You Will Not Read This Guide To Achieving Your Dream Because You Dislike Being Told

Problem: 

You have nothing to do for the whole month because you just left your job to find your real purpose in the world of show business. You want to be a director. You want to be the kind of director that Lav Diaz will be struck by. 

You want Martin Scorsese to bow down before you not from your intelligence or genius directorial skills but from the fact that you have touched his emotional pleasure points that he can no longer sleep without remembering your movie. 

You quit your job because you're ready to bathe into the void and be willing to be judged as a failure just so you can get rid of this itch of something that would not have been relieved if you stayed in your job.  It is your dream to get rid of that itch, and there's no Caladryl anti-itch lotion for ambition.

But the dream is a long journey ahead, and you don't believe in the self-help books and blogs that tell you how you should pursue your dream because the makers of those books are probably just out to separate you from your money. 

You believe nothing but yourself, so you decide to tread the path of not being told what to do. So in this context, what do you do?

Solutions:

1. You will reconsider going to The Oakridge Pavillion Pink Tent Bazaar and FREE TASTE every cake there the way Ilyana and Abby would do it in the Funniest TV Show you have never seen: Broad City. You can also buy knickknacks and Voodoo Dolls and stationery for your dead ex boyfriends, so you can get the feel of the inspiration when Sam Raimi makes his horror movies such as Drag Me To Hell.

But you won't really go to the bazaar because you don't want to be told.

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2,  You can check out SlumberHigh, the Bed Maker that's originally made in Cebu, and you can check whether this is the kind of bed you can use in a Bisaya Short Film you're going to direct with Monica Bellucci as the star. But you won't check out the Bed Store because you don't want to be told.

3. You can take a Road Trip around North of Cebu and take photo of a poster of a newspaper called Tourjack, which in Cebuano dialect means "hard rough sex". Pretend you're Henry Miller and writing about sex while going around North of Cebu. But you won't take the road trip because you don't want to be told.

 4. You can go to the Blind Massage Parlor in Parkmall, and be reminded of that Al Pacino movie "Scent of A Woman" where he's blind and is making love through a dance with the most beautiful woman you'll ever probably see dancing with a blind man.

5. You can plan ahead for the next Globe Media Excellence Awards and prepare for your Blog Post that will compete against all the current winners. Your dream is to make a film, so you can start your ideas in a blog and get the boost you need by reading up on the current winning journalists. You can learn how to start a fast-launching blog with the Cebu Blogging Community, but you won't do that because you don't want to be told.

6. You can try Ginabot for the first/second time, and will not try it again for the next 5 years because it's bad for you, but it's also so delicious that it feels unfair to deprive you of such sumptuous pleasure. Food is a big source of good filmmaking, and Jon Favvreau's Chef wouldn't have been an influential movie to watch without the service of good food.

You can also go to Cordova and eat as much as 10 Lumpia Shanghai there in one day because this spring roll dish is made of vegetables but still deep fried, so it's relatively not unsafe to eat in large amount. But you still won't follow this because you don't like to be told what to do.

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7. You can watch the next Gugmang Giatay musical and maybe you can be inspired to make a musical-inspired movie the way John Carney's Once was made or the way Roman Polanski's Venus in Fur was brought to life.

8. You can attend the next Family Enterprise Convention, which is the ComicCon version of businessmen who want their companies to survive in at least the next 5 generations or more.

Family Businesses don't last for as long as their creators would like them to live because if there's anything we learned from business movies such as Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood and Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, it is this: you cannot make money without hurting anyone, and we are now in a generation where money from the parents means guilt for the children. 

The most tempting way that a large powerful businessman can do is to just give all the wealth away because the cost of wealth could mean destroyed friendships and loves and families, but the Family Enterprise Convention sponsored by Premier Consultancy will offer the businessman solutions that prevent it from that temptation.

You can go seek their help if you can afford FREE because they offer free consultation, and write probably a documentary about Family Businesses? But you really won't, will you, because you don't want to be told what to do?

9. You can go to Dumaguete, and read the new book by Alfred A. Yuson there, which is the "Great Philippine Jungle Energy Cafe", first published in 1988, and maybe get inspired enough to not throw away your Bisaya Short Films stories that you wrote inside the cleanest ferry boat you'd ever been in, which is owned by The Cokaliong. 

Cokaliong Ferry Boat from Cebu to Dumaguete is so clean, it doesn't even have soap in its washroom. I mean, I'm kidding because they may have just forgot to put in the soap, but what a coincidence, right?

10. You can go to Siquijor and write your stories there, and plan out the blueprint of your dream and you might be lucky to shoot a photo like this below.

11. You can go to The Social and socialize, and who knows, you might videotape a potentially viral video of A Girl Singing Frozen Inside A Night Bar, which is what I did below this photo of me and Claire, The Social's Bar Manager, who is responsible for my luck to shoot a Bisaya Short Film starring the talented kids of Cebu who go out at night inside a Halloween night bar:

What Happened At The 2015 Halloween Party in The Social At Ayala Center Cebu Will Delight You:

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12. You can also attend the First Christmas Party In Your Life That Is Celebrated in November, which is organized by Globe Telecom. You can join the event and imagine what it might have felt like for Jay Gatsby to wait for Daisy Buchanan in the most fascinating novel/movie about social climbers, The Great Gatsby.

13. You can go to the new Atrium in Parkmall and enjoy the Fake Plastic Trees inside the mall, which was the concept of the architect really. At least, they could have used real trees, right? Maybe the style is a comment on the artificiality of things? Who knows. Watch Leos Carax' Holy Motors starring Eva Mendez and you might find out the answer on why Parkmall does this.

14. You can also go to Cebu Lumad Lions' club inauguration and meet the New President there, Ms. Ferliza, and ask her about the ways Cebu City can be improved, and the reasons why Mar Roxas should be the next president. Then you can watch thrilling political movies such as Chito Rono's Badil, and be discouraged by its presentation of dirty Filipino elections, that you have to save your morale by watching the uplifting episodes of Will Forte's The Last Man on Earth.

But you won't do this because Bisaya Short Films is not here to tell you what to do.

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