Friday, December 26, 2008
Gah.
I'm going to really miss everyone.
There's so many things that I managed to do these two months, and so many things I couldn't as well.
I guess the next time I update, I'll probably in Singapore already. Or Johor.
So.
Back to the place where tonnes of people hate me just because of my scholar status. Where I'm subjected to curfew and tonnes of expectations that I will probably never fulfill.
Fun.
(and I still haven't finished my homework)
But the two people I really want to thank are Yew Juan and Suzanna. Especially Yew Juan, who never fails to read my oh-so-boring blog and actually comments, even though he's probably busy with his life and stuff. Truly, it's not humanly possible to find two better or cooler DG leaders. CALEB ROCKS!
Next time, Chinese New Year, I guess.
12:36 PM
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
I now have four piercings in total for both my ears.
In all actuality, I really wanted to have like triple piercings in one of my ear, and a single on the other. BUT my mum was saying that it'll hurt a lot so I didn't really dare to. Besides, I'm pretty sure some teachers might get ticked off with me being a 'scholar' and all... The problem now is how I'm going to pull off wearing the piercings in school. For one thing, the first day of school always has the strictest attire check. And with my fringe, (of which I have to trim myself) and my piercings, I think I'm going to have quite a bit of trouble.
To all those goody-goody scholars out there. Do NOT follow my footsteps. If you do, be subtle about it and pretend you didn't get the idea from me. So I don't get into trouble.
Then again, Devina called me goody-goody because my eyes could not stand Forty Year Old Virgin and because I refused to ogle and the guys playing frisbee half-naked. =.= Also, she called me stick. This nickname shall seem very significant when I elaborate on our lovely adventures in Singapore. Hell, it's funny even now; with me being the furthest possible creature resembling a stick.
Um. Yeah. About the stick thing, one of Shuk's cousin, Nadia; heard Dev calling me a stick. Being an exuberant four year old, she liked the nickname, thought it catchy and began proclaiming everyone within a meter radius a stick; including here. I called Dev a giraffe in return, being the unfairly tall person she was, in comparison to my pathetic height. This nick name was mangled into a zebra by Nadia. Seeing our looks at her naming others a stick, she began using the word in even more enthusiasm, even once announcing that it is her ambition to become a stick.
I was so, so, so glad that I didn't call Dev, Siow or Shuk, freak throughout our stay there. Otherwise, truly, I'm pretty sure the girls' parents would have chased us out of the house with carving knives or something.
Anyway, three of us went to assorted shopping destinations in Singapore, since most stores are having sales for the End of Year and stuff for Christmas. We bought three shirts, with assorted messages (Mine was the ALG 101: ALL GIRLS ARE EVIL) for $10, only for me to come back to Malaysia and listen to my brother gloat about how he bought his for RM5. Boo. I didn't buy as much stuff as I would like, 'coz nothing really appealed to me; especially when I am reminded about the pathetically small cupboard we are allocated in boarding school. Dev bought her belt, Shuk bought her CDs from HMV.
And the story about HMV?
Okay, I must first admit that I have the directional sense of a rock. I get lost in parking lots. So yeah.
Erm so. Three of us went to Orchard, and in the grand total, got lost about FIVE times. We actually passed two MRT stations from Orchard. Seriously. We kept asking directions and kept getting the WRONG direction.
So later when we wanted to go to HMV, we walked and walked.... And walked past Takashimaya.... And walked more to the next MRT station..... And was completely confused until Shuk realised we were too far off. All of us were already freakishly tired and all conversation was already at a standstill. We then backtracked when my tired mind processed the three letters we were looking for HMV. And it was practically next to Takashimaya!!!
Even after we finally reached HMV and attempted to walk towards Far East Plaza for dinner we got lost. FOR WE WALKED THE COMPLETELY WRONG DIRECTION. (we did get free starbucks, so it wasn't that bad) When I asked for directions a second time, the uncle was like; "Far East Plaza? It's very far away la. More than fifteen minutes walk... You know TANGS there? Turn right there after you walk all the way." AND WE WEER ALMOST AT PLAZA SINGAPURA ALREADY. All three of us were totally "WTF!" and proceeded to curse the lady who gave us directions. We wanted to confront her
Far east--------- HMV------------------Plaza Sing
(initially at Orchard MRT, to HMV; after walking past it, backtracked, then walked towards plaza Sing, then all the way back to Far east then to HMV again to finally buy Shuk's CDs...).
... tiring?
you bet.
1:31 PM
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
THE WORLD IS ENDING.
My grandmother is giving me advice not to get into cars with strangers and not to accept things from people I don't know.
Everyone. PANIC.
8:43 PM
Monday, December 22, 2008
LOL. look at zhi jian's expression.. XD
stolen from jkwanness
Youth Camp '08
On another note...
Port Dickson
Cuz's Wedding
More on facebook... cuz it's a pain to upload them.
11:54 PM
In all three of the places I went, there's quite a bit of highlights in all three of them.
In Youth Camp, there's the part about how great it was and how AWESOME it is not to embarrass myself this year. I did, however, perform my yearly (apparently) ritual of crashing into Yohann, despite my fevered prayers NOT TO. There was also a minor devil in the shape of a cute, harmless little girl.
In Singapore, there's the two adorable little girls, Shuk's cousins of whom managed to butcher my name and drag me about. Also, the part where we got horribly lost and spent a few hours walking about, with little idea of where we were. And the shopping.
In Port Dickson, there's the verdict I made after "enjoying" the lovely seaside and its attachments. Along with my cousin's lovely beach wedding (omg! so romantic!) where he almost lost the bride's ring in the sand when they were dancing.
So yeah. Where to start... I wonder?
I guess I'll put some pics up first... =D just so you get the idea. (CHECK FACEBOOK!)
somewhat.
Although I didn't really take many photos in Youth Camp, and it being super classified and all wouldn't allow me to put them up anyway.
Also, watch me fangirl about two movies I watched yesterday..
200 Pound Beauty
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
200 Pound Beauty wasn’t as annoying as I thought it would be. And the guy was quite hot in the movie, even if he wasn’t quite so good looking on film. ‘Cause if any of you poor girls missed it, he’s super strong...! (he kinda pushed a lot of people away effortlessly, if you know what I mean...) And he’s talented. In the movie, I mean. Because the concert for AMMY looked pretty cool to me.
K-movies aside, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was great!
Okay, so it wouldn’t appeal to 50% of the existing human population, the XY chromosomes, to be specific. But It totally appealed to me. It’s classic Hayao Miyazaki though. He kinda likes the prospect of requited love but some sort of weird circumstances that manage to separate the protagonists anyway. Look at Spirited Away, The Cat Returns and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. They all have the same theme. Only perhaps, Howl’s Moving Castle, which wasn’t quite his idea in the first place, and is a huge variation to Diana Wynne Jone’s actual version ended classically happily ever after.
Chiaki was super cool though... Makoto looks a little like the heroine from the Cat Returns and Saya from Blood +.... Speaking of manga and anime, someone PLEASE prod Ninomiya Tomoko into releasing chapter 127 of Nodame Cantabile before I fall into withdrawal syndrome.
Ooohh.. For Death Note fans:
RAITO - The Owner's Guide and Maintenance Manual
L - The Owner's Guide and Maintenance Manual
7:34 PM
Christmas time is here again.
And the reason I'm kinda complaining about it is because..
I have to put up the christmas tree again.
And decorate it.
And plug in all the sparkly lights.
Great.
Someone inject some Christmas-y feeling in me, please.
Or I might just spontaneously combust from the stress of hyperactive siblings going on about Christmas.
12:26 PM
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Kinda exhausted.
Went through quite a few activities.
Youth Camp
Trip to Singapore directly after
Trip to Port Dickson directly after
Cousin's wedding
Back home (finally!)
Will write more when mental strength is in possession.
7:30 PM
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
YOUTH CAMP!!!!!
Yes. It's totally coming!!!!
WOOHOO.
I just hope
I don't embarrass myself.
At least not too badly.
Please?
And oh yeah, I think this emoticon is super cute! ;_; <3!
Sad, but cute.
8:38 PM
Monday, December 8, 2008
I can't believe the Pasta Cookout was on Saturday..
And it's now Monday.
Shite. My homework. =0
1:57 PM
Saturday, December 6, 2008
I had succumbed to peer pressure and watched Twilight (pronounced Twee-light by mua to annoy certain parties) Of course, the peer pressure in mind isn't exactly people forcing me to watch the show, but actually because people kept gushing about how *quote* "HOTT!" Edward Cullen/Robert Pattinson was. (of course I totally agree about Robert Pattinson even during Harry Potter... Cheekbones! <3~!) And so I decided to watch the movie with the only purpose of criticizing it in the most dramatic way possible.
So, if you haven't watched Twilight, DON'T read this. Unless you're masochistic and crave spoilers.
(and tadaa, Shuk's expected critique!)
My favourite character was Bella's dad. Yes. Her dad. I know how weird that sounds, but because everything else is so horribly cliche and corny, the father gets the limelight.
The movie starts out with a poor deer running for its life from mysterious shadows of which readers already know signifies the food eaten by the vegetarian vampires, the Cullens. And then the narration, Bella's move. Bella's awkwardness with her dad. The fact that Bella is gorgeous and has the microhelens and millihelen of Helen of Troy is also noted repeatedly. And yeah, word of warning, pretty much every guy in close proximity with Bella falls in love with her.
Bella gets to school, all guys go after her. There's this guy (of which I forgot his name) who was Chinese and went all "Chillax" and stuff, which was also kinda weird (Eric! He's supposed to be greasy, isn't he?). The bad part actually starts when Bella meets Edward. They kinda stare at each other a lot. And because Edward was supposed to stare at Bella intensely, it kinda looked as if he was glaring at her. I kinda slid down my seat in horror every time the sappy parts were played. Becca See and Shuk can be testaments to my torture. According to Shuk, I was very physical about my protestations, and I was grabbing my head in agony and sliding up and down my seat at the corny sections. Which was basically every part Bella and Edward were alone together. The Malaysian censorship cut out one hot kissing scene though, so I was spared from the torture.
The sad thing was Bella was actually pretty cool before she went all goo-goo eyes with Edward. And I'm not saying that because I "will never be together with Edward". (that was something Ashley said to me, and I was positively shocked. I mean, how FREAKY is it that people hate the book simply because the main character is too unattainable to them? I didn't even really like Edward. His character is flawed in the way that he's too perfect. So is Bella. AND the fact they don't seem to have anything in their life other than their luuuurve and assorted villians trying to break their relationship apart)
And yeah, how do girls find this romantic? I mean, Edward actually STALKS her for the first couple of months. They actually think he's cute coz he's too shy to profess his feelings or something, but STALKING IS BAD no matter how hot the guy is. And he watches her sleep by creeping in her room! Okay fine, watching her sleep is quite sweet in a twisted sort of way because he can't sleep and all... but by creeping into her room? Sheesh, how creepy can one get?!
Action parts were kinda fake. Though I'm quite sure there's no real way to make vampire strength look realistic. It's a bit weird that when the Cullens play baseball, they need a thunderstorm to cover the sound of the bat hitting the ball, but their strength isn't enough to break the bats apart. Agh. Who am I to be scientific when it's a teen vampire-cum-vegetarian movie?
Ooh. Dr. Cullen looked like Draco Malfoy though. =D And everyone seemed to love Jasper, even though he looked kinda "pained". Lol. Wei Ann was like squealing when he came on screen for the credits, and there was a group of girls behind us who also squealed as well. I kinda feel bad for the normal movie-goers, especially the ones in front of me who had to endure my snide comments every five minutes. =X
It was quite fun watching with the girls though, Wei Ann's commentary never failed to keep me entertained. There was actually this part where Edward carries Bella to a top of a tree. And they kinda stared at each other sappily. Wei Ann was like, "I hope the branch breaks". So yeah.
I guess, acting-wise they're aren't bad. It's just the story line that sucks. Directing wasn't bad either. Just the beginning looked kinda old.
Okay, to be perfectly fair, I actually thought the movie had ONE good point. It's okay to stand out, not be one of the crowd, to be unique, and to be yourself. And that's it.
The girls liked the movie because all the actors were hot. I guess that actually summarizes the movie pretty easily. Its superficiality is what attracts people, not its meaning or its message. But I guess all teen movies/tv-shows are like this. C'mon, people don't watch One Tree Hill or Gossip Girl because of its intellectual superiority or depth, but just to see which hot guy ends up with which hot girl. I know, because I occasionally watch them myself.
I'm pretty sure this line will be immortalized much like Jane Austen's "It is common knowledge that a single man in possession of good fortune must in want of a wife".
It goes, (as far as I remember.) "Of three things I was absolutely sure. Edward Cullen was a vampire. Secondly, there was a part of him *bla bla* that was dormant *bla bla*. Thirdly, I was whole-heartedly irrecovably in love with him.
And for that to happen, life sucks.
In all actuality, I must admit that I thought Twilight wasn't bad; despite the lousy High School setting, until it got over-publicized. I mean, I already knew it was corny and overdone and cliche, but I didn't actually hate it until girls everywhere started squealing about how hott Edward Cullen was. Which he isn't. I think pale guys look gay. Well. Mostly because pale guys are fairer than me. But hey, I don't think many guys darker than me exist. Unless they're African American, of course. Erm. Yeah. Sidetracked.
But hey, that's it for my Twilight movie critique. I'd probably write more if it was the book; but I kinda forgot all I read since it was about two years ago since I first read it.
12:10 AM
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Okay, this is for everyone who's at least half as confused as I was.
Wednesday
- Trip to 1U
- Organiser: Yew Weng/Aryl
- Plans: Movie, Lunch/Dinner, Pool, Etc.
- Reason of date: Previously Friday but changed because everyone BUT wei ann seems to be unable to make it.
Thursday
- Trip to Desa Park City
- Organiser: Aryl
- Plans: Dinner/Tea/Goofing off at playground
- Reason of date: After tuition thing?
PS: won't be able to stay late due to worship practice
Friday
- Small gathering at sum1's hse.. if there's food, potluck is a must.
- Organiser: Yours sincerely
- Plans: No idea as of now.
- Reason of date: everyone's going off overseas for holidays.. >_>
NEXT WEEK
-to be filled when all events are more organised-
What happened to all my free timeeee???
12:58 PM
Monday, December 1, 2008
It is my firm belief that vegetables should be drunk.
Eaten, yes. In huge portions or in miniscule amounts, yes. But NOT drunk in liquid form. If you haven’t already guessed, I’m talking about carrots.
Carrots should not be made juice. I mean, I’m perfectly fine with normal carrots, even okay with raw carrots, but not with carrot juice. My mother, on her health streak, has taken to forcing me to consume carrot juice at a worrying rate. Hm, I realised that quite a few of my entries consist of my parents forcing food on me. I guess it must be some kind of habit for them.
Well, anyway, back to the evil carrot juice. It was pure poison, disgusting, pushed me to the very brink of death, danced in my nightmares to torture me.... Fine. I’m exaggerating. But just a little.
Basically, I really don’t understand why people find new ways to torture themselves with exotic food. Not that carrot juice is exotic or anything. I’m pretty sure millions of aneroxic models chug down carrot juice by the gallon as they work out on their treadmills and check their weight every five minutes.
But yeah, backtracking... After watching the Asian Food Channel for the past three weeks at irregular intervals, I have discovered that Asian countries all around the world torture themselves with different types of weird food. Cockroaches, slugs, crickets and dogs already seem like the norm. But what I was shocked by was a particular animal of which I failed to identify. It was long and slimy and ALIVE as the chef chopped it up. And it wriggled even after separated into many different pieces. And “danced” in the tub of hot water it was thrown into to cook. So. Ugh.
I have to admit, however, I’m pretty sure that people from other parts of the world are freaked by what I eat daily. I mean, when I found out what yoghurt really was when I was younger, I was shocked myself. “Bacterial fermentation of milk”, is after all, not quite a delicacy I fancy myself to enjoy. I ate the yoghurt anyway, with no little amount of disgust.
Even bird’s nest, of which is a Chinese cuisine “revered” amongst many; is looked upon with disgust by Westerners as bird vomit.
I guess the best way to eat something is not to think of what you’re eating. At least, not anymore in this day and age.
10:43 PM
Friday, December 26, 2008
Gah.
I'm going to really miss everyone.
There's so many things that I managed to do these two months, and so many things I couldn't as well.
I guess the next time I update, I'll probably in Singapore already. Or Johor.
So.
Back to the place where tonnes of people hate me just because of my scholar status. Where I'm subjected to curfew and tonnes of expectations that I will probably never fulfill.
Fun.
(and I still haven't finished my homework)
But the two people I really want to thank are Yew Juan and Suzanna. Especially Yew Juan, who never fails to read my oh-so-boring blog and actually comments, even though he's probably busy with his life and stuff. Truly, it's not humanly possible to find two better or cooler DG leaders. CALEB ROCKS!
Next time, Chinese New Year, I guess.
12:36 PM
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
I now have four piercings in total for both my ears.
In all actuality, I really wanted to have like triple piercings in one of my ear, and a single on the other. BUT my mum was saying that it'll hurt a lot so I didn't really dare to. Besides, I'm pretty sure some teachers might get ticked off with me being a 'scholar' and all... The problem now is how I'm going to pull off wearing the piercings in school. For one thing, the first day of school always has the strictest attire check. And with my fringe, (of which I have to trim myself) and my piercings, I think I'm going to have quite a bit of trouble.
To all those goody-goody scholars out there. Do NOT follow my footsteps. If you do, be subtle about it and pretend you didn't get the idea from me. So I don't get into trouble.
Then again, Devina called me goody-goody because my eyes could not stand Forty Year Old Virgin and because I refused to ogle and the guys playing frisbee half-naked. =.= Also, she called me stick. This nickname shall seem very significant when I elaborate on our lovely adventures in Singapore. Hell, it's funny even now; with me being the furthest possible creature resembling a stick.
Um. Yeah. About the stick thing, one of Shuk's cousin, Nadia; heard Dev calling me a stick. Being an exuberant four year old, she liked the nickname, thought it catchy and began proclaiming everyone within a meter radius a stick; including here. I called Dev a giraffe in return, being the unfairly tall person she was, in comparison to my pathetic height. This nick name was mangled into a zebra by Nadia. Seeing our looks at her naming others a stick, she began using the word in even more enthusiasm, even once announcing that it is her ambition to become a stick.
I was so, so, so glad that I didn't call Dev, Siow or Shuk, freak throughout our stay there. Otherwise, truly, I'm pretty sure the girls' parents would have chased us out of the house with carving knives or something.
Anyway, three of us went to assorted shopping destinations in Singapore, since most stores are having sales for the End of Year and stuff for Christmas. We bought three shirts, with assorted messages (Mine was the ALG 101: ALL GIRLS ARE EVIL) for $10, only for me to come back to Malaysia and listen to my brother gloat about how he bought his for RM5. Boo. I didn't buy as much stuff as I would like, 'coz nothing really appealed to me; especially when I am reminded about the pathetically small cupboard we are allocated in boarding school. Dev bought her belt, Shuk bought her CDs from HMV.
And the story about HMV?
Okay, I must first admit that I have the directional sense of a rock. I get lost in parking lots. So yeah.
Erm so. Three of us went to Orchard, and in the grand total, got lost about FIVE times. We actually passed two MRT stations from Orchard. Seriously. We kept asking directions and kept getting the WRONG direction.
So later when we wanted to go to HMV, we walked and walked.... And walked past Takashimaya.... And walked more to the next MRT station..... And was completely confused until Shuk realised we were too far off. All of us were already freakishly tired and all conversation was already at a standstill. We then backtracked when my tired mind processed the three letters we were looking for HMV. And it was practically next to Takashimaya!!!
Even after we finally reached HMV and attempted to walk towards Far East Plaza for dinner we got lost. FOR WE WALKED THE COMPLETELY WRONG DIRECTION. (we did get free starbucks, so it wasn't that bad) When I asked for directions a second time, the uncle was like; "Far East Plaza? It's very far away la. More than fifteen minutes walk... You know TANGS there? Turn right there after you walk all the way." AND WE WEER ALMOST AT PLAZA SINGAPURA ALREADY. All three of us were totally "WTF!" and proceeded to curse the lady who gave us directions. We wanted to confront her
Far east--------- HMV------------------Plaza Sing
(initially at Orchard MRT, to HMV; after walking past it, backtracked, then walked towards plaza Sing, then all the way back to Far east then to HMV again to finally buy Shuk's CDs...).
... tiring?
you bet.
1:31 PM
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
THE WORLD IS ENDING.
My grandmother is giving me advice not to get into cars with strangers and not to accept things from people I don't know.
Everyone. PANIC.
8:43 PM
Monday, December 22, 2008
LOL. look at zhi jian's expression.. XD
stolen from jkwanness
Youth Camp '08
On another note...
Port Dickson
Cuz's Wedding
More on facebook... cuz it's a pain to upload them.
11:54 PM
In all three of the places I went, there's quite a bit of highlights in all three of them.
In Youth Camp, there's the part about how great it was and how AWESOME it is not to embarrass myself this year. I did, however, perform my yearly (apparently) ritual of crashing into Yohann, despite my fevered prayers NOT TO. There was also a minor devil in the shape of a cute, harmless little girl.
In Singapore, there's the two adorable little girls, Shuk's cousins of whom managed to butcher my name and drag me about. Also, the part where we got horribly lost and spent a few hours walking about, with little idea of where we were. And the shopping.
In Port Dickson, there's the verdict I made after "enjoying" the lovely seaside and its attachments. Along with my cousin's lovely beach wedding (omg! so romantic!) where he almost lost the bride's ring in the sand when they were dancing.
So yeah. Where to start... I wonder?
I guess I'll put some pics up first... =D just so you get the idea. (CHECK FACEBOOK!)
somewhat.
Although I didn't really take many photos in Youth Camp, and it being super classified and all wouldn't allow me to put them up anyway.
Also, watch me fangirl about two movies I watched yesterday..
200 Pound Beauty
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
200 Pound Beauty wasn’t as annoying as I thought it would be. And the guy was quite hot in the movie, even if he wasn’t quite so good looking on film. ‘Cause if any of you poor girls missed it, he’s super strong...! (he kinda pushed a lot of people away effortlessly, if you know what I mean...) And he’s talented. In the movie, I mean. Because the concert for AMMY looked pretty cool to me.
K-movies aside, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was great!
Okay, so it wouldn’t appeal to 50% of the existing human population, the XY chromosomes, to be specific. But It totally appealed to me. It’s classic Hayao Miyazaki though. He kinda likes the prospect of requited love but some sort of weird circumstances that manage to separate the protagonists anyway. Look at Spirited Away, The Cat Returns and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. They all have the same theme. Only perhaps, Howl’s Moving Castle, which wasn’t quite his idea in the first place, and is a huge variation to Diana Wynne Jone’s actual version ended classically happily ever after.
Chiaki was super cool though... Makoto looks a little like the heroine from the Cat Returns and Saya from Blood +.... Speaking of manga and anime, someone PLEASE prod Ninomiya Tomoko into releasing chapter 127 of Nodame Cantabile before I fall into withdrawal syndrome.
Ooohh.. For Death Note fans:
RAITO - The Owner's Guide and Maintenance Manual
L - The Owner's Guide and Maintenance Manual
7:34 PM
Christmas time is here again.
And the reason I'm kinda complaining about it is because..
I have to put up the christmas tree again.
And decorate it.
And plug in all the sparkly lights.
Great.
Someone inject some Christmas-y feeling in me, please.
Or I might just spontaneously combust from the stress of hyperactive siblings going on about Christmas.
12:26 PM
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Kinda exhausted.
Went through quite a few activities.
Youth Camp
Trip to Singapore directly after
Trip to Port Dickson directly after
Cousin's wedding
Back home (finally!)
Will write more when mental strength is in possession.
7:30 PM
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
YOUTH CAMP!!!!!
Yes. It's totally coming!!!!
WOOHOO.
I just hope
I don't embarrass myself.
At least not too badly.
Please?
And oh yeah, I think this emoticon is super cute! ;_; <3!
Sad, but cute.
8:38 PM
Monday, December 8, 2008
I can't believe the Pasta Cookout was on Saturday..
And it's now Monday.
Shite. My homework. =0
1:57 PM
Saturday, December 6, 2008
I had succumbed to peer pressure and watched Twilight (pronounced Twee-light by mua to annoy certain parties) Of course, the peer pressure in mind isn't exactly people forcing me to watch the show, but actually because people kept gushing about how *quote* "HOTT!" Edward Cullen/Robert Pattinson was. (of course I totally agree about Robert Pattinson even during Harry Potter... Cheekbones! <3~!) And so I decided to watch the movie with the only purpose of criticizing it in the most dramatic way possible.
So, if you haven't watched Twilight, DON'T read this. Unless you're masochistic and crave spoilers.
(and tadaa, Shuk's expected critique!)
My favourite character was Bella's dad. Yes. Her dad. I know how weird that sounds, but because everything else is so horribly cliche and corny, the father gets the limelight.
The movie starts out with a poor deer running for its life from mysterious shadows of which readers already know signifies the food eaten by the vegetarian vampires, the Cullens. And then the narration, Bella's move. Bella's awkwardness with her dad. The fact that Bella is gorgeous and has the microhelens and millihelen of Helen of Troy is also noted repeatedly. And yeah, word of warning, pretty much every guy in close proximity with Bella falls in love with her.
Bella gets to school, all guys go after her. There's this guy (of which I forgot his name) who was Chinese and went all "Chillax" and stuff, which was also kinda weird (Eric! He's supposed to be greasy, isn't he?). The bad part actually starts when Bella meets Edward. They kinda stare at each other a lot. And because Edward was supposed to stare at Bella intensely, it kinda looked as if he was glaring at her. I kinda slid down my seat in horror every time the sappy parts were played. Becca See and Shuk can be testaments to my torture. According to Shuk, I was very physical about my protestations, and I was grabbing my head in agony and sliding up and down my seat at the corny sections. Which was basically every part Bella and Edward were alone together. The Malaysian censorship cut out one hot kissing scene though, so I was spared from the torture.
The sad thing was Bella was actually pretty cool before she went all goo-goo eyes with Edward. And I'm not saying that because I "will never be together with Edward". (that was something Ashley said to me, and I was positively shocked. I mean, how FREAKY is it that people hate the book simply because the main character is too unattainable to them? I didn't even really like Edward. His character is flawed in the way that he's too perfect. So is Bella. AND the fact they don't seem to have anything in their life other than their luuuurve and assorted villians trying to break their relationship apart)
And yeah, how do girls find this romantic? I mean, Edward actually STALKS her for the first couple of months. They actually think he's cute coz he's too shy to profess his feelings or something, but STALKING IS BAD no matter how hot the guy is. And he watches her sleep by creeping in her room! Okay fine, watching her sleep is quite sweet in a twisted sort of way because he can't sleep and all... but by creeping into her room? Sheesh, how creepy can one get?!
Action parts were kinda fake. Though I'm quite sure there's no real way to make vampire strength look realistic. It's a bit weird that when the Cullens play baseball, they need a thunderstorm to cover the sound of the bat hitting the ball, but their strength isn't enough to break the bats apart. Agh. Who am I to be scientific when it's a teen vampire-cum-vegetarian movie?
Ooh. Dr. Cullen looked like Draco Malfoy though. =D And everyone seemed to love Jasper, even though he looked kinda "pained". Lol. Wei Ann was like squealing when he came on screen for the credits, and there was a group of girls behind us who also squealed as well. I kinda feel bad for the normal movie-goers, especially the ones in front of me who had to endure my snide comments every five minutes. =X
It was quite fun watching with the girls though, Wei Ann's commentary never failed to keep me entertained. There was actually this part where Edward carries Bella to a top of a tree. And they kinda stared at each other sappily. Wei Ann was like, "I hope the branch breaks". So yeah.
I guess, acting-wise they're aren't bad. It's just the story line that sucks. Directing wasn't bad either. Just the beginning looked kinda old.
Okay, to be perfectly fair, I actually thought the movie had ONE good point. It's okay to stand out, not be one of the crowd, to be unique, and to be yourself. And that's it.
The girls liked the movie because all the actors were hot. I guess that actually summarizes the movie pretty easily. Its superficiality is what attracts people, not its meaning or its message. But I guess all teen movies/tv-shows are like this. C'mon, people don't watch One Tree Hill or Gossip Girl because of its intellectual superiority or depth, but just to see which hot guy ends up with which hot girl. I know, because I occasionally watch them myself.
I'm pretty sure this line will be immortalized much like Jane Austen's "It is common knowledge that a single man in possession of good fortune must in want of a wife".
It goes, (as far as I remember.) "Of three things I was absolutely sure. Edward Cullen was a vampire. Secondly, there was a part of him *bla bla* that was dormant *bla bla*. Thirdly, I was whole-heartedly irrecovably in love with him.
And for that to happen, life sucks.
In all actuality, I must admit that I thought Twilight wasn't bad; despite the lousy High School setting, until it got over-publicized. I mean, I already knew it was corny and overdone and cliche, but I didn't actually hate it until girls everywhere started squealing about how hott Edward Cullen was. Which he isn't. I think pale guys look gay. Well. Mostly because pale guys are fairer than me. But hey, I don't think many guys darker than me exist. Unless they're African American, of course. Erm. Yeah. Sidetracked.
But hey, that's it for my Twilight movie critique. I'd probably write more if it was the book; but I kinda forgot all I read since it was about two years ago since I first read it.
12:10 AM
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Okay, this is for everyone who's at least half as confused as I was.
Wednesday
- Trip to 1U
- Organiser: Yew Weng/Aryl
- Plans: Movie, Lunch/Dinner, Pool, Etc.
- Reason of date: Previously Friday but changed because everyone BUT wei ann seems to be unable to make it.
Thursday
- Trip to Desa Park City
- Organiser: Aryl
- Plans: Dinner/Tea/Goofing off at playground
- Reason of date: After tuition thing?
PS: won't be able to stay late due to worship practice
Friday
- Small gathering at sum1's hse.. if there's food, potluck is a must.
- Organiser: Yours sincerely
- Plans: No idea as of now.
- Reason of date: everyone's going off overseas for holidays.. >_>
NEXT WEEK
-to be filled when all events are more organised-
What happened to all my free timeeee???
12:58 PM
Monday, December 1, 2008
It is my firm belief that vegetables should be drunk.
Eaten, yes. In huge portions or in miniscule amounts, yes. But NOT drunk in liquid form. If you haven’t already guessed, I’m talking about carrots.
Carrots should not be made juice. I mean, I’m perfectly fine with normal carrots, even okay with raw carrots, but not with carrot juice. My mother, on her health streak, has taken to forcing me to consume carrot juice at a worrying rate. Hm, I realised that quite a few of my entries consist of my parents forcing food on me. I guess it must be some kind of habit for them.
Well, anyway, back to the evil carrot juice. It was pure poison, disgusting, pushed me to the very brink of death, danced in my nightmares to torture me.... Fine. I’m exaggerating. But just a little.
Basically, I really don’t understand why people find new ways to torture themselves with exotic food. Not that carrot juice is exotic or anything. I’m pretty sure millions of aneroxic models chug down carrot juice by the gallon as they work out on their treadmills and check their weight every five minutes.
But yeah, backtracking... After watching the Asian Food Channel for the past three weeks at irregular intervals, I have discovered that Asian countries all around the world torture themselves with different types of weird food. Cockroaches, slugs, crickets and dogs already seem like the norm. But what I was shocked by was a particular animal of which I failed to identify. It was long and slimy and ALIVE as the chef chopped it up. And it wriggled even after separated into many different pieces. And “danced” in the tub of hot water it was thrown into to cook. So. Ugh.
I have to admit, however, I’m pretty sure that people from other parts of the world are freaked by what I eat daily. I mean, when I found out what yoghurt really was when I was younger, I was shocked myself. “Bacterial fermentation of milk”, is after all, not quite a delicacy I fancy myself to enjoy. I ate the yoghurt anyway, with no little amount of disgust.
Even bird’s nest, of which is a Chinese cuisine “revered” amongst many; is looked upon with disgust by Westerners as bird vomit.
I guess the best way to eat something is not to think of what you’re eating. At least, not anymore in this day and age.
10:43 PM
