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The Billy Elliot Boy.

// November 9th, 2009 // 7 Comments » // College, Family, Friends, Love, Movies, Music

I’m in week four of my five-week semester holiday, and apart from spending some quality time with my mom and working on my sites, the past three weeks have been boring. I had actually planned to spend some awesome time with my friends, but the thing about studying in different universities in different countries is that you don’t tend to have breaks/vacations at the same time! Bleh. And to add to that, the boyfriend has been busy as well. He has been in and out of town for the past month to finish the album, so it has been rather difficult to find time to get together. He’s actually in KL right now and will be through Friday. Let’s hope we might be able to spend a little bit of time after that, before I have to go back to school.

I spent a few hours before bed last night watching Billy Elliot. It’s definitely not the kind of movie I usually watch, but Jamie Bell was the title character so I rented the DVD. The movie was interesting and Jamie did an incredibly great job portraying Billy, but my favourite part was the ending, which I think is one of the best endings I have ever seen for a movie. It was just so emotionally empowering. That absolute pride in his father’s face and the tears in his eyes, the music and Billy’s powerful entrance – the whole scene just gave me chills and goosebumps. It was a really, really good end to the movie.

And this particular scene/ending is apparently on YouTube. I don’t usually embed videos on my blog, but I guess there’s always a first for everything? You might have to turn your volume up a notch to watch it.

The actor who portrayed 25 year-old Billy is Adam Cooper, who is apparently a professional dancer. For a moment there, I thought I saw Jonathan Rhys Meyers, haha.

In other news, I am still impatiently waiting for my Ugly Betty DVD in the mail. It has been two weeks since I bought it on eBay, I think. I hope it didn’t get thrown out at sea or something on the way here, haha. Oh, and speaking of online orders, Amazon doesn’t ship to Singapore! I wanted to buy the Val Emmich albums that I don’t have yet off there, but eh.

I think I’ve blogged enough. Have a good week!

And then he’s 2.

// November 3rd, 2008 // 5 Comments » // Family, Misc.

My mum has been back and forward to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to help my aunt take care of my Grandma. Grandma is usually here, but my aunt over there thinks that it would be better if Grandma stays with her for the time being so she can take care of her. My mum had came back from KL last Friday but she had to go again on the 6-hour trip there on a train (which I’ve always hated, by the way because trains are boring) last night. I kind of miss her around in the house.

Anyway, I have a nephew who lives there with my aunt and I told my mum to get photos of him over there. She’s got quite a few shots. I had to eliminate the blurry ones, because Fahd can be so hyperactive at times, haha. If you at all interested to see my nephew, continue reading!

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Untitled, for once.

// November 1st, 2008 // 3 Comments » // College, Family, Friends, Real Life, World Wide Web

Ta-da! A new theme colour! To be honest, it’s not that I hate or am tired of staring at the previous colour (which is Pink, by the way), but I really felt that I needed a change. And so, with the laziness to create a new theme from scratch or to even search the internet for a good theme to snag, I simply changed the colour scheme. Heh.

First off, thank you so much for the lovely, lovely comments! Yes, my exams are finally over and yes, I have been busy. That might be a lame excuse to why this place is collecting dust, but take it or leave it. I was busy with exams before, but currently I’m just working my ass off on my fan sites. Frankly, I can’t exactly remember the time when I decided that I should make fan sites a hobby, but it was probably after I joined The Fan Sites Network. Believe me, there are people in the network that own over 20 fan sites, and I have to admit that I got rather influenced. Though I don’t think I can ever manage 10 fan sites, let alone 20.

I’m currently in a one-month holiday, so I’m really using all the time that I have to work on another fan site project with my good friend, Pat. And not forgetting, of course, JDepp.org! It is a pain though, to gather thousands of photos from every image agencies there is. Bleh.

Eek, why is the time when I’m blogging is always the time when my stomach decides to growl for food? I wonder if Mum still have pizzas in the fridge.