Preparing for rain

"God saves the best for last, and the best is yet to come." -Pastor Oly

Waiting has its rewards but sometimes one cannot help but feel tired. More than being tired, one may feel hopeless that the wait is never gonna bear good fruits. Rather, the time one spent waiting is considered time wasted.

But as I listened to Pastor Oly last Sunday I realized the value of waiting. That good things comes to those who wait. That in moments you feel that time is being wasted on waiting, and not acting or doing something, you should pray and trust God that what He wants will be done.

Thus, my second favorite verse,

Hebrew 11:1 "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, and being certain of what we do not see."

In the movie Facing The Giants, Mr. Bridges told Grant Taylor a parable of two farmers who prayed to God for rain. But only one prepared his fields for it. Mr. Bridges asked, "Who do you think deserved and got the rain he prayed for?" Grant replied, "Of course, the farmer who prepared his fields."

No matter how long I have to wait, I am assured that what I'm wairting for will come.

And, yes, God, I am preparing for rain.

Lots of it.

An SATC review: Another one bites the dust

Warning: Sex and the City spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk (if you have watched it already or have no plans to do so, read on).


Any TV series that makes a jump from the small screen to the big screen piques my interest, regardless of the show. The logic behind this: there must be something that the TV series did right for it to be made into a movie. Or in some cases the producers just push the series' popularity a bit too far.


Barks.


In all fairness to the scriptwriter/s of the movie, I never felt left out or OP (to use a 1990s jargon) while watching the movie despite the sad fact (I now realize) that I didn't even get to watch a single episode. (Why, you might ask. I can imagine the dialogue between my mom and I if she chanced upon me watching that show . . . Ma: O anong pinapanood mo? Me: Uh, Sex And The City po. Ma: Ha? Ano ulit?)
Anyway, kudos to the four women/actresses who played Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte. They're the Richard-Gere-Julia-Roberts-tandem of friendship movies. Well, what I meant by that is they have really good on-screen chemistry. They appear to be really good friends on-screen (though they must be in real life). Way better than what Eva and company are doing at Wisteria Lane. Also the guys who played Mr. Big, Steve, Harry, and Smith should be commended for such acting, minimal-yet-just-right. The girls are the bida, and the guys didn't outshine them, or tried to.


Hmm. The jokes are . . . grabe, nakakatawa talaga. Not slapstick, of course, but really funny in the uninhibited, natural sort of way. My Funniest Scene Award goes to (drum roll, please) Kristin Davis as Charlotte York when she did a number two, a.k.a. "poopsied" in her pants just because she drank a few drops of Mexican running water while showering. Natawa talaga ako 'dun. As in. (Though I didn't get what's with Mexico and contaminated food.)


I really really seriously love Charlotte's Asian adopted daughter (sounds familiar?) Lily. She's adorable. Partida, all her lines in the movie were merely one-worded comments or butt-ins except for this one time when she uttered a sentence. One simple sentence! Something like, "There's mommy" or "Mommy's here" or something to that effect. She makes the scenes, in which she's in, playfully funny. She is definitely the fifth SATC girl. (Note: It turns out twins Alexandra and Parker Fong alternately played Lily. So fifth and sixth SATC girls. :P) And because of her (err, them) and the aforementioned factors, I love Color and the City. Gets?


Bites.


There is one hole in the story/script though. What I didn't quite get was the Mr.Big-running-away-from-the-wedding part. Tell me, can a guy not be married just because he's afraid (really now) to get out of the frigging car? Come on. He's not even a first-timer I-do-er (haha, nice term). Already on his third wedding, he's actually a veteran, for goodness' sake. Lesson of the story # 1: Always keep your phone within an arms reach at your wedding. Lesson # 2: Let the groom ride a less comfortable car, that way he'll be itching to get out of it, the first chance he gets.


Another sad sad thing is: watching the Philippine version of the movie was like watching a pirated DVD copy of it. It effing jumps, mehn. My sister rarely spotted the jumps and cuts (except for one, the part when Samantha was supposed to peek/watch while her neighbors are doing the deed then *poof* she's suddenly sitting in the living room, waiting for Smith) but having been taught by Sir Joey in Comm2, these glitches didn't go unnoticed. The movie had a handful of cuts that it bleeds.


Grabe naman, Ms./Mrs. Laguardia (I hope I got her name right). Please choose which films do deserve your cutthroat discipline (pun definitely intended) and which do not. Sayang kasi. I hope the DVD version (orig, opkors) will be literally uncut. Not because I'm some hot-blooded pervert easily turned on by these scenes but because I went to the cinema expecting a full, whole, unglitched version of the movie. No scene-jumping, please.


It wouldn't be titled  Sex and the City if it contains no "sex", right? Common sense people. And why would a parent let her child or anyone for that matter watch such a film without expecting sex scenes. Kaya nga sa title pa lang may warning na. Sex and the City. No subliminal messages there.