Friday, January 02, 2009
5:32 PM ● goodbye 2008 hello 2009

how's my new year??
Fine naman. . . Happy kahit tahimik sa bahay. . . We don't use any fireworks to be safe. . . Mas masaya pa ata ang next year naming new year. . . I heard that all our family in Canada will celebrate the new year dis year (2010). . . I gon't know if it is true. . . For me sana totoo para happy once in a life time lang iyon. . . Last time they all visit here is when my father die. . . And dami kong pasalubong from my tita. . . On monday daw meron daw uling pasalubong. . . I can't wit na nga eh. . .

Let's talk about my faveorite shows:
Precious Time

Kaneshiro Takeshi - Ishikawa Keigo
Fukada Kyoko - Kano Masaki
Kato Haruhiko - Hibino Isamu
Nakama Yukie - Kaoru
Yazawa Shin - Oda Asami
Hirata Mitsuru - Kano Nogiro
Tanaka Yoshiko - Kano Yaeko
Masuoka Toru - Arida Yoshikatsu
Tonesaku Toshihide - Kubo Takashi
Tanaka Yukimi (田中有紀美) - Tamura Kana
Takeshita Kotaro (竹下宏太郎) - Isawa Hiroyuki
Nagahori Taketoshi (永堀剛敏) - Noguchi Takaaki
Isayama Hiroko - Hiratsuka Ishi
Miyazawa Rie - Takimura Lisa
Katsurayama Shingo (ep3)
Kohinata Fumiyo (ep10)

I’m not sure if Filipino teenagers under 16 should be allowed to watch this TV series. On one hand, it contains sensitive ideas like HIV, pre-marital sex and prostitution. Should our teens be exposed to these? On another, why should they not? Exposing them early on may make them more responsible individuals.

Precious Time (God Please Give Me More Time) is a Japanese drama about Masaki (Kyoko Fukuda), a Tokyo girl in love with a famous music producer, Keigo (Takeshi Kaneshiro). At the time of Keigo’s concert, Masaki lost her wallet in which she had kept the concert tickets. Desperate to watch the concert and at least see Keigo, she slept with a stranger for money.

Like fantasy, she met Keigo after the concert and they spend the night together. From that moment, Masaki sees direction to her life, like she now knows what she is living for. She immediately ordered an HIV test, and to her sorrow, she is positive. She got it from the stranger she slept with.

I admire Japanese writers on tackling delicate issues like this on TV. It is much more like an episode in Maalaala Mo Kaya.

Keigo has just lost his girlfriend, and he had been depressed since then. Like Masaki, he feels like he has no reason to live. But when he met Masaki, he knew he still wants to be alive. Masaki had not infected him. But Keigo feels he must take care of Masaki.

Watching it gives me a break from the usual local drama that we have. And what is fun about watching Precious Time is that there are only four commercials at most, and most of them are just promotions. You don’t have to wait another five minutes for the next scene.

The scenes I love the most are when Masaki would slump on her bed after a long useless day. Then the phone would ring. It was Keigo. And Masaki’s world would start turning again.

Maybe our teens should see this. The series is creatively crafted unlike Eva Fonda which is unadvisable.

Precious Time airs after Pinoy Fear Factor on ABS-CBN.

un lang muna tinatamad na ako mag search and type


'til here

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.pat.pat.pat.

xxxxxx

( Run to the city. )