Fiction

Act I 0018hrs

My way home was short and uneventful. A cloud of thought occupied my mind. My last snapshot of you I just saved in my memory bank could be the last image of you in my mind.

I found myself standing in front of the gate of our house. I looked up in the sky and stared at the stars as I always do. Their alignment eminates a sense of calmness. Their formation resembles hope. I found myself pleading. Will I find a way to your heart?

My heart is playing a lonely tune. It wasn't sure if it tuned the correct frequency to your heart and is now lullabying itself out of misery. It skipped some beats when it found me staring at you, taken aback by the aura created by your gray-rimmed glasses and mystified by your quiet beauty. It is crushed by the uncertainty of being liked back.

I know it is a game. If I could only take a fast forward and tell you directly that I already had a crush on you when we were still classmates for a semester in speech class, and that whenever I chance upon you around campus, I greet and say hi even though you have already forgotten my name. That the courage I mustered in inviting you out wasn't a thing of the moment, but rather, something I dug deep in myself, motivated that I was given a second chance to finally get to know you. Yet I know there will never be a shortcut to your heart. I can only show, and not tell you, that I'm pure and true. Only if I'm still given a chance to let you know.


Act II 0029hrs

Juls: Im home na

Glen: Glad to hear dat. Gudnyt!

New Lastikman

Mark Bautista is the new Lastikman.

Mark who?

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Mark Bautista says he doesn't believe that he's gonna play Lastikman. Komiks (Pinoy comics) fans won't just say that this is unbelievable. They will say that it's absurd!

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Why would you pay millions of pesos to buy rights of a komiks franchise? So you can launch the movie career of a singer? Viva Films says the answer is yes. He's not even an actor for crying out load. He's a singer. I don't think he can even act.

But the catch is this. Yes they make him play for the lead role. But this is mostly because Mark is the love team of the Pop Princess Sarah Geronimo. They want to make these singers household names. And we komiks fans are the one to suffer. It's a corporate formula. And the material is trashed.

Also, it is directed by Mac Alejandre who also directed the Captain Barbell remake. When i saw it in the screens, i really thought it sucked. In fairness to the director, maybe i should give it a second look. But you can ask much from the director of a local teen soap opera program. (But I was totally wrong about a director who also directed teen soaps: Jeffrey Jeturian who directed Bridal Shower was superb, and yes, if i'm not mistaken, also has directing credits for the SexBomb Girls' Daisy Siete. Hehe.)

But what komiks fans were ranting about was the new costume. They changed the costume to green so that it will be different to the original version and Vic Sotto's Lastikman. Was the change necessary? Maybe yes since the previous movie version was only two years ago, it will have a new feel to it. But still, it will deviate from the original version just because the producers say so.

Okay. The last question is: Will I watch it? I stomached Captain Barbell last year. Maybe my tummy can do some more hurling just to see how our beloved komiks characters will turn out.