to reflect the state of structureless-ness of my life nowadays, i shall revert back to type
and type without proper paragraphing or punctuation
yeah

i even keep forgetting what day today is!
because i don't know what day tomorrow is
or what yesterday was
or even the day before that
so is today wednesday or tuesday ?

today - whatever it may be - i woke up at an ungodly hour of 8 am
seriously
i hardly ever do that except to go cycling (the world's greatest sport!)
went to hdb hub with my apparently very free parents to sign some form
so the house is bedok will be ours in 4 weeks!

lunch at delifrance
and then it was off to the contractors' office to view showrooms and discuss the renovations to be done
not much; budget constraints y'know

then off to the bedok house to look things over with the contractors
(which included the very nice lady boss who's actually very young
imagine being a boss at only 20 - 30 years!
and she wants to retire by the time she's 45!)
it was so much fun!
only because i like listening to people plan things and discuss design and stuff
sadly enough, my room won't be having any a/c
and i still have to share a room with my bro
oh, self-sacrificial lamb that i am!

at 7: twilight-ing for the final time ever... at least at the cinema
with pat
i can't promise we won't buy the dvd and then watch it everyday
but not for the usual reasons
really, we found the movie funnier and funnier with every view!

"say it - out loud" "vampire" "are you afraid?" *shudders* "no"
"ask the most basic question: what do we eat?"
"you're beautiful" "this is the skin of a killer!"
"i am the world's most dangerous predator. everything is designed to draw you in - my voice, my face, even my smell"
"as if you could outrun me! as if you could fight me off!"
"i've killed people before" "i don't care"
"so the lion fell in love with the lamb"
"is she even italian?" "her name's bella"
"you brought a snaaaacccckkk!"
"you are my life now"
"tell him to avenge you. tell him!"

okay, so maybe not all the lines are exactly the same as in the movie
but they're all so hilarious!
and mostly very lame and hyperbolic

i've always thought that taylor laudner a.k.a. jacob black couldn't act
but i just truly realised that robert pattionson is an awkward actor too
especially in the reveal scene
and the car scene
and just about every other scene in which he isn't smiling cheekily or dazzlingly
i guess there's just no such thing as perfect, huh?

but i really like charlie's character
and his acting is perfecto, totally apt for this character
love him!

i really really really can't wait to see what the next director has to contribute to this series
can't wait!
really!

good night!
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I learned two things today: 1. I'm not not cut out for cashiering. 2. Yes Man is a fabulous movie.

I helped out at my grand-daddy's bookstore today, while the men went out for Friday prayers. I got darned nervous everytime anyone asks me where something is, because I don't freaking know! There doesn't seem to be a discernible system of book organisation in the store, and religious authors' names don't strike a chord with me at all. So for 3 hours, I had to keep apologising to customers and telling them that the shopkeeper wasn't back yet. It was an okay experience, I guess, considering that I gave nobody the wrong change or bill (although I almost charged $1390 for a $13.90 item. The horror!). But all this was useful in crossing off another potential occupation: cashiering.

I left at 4 to head to Orchard on bus 7 (yay for buses!) to buy the tickets first for the Yes Man 7.10 show, before going up to Kinokuniya to browse through Arsenal mag and buy a book to make me happy. I'd thought of buying The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but I realised that I could read it online since it wasn't too long at all. (The link is here!) Then I thought of buying The Kissing Gates, which seemed to be an interesting wartime romance. In the end though, I ended up buying The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance, if only because I managed to coerce my sister into paying for the whole book so (ha!) I'm reading it for free.

Really, Stephenie Meyer managed to incite me and my sister into a vampire romance frenzy. First I buy two volumes of L. J. Smith's Night World Series (which I just absolutely love!), and now this? What next? Buffy The Vampire Slayer (even though the only likeable character was Spike)?!

Pat and I did make it into the theater before the movie started, even despite pausing at Mac's to buy us some meals. I got curly fries!! Yes Man totally rocks! It had good actors, and had deep, meaningful lessons interweaved into the main storyline. But who cares about that? All that matters is that it was funny! Even (or especially) with Jim Carrey's trademark over-the-top humour. I agree with Pat in that it was a good way to start weaning ourselves off watching Twilight again and again. But we're going to watch it (for the last time, I feel obliged to add!) next week. A sort of... farewell gathering, if you will. Hahaha.

Pat and I each took a picture with Edward's huge poster at the cinema afterwards, making a fool of ourselves in the process. But who cares? For just one second, it was just me and Edward alone, isolated in our own sweet lullaby-infused cocoon, a moment which was immortalised in 2-D by way of a camera-phone... hahaha. And then we made bigger fools of ourselves when we took five minutes to snap a timed picture in Orchard MRT station, in order to capture us against a backdrop of electronically-produced image of trees. The picture came out nicely though (: yayness!

I should go to sleep soon. I don't feel like doing that, though. Oh yeah, I'm going cycling again on Sunday! Cycling is the world's most fantastic sport!

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EDIT: The Time Traveler's Wife really isn't like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at all. It's about a man who time travels unintentionally when he experiences stress. According to feedback from my cousin (and online book reviewers), it's a good book. A movie adaptation of it will be released soon (=.

All the pictures to be posted were from perezhilton.com, but I just couldn't bear not posting about these Twilight people!

First up is Kellan Lutz, who acts as Emmett Cullen. Apparently he's dating the bitch-character from the current 90210 series, what's-her-name. He kissed another girl on New Year's Day and pissed her off, but grovelling and begging got him her forgiveness. Hmm, sounds like seriously petty gossip...


Now this is the most interesting part: Robert Pattinson as an actual teenager! A warning though: it isn't pretty to look at... not in the slightest bit. He seems to be at prom, but that's no excuse to still look like a bum, I think. That, and the fact that he smokes and drinks (hmm, sounds surprisingly like Jeremimi! Haha) really puts me off. Now I just like Edward Cullen, not R.Patz. Not to mention his drunken singing on "Never Think" lol.


Only the picture below portrays a more acceptable-looking Rpatz. Why can he not look like that all the time? Wouldn't it be less stressful for him to see a cleaner-looking him in the mirror everyday, than to be assaulted by an image of a drunk all the time. Or perhaps he avoids the mirror altogether...

OR from now on, all his scenes and pictures have to be taken of his side profile only, so that movie-goers don't have to face the unberable front portion of his head. (I'm so mean! Hahaha)

Okay, that's it for today's post. Until next post,
fin*

yay i've got two movie dates to watch twilight!!
i'm afraid that's not enough, and i really can't wait for twilight the movie!!!

i know, i know, i've been ragging on some of the characters for not being perfect enough
but i still can't wait to see it on screen

yay yay yay
hope it comes out satisfactorily

and i like the peeps who are playing alice and jasper
they're so cute together
real chemistry, especially from their interviews together

can't wait can't wait can't wait

fin*

p.s. i seriously have nothing else to talk about, huh?
okay, let me try talk about something else...
*coughs* reading the history of malaya right now
not the official one, but one that recounts back to 1880
really interesting
like how the malay people came from central asia around 2000 bc
which is a really long time ago!
and the orang asli came way before that, spreading out even further to australasia and other islands
enough of history? no? want more?
okay...
umm, the mutiny in singapore by the 5th light infantry was in 1915, february, if i'm correct
they were supposed to be guarding the german pows since the WWI was going on

i guess that's enough for now.

twilight twilight twilight!

ok, after watching so many different twilight trailers, all official, fan-made with official cast, and fan-made with preferred cast, perhaps robert pattinson isn't so bad as edward

i'm not saying i completely agree with him 100%, or maybe even beyond 60%, but he's ok
he darn un-photogenic, with darn ugly hair in real life, with a rather peculiar face shape,
but he acted american pretty okay, and pretty intensely too

that said, i think tom sturridge wouldn't have been as bad a choice
he really really has the vampire look down pat, even without trying

and jasper! gosh that jackson rashbone person has such horrible hair

i won't say anymore.
i'll wait till the movie comes out, before making anymore critical comments, because i realise my comments have been on the rather extreme side...
sorry! a flaw i must correct!

but but but i seriously don't think i'll take back my judgment that the actress playing rosalie is the worst actress they could have picked
really ugly and bloated looking- how's she supposed to play the most beautiful woman in the world?

sorry i'm so negative!

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WARNING: the male-concentrated content may be too much for some to handle ==>

oh no, forgot to warn steph about twilight spoilers!!!
i'm so sorry!!!

so, for this blog entry, i shall post about more recent twilight developments
like... the movie!!!

i so do not agree with robert pattinson as edward
even from the harry potter movie, i didn't agree with him as cedric
his face is just too weird to me

so i scouted around, and the following are pictures of people who - to me - fit the image of the twilight characters in my mind
the current ages of the actors may not correspond; i'll simply post pictures of them that seem to fit, regardless of when it was taken

not everyone's here, of course
like bella, because i think kristen stewart fits the bella role
or carlisle, simply because i haven't found anybody fitting his description

behold, the chosen-by-fina partial cast of twilight...



name: unknown (unfortunately)
cast as: edward, if his hair wasn't blond
why?: isn't it obvious? the flawless, pale, marble skin, the golden (not deep red) eyes that are characteristic of vampires that drink only animal blood, the piercing gaze, like he's reading your thoughts...
admit it, he is perfect as edward lol
the blond hair could have cast him as carlisle, except for the fact that he lacks the inner calm that carlisle exudes




&
name: tom sturridge
cast as: edward (yep, the first guy's competitor)
why?: well, the first picture make him look human, maybe portraying how he was when he was human, around 1918.
the second picture really makes him look like edward.
someone photoshopped in the bronze hair and golden eyes, and there's the pale skin and strong jawline.
it's so hard to choose! haha





name: gaspard ulliel
cast as: jasper cullen, one of edward's brothers
why?: i don't know exactly why, but jasper always seemed a little rugged, a little lean, but still actor-like handsome.
definitely not an edward face, though.
the actual actor playing jasper seems nice-looking enough, but his hair in that movie is simply crazy!
and nothing in the book says that jasper is supposed to look like a freak, unlike in the movie!
*shudders*





name: colton haynes
cast as: either edward, or emmett cullen, another of edward's two brothers
why?: he was originally up for the role of edward, i think, but his very strong jaw and features just whispers emmett to me. or maybe not; i'm on the fence for this guy, because he seems pretty fitting for edward too, since i don't imagine edward to be as skinny as the first guy.
whaddaya think?





name: henry cavill
cast as: emmett cullen
why?: stephanie meyer said that this guy's the only one she can imagine playing edward, but his age of 27 makes him too old to do so.
i think in some ways he may be right for the role, but somehow his face seems too square for edward. more suited for emmett, who's supposed to be the strong dude of the family





name: alex pettyfer
cast as: i seriously have no idea
why?: he's darn good-looking, though, isn't he? (i'm kinda reminded of fernando torres when he had short hair) i'm torn between jasper, carlisle (maybe, if he were older) or maybe even edward. bahh - doesn't matter; i'm not the casting agent, so i don't have to decide.
yay


anyways, maybe the aforeposted pictures will pique more human interest in the twilight movie.
maybe not.
but looking for pictures is fun!

alice is perfectly cast, imho. she's superbly beautiful, like all other vampires, and so pixie-like and cute in her short spiky hair
rosalie - *huff* what can i say? who else can be more wrong for this role? not as astoundingly beautiful like the book describes her. darn disappointed.


jacob, i think, is adorable, played by taylor lautner
except for the fact that he looks weird in a long wig
i would have liked to see jason momoa (when he was 14 years younger) as jacob, because he's so sunny in his smile.

jason momoa

but unlike taylor lautner, who actually has native american blood, jason's actually hawaiian.
so i don't know. whatever.

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p.s. going twilight-crazy!

290th post

i've finished reading breaking dawn, the last of the twilight saga
joy!
and i take it back, maybe jacob and reneesme (i still can't believe how funny that name is) really are right for each other

he's like a werewolf - not the children of the moon, but a shape-shifter who takes the form of wolves because his ancestors had chosen to do so
close to 7 feet tall (that adorable freak!)
so humorous and mostly happy
won't grow older beyond the physical-age of twenty-five that he is now
(unless he can stop phasing into a wolf for a solid period of time - then he ages)
even though in actual human years, he's only 16, 17 years old

she's half-vampire, half-human
and she grows very fast - only 7 years from newborn baby to full maturity
very intelligent, compassionate, and with supernatural abilities of her own
and we know for sure she can live to over 150 years
and since jacob can't grow old unless he wants to... guess they're perfect for each other.

*sigh*

there goes my entire rant on how jacob deserves so much better
because i doubt that in my wildest imagination could i have come up with a better complement to jacob
of course, i haven't seen the mature reneesme yet
i wonder how that will work out...

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p.s. there's the return of the contenders, muay thai fights, in jurong on wednesday
soren (!!!), zach, naruepol, yodsaenklai will all be fighting, among other world class fighters
*shriek!!!*
i truly wanna go!
but the cheapest tickets are at $50.00
unbelievable
i guess even a small gathering of my favourite fighters is too much to hope to see
since when did the contender asia grow so uncontrollably popular?
so much that even with only four of the original 16 fighters present, the tickets are more than half of what i'd paid to watch the finale months ago?
never thought i'd ever begrudge the contenders their fame, but popularity sure has its downsides...

i'm so stuck on the twilight saga by stephanie meyer!!!!
i've devoured two of their books in the last two days, and i'm on track to finish the last one today. i'm still not near the halfway mark, but it's near enough to the end of the series that i'm lamenting the fact that i still want more, and of that there is none.

after i finished the first one, i read reviews of the other ones online, and was genuinely surprised that there were two camps- Team Edward and Team Jacob. i didn't think that there was enough reason to support jacob other than the fact that he was adorable. i mean, understandably, jacob was only 15 in the first novel, little more than a peripheral character who had a crush on bella like any other male in Forks. but after reading new moon (the second book), i'm all for team jacob! and not in the way that i want edward and bella to break up, just that i think the ending does not do him justice.

in edward and bella's case, when reading the series, there is just the sense that this pair is inevitable, that they were made to simply be with each other. they were just so solid together, almost from the very beginning. when edward left bella in new moon, i was devastated; i cried as if it was my own soulmate that i'd lost - so intense were bella's feelings.

but reading about how jacob helped bella heal in that novel, when she did eventually meet up with him, was so heartwarming. he was so right, so natural, so healthy for her. she called him her personal sun, always making her feel better whenever she was in his presence. and i fell in love with jacob. unlike edward and bella, this lacked the sense of inevitability, since what she felt for him could not equal what he feels for her. but you just feel the need to support jacob, because he was part of her soul, a necessary part that gave her happiness. in bella's words,
"his pain was my pain."
"his joy was my joy."

now, cannot be certain if it was said in those exact same words, but you get the gist. jacob is perfect for bella, he's just not what she wants. as much as i like bella being with edward, i miss how she was with jacob (before edward came back).

edward's a century-old soul, so his maturity sometimes seems at odds with bella, who's actually no older than you and i. when they're together, sometimes it's either very hard to tell that the protagonist of the story is just a teenager, which of course doesn't make the story very credible (if you can believe in vampires and werewolves), or the difference in maturity is glaringly obvious. either way, though, i have to admit that they cannot live without each other, that they are too dependent on each other to be separated.

with bella and jacob, however, it's a much more believable story. their relationship appears more like how teenage relationships should be - carefree, fun, happy, with the infrequent squabble that further defines their youth. jacob just seems to bring out the sunnier side of bella. the occasional immaturity feels like it belongs there. i's such a natural part of a youthful relationship, and you just can't help rooting for this one to hold on and survive, even though you know that jacob has no sliver of a chance at all with edward around.

in short, i love jacob, and think that he didn't get the fairytale ending he deserves when stephanie meyer leaves him bella's leftovers (yeah, i cheated a bit by finding out about the ending from reviews). in the end, jacob finds his soulmate in (or imprints on) bella and edward's daughter! now, don't be too alarmed, because in the novel, it's a natural thing, not sick at all, as it's not about carnal desires. and since werewolves don't age as long as they keep phasing back into wolves, jacob will be the best big brother to bella and edward's daughter until she's old enough to resume their relationship at a more mature level.

however, i think it's just not right for jacob! jacob deserves something better! way better! if i had my way, there'd be a separate series for jacob to find this other person. but it's not my series, sadly. =( i guess fanfiction's the only way to go from here...

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team jacob!