Cloverfield

Cloverfield is Godzilla meets The Blair Witch Project. Essentially Godzilla’s attack on New York from the perspective of a group of friends or more accurately from the perspective of their old-model home video camera that severely lacks a shake-reduction/motion-stabilizer feature. Could have been an interesting story but the first-person perspective approach was dizzying and I don’t mean in a good way. Half of the time my eyes were closed trying to recover my sense. I should have listened to Eeya’s recommendation not to watch it. So maybe listen to mine: Don’t watch it if you are motion sickness prone!

Rating: 1/5

Rufo’s

Tried Rufo’s early this morning (like 2AM early). Actually I’ve tried it almost exactly a week ago at Makati. That time, I ordered (what else?) tapsilog, their signature dish. Unusually, the tapa comes with sauce. In fact there’s more sauce than meat. They claim that the sauce alone is already viand. Frankly, I didn’t expect tapa to come with sauce since I’m used more to Rodic’s and Tapa King’s tapa which are more traditional. But I have to admit that it does taste nice. I like Rodic’s tapa better though. Anyway, this morning, I ordered embutido then switched to liempo because both Alex and Aby ordered it (shades of gluttony and envy in one sitting, beat that!) . But no regrets since it’s one of the best liempo I’ve had. I definitely want to try the other items on their menu.

UPDATE: Their embutido sucks.

Chick Flicks

Saw my umpteenth chick flick (I was coerced, your honor). and it’s just amazing how they haven’t changed. They ALWAYS follow the same age-old formula: girl meets guy, they don’t like each other (either that or the girl hates the guy’s guts), girl finally figures out that hey this guy is cool after all (doink!), guy does something stupid (why is it always the guy? Girls do stupid things, too) that he didn’t mean (make it more endearing, no?), girl comes to a [slow] realization (double doink!), eventually they mend things, and on to the happy ending. Freakin’ boring. Should have just looked for DVDs of these movies. Heck, Rambo IV would have been more entertaining.

Trust And The Economy

My boss mentioned that the level of economy is proportional to the level of trust. Thinking about it, it does make sense. For every business transaction, you would add the cost of contracts, lawyers, and the risk premium to cover for the probability of your partner not meeting his obligations. Not only would this cost you money (but definitely enrich those lawyers) but this would also cost you time. Is this why this country lags behind its neighbors? I remember when I went to Thailand, Migs and I encountered this tailor and we decided to have 3 shirts each made. After picking the cloth and style and having our measurements taken, we paid. But he said he doesn’t give a receipt. Just his business card. We were taken aback but we decided to say the heck with it and paid. I wrote it off already but that night, the shirts were actually waiting back at the hotel. Amazing.