Super Trouper beams are gonna blind me
But I won’t feel blue
Like I always do
‘Cause somewhere in the crowd there’s you
My father loved the music of ABBA. When we were kids, he made us watch ‘Abba in Switzerland’ several times on TV. Our TV set then was black and white, inside a wooden cabinet with a door and a tiny keyhole. Abba’s music was a fixture in my childhood. I was in fifth grade when I wrote ‘The Winner Takes It All’ in my notebook, in cursive, and memorized it.
I leave the review of Mama Mia to my friend because she can do it with flair. But if you ask me, I had a blast watching it last night at SM-Mall of Asia’s Cinema 3. Before we were ushered inside, I overheard some balikbayans telling each other that they’ve seen the musical in Broadway plus other shows like Rent, Legally Blonde and Les Miserables. I also noticed that there were many foreigners who were about to see the movie. The last time I was inside a cinema was four years ago with my grad school buddies. I think it was julia Robert’s Monalisa Smile.
When I posted about Mama Mia! here, I knew I won’t be disappointed. As I expected, peopled ’twirled’ and sang along with the music. And leaving the cinema won’t be complete without humming ‘Thank You For The Music’.
Whenever a new flavor of any popular street food comes out in the maket, I wonder if there is going to be a kalabasa [squash] or amplaya [bitter melon] flavors. In the case of the ever popular fishball, I have yet to taste neither squash nor bitter melon. The friendly vendors in our neighborhood in Pasay City no longer stick to plain fishball but they have chicken and squid balls in their frying fans as well.
Chicken and squid balls are bigger and cost more. While fishball sells for .50 cents each, chicken and squid are 2.00 pesos each. The dipping sauces that enhance the flavor are basically the same: spicy hot vinegar, thick sweet and sour, and thick spicy hot. I always dip mine in spicy hot vinegar first, then in the sweet and sour.
“Bola-bola” eaters in our place are not just kids but armed security guards, uniformed airline employees and off duty airport porters. Everytime I pass by the usual fishball place, its always swarming with people holding a tiny stick.
Rice in a Box is similar to Chowking’s Chaopan but the latter is more flavorful and more expensive. I wasn’t planning to eat at all after going to SM supermarket. But after passing its booth, the smell made me hungry so I tried. The seller also asked me to try their different topppings but I settled for the mushroom and chicken. While I was eating, a lady in the booth called for customers and I couldn’t help but smile because she did it with gusto and the other ladies inside the booth giggled a lot. It seemed they were having fun calling out for customers. It was good enough for a hungry tummy and after eating it standing up, I was ready to go.
A six-pound pack of Shulz mini-pretzels was sent by my sister from California. Its inside a huge package that came with other stuff. The salty taste of the pretzels didn’t appeal to the kids at home because more than a half of the pack is still uneaten. When I first tasted it, Jack and jill’s Chippy came to my mind at once. Its good for munching though. Because its low fat and zero cholesterol. I have filled three cookie jars -plastic jars, actually - with pretzels and I took them at work.
I can’t wait to see this movie!!
“Gloriusly subversive” according to Times Online Review
Streep is the real star here, and she does serious acting, too, investing a cliff-top rendition of The Winner Takes It All with far more teary gravitas than should be possible for a song that contains the line: “I figured it made sense/ building me a fence”.
Brosnan, meanwhile, is at his funniest and most unBondish. Bless him, but the man cannot sing at all. It’s not that he can’t hold a tune, exactly, more that you can really hear him trying. I hope he is in on the joke.
Maybe it is the mature cast that makes Mamma Mia! work so well. The film is hectic but relaxed. It doesn’t take itself too seriously. Every act of breaking into song is a gag and every dance move an undignified scramble.
Here’s the cast of the musical
And if you really feel like singing belt it out with the original!
Now imagine what my LSS [last song syndrome] is for the last two days…
Saan mo unang natutuhan ang kahulugan ng salitang kasarinlan?
Sino ang unang nagturo sa iyo ng mga kabayanihang ginawa ng mga Pilipinong nagbuwis ng buhay upang makamtan ang kasarinlan mula sa mga mapang-aping dayuhan?
Ito ay isa sa mga watawat na makikita sa ibat-ibang bahagi ng aming paaralan. Sa araw na ito, pag-uusapan sa mga silid-aralan kung paanong nakamit ng ating bayan ang kasarinlan at ang kahalagahan nito sa bawat Pilipino.
Nakamit na natin ang kasarinlan subalit hanggang ngayon ay ipinaglalaban pa rin natin ang tunay na kalayaan.
There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. - Claude Debussy
Ano ang tunog ng ihip ng hangin? Ang mga wind chimes na ito ay naghahatid ng musika habang sila ay nagsasayaw sa ihip ng hangin. Matining, minsan mabilis, minsan mabagal at kaaya-aya.
Sa kabilang dako, habang ang mga wind chimes ay nagbibigay ng kanilang kakaibang musika, ang mga medyas naman ay kuntento na sa pag-indak sa preskong ihip ng hangin..
Before we were ushered inside, I overheard some balikbayans telling each other that they’ve seen the musical in Broadway plus other shows like Rent, Legally Blonde and Les Miserables. I also noticed that there were many foreigners who were about to see the movie. The last time I was inside a cinema was four years ago with my grad school buddies. I think it was julia Robert’s Monalisa Smile. 
