on saturday, 8TV reran the movie Ùv¾«ÏÈÉú¡£ i have already seen these movie once when it was shown the 1st time, but i still found myself drawn to it...

sure, HK movies of late have been getting cornier and cornier, but once in the while you get a few rare gems. don't get me wrong, i'm not saying these movies are worthy of an oscar or a place in the history books, but they have redeeming qualities in the fact that they are so..."human"

one quote that touched my heart:

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soppy, i know, but touching all the same.

A friend i recently made introduce this author to me, said she was brilliatlly funny, so i decided to check it out. Anyway, here's a brief review of the book she recommended...

Royal Treatment by Mary Janice Davidson

Genre: Romance

   The story is like this. In this alternate world, Alaska is not an American State, rather, it is a country of it's own, ruled by a bunch of eccentric, make that very eccentric royals. The king, likes to dress up as a commoner and goes fishing, where he meets the protagonist, an american girl down on her luck stranded in alaska. He immediately likes her and wants to pair her off with his son, David, the crown prince....unknown to the girl, of course...

Anyway, like all other chick-lit/romance books, this provides nothing much besides some good old fashioned fun. girl falls in love, gets into all sorts of weird circumstances, not to mention compromising situations(this is after all, romance) and getting out of the messes she gets herself into. the heroine is generally lovable, decent, humorous, a bit too keen on swearing, but it comes out funny rather than being rude. One particularly good point is the way the author manages to tie the book to current happenings and trends, even if it IS set in an alternate reality... u see referances to robin williams, year 2005 stuff... all sorts, which is very entertaining to that aspect.

and the important point, the guy.... well, lets say he is quite the dashing prince. tall, polite, eventhough he is slightly harassed by the heroine, he plays it cool... ok.

being romance, there will after all be a few parts similar to the raspberry picking part in The Undomestic Goddess by sophie kinsella. as long as you are not a prude, and this is romance, not smut, things get along just fine....

after this, may read her other books. Undead and unemployed looks like an interesting enough book.

Reading hui fen's blog, i suddenly felt an urge to write this...

Today, the stpm results for 2005 came out. sure, those results have nothing to do with me, yet, at the same time, they reminded me of the sad state of affairs my life has become...

no, i am not studying my head off at the moment, neither do i see that happening any time soon. not a single day goes by without me thinking, "why oh why have i chosen this path... " "why couldn't things have been different"... then i berate myself for being negative, and proceed to tell myself to be more positive... that i am already better off than a lot of people....and the negative clouds of energy part for a while, only to come back the next day, the day after and the day after that...

i wish things were under my control, then perhaps i won't feel so much like the deer caught in the headlights... knowing that death is certain but having no way to escape.

today, i saw Walk The Line. it was tres inconvenient, because the only cinema that was still showing it was GSC Midvalley, and there was only one slot.

anyway, the movie was enjoyable. it was actually a pretty sombre movie. most movies we do watch these days don't begin with such a gruesome yet somehow touching death.

throughout my life some far, i have heard of people like Elvis, The Beatles and johnny cash, but besides the fact that elvis impersonators have become somewhat of a cliche, we don't usually get the chance to really KNOW these "legends". of course, i am alreally luckier that a lot of people i know, some haven't even heard of "Grease".

the love story between Johnny and June was very touching, the part where june's parents pointed a gun at the drug-dealer for turning up at johnny's house was amusing yet moving... but when u watch the movie, there is one question, How did Johnny fall in love with June is the first place?

Perhaps movies that choose to depict real life are almost always like that. In true fiction, there is always that defining moment, the part where the boy SUDDENLY SEES the girl for a first time and falls in love. But i guess real life isn't like that... johnny falling out of love with his 1st wife was a process, falling in love with June was another... whether or not these two processes overlapped was beside the point...

I am usually a tough supporter of the 1st wives club. I believe that no man has the right to one day wake up and declare that he has fallen out of love with his wife and demands a divorce.. or worse, suddenly deciding to run away into the sunset with a nice young thing... but perhaps there are exceptions...

According to the movie, June Carter died in May 2003, Johnny died 4 months later... perhaps there IS true love in this world...

: )

I lost the Public speaking competition today... the Star-Hsbc one...

i didn't even get into the semi-finals...

but one weird thing, not only was i not dissapointed, i was actually happy.

this is not a sign of someone who lost and trying desperately to maintain their composure, rather, i was happy because, for once, i felt that i lost to people that were REALLY good... like the chinese saying, "xin fu kou fu".

trying the competiton today was a really eye-opening and humbling experience. These people were REALLY GOOD. not that i'm saying everyone of the contestants who got into the semifinals were great (actually some were pretty bad, makes me a bit embarassed to have lost to them) but some of them were so talented, that somehow losing to them didn't seem that painful.

Hui fen was right, the prelims is definitely something i should not have tried to chicken out of. so what if i didn't get in, the 10 dollars i paid for the prelims was definitely more worthwhile than the 20 i paid for the workshop.

i learnt sooo many things today that i didn't even KNOW during the workshop. and if i do decide to join again next year, or the year after (since i only turn 20 in august)i will be much better prepared...

as much as i hate to admit this, maybe that girl Sabella was right, u di learn much more from ur failures than ur triumphs.. doesn't mean i think failing has anything to do with "A storm in a teacup" though... :P

a bumblebee was in school today... 3 guesses who it was...

it was

Chan *** Ling

Oh god(no blasphemy intended), what she wore was beyond horrible..

Imagine,

TIGHT t-shirt type boatneck with YELLOW and BROWN horizontal stripes(who is she kidding?!)

a black lantern MINI-SKIRT... that seriously showcased her butt...

a half PONYTAIL(still young... this woman)

the stuff of nightmares...

wonder how she walks around with her butt sticking in the air like that though? : P

shoes... as much as you love them, buying a pair that u like and fits u is certainly a pain.

first of all, there is the cost factor. You know, u see that really cool pair of shoes in Kickers, or that oh so cute pair of sandals in Primavera, or a great pair of boots that u know will kill ur feet but look oh so cool... and u pick them up... and put them down again.... 200 bucks a shot is certainly... how do u put this nicely... OVERBOARD.

secondly, there is the style factor. notice that the current trend is still either very flat shoes or platforms 4-5 inches high? sure, those people born with a foot or two to spare can afford to wear flats, but to us people who need all the help we can get in the height department? cute ballerina shoes are certainly not doing us any favours. well, then u would think that platforms will be a godsend right? WRONG. a shortie wearing a pair of 5 inch clogs will only embarrass herself further by showing the world how desperate she is....

Then, there is the comfort factor. The current trend nowadays is to have pointy fronts for shoes. In certain extreme cases, the shoes are so pointy they actually look like those shoes u see elves wearing in fairytales, and i am not talking about those tall, handsome, dashing elves like Legolas, i mean those Santa's Little Helpers... honestly, anybody with half a brain can tell u how utterly uncomfortable such shoes are...

So, altogether, shoes? My passion. My pain.

P/S: i bought a new pair of wedged heels today. have decided that i absolutely adore the wedged heel.

after two years of on and off reading, i have finally finished the Mediator series... I could still faintly remember the day I started reading the first one on a train ride to Singapore, and got sucked into the human-ghost love story...

Reading Meg cabot books are one of my many juvenile interests... sure, she probably meant these books to be read by 13-17 year olds, but what the heck.. 18 and a half is only "slightly" older than 17..

anyway, back to the Mediator... after such a long period of speculation, u finally find out what happens to Jesse and Susannah. Throughout these two years, i have always insisted that Sue will end up with Jesse, and when Min fuah had suggested that perhaps she would be better off with Paul, because he is, after all ALIVE, I had stood by my opinion, and it seems Meg agrees with me as well... get my drift?

At the end, paul shows that he is not as bad as we originally thought and the part where Suez's father moves on had me in tears... i could just see that part in my mind, the guy realizing that his daughter has finally grown up and he can move on... it's so heart wretchingly sad, yet so touching...

A corny line i learned from the book ( not that i don't already know this particular line) : "If U love something, set it free... If it is meant to be, it will come back to you..."

Ha.

Apologies to the few people who DO read this blog... i haven't done this in a looong loong time...

Just finished my monthly test... which is a huge rock of my chest... studying for that Chemistry paper really gave me a lot of grief, but chances are i probably flunked it anyway... life is surely one cruel loong ride, and STPM Chemistry was certainly not intended to lure more people into doing form 6...

Tomorrow i will be doing the prelims for the school elocution contest... it seems a bit silly to be stressed about it at my age, but i am... stressed i mean. This is not meant to come out sounding smug, but when people keep telling u they expect to come out top, the only feeling u get is "OH MY GOD(no blasphemy intended), are u KIDDING?!" and run for the hills...

I think i have bitten more than i could chew... the prelims for the Public Speaking Comp(the HSBC one i attended the workshop for) sound so serious i get an urge to puke everytime i think about it... :P

Till next time... cheers.

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have not updated this blog for a long time..... chief reason being that was too busy celebrating chinese new year...

on the 6th day of the lunar new year, i went visiting with a huge bunch of people...my gang(with the exception of Ling ni.. she was at school... pity...), Li ting, yen peng, jin xiang, wendy and the gang... altogether 15 of us...the atmosphere was fun and friendly... even with Rui Kang and jee Jing...cause by golly we've known each other for 7 years... eventhough they have been times where we've found it hard to chat(especially a certain someone since he always has to look like he is afraid i'd bite his head off or something whenever he is talking to me), i do think of these people as MY FRIENDs(FYI)

so, the new year... to friendship... friends... and everything good...