Oldies but goodies
In Thailand there are only three channels I can watch on the tube- HBO, Star Movies and AXN. I hate it that the cable service offers Star Movies and Star Sports, but not Star World. I almost never get to watch TV series anymore. I would watch AXN on very few occasions because the shows that I like in that channel are in the morning block, like CSI and House. Man, I miss weekends at home in Makati with my former housemates. Also, most of evening shows I am familiar with in AXN are dubbed in Thai. Sometimes, it's not even dubbing, there'll just be a Thai voice-over commenting on the show.
And so my stack of DVDs are really piling. My latest is a Jack Nicholson-starrer that my former Philosophy professor in AdZU Fr. DJ had once recommended to our class. Well actually he didn't tell the entire class about it, we were just over at Ronald's house after graduation and people started talking about the best movie they've seen. Fr. DJ, who was the "guest of honor", said One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a must-see.
And it was. The movie was hilarious as it was sad, and I especially liked the evil nurse and her grim expression. "Your hand is staining my window," she tells Jack in one scene, and instantly the bitchy nurse becomes my favorite character.
Watch it. This was the movie that gained Jack (we are on first name basis) his Oscar nod in 1975. This movie was made almost a decade before I was born. I almost didn't recognize Danny DeVito, he still had his hair back then.
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Last Saturday was my first night out in a bar with fellow Filipinos here in Bangkok. It was fun, especially since the bar (Yes, Indeed!) was celebrating its anniversary. They gave out some fancy trumpets and party poppers, and everybody made absolute noise. And we had a very nice spot in the bar too, right in front of the platform where two dancers in skimpy clothing strutted ala- Coyote Ugly.
Two of the singers of the house band were Filipinos, by the way, and boy did they rock. This girl Janice can take on And I Am Telling You without effort.
I noticed however that most of the songs in the program were quite old. Like Scorpions old, but it was what satisfied the Thai crowd. I guess they pretty much still like old stuff here. I mean I can still hear songs by boy bands in the late nineties being played on the radio when Im in a cab. (Once though I heard a song by Christian Bautista being played, I wanted to tell the cabbie "He's freaking Filipino!")
But one thing's for sure, Thais really know how to have fun.
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