On Your Mark

I don't know what has gotten into me but I'm back at writing in wattpad! Right. Maybe it was because I was just bored at being stuck at home and I have nothing else to do. Or maybe... it's my inner desire to crush those cheesy novels I keep on seeing on wattpad and I wanted them to show how teen romance should be done. Ha! Martyrs of the Modern Era is not a new novel of mine. It's just a revised edition of the novel I've written back in college, with a cringey title "Operation: SELOS". I decided to change the title because...why not? But it wasn't only the title that I revised. I mean, the whole crappy story. Before, the story centers on the  fake dating between the two main characters, Jo and Rhian. But since I was so ignorant that this trope has been used a gazillion times, even popularized by that movie To All The Boys I've Loved Before, I finally decided to toss it out and focus on its other themes: which is martyrdom. Almost ever...

Katatapos ko lang nito mapanood kanina at nako, sinasabi ko sa'yo, tumambay pa talaga ako sa sine nang matagal kanina para lang magpunas ng luha kasi grabe ang iyak ko rito. Jusko. Kung tutuusin, mas marami pa ang iniyak ko rito kaysa sa Your Name. Promise. But enough of that. Let's get to my review, shall we? The very first time I heard that Makoto Shinkai (Your Name's film director) would be creating a new animated film, of course, I was excited. Your Name tugged at my heartstrings and I actually memorized every scene it had by watching it a lot of times. Pero noong narinig ko ang title nito, Weathering with You? Duda ako. It wasn't catchy for me and it even sounded weird. Kahit ang synopsis nito? What's appealing ba with the main character's special ability? Nagpapatigil ng ulan? Oh, tapos? Now I just wanna slap myself for thinking that. It's a visual eye-candy. Kahit pa ang setting nito'y sa isang gloomy and rainy-version of Tokyo, the glu...