tsukasa, Sojiro, Rui, and Akira, respectively. The movie will also feature special guest stars. The series’ chief director Yasuhara Ishii will start the two-month shoot in January and include overseas locations. Kamio is currently developing the story with the series scriptwriter, Mikio Satake (the penname of actor Takayuki Takuma).

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-08-20/hana-yori-dango-final-movie-to-end-live-action-drama

OMG! Is this for real? If yeah, ang happy!

After three consecutive years of being beside myself with fear, facing the coming month of September gives me a different kind of high no one I personally know will ever understand (yet…keeping my fingers crossed for two friends J). And even though I’m already in Cloud 9 by just ‘being normal’ this first –ber month of the year, I am lucky (hmmm, this line hardly figured in my past entries ah) I was still given an additional ria-mababaw-happiness boost.

Tandadadan…I was admitted to serve as a supervisor for two weeks in the 2007 Bar Examinations!

Yeah, some say the effort is not worth the compensation for this kind of duty; however, to me, this opportunity is a great ‘closure’ for all the Philippine legal bar pains I’ve been through (hahaha, so the dramah).  In addition, serving in and not taking the bar exams is to complete my SC-experience din J!  I just hope everything will go smoothly the two weeks I am slated to supervise. 

To the barristers; good luck and see you in DLSU!

Note: This year’s Bar Chairman is J. Azcuna.  Next year, the Bar Chairman is J. Tinga.

yummy! tastes and chewy like frutella.  and unlike all antacid meds, this one does not leave you with a dry, chalk-y mouth feeling. 

thanks for making this my friend, shey! uy, pfizer made it din pala, bets :o)

What a weekend!

The family of Shey’s sister had a freak vehicular accident in Tarlac (near Pangasinan) that their Innova ended up like this (see photo).

Bets and I accompanied a very distressed Shey at the site of the incident, the police station, and at Villaflor Hospital in Dagupan where her family was later transferred from Del Carmen Hospital in Tarlac.

Thank goodness, everyone just sustained minor injuries considering what happened.  What a blessing also for strangers and friends who helped Shey — the good samaritans who got her family out of the Innova and rushed them to the nearest hospital; Betty’s Pfizer counterparts who assisted them with the police and the transfer from Tarlac to Dagupan; and Me-ann and Rex Lor for the food, clothes, and adopting us overnight in Dagupan when we were advised to just bring the patients back to Manila the following day. 

Remembering TCB…

January 1943 - August 2003

despite being sad, pissed, and/or stressed, when an airplane taxies a few meters away or passes overhead, just before it lands…i can’t help but go: Wheeeeeeee! :o)

so many anti-dandruff shampoo commercials (and consequently, such products in the market).

are pinoys really that dandruff-y?!

"God will provide."  calling, calling, God; it’s been almost three months since my transfer and a month since i got my last pay check..GASP! Damn government bureacracy!

Two nights ago, I had a nightmare of me having a nightmare.  SCARY. Weird thing is, despite being asleep, I remember  I was telling myself to wake my dream self to get out of the nightmare so I can get out of my nightmare.  ang labo ba? ako rin na-confuse!

My newly re-stringed charms and crystals bracelet (after almost two years in hibernation) snapped again.  I wonder what horrible bad luck did it absorb to protect me this time? 

Ay, ay, ay!  What’s with this August ah!  Not keeping with Berby’s World 2007!

this has just got to be one of the most horrible days i’ve had this year.

since friday, something sucky for me at work; domino effect and by (bad)luck of the draw, i just couldn’t seem to get what is expected right…most especially today.  after much tears and contemplation of jumping ship, i am now a puffy-eyed-still-lost-gal!  one thing is for sure, i am not as happy anymore with this part of my job as i used to be.  i really don’t wanna get up in the morning for it. that and these recent circumstances, hay, maybe it’s time to explore options…

add pa that my officemate who was transferred sabay with me finally got her papers and initial salary cleared this morning; while mine, hmmm, i don’t see the end in the horizon!  according to the cashier a while ago, they are still computing my accounts and that i should follow up the next few days again.  top it all, since my said officemate is already occupying my position, i’ve stopped receiving salary therefrom.  gasp!  again, i still can’t believe my transfer is taking this long.  it’s been more than two months already. hahay!

then, tita grace confirmed that lola saling has cancer (kumalat na nga eh — brain, lungs, and liver).  frankly, i am stoic about it — i don’t know what to feel with the fact that we’re confronting another battle with the big C and I am at a loss whether I want continuous-but-taxing medical treatments for lola or go all natural-but-be-helpless na lang.  on the other hand, i know i am conciously not allowing myself to dive into emotions or think what is ahead.  naturally, Proj.2 people are emotional already about the whole thing; and me being me in the family, some relatives say i gotta be strong for them. 

since lola started feeling sick, my guts told me her condition is serious and terminal.  contrary to common reaction, i decided to steer clear of proj. 2.  i dunno, my weird logic tells me that to visit her is to ‘acknowledge’ she is really very ill.  i think i am already coming off to my relatives as someone who doesn’t care.  be that as it may, it’s just weird for me inside to do the ‘acknowledging’  and i don’t want to conciously ‘accept’ that i am smelling death again.

with the recent development, i resolve to try the ‘acceptance’ route na lang.  yes, lola is the pillar of the family; our mother teresa as my dad fondly called her; my secret favorite over my own grandmother.  but she  is also 78 years old already.  she led a full life.  i wish for her a good exit.  thus, i want to take part in making so good indeed.  so, bite the tongue; keep tears in check; gulp down the choking feeling in the throat; and give lola the best. 

oh, to those who know her, please keep mum…lola doesn’t know yet the results of her biopsy.  but please do pray for her and the project 2 people.  and maybe pakisama na rin some enlightenment for me with my work. thanks to those who shall heed.