Kilig in Circumstances

Hi everyone, it's been a few years since this podcast has been live but I wanted to come back after quite a bit of time off. This episode is more of a ramble than anything and I want this episode to signify either an end to this podcast or a new start to what this podcast is. So thank you for listening and I hope you all enjoy.

Hello everyone! This is my little comeback after two weeks of being off! I just finished school and I'm ready to push for more episodes this summer before a break in late August (date TBD). This week, I'll be doing a mini AAPI month series and talking about Crazy Rich Asians.   Plot: Rachel Wu, a Chinese-American economics professor, meets her boyfriend's family in Singapore but she found out...

Now in part 2 of the personal finance episode, we talk about Graham Stephan, the person that my friend, Ernesto, and I look up to for help. We look at Stephan's YouTube Channel, the Graham Stephan show, and how he has changed us.    Note: I am so sorry that this video came out so late. I have been very preoccupied with school at the moment so I hope you all can forgive me to taking a bre...

When it comes to this channel, this channel will go into more than just movies and tv shows. This is the episode I felt was super important for my friend and I to talk about. Inspired by the channel, Graham Stephan, we talk about personal finances in two parts. This part is about spending habits and spending money.

High School Musical and its franchise focuses on a group of high school students trying their way in the world while also doing with huge theatrics. Today, April and I will talk about all of the High School Musical movies and how important the movies are.   

Typically, this show is about reviewing particular shows and movies but this time, we're ranking all of the DCOMs based on our personal opinions. Today, April and I will be ranking all of the DCOMs.   Note: My throat is scratchy for a bit of the episode, April was interrupted during filming so it may seem odd at first, and we missed two DCOMs during filming: Read It and Weep & Smart House

This is a classic American movies where girls, Hallie and Annie, go to summer camp and found out they are sisters, where their parents each took one of the girls when they separated. Now, they are determined to get their parents together and also to get to know their respective parents they didn't have in their lives before.   Today, my friend and I will go over the idea of nostalgia and why...

If you love Tim Burton's style of directing, then this movie has those gothic and mystical elements within the movie.  Jake Portman, plagued by the death of his grandfather, Abe, decides to go his grandfather's childhood home. Children with special abilities introduces Jake to a land of peculiar children with magical abilities within a time loop that was set in September 3, 1940. Miss Peregri...

For the first Southeast Asian princess, Raya, princess of Kumandra's main land, Heart. As she is bestowed the ability to protect the dragon, a gem with the last remaining dragon's magic, said to bring prosperity to all. Then, the gem breaks and Druun, a monster that turns humans into stone, except when they are in water. Now, Raya is determined to put the dragon gem back together with the last dra...

Malcolm and Marie come home from Malcolm's directorial debut premiere about a young girl who is an addict but the two of them seem distant. Then everything goes down. With Marie's insecurity about her position in their relationship and Malcolm's insistence to move forward from all of the pain in their lives, there is so much to unpack between their relationship, the film and the film industry, and...

Martha and Sean, a young couple, are heartbroken. After losing their child during a home birth, Martha and Sean don't know what to do with themselves, leading into anxiety and depression. They navigate the death of their child in anxiety, depression, and choosing either to move forward or to run away.  In this episode, we will talk about the death of someone, especially of a child, and why th...

Palmer is a guy that has gone through a tough life. He was released out of prison after 10 years on parole after an aggravated assault on a classmates' dad. He feels that his life has no reason but when he stays with his grandma Vivian, he finds that Sam, a gender fluid boy, ends up staying with him. After some loss, Palmer steps up to grow as a father figure and helps the people in his life grow...

The Dig is based on a true story of one of the biggest finds in the world before WWII. Edith Pretty, a humble homeowner in Sutton Hoo, England, asks Basil Brown, an excavator, to dig out a find within a large mound on her property. It turns out that the ship is much more important to history than anything ever seen before. in this episode, we talk about archeology and a bit of history on England a...

This story is a doozy, to say the least. Wanda Maximoff, also known as the Scarlet Witch, is found in a perfect utopia with her love, Vision. The only thing is that it the perfect utopia is a sitcom within a group of people that are trying o find out how Vision is alive after being killed in Avengers: Endgame. And what is Wanda doing with her powers? There are definitely more questions left than a...

This movie is based on a true story of four girls that were becoming sick due to radium poisoning. Two of the girls, Jo and Bessie Cavallo, work at American Radium in the 1930s, painting clock dials with radium that glows in the dark. As they find themselves becoming sick, they find out radium poisoning was happening to them. And now, they're fighting for the right to say people's lives and not ha...

What three words do you think lead to forever? I love you? I thank you? You are special? All of these three word sentences mean a lot to people and couples to help find the meaning of love and life in a way that appreciates both people in their contributions.    With 25 years of marriage, Rick and Critsy Andrada’s marriage has fallen apart and they decide to separate but not to spoil on...

The Blooms are at their wits end. Sam Bloom, a mother of three boys, ends up in a paralyzing accident in Thailand, leaving her paralyzed from the chest down. She is depressed, feeling sad that she is unable to be a part of her family and friends' life like she was able to be before. But the whole family suffers. Cameron Bloom, the husband, feels he lost his wife after the accident emotionally and...

Sandra is in a dead end with her life. With her two young daughters, she is working two jobs, living in a motel with rent allowance from the government, and also dropping off her daughters to her abusive ex-husband's house every weekend. Soon, she finds solace in building a small house for her and her daughters and also finding her chosen family in her employer and friends she makes during the hou...

If you have ever heard of "Winx Club", the animated children's television show about a group of fairies, especially a girl named Bloom who discovers she is a powerful fairy who was found on Earth, then this show very slightly based on it with more of a "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" and "Riverdale" vibe to it. Bloom is starting her first semester at Alfea College, the college for fairies but the...

Honestly, we just love us some Pixar! Joe Gardner has dreams of becoming a jazz musician, stuck as a teacher in a middle school band. But when he finally gets his shot to become a musician, he ends up in an accident and his Soul ends up going to the Great Beyond. In order to get back to his dream of being a musician, Joe Gardner befriends a soul that does not want to go to Earth, Soul 22. In the p...

A Brilliant Young Mind (also known by its original title "X+Y") is the story of Nathan Ellis, a young math prodigy that has a hard time with people but finds comfort in numbers and patterns, acknowledged as autistic . Nathan is determined to enter the International Mathematic Olympiad (IMO), but learns about many things in life, such as love. This story is based on the story of Daniel Lightwing wh...

In this Italian movie, a young woman about to become 18, Anna, is resentful of never getting to know her mother, who had passed away soon after she was born. Running away from home, Anna finds a woman who is pregnant, diagnosed with breast cancer. With Anna, the pregnant mother, Eliza, asks Anna to help pick out 18 presents that Anna will receive over her lifetime. In reality, Anna is getting to k...

Hello everyone! I wanted to first say, happy new year! Since I've been uploading episodes almost nonstop, I will be taking a much needed break for about 3 weeks. I should have a new episode for you all by January 22 so that you all can see the new stuff I have in store for you! Until then, have an amazing next few weeks and I'll be taking so much needed time off. 

Broadway musical, Prom: The Musical, becomes immortalized as a movie on Netflix. When a young teenager, Emma, wants to go to the Prom with her girlfriend, the PTA decide to cancel the prom. But with four Broadway musical castaways here to help, they give Emma the prom off her dreams along with changing the town's attitude towards LGBTQ+ and changing their own viewpoints.  In this episode, we...

Have you ever wanted a Christmas movie to be longer, with some more character development and care put into the plot? The romantic comedy Christmas television show "Dash and Lily" is for you. Dash, a pessimist about Christmas and wary about being too close to people, finds a book with title in the Strand, a neighborhood bookstore in New York City. He is lead on a journey through the red notebook a...