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 I got myself a small pre-Christmas present hihihih! I was shopping for Christmas gifts a while ago in Market! Market! when I dropped by Buy-the-Book because I'm a sucker for book sales and surprise finds, and I saw a single hardbound copy of The Girl Who Walked Home Alone, a personal biography of Bette Davis by Charlotte Chandler.
If you'd remember, it's in my Christmas wish list last year so I knew that I just had to get this treasure find even if it was out of the budget as the money I had with me was really meant for Christmas gifts. Imagine from almost 1k, the price dropped to 299p!!! And buy it I did. Ohhhh happiness, kahit I got it a year laterl!!!
I'm past the first chapter, and I'm loving it!! She's not as bitchy and difficult naman pala as her image in Hollywood was. She's got balls, and men at her time didn't really appreciate it.
No one can replace the Bette Davis. I lovelovelove her! Nagiisa lang sya forever and ever!
~m-o-o-o-h~
Maging Sino Ka Man Book 2's pilot episode was a downer for me. With the second episode, it's plain obvious that this is becoming an Angelica Panganiban soap, which is not necessarily a good thing because 1) though I think that Angelica Panganiban can act and is pretty, I'm just not so hot on her for some reason, and 2) I'm looking forward to more Celine scenes because Anne Curtis is da bomb. And more Angelica means less Anne (tapos papasok pa si Derek Ramsey and Toni Gonzaga WTF?!?!) Rosanna Roces as Veronica Rubios is very good though. Sa kanila lang nag-focus ang first 2 episodes. The original main characters--- Bea Alonzo, Anne Curtis, Sam Milby and John Lloyd Cruz--- who all made MSKM a hit, were merely supporting. What's happening here?!?!
But Wednesday's episode finally did it for me and for a lot of MSKM's audience, too, I see. PinoyExchange's thread on Maging Sino Ka Man Book 2 is buzzing with rave reviews on Corazon's comeback: 14 15 16 17. Sabi nga ng isang poster sa PEX, ngayon pa lang nagsisimula ang Book 2 with Corazon's comeback.
Even bloggers are blogging about it. "...and for the sluts who take them away....." says, "Credits to the scriptwriter and to Ms. ChinChin Gutierrez for that." Perplexed. says, " Chin-chin Gutierrez saves the party. Prior to her toast, she makes a wonderful statement of power: "What a very, very tortured analysis of a very simple question." Now that will surely go down in history." super fasyon, super gossip, super girl talk, atbp. :D says "but my REAL favorite in this series is that of Chin-Chin Gutierrez's. She?s super pretty, super gorgeous, super beautiful, super hot for a mom haha, redundant ba, and she?s super bitchy. I'd super make abang this series just to watch her sabotage Sam and Anne's love story." Coffee Prince says, "Fabulous line from Chin Chin Gutierrez' character... Instant classic! Chinchin Gutierrez = DIVA says, "Chin-Chin Gutierrez is a goddess. I love her. I love that line. That has to be the "You're nothing but a second rate trying hard copycat" of 2007!"
The bitchesa is back, and her comeback is phenomenal.
"To sons who abandon their mothers, and to the sluts who take them away!"
HAYLAVET!!!! Anjie Ureta, Chin's manager, said that she called up Chin-Chin after that episode and nagtawanan lang daw sila sa phone hahahaha! To portray someone who's so different from who you really are so effectively and so credibly is nothing short of brilliance.
And I was actually with her last Saturday in A Different Bookstore at Serendra in Global City. I attended the book launching of her mom's memoirs Fingerprint of an Angel: Golden Secrets of Eternal Love. Too religious for me but it's pretty interesting. I'm slowly reading it. I'm sure to learn a spiritual lesson somewhere, but Ms. Davis got in the way, and I'm decided to finish The Girl Who Walked Home Alone ASAP. Ayaw talagang nalalamangan ni Bette!
Chin-Chin published her Mommy Cecile's memoirs. It's interesting enough that her mom's memoirs is one of their very few belongings that were saved from the fire because Mommy Cecile handed it to Anjie to edit a little before she became terribly ill and paralyzed about 3 years ago before she passed away.
It's a well attended event, and I enjoyed mingling with Chin-Chin's other friends. I met her accountant, her website designer, Ms. Perla Bautista, her nun friends, the Rigodon directors were there. Roy Alvarez was also there. Her only brother, Noni, was there, too. It was indeed a lovely and intimate event.
And para lang kaming nag-pictorial ni Chin-Chin. There were 3 cameras taking snapshots of us, hindi ko malaman kung saan ako titingin hihiihihi!
Other pictures here.
~m-o-o-o-h~
And last but definitely not the least, allow me to introduce to you a new family member, the princess of the house--- Sophie.
Antaray lang di'ba?!?! Prim and proper and very lady-like hahahah! My 5 month old doll-faced Persian pussy has been with us for almost a month now.
Bewitched. Bothered. Bewildered.
She's not a cutie cutie stuffed toy kind of cat. She's pretty and sophisticated. She's got Corazon's feistiness (kamusta naman nakahuli na siya ng maya bird na nakapasok sa room ko, I swear nag-freak out talaga ako! Caught in the act ko siyang nilundagan ang maya bird at kinagat, nakakaloka!) and Bette Davis' eyes.
Diva
Demure
Maharot siya, sa sobrang kaharutan minsan nangangat na. But she's super sweet. She would sleep beside me. Ang hilig hilig niyang mag-cuddle, and then she would look lovingly at me, and I swear, it melts my heart! Maternal instincts lang mwahhaahhaha!
Super namimi-miss ko siya when I'm not at home. I love her, I swear. Everybody in the house loves her, too.
One of her harot moments.
Feeling reyna in my bed.
Her favorite past time aside from sleeping? Cleaning herself. She'd spend literally half an hour just to fix herself. No kidding, I once timed it hahahhaah!
After her first bath. Para lang siyang nagahasa mwahahaha! She takes a bath weekly. Surprisingly, she's very cooperative and hindi masyado nafe-freak out sa water hahahaha!
More pictures here and here.
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