Eysilicious

I’m not a “series” type of person. While a lot of people of my age are dying to see every episode of the likes of House, Vampire Diaries, Grey’s Anatomy and a lot more, I am always stuck in writing, taking and editing photos, reading the news and current events. I think the last show that I was able to follow was Desperate Housewives a few years ago. I’ve seen some episodes of One Tree Hill, Chuck and How I Met Your Mother but never really got hooked.

Today, I am glad to announce (naks parang artista lang) that I’ve been religiously following this new sitcom called New Girl. The show stars Zooey Deschanel (of 100 Days of Summer) as Jess, Jake Johnson as Nick, Max Greenfield as Schmidt, Lamorne Morris as Winston and Hannah Simone as Cece. It’s effin’ hilarious and cute. It’s only on its 3rd episode but so far I’ve been enjoying it.

The Plot:

Jess is an eccentric, fun-loving girl who was cheated on by her long time boyfriend. While trying to get over the heartbreak, she looked for a new place to live in and eventually moved in with three single guys: Nick, a bartender; Schmidt, a slutty kind of guy and Coach, a former athlete turned trainer. Later on, Coach was replaced by the original flatmate, Winston who came back from his basketball stint in Latvia. Together they will make Jess’ life totally different — from finding herself once more, getting over a breakup, learning more about life and love, awesome friendship, fun and so much more.

Why I love this show?

I like Zooey Deschanel. I find her beautiful and her eyes are mesmerizing. She can pull off the role of a naive girl (such an innocent looking face) at the same time, act like a tease, even the oblivious kind of one. She can sing too (tho sometimes I find her singing annoying, like Smurfs’.. )

Jess (Zooey’s character) is a lot like me. A drama queen, a hopeless romantic, somewhat annoying (yeah, my friends often tell me this), full of antics, never cared about how she looks and how stupid she can get while having fun (Jess has this chicken dance to the tune of Groovy Kind of Love while I do the “running man” moves and Raggamuffin girl steps even in public ). Jess loves putting on her “vampire” prop teeth while I love taking my chocolate-cake-stuck-in-between-my-teeth slash “bungal” picture (you can see my collection if we’re connected on Facebook).

Zooey and her teeth

AC and her teeth

AC and her teeth

I just love how carefree and bubbly Jess is.

Like her, I am also surrounded by guy friends.  I am a “tomboy”, not really being a lesbian, just the boyish kind of girl in terms of the way I dress, I speak, my gestures and the groups where I belong. In high school, while my girl classmates are busy practicing for cheerdance competition, I was just watching. While they were looking proud in their skirts and dresses, I was happy with my DMs and baggy jeans (until I was forced to join a beauty pageant.. where I took off my stilettos while on stage.. hahaha!)

My boy friends are often mistaken as my boyfriends, significant others, flings or sadly, fuck buddies (pardon me for my language, but that is the reality nowadays). Being a Filipina that I am, the culture somehow remains to be that a girl should not be close friends with boys (e.g. going out a lot with them, watching movies with them, spending the night with them, sleeping beside them.. all wholesome activities, of course), otherwise, you will be discriminated the way I have often been misunderstood by the double standard, effin’ judgmental flock of some Filipinos (just recently I cried because of this.. here in Singapore). Anyway, it’s really awesome having boy friends coz you’d get to take a peek into the world of arrogance (haha! just kidding! ). I think it’s good coz it can help in handling your relationships by understanding more of the other side (the world of men that is), it can teach you how to be more objective.

Love and relationships are also tackled in this show. Like Jess, I’ve never been lucky in love and got dumped (a LOT of times already) by the men I loved; feeling like the world turned its back on me, crying my heart out and wasting time watching sappy movies. Jess watches Dirty Dancing and sings Time of My Life a couple of times in a day to her flatmates’ disgust. One More Chance, starring John Lloyd and Bea was once my Time of My Life. Hahaha!

But no matter how annoying she is, or how disgusting she may seem to be.. she is still well-loved and appreciated by her friends. Just like me. I guess this is the only thing that matters to me now — to have people who will accept me for who I am. Anyway, you cannot please everybody, right? So just stick with the people who will stand by you no matter what happens and forget those who don’t really care.