Monday, August 27, 2012

Matters of the...

Henry Ward Beecher Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.



A devoted farmer painstakingly planted a tribute to his late wife, Janet, using 6,000 oak trees to etch out a giant heart in the middle of his field in South Gloucestershire, England. Howes, 70, and a gardener spent weeks planning and setting out each oak after his wife died suddenly 15 years ago. He planted the fledgling trees across a six-acre field after carefully marking out a heart shape in one half of the grass, with the heart pointing in the direction of her childhood home. The stunning crop was captured in its full beauty after a balloonist sailed over the farmhouse and photographed the field from the air.




CTO - Xian's version for his love one ...physically minuscule in scale, perhaps but the intent is large scale - from the heart.

She gushed: “Red roses, ang dami-dami! Na-appreciate ko naman. Siyempre nakakagulat na may puno sa sala ng bahay ko. Nakakatuwa.”   Xian said he does these things to make Kim smile.  “It makes me happy when I see her happy…every time she laughs, nakakatuwa lang,” he replied. 

Where does he get the inspiration for these sweet gestures?  “Dito yun kinukuha [pointing to his heart],” he professed. Kim, who was standing beside him, reacted with a giggle. In response, Xian stressed, “Totoo naman yun! Hindi yun nakukuha sa mga libro.” http://www.pep.ph/news/34082/kim-chiu-and-xian-lim-reveal-what-they-like-about-each-other





There is a tenderness in Xian's eyes as he gazes at Kim.  Apparently,   Xian is not too aware of it but  Kimmy senses it and is mesmerized.



CTO - Kim and Xian at TFC Kapamilya Charity Event, Carson, CA 5-26-12.


CTO  - Xifan?  Playful Xian and the eyes that cannot hide the growing affection.

Credit to a fan - May 12   KimXi - Kim Chiu and Xian Lim Loveteam (Official) Ja Tizon Santiago

(At a Rejoice Commercial shoot break)

Natanong c Xian kung hindi ba naman niya tinatanong si kim kung kailan siya sa sasagutin? Say ni kim na natatawa, " Naiinitan na ako." Si Xian naman hinipan ang kanyang mukha para bigyan ng hangin si kim kaya lalong nagkantiyawan ang press.    
Xifan daw ang tawag dyan, hahaha!   



CTO. The admiring gaze appears to be reciprocated.  Xian, invited to a family event, skipped a few hours of needed sleep to join Kim in cheering the Chiu siblings, Lakam and JP in Dance.  
   Xian's  open-mouthed adoring  gaze says it all. GForce Dance Recital - 5-25-12.

Xian and his growing affection for Kim expressed in innumerable and every  imaginable way has eroded Kim's defenses.  Everyone who is watching this real- life love saga knows that Kim likes Xian.  Kim's family and friends like him too.  Xian, of course, is seeking more than friendship.  He has articulated this in old Tagalog... HAPPINESS. Sa hiwalay na panayam kay Xian, sinabi niyang ang wish niya sa kanyang kaarawan ay makuha ang kaligayahan ng puso niya—na obvious namang si Kim ang pinatutungkulan niya. http://www.pep.ph/news/34990/kim-chiu-peeved-by-accusation-that-her-relationship-with-xian-lim-is-just-for-show


     CTO  Even Xian's eyes are "listening"...Kim's side story sounds interesting.
Block Screening - The Reunion 8-21-12 (KimXis sponsoring)


Kim on crossing the Great Divide.  July 23, 2012 is a red-letter day in the Kim-Xian like-love story calendar.  This is the day Kim stood her ground and to the press at that , that her, whatever relationship she has with Xian is not at all for show or the camera only; it is for real.  

"NOT JUST FOR THE CAMERA. Sa nasabi niyang ito, meron siyang advice sa mga nag-aabang ng kumpirmasyon mula sa kanila: “Huwag nating pangunahan. Enjoy the moment.”

Ayon din kay Kim, kung anuman ang mayroon sila ni Xian, hindi ito dahil sa sinasabi ng ibang tao o pang-camera lamang.http://www.pep.ph/news/34990/kim-chiu-peeved-by-accusation-that-her-relationship-with-xian-lim-is-just-for-show

The title itself  "peeved by accusation" points to a Kim who is now open at showing her adverse reaction to what she believes is an unjust and wrongful accusation which deserves some form of response from her. 

Where before she let things pass;  this time she comes out with words such as the following: “Hindi naman kailangan... bakit kailangang magkaroon ng ganun? Parang napakasama naman ng mga tao na nagkukuwentuhan ng ganun.  “Siguro naiinggit sila o ano man... hindi ko alam kung bakit sila makakapagsabi ng ganung bagay na hindi naman totoo.” This is in reference to her relationship with Xian which is described as only done for show. (Pls. refer to the abovementioned Pep article of 7-23-12 by Melba Llanera)

Kim, using the words "napakasama" ,  "naiinggit", "bakit sila makakapagsabi ng ganung bagay na hindi naman totoo" are words never before used by Kim in defense of  anything previously said against her.  

In the 6 years in the business, Kim could fill a room with  all  the derogatory remarks piled against her and to all of them she just says, "They have the right to say anything against me since  I am a public figure; I also have the option not to read or mind them"; when asked in her interviews, why so, she just says, she does not want to flood her psyche with negativities.  Deadma is the word she used.

Even in her time of greatest hurt, the heartbreak that she is healed from only after two years of painful self-recrimination, Kim has never ranted or raved against anyone.  Why, the sudden turn-around?  What made Kim stand up in arms against the naysayers for the first time?

CTO   Happy as happy can be in the arms of a new love...



In my opinion, in the past Kim had only herself to contend with.  She just took all the blows; suffered the betrayal; licked her wounds in private; accepted the reality of her situation and moved from there.

In this instance, where people trivialize and cheapen the growing fondness Kim and Xian have for each other as "show" , "for the camera only", is a mud sling  Kim is no longer  allowing to  pass. 

These people are encroaching into her new found happiness; a state of being she has been deprived of for the past two years.  Her achy breaky heart is healed.  The broken wing is restored by a man who was teary-eyed when he offered himself as her "pakpak".


CTO -Abigail Perez ‏@ksychiutumblr   Thanks Bebe Abi for the use of this gif.
@XianLimm YOUR FACE WHEN YOU VOLUNTEERED TO BE KIM'S "PAKPAK" . TEARY EYES FTW. <3http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx...k8u7o1_500.gif 
              

People who say Kim and Xian's growing relationship is only for show do not know Kim at all.  Kim works hard for her living and has learned her lesson the hard way.  She is a good and fast learner of past hurts and no matter the persuasion would not relent and risk a repetition of her old  pain and anguish .

That would not be Kim.  It is not in her nature to relive past hurts. Reason why she never took a vacation from work  in the first four years at ABS was for fear that she would not have a job when she came back.  Fear of going back to her old uncertain life was her great motivator.

Never again .   Ghosts of a past heartache and childhood trauma  set the tempo of Kim's life.  She has a low tolerance for heart pain; it takes her forever to come out of it.  She also takes falling in love seriously. Love is not a plaything to her.   She is taking it slow with Xian, developing a strong friendship before entering into something na "masaktan ka lang".  Xian is also the same way. Traditional, conservative, a hopeless romantic, he and Kim are just in groove.

Now, Kim is ready; Xian is friends with the family; friends with her; now they're missing each other; no labels but anyone has eyes can see that Kim has upped the ante; she has come into his defense strongly; before the court of public opinion - the press and through them, the people of Philippines and  the world. 

Kim is firm in saying that how she and Xian are now is not because of the dictates of other people ("hindi ito dahil sa sinasabi ng ibang tao" other people meaning people other than Kim and Xian themselves...again, Ayon din kay Kim, kung anuman ang mayroon sila ni Xian, hindi ito dahil sa sinasabi ng ibang tao o pang-camera lamang.http://www.pep.ph/news/34990/kim-chiu-peeved-by-accusation-that-her-relationship-with-xian-lim-is-just-for-show


Why would these people who have gotten Kim's ire  prefer to disbelieve Kim when she says  that indeed she and Gerald Anderson  have parted ways since 2010; that she was terribly hurt; that by sheer professionalism, performed all her acting duties in the spirit of , "...the show must go on..." and that now, she is healed completely and is ready to love again and is entertaining, in fact, is exclusively dating a fellow actor, named Xian Lim and it is "not for show", "not for the camera only", and may I add not to promote any future show with him.  This is straight from the horse's mouth--Kim Chiu.

 CTO- Speaking of horses.  A sight unseen in the past.  Xian, the phantom rider in Kim's Subic visits has allowed himself to have his picture taken with Kim and her Ate Lakam on 8-23-12, day before their flight out:  Kim to Cebu and Xian to HK. 
This is not the first sortie by Xian  with Kim and family to El Kabayo .  This is only the first picture Xian has allowed to ever be taken with him and Kim together and I would think has also  allowed such to be released to the public; explains why  we are seeing it now. Togetherness is bliss.  Throwing caution to the winds? What was that phrase again? "... stop taking caution in your action, "  (snipped from Chinitaprincess IG).   
  
Kim has allowed herself to be interviewed and has given  her views of people who tar her and Xian with a broad brush  in the most obnoxious way as if she and Xian needed to pretend that they like each other, spending tremendous amount of time with each other, just for show.  She calls these people, " really bad", "could be envious or what", wondering  "why  they are spreading lies?" 

Why is a good question.  What are these people getting by spreading lies,  denying Kim some measure of happiness that she rightfully deserves? 

Kim who has only been a good child of God, prayerful and always sensitive of people's feelings; a good sister, daughter, granddaughter, niece, relative; a good friend; a good citizen, paying her taxes well, obeying rules and laws; a good worker, professional and responsible; delivering good shows and really  friendly and accommodating to  fans be treated shabbily by these people. Reality check is sorely needed here.  

Why, as Kim says, be "really bad", be "envious or what" , be "spreading lies" when they could be really good; could be happy for her in her choice; why would these people not accept the reality of Xian in her life.  I do not have any answers.  One thing I can say is, there must be something missing in their lives to hurt Kim this way.

August 19, 2012 is another banner day for Kim and Xian. Now that Kim has declared her stand regarding the reality of her relationship with Xian, here are some more intriguing words from Kim.  The night that Xian arrived from Bacolod, here is what Kim has posted in her Instagram.  chinitaprincess "stop caring what people think, stop taking caution in your action, listen to what you want, do what you want... this is your life,, LIVE FOR IT!!." #joyride #funsundaynight#notraffic vvvrrooommm!! take care everyone!!   4d



 CTO - Uploaded by JP Chiu - Kimmy's brother  - all in the family!

L-R JP Chiu;  Kim's Ate Lakam; Xian; Kim; JC.

Kim has come of age.  She has gained confidence. She has accepted her lot. She is now stronger and is now able to decide on issues.  She also believes that "things happen for a reason".  She spouses the truth.  Kim, in accepting the reality of her situation, is now looking into herself; slowly discovering her worth.  Age and self-discovery are not the only factors that are at play here; there is also the presence of another individual whom Kim values in her life right now ; who has also been the subject of so many unfair and destructive criticism and whom Kim has to take a stand  for;  someone whom she admonishes fans and bystanders alike with  "huag lang pangunahan; just "enjoy the moment"; someone whom she says of as, 

"Maayos siyang makisama sa lahat ng mga tao, lalo na sa pamilya ko. Kilalang-kilala na siya ng pamilya ko.”--the one and the only Xian Lim.http://www.pep.ph/news/34990/kim-chiu-peeved-by-accusation-that-her-relationship-with-xian-lim-is-just-for-show


           CTO   Family Bonding -  Chiu - Lim Uy.


This affirmation of Xian's good interpersonal skills with everyone especially her own family, saying further that Kim's family know Xian very well now is a clear endorsement of Xian's innate goodness and friendliness by Kim and her family.

Xian, Kim, you vouch for each other, having known each other for a time with Xian's family saying how nice and good a girl Kim is.  As a KimXi, my heart sings hearing the assertions from both Kim and Xian's side of the family of how good one and the other is.  God is good!  Significant dates continue.

August 24, 2012.   Kim is almost saying, "wake up from your slumber".  Kim on her horse and spreading some words of wisdom: Serenity prayer paraphrased.


  CTO - Beautiful and reflective Kim with some words  for everyone to ponder about.

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.
--Reinhold Niebuhr (Theologian) 


The KimXi Departure - August 24, 2012.
There are coincidences and there are coincidences but at times there can just be one too many.  

Here is Xian's twit on his departure date to Hongkong for TFCkat with Randy Santiago and Yeng Constantino.


https://o.twimg.com/1/proxy.jpg?
Sarap talaaga ng food sa lounge :-))


keithpareja: Spotted. Kim Chiu. @ Mabuhay Lounge http://instagr.am/p/OvDjxbHWV2/ 

Kim to Cebu. Same departure date 8-24-12; time too? Coordinated time?

Location: NAIA Centennial Terminal II Departure Area (Both Domestic and International wings.)
Opening Hours: 03:00-21:00
Phone: +63 2-879-5707
Access:
Philippine Mabuhay class (business class) passengers (guests?)
Philippine Mabuhay Miles Million Miler passengers (guests?)
Philippine Mabuhay Miles Premium Elite passengers (guests?)
Philippine Mabuhay Miles Elite passengers (guests?)
General Impression

Mabuhay Lounge, Philippine Airlines' airport lounge have been redesigned and refurbished to cater to the tastes of the modern, global business travellers, - an oasis of calm and efficiency amidst the bustle of the airport.
Our First Class, Mabuhay (Business) Class, Mabuhay Miles Elite and Premier Elite members may enjoy the additional comfort and amenities at the "Mabuhay Lounge" where they can relax and as what we mean by "Mabuhay", "live well" before boarding the flight.

Food and Beverages

There is buffet table that 'floats' in the middle of the room. Sandwiches, cakes, pastries, assortment of fruits and a local dish, arroz caldo is served. Coffee, tea, juices, softdrinks and alcoholic beverages are also available.


So PAL's Mabuhay Lounge  allows access to business class and higher-end ticket holders and their guests.  Too much to think about but if my hunch is correct since everything is circumstantial so far; these are two people who are not running out of things to say to one another.  

It would be more inconceivable to think that Kim and Xian  would be in the same area departing to different destinations  and would not arrange to meet even for  just a few  minutes to eat and bond more.  As Xian said, "Sarap taalaga ng food sa Lounge".

If departure looked coordinated; arrival at the airport from Cebu/HK were 30 short minutes of each other.  Here's some KimXi fan twitting.  @kimberlychiulim @mesummerblue 12:05 nag arrived *** galing Cebu, *** from HKG ***** 12:34 ang ETA

One too many coincidences.


Strengthening the Barricade. August 25, 2012.
Kim reveals the status  between him and Gerald on the Star Studio Magazine, September, 2012 which is now available in the stands.  Her "Status of  Kim and Gerald Address" has sealed what she has been saying all along since 2010.  Kim and Gerald have been off since then.

Here's the final nail to the coffin: 

"Hindi nga kami nagkikita eh. Wala naman din akong sasabihin, at wala din kaming mapag-uusapan," Chiu told StarStudio magazine in its September 2012 issue.  

http://www.abs-bnnews.com/entertainment/08/25/12/kim-gerald-we-have-nothing-talk-about

CTO - Destination Cebu and family time. Kim Chiu.


The trip to different destinations KimXi  did not deter communication.  Kim liked 3 photos that Xian posted on his Instagram account. in his two-day stay in Hongkong; unexpected coming from Kim.


      CTO -The Chius like this.  Xian after a run.

             CTO - another coincidence?  Simultaneous liking of friend Cacai's photo.


CTO - While Kim is having fun and dining with friend and family...
@chinitaprincess had soooo much FUN today!!!  plus a YUMMY dinner to end the night,,, #happybdayatekamcebu  Sweetdreams everyone!!


  CTO   Xian is all by his lonesome in the streets of HK...why the mournful gaze?
This pic that has no caption is so telling prompting perhaps @Chinitaprincess to reach out across the miles with her way of saying..."Nandito lang ako, nandito lang ako, I won't leave...", echoing Xian's assurances when Kim made her birthday greeting to Xian to "stay happy, stay there"...




That Xian has never ran out of things to say especially on his Instagram or Twitter and that his using his  eyes to mirror his thoughts says a lot.

From Dictionary.Com, the word gaze means
"When someone lays eyes on you and keeps looking, it is a gaze or a stare. "

"Gaze is both a verb and a noun. When people daydream, they often gaze off into the distance without focusing on anything." (Dictionary.com)

                            CTO Can' Smile without you by The Carpenters


   CTO - Glad they are now in the same time zone and  air space. Whew!
Identical shoes.  


     CTO - Sending telepathic messages while hugging a traveling bag or...
'One picture is worth ten thousand words', Frederick R. Barnard in Printer's Ink, 8 Dec 1921 retelling a Chinese proverb. .40,000 words for the above pics--all of them addressed to Kim, you think?  Hugging her gift is hugging her, you think?


The show must go on and the smile is back in Xian's countenance at the sight of a sea of people, kababayans, all rooting for KimXi when asked and who in unison said they all watched My Binondo Girl.  My Binondo girl is soon to air under the international title of Jade in Hongkong, Taiwan and China plus Vietnam and Cambodia.

      CTO    JADE or My Binondo Girl  in Hongkong, China, Taiwan soon.




A KimXi fan has some thought, knowing how Xian has such excellent communication skills. Subliminal as in "I H-eart K-im"according to KimXilove9 : 

Quick peek out my closet... cute pic of Xian.. is he sending out a hidden message?   I H eart K im  ??? haha  KimXi Love <3    Originally Posted by kimxilove9 

     CTO -  Two hands up in Peace/Victory sign...Kimmy's fave handsign.
    while a Chiu family friend JC sends this: JC ‏@ususero We miss you @XianLimm na :-P       the ones missing  Xian falling  under a plural subject "We".    

In matters of the heart, we have a master in Xian; now he wears his heart in his shirt...from his sleeve to his shirt over his love-ticking heart.

Here Chinitaprincess also uncharacteristically liked the above photo after liking two others before this; perhaps soothing the oh so perhaps, tired, "missing Kim", Xian , whose body language spoke volumes.  No longer indifferent, Kim responds, "Yes, I miss you too" in modern day language -- a click into Xian's Instagram.

Here come the likes.:   

CTO - composer-singer-hosts all L-R Yeng Constantino, Randy Santiago and Xian Lim.


Xian looking like he along with Mr. Randy Santiago and Yeng Constantino are taking HK by storm!  Very good feedback from fans who are one in saying that Xian is so mabait and accommodating.  

Inside Pinoy Showbiz asks if Xian is now  the hottest ABS CBN property  and soon to be the next big star?  He can draw crowds to watch a show where he's at with fans braving the  hot sun and the shoulder to shoulder mass of people? Credible question.  The people have spoken!  Looks like the answer is a resounding Yes!  Showbusiness is still a business last I check.  He who draws the crowd makes the cash register go caching.



CTO - Xian performing in HK
Thanks Mommy Evs for the video.

 CTO -Xian singing his heart out to HK- based Pinoys  and a Pinas-based Pinay.

Xian, you have arrived.  Randy and Yeng have years of singing experience behind them and are also accomplished composers  and host.  It is such an honor to be the 3rd person of choice for TFCkat.  We KimXis rejoice!

Kim is also "gathering rosebuds" while she may!  A confirmed style icon from the fashion designers that only have good things to say about her:

                                  CTO - Kim   "She walks in beauty..." by Lord Byron.


"from the experts
fashion experts weigh in on why kim chiu is now a style icon

francis libiran

some of the most memorable looks of kim chiu were created by francis libiran,possibly the actress's most engaged fashion collaborator.his gowns-often in lush fabrics and flowy sillouettes-for kim are show-stoppers."i love working with kim because she is really vocal about what she really likes," he says.

"we have seen kim transform from a simple girl to one of the most stylish stars"

cary santiago

based in cebu ( kim's hometown ), cary santiago has always dreamed of creating a gown for kim.last month's issue of metro saw the actress wearing cary's phoenix-inspired gown."i've always wanted to dress kim-she's very beautiful and talented and any designer would love to have her as his muse," he says.

"kim chiu is every designer's perfect muse."

bing cristobal

bing cristobal created a black sequined gown for kim's appearance in starstudio's first fashion cover story. The fashion designers says that the gowns he creates for kim require little embellishment and seem to perfectly assume kim's "mannequin-like" frame."kahit walang fitting minsan sakto agad," he says.

" girls her age copy kim's style "

nat manilag

nat manilag is one of kim's go-to designers for romantic gowns in pastel colors. More than the clothes she wears,nat says that kim draws her charm for her uniqueness that she becomes " embedded in everyone's mind to the point of becoming an inspirational and influence."

"she's a style icon because she manages to be remembered by many for being unique."

bang pineda

as the head stylist of asap,bang pineda works with kim on a weekly basis for clothes worn in production numbers. For him,what makes kim a fashion inspiration is the fact that there's no disconnect between her personality and sense of style. "this is why a lot of girls relate to her and the way she dresses," he says

"her personality reflects her personal style."
Starstudio, September 2012 issue.


The Healing is also earning well.  http://www.philstar.com/NewPhilstar/...cardo-F-Lo.jpg 
FUNFARE By Ricardo F. Lo The Philippine Star Updated August 27, 2012

Star Cinema is very happy with the box-office result of Batangas Gov. Vilma Santos’ latest movie, The Healing, which has grossed more than P130M so far (and counting!). You can catch it in theaters where it’s on its fifth-week extended run. Incidentally, Gov. Vi is busy preparing for the Marian Regatta Fluvial Procession around Taal Lake on Sept. 8, feast day of Mama Mary.


When it rains, it pours.  Kim and Xian are now taping Ina, Kapatid, Anak.  They have a movie which  will be out by next year on top of tours, shows and appearances.  God has figured so much in the two being paired together and they in their prayerfulness are praising and thanking God wholeheartedly.  Our one prayer is for them to maintain their equilibrium and keep Him in the center of their personal and professional lives.

Kim and Xian are multi-talented, good to the core , responsible and hardworking.  As they hold each other's hand, they are also discovering each other.  Peel every single layer I have laid out, their being fashion icons; their being good actors; their being good sister/daughter/granddaughter, etc and equally, Xian being a good son to his Mom and Dad, grandson, etcetera, then you lay bare a heart that beats for Kim and vice-versa, a heart that beats for Xian.  

Kim is no longer indifferent.   As I said she has already crossed The Great Divide. They now wear their hearts on their sleeves, Kim, slowly but surely, showing fangs, like a mother young , protecting her young, as she comes into the defense of her relationship with Xian as real, not just for show.

I am most happy that Kim is not indifferent to Xian's love expressions.  She is always appreciative; always appreciative both of Xian and his doings towards her.  She is reluctant to label what they have;  "nothing can define it" as Xian says.  

Their budding love is almost spiritual; as they hold each other in mutual respect; wary of hurting each other deliberately; always wanting the other to be happy.  It is beyond giddiness; it is just truly wanting the other to be happy.  Isn't this what love is all about or true love is all about and the romance that goes with love between a man and a woman will just follow?  Kim and Xian, loneliness is no longer your portion or if it rears it's ugly head it is easily assuaged with a "like" with  a perhaps a hug and a kiss.  Keep on keeping on!

                               
                              CTO   We've only just began -The Carpenters



              CTO - 2012 Star Magic Ball - Kim and Xian be there as a pair!


-o0o-                                                         




Thursday, August 23, 2012

For once in my...

                      CTO



A year ago , on August 22, 2011, Kim Chiu was on tenterhooks. My Binondo Girl first aired that day.  This was her first television series minus Gerald Anderson, her ex love team and ex love.  

Kim played  a dual role, one, that of the Binondo Girl  Jade Dimaguiba; the other, masquerading as her brother, Yuan Sy.   It was a television series that captured the hearts of many and made Xian Lim and Richard Yap (Papa Chen) stars to reckon with in 2012.

 Will Kim Chiu make it on her own?  That  was the question then.  2012 was to be the  year of reckoning. 

It was a time that Kim's thumb-scratching, a habit she turns to in times of tension and great suspense, must have increased.  She turned to prayer for strength and  God's help and also collaborated with her co-stars to give their best in every episode.  She discovered horseback riding to relieve stress and found a horseback riding and running buddy in Xian. 

        CTO - Kim and her fave horse Lagunara.

                                CTO  8-23-12   Together at work and at play.
           

    CTO  Kim and Xian - out in the open field and OUT IN THE OPEN...


          CTO  -  Kim and Xian - early morning run in Hawaii, March, 2012


                                 CTO - My Binondo Girl Cast 


So how is Kim Chiu a year later, August 22, 2012?  Borrowing from a fan's remarks, here goes:  

Quote Originally Posted by chinesefan View Post
"I have always been thinking, My Binondo Girl is something to be proud of. Come to think of it, what a BLESSED project MBG is.

Big break career wise for PAPA CHEN(Richard Yap), AMETHYST SY(Lauren UY) and of course much much bigger for ANDY WU(Xian Lim).

Kim Chiu proved "SHE CAN MAKE IT" alone and not only that. She can make it REALY big on her own.

Then in real life, real couples found true love and happiness because of the soap. Ms. Marina and Mr. Ricardo. And of course Kimberly Sue and Alexander Xian.

Then best of all, KIMXI ,the fan group, the LOVETEAM OF THE YEAR, REEL AND REAL COUPLE Kim Chiu and Xian Lim blossomed.

For us KIMXI's, we have happiness, stress reliever and more happiness each time we see them together in events and private sightings. That's a thousands and hundred of thousand if not millions of people that are made happy because of that 1 soap project.

What a blessing to a lot of peolple!!! Both the celebrities and to us KIMXI lurkers, addict fans, Pexers, or whatever you may call it!

#HappyAnniversaryMBG

May ABS produce more projects like this."

To the question, how Kim Chiu is now on the first anniversary of My Binondo Girl?  A line in a Your Song Presents Kim Chiu episode could very well describe Kim Chiu's life today,  "Life is good, smile".

Kim Chiu, by the grace of God,  has now  a successful series  tucked under her belt; an equally successful and explosive love teamwork with Xian Lim; a new series in Ina, Kapatid, Anak;  a blockbuster  movie, The Healing with Vilma Santos;   movies to do with Star Magic and Xian;  a blossoming love and a whole new attitude. Kim Chiu has survived with a lot of prayer and   some good help from friends in the business, both fans and co-actors.


So where does Kim go from here?  Where did she get this new found strength; the courage to be oneself? Is the broken wing now healed?  Following is an Instagram which shows a more independent Kim; free of  the hang-ups and angst of the past and is taking a stand and how!

      CTO - Kim's personal Instagram.
  • chinitaprincess "stop caring what people think, stop taking caution in your action, listen to what you want, do what you want... this is your life,, LIVE FOR IT!!." #joyride #funsundaynight#notraffic vvvrrooommm!! take care everyone!!   4d
We have followed Kim's Journey of Love and Lost Loves-- a broken home, a broken family, an absentee mother, a lost romantic love-- and Love Regained -- a new home, a family of siblings, a surrogate mother and a new romantic love.  

What a journey it has been on the romantic side.   It has gone  a 180-degree turn and Kim's easy smile and laughter are back!  "Easy, easy; happy, happy" as Kim would say it.  

We KimXis are happy for these two shy ones who liberated each other with their complementary traits--what the other lacked; the other filled and together they help each other scale  professional and personal mountains.





          

     
 CTO  - Xian's instagram released within a few minutes of Kim's - Sunday night August 19th.    Intriguing.
We funnah hit the club in the fo one five.....wassup yoo



Push.com has uploaded an uncut version of Kim's interview with Carmina Villaroel of Showbiz Insider Report. In this interview, Kim's tears came and her voice changed to a higher pitch when family issues were touched.

In Balitang America with Henni Espinosa, her tone was of a higher pitch all throughout the interview, revealing the emotionally moved Kim in that interview of May 26, 2012.

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EXCLUSIVE! Kim Chiu on past heartbreak : "Wala ka ng pagsisihan kasi nagawa mo lahat"

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Further down  the close to an hour interview for SIR , Kim says she is still reticent of her personal life. She is bubbly, vibrant, a good friend but not easy on confidences, she says. Kim feels she is not obliged to tell her fans the status of her personal life; when asked whether she has told her fans that she and Gerald are no longer together.  She also says she  has completely  recovered from her hurt and is ready to fall in love again.

                                  CTO  - Balitang America 5-26-12
  
In this interview, Kim thanks Xian for listening to all her problems; with Xian, she is open with her problems.  She chooses her confidants and Xian is one of them.

In the SIR interview, Kim says she  is not much into public display of affection.  The family she grew up in  was not demonstrative and hugging and kissing are not something her family nor Kim does easily.  This must explain her resistance to shouts for kisses on stage though she bestows them outside of prompts and dictates of fans to fans, friends even Xian's Dad or Xian himself. 

Kim on Kim, a straightforward interview by Carmina Villaroel for Showbiz Insider Report aired this month in its  uncut version  gives us a glimpse of what makes Kim so family oriented; so shy initially and how she rose to be confident and independent-minded and able to make her own decision for herself, all the while remaining the respectful, loving sibling of the Chiu family.  Learning from life's blows  (her love hurts both family and from a boyfriend) and life's graces (example of veteran actresses like Vilma Santos) made her stronger; no regrets as she learned a lot from the experience.  She now values herself  and has now learned how to love. 

Her account of Xian in this SIR interview  is quite revealing.  I can see she favors him.  One has to know Kim's demeanor to sense the easy smile when Xian's name is mentioned; a sense of pride at how he makes her laugh with all the jokes and banats and how she just enjoys his company.  As a KimXi follower, I also smile with my heart all engaged.  

Kim has some "good news" to share as she did on KrisTV through her Mahfriend Maja.  Kim has come of age.  She has found herself.  She is ready to fall in love again, leaning more towards one from showbiz as she tells SIR host Carmina.  

I feel from the amount of time Kim spends with Xian  apart from work that he is the favored one.    "Huag lang silang pangunahan".  No assumptions, they caution.  Wait until "mahinog ang puso".  Until the heartaches end and heart  beats love again.  Kim is ready, she says and the favored one awaits, all in God's will and grace.


Kim and Xian, seen in public in their private dinners and sorties out had time together attending a Block Screening of Xian's Movie, The Reunion, in a Team KimXi sponsored event at the Shang.


 Kim and Xian's entrance into the theatre with Xian's Dad, Direk Frasco Mortiz,  Kean Cipriano and the KimXis.
                                                            CTO


CTO  Kim and Xian with Kean Cipriano and Direk Frasco Mortiz thanking the KimXis 8-21-12.
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     CTO - Kim, regaling Xian and Xian's Dad in lighthearted conversation; makes one wonder if this is the first time Kim has ever been introduced to Xian's Dad.  
Kim, the bubbly Kim from PBB, is in her element here.  Xian has broken the Kim shyness barrier setting Kim free to talk and laugh with his father.  Xian who has successfully bonded with Kim's own family is completing the cycle.



         CTO  - Eyes to Eyes with a proud eyewitness in the middle - Xian's Dad.
   The gorgeous couple seeing their beautiful future in their eyes smile lovingly at   each other.   Xian's Dad is equally smiling.  HAPPINESS!  KimXis Block Screening (8-21-12) of The Reunion, Xian's first lead role in a movie. The movie is both a box-office and a critical success!  Kudos Xian and The Reunion team under the direction of Direk Frasco Mortiz. Congratulations! Xian came from two other BS before this from his own fans and another KimXi group, KimXi ATG.


  CTO    There is now a replacement to the Ex-Love;  an X-Love...the eyes have it.
    The eyewitness Kean Cipriano has his eyes closed but he must be all ears to explain the smile he is trying to cover.


CTO - The man who has put back the smile on Kimmy's face according to Kris Aquino on KrisTV - XIAN LIM.


Kim has found the road to happiness.  Balance.  Balancing other people's opinion or thoughts or needs against one's own--finding oneself in the process and in finding oneself then just be.  Just be oneself.  


                       CTO - Kim and Xian.  The laughter after the tears.


Kim's self, gracious and true;  loving and caring deserves to be loved by Kim first; Kim who puts other people's happiness before her own is now balanced with the help of a friend named Xian.  


     CTO  You needed me by Anne Murray 


Xian - the "pakpak" to Kim's broken wing is flying high with her; soaring high; the same Xian who has this perpetual, consistent refrain when asked of Kim, "I just want to make her happy; want to make her feel special all the time I am with her". 


              
                CTO - "I am willing to be that "pakpak" for her..." - Xian on 8:20
                                 January 7, 2012



The one huge block to one's own happiness is surprisingly one's own self. It is only when one learns to love oneself appropriately that one can truly love another. One must love oneself first to be able to love another well. 

 (37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt alove the Lord thy God with all thy bheart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy cmind.   38 This is the first and great acommandment 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt alove thy neighbour as thyself. ) 


                                  CTO 

The above quotation is a bit harsh.  What it probably means is no one would love you as you deserve to be loved if you have not found and loved yourself, warts and all, first.   

Xian, who has worked with Kim  in close quarters while taping My Binondo Girl saw Kim, the real Kim; the Kim after the floodlights are dimmed and the girl-woman  Kim emerges without the makeup and the script--truly sweet, caring, thoughtful  and humble and promptly fell in love.  

Kim who uses the above qualities  to describe Xian substituting funny for sweet must know that they are the same ones Xian uses on her and in the fear perhaps of sounding repetitive, Xian graciously lumps them all in one word: "AMAZING",  using one other adjective  to describe someone he finds awesome, wonderfully wonderful --"INCOMPARABLE."
                                    

    CTO - In Xian's own handwriting...telling the world what kind of a person he finds Kim...that Kim is among the best there is and "deserves the best in every way possible."
   Anyone would feel a surge of confidence by being told by one who knows one well that one "serves as a good  inspiration and motivation to all..." April 19, 2012.

Xian has raised the bar for expressing love  and there is no better person to receive this heightened expression of love than a lady named Kim Chiu, the one who is the epitome of love herself  since she discovered the world around her.

God who is LOVE works in mysterious ways; Kim and Xian met in God's grace , in a work situation that only God can allow. One leading man encountering some technical glitch while  the other had some physical one; leaving one Xian Lim alone in the playing field to win his ladylove, Jade.  Xian as Andy Wu became   groom to the Binondo Girl, Jade Dimaguiba .  Xian has also  found a new  love in Kim whom he now relentlessly  pursues even after My Binondo Girl has ended.  From My Binondo Girl to Xian's Girl.  Nang hiritan kung hindi ba niya wish na sagutin na siya ni Kim, ang sagot niya, “Siyempre gusto ko (maibigay ang) happiness ng puso ko.” http://www.push.com.ph/features/8165/xian-lim-says-that-his-heart-will-be-happy-if-kim-chiu-becomes-his-girlfriend/

Kim and Xian,  ultimate givers of selves, the ones who "want to make the other happy; make the other feel special all the time" are together almost every waking hour outside of work, enjoying each other's company; enjoying every moment with each other; "happy, happy, happy being together".  That their TV Series My Binondo Girl titled JADE  is exported for airing in  Hongkong, China and Taiwan is an added bonus; expectedly with more Chinese fans to follow after that. God is good; thanks be to God!

In the Block Screening of  The Reunion sponsored by the KimXis, a fanclub of the Kim and Xian tandem,  the movie had to take second fiddle to  the public real life reunion of the two protagonists in the real-life Kim and Xian love saga; one jetting back in from Davao,  Saturday morning  in time for her Ate Lakam's birthday and the other, flying in from Bacolod, Sunday night in time for some funride.

We know that the two had their own private reunion from sightings twitted in but for the KimXis who for the first time eyed them in person, it was a KimXi public reunion; their every move caught on video or camera and uploaded for everyone who count on them for stress relief,  romance and love.

This time the  movie, The Reunion takes a lowly backseat.  Now everyone knows why Kim preferred to stay home during Xian's Big Night.  She wanted it to be Xian's and his barkada's own Big Night and no other. If that is not love,  then we don't know what love is.

Love is sending loving birthday greetings to the beloved.

CTO - Kim's birthday greeting for Xian
Xian's birthday July 12, 2012

Love is wanting the happiness of another; being happy when they're happy.

Love is wanting the significant other feel special.

Love is popping the question, "Will you be my date to the Ball, September 1st?" 

Love is answering, "Yes, I will be your date to the Ball."   Harinawa!
             

                CTO - Imagine this outfit in white...Kim to the Star Magic Ball!



CTO  Frank Sinatra - For Once in my Life




"For Once In My Life"
For once in my life
I've got someone who needs me
Someone I've needed so long
For once unafraid
I can go where life leads me
And somehow I know I'll be strong
For once I can touch
What my heart used to dream of
Long before I knew
Someone warm like you
Could make my dream come true
For once in my life
I won't let sorrow hurt me
Not like it's hurt me before
For once I have someone
I know won't desert me
I'm not alone anymore
For once I can say
This is mine, you can't take it
As long as I know I've got love
I can make it
For once in my life
I've got someone who needs me




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