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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!

Chun-Li rocks!

// March 31st, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Friends, Love, Movies, Real Life

I went out to the city last night with the boyfriend. It was exhausting, but incredibly fun! We actually met up earlier that afternoon to sort of accompany his 19 year-old adorable sister (along with her boyfriend) to register for ITE’s April intake. After registering and buying uniforms and such, they went their own way to find a present at Junction 8 for a friend’s birthday. My boyfriend and me however, decided to travel to The Cathay to watch a movie!

His other sister, Abby works at the Cineplex (Cinema Complex) over there, so we had free tickets! I wanted so bad to see My Bloody Valentine 3D, but Abby had already printed out the tickets for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li before hand. I did not complain though, since they were free! Abby even sent us free popcorn and drinks to our seats!

Honestly, although I did not complain on having to watch Street Fighter, I had a feeling that I would probably not like the movie since I’m not really a huge fan of action movies. But Chun-Li definitely made me eat back my words! I have to admit that the movie is by far the best action movie I have ever seen my entire life. Seriously. Kristen Kreuk was phenomenal, and Edmund Chen? I was like, “Ooh, a local actor!” when I first saw him on the screen. And an incredible one at that!

I definitely recommend watching Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. I am still not a fan of action movies, so I understand if you are also not one, but you should watch this one. Because I did and I loved it!

New host, New theme!

// June 4th, 2008 // 6 Comments » // College, Movies, Website, World Wide Web

I’ve been incredibly busy with my websites and part-time job, but I’ve definitely not forgotten about this place. Blog updates have been and will be just really slow, that is all. Plus, I’m starting the new semester in University next week, eek! But hey, here I am blogging. Yay!

I’ve moved this blog to The Fan Sites Network, by the way. Refer to this entry if you want to know why I left Wordpress.com.

And with a new host, comes a new theme! Because well, if you have not found your way to that little entry yet, the main reason I moved to Gertie’s: I want to be able to use my favourite themes and such. Also, I had been eying this particular theme over at Becca’s blog for some time. Heh. I’m so happy that everything from my previous WP account at Wordpress.com has been imported to my current account here. Entries, comments, the whole nine yards! Wordpress rocks, yay! And I still don’t understand why I used to hate it so much before.

Forgive me, visitors, for not returning your comments. Aside from being a lazy ass, I’ve pretty much become a busy bee. But fret not, I will return them as soon as I can. Promise! And thank you so much for taking your time to read my humble entries and comment. You guys rock!

Well, I’d better get back to my movie. I was actually watching I Am Sam before I thought of posting my first entry as Gertie’s hostee, hee. So, excuse me while I go finish the heart-breaking but brilliant show.