Walang Magawa? :P

Then create a slide online.... ahehe!

That's a slide of my pics wherever I went. I =). I got bored at home, sick. Wssn't well so I wasn't able to go to work. But in the evening as I got better I had nothing else to do and found this site and decided to put some photos up here.

Glad I got to use Christophe Maé's music for this slide. I like that song. hehe! And I've put this slide in my profile page in my multiply site.

I also created another slide for the front page of my multiply site but that's another story.

Might remove this post someday though, as I'm still not comfy showing all photos of me for posterity. :P

Metro de Madrid Ad ft Filipinos

A friend in Madrid, N, just recently sent a youtube link to a Metro de Madrid (Madrid subway company) ad that featured Filipinos. The dialogue was in Tagalog, and Spanish subtitle is used since it's played in Spain. I Like-y!! See a snapshot of the ad below.


Despite the seeming pandering to stereotypical notions of the Philippines, it still somehow well-represented the culture. I liked the language they used, the choice of words, the dignity, etc...

Seeing the ad made me miss Madrid/Spain though, especially when I heard the voice-over guy speaking in Spanish. :( Brought back memories. 'Cause it reminded me of the TV commercials there, as well as, of course, almost everything else I heard while in Spain that really brought home the fact that I was in Spain. Waaaa!

The ad also reminded me of the good things about the Philippines. For once here's a nice representation of the country/culture without the unpleasant distraction of Western pop culture imbibed into it as it is imitated in local media.

Also, Filipinos don't have a bad rep in Spain. At least I didn't get that impression while I was there. They are all hard-working and honest and friendly.

Kudos to McCann Erickson and of course, to Metro de Madrid. I love Spain! :D

You can find another youtube video of its longer and somehow funnier version when you go to the link above. Thanks N, for sharing the link... =)

The Tudors

I'm currently watching the first few episodes of the first season of The Tudors by Showtime.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers is a good actor, but I still think he is miscast for the role of Henry VIII. He doesn't look anything like someone like Henry VIII. Lol! Just does not seem as convincing while he tries to act the part. Too young.. and slender. haha!

The actor who should have played Henry VIII should have been Steven Waddington methinks. Always liked this actor in his role as Duncan in Michael Mann's the Last of the Mohicans when I was a kid, and saw him again too in Tim Burton's Legend of Sleepy Hollow (that was really nice, seeing him acting again).

And in the Tudors, Steven plays the Duke of Buckingham (he's the one in the extreme right in the photo above courtesy of imdb.com). The Duke was caught plotting to assassinate Henry 'cause the Duke of Buckingham was supposed to have been the rightful king if Henry had not won the battle of Agincourt in France.

If this was not history, I'd say, Steve/the Duke was planning to attack J. Rhys Meyers/Henry for the role: "I should be the king! King of England!" haha! After all, he's English, and J. is actually Irish. And seems better suited to the role of Henry. Tsk! hehe! Plus he has a bigger build and seems more mature in bearing than the latter and it would have been more accurately reminiscent of Henry VIII. Too bad he only guests in the show and dies in the second episode.

In this show, I like four actors so far:

• Sean Pertwee (the ambassador who was assassinated by the French in Italy in the first episode; dang! another good actor who's not part of the regular ensemble),

• Steven Waddington,

• Jeremy Northam (playing Thomas More of that Utopia book), and

• Maria Doyle Kennedy as Queen Catherine.

Other key cast members look really young for the characters (i.e. Ann and Mary Boleyn, the other guys at court, etc..). One thinks that maybe this show was targetting younger audiences (oddly reminds me of Gossip Girl) hence the choice of casting J. Rhys Meyers as King Henry. Very sad.

But still entertains. That's Henry VIII after all...