The Birthday Girl

Ladies and gentlemen, meet my lovely friend, Dinda. Yes, she's our birthday girl for today. Well, not precisely today, I mean yesterday. She celebrated her 25th birthday on 29 January 2011. 

The first time I met her, she showed me her grumpy face that I decided not to say hello to her. I was a newbie in the office back then, and she'd been working there for almost a year before me. But, we finally made friends and started to hanging out together, even after she moved to another company and got herself a new job.

We both love doing some unimportant things like driving around in her car, screaming, looking for the traveling circus in town, eating--a lot of eating--and of course, hanging around in the coffee shop.

Well, I can't write much about her rite now 'coz I've still got other things to do, like make some phone calls and write the story that's been asked by my editor. So, I'm just gonna say "HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR DINDA AND CONGRATULATION, YOU'RE OFFICIALY OLD!!! WISH YOU ALL THE BEST!" *smooch 

Ciao for now.   

Past Midnite

So, it's past midnite and I'm still stuck here in the office. Well, I'm not really working actually, just sitting here, googling my name and blog walking. You know, try to killing time and keep my self busy until my shift is over.

Okay, so I still have 35 more minutes to go...

Hmmm... what's important, what's important.

Nothing.

Nada.

I'm blank.

This is pathetic.

The Dragon Girl

So, waddya think 'bout her hairstyle? Could it be the next hair trend?

Rooney Mara as the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. 

(Photographs by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, W Magazine)

Fell In Love With A House

Me want this house.

Yes, this house. Recognize it, anyone?

Tadaaa.. Yes, it's from the Twilight movie :p

Easy Like Sunday Morning

So, this is one shady Sunday and I feel soooo lazy to do anything. But, I know that I've got to move my ass off the bed and do something fun to boost my mood. Now that I've got myself thinking, these are stuffs I'm going to do to save the day:

• dye my hair
• go for window shopping and buy something cheap so I won't feel so bad about myself
• get a friend a present she's long wanted--ups, I shouldn't have said it, should I?
• buy myself a really nice cup of coffee
• go to the park and watching people while I'm making up stories about them

Now, I really have to jump up out the bed and take a quick shower before I go. Have a breezy Sunday, everyone :)

Cranky

Don't mess with meeehh!!

Me and the Matchmakers

I used to laugh my ass off every time anyone trying to match me up with someone. My big sister and her now husband and some of my best friends, they've always had this sometimes annoying initiative to introduce me to someone, whom they think would meet my approval. But most time, their missions ended up with failures.

In some cases, I didn't like the guy. Or if I did like the guy, he didn't like me back. And he turned out to be a jerk. And I'd be so pissed that I would happily punch him on the face if I bumped into him on a street.

But, as I get older, I'm starting to think that matchmaking thing as an option. That's most likely what will happen to you when your mother starts to talk the talk. You know 'the talk', right? It's a kind of conversation you're having with your mom, as she saw all of your friends get married, and you're the only single lady left in a room full of happy couples.

You tell her that you still enjoying it. You just love going solo. And you know that you're okay. But, hell, when people pressing you by constantly asking about your boyfriend, you get tired. And you begin to questioning your self.

What is so wrong with you that no one seems to understand your decision to be single? Or, what is so wrong with you that the only guy you put your heart on to, doesn't even seem to give a 'lil damn about you?

So, what I'm trying to say here, it's perfectly okay for us to choose to going our way. To be single and do whatever we wanna do freely. But, it's also okay for you to ask your friends to match you up with several potential boyfriends, for the sake of your mother :p

The Pinky Boy

I'd never imagined that a guy in a pink t-shirt and silly sunflower on the chest could be this goddamn HOT! James Franco, you're a hottie! *smooch

I'll get back to you later on to write about his latest movie, '127 Hours.' It's supercool! You're gonna like it.

'The Town' (2010): Welcome to the Bank Robbery Capital in America

 
"Driver's name is Arthur Shea. Former Metro Police officer, fifty-seven years old. Soon as his partner leaves with the coal bag, Artie cracks a Herald, and he don't look up 'til the guy gets back. Marty Maguire. Cummins Armored courier. Five-ten, two-twenty, fifty-two years old. Picks up every Wednesday and Friday at exactly 8:12, makes a hundred and ten dollars a day, carries a Sig nine. And he's about to get robbed."

That, my friend, is how the movie opened, with Ben Affleck's voice narrating.

Just so you know, I had never liked Mr. Affleck. I hate his big shiny smile, I hate his perfectly sculpted face, I hate his lame movies ('Daredevil'? 'Gigli'? Come on!). I simply hate him. Period.

But I recently have a change of heart, particularly after I saw his latest movie, 'The Town.' I know he's got 'Gone Baby Gone' as his debut in directing before this one, but I don't really like the movie.

Co-written and directed by Affleck him self, 'The Town' is adapted from Chuck Hogan's novel, 'Prince of Thieves.' Starring Affleck as central character (Doug MacRay), along with Jeremy Renner (James Coughlin), Slaine (Albert Magloan), and Owen Burke (Desmond Elden), this quartet played a long time thieves from the dangerous streets of Charlestown. The gang had successfully managed to rob several banks, before their last action forced Coughlin to take the bank manager, Claire Keesey (played by Rebecca Hall), as hostage.

While in action, these robbers always wearing masks to hide their true identities. Unfortunately for them, Keesey saw Coughlin's tattoo on his neck. After they released her in a shore, she's been interrogated by FBI. But she didn't say anything about the tattoo, afraid of what the robbers might do to her if she talk.

The complication arised as they found that that girl lives just four blocks away from their neighborhood. MacRay began to stalking on Keesey, to make sure she kept her mouth shut and that she didn't have any clue about them.

But, as the opposite of Stockholm syndrome, wherein hostages express adulation and have positive feelings towards their captors, MacRay found that he had fallen in love with this Keesey girl.

What I like about this movie is that they can mix crime, violance, and love story altogether in a perfect composition. Yes, it's an action flick with men and guns and fire, but without the we-are-cool-so-let's-just-walk-away-in-slow-motion-from-the-blown-up-car-on-the-background cliche.

Affleck showing his best in 'The Town.' He skilfully acts, writes, and directs the movie. As for Renner, in another case, I've always had this thing about this guy. He has such a badass material, that makes him a perfect actor to play the role of the villain. And he's a musician too! *drooling

I won't be surprised if this movie becomes one of the Oscar contenders. Good job, Mr. Affleck!

'The Tourist' (2010): Just Another Pretty Faces

No Fear of Heights 

Song by Katie Melua

I never walked near the edge
Used to fear falling
I never swam far from shore
Never tried the secret door
But when you give me love
When you give me love

I have no fear of heights,
No fear of the deep blue sea,
Although it could drown me
I know it could drown me

I didn’t wander in the woods
Used to fear the darkness
I didn’t like getting deep
I was scared of what I couldn’t keep
But when you give me love
When you give me love

I have no fear of heights,
No fear of the deep blue sea,
Although it could drown me
I know it could drown me
No fear of the fall
No fear if it’s with you that I fall
‘cause nothing could break us,
No nothing could break us, now

I wish I could write something as romantic as this one above. But I just couldn't. Well, it's obviously because I've never met someone who could make feel that way. I've never met a guy with whom I won't fear of falling.

This song, I first time hear it when I watched 'The Tourist' (2010), an action-comedy flick directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. It's from the scene when Angelina Jolie dropped Johnny Depp in the dock. Not my favourite movie after all. But I really like the ending tho. I think it's a bit unpredictable, in a confusing way.

Jolie, as charming as usual, portrayed Elise, an elegant yet mysterious woman, who seduce one shy American tourist, Frank Tupelo (Depp), whom she met on a train trip to Italy. This poor man fell head over heels for her. But Elise just using him so she could find her long lost lover, Alexander Pearce, who's on the run.

She trapped Tupelo into a false-identity scam to keep interpol off the track of her boyfriend. What a cruel woman, eh? Anyway, as the story goes, Elise realized that she had fallen for Tupelo. And then, you can watch the rest of the movie by your self.

Beautiful sceneries, pretty faces, amazing clothes, flawless makeup, tolerable story. All in all, it's a moderate action-comedy.

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