Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)

Wouldn't it be embarrassing if some future civilization found this as the only evidence of what our culture was like?

Ching, you sure stirred up a hornet's nest there. Let us know how it comes out...

Happy New Year, everyone!

(the) YEARLING

Some links:

For those of you who want to follow the wedding video saga.  Oh, and what a nightmare it has been!

Net, is this the same Chris Pirillo?

NIGHT AND DAY
a movie flick starring Cary Grant. Its supposely based on the life of Cole Porter. Not sure if this is true. Anyway, nostalgic as it is.. it was filmed way before I was born. 1946.
At hour 15 and 1 minute Chris Pirillo at Call for Help-athon lost his sanity and started laughing madly nonstop. Morgan Webb had to relieve him of his dutyship for a while. I applaude him for his staying power. I thought he would crack after 9 hours. Speaking of staying power I have watched the Helpathon now for over 6 hours and I am starting to get beat. Anyway I will have to give Dot some quality time this weekend for letting me watch my favorite channel on cable for the most part of the day and all night. I did get to bring my car to the shop for its tuneup and inspection. Turns out the rear brake drums also needed to be replaced. I guess the frequent braking in the snow took its tool the night before. I spent an extra hundred simoleons to replace it.

more to come.

NET

ENTER THE DRAGON
Oh my I almost forgot about greeting my Golden Sushi Family! Merry Christmas everyone! I am currently watching TechTV's Call for Helpathon. Its 18 hours of fact filled Call for Help with Chris Perillo. I wonder how he will turn out after 18 hours of work. I know I start acting silly just working 12 hours. In between this helpathon I will be dropping off my car to get an oil change and an emissions inspection. Its gonna be a trek since we received about 5 inches of snow yesterday. I even drove during the peak snow time. My family spent Christmas day with our Tita Josie. We opened our gifts there and also sang songs on her new Kareoke machine. This machine was AWESOME! Who would have thought that you could have over 200 songs placed inside a computer chip that can be placed inside a microphone! Did I say this machine was AWESOME? It had voice pitch control, song speed control, echo effects just to name a few. It even had a option to add another chip for MORE Songs! That is Awesome! My sister, brother in law and I started hogging the mikes after we ate the fabulous food that Tita Josie cooked. I think the highest score we got was 98? Yes thats right on top of all this machine does, I also gives you a Score!

Snow driving was a challenge. My brother in law followed me as I plowed through the snow with my wider tires. He had standard tires on his Accord. What normally took me 15 minutes drive took me an hour and a half.

Can we start using Tagalog Movies as titles?

more to come...

NET

(the) TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE

Hey, Pia! Technically THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS starts with a G because THE, A and AN's don't count! Otherwise, we'd have ten million movies that start with T and A! LOL!

THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS

Merry Christmas to all of my Goldensushi family. Have a fun and safe holiday season!

ANALYZE THAT
Hey, Merry Christmas to you too Jane!  I'm surprised to see you blogging here!  Usually your posts are on the SMEAGHE blog..  I mean, I love that you posted here!  I wish you would post a message more often!  You have to come up with a movie title that begins with the last letter of the movie title in the previous post next time, though!  LOL!

Does anyone ever go to my other blog?  Just curious.

Anyway, this will be a mass shout-outs and holiday greetings post (at the risk of sounding really Asian-like)..

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to my JENTLENESS family: Yen, Stephen, Angie, Alyssa, Mark, all the peeps at BITS and Fragments and, of course, to our gracious host Jen;  to my GOLDEN SUSHI family (specially the most frequent bloggers: Daf, Net, Pia and to my very own mom who has been really active of late (Me thinks she's hooked on blogging!); to my SMEAGHE family; to my Westar Energy family (Katie C, Sarah J, Lindsey, Ashley, LaKresha, etc); to my best friend Sheryll; to my real-life family (Mom, Dad, Jen and Logan, Mom and Dad Brubaker, Grandma and Granpa Brubaker, my brother-in-law Kevin, Mama Precilla and Papa Osing, Mama Iyay and Papang Joe, Tito Ope and Auntie Jess and Gladys, Tito Moy, Tito Cy --- Omigod I better stop now because the list is never-ending!); and to (last but not least) my wonderful hubby Brian who even though he doesn't blog regularly will write really good blogs that are worth waiting for.


If I forgot your name -- I STILL LOVE YOU! -- my mind just isn't working properly right now.

Have a wonderful holiday season everyone!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE:)

NEVADA -

As I was growing up, I was aware that my mother Maria had a very admirable figure. Remember she married at 16, (after one boy, she had me when she was 20). Even in that old, backward exotic town, they know sexy when they see one (they probably don't know what to call it). Men and women talk about her, like I was not there. Women I guess say how she was just blessed with good body because back then women don't do anything more of what they have. I was 16 when I realized what those comments meant (my mother then was 36) so she had long ways to go to be still young and not aware of what she is or what she got.

But really, how she got that body, she would tell me. It was going uphill to a farm, (where even a tricycle can 't climb anymore,) on foot and coming down with a sack of sweet potatoes, or a sack of rice from their small farm and bringing it down where the tricycle would be waiting to bring them back home. And washing clothes by hand in a nearby river, all through out her young life.

No she does not live like that anymore. I made it a point that she is better after my college and I got a job. She is now 70 and her only problem is anthritis. And she now has gone heavier with age.

In a way, I knew I had my mother's genes and did not have to worry about my weight till 40, I know I will begin to get the weight after 50, just like my mother. Tho I can't remember her heavy really until she was 60.

It's funny how I live my life aware of what my mother was, how she lived -and I know my mother is living vicariously through me ... college degree, a good 10 year career running that made me travel to Europe, my decision to retire and take care of Logan, I tell her everything as she absorbs them like it was her own.

When I had Ching for the first time and I told her "now I know exactly how you feel about me". And now I have Logan and I said " oh my God, I'm just like you"
Wait till you hear stories of how she handled her marriage to my father who was 10 years older. He was 26, but still 10 years older.........

NOWHERE TO RUN

I'm not much of a Van Damme fan, but we're running out of "N" movies. I had to get Brian's help on this one. He is the ultimate movie geek. He'd give the movie geek of Beat the Geeks a run for his money!

By the way, MOM -- Never Say Never Again has already been used.

Only 12 more hours until we get to see LOTR The Two Towers tomorrow. We're sitting off to the side this time, 10A (still front row, though). Usually we get 6A or 7A (center front), but we were too late this time. Brian bought the tickets yesterday (two days in advance) but it was still too late to get our usual seats. It seems we've under-estimated the movie's popularity!

NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN - another James Bond movie

MEDIOCRE -not the movie! real life. I receive a notice from the home owners association that if we all switch to this one trash service, we all will get good rates (about 15.00 dollars less) plus we will be saving our streets from various trash traffic. I say makes sense, so I signed up for that right away effective Feb 2003, because from my old trash collector I have paid until Jan 2002.

As I will be out of the country in Jan, I decided to call the old collector to inform them to cancell service effective end Jan. Apparently Dec is too early to cancel (I don't understand) , as in too soon to break up??? (if you are dating) too soon to return an item (that doesn't fit???). What's too early about that and told me to call back -when the end of Jan comes.....

Anyways, Ching their no is 5242000, if you get a bill from them for the next three months then please call them to cancell. Am I alone in this planet who thinks if something is to be done sooner or later, better soon and forget about it.

You'd think if I call them to tell them I want their service in June, they won't say my call was too soon. They will find a way to make sure they get my business when the time comes.

(THE ) YOUNG STALLION

Gee , JR -exotic, that's one way to call it. That was 48 years ago, things have changed but I have been told this story that I cannot forget.

ERNEST IN THE ARMY

Jim Varney's last "Ernest" movie before he died. What a talent.

Josephine, your childhood sounds so exotic! Banana leaves, boiled guava leaves... for a guy who's always lived in the frozen North, it just seems a world apart.

RETURN of a MAN CALLED HORSE -

So I am again going home to my home where according to the story I almost died of scabies. According to my neighbors and my Mom as a baby I had to be wrapped in banana leaves because cloth would stick to my body. And I have to be bathed in young boiled guava leaves to sanitize me.

College took me away from this home a week at a time. My allowance was only good for a week, my father was paid weekly. I take a bus to the nearest city, live with one of my relatives and at that time got in one of the best colleges in the province SILLIMAN UNIVERSITY. My parents were so proud of me getting to college not only was it most expensive at that time, you have to get a qualified grade point to get in. It took the most out of their resources.

My mother who never went as far as high school, married at 16 (as was the norm at that time at that place). I got the idea and probably understood although not spoken clearly (my mother was afraid it would offend some sensibilities) that I could find a suitable boyfriend in the university and if not that my education will take care of my future.

Pretty much, I think my mother is right.

(the) NUTTY PROFESSOR

The free underwear is actually a quarterly thing, Net..  I look forward to it everytime because usually it's to entice you buy from the newest line that they have.  Many years ago the free offer was only for a white color of the newly released line.  The last three I've received were all for the Body by Victoria (the first one being white only & the other two were for any color).  I hope next year, they'll start pushing a different line.

I love the free offers!&nsbp; I even got a free purse spray bottle of the Body by Victoria fragrance through one of those postcards!  I love how you get it without having to buy anything, unlike some of the other offers that you get nowadays.  I used to feel bad and buy stuff that I don't need anyway just for the sake of buying something while I redeem my gift.  I'm glad to report that I'm over that.  I just go in, get my free gift and leave.  As the Romans say, vini vedi vici!

You can chalk that up to one of two things: I've gotten more thick-skinned with age or eversince I moved out, I've been poor and can't afford to be so frivolous anymore.  Probably a combination of both.

EXIT to EDEN

Went to the Broadway Mall in Hicksville today. Yes, ”Hicks” ville is a real town here in New York. Anyhoot, Dot and I walked into the local Delias and were looking at the clearance items in the back of the store. As Dot was looking for clothes for her little cousins, I spied this book called Girlfriend Slam Book. I was going over this book when I had the idea that this can also be used for Single Man’s Slam Book. It has subject lines like Name Address yada yada yada. But, it also has lines like Zodiac Sign, Likes, Dislikes and also a GIRL-O-Meter which can be called a HOT-O-Meter for the single guys. I also liked the section where you can put a photo of the girl you are “Slamming”. Dot didn’t find it amusing, but I certainly did.

Moving right along, our next shop attack was the Disney Store. They had 10 dollar medium stuff toys which I found highly unusual because Disney rarely puts anything less than 10 dollars unless the item was little trinkets. I spied on the new electronic Stitch stuff toy which talks back at you. The responses become repetitive after 8 or so statements but I found it amusing for 15 minutes. I had 3 Stitches talking to each other by the time Dot passed by to pull me out of the store. The Disney welcome girl didn’t find my networking the Stitches very amusing. They were still talking to each other when we met up with Dot’s cousin Kathy and we decided to revisit Disney.

Speaking of silly gifts. Be on the lookout in the mail if you’re an avid receiver of the Victoria’s Secret catalog. They send this post card for a FREE yes that’s right FREE Panty just for visiting your local VS. Dot picked up her free panty and I got the opportunity to see the latest thongs on the mannequins and also on the sales clerks as they bent over to pick up boxes on the floors, God bless ‘em.


more to come….

NET

Emmanuelle In Space

Boobies at warp speed! Yay!

Speaking of space travel...

...remember our collaborative story a couple of years back? Well, not "our", I only observed. But anyhow, HERE is a truly riotous parody of that approach to writing. "Enjoy!", he said, practicing his waiter-speak in case the Information Technology field got any worse.

NINE TO FIVE " 9 TO 5" - I know there is a movie of this title, I see Dolly Parton in this movie and that comediane with the straight hair and bangs and wide mouth. Her name skips my mind. But I should know her, because I remember she even starred opposite John Travolta (one of my favorites -) oh got it Lily Tomlin.

I keep confusing myself that Melanie Griffith was in this film when in fact Melanie was totally all by herself with Harrison Ford in Working Girl.

I have not been sleeping as early as I want these days. I keep flipping channels and I find movies that get me interested and I get to watch them till end around 2:00 am. One night it was THE GIFT , and then MONSTERS BALL ( Halle and billy Bob). I must admit they were pretty good. the irony of it is the girls have been calling me to out and I have been making excuses not to go, it's cold, just want to rest (actually too lazy). And then I realize that if I did go out I would just be walking in the door at 2 and not in bed since 8 and realizing that I am still awake by 2.


But then I guess it's different when you decide between spending time with yourself rather than with others.

RAINMAN

Brian loves THE ROCKETEER.. He loved it so much, he owns it on video! He made me watch it one day.. I didn't even know my girl Jennifer Connelly is in it! I love her so! BTW, your sick story is pretty sick! Yuck!

TAKEN has got Brian hooked also! He's taped all of the episodes for later viewing (after work, before bed). It's pretty good! It's been going on for over a week now.. But for those of you who have missed it, I'm sure that there will be repeats.

THE ROCKETEER
Rocketpowered failed attempt at creating a superhero. Stars Tim Dalton who had a small run as James Bond I think before this movie came out. I dont know why but I cant seem to access Goldensushi I am starting to crave what is on the picture menu. Anyone of you guys following this show on SCI FI Network called TAKEN? Mom's been watching it all week including reruns. Shes taped a couple of shows for me and she has now got me hooked. In the mood for a Sick Story? Just click on the link.
more to come...
NET

SWEET NOVEMBER

I'm not sure Pinoy movies should count.. Oh well.. The party was a blast last night! Pictures will be coming soon.. BTW, I'm not sure if your guys realize this but the PICTURE MENU section is now open and pictures are constantly being added to it. The most recent addition are pictures from work.

NINJA KIDS -Filipino version of teen movie during the Ninja craze in the 80's.

Long before I had a choice of what movies to see, I don't remember exactly at what age that was maybe as early as my elementary grade school - my father have introduced me to Sean Connery,
Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson. Back then there was no rating and kids just tag along.

Boy are these guys as old as my father???? My father is now 80 and I'm going to see him again this trip. We used to take special trips to the city (as we live in a barrio) with only one movie theathre, so we can go see this kind of movies in first run theathres...

Of course that kind of bonding seized, when later in high school -I hated him for scaring the boys away (just like Bronson in his movies). Now when Ric sees an old Charles Bronson movie, he says theres Papang Joe.

Sean Connery is even sexier now, I guess because of how he has aged. Not many men can aged that well. And Clint Eastwood???.

Never Say Never Again

Kim can get all goofy over Pierce Brosnan all she wants, he's no Sean Connery. Actually, she likes Sean NOW - now that he looks like Kenny Rogers. All together now: "Kenny Rogers? EEEWWWW!!!"

Our kids manage to get us hooked on what we watch. I was always a trekkie, but it was Andy who got Kim watching Voyager. And the Simpsons. And it was Jess who got us watching The Practice and Angel (Angel looks just like her OLD boyfriend) and Friends. Kim's also a big fan of Frasier and of Everybody Loves Raymond. ELR (and Home Improvement before it) really do a pretty good job with husband-and-wife stuff. And Doris Roberts is brilliant as the mother-in-law-from-Hell. Anybody else remember her from when she worked with Pierce Brosnan in Remington Steele? Which brings us back to the start of this post.

HOLLOW MAN

IT is Kevin Costner of Dances with Wolves, Mhel Gibson in many films and Bradd Pitt

ENOUGH

Speaking of Jennifer Lopez films.. I think I'm going to drag Brian to see Maid in Manhattan! I can almost hear him protesting now!! LOL!

To the TAGBOARD VIOLATORS: no cursing --- puhleeeese!

NET: I thought TSS stood for Toxic Shock Syndrome? I am so clueless!

DAF: We just saw Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day.. I'm with Kim on this one. He's still very hot!

p.s. You really need to watch Smallville, DAF! The Chloe that I'm talking about is the one in Smallville. She has a crush on Clark, who has a crush on Lana (BTW NET, it's Lang).. It's a bit of a love triangle and an amusing one at that!

(THE) ROAD TO WELLVILLE

Never saw it, don't know much about it. Lotsa nudity, I heard. Woo hoo.

I haven't asked Kim, but I think I know her list:
Phil Collins
Kenny Rogers (ewww!!!)
Pierce Brosnan
Dylan McDermott
Patrick Stewart

Chloe (from Angel, right?) IS pretty hot. And I used to like Jeri Ryan, until Boston Public. Musta been her space suit. Ot maybe that Borg thing on her face.

WAY back in the day (before any of you were born, except Josephine), it was Sally Struthers - I Think I've mentioned Five Easy Pieces before? Anyhow, it was all over by the time All in the Family came on. I'm so fickle.

1984

The movie version from the novel by George Orwell. With the internet and cams all over even in a Kinko's near you, whos to say Big Brother isnt watching. Speaking of watching, SciFi is premiering their new series called TAKEN. Its produced by Steven Spielberg a must see for all you buffs out there. Knowing these cable channels it will be repeating all night so if you missed the beginning wait a few hours and you will see the beginning AGAIN. I like the Chloe hairstyle Ching! Didnt notice it was her hairstyle at first. Did you know that you can view her computer's contents online? Finally you can virtually view an IMAC online. My brother says you can even look into her trash folder and view the JPG files she deleted from her desktop. I wonder if there are any pornography in there? (wink)

Heres my list:
Lana Lane (from Smallville of course)
Kelly Packard (from Ripley's) still remember her from California Dreams - Teen NBC
Kate Botello (former TECHTV show host)
lastly, Morgan Webb (TSS show specialist)


Gosh Im such a GEEK!
~NET

SEVEN Does this count?

My IT list:
the husband in Sweet Home Alabama
the husband in Sweet Home Alabama
the husband in Sweet Home Alabama
the husband in Sweet Home Alabama
the husband in Sweet Home Alabama

Gosh, I like him so much I don't even know his name! As Ms. Morissett (sp?) would say -- isn't it ironic?

p.s. Brian and I got his and hers MicroSizers for Christmas! Complete with sup-up kits! His is a blue Nissan Skyline and mine is a white Subaru Impreza! Pretty impressive, huh? I was going to go get ZipZaps, but my friend Sarah said they were crap. She has both and says that even though the MicroSizers cost more they are worth it because they're way better. Besides the MicroSizers are available and the ZipZaps are completely out of stock.. In stock is better any day.

AIRPORT '77

The movie Airplane was created to spoof. Truly bad cinema.

So, Ching, is Chloe on Brian's freebie list? And who's on yours?

Here's mine:
Leah Remini (King of Queens)
Kelli Williams (The Practice)
Christina Ricci (I know, she's too young...)
Valerie Bertinelli
Christina Applegate

You only get five. I don't need to explain what the freebie list is, do I?

GATTACA

It's an Ethan Hawke / Uma Thurman sci-fi flick.  Oh, and Jude Law is in it too!  Speaking of movies, we just saw Treasure Planet.  Pretty good.  It reminds me somewhat of Atlantis.  Another animated film that I'm looking forward to seeing is Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights.  He's a really funny guy!

Anyway, I have to do some plugs: the official Derby Class of '96 website (it's still up after all these years ~ I mean, I've been through chingay.com, chingay.net, no domain and goldensushi.net and it is STILL there).  It's run by Ryan of RyanandMichelle.com.  He did a really good job on both websites, too!

p.s. To all you Smallville fans out there..  Have you noticed how I went from Lana Lang hair to Chloe hair? (Check out the new haircut, November 30th fresh, in the webcam!  Don't mind the Blogger t-shirt which seems to be a favorite of mine lately..)  Brian has a thing for Chloe!  I told Man @ Planet Hair that I'm growing my hair back long after this cut, though.  I think she was a bit concerned that I wouldn't be coming by to see her anytime soon, but I reassured her that I'd return for reshaping quite frequently (this cut was actually a result of the last one growing out of shape).

Brian who is a Master Cuts regular has been trying to convince me to go there for the color weave that I've been wanting..  Believe it or not I actually tried to schedule it with Man (even though Planet Hair charges $90 for just the color weave alone).  Fortunately she was booked very tight so her schedule allowed time for just a haircut.  I'm glad that it didn't happen because I probably would've regretted the extravagant expenditure a few days later.  Brian always tells me that I really can't afford to go to the salon that I go to even though I'm convinced that I can.  I think Brian's gotten a haircut from my salon only two times and one of those times I paid for it (June Filipino ball 2001: he got his hair cut and frosted, I had an updo and make-up, total cost about $150 for both of us).

For now I think my hair shall remain the same pristine black that it's always been.