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Share a Cookie, Maybe?

16 July 2012 Ibyang Sanchez 3 Comments Category: Entertainment

We’ve seen several versions of Call Me Maybe but this has got to be the cutest and most adorable version of them all.

Little fact: I love Cooking Monster, he is my first favourite Sesame Street character because like him, I love eating cookies and biscuits.

Wishing you a fun and productive week! May we remember to be childlike no matter what.

Dolphy

11 July 2012 Ibyang Sanchez 2 Comments Category: Entertainment

A day without laughter is a day wasted – Dolphy

DOLPHY

Philippines’ King of Comedy

25 July 1928 – 10 July 2012

6 Decades of Laughter

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That one moment with Dolphy (based on my tweets last night):

I vividly remember how his presence brought joy to me when I saw in person. He was dressed in a white suit, standing outside a store in Glorietta. I smiled at him and he smiled back then waved at me. He was outside the store because he was waiting for Zsa Zsa to finish shopping. His face would always lit up when people recognize him. It was then I realized that all he wanted was to make people happy, to be bring joy.

Sa mga pagkakataon na kami ay iyong pinatawa, maraming salamat, Dolphy!

Favourite Song: “Don’t Forget Me” (from the Season Ender of SMASH)

24 May 2012 Ibyang Sanchez 0 Comments Category: Entertainment

I watched the season ender of SMASH twice last week and I think I will watch it again this weekend. That’s how much I loved it. The finale song was just fantastically apt. I feel a tug at my heart whenever I hear this song. Here are the lyrics and video in case you haven’t seen or heard it yet.

“Don’t Forget Me”

(sang by Katharine McPhee in SMASH)

They thought they could dispose of me

They tried to make me small

I suffered each indignity

But now rise above it all

Yes, the price I paid was all I had

But at last, I found release

And if something good can come from bad

The past can rest in peace

Oh if you see someone’s hurt

And in need of a hand

Don’t forget me

Or hear a melody crying from some baby grand

You don’t forget me

When you sing happy birthday to someone you love

Or see diamonds you wish were all free

Please say that you won’t;

I pray that you don’t forget me

But forget every man who I ever met

‘Cause they only lived to control

For a kiss they paid a thousand

Yet they paid fifty cents for my soul

They took their piece

The price of fame that no one can repay

Ah, but they didn’t buy me when they bought my name

And that is why I pray

That when you see someone’s hurt

And in need of a hand

You don’t forget me

Or hear a melody crying from some baby grand

You don’t forget me

When you sing happy birthday to someone you love

Or see diamonds you wish were all free

Please say that you won’t;

I pray that you don’t forget me

There are some in this world who have strength on their own

Never broken or in need of repair

But there are some born to shine who can’t do it alone

So protect them and take special care

Take care

And don’t forget me

Please take care

And don’t forget me

When you look to the heavens with someone you love

And a light shining bright from afar

Hope you see my face there

And then offer a prayer

And please let me be

Let me be that star

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New AVATAR Series: The Legend of Korra

22 May 2012 Ibyang Sanchez 2 Comments Category: Entertainment

The new Avatar series had finally hit the TV screens last April and the Husband and I started watching it last Sunday!!! We’ve caught up until Episode 6 and we can’t wait for Korra’s adventures to unfold. Initial news stated that it will only have one chapter (Book 1) but we heard that it will have a 2nd chapter (Book 2) (super yay!).

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Korra is a teenage girl from the Southern Water Tribe and the current incarnation of the Avatar, who is “hotheaded, independent, and ready to take on the world. She has already mastered the arts of waterbending, earthbending, and firebending but has yet to master airbending, which she must learn from Tenzin—the youngest child of Aang and Katara.

The show is set in a single place called Republic City, a metropolis inhabited by benders and non-benders of all nations and founded by Aang and Zuko after the 100-year war in the original series. The city’s police force practices the art of metalbending—a subset of earthbending—and is led by the daughter of Toph Beifong. The city’s most popular sport is called pro-bending, which involves a team of benders aiming to knock another team of benders out of an arena using each’s own bending skill.

The conflict of the first season centers upon a group of anti-benders, called the Equalists, who use chi-blocking to subdue their enemies.

Harry Potter: The Exhibition

26 March 2012 Ibyang Sanchez 6 Comments Category: Aussie Life, Charmed Life of a Mrs, Entertainment, Tips

Since November 2011, the Harry Potter Exhibition housed at the Powerhouse Museum has given Sydney the excitement and wonder of seeing hundreds of iconic props and costumes that appeared the Harry Potter film series. It is a treat for movie enthusiasts to see each character’s wands and outfits worn in the movie, the flying car, the Horcruxes, the Twizard Cup, pieces from the Wizard’s Chess, the Invisibility Cloak and the full version of Buckbeak. You can also experience playing a miniature Quidditch, lifting the screaming Mandrakes and sitting on Hagrid’s massive chair inside his hut.

Being fans of the movie franchise, the Husband and I can’t let the exhibition pass without seeing it. We waited for a long time for the exhibition to arrive in Sydney and finally we saw it last month.

I felt nostalgic as we were about to enter the exhibition that I can’t help but say, “Imagine, we grew up with these films.” It was a bit similar to that feeling of nostalgia when we saw the last Harry Potter film, however, this time I had feelings of thrill as well because the exhibition really made us feel like we were part of the movies’ journey throughout the years. The experience made us love the Harry Potter films even more as each item helped us remember the most memorable scenes from the franchise.

Just a few tips for you:

Buy tickets online and avoid the queue and disappointments on when tickets are sold out for the day.
Arrive at the museum at least 15 minutes prior to the time printed on your ticket. Late arrivals will be guaranteed prompt admission and will have to wait until the next session.
A few things not allowed inside the exhibition: food, drinks, taking photographs and videos and touching the artefacts.
Once you’re inside the exhibition, you can spend as much time as you want. So just relax and take time looking thru each artefact. Enjoy!
Want to bring home some Harry Potter souvenirs? The museum’s shop has several Harry Potter merchandise to choose from. You can pay by cash or credit (with a surcharge of 2.5%).

One of the things we bought and enjoyed from the exhibition were these HP Chocolate Frogs. Other than the chocolate being yummy, we enjoyed getting souvenir cards enclosed with it.

You won’t know what card you’ve got unless you opened the pack. Grateful we got the Potter Family and Albus Dumbledore cards.

If you are a Harry Potter fan, I recommend that you experience the magic of Harry Potter one last time. The exhibition will be shown at the Powerhouse Museum (500 Harris Street Ultimo, Sydney) until 9 April 2012, tickets available at ticketek.com.au