Those days when it's raining hard outside but I am comfortable on our sofa, curled up in thick blankets while watching a perfectly paced rom-com over hot chocolate. Those are the best nights. The best nights could be ruined, however, with the shallowest of reasons: when you have to stand up to reach for the the DVD of the next movie but you're afraid of losing that mood-setting, back-comforting, andsenti-inspiring perfect, under-the-sheets position.
No judging the OCD but movies require the perfect mood. Thank God we have laptops and smartphones now where we can move on from one movie to the next, or from one episode of our favorite series to another in a few clicks. But do we really have to turn the internet upside down just to search for the next link? Or do we have to wait for the download to complete?
Tonight's experience was different. I transitioned from Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Bell and Joshn Duhamel to Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling and even Sarah Geronimo and John Lloyd Cruz with my head buried very comfortably on my pillows. My phone did everything for me. And so did my fast internet connection. But the real star of the night is HOOQ, a video on demand platform.
Video On Demand (VOD) is previously a stranger to the Philippines. I mean, we are the texting capital and maybe, the new Instagram capital of the world but Video On Demand what?! Before I realized it, I saw a young girl the other day, holding hands with her mom while the other hand is holding a tablet which was streaming Happy Feet Two in a bus going out of BGC. I say that was time well spent for her since she has to face homework when she reaches home. She was enjoying HOOQ and I did the same tonight!
After a bowl of pasta, my next favorite part of the night was when Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling) told Cal (Steve Carell) that "his head is like the proportions of a Styrofoam peanut" in Crazy Stupid Love. OK. That was rude but the night got more, ahm, endearing when Elizabeth Green (Taylor Schilling) told Zac Efron's character that "the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people." Needless to say I had a pretty entertaining night. All thanks to this app which allows us to watch local and international movies and TV series on our phones.
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