Rachel

8/10

I finally understood why they invented PG13. Before this I was thinking WTH is there still a barrier standing between what a 13 year old can watch and a 12 cannot? But after having to watch Terminator Salvation and Avatar recently, my mindset has changed: the PG13 sign is totally necessary.

It's been awhile since I've met up with my cousin Rachel. In my house, we address her as my secretary. She has her very own purple thick rim glasses. And because she'll only be 9 coming 31st, it's quite obvious we have a huge age gap between us. So when I do say we hang out it usually means only a few things...

1. I go over to her place to watch HBO and she feeds me imaginary food prepared from her expensive cooking set.

2. We foosball against her brother (age 14) and my sister (age 16). And we always win XD

3. Movies, movies and popcorn.

So we did movies last week and that's when I realise PG13 actually means that if you're gonna bring someone below age 13, someone maybe like 9 years old, who happens to be your annoyingly adorable cousin, you've got alot of explaining to do.

I told her to sit next to my sister during the movie but nooooo she wants to sit in between us both. I told her if she had any questions about anything at all ask my sister but noooo she said this time she won't disturb me anymore. I brought up the time she asked me a million questions during Terminator Salavation, nudging me everytime she saw a robot on screen, questioning who is good and who is bad, and frustrating over not knowing how to tell the difference. Well girl, looks like you've got us both frustrated.

She claims this time it would be different. I asked her, "Different how?". She said that this time there'll be no more robots. I replied, "Hell no..now all the robots are just gonna be replaced by blue smurfs."

Conclusion, she sat next to me anyways. And I still had to explain. The sign can only let us mentally prepare ourselves. Other than that we're on our own.

Alright, anyhow about the movie...it's without a doubt supremely good. Everyone should definitely catch this at the cinemas. Whether or not you have a home theatre. Because at the third quarter of the show I felt my chair was vibrating drastically and I looked to my left to find Rach shaking in her seat like mad. Apparently she had to go but wouldn't even let me take her cause the movie was THAT good.

Even her brother who was sitting 2 seats away could feel the earth quake. So whatcha waiting for?

Don't forget it's PG13!!

Gluttony

It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year.

Ok..here's the thing.. I have been wanting to blog since early last week after my last Principle of Accounting paper but as we can all see, that plan is a long gone failure. Everyone seems to be blogging faster than I am (I know, what kinda excuse is that right? The best I can find.) Michelle's blog, which you can find her link at the left bottom corner, has already reported on the SBL Christmas Party and also the BAFAUG09 BBQ. And I? Well, let's get started.

us we :)

9 goodie holidays have passed and 21 more days ahead. So far besides the two eventful event, I've been catching up on my movies too. There's just so many of them I haven't watched. Couples Retreat, Princess and the frog, Sherlock Holmes, and the list keeps getting longer. One of my excuses of catching 'em all is that I've read it somewhere that if you can't find anything to talk about, talk latest movies. Safest topic and yet never ending. That's what we're looking for, right? You can start with the hot actors and then move along to the not-so-hot ones >). You can even talk about the graphics whether or not you have any knowledge on it.

"WOAH did you see that!! The fire. The power. The explosion. It was like BOOM BOOM POWWW!!"

No one would doubt your professionalism.

Three movies I've done. New Moon, Love Happens and Storm Warriors. Two of which that I have named, I'm not proud of. Bet you can guess the first one.

1.5/10

Most of us know that movies that attempt to be carbon copies of books are usually bullshit and well, this is another one example that cements that statement. Don't give me the mummy speech. "Sze Lynn, if you knew it was gonna be that terrible, why still watch it?? Waste money only." First, you must understand we readers watch it to compare how far does the real thing fall behind the imaginary. Second, we throw away RM10 (RM7 for students :D), like non-twilight-readers, for our entertainment. Oh no! it's not the movie that is entertaining; it's what's after. The critics. The comments. The hours we spend picking on which scene could have been played out better and which actor should have just been retrenched and replaced (Robert Pattinson Robert Pattinson Robert Pattinson Robert Pattinson). It was just the matter of how terrible it was gonna be.

0.5/10

Storm Warriors. The best con job. I want to say that among all the members in the S group, Su Ching is by far the worst movie chooser ever! If there was only an award given for that charateristic we would already have a ceremony thrown tonight. She didn't even know Storm Warriors came after Storm Riders. Thank God she was only gonna save lives in the future. Nothing too big for her to handle.

Basically the show sucks. Worse than New Moon. Yes, it is worse than New Moon! I have never sunk so low in my seat before. The movie was slow. The storyline was going nowhere. And let's not get started on the actors. Seriously, not worth a single penny. GSC did a good job though. Putting up stands that say "Buy Storm Warriors tickets in advance this row", making it look as if the show is gonna be a sell-out until they need to allocate rows specifically for their own ticket purchase. What a marketing tool.

7/10

By far the best movie I've watched since the holidays have started. Came out of the cinema weeping with 2 other guys who didn't look surprised when I did. So erm...awesome show? Yes indeed. It's a must watch. DVD or not. It has a little "Message in the Bottle" to it. Synopsis: a man who suffers a loss of his wife 3 years ago, find himself helping others to get over their griefs but only to realise he's the one who needed help the most. Love Happens.

21 more days... I'm gonna go see what else is there to watch ;)

Gotta keep the film rolling. Happy Holidays guys~!

Are you ready?

BAF Christmas party is in four and a half hours and I'm still contemplating whether I should go in my old homey jeans since I've only invested on a pair of heels so far. Only yesterday I had really sat down to think over what I'm gonna be wearing today. For a minute there I thought I only had to worry about my dress but only 12 hours ago I started worrying where the heaven is my handphone gonna go?? I cant possibly keep it in my........ nope :/

I started screening through all my dresses for help but sadly they fail to have accomodating pockets like my blues. Another problem, just what we need. What bag now?? Could I just throw everything to Nick and make him stuff it somewhere in his slacks? Sigh...but we're gonna be seeing each other for another 3 years. I can't make him hate me just yet. Not with Communication Skills next sem. Sometimes I really think jeans is just the answer for everything.


Tea time. Where should we go? Gloria Jean Coffee.

ATE TOO MUCH SUSHI!! How to attend best friend's dinner tonight??! Get Levis Unbuttoned.

Boyfriend dumped me for another skank!! Use her jeans and tie his neck to a moving fan.


Like seriously.

But if we look at this from a more practical perspective, here's what I think: if you're no good at matching your shoes with your pants or your pants with your top or basically you just can't throw colours together without making people go O_O URG! (like me D:), it's best you own a pair of jeans. Because they are like your Plan B. Your safety net. Your beck and call. A pair of jeans can go with absolutely everything (almost lahh). Not everyone can pull off a bad hair day with a slick looking dress and still look fabulous. But if you've overslept, with no time to spare, just pull on a pair of Lee's with your messy hair. I can assure you it wouldn't look twice as bad as the former. Take it from a girl who has at least 7 pair of jeans with tonnes of experience of oversleeping @_@.......okay...sigh....and a fashionable sister.

It's a matchy-matchy world out there. Screw the dog. Take the jeans. They are your new best friends now.

Oxford University. One of the top instituitions of the world and if you could as well get in, you're already a genius but if you could get their scholarship, you could just die now and still have completed life.

There are 4 rounds of evaluation to this scholarship. Each of which would test the power of your mind in ways you didn't even know you had.

5 boys were shortlisted.

In the second round they were quarantined in a room and were told to write an essay on "courage" in an hour.

The limit? 1500 words.

One of them was struggling to put thoughts into words but when he looked around to see how the others were doing he spotted one boy who still had his paper empty. There was only half an hour left.

When the time was up, the first boy came up to the second and asked him what the hell was he doing and why did he not write anything.

But the second one said he did write something, however only 3 words.

The other 4 boys just looked at him and they thought he was crazy. Who would risk an opportunity of a lifetime like that?

Few days later, he got the call. The second one was shortlisted to the next round. The others.....not so lucky.

How did he do it?

Was it not impossible?

Sometimes we've gotta risk it.

3 words.

"This is courage."