Wednesday, February 28, 2007

My Pick for 07 Oscar

hmmm no one want to watch oscar with me .. sob sob ... haiz .. here my choice ...

Best Picture
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
The Last Film I caught before the OSCAR ! ... and it's the best film among it's 07 Oscar peers , i know its a long shot but hey ... I hope

Actor in a Leading Role
Forest Whitaker, THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND
Everyone's Pick ... it's hard but if its who I really feel should win .. it will be

Will Smith, THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS

Actress in a Leading Role
Helen Mirren, THE QUEEN

It's pretty much a confirm award ...

Best Director
Martin Scorsese, THE DEPARTED
As again, I am going with the mass but hey , deep down, I really want to see Clint do it again to Marty
Clint Eastwood, LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA

Actor in a Supporting Role
Eddie Murphy, DREAMGIRLS
Seems like Eddie is a lock in but I love to see Alan do a upset here !
Alan Arkin, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

Actress in a Supporting Role
Jennifer Hudson, DREAMGIRLS
as again ... buzz is too strong with her and since I have yet to catch Dreamgirls, my heart is with
Rinko Kinkuchi, BABEL

Best Original Screenplay
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

Best Adapted Screenplay
THE DEPARTED

Best Original Score
BABEL
Strangely ... the Brokeback Mountain didn't appeal to me but this time round, the Original Score stood out to me

Best Animated Film
CARS

Best Foreign Film
PAN'S LABYRINTH
yeah ... just going with the rest but the film that touch me a bit more would be
WATER

Best Art Direction
THE PRESTIGE

Best Cinematography
THE PRESTIGE

Best Costume Design
DREAMGIRLS

Best Documentary Feature
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
ha .. I have yet to catch this but since this is the most famous film among the lot ...

Best Documentary (Short Subject)
THE BLOOD OF YINGZHOU DISTRICT

Best Film Editing
BABEL

Best Makeup
PAN'S LABYRINTH
heheh I love Click ... so I am hopping it will win
CLICK

Best Short Film (Animated)
NO TIME FOR NUTS

Best Short Film (Live-Action)
WEST BANK STORY

Best Sound Editing
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
if not this .. then
LETTERS FROM IWON JIMA

Best Sound Mixing
APOCALYPTO
My Head says Apco , my heart says Flags
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS

Best Visual Effects
SUPERMAN RETURNS

Best Original Song
“Listen” – DREAMGIRLS, Beyonce Knowles

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Most Notti QUote of the Day

With the MTV's Room Raider Gone Wild playing ... just when I stepped into the shower, I heard

"We share the same Vibrator"

by two very blonde voice .... whoooooo turn on siah ... my imagination went wild after that too : )

Oscar 2007: Afterthoughts

The Winners and Losers

Last Year Winner came in last and out of no where, a dark horse came out and left everyone in the dust ... even before the race was officially over ..

Nope I wasn’t talking about the Oscar Winners or Loser ... I am talking about Oscar Bets that we are had this year!

the Dark Horse (Mei) took off from the first category and by the 4th category, the Sound Editing, none of us could even stay on par with her ... our last hope (for Shaiful and Me) was that we get the Film Editing right and she got it wrong which might give us more hope at the final category where our choice differ again ... but The Departed helped Mei departing from the rest of the group for good.

For the Major categories, there isn't really any upset except for Eddie Murphy who didn't get the Best Supporting Actor award ... which I am pretty glad that because Alan Arkin of LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE got it ... Best Original Song was quite a surprise where the 3 Songs from Dreamgirls couldn’t make it in the end.

I was hopping that Little Miss SunShine would win the Best Picture too Since Departed was a Hong Kong rip off remake, The Queen was too British, Letters from Iwo Jima was too Japanese and Babel was too everywhere ... Little Miss SunShine was a testament to the independent spirit of film making and the only film among it's group that really touch me (if I seen it in 2006, I am pretty sure there a place for LMS in my top ten)

While watching the Oscars in the comfort of our own home, Shaiful and I decided to have a few side bets ... One was on Babel not winning any awards which I initially thought the odds was against Shaiful until the final results showed how close I was to losing a movie pass to him ... and thinking back, it's quite a long short for a composer to win back to back (plus amidst all the bad reviews)

The other one was on an upset that I hope will become a long tradition in Oscar and that Clint beating Marty for Best Director again .. which didn't happened (yawn) and Marty finally got his first one (moot point: couldn't have done it without the help of Hong Kong!)

My Prediction

I did rather badly this year ... compared to last year which I got 12 / 19 right .. this year (we open all the category for guessing) and I only got 11 / 24 right

Instead of showing the categories I got wrong this year, here are those that I got right

Actor in a Leading Role
Actress in a Leading Role
Best Director
Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Original Score
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Best Makeup
Best Short Film (Live-Action)

Overall

Was Quite Sad that 6 /7 of the Oscar Kaki couldn't make it to my place for the Oscar ... Maybe I wasn't a good host last year so no one want to come to my place ... sigh ... 5 cited work and 1 cited better Oscar coverage with her cable leaving only me and Shaiful who are still on about watching it together ... but in the end, I cancel it because I got a little terror who will be having his routine crying and hogging of TV in the morning

But still it was fun chatting with Shaiful over the MSN while watching the Oscar ... I also realized I spend so much time tabulating the score that I didn't really watch the Oscar but hey, at least it's keeping me awake in the morning

Don't think I will open house next year since the respond was sooooo bad : (

Monday, February 26, 2007

Do you need to possess who you truly love?

My fren just msg me to let me know that he is in pain … heart pain, the pain that we all feel when we are going thru when someone we love left us ... that empty terrible pain that seems to make us unable to breathe and make life seems pointless ... my Uni "Juliet" and I used to term it as a trip to hell which we went thru together once

after advising him a couple of time ... I was getting fed up ... partly because there a couple of guys who only contact me when their partner left them, making me feel very "used" (hey what happen when all fine and dandy ? got look for me or not?) & partly because my advice are not getting thru to him ... and partly, the OSCARs were on !

But still ... i think it's payback time cos I put my friends thru similar suffering before ... aka whining to my friends about the girl who left me ... how I should have treat her better and cry them a river to see ... hmmm lucky my friend who was/is very good to me, stuck with me and listen to me for months .... I really can't imagine what he and my other flatmate went thru because I was a whining baby for months and they were stuck with me for 24 7 ...

thinking back ... it's really sad and i am very ashamed of myself and promise never to do that to my friends again ... some of you might be thinking that I am currently doing it to them now, you are actually getting off better than my ex flatmates ... 24 7 leh .. can u imagine ?

anyway .. back to my this friend who reminded me of my past ... i think i killed his whining with a question that he himself found it hard to answer ...

"Do you need to possess who you truly love? "

I felt that it was a checkmate question ... There no right or wrong answer but it can indicate what you truly want ...

If the answer is yes ... then aren't you treating that person you love as an object to own?

If no is the answer ... then shouldn't you be happy just to know that he or she is doing fine and not force him or her back into a relationship ? (i almost type slavery instead of relationship) and wish him or her all the best ... even if the path that he or she had chosen is a path that you cannot accompany ?

in a way, it can help to answer why is that person so miserable about the ex leaving ... there could be a number of reason why you are hurting over your ex but the most important question here is do you truly love her

if you don’t ... then no point making everyone miserable ... if you do, then learn to be happy for her ...

and as much as I don't like Sting's If you Love Somebody Set Them Free song's tune, the lyrics in it make sense...

Oscar 2007: Afterthoughts

The Winners and Losers

Last Year Winner came in last and out of no where, a dark horse came out and left everyone in the dust ... even before the race was officially over ..

Nope I wasn’t talking about the Oscar Winners or Loser ... I am talking about Oscar Bets that we are had this year!

the Dark Horse (Mei) took off from the first category and by the 4th category, the Sound Editing, none of us could even stay on par with her ... our last hope (for Shaiful and Me) was that we get the Film Editing right and she got it wrong which might give us more hope at the final category where our choice differ again ... but The Departed helped Mei departing from the rest of the group for good.

For the Major categories, there isn't really any upset except for Eddie Murphy who didn't get the Best Supporting Actor award ... which I am pretty glad that because Alan Arkin of LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE got it ... Best Original Song was quite a surprise where the 3 Songs from Dreamgirls couldn’t make it in the end.

I was hopping that Little Miss SunShine would win the Best Picture too Since Departed was a Hong Kong rip off remake, The Queen was too British, Letters from Iwo Jima was too Japanese and Babel was too everywhere ... Little Miss SunShine was a testament to the independent spirit of film making and the only film among it's group that really touch me (if I seen it in 2006, I am pretty sure there a place for LMS in my top ten)

While watching the Oscars in the comfort of our own home, Shaiful and I decided to have a few side bets ... One was on Babel not winning any awards which I initially thought the odds was against Shaiful until the final results showed how close I was to losing a movie pass to him ... and thinking back, it's quite a long short for a composer to win back to back (plus amidst all the bad reviews)

The other one was on an upset that I hope will become a long tradition in Oscar and that Clint beating Marty for Best Director again .. which didn't happened (yawn) and Marty finally got his first one (moot point: couldn't have done it without the help of Hong Kong!)

My Prediction

I did rather badly this year ... compared to last year which I got 12 / 19 right .. this year (we open all the category for guessing) and I only got 11 / 24 right

Instead of showing the categories I got wrong this year, here are those that I got right

Actor in a Leading Role
Actress in a Leading Role
Best Director
Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Original Score
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Best Makeup
Best Short Film (Live-Action)

Overall

Was Quite Sad that 6 /7 of the Oscar Kaki couldn't make it to my place for the Oscar ... Maybe I wasn't a good host last year so no one want to come to my place ... sigh ... 5 cited work and 1 cited better Oscar coverage with her cable leaving only me and Shaiful who are still on about watching it together ... but in the end, I cancel it because I got a little terror who will be having his routine crying and hogging of TV in the morning

But still it was fun chatting with Shaiful over the MSN while watching the Oscar ... I also realized I spend so much time tabulating the score that I didn't really watch the Oscar but hey, at least it's keeping me awake in the morning

Don't think I will open house next year since the respond was sooooo bad : (

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Personal Reward System

hmmm no significant lost in weight yet so here some rewards system to encourage thyself

For 5KG Reduction (85KG)
1 Rock Wall Beginner Course

For 10KG Reduction (80KG)
1 Cable Ski @ East Coast

For 15KG Reduction (75KG)
1 Sky Diving Trip (or 1 Scuba Diving Trip)

Great Steamy Shower Scene & Empty Swimming Pool

GIGI Leong - 原來愛情這麼傷


a couple of reasons why i am watching this mtv over n over again ... of cos the most obvious reason would be Gigi's showering scenes ! hahah she is never the type of girl for me but this is one steamy shower scene !

& of cos for that person who pointed out this song to me ...

Liang Jing Ru 梁景如 - Fen Shou Kuai Le (分手快乐)
(Happiness After Break-Up)
featuring 黃嘉千 Huang ChiaQian, 汪佩蓉 Frankie Wang PeiRong, and Boxx

Hey ... live life with a smile and charm them with your confidence .. now i need 4 girls to sing this song to me n pour water all over my head : ) hehehe

Sunday, February 18, 2007

GONG XI FAI CAI !!!

Happy New Year !!!

here something to brighten ur new year

http://flash.sunvv.com/sunvv.swf?id=2046&swfurl=2046.swf

Have Have Everything Also Have!

Feeling Hungry after having very little of my Mom's home cooked reunion dinner ... I was going to cook for instant noodles and suddenly remember that we ran out of ketcup the last time I cooked noodles so I asked my mom;

"Got Buy Ketcup or not?"

MoM: "Got"

then I went to look for it and couldn't find it ... and I remember that the last time I went supermarket shopping, we didn't get any Ketcup at all .. so I question my mom again

"Got Buy Ketcup or not?"

she look at me and said ... "Now New Year already, I must be very selective with my words "

....

Friday, February 16, 2007

More Video Clips !

邓丽君 - Forget Him / Her

邓丽君 - Goodbye My Love

David Tao - 沙滩

Dreamz Fm - Bu ZHi De

Didn't know that I was humming this

Qian Yan Wan Yu - Teresa Teng


Thanks to Linus who pointed out that the song I was humming was from Teresa Teng and Thanks to John who gave me the title as soon as I wrote the first line of lyrics (actually only 3/4 of it)

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Some Comfort Songs

a Hubby and Wifey combo here ... my favourites from them

伊能静 - 你对我的好


廋澄庆 - 熟悉
U can Karaokie with him : )

this topic won't be possible without John's help : ) Thanks !

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Between Yellow & Iris

When life can feel so unloved and lonely ... i received an sms out of the blue from my ex who sort of a long distance buddy now ... she heard Yellow, our song over the radio n sms me with a Valentine Day greetings ... tho it was rather simple, i felt somewhat touch by this simple msg

Initially I thought she got the wrong song or the wrong person cos I remember that it was Iris and it turned out that we have 2 songs ! hehehe Yellow & Iris : ) wah liew ... greedy huh ... we only been together for a couple of months and we got 2 songs !!!

Later that day, when i was doing my last min new year clothes shopping, the department store was playing Iris over the PA system ... sigh it just felt so bittersweet then n there ...

tho i dont know what the future holds for me but hey at least "You'll Know You Were Loved " (another great song by Lou Reed in the first FRIENDS soundtrack) (Change all the You to I )

heheh oh anyone want to know why those were our songs ???

at first i don't remember why they were our songs until I heard it on youtube while looking for the vidz to post it here ...


for Yellow, it was before we were together ... I took bits of the lyrics and icq to her (yes back when ICQ was king) ... she asked if I wrote them and there was this part of the lyrics that came with "I wrote the song for you" ... so i used it and technically, I wasn't lying ... she found out abt it in the end but i guess that the first song that got our relationship started


for Iris, it was during a bad patch of our relationship ... there were disapproval and to many who know what we did ... we were like the bad guys ... and the chorus in this song somehow make it felt all right as long as we have each other "and i dont want the world to see me, cos i dont think they will understand, when everything made to be broken, I just want you to know who i am"

hmmmm if anyone else want to know what songs I had with other people or i tagged other with ... feel free to ask ... i might just write it down ... but then some might not even know that a certain song will remind me of them : )

I must confess

I haven't been doing my exercise routine for quite sometime liao and I feel rotten about it ... rotten till it got a bit depressing

or maybe i gotten the blues and halted the routine ? anyway my room is in a mess again (mess created by the new computer when it moved in) and i got no mood to clean them up ... i am veering off the course of goal that i am trying to attain and been chunking on chocolate again ...

maybe it's the weak will power that i got ... which often make me realize that i probably won't make a very good superhero

I swear on the 14th Feb, I will clean my room up n reboot my exercise routine again (which I started my 30mins walk again) ... yeah 14th Feb would be a good day to start since I decided to self exile myself from the lovey dovey public and all media if possible ...

but i often wonder .. what knock me off my course ... partly it's the computer .. i been glued to it ... playing mine sweeper ... yeah sad ... getting a new computer that can process twice my old pc n i am playing mine sweeper .... sigh i should be fragging some virtual creature with it ... but tat me ... big talent small use

another thing got me off course might be what my fren said ... while having late night supper, she said "nah, u r not that fat and u shouldn't be so worry or concern about losing weight. " hmmmm could it be possible ?? someone who is not turn off by my tummy ?? which i am finding very revolting nowadays and cant wait to get rid of ??

now this is a very chio girl who was the object of many guys' affection and when someone like her said that ... it felt like there hope for ugly fat people all around the world to attain what they had always wish for !!! yes there a god !!! life suddenly felt so sweet ... what a relief ... not all chio girls mind fat people !!!

and then she asked me to finish the remaining supper ... pause ... wait a min ... hmmmm was that just a plot to make me finish the food ???

anyway time is running out ... i planned to lose at least 10 kg by my fren's wedding during mid April which seem like mission impossible now (specially i only lost 1kg n afterwhich i slack off)... strangely my fren, the groom had decided not to lose weight while me the MC is desperately trying to lose weight ... yeah I looked very fat in last fren's wedding photos and not going to repeat that mistake again!

it's okie if it doesnt make sense ... its 3am in the morning n i am just rambling

Sunday, February 11, 2007

getting cosy with my new pc

yes there been a lack of updates on my blog n i blame my new pc for it ... nothing wrong with it yet (tho i find that it's kinda operating slowly) but it gotto do with the lack of software that i normally use ...

so why am i not installing it ??? cos i am afraid of virus hidding in some of my old softwares so dare not install too many programs yet ... and then i am missing some of the installer ... till now (from 6th feb), i havent even got my MS Office installed yet which is giving me a lot of problem

lots of excuses and i still tihnk something is wrong ... tho double the spec of my old pc ... it's just slightly faster and i still have to wait for quite a few internet pages to load ... even pages like yahoo

sigh

Saturday, February 10, 2007

tragically charismatic

oh no ... this post n topic is not about me : )

those two words pop up in my mind when I was listening to Robbie Williams' latest album Rubebox ...

and no ... i don't know him that well nor do i follow his "news" that much but from what i gathered and what i imagine ... it's quite sad to be him

just imagine .. a guy (or a rockstar to aid ur imagination ) who most likely could get any girl he fancy but spoiled for choice and maybe as much as he wish, he could not settle down with anyone

charismatic yes ... but tragic too

PS: there been a couple of people who asked me why issit my nick .. well i hope this post will help explain ... ( n not confuse )

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Double happines or Double trouble

"be careful what you wish for" ... it's quite true ... recently angry at the lack of options, i wish that i can be the one to choose instead of always being the options ...

and in a day or so ... it seems that the wish been granted and i am at a crossroad to choose which path to take

and it's hard to choose ... both paths have their obstacles and advantages ... now why does it feel like a curse than wish come true ??

in the end, i chose not to choose ... yes there always another option in life that's often not revealed (cheem right ??) ... going down either one of these two paths might not be right for me

or maybe the options were never mine to start with ?

Friday, February 02, 2007

My Name is Fame got the Nods !!!

Yup this straight to video (or should I say VCD) in Singapore has a very special place in my heart ... it's my number 2 movie of 2006 and one that made me go teary up 3 times ... the story's nothing new n as my fren Stefan noted, the story was pretty much like the recent Korean film "Innocent Steps" but the way it tackled about the HK filming industry just nudge itself firming into my heart.

Specially Lau Qing Yun who had never won any major acting awards (citing John's review at moviexclusive). The dark guy with the acting chops but lacks the good look to stay as popular as he was when Xin Bu Liao Qing's time. The character he played and his real life were almost an exact copy and knowing that, it just made it heart wrenching for me to see his struggle in an industry that favors looks more than abilities. Also loved the underlying message that no matter how good you are, you need to put in hard work and never quit to achieve success.

I know his chance won't be that great but after watching this movie (which ended with him at the HK FILM AWARD), I secretly wished he could get a nod for the upcoming HK Film award and I even went to check out the HK Film award website to see if was My Name is Fame was overlooked ...

Imagine my happyness when I saw the nomination out today at monkeypeaches! he got the Nod for Best Actor, YU On-On for Best Supporting Actress and HUO Siyan for the Best New Performer ... the odds of them winning are not that great but hey won't it be an amazing feat if one (or three) dark horse(s) emerged from this little film that a lot of people didn't see in the cinema ?

keeping my fingers cross and hey if it came true ... u read it here first

6 Feb ! it's coming !!!

just got a call from Richland : ) my "free" desktop with upgrades will be available for collection on the 6 Feb 07 from 9 to 5!

strangely ... I am getting it a few days before my fren who purchased the PC before me : )

but quite excited to see what my new baby can do ... cos I promise my fren (the same guy who is collecting after me) that I will be doing his wedding montage for him : )

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Dangers of Turn Left on Red!

I langga a cyclist today n it's freaking scary

Was driving off my "younger brother" place and upon reaching the junction beside his flat, when I was about to make my turn at the junction where u can turn left on red, I heard a "tub" song at the front right side ...

that split second I jam brakes and was shock to see a cyclist (out of nowhere)leaning on my car ...

the first thing that came into my mind was "die ah ... I hit a cyclist"

then the next thing that happened was just surreal ... The cyclist helped himself off my car and cycle away .. Didn't "swear" at me or "apologize" at all ... it's like a very normal day to day occurrences to him ...

immediately I turn to check the traffic lights and was sure that it was red for pedestrian crossing so actually I had the right of way. I believe he thought that I was going to stop cos it was red lights for me too but he missed out the "turn left on red" sign

but still .. I was quite stunned after the whole incident ... I was actually looking at his direction for on coming vehicles but I didn't notice him at all ... it was bloody dangerous ... and I didn't check whether was it green light for pedestrian crossing too .... so kinda heng that the lights were in my favor and heng he didn't get knock down or fly onto the path of the oncoming traffic ...

so readers .. If u drive or a pedestrian .. Take note of traffic at the Turn left on Red junction ... Don't take things for granted