Thursday, November 26, 2009
Team Building
Monday, November 23, 2009
New Moon
The wait is over for the new Twilight Saga as New Moon opened last Friday. Fans rushed to cinemas to watch the sequel of Bella-Edward vampire-theme love story, this time combined with a wolf-theme love triangle as Jacob (Taylor Lautner) made a bigger important role in this new series.According to boxoffice.mojo, New Moon earned a record-breaking single day gross of $72.7 million in North America alone. The record was previously owned by The Dark Knight with $67.2 million which opened last year. Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince opened $62 million and $58.2 respectively this year. New Moon's three-day gross ended up with $140.7 million which is good at third place in all-time opening weekends in North America. Its worldwide opening weekend reached to $258.8 which is currently at No. 7.
Summit Entertainment is probably celebrating the success of the Twilight Sequel as it only made with in $60 million budget. Current No. 1 Movie for the Summit Entertainment Distributor is the first Twilight movie which earned up to $190 million last year earned in domestic, and $385 million worldwide and was made by $3o million production cost. Thanks to New Moon, Summit somehow cope with the lost of its other films released this year, which includes Push, Astro Boy and Sorority Row.
Although not much accepted but the most critics, New Moon is well accepted with open arms with the book's fans. That includes my self, I didn't much like the movie but I am glad to see everything came to live again. I didn't expect too much, but somehow amazed how Chris Wietz encapsulated everything in a 2-hour film without missing a single important part in the book. Kristin Stewart and Robert Pattinson somehow made a better acting this time, but Taylor Lautner needs to work more on his acting. Dakota Fanning was really good, it was a short scene though, but couldn't forget the way she said her line "This may only hurt a little...". I was so surprised with Michael Sheen, I didn't know that he was on the film. Like Dakota, Michael Sheen is one of the best actors that cast in the New Moon. The scene with Volturi is my favorite scene in the film.
I shouldn't also forget to comment on the soundtrack (the album made it to No. 1 in Billboard 200 by the way). Songs are really cool, it sounds so new with totally different beat, so different compare to it's first OST album. I didn't know Stephenie Meyer has a very good taste of songs (I'm sure she made big part in choosing the soundtrack for the film). Meanwhile, Eclipse is set to be released in June 30, as November date is taken by the first part of Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows.
Over-all, New Moon delivers a very safe move in everything. It's not the best love story ever told, but somehow the book made it huge and fans are craving for more.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Drive to Five is Over
The training somehow worked for me 'coz I got 3 surveys with an average of 90% for two weeks. Before the training begun my MTD survey was at 60%, the training was really a big help that pulled up my stats, and currently I am at 75% for total of 6 surveys. Our site's monthly target is 73%. For two months now, I've been exceeding the site's target as I scored 77% last month. Hopefully I am able to keep it up. Although we are done with two-week program, Candy will still be monitoring our calls and our surveys for our consistency. I'm so glad that everything works fine for me now. Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) really helps a lot. Thanks for whoever created the video I watched about PMA.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Lucky Day for me..
Any way, when I started my shift last night, I seemed to have a good-luck day, maybe because it's my birthday or whatever reason. I got two surveys from our clients with a "Very Satisfied" rating. The comments were good, and I am so happy that I made Candy (our trainer/coach) 'coz we are undergoing training with her. At least everything she does to us must be effective.
I'm looking forward for more good surveys from our client, after all I'm for a regularization next month. I have to keep my performance up. And I'm pretty sure if its for me, it will be mine. God knows best. For now, I'm just enjoying whatever blessings I have.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
12 Rounds
It took several months for me to watch this movie, maybe because I failed to watch his first movie, The Marine. The director of this film is the same director of Die Hard 2 and Deep Blue Sea, which gave me interest to watch 12 Rounds. Starred by John Cena, a wrestler superstar, whose relationship with World Wrestling Federation (WFF) reached to a higher level of producing films. WWF has already produced four films which include The Marine, See No Evil, and The Condemned. Two of the films are starred by John Cena and I won’t be surprised if they still have movies installed for him. ‘Coz despite of not so being a box office success, their films are not poorly rated and earned a lot through DVD rentals and sales.
Donnie (John Cena), starred as a police officer who made the most outstanding job in his career by sending a famous gangster, Miles Jackson (Aidan Gillen) to jail. Donnie got promoted with the job and after a year, Miles broke off from jail and started to haunt Donnie, his wife and his best friend. Playing a very exciting game of Miles, Donnie needs to survive the 12 rounds to save his wife and his best friend.
Mr. Cena needs to work on his acting, but since he is a new comer, what he did in this film was bearable. Every round is breath-taking, it’s like watching a boxing fight except that knock out is impossible without reaching the 12th round. Not the best but one of the good action-packed films that shouldn’t be missed.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
2012 - The mother of all disaster films
"2012" is happening now in the Philippines and I have finally watched the movie yesterday. I was planning to watch the movie today, but couldn't wait for it. So while waiting for my interview schedule yesterday (application for abroad) I passed by Glorieta Cinemas and the first screening was almost starting at around 11:45. I immediately bought a ticket, grabbed a burger and a large coke from McDonald and headed to the cinema and looked for my seat. After several trailer, 2012 started. The first main character (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) in the film looked so familiar. I have seen him in Redbelt movie. I can't forget his character because of his excellent performance in that film. It was after several minutes 'til John Cusack was shown with his funny act. He played a not-so-known author of the book in the film which later taught a very important lesson or realization to Ejiofor's character.After several minutes, disasters begun in different parts of the world. I had nothing to say but "Whoa, wow...what the f***.." again and again. It started by a mini quake in which earth cracked like an egg shell then followed by a real monster earthquake, gigantic tsunamis and a fireballs from the sky. The disaster effects and thrilling action were to be expected in the film, but what I didn't expect was the story. It is more inspiring and very touching. It tells us that there is always hope no matter what, may it be an end of the world. Indeed 2012 is the mother of all disaster films that should never missed to watch.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Letting go..
I still remember that night, when I told her" why don't we give it a try". Despite the idea of a long distance relationship she said "Yes". Then after three days, I left for Manila, for first few days, the exchange of messages was frequent, like normal couple who misses each other. But after few weeks, I don't know what had gotten into me. I wasn't able to keep up with the responsibility even for simple way of replying her text messages. Until she buzzed me with her message "do you still want this to work?". I apologized to her and somehow it fixed that issue after a whole night of talk about it (through text messages). When she told me that she's goining to Bicol and would stay in Manila for few days, I immediately filed for a leave to be with her. While together, conversations regarding our conflict religion was brought up, which was never an issue between us before. Then she started talking about what happened way back in Zamboanga, how she waited for my text messages just to show that I still care for her. She was telling me like "what if after a few days of being together here in Manila, it will happen again?I don't want to go back to Zamboanga and to hope again that you would still care for me, that's why, if we can't handle it, let's call it off..."
I didn't want it first, I forced my self to make it up, But there was nothing I havendone that pleased her. I met her father formally with her brother the night before her flight to Zamboanga. The whole night was a total disaster for her, as I failed her expectation again. I was also thinking of my own "like" to happen. As we were waiting for our ride back home, there was a silence again. I didn't talk the whole time we were together that day, except when we met her father and brother. She broke the silence with her comment "kanina ka pa di nagsasalita, napipikon na ko"..Then I said "lahat ng gusto ko ayaw mo, and then you are asking me what do i want?what do you want me to say?"..There was a silence again, then we sat on one of the benches in Mall of Asia and finally talked seriously. There was an exchange of blame and complaints, both parties seemed to be of against each other. 'Til both of said, "Ok, let's call if of"..As I said "if you think that there is no way for us to make this working, then let's call it off"..We ended the conversation that night with both parties agreeing to call it over. She was crying while we were talking, it was not easy for both us to say it though, but we let go with one another that night.
Among my previous relationships, my relationship with Kristine, is the one that has the most meaningful end for me. I learned a lot of things that will make me a better person, a better man to my woman. She is in Zamboanga now, and we are still texting, we are still friends. I may always know what happen, but for me and Kristin, I'm sure that if we can't be together again, we will remain as good friends.




