My name is Patrisha Cabasal, I’m currently 17 years old and studies at Far Eastern University. As a grade 11 student, it was a requirement for us to make a blogsite that contains a travel experience, a movie review, and lastly, an about page. It was my first time in creating a blog since I’m not really very public about my experiences, but I guess this is a way to share to the world a little something about me. I don’t travel a lot because my family does not have the budget to do so. My summer is mostly spent inside the house doing nothing. Luckily, we went to Bicol in 2009 so I have one travel experience to tell you all.
My blog is entitled “that’s so random” simply because the content is random stories I want to post. It can go from my travel experience to a movie review of a film I enjoyed watching. “That’s so Random” came from the famous Disney series “That’s so Raven”. Currently my blog only consists of one travel experience and one movie review, since I can put random things here, I might add more content. That’s basically my blogsite, it’s not that much but I hope you’ll enjoy reading the stuff I posts here.
At first, I had to be honest that I didn’t like anime and anything related to it, but because my classmate influenced me into watching a movie entitled “Kimi No Na Wa” or in English translation “Your Name”. I didn’t want to watch it at first but I did eventually. I don’t know what drove me to watch it but I did.
I was pretty
outdated when I watched the movie. It was released in the Philippines in 2016
and I think I watched it in 2018 so I was 2 years late. The hype of the movie
was over that time, still I watched it because one of my classmates said it was
a great movie. Took me awhile before I was convinced though.
Now let’s talk about the movie itself. The animation was truly beautiful. The overall graphics was breathtaking. The colorful aesthetics combined with all the overall animation made me feel like I was in the movie, whether you’re watching it from your phone or from your laptop, regardless of the screen size, the movie makes you fully immerse in the scenes. With beautiful animation, it also came with wonderful background music that perfectly matched up with the scenes. It greatly helped with the “feels” of the movie. Adding background music made my emotions strong . I really felt the movie and the emotion it was trying to make me feel. An added bonus is that the background of the movies and the different scenery were based on real places in Japan.
Enough about
the movie’s aesthetics, now unto the plot. Two high schoolers, Mitsuha and
Taki. They are complete strangers living separate lives. Mitsuha, the daughter
of the mayor in a small town, she lives with her sister and grandmother. She is
uninterested with the rituals they do and have no intention of helping in her
father’s campaign, instead she wants to try her luck in Tokyo and leave the
boring town she lives in. Taki, a high school boy who lives in Tokyo works part
time as a waiter. He also dreams about becoming an architect in the near
future. One night, Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body and he in hers. As they try
to live each other’s lives, the establish a connection and they try to
communicate by leaving notes or messages as they switch bodies. They wanted a
chance to meet but distance isn’t the only obstacle they were facing.
Your Name is
an endearing, beautiful story about growing up, identity, accepting yourself
for who you are, looking beyond yourself, connection, change, and fate. It is a
film about how we connect with people in unexpected ways and see them in a
different light as a result. It leaves the viewer with perspective and
self-reflection. With all of the plot twists and turns that take place, the
story of Taki and Mitsuha has not become lost within, it’s the heart of the
story’s puzzle and has the viewer in a tight, emotional grip from start to
finish.
I was 9 year when my family and I went to visit Bicol, specifically Albay. If I remember correctly, we went there because our relative have passed away. I know my family was not close to her but we still decided to visit her funeral together with our other relatives. Our trip to Bicol took roughly 12 hours or more. I remember we had to wake up at 10pm to travel. We had numerous stopovers because we had to travel for 12 hours. Then finally we arrived at 12nn at the funeral. We were greeted with sad faces and we said condolence to the family. Then we left the wake, we went to the house of our relative because I is where we will spend the night.
Church ruins
I
also remembered that we attended the mass at 5pm. I don’t remember the name of
the church but I do remember that the view from the back of the church was the
magnificent Mayon Volcano. We couldn’t help but take pictures of it. After the
mass we ate dinner then we went back to the house to take a rest and sleep. Then
the morning after came, we decided to go and visit the Mayon Volcano and its
ruins. It was truly something spectacular. Being able to see the perfect
symmetrical volcano in the Philippines. We took pictures but not that many
because we were to busy admiring the beautiful scenery in front of us.
Of course as
part of the Filipino culture, we can’t help and take a look at the pasalubong center and bought a variety
of items and that was the end of our Bicol trip. I do hope I can visit again
soon.
THATS SO RANDOM 