Sorry. No. Bee. Leave me alone! Iridescent. Whole landscape. And that last line ...

(jusz becoz I've been watchin' re-run of my forever favorite movies.  it's a long holiday.  only be back for office on the 3rd.  the last two days were Notting Hill, Chasing Liberty and Dirty Dancing:  Havana Nights.  earlier today was A walk to Remember. and then this.  I loved this movie so much that this was the third time I was writing about it.  The first time was a reference.  The second time was a few months after that tragedy.  This, the third, I drafted 5 - 6 years ago.  I just thought, may be the timing's perfect, it get's posted in its original form, I am retaining the title, too.

I don't even remember why i wrote it this way.  I took the lines and placed them not in the same order as they were in the book or in the film.  I took the words for the title, key words, to remind this writer why she wrote it this way.

'Must say, I still love happy endings tho, especially, in the movies.)


Bryce Loski: Juli, I'm sorry.
Juli Baker: No. You're not.

Garrett: Hey! Have you flipped? Whats the matter with you?

Garrett: Are you freaking mental? Juli Baker? You hate her.
Bryce Loski: That's whats so weird, I don't think I do.

Bryce Loski: There was a... bee in her hair.
Dana Tressler: There's no bee.

[Bryce enters the second grade classroom]
Young Juli: Bryce! You're here!
[runs up and tries to hug him]

Juli Baker: Bryce, you should come up here. It's so beautiful.

Bryce Loski: All I ever wanted was for Juli Baker to leave me alone.

Juli Baker: His hair smelled just like watermelon.

Chet Duncan: Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss; but every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and once you do, nothing will ever compare.

Juli Baker: I guess it's something about his eyes or maybe his smile.
Richard Baker: And what about him?
Juli Baker: What?
Richard Baker: You have to look at the whole landscape.
Juli Baker: What does that mean?
Richard Baker: A painting is more then the sum of it's parts. A cow by itself is just A cow. A meadow by itself is just grass, flowers. And the sun picking through the trees, is just a beam of light. But you put them all together and it can be magic.

Bryce Loski: Flat, glossy, iridescent? What the hell does that mean? Juli Baker has always seem plain to me. Until now.

Dana Tressler: The only bee your attracting is B-R-Y-C-E. I'm telling you, that boy is lost in Loveland.

Bryce Loski: The way she ignore me was a constant reminder that I've been a jerk.

my love affair with books

Fin’lly, giving up on David Nicholls’ novel amout Ems and Dex. Two days ago, it finally found its burial ground. In between Angeles Mastretta (Dianini's "no occasion" gift to me) and a pyramid of my growing collection.

In the bus tonyte, I started catching up with Jules and Bryce … scanning the pages of Flipped, after parking it to give way for something Brit. Realizing that so far only Helen Fielding’s humor made me LMAO on the floor via Bridget Jone’s Diary, and my idolatry of Joanne Harris is because her mom’s French ;), Esquivel is Mehicana, McCourt Irish, Kundera is Czech, while Robert James Waller and Lizses Forscyte Hailey and Gilbert are definitely Americans, Master Paulo Coelho is from Brazil.

I still gonna watch the film, though .. . wont miss Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess for the world :) … EMD kiddows gave good raves, given their open biases on K-Pop … I’m taking their seal approval for this one.

Excuse me for my French, but, in its written form at closed to a thousand bucks … I waited for the climax … or may be some punch lines and of course those hard hitting one-liners here and there … never got there really. Nah …

A book that doesn’t bring your senses to another level and dimension and eventually fails to live up to its promise as usually explicitly mention in the introduction and at the back cover with all the blah blah blah blah … is like a bad relationship. Looks appealing in the beginning, engaging in a few months, but that’s it, that’s all. That kinda book makes you wanna sue the publisher for the short change, that kinda relationship leaves a bad after taste.

I’ve got Rebie’s pink little teddy :) in between the pages, my name scribbled on it … I was a little done with Bryce … Julianna’s turn … fascinating girl.

BTW, Wendelin Van Draanen’s from Chicago :)

I’m still hoping, like Interview with A Vampire. Chocolat and Like Water for Chocolate, in pages and in film, equally commendable, this Flipped.

This one’s look like a salad bowl to me … but di ba, I’m a writer with no rules …

I don’t a give shit, I suffocate from structures …

Nobody can stop me from sharing my favorite lines … I’ve got two … (LOL)

Chet Duncan on that Baker girl telling his grandson, that Loski boy … “Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss; but every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and once you do, nothing will ever compare.”

and that blue eyed boy with hair that smells like watermelon … Bryce. After flipping, now no more Juli, and jusz left talking to his silly self …

“The way she ignore me was a constant reminder that I've been a jerk.”

@ the Flipside

1. I got Thumper, Marie and Tinx. My new pairs of Boxers. Philips In-ear earphones … with purse and purple. Hello Kitty Glass cover for Soph. A pair of Nike training snickers :) and running socks, too.

2. Fayie’s birthday. I was a little late with my greetings. It was almost Sunday and Saturday was my ingress. :( But as a rule, I don’t forget birthdays, especially family’s and friends’. Monday, she made lambing, so I treated her at Pizza Hut Blue Wave.

3. My nephew Ian’s graduation from NKP. I got him and his Kuya, water guns. Too bad I was not able to join them for some home cooked paghetti parteeehhh … I was too damned busy!



4. She crossed the line. Sophie’s first 3K and she successfully hit the tape.


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5. All Star Kapuso Fun Run. Over!

6. F!

This one made me cry. More than half of the film I was picking up myself from bed, getting tissues to wipe my eyes. I could not help but PM Wenggay. I remember she mentioned about that Seyfriend chick flick. But this one is it. But more than cheesy chick, this one's the real thing. It hits you where it hurts :) Raw and real. Happiness is genuine.

My favorite scenes were those of between Morgan Lily and Ryan Ketzner (young Julianna and Bryce). And all the "flipping" scenes. :)



I am the world’s only 40 year old juvenile :) For not being able to accept that yes, I was angry, and I still am. I am twirling because I was trying to fight it back. Doors get shut. Bridges burned. Tables get turned. 360 degrees. Feelings flipped. That fear I could not conquer, the same kisz I ever wanted all of my dear life. The same one I could actually live without. I am smart, spirited, "iridescent" , stubborn and a a little weird. And there’s no bee in my hair. 8th graders are better off than many of us. Juli’s Bryce is not a coward after all.

7. Okay, that's it. I had spotting again. The good news is, I am convinced, gotta get to my OB really quick this weekend.


(Sorry this is such a brief interlude. It had been a toxic week and weekend. I needed all the pain killers and antibiotics I could get. I got home yesterday afternoon, and slept like I was good for dead. I dozed off at 2 PM, 10th of April, and woke up at 8 AM 11th of April. Whewww that was one hell of a sleep ei!)