Absolutely Fantastic

Fantastic Mr. Fox is most probably the best cartoon movie ever made (next to PIXAR movies, of course).
The story is absolutely ridiculous, but that's what makes it so great. :)

It's a child's story, spiced with a little humour, and the animation is simply marvellous.
All the characters in the movie are like little doll house figures, made of clay/plastic with details of fur and features etched upon them. Basically, the movie is as if it's directed by a little girl who's playing a story written by Roald Dahl with her animal dolls. It's adorable. :D

Fantastic Mr. Fox is just a simple story of how a fox pretty much screws his life up, bringing trouble to the other animals of the land and how all of them deal with it. I guess it's something you can sort of relate to in life. People screw up all the time, unintentionally making other people suffer for their mistakes and they try to fix it, to turn everything right again. I mean, these things happen, right?

So yes, all I'm saying is, this is a fantastic movie, and um, go watch it. :)

Mid Valley Friday

This is a post long due, whoops. 

Last Friday, Jess, Mindy, Michelle, Grace, Pei and I headed off to Mid Valley to watch Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Shrek: Forever After.

 Jake Gyllenhaal has nice abs. :) Not to mention he looks quite good in that shoulder-length brunette wig. Haha. The movie plot was better than I expected, I guess Jerry Bruckheimer turned a Disney movie into something more than just a kiddy movie. But if I were to remember something in this movie it would only have to be Jake Gyllenhaal jumping off roofs fighting his way for freedom, Gemma Arterton's unique accent and the creepy uncle's mascara-ed eyes. -.-

Shrek: Forever After was just as nice as Prince of Persia, though I cannot tell you which is the better one if you asked me, because I like both just the same. :) You just can't compare an ogre fairytale to a good-looking prince. ;)
However, Shrek wasn't as funny as the first and second Shrek movies. :S I distinctly remember laughing a whole lot more in the first and second movie. Unfortunately, I don't remember much about the third movie, so we'll leave that out of the review for now. :)
Puss In Boots as a fat kitty in a pink ribbon was definitely the best change (out of all the character changes) in the movie. He's just as lovable as when he was a heroic cat in boots. Donkey wasn't all that annoying anymore, though I'm not sure whether to feel pleased or disappointed with that. -.-
I like Gingy as a gladiator Gingerbread man though (picture above), that was awesome, haha.
And I think Princess Fiona got a bit...plumper. :/

Right. Next to watch: Little Manhattan and Narnia: Prince Caspian. :)

Red & Sweet

What can I say? I'm a sucker for these romance stories. :)
I've been thinking about this movie for the whole day, haha.

Considering the fact that Ais Kacang Puppy Love is a Malaysian movie, I wonder how many people have doubts about this movie. I'm proud to say that I'm not/wasn't one of them. ;D
I absolutely love this movie. There were some parts that got me laughing, and some that got me reaching for the tissue in my bag so that I could wipe the tears off my eyes that were clouding my view.
I think plenty people can relate to this movie like how people can relate to Taylor Swift's songs. I promise you this movie is just as heart warming as I Not Stupid and I Not Stupid Too, probably better.

I like how the movie shows the friendships of the kids who grew up together, the hardships that they go through, the romance that they face. I really love the scenes in the movie, the clean river, the little bridge that they sit and lie on chatting absent-mindedly away, how they sit at the cafe and eat ais kacang together as kids, the gambling, the betting, the Hokkien-speaking, the bullying, everything. :)
Aah such a lovely movie. And what an ending to that movie.

Do not doubt this movie just because it's a Malaysian-made movie. We've got talent here just like anywhere else! :)

Why Is A Raven Like A Writing Desk?

JOHNNY DEPP as The Mad Hatter is why we should watch Alice In Wonderland. :D
I love him. I love his eccentric red hair, his bright green eyes and that lovely Scottish accent he faked so well. Not to mention that colourful artistic bow he's wearing and the fact that he riddled "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" to Alice a couple of times. Oh, and his tea party. His crazy, kooky tea party.
And who knew that there're that many types of hats in the world? ;)

Second loved was definitely the Red Queen. Her enlarged head, her request for her pig and her squawk for demands to be fulfilled. She was funnier than the White Queen anyway. I think they chose the wrong person to play the White Queen. I mean, okay, Anne Hathaway is graceful but not graceful in a Barbie-princess kind of way, more like the Mia in The Princess Diaries kind of way. So yeah, couldn't really stand her in the movie.

You know, I completely forgot about Allan Rickman being in the movie! He was so unrecognisable without his curtain of greasy hair and his Severus Snape accent. He was much better as Severus Snape than whoever he was playing in the movie. Meh.

Disappointment in the movie: the Mad Hatter's Futterwacken. All the characters in the movie were talking about how the Mad Hatter could Futterwacken so wonderfully, and what came out was something like a mixture of breakdancing and body parts twisting. Or maybe that's how the Futterwacken really looks like. I haven't read the book, so I wouldn't know. But I was hoping for something like a crazy Irish leprechaun dance.

Fine, I shall read the book. One day. Who knows, they might've done everything correctly in the movie only to have audiences like me (who hasn't read the book) criticize it.
One thing though: the cartoon was better. :)

NINE.

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So yes- NINE.
After watching the movie I wasn't really disappointed by the movie, because I had no expectations as to what the movie was going to be about in the first place. I rate it 5.5/10.

Anyway, NINE is pretty much a story about life and seduction. It's a story about a famous movie director Guido Contini who is a little confused and lost in his life. Surrounded by fame, ladies, the pressure of directing a good movie (his ninth movie) and flashbacks about the women in his life, he eventually loses his grip in the movie-making business, fails to even start directing his ninth movie, loses his wife and spends the next 2 years of his life wandering about aimlessly. Soon after, he gets a hold of his life and starts making movies again. TheEnd.

The thing about this musical is- not many people will find it nice. I for one found the movie quite boring- the vocals not powerful enough (except maybe for Fergie's) and the songs not to my taste. The story plot behind all the dancing and singing was rather nice though, and I especially liked the ending when Guido Contini starts making movies again. My favourite flashback of Guido Contini's childhood was definitely about Saraghina, the gyspy (played by Fergie). Her song in the movie was so far the best too (nice vocals).


My favourite musical is definitely still Annie. Yay to the little red-headed, optimistic, littlemisssunshine orphan. :)

No Greater Love

This is my second post of the day. I'm getting my super-blogging mojo back. :)

So, late yesterday night I decided to watch The Notebook. And so I did. And it was GREAT.
I really loved the connection between Allie and Noah, I loved how they fell madly in love with each other when they were just teenagers and I absolutely loved how they spent their summer romance. She wasn't ashamed that he was just a Southern country boy and she was a city girl; he thought she was the most beautiful girl he had ever lay eyes on and his spontaneous activities with her just made them fall more crazily in love with one another.

And though they had to part suddenly after the summer was over, he wrote her 365 letters, one for each day of the year. She never received them, but she still waited for him for 7 years. He went crazy and frustrated when he didn't receive any replies for the letters he sent, and started working like mad to fix up the dream house he owned, and he fixed it up to be exactly like how she wanted her dream house to be. And so, when they finally met years later, they got back together, because the chemistry between them had always been there since they met as teenagers over the summer. He loved her for all his life and always thought about her and she yearned to be with him. And they stayed together for the rest of their lives.

This movie made me think about a lot of things, like whether true love can last as long as it is expected to, or whether these things just happen in movies and not in real life.
Anyway, The Notebook: :)

Servantless American Cooks

WARNING: LONG, (PROBABLY BORING) POST AHEAD.

Just yesterday I watched the movie: Julie and Julia; I found it a wonderful story. :)
As you can see, the plot of the movie is based on two true stories; stories of two women: one named Julia Child, a famous cook and another named Julie Powell.
Basically, this story is focused on two different lives. Julia Child was an American who moved to Paris after marrying a French husband Paul. Julia, a housewife at that time, decided to register herself for a cooking class in order to fill in her spacious every day schedule. Soon, she became a professional and started working as a teacher to teach Americans in Paris how to cook French meals (because all the cookbooks in Paris were in French and the Americans didn't read French) together with her friends Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle. These three women then wrote a cook book together entitled Mastering The Art Of French Cooking.
Julie Powell however, was just a typical American who was stuck working in a cubicle day after day, receiving calls and stressfully dealing with the post-syndrome of the 9/11 attack. One day, realizing that she hadn't really achieved any of her goals in life, she decided to master all the recipes in Julia Child's Mastering The Art Of French Cooking cook book: all 524 recipes in 365 days. And so her quest starts, where in the midst of it she had a few breakdowns due to the pressure of her self-appointed cooking deadline and the challenge of cooking. She used blogging as a therapeutic reliever, In the end she conquered all of the French cooking recipes, and she even wrote a book about it.
Unfortunately, Julie and Julia never met. Julia considered Julie's project a stunt, and didn't think Julie a serious cook.

What I really like about the movie is Julia Child's optimism. I have no idea how she is in real life, but in the movie Meryl Streep portrayed Julia as a always cheerful and happy woman, loving life and enjoying life's little pleasures. Never once have you seen Julia (in the movie) argue with her husband or lose a temper. She laughs everything off and it's clear that she has believes in solutions to every problem.
It's a nice movie to watch for Christmas. :)

Beyond The Universe

oh, my god. ABSOLUTELY EXTRAORDINARY.

5 STARS! :D

A Part Of Yesterday

I found a tiny snake yesterday near the rabbit's cage, called for my dad, helped him capture the snake, brought it to this faraway place and released it (what else could we have done anyway? Killed the snake?).

And I did it all while wearing a tight SKIRT.
Women rule! :)

P/S: I watched New Moon yesterday. It was, well, crappy. And I was freezing like anything in the cinema, even though I had on my cardigan. But it was all worth it: to watch Taylor Lautner. :)

The Checklist

I have a confession to make: I have never read the Lord of the Rings novels.
And yet the novel collection is what I consider to be one of my favourites. Isn't that funny now? :)
Maybe it's the fact that Tolkien wrote the best set of novels of the century, or maybe it's the movies that made the books look so interesting; but I won't deny that I have never read more than a hundred pages of the the Fellowship of the Ring.
I think my English was still improper and not advanced enough when I first started reading the Fellowship of the Ring, but I still found the book interesting enough for it to put it in my favourite books list. I have no idea if these things happen to other readers, so yeah. Haha. :)

Anyway, I went to watch this movie called Planet 51 yesterday (after failing to buy tickets for 2012), and the movie was actually pretty OK. I mean, despite the fact that there wasn't enough space in between the seats, and I had to slide down a bit in my chair so that I could rest my head on the top of the seat, and there were people munching on popcorn so loudly, and you could hear people whispering and talking (as I've said, there wasn't enough bloody spaces in between the chairs to assure total comfort), and there was this baby wailing all the time and people giving the parents weird looks and I could stretch my legs nicely, yeah, it was a pretty good movie.
But, well, note the fact that I don't rate movies that highly. I enjoy almost every movie that I watch. :)

Anyway, THIS is Planet 51:

It's basically about this astronaut who landed on this alien planet called Planet 51, and all the aliens thought HE was an alien that was here to hijack their planet and control their minds with his super mind controlling powers. But the astronaut, named Chuck Baker, had only one mission, which was to get to his captured spaceship and get back to Earth so that he could join the Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards (he was to get slimed). Some teenager inhabitants of Planet 51 believed that Chuck Baker wasn't a complete psycho and decided to help him get to his spaceship, which we know in every cartoon that the mission was achieved and it all ended with a happy ending. :)

So yup, quite a funny movie.
And to top it off, in a totally unrelated matter to the said movie, my mom bought me a new tote bag. :D

Do or Do Not

Hello.

So the plans about the Star Wars Marathon that was discussed briefly on Facebook was finally put to action, haha! :)

Went over to Nick's house on Sunday and Monday to watch the Star Wars movies- our plan was to finish watching all 6 movies of Star Wars but unfortunately we only made 4.

And I will tell you now (and Nick if you're reading) that Nick is probably one of the best hosts I know. He didn't really seemed to mind that we talked a lot and loudly during the movie, trashed his living room, played with his XBox and bounced all over his couch.

I am really sorry for all the inconveniences caused Nick. :S

Well for the past 2 days I learned/re-learned/found out that:-

1. Zac Efron looks like Luke Skywalker,

2. Pink lemonade tastes nice,

3. Luke Skywalker actually had feelings for Princess Leia,

4. I kept giggling about how Darth Vader's breathing sounded like he had asthma,

5. I suck at Guitar Heroes,

6. Nick's condo is very very nice,

and

7. If you watch a movie with Carmen, Pei, Nick, Matthew and Aaron, they can turn supposedly devastating death and romantic scenes into scenes that you laugh out loud at.

I think if that happened in a cinema we would have people shooting daggers at us and requesting that we be kicked out of the movie but under certain circumstances I call this good, fun and noisy companionship. :)

Tonight's Gonna Be A Good Night

Here is a movie about food that most people have probably imagined/daydreamed about, and it is great: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS.

It is funny, touching, creative, imaginative and it doesn't get you thinking that this is the kind of cartoon that doesn't make sense (what with all the food falling out of the sky) because it is that good. So, this is a must watch. :)

It is so good, that I wouldn't mind watching this movie again in 3D.

This movie is adapted from the book of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, but instead of food falling from the sky as a result of the invention of a machine by this dude, it's a natural phenomenon. Which is really cool, because imagine raining noodles as a natural cause. And I don't care that this is a picture book for kids, I want to get this book and read it. I call it a classic.

And now I have to go practice my guitar and write down a list of stuff I should be doing instead of spending a whole lot of my time on the internet.

Abilities and Choices

Oh! What a weekend I tell you! I am exhausted. But in a good way. :)

Went to the Bon Odori festival on Saturday in a stadium filled with about a gazillion sweaty people, sushi stalls and sand dust.

We did just about what everyone else did during Bon Odori. Ate sushi (was really really full), danced to the Japanese traditional music (accompanied by drum beating, really cool), bought a 5 buck balloon that me and Carmen thought was filled with helium (the helium ones were long sold out!) and got lost on the way back to the school bus.

Will upload the pictures onto my blog. Someday.

Next, I went to watch HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE on Sunday.

Aha! I am so pleased and satisfied with this movie. It is SO MUCH BETTER than the 4th and 5th Harry Potter movie, and I shall now give my full review on the movie:

I rate it an 8/10, with the rest of the 2 points with room for improvement. Movie watchers should bear in mind and consider the fact that the film crew squeezed a 600 page novel into a 2 hour and 40 minutes movie (which is obviously not easy to do), so I guess detailed details can be spared.

And I think that this movie (and all Harry Potter movies actually, except the first and second movie) are more for Harry Potter fans who actually know what the story plot is about, because if not I think the movie will be quite a confusing lump of battles, darkness and romance (oooh!). So, I recommend you to umm, read the book before watching the movie; but after reading the book don't judge the whole movie fully-based on the book lah. If you know what I mean. :)

Well, this is all coming from a Harry Potter fan (ME!), so everybody's point of view for the movie would obviously be different.

Anyway, just...GO WATCH IT. :D

Remember Michael Jackson

Hello!

Ohmygosh I am so glad to be home! I haven't seen any part of home for the last 48 hours, and I feel so great to finally be back in the comfort of my house. :)

It started on Thursday.

PeiShe's dad dropped me home where I quickly assembled my sleepover-quick-kit and changed out of my school uniform before going back into the car and following Pei all the way back to her house. In Shah Alam.

And there was where I finally met Hazel, who is so adorable and doesn't really seem to notice the presence of a new stranger in her house (she's only 3 months old after all). She has a really firm grip, you know! Haha.

Well anyway, today morning I followed Pei to school, and after school went to MidValley to watch Transformers 2, which was totally awesome by the way. But it was friggin' 2 hours and 45 minutes long, and by the time it ended it was 6.15 and I had only 45 minutes to get back home before I rush off to my guitar lessons. But then I left the house at, um, 7.30, and reached home at 9.

So you can pretty much say I missed my guitar lesson to watch the Transformers movie. Which, by the way, was totally awesome. Did I mention that?

Oh and I only spent 10 bucks during lunch eating Japanese (way to save money Rachel!) :D

So. Yeah. It was a two-day-straight Fun Day.

And I never knew that guys could walk so SLOWLY, and talk so MUCH.

I Slept At 8 And Woke Up At 8

Went to Sunway with Sean and PeiShe. Aaron and Mich were supposed to come to but they didn't. :(

Watched The Brothers' Bloom and it was a very nice movie. So go watch it.

Oh yes, and I brought my camera there and managed to take some pictures. :D

Camwhoring in the Ladies.

And this was written on the wall, in the Ladies!

Sean who likes to insert the picture of the Uranian President everywhere I point my camera.

And I just realised yesterday that they charge Entertainment Tax. For the movies!

Uhh, yeahh.

And THIS was taken at A&W's.

Oh yes, I am totally into the Ouran craze now, because it's SO FRIGGIN' EXCITING!

I beh tahan already, and I can't tell Pei, because she has yet to read it; I can't tell my sister either, because she has yet to read it too!

OH! I shall tell Melody, my darling anime/manga-affectionate-lover friend. :)

P/S: Rachel has mastered the skills of resisting the temptation to buy everything she likes/loves that she sees during shopping. Rachel feels so proud. If you don't believe Rachel, ask PeiShe. :D

I've Always, Always, Always Wanted A Surprise Party

I have like the bestest bestest bunch of friends and family in the whole wide world I tell you. Like, the BEST. They (PeiShe Carmen YuLi ShuLin Agnes Melody JingHui Michelle Mom and Chel) threw me a surprise birthday party yesterday! At my house! All the pictures are with Shulin so I'll get it from her as soon as I can. Unless she posts them on Facebook.

And so yesterday was really really awesome, and you had no idea what my friends got me for my sixteenth birthday. It was so unexpected of them. And so cute also larrr, seriously. :)

Look what Mom gave me for an extra birthday present! So adorable right? :)

And Chel bought me this whole set of anime movies, which cost like, a lot! :D

So anyway, went shopping today with JingHui and Pei, watched Confessions Of A Shopaholic with ShuLin, Dylan, YaoTing and some guy named Jonathan- loved Confessions Of A Shopaholic, spent almost all of my money in OneU, and now I'm broke.

They labelled it 'raw sugar' in TheoBroma Chocolate Lounge.

We went there for tea!

Elegant, elegant tea. :)

And the cake was better than Secret Recipe's!

Bouncy marshmellows.

That came with a mini cup of latte called Little Jane.

And my Belgium Waffle. I Heart Strawberries.

Oooh and I bought this lovely lovely ring. :D

And and a pair of rainbow shades!!!

And LOOK WHAT MY DARLING FRIENDS GOT ME for my birthday. Omg thongs, and panties!!! XD

I love them to bits I tell you.

To bits.

:)

A Smile, A Big Hug, and THUMBS UP.

In order not to drive everyone who comes into my blog into clicking the little X red button when they see my originally-super-long-post, I have decided to separate my blogging into two posts today.

And this post is a shout-out to my dear sister, who just turned thirteen yesterday:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHEL. :) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

She had a pretty normal birthday celebration, but I bet you she had an awesome time in school. I mean, more than half her class signed Happy Birthday on this piece of paper and gave it to her after school! That's like, so sweet! :)

I spent like, the whole afternoon running around performing errands with my mom. I had a haircut, bought my pen and file, fixed my mom's shoes, bought a patchwork-cake for my sister, fixed my spectacles, fixed my mom's spectacles, bought a packet of chewing gum, bought my sister a heart-shaped box filled with Ferrero Roche's and wrapped my sister's birthday present.

Oh yes I got her this book called False Impression by Jeffrey Archer and you really have to check it out. Just by reading the back of the book will drive you insane to rip the plastic-wrapping off and read it immediately!

Oh yes and we stayed at home and watched The Kite Runner, very very nice movie. I want to read the book so badly now (in fact I want to read a lot of books so badly) but my mom lost the book I think.

Oops gotta study now.

I will stop checking my email, it's not going to happen.

Scrumptulescent!

Huh, I have no idea why but my blog feels very EMPTY.

Okay maybe it's the blogskin or something. Or perhaps it's the fact that no one leaves comments on my chatbox. ):

Ah well.

Anyway, I'm here to blog about INKHEART. I watched the movie just yesterday and it wasn't say, VERY nice but it was still enjoyable to watch. But all the people in the cinema with whom I watched the movie with wasn't. I don't know if it's me or the movie or them, but none of them laughed at the funny parts. There weren't a lot of funny parts in the movie and even so when a funny part appears nobody laughed. Or chuckled. Or giggled. I doubt they even grinned. Or smiled. Or twitched their lips.

Oh, yeah, and yesterday my mom bought me this purple lavender Sigg bottles. It wasn't my idea of buying it, I just told her that all Sigg bottles are aluminium-made and she decided to buy one for me and my sister because she disapproves of all plastic-made things. Yes, my very anti-plastic mother bought me an expensive bottle because she doesn't want me to die from cancer.

Loves mom. <3

Oh and one other thing about my mom is that: I think she's turning into a shopaholic! Which is a good thing, a very good thing indeed. And I think her current favourite shop would be Kitschen; whenever she sees Kitschen she will go in and start hunting for stuff. Which would probably explain the many Kitschen paper bags I have in my house.

Yesterday she bought me a red-striped halter tube top, from KITSCHEN (yes, where else?) even though she banned me (temporarily) from buying clothes because she said I'd already spent my budget (I don't even have any idea what my budget is!).

Loves mom even more. <3<3

Oh oh, and one last thing before I leave:

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

Get lotsa angpows people and spend all the money you received. :)

Peppermint Ice Cream

Oh, good. I finally finished editing my blogskin and making the chatbox work.

Well, except for the background, which I will leave blank for the time being.

Anyway, I was browsing around Youtube and I saw this "Down With Love" video. And that reminded me of the "Down With Love" movie I watched in Cameron Highlands, and how much I HAVE to get that movie, because I love it so very much!

It's a great story plot, and it is very lovely to watch. And funny too, if I recall correctly. :)

Anyway, my Math teacher, is weird. As weird as weird can be. She's got a very unsual attitude I tell you that.

she threatened not to talk to us for one whole year if we don't pass up our exercise books on time. I mean, what kind of teacher is that?!

Oh gosh, I have to go do my homework now. Toodles!

"a life lived with fear is a life half lived"

24th December, Christmas Eve:

Oh, it was just like any other normal day. I did all the normal things one could do at home, had a perfectly typical Christmas Eve dinner (although it felt nothing like Christmas Eve, mind you), with no tree and no Christmas decorations in my house this year (because it was a little too late to decorate when I came back from my trips and I was oh-so-lazy to decorate my house earlier this month) and then I slept from 8-9pm, woke up and watched, as PeiShe quotes "crappy Christmas movies". A crappy Christmas movie, in my case. The movie was rather boring and VERY predictable.

25th December, Christmas!:

I was too tired to prepare the usual Christmas breakfast for my parents, so I laid in bed and woke up at 11am. Then I watched some more Christmas movies (this time not so crappy) and cleaned my old book cupboard and arranged my new one for the books needed next year.

AND I watched 'The Pink Panther' which was MUCH MUCH better than the Christmas movies, and in the evening we went to one utama, ate dinner at New York New York Deli and bought my sister her new phone and then met up with my godbrothers and their family to watch the movie 'Australia'. Which was VERY NICE indeed. Except that it was pretty long for a movie.

Another Christmas gone by.

4 more days till my doom!