The Summer of '05: 03/27/2005

Les Miserables's rousing Act 1 finale is a fitting finale to the first act, the first chapter of our lives. This song has been parodied many times before (for the last two months of school, for the last week of school, for the last day of school...), but here is my version.

One Day More! (March 31, 2005 Version)
[Claude-Michel Schonberg/Alain Boublil/Ana Alcala]

STUDENT 1
One day more!
Another day, another destiny.
This never-ending road to university
This school that I will leave behind
Will surely never leave my mind
One day more!

Best friend 1
I have finally won the fight
How can I fall asleep tonight?

STUDENT 1
One day more.

BEST FRIEND 1 & BEST FRIEND 2
In two months, you'll be schools away
With you, I’ve always lived my school days!

STUDENT 2
In college, I’ll be on my own.

BEST FRIEND 1 & BEST FRIEND 2
Will we ever meet again?

STUDENT 2
One more day, and then I’m leaving.

BEST FRIEND 1 & BEST FRIEND 2
So scared to be without you.

STUDENT 2
College life, I’ve never known.

BEST FRIEND 1 & BEST FRIEND 2
And I swear I’m speaking true!

STUDENT 2
Will I ever see you there?

STUDENT 3
One more day before that mass!

rELUCTANT STUDENT
Do I still want to march?

STUDENT 3
At the Mother Rose Auditorium!

rELUCTANT STUDENT
Shall I join my sisters there?

STUDENT 3
When our lines begin to form

rELUCTANT STUDENT
Do I skip it; do I dare?

STUDENT 3
Will you take your seat with me?

ALL
The time is now, the day is here

Student 1
One day more!

TEACHER
One more day to graduation,
Nothing more to ever fear!
I will join these little schoolgirls,
They will wet themselves with tears!

Student 1
One day more!

PARENTS
Watch 'em march and smile,
Catch 'em if they faint,
Never know who’ll be
The next star or saint,
Here’s a little `tip'
When you climb up
Make sure not to trip
Don’t you mess up!

STUDENTS (2 Groups)
1: One day to a new beginning

2: Raise the flag of AC High!

1: Every one of us should sing

2: Every one of us should sing

1: There's a new world for us, waiting

2: There's a new world to be won

ALL
Do you hear the students sing?

RELUCTANT STUDENT
My place is here, I’ll march with you!

Student 1
One day more!

BEST FRIEND 1 & BEST FRIEND 2
I have finally won the fight

STUDENT 2
In college, I’ll be on my own!

BEST FRIEND 1 & BEST FRIEND 2
How can I fall asleep tonight?

UNDERGRADUATE (overlapping)
I will follow in their footsteps
I will follow where they go
I will learn all their lessons,
All the things that they know.

Student 1
One day more!

BEST FRIEND 1 & BEST FRIEND 2
In two months, you'll be schools away

STUDENT 2
College life, I’ve never known!

BEST FRIEND 1 & BEST FRIEND 2
With you, I’ve always lived my school days!

TEACHER (overlapping)
One more day to graduation
We will be preparing the stage
We'll be ready with the diplomas

PARENTS (overlapping)
Watch 'em marching
Catch 'em as they cry
Not knowing what’s coming
As they say goodbye

Student 1
Tomorrow we'll be far away,
Tomorrow is Graduation Day

ALL
Tomorrow we'll commence
What we will be ending ages hence!
One more dawn
One more day
One day more!

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posted by Ana, sgtpepper72687@yahoo.com
10:34 PM

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Monday, March 28, 2005
How's Joey Doin'?

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TV Show Review: Joey
Studio 23/NBC
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Last night, Easter night, was the Philippine television premiere of the Friends spin-off, Joey. The new sitcom basically follows Joey Tribbiani's (Matt LeBlanc) new life in LA with his sister Gina and her son Michael. After losing his role as Drake Remoray, M.D. the neurosurgeon in the soap Day of Our Lives, Joey is offered two new roles, one as a nurse and the other as an action-hero-type. He turns down the role of the male nurse and applies for the manlier role. Unfortunately, the show doesn't even end up being aired, while the other guy who takes on the role of the male nurse becomes a big TV heartthrob.

Joey isn't as bad as many people anticipated it or perceive it to be. The show has some fine points, and it's good to know that LeBlanc still knows how to play his character. He must have mastered the role of Joey already after playing him for 10 years, so much so that it probably comes out naturally from him already. The Joey character is performed by LeBlanc consistently despite the dramatic change of co-stars and setting. There are even times when it feels like Friends. Okay, maybe that's exaggerating it a bit, but the scene where they interview the actor who gets to play the role of the nurse echoes one of Friends funniest moments.

Though critics may have been too harsh on Joey, they may be right in saying that the show will not last. Although we can hope that Joey will become another Frasier, this may well be wishful thinking for people like Manna. Surprisingly, despite being our Joey, Manna didn't like the pilot. I may have liked it, but I have number of reasons to believe that Joey may not last long:

Theme song: Aside from being a truly hilarious show, another reason why Friends became so popular is that it had a really good theme song. Some people even claim that, at one point, the Friends theme performed by The Rembrandts was more popular than the show. Though Joey's theme song isn't bad at all, for me, it lacked the hooks that made "I'll Be There for You" such a catchy song.
Character build-up: One of the secrets of Friends's success lay in its pilot. The writers created brilliant expositions for the characters of Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Ross, Rachel, and Joey. Their characters were built up and formed so well that by the first episode, audiences were already well-acquainted with each character. They already knew from the start each important facet of every character at varying but generally equal degrees. This is not case with Joey. Audiences know Joey better than Gina or Michael. Audiences, assuming that the majority of them are former Friends viewers, have known Joey for 10 years. This is will pose as a problem because Joey will now lack the ensemble cast magic that made Friends such a hit.
Bittersweet feeling: I don't know if this is a valid reason. I don't know if this is a universal sentiment that most Friends fans have while watching Joey, but I won't enjoy watching Joey as much as I used to enjoy Friends. I mean "used to" because I no longer enjoy Friends the same way as before. Let me explain. Joey, as a sitcom, is good, and this is but expected because the spin-off inherited Friends's brilliant writers. These writers have, by now, mastered the art of writing for a sitcom. These writers are so good that, with the help of LeBlanc, some scenes in Joey end up bringing back the atmosphere of Friends. Though it may seem as an accomplishment, it doesn't work well for me. When those Friends moments occur in the show, I jolt with a sudden feeling of happiness which quickly dies down into sadness. I start missing Friends. In the same way that I get sad watching Friends re-runs and in the same way I don't enjoy watching American Idol as much as before because I miss Season 3, I can't fully enjoy watching Joey because I am constantly reminded of what no longer is and no longer exists.
Reality TV shows- We were all sad (at least some fans were) to see Friends go, but we all knew it was for the best. We didn't want it to end, but we knew that the show already reached its peak, and it had nowhere else to go but down. We would rather see it go while it was still quite hot, than see it as a fallen TV hero, ending it's run when no one wants to watch it anymore. You see, we have entered the era of reality TV shows. I have nothing against them. In fact, I follow some of them, but I have to admit that some of these shows are getting out of hand. Anyway, the influx of these reality TV shows, which probably began with the first season of Survivor, has slowly pushed sitcoms down in the Nielsen ratings. If I'm not mistaken, Joey premiered as the highest-rated sitcom, but it was not the highest-rated show. Maybe Joey arrived at the wrong time. Joey arrived during sitcom's slow exodus. Sitcoms will never die, but as of now, I doubt that a sitcom will reign as the most-viewed TV show for some time.

The fact is that it's not really helping that Joey is a spin-off of an uber-popular sitcom; it's actually hurting it. Basically, Joey is a good show for someone who never followed Friends faithfully. If you have no idea what Central Perk is, then maybe you'll enjoy Joey more than me.

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posted by Ana, sgtpepper72687@yahoo.com
9:35 PM

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hey ana! i checked ur blog already! hehe..i saw the new sitcom but i wasnt able to catch it.sayang..hehe! anyway, do u kow how to make a permanent URL for ur blog? kasi i wanted to use the advanced one but it's not working..hehe. they need an ftp server, i don'treally know what that is. sorry, thought u might now how to use this thing..hehe!

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