Week #20 - Nov 13 to Nov 19

2024-11-19

• 🧹 I did some winter cleaning in my office. I have a lot of boxes just lying around and managed to put things into more manageable piles and threw some things out, too. Being able to see more floor space gives me a lot of relief. However, I'm nowhere near done. I also put up some K-pop posters in the office!

• 🎬 I'm not much of a movie fan but my mom convinced me to watch Hello, Love, Again with her and some of my titas over the weekend. The movie is a Filipino rom-com and I'd say it's your standard Filipino drama, nothing special. I rolled my eyes more than I cried (I cried three times). A lot of the filming took place in Canada, so it was cool seeing some familiar scenery. It was really nice to see foreign movies being shown in an actual theater here in Canada. My Tagalog isn't the best so I greatly appreciated the subtitles they provided. It was fun! Afterwards, I went to my aunt's and hung out with cousins.
• 🩺 It just now hit me that I watched two movies this week, both Filipino related. I managed to catch a screening of the documentary, Nurse Unseen. The documentary covers stories of Filipino nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. I was really touched watching it and cried a lot. A lot of these events happened just four years ago, but for some reason it feels like a lifetime away. It's times like these that I feel like we don't appreciate people who work in healthcare as much as we should.
• 📖 I actually finished reading something?? I finished reading Only Sisters by Lilian Nattel. The main character has a sister working as a travel nurse in Africa during the first Ebola outbreaks and sadly passes away. But her sister's dying wish is to pretend that she is still alive for the sake of their mother. It was alright, not a must read. I actually read this book before, but I wrongly assumed that I didn't finish reading the book, and re-read it. It was only in the last thirty pages that everything started coming back to me. Oh well!
• 🥀 My Chemical Romance caused some controversy with their tour rollout last week. The tickets were pretty expensive... But I expected this and bought tickets anyway. The seats I have are near the seats I had from the Green Day concert back in August and they were around $80 more per seat. Not bad, and I think they're better seats too, a little bit closer. I can sympathize with fans finding the tour expensive but stadium tours are expensive to begin with. But it really did ignite a bit discussion within the fandom. I really hope the high ticket price means new music, but we'll see.
• 📊 My last week's top artists are similar from last week's. What's notable is rapper Tierra Whack. She's an artist new to me and I've been spinning tracks from the album, Whack World. Other than Tierra, we have IDLES, L.S. Dunes, Leathermouth, XG, Minho, The Used, and miruky.