The Journey. It’s Mine.

Yes…if you’ve been watching Jackie Chan movies with your mom since you were two!

Since Raine has discovered the fun in watching videos, he most often decides which ones to watch. (Hindi ako napupuyat sa pag-bo-blog, kundi sa panonood ng gusto ko…kasi sa late night lang ako walang kaagaw!)

His favorites would of course be cartoon movies (like disney, dreamworks and stuff) and Spiderman and Ice Age and anything with bears and horses, fishes and dinosaurs that all talk - as just fitting because he’s not even five yet.

Anyway, it has been educational for me too…as I only got to watch cartoons on TV when I went to college and lived in the dormitory. I only knew who Peter Pan was when I saw that movie “Hook” in college. I swear! We didn’t have TV here at home even before I went away for college, not only because my parents didn’t have money to buy one but also because there was no TV reception that can reach here. Besides…around here, back then, your TV should have a betamax player, otherwise it was useless. We didn’t have both.

So we used to go watch movies in local theaters on weekends when we’ve saved enough from our meager weekly allowance and we bought and read pinoy komiks and magazines once in a while, like Liwayway and Woman Magazine at hindi po Archie or Marvel Comics.

If I remember it right, a regular movie ticket was 5 -7 pesos and you got to watch two movies at once (may ka-double po and sinehan dito dati!) and Funny Comics was only 1.50 pesos (or was it 0.75?). Luckily both my parents are movie buffs, so we weren’t that isolated from the rest of the world. At least I got to watch Karate Kid 1 and 2 even if I was literally attacked/bitten by nasty dust mites from the waist down.

That way, growing up, I had my fill of Sharon Cuneta movies and all the TVJ’s and some of Niño Muhlach’s (tama ba spelling?) and of course the old Chinese Jackie Chan movies that used to be badly dubbed in English.

Back then, I was too young to fully comprehend English anyway but I remember loving the hilarious karate actions that Jackie Chan is so known for - so I didn’t mind tagging along with my father who by the way was only one belt short of a judo-aikido-black-belt, who loved Jackie Chan and James Bond more than FPJ. He He he.

Now, I am so happy that Jackie Chan is something that Raine and I can agree on watching together. Jackie maybe a generation older but still as funny. Yes Abby, I am really a Jackie Chan fan, like you discovered a long time ago. Ha ha ha.

I hope Raine do not get to forget that I “introduced” him to Jackie Chan.