LIVE AT THE OSCARS

6:02 OMG how cute is Will Smith's kid?!?!
6:07 FOOD BREAK!!!
6:13 That sound effects choir is cool!
6:14 Greg Kinnear and Steve Carrell! Yey!
6:19 And Dreamgirls wins its first Oscar for the night (Sound Mixing)
6:22 Geez these acting clips are short...
6:23 Alan Arkin! Cool! This does not bode well for Jennifer Hudson though...
6:33 Awww James Taylor! Love him! How can one be so old and sound so young?
6:36 Al Gore ISN'T running. Hehe.
6:43 Not loving Cameron Diaz's gown. She kinda looks like a fish...
6:45 Happy Feet? Seriously?
6:53 The Departed wins Best Adapted Screenplay. Really should see that movie...
-ARRRRGGGGHHHH INTERNET IFFY!!!-
7:00 Emily Blunt absolutely stunning in Calvin Klein! Dunno how I feel about Anne Hathaway's Valentino number. HAHAHAHAHA MERYL STREEP!!!
7:02 Marie Antoinette... oooooooo.... aaahhhhh... yes, those costumes were DIVINE!
7:05 I don't care how weird Tom Cruise has been acting lately. He's still mancandy and a great actor.
-PHONE RINGS AND CUTS OFF MY CONNECTION.-
7:11 Ellen gets Steven Spielberg to take her picture with Clint Eastwood for her MySpace page! Too funny.
7:14 Wow... that makes three awards for Pan's Labyrinth.
7:16 Dozing off... Good thing they cued the music.
7:16 How amazing is that dance troupe?
7:17 Aww that MasterCard commercial with the elephant is cute :)
7:20 Naomi Watts is this big movie star now but I haven't seen a single film she's been in. I am out of touch.
7:23 Pirates of the Caribbean 2 wins Best Visual Effects. Haven't seen that either!
7:30something... Wow Jennifer Hudson won!
7:48 Kinda fell asleep... Of course An Inconvenient Truth just won Best Documentary Feature. Great speech by Al Gore.
7:55 Oh wow they're honoring Ennio Morricone with a Lifetime Achievement Award! WOOHOO! I love his music - The Mission, Bugsy, Love Affair, Cinema Paradiso, and Malena. Il Divo adapted the theme from The Mission... dude he's delivering his acceptance speech in Italian. Subtitles please? Good thing Clint understands Italian! Oh... he could be reading it off the teleprompter. Duh!
@*^#!*&^#!*^!*!(!B$! INTERNET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8:08 Best Original Score goes to Babel. This is a big night for Spanish speakers.
8:11 Wow a motion picture museum!
8:14 YEY LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE JUST WON BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY!!!
8:16 Haha there really was a bus with a broken clutch!
8:31 So halfway into "Listen" the Internet went down!!!!! ARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!! But wow... Even with three nominated songs, Dreamgirls didn't win Best Song.
8:43 Best Editing goes to the editor of The Departed. She's paying tribute to Martin Scorsese. Is he going to win tonight?
8:44 I love Jodie Foster.
8:55 Helen Mirren takes home an Oscar for her work as The Queen. No surprises there! I dunno how Oscar feels about being called a queen though...
8:58 Three awards left! Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Picture.
9:01 Reese Witherspoon looks lurvely.
9:05 Again, another expected win. Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland. I feel bad for Peter O'Toole though... this is his eigth time to go home emptyhanded. :(
9:07 The original three amigos. Gotta love 'em! Three visionaries, three geniuses, three friends.
9:08 MARTIN SCORSESE! FINALLY!!!
9:14 Jack and Diane. Woohoo! I like Jack bald, I think.
9:15 The Departed wins Best Picture. And that's it, ladies and gentlemen.

High School Flashback!

Okay so I was just filling up the information sheet for our 10-year high school reunion and had a flashback to something I hadn't thought of for almost 10 years. When I was a senior, there was a day (can't remember what it was called) when students and teachers switched roles. Faculty came to school wearing our uniforms and they each selected a student to take over their job for the day. I guess I was some sort of star in history class (Lord knows why, I can't remember any of it) because Ms. Cora Derije, the head of the Social Studies department and our World History teacher, asked me to be her mini-me for the day... although I'd hardly call myself "mini" as I was at least four inches taller. :)

I now remember the exact outfit I wore... how funny is that? Light blue long sleeved blouse dotted with a few flowers, beige trousers, and brown pumps. But as for what I actually did as "Social Studies Deparment Head," I am totally blanking. Haha! It's funny how experiences like this disappear from our consciousness, only to be brought to the forefront by something as mundane as filling up a form. =P

Anyways, the big reunion is next year. I'm actually kinda looking forward to it. Highschool was fun for me :)

GA3.17: Some Kind of Miracle

Oh and btw, have I mentioned that Meredith's alive? Haha. Of course she is. Episode 3.17 was a fitting end to the dramatic three-episode arc. About a third of it was spent in Mer's afterlife, which I found entertaining enough, especially when Doc showed up. Didn't really care for Shonda's precious "manwich" though (Denny and Dylan), but I am glad that they brought Denny back so that he and Izzie could finally have closure. As someone who never really got into the Izzie-Denny romance in the first place, I am sooo ready to move on from it. Give me some Izzie-Alex action any day. :)

Anyways, so the heroine everyone loves to hate is out of danger and back in the arms of Derek, who could not have been any McDreamier in the last three episodes. Ever the sucker for grown men crying, my heart broke as I watched him become a total wreck for fear of losing Meredith. So what lies in store for them now? If it weren't for the two recent engagements, I'd say they're heading for marriage. But seeing as how that's a bit overdone these days, I am anticipating another rollercoaster.

Roman Catholic Church Corp.?

I just read the most bizarre article. The Economist did a feature on a possible merger between the Catholic and Anglican churches using the language of well, business. The baptized are "consumers," the pope is "chief executive," the rest of the clergy is "management" (broken down into "senior executives" and "line managers").

While the concept of the Catholic Church as a business empire certainly isn't alien to me (I am a Catholic Filipino, after all), it was just so strange to actually read the words "church," "business model," and "corporation" in the same paragraph. And the reference to Catholicism as a "brand" just threw me off, prompting me to write this immediately. The marketer in me says, "Well, of course it's a brand, just as you are a brand," but the Catholic school girl is still in a bit of a shock.

Don't get me wrong, I take no offense. I'm more amused than anything. It's just such an unexpected perspective. It totally caught me offguard. Anyways... speaking of the Catholic Church, I have an early mass tomorrow so am off to bed.

Read the full text of the article here: http://www.economist.com/daily/news/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=8729581

The Yummiest Iced Coffee Drink mmmmm

Mocha Ice Blended from The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. I could have four of these everyday. But who needs that much caffeine? (And who can spend that much on coffee everyday?! Not me.) =P

Meredith Grey is dead (for now)

Wow.

The spoilers were right on. The folks over at Grey's Anatomy really did do the ONE THING you would never have thought they'd do and killed the lead character. But because this is Shondaland and the title of next week's episode is Some Kind of Miracle, we just know she'll be back. Plus, one of the other spoilers was "Someone we think is dead will come back." So... yey! Dark and twisty Meredith will survive. They'll warm her up and she'll somehow live. 'cause what would Grey's Anatomy be without Meredith Grey?

Even though I know this is just some kind of soap-ish device, it was still really difficult to watch. They made Ellen Pompeo deathly blue and Dempsey did such an amazing job as Derek desperately trying to revive the love of his life, then crying helplessly out in the hallway. It was heartening though, to watch the character's reactions, from Addison ("Don't do this, Meredith") to George in tears, to Izzie's "I believe" speech.

I can't wait 'til next week.

Three of my favorite contemporary artists at the 2007 Grammys: Corinne Bailey Rae, John Legend, and John Mayer. BRILLIANT!

Top o' Mind: Favorite English Exports

1. British Chick Lit, especially The Shopaholic series and all of Sophie Kinsella's books
2. Actors Hugh Grant, Kate Winslet, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley, and Jude Law
3. Corinne Bailey Rae

Leftovers

Yesterday's notes I'm only posting now:

1. Dreamt I was in a church in Portugal with an impossibly high ceiling.
2. The Holiday is now one of my favorite romantic comedies.
3. Now I get why so many women love Jude Law. Holy wow. I'd seen him in several movies before this (The Talented Mr. Ripley, AI, Alfie, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and Road to Perdition where they purposely made him looky icky) and I just didn't see "it." But now? Wow. I'm a convert. It did help that his character was uberlovable. I have a weakness for grown men who cry. *sigh*