...the house bunny and choosing to stay than to work...

che and i watched the premiere of the house bunny. it was a really funny movie from start to finish, and

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shelley, the main protagonist, was an orphan who eventually ended up in the playboy mansion... upon turning 27 and given the party of her life, she was asked to leave the house that she has known for all her life...

she would eventually wind up in a college sorority house, which, she says, is like a "mini playboy mansion"... she gets rejected by the populars, but was accepted by the losers who were in desperate need of help to save their house... her ways become embraced by the losers, because, they say, she knows boys... she actually calls herself an "expert" with boys...

then she meets oliver, a nice man who manages a nursing home.. they go out sometime, with shelley trying to get oliver to like her by using her "tricks"... oliver wasn't pleased, and eventually left shelley... the girls then thought they could help her, and they tried to make her decent and stuff.. eventually, that failed too...

sure, in the end they still wound up together, with oliver actually knowing who shelley really was.... they started all over again...

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mindless as it may be, it actually made a lot of sense to me...

having met a wide variety of people, i tend to categorize them and generalize what type of person they are. and at times, i turn out to be right... then stuff happen to me, which i try to handle using these "generalizations" i've created in my mind... and i turn out to be wrong... then i get burned...

here are some things i learned from the movie:

1. i learned that people were not meant to be read and given judgement before they even try to present themselves to you... each person was made unique, and may probably have some same characteristics as one, but certainly not exactly the same.... you're free to judge whatever from the outside, but if it involves you already, you gotta learn to step back and find a different perspective to better decide on what you're  suposed to do...


2. i learned that you don't have to adjust to the needs of the other person if you really love him/her... always "assuming" that what you're doing is "liked" by the the person you love doesn't always translate to good things...

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i understand, i truly do. but how do you hold back tears even if you "understand" that someone has died? emotions are completely distinct from from your rational capacities. you can't force yourself to be happy that someone has died, can't force yourself to smile if you're actually disappointed.

heck, now i understand why "the truth shall set you free"... uttering it only cuts you lose from everyone you clung yourself to...

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its 3am. i can't sleep. i won't go to work. i want to go somewhere. me and my penguin. for air. for thoughts.


for...hope...

and probably for a name for my penguin...

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@olgado: pota. offensive foul si kidd. pota.