Days Five and Six
September 7th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
On with the 30-Day Challenge to Connect with People!
Day Five: Coordinate a Group Event
Did this through another friend, Trisha–who invited our friends to watch films at the Brazilian Film Festival, which is ongoing at the UP Film Institute ’til next week. (I still had part in the planning, okay?) I actually just got home from watching O Homem da Capa Preta (The Man in the Black Cape) with Trisha and Anne. It’s a true-to-life movie about Tenorio Cavalcanti, a Brazilian congressman who showed his patriotism by wearing a cape in public and beating the hush-hush violence of elitist politicians with his own breed of one-man mafia-style violence. The movie’s gone grainy and reminds one of ’90s Robin Padilla and Rudy Fernandez movies on the lives of men who rubbed elbows with the Philippines’ most notorious gangs, warlords, etc.–all in the name of justice. Or sweet revenge. Nardong Putik, anyone?
Day Six: Get Coffee with a Co-Worker (Or in my case, a classmate)
I’m hoping to invoke a retroactive effect for this one–since I spent September 6 with my mother, my readings, the current issue of Time Magazine and then my bed. The last time I was out for coffee with anyone was at my insistence, anyway–my classmate Pip and I spent hours til the closing of the Starbucks at SM North poring through the pages of this month’s Cosmo, which has the Cosmo Top Bachelors List or something as a supplement. Ran out of post-its while grading each of the guys for Face, Body and Brains, so in the end we had to draw on the pages themselves–sometimes, Perez Hilton-style. Sorry, guys! Anyway, the issue wasn’t as impressive as the previous ones. I remember enjoying a past Bachelors List with Akihiro Sato on the cover the most sometime in 2007/08! It’s sad that we couldn’t go to the Bachelor Bash with our girlfriends next week. Why of all days does it have to be on a Thursday, and all the way at the World Trade Center!
Oh well.
