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Yes, God, Yes But No, Please...

Monday, June 14, 2021

Stop. Don't read this blog entry if you aren't mentally, emotionally, and most importantly spiritually prepared. You have been warned. 


I saw the trailer and I was warned that the movie was never what I thought it would be. I was hesitant to blog about it. It is not as wholesome as I expected it to be. And right now, I am not even sure if I should publish this one on my website. But one thing is for sure, I don't recommend watching this movie if you ain't ready mentally, emotionally, and most importantly spiritually. If you aren't, then this movie isn't for you.

It is a coming of age movie, about a teenage girl who discovers masturbating. Again, don't watch this if you aren't prepared mentally, emotionally, and most importantly spiritually. The movie is under the genre of comedy, it's cute, and sure we all have some laughs with this one, yet I can't help but be drawn with the subtle and emphatic message of the story. 

We live in a world where we are often judge by what people heard from others and sometimes, if not always, we are surrounded by self-righteous humans who think they know exactly how life works and they put on a facade like they have it all together. Being wrongly judged is something that we all don't want to happen, but sometimes people believe whatever they hear or if not they tend to talk about it endlessly. Such an unhealthy way of fellowship. This reality in life is something that is evident from this movie.  It is sad and hard, yet we have to be fully armed with the right weapon to counter this kind of attack. It is a spiritual battle and you should be prepared. So pray. It is important that we respect and love each other, and help one another to live a life leading to the right path. We are all trying to figure out life. 

Yes, God, Yes is a movie that I will never recommend to young souls out there, so please NO.
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Sweet Home is not your typical Home Sweet Home

Saturday, June 12, 2021


Sweet Home may sound blissful and romantic, but don't be fooled by its sweet title. I have watched this Korean TV series a month ago, and I was supposed to blog a review about it and things just happened again and days passed by and I neglected this space. I intended to keep me (and you) posted on my blog, but I failed again. However, I am back with another post about this Korean TV series, Sweet Home.

It is a show with an apocalyptic horror action-packed plot. A group of people are trapped in an apartment building and one of them is the main protagonist Cha Hyun-Soo who is a suicidal high school student. The residents of the building are confused and fear ensues within them. They are desperate to get out of the building, but it does not take them longer to realize that it is not safe to outside. Their surrounding is pestered by monsters who eats humans.

Hyun-Soo gets infected with the virus which turns humans into monsters that later on enable him to gain power and use it to save the good and some twistedly wicked human beings who are trapped with him. The horror of seeing monsters in the human form is frightening and brings a realization of how far we can go just to entertain our own interest and human desire.  

When it comes to the graphics, they are undeniably horrifyingly beautiful. I mean the production team behind this series did an excellent job in giving the audience a realistic cinematography, and the actors effectively engaged the audience by how they played the characters. They just get through me. I am still looking forward to season two, but there is no news about it until now. Let's all hope that a sequel is already under planning. 

If you haven't watched this, I suggest you give a try and maybe you can tell me whether you like it as much as I did, or maybe not. Either way, let's engage. :)

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Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith

Saturday, May 8, 2021


Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith is a young adult novel about Al with her two other friends Leo and Teddy. It is a story about luck and how it brought change into their lives. 

It is a book about first love and first major luck, which brings us to Al and Leo's funny gift for Teddy's birthday. Leo gave him a pack of cigarettes, and Al gifted him with a lottery ticket. The most unexpected thing happened when the lottery ticket gift won a whopping one hundred forty-three million dollars. 

Teddy hit the jackpot and had his life turned a hundred eighty degrees, all thanks to Al's gift on his eighteenth birthday. But it is not always a bed of roses when you've got yourself a lot of moneybags, the fortune he received also has its backlash which he finally realized later in the story. 

Al, on the other hand, tried to keep it all together expecting that the huge fortune they won had the potential to turn her normal life upside down and it was something uncalled for. She didn't want any of it. What she wanted was a normal life with her family and friends. Everything seemed to slip away within her grip and she didn't like the changes that were happening before her eyes, Teddy was getting further and further away to someplace she didn't want to be in.   

Alice Chapman a.k.a Al was a girl who brought luck to the person she loved when she thought nothing better could ever happen to her life as she was blinded and paralyzed by the sad past she held dearly in her heart. She never thought that luck could find her or any of her closest family and friends. 

Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith reminds us that maybe, just maybe, luck will find us one day, and probably win a huge fortune like Teddy or in Al's case, find where she truly belongs.     


P. S. In a world where luck is nowhere to be found, let God find you.
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Attack On Titan Sinks the Ship

Monday, May 3, 2021

Last month, I watched the final season of Attack On Titan or Shingenki No Kyojin in its anime version. It's good, but sad. 

I am more inclined to its manga version. I get the feeling that I might miss some details if I plunged into the anime series right away. But I stopped reading manga for almost or over a year and deleted the manga reader app on my phone, so I lose track of what chapters I last read from all the bookmarked manga titles I had before the hiatus.

I read more than I should. I had to stop. ~Circa 2019 to 2020

Praise God for stepping on the break!

Now here in 2021, the end and the final season of Attack On Titan was always the one I got to see on my feeds. At first, I declined the offer of the media to indulge myself to another heartbreaking, action-packed, tragic, and breathtaking story from Hajime Isayama.

I find the graphics of the last season more attractive. Mappa studio made the series this time around.

The manga already ended and it broke me to tears, seriously. Good thing, I recover faster nowadays. Praise God! But the anime version isn't over yet. The fandom still awaits for its final installment. Some changes might happen in the anime version, maybe a lighter ending for Eren and Mikasa, 'cause I really ship them. And I also don't want to get my hopes up so I do prepare my heart if anything worse happens in the story. I want to see Levi Ackerman again, and maybe ask him to marry me, just kidding. 

A lot of ships did not sail in Attack On Titan, and for some reasons I could not hate the author like I usually do, sorry. I know he has his reason why the story ended up that way. I kind of accepted it and at the same time still remained hopeful.

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Once Summer Days Once Summer Days (Fangirling Series, Book 3)
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My Hopeless Case My Hopeless Case (Fangirling Series, Book 1)
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Chasing an Elusive Dream Chasing an Elusive Dream (Fangirling Series, Book 2)
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Yearning for the One Yearning for the One
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The Gung Ho Lady The Gung Ho Lady (Gung Ho Series, #1)
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