Thursday, January 24, 2008
One of the places that I usually go to during the weekends is a mini-mall in Quiapo called the Manila Plaza (formerly the Ever-Gotesco Recto Mall). I'd go there because the Page Jeans store on the second floor has pictures of one of my favorite actresses Katarina Perez. I'd also go there for the fried noodles which my brother and I recently had a hankering for. The fried noodles were being sold at a food stall on the third floor.
So in my dream I find myself at the Manila Plaza one afternoon. I go to the second floor...and I find that the Page Jeans store was gone...closed...boarded up. I look around the third floor and saw that all the stores were gone too. The whole floor looked like it was deserted.
I try to make my way to the third floor...only to find the the whole third floor was boarded up as well. In fact, the escalator leading up to the third floor looked like it was truncated.
So in my dream I find myself at the Manila Plaza one afternoon. I go to the second floor...and I find that the Page Jeans store was gone...closed...boarded up. I look around the third floor and saw that all the stores were gone too. The whole floor looked like it was deserted.
I try to make my way to the third floor...only to find the the whole third floor was boarded up as well. In fact, the escalator leading up to the third floor looked like it was truncated.
Monday, January 7, 2008
What a way to start the year! I had two radical dreams this morning!
The first one is going to seem kind of prophetic. There I was at an office or something. It was early evening and the streets outside were fairly crowded. Suddenly, I hear the people outside scream. Then there was this incredibly loud crash. I wondered what the commotion was but for some reason, I knew what it was. And with the office door ajar, I saw…it! I rushed outside and what I saw about fifty yards in front of me was the severed head of a gigantic statue.
Yes, yes. I know what you’re thinking. This is very similar to that “Cloverfield” trailer (the movie is due out on the 18th). Unlike Cloverfield however, this statue is not the Statue of Liberty as the face has an oriental look to it…kind of like a Buddha statue. Besides, the statue in my dream didn't have the distinct Statue of Liberty headdress.
And as people milled about it, the head suddenly turned…and squashed two kibitzers in the process। Fortunately, that’s the extent of the mayhem brought about by the statue as I spent the rest of this dream trying to contact loved ones on my cell phone telling them about the statue। (In real life, I’m one of the few people these days that do not own and/or use a cell phone.)
I made this drawing of Toni Gonzaga last year. You can check it out at my deviantArt account.
The first one is going to seem kind of prophetic. There I was at an office or something. It was early evening and the streets outside were fairly crowded. Suddenly, I hear the people outside scream. Then there was this incredibly loud crash. I wondered what the commotion was but for some reason, I knew what it was. And with the office door ajar, I saw…it! I rushed outside and what I saw about fifty yards in front of me was the severed head of a gigantic statue.
Yes, yes. I know what you’re thinking. This is very similar to that “Cloverfield” trailer (the movie is due out on the 18th). Unlike Cloverfield however, this statue is not the Statue of Liberty as the face has an oriental look to it…kind of like a Buddha statue. Besides, the statue in my dream didn't have the distinct Statue of Liberty headdress.
And as people milled about it, the head suddenly turned…and squashed two kibitzers in the process। Fortunately, that’s the extent of the mayhem brought about by the statue as I spent the rest of this dream trying to contact loved ones on my cell phone telling them about the statue। (In real life, I’m one of the few people these days that do not own and/or use a cell phone.)
The statue in my dream was four stories tall while lying on its right ear.
Cloverfield © 2008 Bad Robot Productions, Paramout Pictures
The second dream was more benign…but no less exciting. I was at a family get-together and after the party; I decided to go to Makati to do a little shopping. So I hopped on a jeep and I got to this mall. As with all of my dreams, the route to Makati doesn’t looking like any route I’d take in real life to go to Makati. The mall itself is totally unfamiliar to me yet my subconscious swears I’ve been there a lot of times.
There was one thing about the dream that was all too familiar to me however. And it totally belies the old adage “Familiarity breeds contempt”. After all, who would be there greeting me at that mall but TV personality...Toni Gonzaga!
The way she spoke to me...it was as if she'd known me all my life. Me? I was so excited I thought I'd...uh, run around the mall in a horizontal position, my chest parallel to the ground! Yes! That's it! I don't know why I did that but I tried repeating that stunt in my dream and found out I was unable to do it a second time!Anyway, the reason she met me at the mall, it seems, was that she was interested in my albums...my picture albums. Now, I don't know why she was interested in them but...hey! Who cares, right? It's Toni Gonzaga!
I made this drawing of Toni Gonzaga last year. You can check it out at my deviantArt account.
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