Shrek teaser

here's a clip from the upcoming Shrek movie. Puss really let himself go! Anyway, the movie will probably hit Zamboanga shores in May, so it won't be a long wait afterall.

Madonna and ETC in one day

An hour ago, I was channel surfing when I came across a new channel, which featured a show oddly-enough, looked like a Project Runway rip-off. I mean, come on, one of the judges was Kelly Rowland. Wait, that's not my point. The point is, when I looked at the screen, I saw three letters I never knew I would see again: E T C. It was a pleasant shocker to have ETC back! But I don't think I'll enjoy watching Kelly Rowland act as somebody remotely close to a style mogul though. And I haven't seen Sam Oh, the somewhat Korean girl who used to host segments in between shows. I'm not sure if she's still with ETC though, which is a shame, since I liked her.

Anyway, I was also surprised that they aired new Glee episodes via satellite! So I watched episode 14 without even downloading it...which is great considering I'm devoting most of the space to Grey's anatomy episodes.

Glee's Madonna episode, was actually packed with drama and semi - pivotal moments!

Sue's obsession with Madonna reaches a boiling point when she orders Principal Figgins to play Madonna songs full-blast on the school's PA system. She also makes the Cheerios perform on stilts, which was cool yet bizarre. Will thinks Madonna is a good muse for the Gleeks so he asks them to do Madonna numbers.

I'm really not into Madonna so there wasn't a lot to appreciate though, but still, there was a lot of Madonna to go around.

1. Mercedes and Kurt, to make Sue feel better about not having Will's locks, make her the star of their Madonna - inspired video (the song's "Vogue")

2. Rachel wants to have sex with Jesse, but eventually chickens out. Santana also wants to have sex with Finn and they eventually do it, but Finn didn't feel any "spark" (like duh). Emma, because she wants to prove to everyone (including herself), that she's taking control of her life, also invites Will to do it, but in the end, doesn't happen. Then they sing "Like a Virgin".

3. Jesse quits (?!) Vocal Adrenaline (the club's rival group) to join their Glee club, and it causes every one to question his motives from the get-go (duh, who wouldn't?).

4. Because Mercedes and Kurt think that they haven't been given a lot of solos, they joined the Cheerios (Sue's cheer squad) AND performed "4 Minutes". They're still part of Glee though. Why doesn't Mike Chang and the other guy complain? They haven't opened their mouths to sing even five words (solo that is) the whole season!

5. The episode ends with their version of "Like a Prayer", which is obviously one of the few songs of Madonna that I know. And once again, it was GREAT! (right now I'm looking for a good youtube video to post, but there aren't any yet)

Wow, it felt like I was doing the fast recap at the beginning of every Glee ep. I better watch it next time. :)

Glee flash mob

Ok I just had to post this right now. This video shows a flash mob in Seattle dancing to Glee songs. I've always underestimated flash mobs. Like, I always assume that it's going to be a small group but a wide angle shot of the crowd showed almost everyone dancing. It's amazing that in the beginning, you never know who's part of it, then you'd be surprised at the "randomness" of people who don't look like dancers join in, and the whole thing erupts into one amazingly choreographed number.

Blood, Glee and no torrid lovemaking

This week was my first rotation ever in the operating room. We were assigned at Doctor's hospital and lucky for me, my fears were put to rest early when I was called first to assist. My first ever surgery, a thyroidectomy (removal of the thyroid gland) lasted the whole morning. Pretty heavy for a gland that's supposed to be small. The smell of tissue being cauterized (with a pointed tip charged with electricity; a fancy medical way of saying burning tissue) reminded me pretty much of papait (goat's guts stewed in bile-y soup). It also reminded me of the smell when you dissect toads, so thank you Sir whatsyourname, for prepping me early on during my Zoo lab.

I felt pretty good after the surgery because I didn't do an epic fail of what I was doing, which was basically cleaning the bloody instruments, handing instruments and retracting the skin to expose more tissue. I'm not going to complain about how my friends at General hospital managed to snag 3 surgeries in two days while I had (only) 1 because the experience makes you look forward to the surgeries to come, and thank my lucky stars blood and guts don't make me puke...they make me even giddy at some point. And it also helped that my instructor was calm most of the time.


I finally finished watching Glee episode 14 and I'm excited for the things to come. I mean, Rachel's playing a Juliet Capulet and seeing a guy from Vocal Adrenaline (their competition), Finn actually LIKES Rachel, Will and Emma actually have a shot at a real relationship, Terry (Will's wife who faked her pregnancy) will be getting less screen time, Regionals are coming up, and Quinn isn't in labor yet! What's not to look forward to??

Aside from Glee, I also watched "An Education", one of the films nominated for an Oscar early this year. I thought, that since it has a May-December love affair, like "The Reader" (Where Kate Winslet had sex with a boy without apologies), it would follow the same pattern of torrid lovemaking between a married man and a 16 year old girl, but it didn't. It was light and wholesome enough for the palate and yeah, I guess I've had enough of the old and young sharing bodily fluids for one day. It turns out it was about how a girl almost grows up too fast for her own good, and almost loses her shot at getting into Oxford because of her relationship. But she does go in the end after realizing how wrong she was so yeah, she does get "an education", pun intended.

a GREAT Misunderstanding

You probably don't care right now, with hunger, corruption and war going on around the world BUT I'm soooo happy that a new Glee episode will be coming in a few days!!!! You see, at the back of my head, I thought Glee will start when American Idol will end! BUT new episodes are up in a few days!!! I was watching Glee promo vids on youtube when it shocked me that the premiere date would be a few days from now. I thought I was hallucinating but NO!!!!! I'm ready to say hello to Glee again! (I can't believe this post contains A LOT of exclamation points