“Love is like a rosary that’s full of mysteries.”
That is how a 13-year-old highschool girl defines the word LOVE, without any prior knowledge, experience or basis strong enough to back up those words. But little did she know that she would soon understand the whole truth behind that definition — in a bittersweet way.
That’s basically the plot of last Friday’s Maalaala Mo Kaya episode, “Popcorn.” I assumed from the trailer that this would be one cute, fluffy, and overwhelmingly sweet episode that every hopeless romantic cannot afford to miss. I should know; I wanted to go home to Cavite ASAP so I could watch the entire thing in the comfort of my own room — which I did not get to do because of the damned headache that made me sleep earlier than I wanted.
But thanks to good ‘ol YouTube, I still managed to catch the MMK episode no sweat!
I guess the fact that two very young children are the protagonists of this story makes everything all the more charming and interesting. Wouldn’t you raise eyebrows upon seeing two kids at the verge of adolescence doing BF-GF stuff like holding hands, exchanging rings, and texting lovey-dovey messages? I know I did, but all has been forgotten as I watched the story with a foolish grin on my face as well as occasional gushes and manifestations of kilig. In short, mukha akong tanga habang nanonood nito.
A Scenario from a Rulebreaker’s Everyday Deviance
I’ve always hated rules. Although they say that rules are there for a purpose, oftentimes to “discipline,” “guide,” or “organize,” I still say that they go against man’s free will and condition him to think and act in a way that will put and end to the term “endless possibilities.”
Not that I’m saying that all rules should be disregarded. It’s just that we should consider the context in which the rules are applied and if they are reasonable enough for such circumstances. The last thing we want is to stand out as the rotten egg among the population, don’t we? Sabi nga ni PJ sa award-winning niyang message sa Yahoo! Groups namin, “we need to exercise our inherent rights as thinking beings.”
The Most Beautiful Day On Earth
This is something I wrote for that opinion paper required from us by our History II prof about current social changes. Supposedly the immediate thing that would come into our minds would be that of issues regarding the homosexuals and their kind, but I knew that most of my classmates would be using that already.
Just when I thought that I’d be having a hard time coming up with a more different topic to write about, I suddenly thought of a time before the UP College of Nursing Tea Party when someone told me to imitate Riyo Mori’s gown during the Ms. Universe if I were to cosplay Tomoyo as how she appeared in Tusbasa Chronicles.
But a lightbulb appeared on top of my head, my neurons started firing, and the rest is history.
