Thursday, January 15, 2009

Episode 2 - Ray, the odd one out.

Kike runs away again to Soledad. Isabela offers Soledad work as a model, but she refuses knowing what her intentions are. Reinaldo complains to Bernarda about the way his father treats him and he is always unhappy for not knowing his mother. Guillermo meets Lola’s sister, a budding musician, and is attracted to her. Rodrigo visits Soledad and asks her to become Kike’s tutor seeing how attached they are to each other. Soledad sees Isabela kissing Alejandro and she got so angry and jealous. Reinaldo, surprised to see Soledad at his home grabs her arm and wants to start harassing her but Rodrigo walks in at that time to save Soledad and he forces him to apologize to her. Isabela and Alejandro talk with Reina and Emperatrix; Isabela calls him her novio “after the night they spent together”. Alejandro tells Leonardo he loves Soledad and not Isabela and Kike wants only Soledad.
Mercedes prays for the strength to stop loving Reinaldo but it’s really not easy for her to get him out of her mind. Reinaldo tells Mercedes that she is responsible for his behavior, swears he will love her and promises to change if she comes back into his life.
Soledad visits Kike again, Isabela assumes that Soledad is Kike’s nana since she doesn’t really understand the relationship between the parties. Isabela visits Providencia to offer Soledad a job but Providencia isn’t fooled; she knows why she came and tells her to leave since Soledad isn’t at home. Oscar tells Reinaldo to stay away from his daughter Mercedes that he is not good for his daughter but Mercedes tells her father she loves Reinaldo and that she has forgiven him for whatever he has done to her. Guillermo invites Rosalita, Lola’s sister, to his home. Oscar tells Mercedes he rather see her dead than been with Reinaldo. Soledad refuses, again, Isabela’s offer of a job. Lola tells Rosalita, her sister, not to go to Guillermo’s home again knowing well that the relationship between the two of them might not work out and of course Rodrigo’s feeling towards the relationship.
Isabela talks to her nana about her sister; she is sure that, like her, she was probably raised by a nana who took her away when their father was murdered. Isabela visits Oscar in his home and he served her drinks and along the line Isabela drugs his drink but then Alejandro arrives and picked up the drink meant for Oscar but Isabela on sighting this, spills the drugged one. Alejandro discovers that his aunt Lucia has been taken to the hospital, he doesn’t like this idea and he gets her out of there and returns her home. Kike runs away again to Soledad because he thinks that it’s only Soledad that loves and understands her. Isabela announces her engagement to Alejandro (he doesn’t seem to have anything to say about it). Romelia visits Rodrigo, warns him she will tell Reinaldo the truth if anything happens to José Luis. Mercedes sees Brenda kissing Reinaldo in the park. Isabela tells Soledad to stay away from Alejandro if she doesn’t want her for an enemy. Isabela introduces her godfather to Oscar and Rodrigo. Sabas, in a car with Reinaldo, shoots José Luis.

Episode 1, La Ravancha - Love on Cruise Ship


On a cruise ship, Alejandro is attracted to Soledad, a beautiful young lady whom she met on the ship and she turns out to be in charge of entertainment. Alejandro dream of meeting her again, looked for her everywhere but couldn’t find her, at last he settles for a picture that they took together when Soledad was seeing to the guests welfare at the restaurant. Providencia , the ship’s head chef, the woman who raised Soledad when she was little and the person Soledad believes to be her mother learn that Doña Rosa, her grandmother is ill and they decide to leave the ship in Miami and care for Rosa. Finding Rosa very ill, Soledad calls Alejandro whom she had learned was a doctor. He cares for Rosa but Providencia doesn’t want the two to become involved. She knows that Alejandro’s father killed Soledad’s father, a murder she witnessed and caused her to flee with the young Soledad.
Meanwhile, Isabela has arrived in Miami with Lupe, her nana, to open a business with the help of her godfather, Alvaro Ruiz. She hopes to find the murderer of her father and when she meets Oscar, the man from whom she will be buying the location for her business, she believes she recognizes him.
At the airport, she bumps into Alejandro who is picking up Kike, the son who has been raised for the past 4 years by his grandparents, since the death of his wife. With his grandmother ill, the boy has come to live with Alejandro’s family: his father Rodrigo, his vicious brother Reinaldo, his other brother Guillermo, his father’s new wife Emperatrix and her daughter Reina and his crazy aunt Lucia. Reina sets her sights on Alejandro, wants to date Alejandro but was disappointed. Reinaldo loves Mercedes, the daughter of Oscar, but she has broken up with him because of the type of man he is. He is arrested for rape but is freed when his father’s goon Sabes, he threatens the girl that accused Reinaldo into retracting the accusation, and Reinaldo was released freed.
After seeing Alejandro with Soledad, Reinaldo decides he wants her and finding her alone in the hallway of a nightclub attacks her. She is rescued by José Luis who is then beaten up by Sabes and his goons. Providencia tells Soledad that Alejandro’s family has a bad reputation, mafia connections, etc. but Soledad has fallen in love with Alejandro and refuses to believe her...in spite of the attack by Reinaldo.
Rodrigo has a lover Lola, she works as a manager in Rodrigo’s bar. She was furious when she discovers that Rodrigo, her lover has married again. Sabes and Reinaldo threaten Arturo, a reporter who is working with José Luis to expose Rodrigo on all his shady deals. During the first week, Soledad saves Kike when he falls off a small boat and finds a wandering Lucia where Lola met them and offered to escort Lucia back home. Oscar finds Reinaldo forcibly kissing Mercedes and tells him to leave his daughter alone. Rodrigo and Oscar suspect that Isabela is the daughter of the man he killed, especially when she questions them about the history of the house she wants to buy, a house in which there was a murder. Isabela is convinced that Oscar is the murderer; she does not seem to suspect Rodrigo.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Jenifa


What do you guys think of Jennifer? A beautiful Yoruba film, I love the way Funke Akindele portrays the village girl character, a typical Ibadan girl. She really did justice to the work. It’s a must watch for every students especially the undergraduates that believes that the only way to make it in life is through dating several men and living big on campus not minding the end result. What do you think?

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Baba Oba


Is it really true that when you give a woman power to rule she tends to misuse it?
Supposing a married woman becomes a king/ruler, what do you think will happen to the husband who is supposed to be the head of the home?
Is it right at all for a woman to assume the role of a man and if she does, will she still be able to discharge her duties as deem fit.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Mis Tres Hermanas


This story surrounds the family of Augusto, a hard working man that will give anything for the happiness of his sisters. After the death of his mother and supposed father, he took up the responsibility of been the father to his sisters (Silvia, Lisa and Bibi). His wife Magarita is a selfish woman that thinks only of herself, all she cares about is money and wants to get it at all cost. She believes that her husband, Augusto who loves and cares for her does not deserve her and that she deserves a rich and comfortable home where she’ll have everything she wants in life.
Augusto’s 3 sisters, Silvia his right hand, a beautiful woman married to Carlos and they both have twin daughters.

Lisa, a young beautiful lady, a university student and equally works as a nurse in a hospital. She met and falls in love with Santiago an Engineer that works at a Construction Company. Their love is so strong but Magarita the devilish sister in law becomes jealous of her and will not allow Lisa to know peace because out of her selfish reasons, she refuses to get pregnant for Augusto, her husband but tricks Santiago into sleeping with her and he believing that she’s still single and she gets pregnant and she therefore uses this to come in between Lisa and Santiago.
Bibi, a young school girl at 15 always keeps to herself, she believes her family treats her like a baby and doesn’t understand her in any way. She has a very special friend called Francisco whom she likes so much and confides in for anything but her big brother, Augusto did not see anything good in Francisco, he thinks he is a bad influence on Bibi and with the way he dresses, he looks weird.
Jesinto, the dead father of Augusto resurfaces; he is a scientist that works in the same hospital where his daughter Lisa works. He has remarried and has been able to bury his past in a way but on seeing Lisa, everything keeps coming back and he couldn’t control himself again but doesn’t know how to make himself known to his family that thinks he’s dead.
Lisa and Santiago plans to get married but Magarita won’t hear of this because she thinks that Santiago belongs to her because of the pregnancy she’s carrying. Augusto later discovers that the baby his wife is expecting is not his.
Bibi seriously sick and hospitalized and Francisco won’t just leave her side and this proves to Augusto that what he thinks of Francisco is wrong afterall.
Despite all that Santiago is facing, he won’t stop at nothing but to get back the love of his life whether Margarita likes it or not.