10 Reasons why I love our place

After the flood, my co-teachers asked me if I had plans to move since our place is one of the areas that is badly damaged and where water is so high. My answer is no. Why? Because of the following reasons:

1. the rental fee is cheaper compared to other apartments. WE couldn't find another apartment with two rooms and two bathrooms , spacious backyard and garage that cost as cheap as ours.
2. kind landladies. They treat us like their children.
3. free cable TV connection (though its service is inferior compared to Bell Télé - Canada's leading digital TV provider with the best HD service, the most HD channels and the latest blockbusters On Demand)
4. quiet neighborhood
5. we got Filipino friends nearby
6. it's near to Hyzyd's babysitter's place
7. we got a wet market nearby
8. flood doesn't hit this place every year
8. we got space for hubby's plants and orchids
10. we felt at home

Life is Beautiful

Life is beautiful is an unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination conquer all.

In this World War II tragicomedy, famed Italian funnyman Roberto Benigni (The monster) portrays Guido, who moves during the '30s from the country to a Tuscan town, where he is entranced by schoolteacher Dora (Nicoletta Braschi, Benigni's real-life wife). Dora likes Guido, but she remains faithful to her pompous fiancé, so Guido has an uphill struggle. Meanwhile, anti-Semitic attitudes lead to attacks against Guido's Jewish uncle (Giustino Durano). Flash forward five years later and we see Guido owning a bookstore he manages with his wife and son Giosué. It's almost the end of World War II, but that makes the position of Jewish-Italians all the more precipitous. One day, the Germans come to take away Guido and his son. His wife, not being Jewish, chooses to go along. After they are imprisoned in a concentration camp,Guido takes a huge risk by treating the whole exercise as a joke. He explains to his son that they've just bought tickets to take part in a contest to win a tank (not a toy one, but a real one, thought of which lights up Giosué's eyes) and proceeds to concoct an imaginative and humourous explanation for the happenings around, and to, them in the German concentration camp.

All of the things Guido asks Giosué to do are in the interest of saving Giosué. I learned here that laughing in the face of adversity is the best way to triumph over it.No such piece of art has ever before combined laughter and tears of sadness in me before and that is the miracle of the movie.

Life is really beautiful as you watch Guido's relentless efforts to make a lovely exciting experience of the concentration camp to his son. You get exhausted just watching him going through his painful day and yet you smile as he speaks to his son and makes him laugh. This is a story of how a father applied various levels of creativity and sacrifice to protect a son in a Nazi camp. One can go on forever describing the creativity of this movie, but one will not be able to capture all its beauty in writing.

Watch how this beautiful story ends.

an entry for Tuesday Couch Potatoes : For the Love of Family