What Love Meant

Asking "Which is more important to humans, to love or to be loved?" is like asking "Which is more important to birds, the left wing or the right wing?"

Tsk. Sorry Twitter Followers and Facebook Friends who tweeted and posted this question, but I beg to differ. It is, for me, too stubborn to give love and expect some to be given back.

To love someone without asking for a return is more important. It's the basic. Love is free, you can give it away to anyone. To be loved is only a reward -- a hard-to-earn reward. You have to show how much you love that someone till she falls for you.

For me, the metaphor has been wrong. It should be that LOVING SOMEONE is the WINGS that makes us fly and TO BE LOVED is the WIND that keeps the flight easier and worthwhile.. :))

Movie Review: The Adjustment Bureau

I always believed that life is nothing but a big cause-and-effect. You win the game because you trained hard, or you're just too awesome. If you fail, then sorry, you just have to try harder.

But this movie was just not what I thought. According to this movie, there's always someone (or some men) who controls your present, be it spilling your coffee or witnessing a car crash, to control what is planned for your future. The Adjustment Bureau was there from the start, so we can change our minds and instead go to where we are supposed to be. They change the way we think, the way we see things, and the way things go to achieve their goals as set in the master plan of our lives.

When politician David Norris (played by Matt Damon) ran for senate, it was a hard time for him. He thought he was winning all along. Then down went the votes. After practicing his lines in the Men's Comfort Room, he realized he was not alone. That's how she met Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt), a girl whose free and wild spirit captured his senses. But alas, they're destined only to meet that night. Or is it? Nope, Chuck Testa. They met again when a member of the Bureau, Harry Mitchell, failed to keep him down. So, when the time was stopped, that's when David went inside the conference room and found the other members of the society manipulating the minds of those other people.

And so, I will not spill further details of what the story is, just a little bit of useful and bloggable data. Sorry. ;)

I certainly loved the movie, because it showed how love moves people to do their stuff, against all odds, even fate. That's what I want to absorb inside, the guts to go on and think that fate is so overrated not to let me try.

The only sick concept here is that some men can hold your thought, change it because that was planned. As David said, "What happened to freewill?" I hate the concept that you can't move to what your guts tells you to. You just let fate control you. You have no choice, like it or not, regret it or not, it's meant to be and it's gonna freaking happen. But it gave me also positive outlooks, that if you're meant to be, you will be.

I love the concept of the ending. Just watch the movie because it was worth it anyways. I won't spill it for you. Just one of the last lines said in the movie.

"...free will is a gift you'll never know how to use until you fight for it." This may learn to be a lesson to us. As the old chant says, CARPE DIEM! XD

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Music Review: Bruno Mars' Doo-woops & Hooligans

Yes, I'm supposedly be working on my academics right now, but the paper I'm supposed to be doing would be pending for at least a week due to a busy teacher. Weeeeee!

Music is really evident in our society right now. But most people just like to sing just because they do. For example, Pete Gene Hernandez, who is more likely to be called by his stage name Bruno Mars by the public. He is of Filipino descent, making me proud of myself being one. He sings because he wants to. And when he sings... O.O

His album, Doo-woops and Hooligans says about his roots and his versatility in genre. This also shows great selection of the order of the song. Here are the list-down of songs:

1. Grenade - This is a stupid song. This shows how guys would do everything for a girl, even if she won't. Great choice of starting song, would give a mindful thinking that Bruno is an "emo".

2. Just The Way You Are - Wew. This is a way to flatter a girl. Give the impression to girls that they don't need to be someone to be loved. Great to back Grenade, after the girl realizes why. :)

3. Our First Time - Sweet song. Perfect for the solo moments. Well, what do we expect? What do you think happens after the girl was flattered? O_O hehehehe

4. Runaway Baby - This is so like Elvis-y song. But behind the beat, just listen to the lyrics. It's so like a hopeful Bruno Mars in there. So maybe it would come in your mind that he wants to make it up with the girl.

5. The Lazy Song - It would be a chill-out song. Yeah, describes most people who just like to relax and enjoy, just even for a day. We all need to relax, recharge as we need to do things.

6. Marry You - Wanna propose? Just sing this song. But this gives an impression also that you have to wait for the right "yes". This also means, after a while of thinking, yeah you could think of how are you to propose after. XD

7. Talking to the Moon - Shoot, this is so emotional, and showing how he could be so smooth. It is somehow good to keep away pride for awhile and accept that you need her. He maybe was denied on the way he proposed. tsk.

8. Liquor Store Blues - Yeah, defined blues music. This is really a wasted song, like, chill. Lets party. Throw away all the hay. And the Rastafarian beat makes it so, wooooo! Just party all the way!

9. Count On Me - This is for the friends who lasted and were tested and true. I also suspect that this is for his special "friend". But anyways this is so cool, so amazing. :)

10. The Other Side ft. Cee Lo Green - What a way to end the album. He is actually waiting for her to come with him on the verge of going to the other side. True love waits. :))

Album Review: Owl City's Ocean Eyes

I never thought something good can come from electronics music! I mean, this Adam Young has proved himself worthy for the pop beat in almost all genre, thanks to his insomnia. Ocean Eyes (just got the album last week) is an all-in-one album. You want to know why?

1. Cave in - this song's beat was more about summer breakaways. But then, the lyrics would mean moving onwards, not looking back. The metaphors used was so funny peculiar and the beat, so refreshing.

2. The Bird and The Worm - This song, with its catchy beat, is such a happy love song. Imagine you're in the beach with your significant someone, that's the feel of this song. Say, "you're the bird/and I'm the worm/and it's plain to see that we're meant to be." So cheesy for an electronica guy!

3. Hello Seattle - This song is full of metaphors that explains who he was and who he wanted to be. This could mean that he wants to tell Seattle, or perhaps the whole world, who he really is, why he wanted to pursue music.

4. Umbrella Beach - This one's for par-tey!Add some cello and some synth, and we're good to go! It shows how a musical monster this man is.

5. The Saltwater Room - Put an acoustic touch on the start, you'll know it's a love song. Yes it is a summer love song, just a little opposite to The bird and the Worm. It is like doubting about love.

6. Dental Care - Was he funnily talking about the dentists? No. About parallels in life? Yes most probably. So funny descriptions, they are not actually the complete parallels but the thought counts. You, would you rather pick flowers than a fight? Hmmmm....

7. Meteor Shower - Yeah. This marks the start of the emotional part of the album perhaps. Strong words to describe the feeling? So Owl City. Adam is so expressive in his songs, that is why I'm starting to like his songs.

8. On The Wing - He misses the girl right here. He is so in love, I could tell. They are on a mall, talking about themselves, and maybe walking down the arcades, through the parades and all that makes a girl happy. Yup, he is so in love.

9. Fireflies - Oh my, do I really need to explain this? Yes, this is a good song. Polytonic tone like a phone ringing is so nostalgic, like you want to go back to childhood days. But then, as the song suggests, we must live what is now, and not the fantasy.

10. The Tip of the Iceberg - A song about winter loving. Another Club Party song. This song's so hypnotic, and it describes much what happens during winter. I find it cool (no pun intended).

11. Vanilla Twilight - Piano does it all at the start, making the ambiance so lovely. Again, he is so in love! But he's right, we just think of the one(s) we love, then we feel not so alone. But this song is so EMO! This is just what makes this album amazing, complete servings of all music.

12. Tidal Wave - Fast beats would really hide what he wants to portray. This one shows how weak a man can be. I love the lyrics when it says "I forget the time I felt brave/I just recall insecurity/'cause it came like a tidal wave and sorrow swept over me."

13. If My Heart Was A House - "If my heart was a house you'd be home". how cheesy this song have been! I really want to sleep upon hearing this song! I just love to hear this!

Well, that was about the 13-track album. Download the album here for free (just like what I did. haha). Till then! Good luck for OWL CITY! \m/

Album Review: August Rush Soundtrack

"The music is all around is. all we've got to do is listen." this is the very last line in the Movie 'August Rush' that touched my heart. Listening to the music played (literally) in the movie, it makes me feel that I just can't have these guitar talents! Well, while I was watching a dance practice of my course-mates in the UP-Mindanao School of Management building in Anda street, Davao city, my upperclassman played a familiar August Rush song. we then hurried to peek for the title and the singer. Upon knowing, my roommate downloaded the soundtrack. I was amazed by the music I heard as they brought me back to the movies. here are my comments for my favorite songs:


1. Main title (Mark Mancina) - this one takes you to the days when Evan Taylor was just an orphan and was bullied because of his claim that he hears his parents. This also marks the start of Evan's story.

2. Bach/Break (Steve Erdody and Jonathan Rhys Meyers) - A clash of Classic and Modern Rock music. It started with a noticeable string quartet instrumental and then a 'rockestra"-type of music (rockestra = rock + orchestra). It is cool to hear.

3. Moondance (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) - a song about what a guy wishes for, a woman. So smooth harmonica tells the romanticism of the music.

4. This Time (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) - I could put this under the "EMO" songs that I listen to. "...will the wind be at my back?/can I get you off my mind?..." was it? haha. It's about a question of how and when can his father move on from the girl he met (which is, in this case, Evan's mother).

5. Bari Improv (Kaki King) - a super-tapping guitar solo that needs much practice to master. It would maybe appear to you like this is an ordinary group performance, but heel yeah, this is freaking solo!

6. Ritual Dance (Kaki King) - another solo! what a guitar skill this kid has (if ever this would be true). it is about the voice of the nature, how one has heard it.

7. Dueling Guitars (Heitor Pereira and Doug Smith) - as the title says, it is really dueling guitars. The one plays just strumming, while the other goes super guitar tricks and licks. it's super fun.

8. August;s Rhapsody (Mark Mancina) - the amazing rhapsody of guitar licks, cello madness and super sound effects. it felt so perfect for me, combining every instrument you knew.

9. La Bamba (Leon Thomas III) - it is because of Pacquiao that sang this song that I really hated this song. but this version, the acoustic version is a better cut. so relaxing, taking the blues away!

I would not bother to mind the other songs, for I honestly don't like them much. And making comments of them would just make me so tired right now. hahahaha. So long people! Keep listening!