Pride and Prejudice

I have been running through this BBC series since last night. And I love, love, love it!!!

Great Buys

I had a couple of "a-ha" shopping moments yesterday. You know, those moments when you see something in a store and your heart suddenly skips a beat...

I did not expect to find this DVD. I've been wanting the Pride and Prejudice BBC series but thought that since it's a British show, it won't be sold in the country. Thus, finding this DVD was a complete surprise (wasn't looking for it). The other two Austen classics are a welcome bonus. Amazing, amazing!


The phone camera does not do this sweetie justice. Yes...sweet. This watch is a darling. I really, really like it. Love the design, the green color of the bracelet, and the way the green and the brown are intertwined to form the bracelet. It's waterproof and with indiglo. It feels like it was designed for me. ;)

I Love You Because

"Synopsis

A modern day musical re-telling of Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice with the genders reversed.

I Love You Because is a musical comedy about how Mr. and Ms. Wrong try to resist falling in love. Together they explore the nuances of dating and learning how to love someone, not in spite of their differences, but because of them.

It tells of the adventures of two brothers, one a stiff greeting card writer, the other free-spirited pedi-cab driver, and the women they date, a flaky photographer and an actuary."

I am reserving any thoughts till I get to see this tomorrow night.

Valerie, thanks for the heads up. ;)

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Photo and synopsis credit: Repertory Philippines

Best Finds 2008: Pride, Prejudice & Rain (Music Video)

It's already February but I believe I must add this one to my best finds last year. It's such a pleasure to watch. That Pride and Prejudice scene and the song and the way both were tweaked to come up with the vid... is genius.

Tweaks and Turns

Well, it was good while it lasted. I was charmed with the original template this blog lived on and so, I no longer tweaked it as I normally would.

But somehow, the 'infatuation' slowly faded. That - and some free time - gave me the opportunity to bring Keira in.

Yep, that's Keira Knightley in the background of the blog, pensive atop a rock (it's a very steep cliff actually but the height cannot be seen). It's a scene in Pride and Prejudice, which she so brilliantly starred. I so love the pic, it has long been my old blog's background. I so love it still, that it's going to be this blog's too. =)

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Thanks much GRSites for the background clouds.

Pride and Prejudice

I'm a late bloomer...when it comes to Jane Austen, that is. I've heard of her, and how revered her works were, but young as I was, I heeded no such encouragements. Austen was a thing of the past and so I thought I did not have anything to do with her, or her books. But, it turns out, I had to eat my words.

I finally got to read her most popular book - Pride and Prejudice - and yes, you guessed right. I was smitten right through my literary core. Austen's keen and honest presentation of the ways of the people in her book was genius. The only aspect of the book that could beat this was the sharp, witty, brutal exchange of ideas between the book's main characters: Liz and Darcy. I really had a hard time keeping myself from grinning, giggling or laughing out loud every time Lizzy and Mr. Darcy threw barbs at each other.

Ah, thank God for the likes of Jane Austen.

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Lifted from my old blog dated 19th June 2004.