What Excites Me Lately

It has now convinced me that November will always be a great month. Not to mention legends were born at this time (well, like me) but also wonderful things happen on November!! From Pacquiao's matches to most-awaited movie premieres plus the birthdays of legends that were made during Valentines' Day!

What excites me this November involves a lot of things, not just my birthday, but it includes the following! Also they were happening on my birthday week! How did I possibly managed and handled them well? Actually, I just barely survived. I am really in the surge of feelings this week and I'm still holding them delicately. But why?

1. COLDPLAY ANNOUNCED THEIR CONCERT ON TUESDAY

Imagine me studying for an exam the next day on a Monday night, and this news broke out. PROMISE. I literally let go of it all. I just can't huhu. This long time dream of mine, I just can't afford to not see it. I am so determined to go. I couldn't concentrate with my studies from then on, good thing our exam was postponed. I immediately made plans with my friend, a fellow Coldplayer, to go to the concert! And then the dates and ticket prices were announced the following days, which made our Hope level depressed a bit. 

The concert is on a WEEKDAY (April 4, 2017, Tuesday) and the tickets, wow, so costly! We can only afford Bronze (Php3500) but adding the plane ticket cost to get to Manila... I can only cry. *dasal nalang talaga* Quite mad at the organizers for the overpricing (SoKor's VIP just costs Php6k plus?! Imagine) and the for their decision to have the concert held at MOA Concert Grounds. My friend and I was like "our heights". *jaw drops* And Bronze is already really far from the stage! And I really don't think grounds is a convenient place for Coldplay concert considering the raising-Xylobands part, it will just be.. flat. 

As if all of these were still not enough for giving our hopes up, we weren't able to reserve a ticket in the Globe pre-sale even though my friend sent it exactly 9AM! Now bitter with all the people who posted their tickets in Twitter. Hayy. Send help.

From Google Images.

I'm just praying now that there'd be a miracle huhu. P.S. I am really a Coldplay fan. Not that I still have to explain it to anyone, but I am just clearing this out since nonsense arguments are everywhere: hardcore fans berating just-now-proclaimed-fans and etc. I just roll my eyes. Why does it have to resort to hateful ways? Coldplay actually promotes peace and harmony and hope to everyone. People should ought to apply that on their lives, or should listen to Coldplay more hahaha. [P.P.S. I listen to Coldplay almost everyday, than most people. (omg why am i explaining again)]

2. FANTASTIC BEASTS PREMIERE ON MY BIRTHDAY

Not exactly my birthday because it was released on some countries on November 16, but duhh. HUHU have I mentioned that I am a Potterhead?! And this new movie has really lightened up my pottersoul since the last Harry Potter movie franchise, way back 2011. Plus Eddie-freaking gorgeous-Redmayne is portraying Newt Scamander. Already watched it in theaters this afternoon! My friends urged me that we'll just wait for a DVDrip and download it someday, but idk why I feel it violates my Potterhead self. For the case of Harry Potter movies, I want to see them in big screens as much as I can, as a compensation on not being able to watch the first seven movies in cinemas.

*spoiler alert*

GUYS, THE MOVIE WAS BREATHTAKING. AND AWESOME. AND FANTASTIC INDEED. Though, it wasn't that mind-blowing and mind-racking, but it was relaxing! The movie was made for you to chill. The graphics and the effects were superb! They made you want a 'beast' as a pet. Also, I loved Newt's advocacy and Eddie has portrayed his role amazingly (as always). He was perfect. Promise. I also encountered lots of new wizarding world terms like Muggles in UK were called No-Majs in America, plus the new set of magical creatures, like the Swooping Evil and Erumpent. You'd also get to know with an Obscurus, a dark magic beast that will occupy a body of a child if his magical powers were suppressed and not used. The conflicts revolve around an Anti-Maj organization, sometimes the MACUSA, the Obscurial, and then Grindelwald. And tenenen, JOHNNY DEPP IS GRINDELWALD. 

Such great casting. If you were expecting that this movie will teach you where to find the beasts, I think that's the only downside of it because the movie did not focus mainly on that, lol. (Just buy the book, then.) JK Rowling has totally written a new story that will still give you a hint of the journey. Excited for the sequel!!! ♥

3. LEGEND OF THE BLUE SEA PILOT EPISODE

Who's a fan of Kdramas?! Well, I'm not really a diehard fan but I usually squeeze some episodes during my free time or when there are no exams coming up, which hardly happens. 

After I watched Uncontrollably Fond last September, I promised myself to not watch any kdrama until the end of semester to avoid distractions, but LEGEND OF THE BLUE SEA IS AN EXCEPTION BECAUSE LEE MIN HO. 

Finally, my bae is coming back to the TV screens together with sassy girl Jun Ji Hyun. The drama is a fictional magical story, with JiHyun as a mermaid. It's also a romantic comedy that's why I'm looking forward to it even though I don't think MinHo and JiHyun has chemistry with each other. Nevertheless, I'm still supporting my 'husband' all the way!!

4. A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS OFFICIAL TRAILER

This Lemony Snicket series is part of my childhood and I was fond of reading it, though I am still stuck on book 5, giving me horrors and thrills of Count Olaf. After how many years of waiting for a sequel on the movie, which I really find amazing and the adaptation's not so far from the book, finally a TV series has come to suffice my cravings. 

But honestly, on the release of the trailer, I was quite disappointed since it has not given me thrills already. :( Neil Patrick Harris is a great Count Olaf but the aura of the setting and the series itself is quite... cheery and colorful and vibrant. Not the usual dark feels you get when you read the books or the first time you watched the movie, that brought you to the edge of your seat. It somehow does not give me a fear of getting found by Count Olaf. But I'm still giving an open mind to this since it's Netflix's, which also owns Stranger Things, to which many of my friends had praised. Kudos also for finding a very close replacement for Violet Baudelaire. 

Still excited for this, this coming January together with a new season of Sherlock!!! 2017 is gonna be full of surprises.

So far, these are hot issues that kept me occupied lately, aside from the political hot topic of #MarcosNotAHero and the 'Libingan ng mga Bayani'. Good thing, these great news are relaxing me away from the stress we call acads. A lover of November forever~