First Day High

First Day High is a 2006 comedy film starring Geoff Eigenmann, Jason Abalos, Maja Salvador, Gerald Anderson and Kim Chiu released under Star Cinema. The film is the movie adaptation of the Rexona First Day High TV commercial. The original actors in the commercial were also part of the cast.

The film begins when Brainy Indy (Kim Chiu), MVP MJ2 (Gerald Anderson), Sosy Pre (Maja Salvador), Rebel Gael (Geoff Eigenmann) and Nice Guy Nathan (Jason Abalos) are college freshmen who enter FDH University, until they all got involved in the biggest mystery the university has ever encountered- the Basketball Water Contamination Accident. Initial investigation shows that the water drank by the players during the game was contaminated by a mysterious substance. The first investigation begins with MJ2, then to Indy, Pré and Gael, when they discovered that the culprit is from the same school. Nathan, when investigated is proven the culprit. And, before being expelled from school, was saved by his friends, whom he indirectly help, as told from their story: Indy created the substance, an Anti-love potion for MJ2, who was the target of Gael when bribed by several criminals, which Pré has somewhat a relationship, and Nathan, trying to help them from their mischief and problems. After the case is closed, Nathan is not expelled and instead Nathan is in community service. But because of his popularity, attitude and honesty,all of the students helped Nathan during community service.


Characters:
Geoff Eigenmann as Gael Zantua
Jason Abalos as Nathan "Nat-Nat" Matriponio
Maja Salvador as Precious Princess Jewel "Pré" Samartino
Kim Chiu as Indira "Indi" Dela Concepcion
Gerald Anderson as Michael Jordan "MJ2" Ramirez
Kat Alano as Ashley
Arwind Santos
Rich Alvarez
Johnny Delgado
Michael De Mesa
Carla Humphries as Kristen
Denise Laurel as Tuesday
Patty Laurel
Charles Lejano
Gardo Versoza as Rene Samartino
Arlene Muhlach
Cherry Pie Picache
Boy2 Quizon
Bembol Roco



Directed by Mario Cornejo
Written by Jade Castro
20 September 2006 (Philippines)

Tiyanaks

Tiyanaks is a horror-comedy film directed by Mark Reyes. This is the 2nd installment of the Tiyanak.

A school organization heads off to a Holy Week retreat, led by their professor. But before long, they realize they've lost their way and have no choice but to stay the night in a desolate house. What if it turns out to be the crib of vile creatures who may look like innocent children, but turn into little monsters and are out to scare the living daylights out of them?


Characters:
Rica Peralejo as Sheila
Jennylyn Mercado as Rina
Mark Herras as Christian
JC De Vera as Kerwin
TJ Trinidad as Professor Erl
Nash Aguas as Biboy / Fire Tiyanak
Karel Marquez as Cindy
Andrei Felix as Rex
Ryan Yllana as PJ
Jeoff Monzon as Sebastian
Jill Yulo as Hanz
Alwyn Uytingco as Bryan
Lotlot De Leon as Aling Mildred
Mika dela Cruz as Water Tiyanak / Sandy
Rhian Josh Condeas Land Tiyanak / Emilita
Moki Torralba as Air Tiyanak / Simeon
Gail Lardizabal as Mother of the Tiyanaks / Eletrick Tiyanak / Rhada

Directed by Mark Reyes
Produced by Lily Monteverde
Music by Von de Guzman
October 26, 2007

Ang Pamana: The Inheritance

Ang Pamana: The Inheritance is a 2006 Filipino supernatural thriller film.
Romeo Candido directed and wrote the script for the film while his wife Caroline Mangosing produced it and plays the role Lola (Grandmother) Nena.
The movie was filmed in Canada and the Philippines and is having its world premiere at the Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival and is to be released theatrically in the Philippines in November 2006.
The film is based on traditional Filipino folklore, and mentions creatures such as duwende (dwarfs), manananggal (winged, half-bodied vampires), aswang (blood-sucking monsters disguised as humans), kapre (tobacco-smoking giants).


Johnny De Jesus is a typical Canadian teen-ager; despondent, rebellious, and has no regard for his family. When the De Jesus-Reyes family gets word that their family matriarch, Lola (Grandmother) Nena has died, Johnny, and his prissy older sister Anna are in charge of representing their parents in Manila for the reading of their Lola’s last will and testament.
Johnny, a first time balikbayan, sees Manila with foreign eyes; from the poorest squatters to the richest of the gated village mansions. Johnny is introduced to his cousin Vanessa, a Manila junior socialite who shares Johnny’s taste for drugs and trouble. At the reading of the will the three grandchildren of Lola Nena are awarded the deed to the family farm in rural Bulacan. A bumpy two-hour ride out of the city, shuttled by their family driver, Dante, they arrive at the 19-hectare property, miles away from the comforts of the modern world. The land is as vast, lush, and teeming with insects’ hum. But things are anything but placid in this provincial landscape.Johnny’s first surprise comes in the form of Tommy, a mentally handicapped man with a seemingly developed third eye, lives on the farm, is also part of the inheritance. Vanessa has a surprise of her own when she takes Anna and Johnny to the secluded field beyond the orchid garden and reveals the marijuana she has planted to be harvested by her obnoxious, rich, prep-school drop out friends, Nicco, Paolo, and drug dealer boyfriend, Ronnie.

Things take a turn when Johnny comes to the reluctant realization that supernatural forces are at work on the land and the folklore that haunted his childhood are real.

First are the sightings of his Lola’s ghost, which Johnny tries to dismiss as drug-induced hallucinations. Is Johnny falling for local superstition in his stoned stupor? Is someone trying to poison them or are there truly Duwendes on the property cursing them. What is the real reason why the local farmers stay away from the property? What is the dark secret that Lola Nena took to the grave and left for Johnny to discover?

Set in Canada and the Philippines, Ang Pamana:The Inheritance is the story of the fears we carry and the ones that refuse to be left behind. Ang Pamana: The Inheritance is a supernatural thriller drawing from age-old Filipino folklore primed to frighten a whole new generation."

Characters:
Johnny de Jesus-Reyes as Darrel Gamotin
Anna de Jesus-Reyes as Nadine Villasin. Currently the artistic director of the Carlos Bulosan Theatre.
Lola Nena de Jesus as Caroline Mangosing
Vanessa as Phoemela Baranda
Tommy as Nicco Lorenzo Garcia. Ang Pamana is his third production with The Digital Sweatshop.
Ronnie as Victor Neri

The naming of Anna de Jesus-Reyes is inspired by the writer/director/editor Romeo Candido's youngest sister, Anna Candido.
The use of the surname "de Jesus", although a common last name in many countries, is the family name of Carmen De Jesus, screenplay co-writer
Lola means grandmother in Tagalog Filipino


Directed by Romeo Candido
Produced by Caroline Mangosing
Written by Romeo Candido
Carmen DeJesus
Ria Limjap
Music by Gerard Salonga

Mag-ingat Ka Sa... Kulam

Mag-ingat Ka Sa... Kulam (also called Kulam) is a Philippine horror movie about a married woman (Judy Ann Santos) who starts behaving unpredictably as she recovers from a terrible car accident. The opening of Mag-ingat Ka Sa... Kulam on October 1, 2008 kicked off the year-long 48th anniversary celebration of Regal Films. This film was graded A by the Cinema Evaluation Board and rated PG-13 by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board.

Ever since Mira (Judy Ann Santos) woke up from a car accident, she started seeing things that she could not explain. She felt paranormal activity is occurring inside their house. Although she could not remember anything that happened before the accident, Dave came to her house and explained to her that she was supposed to leave her husband, Paul and elope with him. Dave told her that she loved him and she trusted a secret to him. Mira learned that Paul had had another woman before which caused their relationship to deteriorate. Even her blind child, Sophie seemed aloof and is scared of her. She started to patch things up between her and her family but she could not forget what Dave told her about trusting him her secret. Mira called up Dave to meet him and Dave explained to her the secret she seemed to have forgotten already because of the accident. Dave told her how she had a twin sister named Maria that she left in a mental institute because she had been insane since their mother's death. Mira and Dave went to the mental institute to see Maria but the doctor said that Maria had died a month back and since no one claimed her body, they took the corpse to a University for study. She told Paul about this which surprised him, all along not knowing that Mira ever had a twin sister. Paul called the university to claim the corpse and then had it cremated.
Mira and Paul's daughter, Sophie, underwent an eye transplant. Sophie was so excited to see the eclipse as this is her first time to see again since she got blind. The moment she opened her eyes, she saw a woman standing behind her mother and the people around were wondering who she was seeing since no other people were there.

Paul and Mira could no longer take the paranormal activity so they decided to consult a medium to help them. The old man told Mira and Paul that a powerful black magic is due to acquire a physical body on the eclipse when all spirits become more powerful. The medium found a doll which he called "antigua", a powerful device that the bad spirit used to let itself remain in this world. On the night of the eclipse, Sophie and Paul were watching the phenomenon when Paul caught a glimpse of something white approaching them. It was Maria's body. He took Sophie inside the house and in her room, he found a tape which when he played in Sophie's video cam recorder, he saw it was recorded by Mira for him. The video showed Mira videotaping herself before the car accident she went through. Mira was saying in the tape how Paul could fight Maria. In the room where Mira was, her body became that of Maria. The twist was then revealed. It was Maria who came back from the car accident and it was Mira who died in the asylum and got cremated. Mira had been dead all along and it was Maria who used her body to come back to the world and take vengeance against Mira through her family.

Mira recalled that their mother was a mangkukulam and tried to transfer her powers to the twins when they were young. Being the braver one, Mira tried to contradict their mother's chants as she did not want to learn about her evil doings and voodoo magic. When the twin grew up, Mira decided to run away from home, leaving Maria behind. Their mother died soon after. Mira attended the burial and realized that Maria had gone insane, claiming she could talk to things that Mira could not see. Mira then told her twin that she would bring her with her to Manila. It turned out though that Mira sent her to a mental institute. Maria was left heartbroken. One night, she stayed up late and did a powerful black magic so that her and Mira's body could switch. The chant was effective although when Maria's soul transferred to Mira's body who was on the way to the mental asylum to stop Maria from doing any harm to her family, the car got into a horrible accident. Maria, who woke up in Mira's body could no longer remember anything while Mira who found herself in Maria's body woke up from the trance already in the asylum.

In the present, Paul replayed the video tape that Mira left for him. Mira said that by the time that Paul got to watch the video, she would have been dead. Paul needed to trap Maria into a circle made of Mira's body's dust. Paul did this but Maria discovered the trick. She was pushed though by Sophie from behind and there, she was trapped in the circle of dust. Paul stabbed the "antigua" with a piece of wood and Maria's soul burned and disappeared. Mira's soul showed up to the father and daughter to bid her final farewell. It is hinted at the end that Mira's Daughter Sophie saw the book that is used in "kulam".

Characters:
Judy Ann Santos as Mira/Maria
Dennis Trillo as Paul
TJ Trinidad as Dave
Sharlene San Pedro as Sophie
Kris Bernal as Maggie
Mart Escudero as Neil


Mag-ingat Ka Sa... Kulam
Awards and nominations:

6th Golden Screen Awards
Best Visual Effects: Roadrunner Network, Inc.

25th PMPC Star Awards for Movies
Movie of the Year
Movie Director of the Year: Jun Lana
Movie Actress of the Year: Judy Ann Santos
Movie Child Performer of the Year: Sharlene San Pedro
Original Movie Screenplay of the Year: Jun Lana, Elmer Gatchalian and Renato Custodio
Movie Cinematographer of the Year: Moises Zee
Movie Editor of the Year: Ria De Guzman, Renewin Alano & Mikael Angelo Pestano
Movie Production Designer of the Year: Mario Lipit & Edgar Martin Littaua
Movie Sound Engineer of the Year: Bebet Casas

11th Gawad Pasado Awards
Pinakapasadong Editing (Best Editing): Ria de Guzman, Renewin Alano at Angelo Pestano
Pinakapasadong Tunog (Best Sound): Bebet Casas

27th FAP Luna Awards
Best Musical Scoring: Von de Guzman

Pamahiin

Pamahiin is a 2006 Filipino horror film directed by Rahyan Carlos, the title translates into "Superstition in English. The film plays on the superstitious beliefs Filipinos have about death. The movie starred acclaimed TV and film actor Dennis Trillo.

PAMAHIIN is a story about how superstitious beliefs affect people’s lives, especially non-believers. It revolves around three childhood friends NOAH, BECCA and DAMIAN and the mystery that connects and enfolds them.
NOAH (Dennis Trillo) returns to the Philippines with his girlfriend EILEEN (played by Iya Villania) after 15 years when his best friend DAMIAN (played by Paolo Contis) commits suicide. Knowing how strong DAMIAN has always been, NOAH is intrigued why he took his own life. He is also bothered and haunted by a distant childhood memory concerning his other best friend BECCA (played by Marian Rivera).
BECCA and her mother ALING BELINDA (Jacklyn Jose) are the town outcasts, due to ALING BELINDA’s penchant for the supernatural. They were pushed to move out of the town, never to be seen again by the people of Balong Bato.
Because NOAH was raised in the States, his modern ways keeps him from believing in superstitions, much to the distress of his TITA AMELIA (Vangie Labalan) whose life is governed by her superstitious beliefs.
DAMIAN’s death starts a series of peculiar and unexplained deaths and eerie haunting, all revolving around different superstitions. EILEEN, who is in tune with her third eye, is at the forefront of all these haunting. She is followed by the ghost of a little girl named LOTA, who died a mysterious and gruesome death.
Not wanting to believe and accept the fact that superstitions are real, NOAH tries to give a practical explanation for everything, straining his relationship with EILEEN. The fact that BECCA returns and professes her love for him doesn’t help in easing the tension between them. NOAH continues refusing to believe… until he experiences the haunting himself.

Characters:
Dennis Trillo as Noah
Iya Villania as Eileen
Marian Rivera as Becca
Paolo Contis as Damian
Jacklyn Jose as Aling Belinda
Vangie Labalan as Tita Amelia
Cris Daluz as Mang Sebring
Kookoo Gonzales as Aling Soledad


Directed by Rahyan Carlos
Written by Andrew Paredes
Rahyan Carlos
April 19, 2006 (Philippines)

Ouija (film)

Ouija is an award-winning 2007 Filipino horror-thriller film from director Topel Lee, his first feature length, from the screenplay by Aloy Adlawan. The film stars Jolina Magdangal, Iza Calzado, Rhian Ramos and Judy Ann Santos as cousins, haunted by a spirit they accidentally trapped while playing an ouija board.
This is the second film co-produced by GMA Films & VIVA Films years after VIVA withdrew from GMA. The joint production between the two companies was proven a success since fans believe that there is still chemistry among the two companies and it led to more jointly-produced movies that became box-office hits.

Half-sisters Aileen and Romina, along with first cousins Ruth and Sandra, reunite in Camiguin to bury their grandmother. Accompanied by Sandra’s friend, Lucy, the five girls dare to call on the spirits of the dead when they find their old Ouija board from when they were kids. The Ouija board is burned by accident before they are able to finish the ritual, trapping a murderous entity around them.
As they begin to realize the terror that they have brought upon themselves, Aileen and Romina’s hostile relationship even become more strained, while Lucy’s sanity brings a heavy burden on Sandra, and Ruth’s boyfriend, Gino, is unknowingly pulled into the danger and horror that await all of them.
Confronted by imminent Death, the girls have nowhere to go unless they can identify the spirit and find out where it is buried. It is only by leading the spirit to its burial ground that they will be able to release the spirit from the Ouija board and survive its fatal hauntings.

Characters:
Judy Ann Santos as Aileen
Jolina Magdangal as Romina
Iza Calzado as Sandra
Rhian Ramos as Ruth
Desiree Del Valle as Lucy
JC de Vera as Gino
Jackie Lou Blanco as Racquel
Ruby Rodriguez as Yaya
Perla Bautista as Lagring
Anita Linda as Lola Corazon
Valerie Concepcion as Rape victim
Angelo Ilagan as Nilo
Nanding Josef as Mario


Ouija Awards and nominations:
26th FAP (LUNA) Awards (2008)
Best Editing - Marya Ignacio
Best Musical Score - Carmina Robles (won)
Best Sound - Ditoy Aguila (won)

10th PASADO Awards (2008)
Best Actress - Judy Ann Santos (won)
Best Original Screenplay - Aloy Adlawan (won)
Best Sound - Ditoy Aguila (won)

24th PMPC Awards for Movies (2008
Movie of the Year - GMA Films
Movie Director of the Year - Topel Lee
Movie Supporting Actress of the Year - Iza Calzado
New Movie Actress of the Year - Rhian Ramos
Movie Original Screenplay of the Year - Aloy Adlawan
Movie Cinematographer of the Year - Neil Daza
Movie Editor of the Year - Marya Ignacio
Movie Production Designer of the Year - Mark Sabas
Movie Musical Scorer of the Year - Carmina Robles Cuya
Movie Sound Engineer of the Year - Ditoy Aguila and Rudy Gonzales (won)

5th Golden Screen Awards (2008)
Breakthrough Performance by an Actress - Rhian Ramos (won)
Best Visual Effects - Ignite Media

Directed by Topel Lee
Produced by Jose Mari Abacan
Veronique Del Rosario-Corpus
Vicente G. del Rosario III

Feng Shui (film)

Feng Shui is a 2004 Filipino horror movie starring Kris Aquino about an old bagua mirror that showers luck and prosperity to its owner and brings death to those near her. The film grossed Php 137.56 million. The film was a blockbuster hit in 2004, second to Now That I Have You which starred John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo. The Hollywood version of the movie is still frozen and unknown if Star Cinema have already decided in having a contract with Hollywood.

The movie opens with some videos of Chinatown's lucky charms and Buddha statues as well as statues of Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and other saints then the movie starts with Joy (Kris Aquino); a typical mother riding a bus, she then is awoken as the bus stops and passengers leave the bus. She notices a man (Emil Sandoval) who leaves a mysterious package on his seat. Failing to return it to the man, she proceeds to the local bakery to buy bread and shows the package to Aling Biring; the owner of the local bakery. Aling Biring tells Joy that it is a Bagua and is believed to be lucky by the Chinese. Joy arrives home and is ignored by her drunken husband, Inton (Jay Manalo). She then is visited by Mang Nestor (Leo Gamboa); her own tricycle driver who checks himself at the hanged Bagua thinking it as an ordinary mirror and returns the groceries Joy left. Joy then shows it to her friends; Alice (Lotlot De Leon) and Thelma (Ilonah Jean) and then experiences good luck with her winning almost everything from raffles to job promotions. She later finds out the death of Aling Biring who haunted Joy, Aling Biring is then known to die of Leptospirosis. She, Alice and Thelma check Aling Biring's birth date and discovers she was born under the year of the rat, Leptospirosis is caused by contact with a rat's urine or feces. They also learn that the man who left the Bagua in the bus, Evart Mendoza, was born in the year of the rabbit and was killed by a Rabbit Liner bus. She then finds out the death of Mang Nestor as well as death of two bodyguards but before that she got lucky; Joy accepted an inheritance. She visits a Chinese master, Hsui Liao (Joonee Gamboa) and he tells them about the legend of Lotus Girl, he then advices Joy to reject the offers of good luck so that it wouldn't bring bad luck amongst her friends and people close to her. Alice then is killed by a drunk man by pushing her off out of the window and falling on a bottle of Red Horse (Alice was born in the year of the Horse). All the ghosts from Aling Biring to Alice to the mysterious man who left the Bagua as well as Lotus Girl now haunt Joy's home and her families. Joy asks Thelma to go and take her children. Joy's husband then is killed by a man (Nonie Buencamino) after trying to escape with his other woman who was the wife of the killer. Joy then again gets lucky by being saved from death as the man killed himself instead of killing Joy. Thelma and Joy's children then die after a fatal accident, they died by crashing in front of a truck full of cows and chicken (Joy's children and Thelma were born under the year of the Ox and Rooster). Joy then arrives at her home being offered another offer by a lawyer she then rejects it, she finds out that Thelma and her children survived the fatal accident but she was wrong. She then finds out that they are dead after her husband joins the pair. The movie ends with a new family moving in the subdivision, with twin girls finding the bagua and showing it to their parents (Jenine Desiderio and Froilan Sales).


Characters:
Kris Aquino as Joy Ramirez
Jay Manalo as Inton Ramirez
Lotlot De Leon as Alice
Ilonah Jean as Thelma
John Vladimir Manalo as Denton Ramirez
Cherry Pie Picache as Lily Mendoza
Noni Buencamino as Louie
Joonee Gamboa as Hsui Liao
Gerard Pizzaras as Teodoro
Emil Sandoval as Evart Mendoza
Daria Ramirez as Mother-In-Law
Jenny Miller as Dina
Luz Fernandez as Aling Biring
Jenine Desiderio as Wife Neighbor
Froilan Sales as Husband Neighbor
Ma Consolacion Llavanes as Lotus Feet
Denise Joaquin as Denise


Directed by Chito Roño
Produced by Tess V. Fuentes
Charo Santos-Concio
Malou N. Santos
Written by Roy C. Iglesias
Chito S. Roño

Sukob

Sukob (titled The Wedding Curse internationally) is a 2006 Star Cinema film starring Kris Aquino and Claudine Barretto. The movie was directed by Chito Rono who Kris worked with in the 2004 hit horror film Feng Shui. Sukob is considered as the highest-grossing Filipino film of all-time earning PHP 186 million until in 2009 when You Changed My Life made 240.44 million pesos at the box office. The film's premise is based on a Filipino superstition in which one should not get married in the same year an immediate relative dies or is married or no siblings should be married within a year.

Sandy and Dale, both Overseas Workers in Dubai, are busy preparing for their wedding. Upon reaching her home, Sandy learns from her mother, Tessie, what happened to her friend, Helen. A short time after Helen's father died, Helen proceeded with her wedding. A few weeks after the wedding, Helen's husband dies in a plane crash. As Helen goes to the crash site, she dies in a bus accident. A few weeks later, Helen's mother suddenly disappears inside her house. Their bodies have never been recovered. Sandy proceeds with her own wedding. During the ceremony, she suffers from nosebleed and starts seeing glimpses of a ghostly flower girl. It turns out that she is not the only one who saw it. Joya, a psychic and the daughter of her husband's cousin, also saw the flower girl. Hours later, Sandy and Dale learn that the van carrying some of the secondary sponsors met an accident. When they get to the site, the bodies of the victims could not be found. Instead, they see a bridal cord. Sandy's relatives and friends disappear one by one. Things become more mysterious when Sandy receives their respective wedding photos. The people who died are headless in the photos. They realize that all the headless people in the photos are bound to die. Joya tells Sandy that she is cursed by the "sukob." Sandy is shocked - no one in her family has died recently, nor has anyone gotten married. In searching for the truth, Sandy unearths a dark family secret. Now, Sandy has to find a way to end the curse before it takes away all the people she holds dear.

Characters:
Kris Aquino as Sandy
Claudine Barretto as Diana
Wendell Ramos as Dale
Boots Anson-Roa as Tessie
Ronaldo Valdez as Fred
Bernard Palanca as Brian
Liza Lorena as Gilda
Maja Salvador as Joya
Raquel Villavicencio as Belen
Jhong Hilario as Erning
Maureen Mauricio as Paula
Glaiza de Castro as Grace
Cris Daluz as Dante
Neil Ryan Sese as Michael
Ku Aquino as Mang Cesar


Sukob received Awards and recognitions:

1st Gawad Genio Awards (The Annual Critics' Academy Film Desk)(Zamboanga City)
Best Film sound engineer: Albert Michael Idioma
Blockbuster Film: Sukob
Blockbuster Film Director: Chito S. Rono
Blockbuster Film Actress: Kris Aquino
Blockbuster Film Actor: Wendell Ramos
Blockbuster Film Producer: Star Cinema - ABS-CBN Film Productions, Inc.

Directed by Chito Rono
26 July 2006 (Philippines)
28 September 2006 (Singapore)
4 January 2007 (Malaysia)

One More Chance (2007 film)

One More Chance is a 2007 Filipino romantic film featuring the box-office team-up of Bea Alonzo and John Lloyd Cruz.[1] The film is directed by award-winning director Cathy Garcia-Molina and released under Star Cinema.

Popoy (John Lloyd Cruz) and Basha (Bea Alonzo) had been together forever.
Their love story began when they first met as students at the University of Santo Tomas: Popoy was majoring in Engineering while Basha was a freshman in Architecture. They had been inseparable and did everything together— eating, studying and attending parties. Both their families loved them, they shared mutual friends and eventually ended up working for the same firm. Every single component of their lives revolved around each other. So naturally, everyone assumed that they would inevitably get married someday, with Architect Basha designing and planning their dream house while Engineer Popoy would build it. Everything could not be more perfect.

At least, that was what Popoy thought. What he did not know was that Basha was not as sure about their future as Popoy seemed to be.

All Popoy's nagging and excessive planning took a toll on Basha. Not only was she tired of trying to carve out her own mark in the hierarchy of the firm, but she also grew weary of Popoy always stepping in to fix things for her. One day, Basha told Popoy that she wanted to resign and move to a smaller firm where she could be given better opportunities to design independently, completely blindsiding her bewildered beau. She revealed the issue that had been brewing inside her for the past year: the real reason why she wanted to leave the company was that she was tired of Popoy and their relationship. She felt hindered by Popoy's constant attention and thought that she had never been given the chance to decide and plan for herself because he always did everything. Popoy was speechless and devastated. That same night, Basha broke up with him, reasoning that she needed the space to grow on her own.
Not knowing how to pick himself up after the love of his life left him, Popoy struggled to live his new life alone. Meanwhile, Basha followed through with her plans to resign from the firm. For a while, she drifted jobless, customizing T-shirts with unusual patterns and designs, until she was offered to work for a smaller firm. Accepting the offer, she began to feel the professional freedom she had been longing for. Popoy and Basha tried to live without each other but the ties that bound them made it difficult for either of them to completely move on, especially when their families and friends were constant reminders of the promises and dreams they had made during their happier days.

Slowly, Popoy moved on and discovered that there was life after Basha; on the other hand, Basha began to find her solitary journey to be harder than she had imagined, especially when Popoy began dating another girl. Although a part of her wanted to get him back, she reminded herself that the decision to terminate the relationship was hers alone.
Opportunity knocked on their door when Popoy's aunt commissioned them to build her house together. After initially feeling awkward, Popoy and Basha eventually warmed up towards each other, especially after memories of the five years they spent together resurfaced. Slowly and unconsciously, they fell into their old routines and found themselves enjoying each other's company once again. Both realized how much they had missed each other, at the same time acknowledging how much they each had changed.

But Popoy knew that giving in would mean that they would go back to how they were before, that she will just go on her way again and ignore him when she grew tired again of their relationship and he will be left alone again and hurt.


Characters:
John Lloyd Cruz as Popoy Gonzales
Bea Alonzo as Basha Eugenio
Derek Ramsay as Mark
Maja Salvador as Trisha
Dimples Romana as Krizzy
James Blanco as Kenneth
Janus Del Prado as Chinno
Ahron Villena as JP
Nanette Inventor as edith vergel de dios
Al Tantay as Tito Willie
Beatriz Saw as Anj
Nikki Gil as Helen
Melissa Mendez as Mommy Elvie
Sharmaine Buencamino as Mommy Rose




Directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina
Produced by Elma S. Medua
Charo Santos-Concio
Malou N. Santos
Carmi Raymundo