Just Mindless Ramblings

but finding it hard to do so.

It’s just one of those Sundays when one doesn’t have a reason to go out.  Wanting to go back to sleep but cannot.  The sun is shining and it makes me feel sick if I go to sleep during daytime.  I’m wondering how my friend can sleep until 12noon but then again they have covered up the windows to their bedrooms so the sun cannot come in.  Yes, this is our only day to stay at home and have some leisure time.  But does leisure time mean banging on the computer again?  Like you’re in front of a PC 24/7.

So just to exercise the brain cells (over exercised brain cells) a bit, there was this old movie “Life as a House” that I had been wanting to watch for a long time.  Well, my officemate brought me a dvd of that so I watched it like 3 nights ago and surprise, I was actually teary eyed.  The dad in that movie had the big C and was dying.  He wanted to do some bonding with his son who already had all sorts of piercings and was on drugs.  A realization:  people tend to reach out to whom they have neglected and hurt when they are facing death.

  Similar is the “Tayong Dalawa” sub plot of Ingrid and her dad.  The dad wants to reach out to Ingrid primarily because of his guilt feelings and yes because he is also about to die.  Maybe he will die next week though and Ingrid still hasn’t forgiven him.  The initial reaction of the neglected offspring is to be antagonistic and resist all attempts by the parent to make up for his shortcomings, however the difference between Ingrid and the son in the movie is that Ingrid has “topak sa ulo” while the son, although on drugs still responds to his dad’s attempts.  We know how the movie ends, the dad dies and his son is reformed and by next week we will know how Ingrid will respond to her father’s condition when she learns about it.  So tune in again to ABS-CBN/TFC and watch Tayong Dalawa next week because it might become a little interesting.

Have a nice weekend!

~ by jai01 on June 20, 2009.