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We've been on quarantine and on lockdown for two months and Netflix makes a great company. 


The Last Dance is an award-winning 10-episode series sports documentary that revolves around the career and life of Michael Jordan and his final season with the Chicago Bulls.

I've decided to watch the old and greatest game ever played and these are one's where Michael Jordan on the court. I had great memories of his games. My entire family was invested in the game although Scottie Pippen is my favorite of the team. It was just fun to watch Michael Jordan's greatness alongside the team that helped him become one.

The Last Dance is definitely a must-see.

MJ, thanks for the memories.

The first thought that came to mind is that the MV is too graphic.



The violence hits close to home. My Mother was physically abused too, and she too did pack up and left.

I, too, was bullied in school.

What made it too graphic was the suicidal scene. The girl who was holding a sharp blade and there was a close up shot of a thread clipper at a later scene.

It’s not always a fun sight to see even in a music video. But, is this a new concept? No. There has been other foreign artist from the west, who has told stories through their MV similar to Sarah G. It’s not original.

In other MV’s, suicide pills can be seen, a gun or maybe attempting to jump off a building.

But, why are we so shocked?

When I first heard her album and this song, I did think about having to face hardships and having your religion/belief/God as your weapon. I didn’t expect to see the abuse and thoughts of suicide portrayed like that.

Sarah G. is someone who has this squeaky clean image, someone who we all expect to make us feel good and not face reality. I didn’t expect this from a Sarah G MV, because the music itself does not really say anything of one specific abuse.

Let’s not forget. Sarah G did not come from a rich family. We all know her rags to riches story. Because we put her in such a high pedestal, we all grew up watching her smile and not really talk about things that are controversial or political in nature. This is the sign that Sarah G is awake, grown up, showing us that she too has opinions and that she is going to use her platform, her music.


Do I think the MV technicality is perfect or unquestionable? No. It’s not. It feels low budget.

The actors, I thought they did really well. I got confused when the Director cuts to the redeeming part of the story. I had to rewatch, rethink and decipher.

The bullied kid, jumping happily, why? Oh, maybe the bullies got kicked out. The suicidal girl, when you’re at your lowest, call someone, talk to someone about your problems. They could help. The abused woman, walking away is the right way. A group of actors running was showing how we could run from darkness and find the light.

And here I thought the lyrics have a Gospel connotation to it. There was no portrayal of a practice of one specific religion at all.

Never had I watched a Filipino MV and had to think this hard. Stop the hate already. Because, really, why not from Sarah G?

Did you notice that Sarah remained in the dark and still finding her light?

Angela watched her best friend Louisa get married to her boyfriend since she was fourteen. On the day of the wedding, Louisa asked Angela if she is indeed going to marry Mark, her boyfriend of ten years. Angela and her boyfriend was already engaged but never really set a date.

That night, Angela went to the car to pick up her comfy flats only to find Mark having sex with a girl at the back of the car. Angela confronted her best friend and her husband at the party why they knew about the affair and never said anything. Angela made the bride cry, injured her husband Tim and saw Mark by the door with just his boxers on. The entire guests saw what happened.

Angela feeling heart broken, cheated on, lied to and embarrassed, flew to New York on a whim. As soon as she arrives at her hotel, she immediately made a couple of friends, is dating two men on her second night and was offered a freelance job at The Look magazine a few days after. And it gets interesting from there on.


I Heart New York
Lindsey Kelk
Harper Paperbacks
336 Pages
ISBN-13: 9780007288380
Personal Rating: ♣♣♣

I have always wanted to read the “I Heart..” series by Lindsey K. Kelk. I had access to the e-books but never really had the chance to start reading them.

I Heart New York is reminiscent of Sex and the City. In fact, it has been mentioned two or three times in the book.

Angela, the protagonist, like Carrie Bradshaw, is a writer, but a children’s book writer in the UK. She was soon offered a freelance writing job for The Look magazine as a blogger, blogging about her heart aches and dating experience in New York. Angela has started to love the finer things that shopping experience in New York can only give living with just her post-wedding shoes, a Louboutins no less, and bought her very first expensive handbag, a Marc Jacobs. Like Carrie, she made a friend in Jenny Lopez (aka Samantha, SATC) as soon as she arrived in New York, friends who are older than her, teaching her The Rules in dating, friends with connections and friends with equally sadder love stories. Like the SATC TV series, you’ll read snippets of Angela’s thoughts on love, dating and being pensive about things.

People go to LA to “find themselves”, they come to New York to become someone new.

We all dreamed about New York. What’s not to like about it? The diversity, the energy of the city, the shopping, the Sex and the City experience, the men in Wall Street or the troubled artist in Brooklyn.

Finishing the book made me want to live in New York only with a realist view of New York. The cost of living in New York is darn expensive, you’ll only live in debt if you succumb to the wants of big fashion houses around the city and living a certain lifestyle. So, when it’s not happening anytime soon or ever, Lindsey Kelk book, I Heart New York is a great escape to New York dream land.

Let’s talk characters. Angela is British, smart and thin so the looks department and charm of the British accent worked for her. Dating two men at the same time and offering it as bait to your future employer can only end badly. Jenny Lopez (not the artist girl from the Bronx, in fact, the character insist not to reference her to the same person) works in the hotel where Angela ended up staying. At thirty, she hasn’t figured out how to become Oprah, her lifelong dream. We all know we can’t be Oprah. But she forged a strong bond with Angela having been through the same situation as her like many New Yorkers. She has that cynical look to relationship, men and dating. She insists that Angela should just be dating as many men as possible. Alex and Tyler are the two gentlemen Angela is dating. Alex is the front man of a band and Tyler is Mr. Wall Street. I’ll leave the description at that so no spoilers.

Who would you go for? The artist or the rich guy? Who is playing and who is being real? I was confused myself truth be told until it was revealed at the end of the book. And, can you play the field with two different men and not end up feeling invested in one them?

Have you read this book or the entire series? Would love to read your comments so leave them in the section below. Thank you for reading!

I don’t know much about this book and I don’t have any expectation. I didn’t read any review or summary but I like the idea of reading this in a graphic novel format.


A Wrinkle In Time
Copyright 2007
ISBN-13: 9780312367558
Book Design by Jennifer Brown
Mass Market Edition
Personal Rating: ♣♣♣♣♣ 

The graphic novel for kids is a John Newbery Medal awardee and is a 5-part book series. The theme of the book is not just for kids. It revolves around Science, time travel, the universe, literature, languages, family, angels, religion and love.

The story is about the adventures of the Murry kids and Calvin O’Keefe. The elder Murry’s are both scientist and they have 4 odd or special children. The story revolves around the adventure of looking for Mr. Murry, who has been away on a Government mission for too long. The entire town thinks he left his family for good.

His two children, Meg and Charles Wallace, befriended three thieves/witches who know where their Father is. Charles Wallace, who has advance intelligence and is able to see through people, believed them. He persuaded his sister and their friend, Calvin O’Keefe, to go on this mission to find their Father.

On their journey, they met various characters that reminds me so much of Mother Earth, Angels, Evil/Satan. All throughout the story you will read about references of various literary works, the galaxy and the universe explained, the good and evil doings of Human beings on Earth and it’s effects, Religion as the characters talk about Jesus and mentioning Bible verses. The children were sent into a world to which they themselves can only travel and where they can find their Father.

It’s definitely a must read! The kind of books that reminded me of the lessons taught to me as a kid. As we get older, it is so easy to forget the basic lessons of right and wrong.

There’s a movie adaptation of this book coming soon. It’s a movie to be directed by Frozen director.