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terry gilliam’s the imaginarium of doctor parnassus

I was a young, imaginative kid when I saw The Adventures of Baron Munchausen way back in 1988. It was the first movie I’ve seen that contained what I believe is real movie magic. The imagery that I saw was a product of vision and brilliance, where fantasy was captured as a world of pure hallucinatory indulgence. And this never really left me and actually expanded my own curiosity and imagination as I grow older. From that moment on, I became a Terry Gilliam fan.

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like running for the first time

It’s 6:30 pm. The lights at the PhilSports track has this faint somber glow for it has just rained a while back. There is lots of mud on the soccer field but the footballers couldn’t care less. On the track itself were runners of mixed demography. The old, the young, the serial marathoners and those who are desperately burning fat. I tighten my shoelaces and stretch my sedentary tortured back. Now as soon as I felt like it, there is no countdown. I just go and run.

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