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July 23:
Toys
We're gonna fight fire with marshmallows.
Arn and I caught the anti-war fantasy movie Toys on cable last night and I actually feel bad for missing its big-screen run in '92. The plot is your standard good vs. evil hoohah but be assured that the 121-minute movie is absolutely worth seeing if only, rather especially, for its supreme production design. Surreal, witty, and whimsical all at once -- think WillyWonka, Brazil, and Monty Python -- it's every art director's dream project*.
 | Joan Cusack's paper doll outfit is hilarious. Notice the tabs. |
(If you live in Manila, you can catch the replay on Star Movies, July 28 @ 9PM.)
*read: both creatively-satisfying and big-budgeted enough to ensure expedition -- most of the time it's just one or the other.
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Did you know that bargains are raining in the metro?
On our recent pilgrimage to Sta. Lucia:
1) Arnold scored the X-Men trading card game set for only P200, down from P700.
2) I got the Titanic (the Broadway musical, not the movie) soundtrack for a measly P150 at a generic music shop.
3) At the same store, we spotted several good cds, including Touch & Go's "I Find You Very Attractive", Color it Red's "Pop Fiction", "1896: Ang Pagsilang", and many copies of Fatal Posporos' "Paper View" -- all for P150 a pop. (I have all of them already so I felt bad seeing them on sale.)
4) We saw a shop selling "Buy 5 Take 5" anime VCDs for P500, so that's 10 discs for the price of 5. We got Akira, Nausicaa, and a host of other anime classics as birthday gift for my brother.
5) I got a tub of HK-manufactured Beauty Formulas Apricot Scrub for only P99. Dubious brand name, yes, but it's cheap and actually works okay compared to the P200+ St. Ives version I've been using for years.
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Meg and her typically barok sms messages sure make me glad she's back. See you soon, Dinds, bru. (:
4 comments
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thanks, cynthia. i'll try to check it out. yeah, i also found the apricot scrub in watson's. they also have this line of foot scrubs, body scrubs, all a little cheaper than st. ives and freeman. geeze, i'm splurging on shower stuff. wehehe.
Posted by jessel |
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Jessel: It's a store at
Posted by Cynthia |
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great reason to go home to manila, but..after splurging moolah here in europe, wala na akong pambili for anything more back there!... P.S. it's a pity that your July 16 blog got lost in the quagmire of greymatter. mag complain ka! anyway, i was able to read it the first hour you published...kaya ok lang....: )
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omg! what store in sta. lucia sells the anime vcds? i'm not a huge sta. lucia groupie and i'll have to wait until my trusty friend gets back to manila to go around that mall. apricot scrub eh? tamang-tama paubos na yung freeman ko. that's less expensive that st. ives but that dubious sounding brand still wins the bargain game.
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