HIDDEN MICKEY

in 26 days, it will be a year since i last posted on this blog and just like my job, i'm not waiting for that mark before breaking it.

most of my days are now spent in front of the tube. i was channel surfing and came upon the local cable's cartoon channel. it was showing a childhood fave, Disney's Beauty and the Beast. if i found it thrilling and fun to watch when i was a kid, i sure was more entertained now that i get sarcasm, word play and became acquainted with smart mouths. it's like a very mild SHREK script; their writers might have been watching this during their story con.  haha

lines like


Beast: I want to do something for her... but what?
Cogsworth: Well, there's the usual things: flowers... chocolates... promises you don't intend to keep...


Gaston, Lefou: No one plots like Gaston.
Gaston: Takes cheap shots like Gaston.
Lefou: Plans to persecute harmless crackpots like Gaston!

Lumiere: Ma chère mademoiselle. It is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight. And now, we invite to relax, let us pull up a chair, as the dining room proudly presents... your dinner.

Gaston: It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting *ideas*, and *thinking*...

Featherduster: [to Lumiere] I've been burnt by you before!

and my favorite


Gaston: Lefou, I'm afraid I've been thinking...
Lefou: A dangerous pastime?
Gaston: I know.   

there might be no Disneyland in the Philippines but at that time, in front of the idiot box, with a Disney movie, the couch was the happiest place on earth.