27 posts tagged “kawaii”

Aren't these li'l kid backpacks a darling? Wish they were available when I was a kid. I was almost always with a stroller during grade school. Ugh! Must buy new bag. It's been a month since my last purchase. :P

Li'l Kid Backpacks

xoxo, gossip girl

I'm definitely hooked with the new show Gossip Girl. It has a wicked storyline and every episode keeps you wanting more and more. As I write, I'm downloading its fourth episode and I'm glad to share to you a clip which fascinated me. I wonder who has a score for this? 

Imagine Me & You poster

There isn't much film about female queer relationship here. Pansin ko lang. It's always the gay male and everything that revolves around it: macho dancers, paid sex, stereotypical jobs, and bulging muscles (pun intended). I remember a conversation I heard about this topic and it revolves entirely on people still being sexist even with the third gender. If you're a parent daw, it's okay to have a gay male son than a gay female daughter. Some argue that there are more jobs for the bakla than the tibo. Ano ba naman 'yan?!

Good thing I chanced upon this movie in our family desktop computer. It's a 2005 film about lesbians and it's really, really funny. My sister was drooling over the groom (Heck, played by Matthew Goode) while I was giddy to see Piper Perabo again. The last movie I've seen with her on it was Coyote Ugly. I thought her career was dead na, haha.

Here's the summary of the film from Wikipedia:

Rachel (Piper Perabo) is a young Englishwoman marrying Heck (Matthew Goode), her boyfriend of many years. Luce (Lena Headey) manages a flower shop in a North London suburb, and is providing the flowers for their ceremony. As Rachel walks to the altar, her gaze meets Luce's. The connection between the two women is instant and intense. When Rachel accidentally loses her wedding ring in the punch at the reception, Luce rolls up her sleeve and plunges her hand in after it. She also makes fast friends with Rachel's younger sister, Henrietta (nicknamed "H" because her mother exclaimed "Jesus H. Christ!" upon discovering she was pregnant).

Some time later, Luce is invited to dinner with Rachel, Heck, and Coop (Darren Boyd), Heck's best friend and a perennial bachelor. Rachel suggests they fix up Luce with Coop, until Luce mentions that she's a lesbian. Heck takes this news in stride, and Coop is undeterred in his good-natured attempts to sleep with her.

While Heck works long hours at his increasingly unsatisfying office job, he encourages Rachel to be friends with Luce. The two spend an evening together, visiting a football match and an arcade (which becomes the setting for a Dance Dance Revolution sequence). At the end of the night, Luce walks Rachel back to her flat. Their goodbye grows awkward from tension, and Rachel tries to kiss Luce. But Rachel withdraws at the last moment and leaves.

Over the next few days, Rachel continues to deny her growing attraction to Luce in an effort to remain loyal to Heck. For her part, Luce has no wish to break up a committed couple. Rachel even confronts Luce directly about their feelings at Luce's flower shop. She tells Luce that a romance between them cannot happen, leaves, and abruptly returns seconds later to kiss Luce in the back of the shop. Their foreplay gets interrupted by Heck, who has stopped by to pick up flowers for Rachel. He tells Luce that he has sensed the distance growing between him and Rachel and partially blames himself for not being there for her. Hearing this, Rachel sorrowfully informs Luce that she can't betray Heck again. She goes so far as to rashly confess all to Heck, who feigns sleeping, without saying who. Heck later turns to Coop for support and tells him what Rachel inadvertently told him. Coop angrily confronts Luce after figuring out it was her Rachel fell in love with and she decides that being near Rachel without being with her is too hard. Luce makes plans to go on an extended vacation out of the country, leaving care of her shop to her mother.

When Rachel and Heck are celebrating her birthday at her parents', H tells them about Luce's vacation. Heck then figures out that it was Luce who Rachel fell in love with after noticing her reaction to the news. Heck loves Rachel too much to abide her deep unhappiness, and eventually lets her go so that she can be with Luce. She then confesses to her parents that she is “in love with a woman” and with their help, Rachel tracks down Luce as she takes a taxi to the airport. The two women reunite and kiss each other in the middle of a crowded London street.

Chuck

Chuck is a dramedy series about a geek that possesses unwanted memories from his former Stanford U roommate turned secret agent. The series is set to premiere on NBC this month, probably alongside Heroes.

I like the comedic treatment done for the pilot episode but it's just way too budget-constricted. Also, the lead character kinda reminds me of the guy from the Scrubs series. His love interest, although gorgeous, has a Bugs Bunny teeth which definitely ticks me off a little.

I cannot wait for the next episodes. US TV programming for fall just rocks my world big time!

Crayola Pen

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I'd love to have one of these! I'm a frustrated user of crayons since childhood and it might cure my urge of grabbing a big box of it together with a coloring book (favoritest books ever!) whenever I visit National Bookstore. It also comes in other colors. I'd get an Orange, me thinks.

Also, imagine executives using this pen to sign lucrative deals. Sure to make you think twice, lol.
 
[ThinkGeek]

Crayon Cologne

While on the subject of crayons, what would be more lovely than to smell like one? Will I smell like part puke and part earwax if I use this? That's the smell that I remember. Never had a scented crayon before. I hope they patterned it to scented ones, if any.
 
[PerpetualKid]

Stamps

A photoset of beautifully designed stamps around the globe.

MyCuppa

I love coffee in the morning. Sometimes I also do tea. But it's really a hit or miss whenever I find myself fixing one for my consumption. Good thing there's a Pantone-like mug called MyCuppa.

Inside

It's a color-matching guide mug from Suck UK. What it does is that It helps caffeine addicts like me to concoct the strength of my coffee or tea to perfection by matching the color-coded key inside with the brew that you're mixing with milk.