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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE IS WORTH IT

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Poster, credit: National Theatre Live website Finally gathered my thoughts in order, I think, after watching National Theatre Live's (in partnership with the Cultural Centre of the Philippines) A Streetcar Named Desire with Gillian Anderson as Blanche DuBois, Vanessa Kirby as Stella Kowalski, and Ben Foster as Stanley Kowalski on Tuesday, 24 June at Glorietta 4. For full disclosure, yes I watched because Gillian. I heard the others discussing the characters and story; probably students. I never watched the film - we have a VCD of it because my mum likes Marlon Brando - nor have I read the book. I came in armed with the knowledge of what I read in Wikipedia. I do know that I want to see this because, again, Gillian. And we rarely get to see plays or musicals filmed and released in theatres. I didn't know that: 1. CCP is partnered with NTL; 2. NTL released this particular play during the pandemic in their YouTube channel; and 3. I always see Fleabag - which I also love and got ...

Left Me Breathless for the Second Time

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19 March 2023. I never worried so much in my life. This day was the first day of selling of my favourite band's concert tickets, the Corrs. They have been my favourite since I was in high school. I've seen them before, though, but they have not been in the Philippines since then. In 2000, they announced that the Corrs would be having a Valentine concert at the Araneta Coliseum. Unfortunately for me, it was sudden so I didn't manage to save up for it so I knew I was going to miss it. Come January, they announced that the concert would be postponed at a later date because Andrea, the lead singer, contracted an ear infection. Those who purchased tickets should hold on to their tickets or refund them. Some chose to hold on to them, some chose to refund them. When they did, it opened some more seats so they sold more tickets. I just had my 18th birthday and because we didn't have any means to have a grand debut party, I asked if I could instead see and hear the Corrs live, n...

The Hardest Day - Chloé, mon chat bien-aimé

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11 December 2020. A day I will now always remember because I made a huge decision: a decision between a life of pain and suffering and life without pain and eventual suffering. Earlier this year, in June, we lost our indoor cat, Missy. It was a very hard blow especially to my sister, her main mama, because she had been with us for nearly 13 years. It left us with one cat, Chloe, who stays outdoor. He (named before he was sexed) was sort of a rescue, a domestic shorthair/moggie/puspin, with my other previous feral, Boq, catnapping him. You know, like a cat who brings home gifts to his family. Boq did that with Chloe in 2016. I didn't even know where he got this wee, four- to six-week-old kitten. But unlike Boq, Chloe never left our property for fear that he might end up like our other adopted ferals, just lost. He was very healthy despite not having any vaccinations and dewormed just twice. Until he got his common colds in August. Chloe, a year or a few months ago I have been in a n...

So I Recently Watched LOST...Finally

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LOST (Credit: Evangeline Lilly Network) Because I ran out of Evangeline Lilly things. Haha! I first saw her act in Real Steel  back in 2011 - because I didn't let any Hugh Jackman film slip through until it became so many >.< - though I knew her from the show. Then came The Hobbit  films and Ant-man  and Ant-Man and the Wasp , my favourite Marvel Cinematic Universe film because Wasp.♥ I love Wasp before I even binged on all things Evangeline! I don't know why I love Wasp but she's awesome! (My other two MCU faves are Black Panther  and Doctor Strange .) I really never had any intention of watching the show mainly because I heard of reviews/comments, whilst positive, said that you will indeed get lost in LOST . It's a little discouraging. But as Hope said, It's about damn time.

Whiskey Cavalier Deserves A Lot More Than What It Got

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In your lifetime, there are many shows you will love and be entertained with. FRIENDS , 30 Rock , Doctor Who are for me to name a few. Sometimes, you get invested in those shows that you want to be in them and want to protect and envelop them in a bubble because you relate to the characters or because they make you happy every week. I had three, let's just say, that I literally got emotionally attached to, shows where you will cry over every small thing that happens to the characters. These three are Parks and Recreation , Castle , and most recently, and was a surprise, Whiskey Cavalier .

Laugh Hard. Run Fast. Be Kind.

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This series of Doctor Who is plagued with whiners. Ever since I became a fan, with The Doctor’s Wife being my entry point, I’ve never heard so many complaints regarding the season or the actor playing The Doctor. It was always “I love Capaldi!” or “I love Matt!” I’ve only seen a handful of those this time. Honestly, I really don’t know why if it’s because it’s a female, portrayed brilliantly by Jodie Whittaker, or it’s because it hits nerves. 

The Doctor: An Inspiration And Her First Test

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The new series of Doctor Who  premiered a few weeks ago and I'm soooooo ecstatic that it really turned out well. Jodie Whittaker's take on the Time Lord reminds me very much of Christopher Eccleston's and David Tennant's Doctors. The feel of the episodes and the stories are just like when I was introduced to the show, backtracking episodes, sometime in 2012. I also like the design of her TARDIS and also reminds me of the aforementioned Doctors. The opening sequence where their names appear is also awesome though it doesn't have the spinning TARDIS although I think I can see some Gallifreyan writing through the spinning swirls. Nothing much happened in her first two episodes, technically, as we were just getting introduced to the rest of the team - Ryan, Yaz, and Graham - and, of course, finding her TARDIS, her Ghost Monument. We were also introduced to Grace in the first episode. She was Ryan's nan/grandma. She was a caretaker and had a no-nonse...