Monday, October 18, 2010

Twilight is BACK !!!


I thought it was time to restart my little Twilight-updating-whatever-you-wanna-call-it thing again.

It looks like Breaking Dawn is gonna be kicking into production gear real soon because 
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner have already arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

 As i have learned from my Mass Communication class, pre-production is the part where the scripts are written, checked, edited, checked and whatever. Then casting comes into place, who's playing who, who's cuter, who's chubbier. And locations for the shooting of the movie or scene or part. I'm pretty sure there's more to do in pre-production but i can't recall about it. 

Speaking of casting,
Many were wondering how Renesmee, half breed vampire/human child of Edward & Bella, is gonna be cast because let's face it. If there WERE a child like that in reality, she'll be locked up in a windowless room or be so spoilt that she'll grow up to be worse than Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton and whoever-trouble-making-famous-princess all put together. 

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I just realized i went out of my objective of this topic
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Meet Mckenzie Foy, age 9.
She has appeared in TV series Flash Forward and Till' Death once and it looks like she'll be THE most remembered child actress of the decade.


Alright, so the crucial question now is, 
HOW does director Bill Condon plans to film a child who goes through a growth spurt from a little infant to a child in just 3-4 months?

Well luckily we have Benjamin Button to thank for this.

"Sources have suggested that director Bill Condon will employ similar digital effects to those used by David Fincher in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, where Foy’s face would be digitally transferred onto the face of a younger child. It’s also probable that the studio will hire a younger child in some capacity, too." - Entertainment Weekly’s Hollywood Insider

Well i can't say much about Rob and Mckenzie but WOW is she the like the splitting image of Kristen. With this the Cullen family is completed. And casting for the other characters are also done but i'm kinda lazy to stretch this post to show who's playing who. I'll do it in my next post. 



Friday, October 15, 2010

Beard Papa's, Yummy Cream Puffs !!!


This is a famous pastry shop that was founded by Yuji Hiroka from Osaka, Japan in 1999.
Yuji Hiroka's probably the bearded old man in the picture.
Beard Papa's is known for their trademark cream puffs with vanilla custard filling.

A lot of my friends always tell me that their cream puffs are to die for.
*not in those exact words*
The nearest and only Beard Papa's to my house is all the way in Mid Valley and i always forget to stop by every time i'm there. So yesterday i finally remembered about it when i was there.

Original Vanilla
Made according to our carefully thought out vanilla custard recipe from Osaka, Japan, this flavour has proven to be the most popular and hotselling.

 Coronet
Our very special version of aromatic French bread filled with our signature vanilla custard. Something which would make a French food connoisseur come back for more! 
 
 Fondant Chocolate
A single serving of chocolate cake made with the finest Belgian chocolate. To fully enjoy the delicious, oozing chocolate center, be sure to warm it up before serving!
 
 The puffs are baked first with a hollow center.
They only fill in the filling when there's an order otherwise the cream will get the puffs soggy~
They poke the puffs to this machine you see in the picture and pumps the custard cream in.
There's vanilla, chocolate, black sesame, green tea, mango yogurt ice cream flavors for the filling. But in MidValley i only noticed vanilla and chocolate.

I bought 3 for myself.
2 vanilla and 1 chocolate.
It's kinda pricey because for the regular cream puff it's RM3.80 each.
If you buy the coronet or the ring shape puff it's RM4.90 each.
But the taste is worth it if you're not stingy.
The custard filling still stays cool even after an hour without putting it in the fridge.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

The "Waterfall" in All of Us

I always saw myself as the strong type of girl.
It feels strange...
Calling myself a girl when I'm 20.
Calling myself a women will be stranger.
When i was little i always wanted to be a boy.
And growing up with two brothers just made me jealous of them.
So i was a tomboy until somewhere around primary school.

I thought to myself that,

If i ever fall down and scrap my knee i would not cry.
Get on my school bus and wipe the blood off. 
And i did.

If i ever get lost i would not cry. *If I'm in a familiar place*
Remember my way back home or where i originally came from.
And i did.

If i ever feel sad i would not cry.
Don't let anyone see you cry, not even to family.
And i did.

If i ever watch a tragic movie i would not cry...
Well that worked until i watched "One Liter of Tears" when i was 15.
My tear glands were over flowing like a monsoon rain.
I blame puberty on that.

I guess from that moment on, activating my tear glands became very easy.
If i watch a show with really sad background songs, tears.
If i watch a show with no sounds but sad scenes, tears.
If i see someone crying, i feel bad and, tears.
If i get scared and don't know what to do, tears.
If i get very angry about something, tears.

I guess females can't help it.
We're just wired this way.
To be all emotional when it gets too much.
I learned to change the subject whenever i feel the topic's getting too personal.
Jokes are the first thing that comes to mind.
If that doesn't work then i think of a lie to cover up the sad stuffs and make it seem alright.
If even lies doesn't work then running away is my last resort before the tears arrive in full wave.

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I feel so exposed now...
But once in awhile i like to type out these kind of stuffs.
I might have repeated what i said in a few dozen blogs ago.
Sometimes i like to think that i have my own personal therapy session in my head.
One mind debating on what was right and wrong, should or shouldn't, could or couldn't, would or wouldn't.
 I just like to keep personal stuffs very much to myself.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

You gotta watch 'Legend of the Guardians' ~


When i first knew about this movie,
I had absolutely NO interest in watching it !!
I kinda "Judged the Movie by its Characters" when I watched the trailer and saw all birds inside and thought, "How can a movie with BIRDS be interesting???"

And then last week i kinda accidentally had to watch this movie because the movie my friend and i originally wanted to watch was unavailable yet (Alpha and Omega).
I was like "Oh man...hello birdies~"
And the 3/4 empty cinema was not helping at all.


Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of the Ga'hoole
My synopsis of the movie (no plagiarizing),

Soren and Kludd are young owlets who grew up listening to stories of The Guardians told by their father. Soren in particular was immersed in the stories but Kludd was more of a realist who didn't believe in it.  Both Soren and Kludd were practicing how to fly in the tree of their nest one day when their parents were out hunting. They fell to the ground and got "birdnapped" by two fierce looking owls. They were brought to Metalbeak's lair along with many other owlets who were birdnapped. 

Metalbeak is the actual bad owl from the stories of The Guardians. He got defeated by the legendary warrior, Lyze of Kiel and now he wears a mask to cover the scar he received.

The owlets were birdnapped there to be trained to be soldiers for Metalbeak. Kludd denies to be Soren's brother when he was asked and so Soren and his new friend, Gylfie were sent away to be "pickers" while Kludd is to be trained as a soldier. Soren and Gylfie eventually escapes Metalbeak's lair with the help of Grimble. 

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This is getting to be very long winded.
OK !!! Long version SHORT !!!
 
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Soren meets more new friends and together they set of to find the guardians. Instead of finding the guardians, the guardians found them and they were brought to the tree of Ga'Hoole. Soren tells the guardians what happened. They receive training to be guardians while other guardians fly off to battle with Metalbeak before they get attacked. But the guardians have a traitor among them. Soren finds out and he flies to rescue them. 

A fierce battle takes place and Soren reunites with his brother Kludd. They fight. Kludd breaks his wing and is thrown into the fire. Soren then goes to find Metalbeak for a fight. He emerges victorious and the bad owls retreat. Everyone returns to the tree of Ga'Hoole where Soren and his friends gets pronounce as Young Guardians of Ga'Hoole. But towards the ending we see Kludd emerging from the flames with glowing red eyes and he sees Metalbeaks body and his mask. 

Soren reunites with his Mum, Dad and little sister Eglantine in Ga'Hoole.

 Soren (Left) & Kludd (right)
You obviously can tell whose good and bad by their faces.

I, was so into the movie !!!
The effects of the owls flying was like WOW !!!
It felt like watching in 3D !!!
I bet 3D will be even AWESOME because you'll see the claws coming slashing out of the screen like SWOOSH right in front of your face. And the slow motion part is very very VERY COOL !!! Seeing the claws slowly stretching out and the wings flapping...the details of it all are so DETAILED !!! And last but not least...I WANTED TO SQUEEZE THE OWLS !!! They look so fluffy and soft and CUTE !!! 

Remember, DON'T judge a book by its cover.
You HAVE to watch this and just in case, 
Here's the trailer of it.

 

The song for this is called "Kings and Queens" by 30 Seconds to Mars.


Thursday, September 30, 2010

Everyone Should Have a BBQ Experience with Friends~


I like BBQ. 
It's messy and smokey but fun. 
Our BBQ 3 years ago in my friend's condo was a disaster because of the rain but we pulled through with the help of umbrellas. It was really funny that time because cars were passing by and they saw a bunch of kids BBQ-ing in the rain. I remembered it was June 2007.
See the umbrellas we're holding~


At the end of my high school year, another friend of mine since primary made another BBQ party at her house in Dec 2007. It was among my primary classmates, 6N (2002). Weirdly enough i never really felt close to them. I only kept a few of them in contact.


Then THIS year we (the group of kids in the 1st BBQ pictures) thought of making another BBQ party at the same spot. We just hope it doesn't rain on us like it did the last time. We planned everything so nicely but in the end we had to cancel it off because my friend who stays in the condo can't take leave from her job so if she's not there we can't go to her condo to BBQ~ 

So in the end i went out with my other group of friends from high school.
It's really really and i mean REALLY hard to get these bunch of friends to go out together.
But we kinda managed today. A couple just didn't make it.


I kinda suggested to these bunch of friends about having a BBQ.
We don't really do much stuffs other than go shopping. Last year was the first time we ever went holiday together and it was only at Genting for one night. Some of us recently started hanging out more often so i thought why not have a BBQ party for once. I really hope they all can make it because some of them has the tendency to keep "ffk-ing" during the last minute for i don't know what reason.

LIVE A LITTLE !!!!

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Nick Jonas the Cutest ^^


I came across Camp Rock in Youtube by accident last year and ended up watching it. It's really amazing at how people have the patience to upload the whole movie online...and on YOUTUBE !!! I've uploaded videos before and it took me forever to upload a stupid 5 minutes or so video.

Camp Rock 2 was released months ago and i just watched it today.
I think they have High School Musical to thank for because to me, ever since HSM started singing in their scenes, all Disney movies started. << My opinion.


 Ok, so Camp Rock 2 was fun to watch. Kevin Jonas was acting as the dumb dumb brother, Joe Jonas was the leading actor with Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas was the cool brother chasing a girl, and Frankie Jonas - JoBro's youngest brother, was in the movie this time.

Nick Jonas sang a really cute song in the movie.
"Introducing Me"
He likes this girl but doesn't know how to talk to her so he wrote a song about things he likes and dislikes so that she knows something about him.

The songs starts at around 2 minutes in this video. There's some sort of embedding problem which prevents the videos to be played so i couldn't post the shorter video.Hope you can bare with it or you can just click the video and go straight to Youtube for the 3 minute video where the song starts straight away~

 

You can see that he grew up more after the first movie. He was kinda skinny and his curly hair was much more in the first movie. In the second movie he kinda buffed up, shorter hair and taller. I think in a couple more years he'll out grow Kevin and Joe. 

 Nick Jonas's solo album, "Nick Jonas and the Administrative".
 A lot of people thought Nick left his brothers to start out on his own but he just wanted a side band/project to jam with. He sees his brothers like every time so getting away from them once in awhile is good. Kevin's starting a family, Joe's getting into acting so Nick's got his own other band. 



 Nick gives me the feeling of the old 70s-80s times. 
I thought of the mafias in New York.
Don't know if he has Italians in his family but he sure has the look.
He's old style and it really suits him.

I don't know why people say Jonas Brothers suck.
At first i didn't pay much attention to them until i heard some of their songs.
You don't have to like them to like their music.

 But really like Nick and his solo album.
His brothers, not so much.


Tuesday, September 21, 2010

K-Pop Domination


My friend finally succeeded in influencing this "Hollywood girl" with Korean Music.

Yes that's me.
I didn't come into contact with ANY Korean stuffs until i started university. There i was with my first uni friend and i thought she was gonna be just like my high school friends all into S.H.E, JayChou, Jolyn...etc etc. And then she started talking about DongBangShinKi (DBSK)/(TVXQ).


I was completely taken by her. In my head i was like "wth are you talking about??"
Then she started all over again and i was like "Oooh~".
She's a pure K-Pop fan and whenever there's any Korean artist coming to town, she'll know.

Anyway, the process of instilling K-Pop culture in me started.
That was 2 and a half years ago and she has finally succeeded.

DBSK was the very first group i was introduced to.
Then came TaeYang from BigBang (im not into BigBang yet, just Taeyang).
Next 2AM and 2PM and finally BEAST/B2ST.
Any K-Pop fan would know them. 

Taeyang's solo album SOLAR
Love "Wedding Dress"


2AM - Best in ballad songs.

2PM - Have a strong beat to their songs.

And finally BEAST or B2ST.

I seriously don't know how they come up with their group's name. But their music is seriously addictive. This video i posted is one of my favorite B2ST songs - Say No.

 

 I just can't stop listening to this song. 
Im even thinking of changing my blog's music to K-Pop songs mix Western Songs. 
My friend sure got me stuck hard with K-Pop.
She was so happy until she wanted to twit about it in twitter.
I hope she was joking about it.
But she'll be damn happy that i made a blog about K-Pop.


Monday, September 13, 2010

Noo !!! Get RID of it !!!


Yes people.
Zac Efron shocked many by appearing at one of his Charlie St. Cloud premiers with a very hairy & fuzzy BEARD !!! 
Zac Zac Zac...
WTH were you thinking !!???

We all know that you're our generation's Brad Pitt but PLEASE get rid of THAT thing growing on your handsome manly face. For the sake of your young fans, 
PLEASE SHAVE IT OFF !!!

Even Brad couldn't really pull off the beard look.
Did you know how many people wanted it to be hacked off ?

And when Brad finally got rid of it, his kids wanted him to grow it back because they weren't used to seeing their dad's smooth face. You can grow a short neat shaved beard Brad but PLEASE no goat beard !!

See isn't he handsome like this ?

So Zac please get rid of the beard as soon as possible.
Your still too young to try facial hair all around your cute face.
Even Brad waited until he was 40 to do it.
*Inglorious Bastards*



Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Charlie St. Cloud - Zac Efron


 Charlie St. Cloud (Zac Efron) is a sailor who received a sailing scholarship to Stanford University. He makes a promise to his younger brother, Sam St. Cloud (Charlie Tahan), that he will practice baseball him until it is time to leave. But on the same day, Charlie and Sam got into a car accident. Charlie was saved by the paramedic but Sam die. On the day of his brother's funeral, Charlie sees Sam's spirit and gives up on his scholarship to stay with him. Charlie kept his promise to his dead brother that he will practice baseball with him and so he has been doing it for the past 5 years. He meets a sailor name, Tess Carroll (Amanda Crew) and slowly falls in love with her. 

But later on Charlie had to make a choice on who he wants to be with. Sam could feel that the more Charlie is with Tess the more he is being forgotten by his big brother.


Here's the trailer.
I know it's been out for some time now.
I just felt like blogging about the movie.
This movie is a MUST WATCH !!!



~Zachary David Alexander Efron~


 Ahhhhh !!! *Drooling~*
So sorry Taylor~ 
If i had to choose between Zac & Taylor, 
Zac Efron is the man~


Monday, September 6, 2010

I need some GUTS !!!

Who likes pushy people who doesn't know the word modesty ?
Big money raking companies maybe.

Today after my first class of this new semester ended, a girl who i have seen around school for sometime came to ask me about my group for the group assignment.

Now i don't particularly know her.
She's just a Hi and Bye friend.
You DO KNOW what is a Hi & Bye friend right?
You only say Hi & Bye to that person out of politeness but you don't know who the hell they are. Yes this is my explanation for the term "Hi & Bye friends".

Ok back to my story.
She asked me if i had a group for the assignment. I was trying very hard to indicate that i don't wanna group with her BECAUSE !!! I have a very very very good reason why. Even though i don't know her personally but i do know how she works in assignments.

Like Mr. K used to say "There are two kinds of people, the drivers and the passengers".
The drivers are the ones who does all the work and the passengers just sit and do nothing.

SHE is a passenger because i've seen how she work. No matter how many times everyone says not to plagiarize, the result is still plagiarized. Giving the sorry excuse of "Me English no good". Bad English doesn't mean you get to shake your leg while other redo your work !!!

Back to the story again. Sorry~
  1. She asked to be in my group. 
  2. I said i already have a group. 
  3. She said how many people do you have?
  4. I said i'm not sure because my friends skipped class today.
  5. Then she said just let me in join in your group then you'll know how many more people we need.
  6. Then i said i can't make the choice for my group, i have to ask them first.
  7. Then she said never mind just include me in your group and we'll see............

WHAT A FUCKING DENSE BITCH !!!!!
She kept insisting on it !!!
She said it with no hint of modesty at all !!!
It was like her picking to join my group was an honor for us !!!
I don't wanna be redoing her work while she pretends to be concern about the assignment.

I had NO GUTS to say NO in front of her face.
I kept on with the "See first see first".
I had to ask my friend for help to get rid of her when i came home.
I'm a sad sad case punya fella.

Hey Don't Judge Me !!!
No one likes a passenger !!!
We're in University !!!
We not babysitters for the lazy students !!!
They wanna be lazy then let them be !!!
Don't pull us down with them !!!
We have our own problems to handle !!!