Melancholy

Judging by the number of shoes… How many people do you think there is… Well this is all the shoes that are in my apartment right now… You can see mine on the top row in the middle photo… Yeap 4 pairs… But I only use 2…

Anyway as I’ve mentioned… I will be moving out next year… and boy will I miss this place… I mean seriously it’s like starting out at 11… you just got no where to go… I’m hoping to find a nice place for next year as well… But most importantly I actually want a place with a nice and large kitchen…

The three most comfortable place in Melbourne… Hahaha at least for me… my bedroom, the kitchen and in front of the TV… I absolutely love the kitchen in this apartment… It’s LOVERLY!!! It makes me wanna cook… I like NEW kitchens… especially those stainless steel kitchens that are very “in” these days… oh man I want one of those…

The absolute greatest thing about the apartment is the view… I love going out to the balcony to get some fresh air… wind in my face and the nice view… especially of the park opposite the building…

Oh and here’s the brunch I had today before the first exam for the semester… It’s been a long time since I made this… It’s like kinda my specialty… ;p Ham, Egg and Hash Sandwich… good stuff man!!! Usually I have it with luncheon meat instead of ham though… Oh man feeling hungry now… You know melancholy is such a weird feeling… sad and happy at the same time… I’m so going to miss the place… Cheers…

The Legend Of Zorro

In this second installment of Zorro movies… about 10 years have passed since the mask of Zorro had been passed to Alejandro… He still continues to fight for the freedom of the poor and oppressed people of California… and now the greatest chance for freedom has arrived… The people are called to vote on the matter of the state of California joining the Union with the rest of America… this means that the Spanish overlords will no longer have power over the people… So the greedy overlords have come up with a scheme to tear the nation apart… While Zorro continues to fight for justice… he is neglecting his family more and more… His wife Elena thinks he should quit to spend time with his family… but he says that the people still need Zorro and also he could never really give up that part of himself… After some ‘bad guys’ discovered Zorro’s identity… Elena had no choice but to divorce Alejandro and going undercover… He however did not know the real reason but decided it was because of him not wanting to give up his mask… But slowly the pieces started falling into place and he discovers the evil overlord’s plans and he and Elena join forces to defeat the bad guys… and also with a little help from their cheeky and mischievous 10-year-old son Joaquin… In the end Alejandro realises that his family was indeed the most important thing to him and would never want to lose them… and Elena also accepts that Zorro was not just who Alejandro was but also who the whole family were…

The movie was pretty damn good actually… sequels are always hard to do but this one was exceptional… Still has it’s charm and funny bits… and a good dose of action… However even though 10 years have passed… Alejandro and Elena have not really grown that much older… Hahaha…

Elizabethtown

A pretty good movie… Starring Orlando Bloom as leading man and Kirsten Dunst as his opposite… also stars Susan Sarandon… The movie starts with a young and successful shoe designer, Drew (Bloom), who is now in the worst situation of his life… His most recent creation is a major flop and will cost the company $972 million (I think… can’t remember) but his boss says that it such a large sum you can just round it off to $1 billion… So he was fired and went home “planning” to kill himself… that was until he received a call from his sister bearing another bad news… their father had died… As the elder of the two children and son, it was duty to arrange the funeral and get everything done… So he heads off to Kentucky… on the flight there he meets and extremely bubbly and high-spirited flight attendant, Claire (Dunst)… Before getting off she give him directions to where he needed to be… When Drew arrives at the place, Elizabethtown, he finds that everyone in the town knows his father and loves him for that fact… The people are all happy-go-lucky country folks and he was just overwhelmed… Having no one to turn to he calls Claire who had given him her number along with the directions and they have a long phone conversation until they decided to meet up since she had some time… The two bond and were naturally attracted to one another but he had a girlfriend and she had a boyfriend but their other halves were those who weren’t always there for them… but they decided to not act on impulse… On the night of the funeral dinner to toast to Drew’s father, everything just fell into place… It seems that it took his fathers death to unite the whole family and also with the help of Claire thought him how to “live”… Claire arrives to give him a little gift which was a special map that she had made for him for his road trip home… The road trip was long overdue… he had planned to go on a road trip with his dad for some time now but he was always just to busy with work… so now he takes his father’s ashes with him and scatters some of it at every stop he made on the way home… the journey home was very much a journey to self discovery… then he reaches the end of the map that Claire had made for him… he was to look for the next part of the map in the world’s second largest market… in the second part of the map… he had two choices… to continue on his way home or… he could look for her… He decided to look for her… and he finds her…

The movie basically talks of how we are all so career minded that we lose track of what’s important… and in the case of the movie it took the death of his father to help him live… It’s quite a good laugh as well… Another good feel-good movie for the season…

Insomnia!!

You know… only like maybe 6 months ago… I could just fall asleep the moment I lied on the bed… but NOW… it’s like tossing and turning… arrggghhh… and I know why… I keep thinking… I can’t stop… Thinking about exam… thinking about arrangements for next year… thinking about why two fire engines have stopped at the next apartment with lights flashing and sirens ringing… wondering why drivers drive strangely at night… and all sorts of other rubbish… Anyone with a solution?!

Coming Soon: Hoodwinked

I caught the teaser trailer on ET and I’m telling you this is a must watch for this Christmas… It’s going to be a BARREL of a laugh!!!! The trailer however is not available yet to the general public openly… so you’ll have to wait a bit… But I think you can tell that it’s the story of Little Red Riding Hood… But this is not just any adaptation… It starts off at the end where there has been a huge commotion in Granny’s cottage and the police, Chief Grizzly and Detective Bill Stork, arrive at the scene to investigate the domestic disturbance… which involves a karate-kicking Red Riding Hood, a sarcastic wolf and an oafish Woodsman… The charges made include breaking and entering, intent to eat, and wielding an axe without a license… But first… they all have their stories to tell… That means different versions of that story we have all grown to love as little kids… So make sure you keep your eyes and ears open for this Christmas’s animation!!! Cheers…

Spring Weather Sucks… Can’t Imagine Summer!!

The current weather in Melbourne is terrible… I’m hating it… The worst part it’s not that it was freaking hot the past few days but there are bugs everywhere… it’s almost worst than Malaysia… at least the bugs back home are pretty small… they are absolutely HUG over here… like mutated insects… I think it was Tuesday night… it was soo hot so I decided to keep my window open… well actually it’s open almost all the time anyway even when I’m sleeping… people I know might know that I’m practically HOT blooded… must be the thick layer of blubber around my body… like a bear you know… Anyway… yeah so the window was open… and I didn’t think much of it until I wanted to go to sleep… when I suddenly realize the ceiling of my room was like infested with these little flying bugs…!!! I was horrified… I mean bugs in general are fine… but if they are in swamps and I’m going to sleep with them around… Hello… who knows they might start biting and flying up my nose… So I got a cloth… because I have no swatter nor insect spray… and started swatting them… Man… took me like half any hour to get them all I think…!!! I’m so paranoid now that I close my window when the sun is setting… Today was windy and cloudy though… so it was pretty alright… But I can only imagine how hot it is going to get in the Summer… I know the locals love it… but coming from Malaysia… you tend to get sick of the hot weather… Can’t wait for autumn and winter again!!!!

What They Don’t Tell You…

You know how some people know what they want to be since they were young and they know just exactly how to get it… Well I’m not one of them… and I’m like wondering how did they know how to get it? Did someone sit them down and tell them or did they go around asking or what? I’m basically focusing on ambition here… Lets say you want to be a molecular gastronomist… Well first of all who on earth would know such an occupation exists… but oh man it sounds soooo interesting… Anyway back to the point… I don’t think that your parents can tell you anything about it… and even if you wanted to ask someone who would you ask? How do you find a molecular gastronomist? So… basically… I’m just wondering… is there a place where wew can actually get step-by-step guides to achieving our ambition? I’ve never been one to know what I want… I’ve always changed my mind on what I would really like to do as a career… however I still think chef would suit me well… But if only somehow someone had let me know the route to every career I’ve ever thought of I might have just been able to make up my mind… just maybe…

Re-review: Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Okay so some people are asking me to justify why I say I didn’t like the movie and they say that it was good… So… that got me thinking if I was wrong about the movie… So here’s the verdict…

Yes I was wrong… I think my first time watching it did not make a good impression because I had been waiting for the movie for sooooo long since the beginning of the year and I was frustrated with the bad quality version that I managed to get so it wasn’t a good start at all… But after giving it another go… I have to say that I underrated the movie… Almost the entire cast gave a good performance but I still maintain that Matthew didn’t really have that X-factor to play Mr. Darcy… but still cute… and Mr. Bingley was just plain terrible… This version is a much more vitalized adaptation of the novel and gives a sort of freshness which I think the younger generation would like… Everything else I said still holds… I like the chemistry that Keira and Matthew created for their characters and Keira was simply fabulous in her part… she made the movie worth the watch… ;p What can I say I’m a big fan of hers… Ok so I did enjoy the movie second time around… witty and charming…