500 days of summer

i am so going to watch this!

showing in cinemas 8 october.

can’t hardly wait.

coco before chanel

i loved every moment of this movie.

i was tempted to buy a book on this icon to know more about her. i decided against it eventually because i want to remember gabrielle “coco” chanel the way she was portrayed in the movie.

the truth does not always matter to me.

i enjoyed watching coco’s relationship with french playboy and millionaire etienne balsan and former best friend of balsan, arthur “boy” chapel. it’s interesting to watch how 2 different man show their love and concern for her in 2 utterly different ways and how she responded to their affections.

coco with balsan

coco with boy chapel.

my favourite part of the movie, which i thought was very fine acting on the part of audrey tautou, was when she came back from a holiday by the beach with boy. headstrong, hardy, strong pride and i-dun-need-a-man-to-survive coco ran to her sister’s place and told her she had this strong urge to marry boy.

in the next scene, she was sitting at the living room with balsan, chatting with him and making hats. balsan told her that boy was getting married to some wealthy english woman and the confusion, disappointment and heartache that followed was quite subtly done.

coco just went back to her room and stayed there for days until she was ready to come out.

when she did finally came out of her room, she heard music from the piano and followed the sound until she saw boy chapel at the piano.

very gently, without anger and mostly a quiet restraint, they spoke about his marriage, about their future and how do they go from here. coco said “i always knew i will be no man’s wife….better a mistress than a wife…” i can’t remember the rest but i couldn’t help but wonder how much of what she said is true  – especially when a few scenes earlier, she was gushing to her sister about how she wanted to get married.

something to muse about, i guess.

sometimes, people deny to self console. sometimes, people allow themselves to be temporarily lost in the moment thus letting slip of their true vulnerable self before getting themselves all guarded up again.

or perhaps, she loved boy chapel so dearly nothing else matters.

the heart works in mysterious ways.

the factory girl

i have always wanted to watch the movie “factory girl” because i love the whole look of sienna miller in the movie – pixie hair, black kohl eyeliner, leotards, opaque tights & chandelier earrings. she was playing edie sedgwick who was best known as artist andy warhol’s muse.

edie sedgwick

sienna miller as edie sedgwick in “factory girl”

“she would become his (andy warhol’s) greatest work of art. she inspired him. he immortalised her.”

i decided to read about edge sedgwick this morning and came across this article by marie claire. i am so sad that this sparkling, fiery and free spirited individual had such a tragic and unhappy privtae life.

sighs.

i am rarely fascinated with artists – i am mostly fascinated by the things and people that captures their attention – their muse.

the unrefined, confused and tormented seems to illuminate and captivate in ways many normal people can’t. perhaps, character layering makes someone a lot more interesting – it gives depth.

like a comet, she lit up the scene and left the world at the tender age of 28.

now, i really really want to watch the movie.

the time traveler’s wife

“The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the dreary silence of her day. Sometimes I see an expression on Clare’s face that is like a closed door. She has gone inside the room of her mind and is sitting there knitting or something. I’ve discovered that Clare likes to be alone. But when I return from time traveling she is always relieved to see me.”
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife)

the movie was nice but not as beautiful as the book. i think it failed to capture many of the intense emotions the book managed to describe – especially the moments at the meadow as it was too brief. i would watch it again though just because it was a nice adaptation of my favourite book. i do wish the ending was like the book – that would be truly heartaching.

rachel mcadams is a delight – she has come a long way since “mean girls”.

a friend went to watch the movie and told me clare’s character reminded him of me – the way we love so unconditionally and the way the character pronounced certain phrases. i found that kind of amusing especially when i have always felt like i am clare since i read the book.

“I’m afraid of losing you.”
Clare smiles. “How could you lose me? I’m not going anywhere.”
“I worry that you will get tired of putting up with my undependableness and you will leave me.”
“But I never want to leave you.”
Clare puts her sketchbook aside. I sit up. “I won’t ever leave you,” she says. “Even though you’re always leaving me.”
“But I never want to leave you.”
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife)

i’ve always thought being left behind was worse then leaving. someone made me realised that leaving can be just as painful, especially when there is no other way but leaving itself.

perhaps.

ps: it was great catching up with you, nurul. you’re still the little girl i dote on…haha.

the time traveler’s wife

i saw the trailer at the train station today and i felt my breath being taken away just seeing the words “the time traveler’s wife” appear on the screen.

my favourite book is coming to life! nurul has made a date with me to watch this together. we both love the book but i think i loved it even more. first book that tugged so severely at my heart strings. first book that made me cried for hours.

i’m going to watch with an open mind so i am not going to read any of the reviews. i will watch just to see clare and henry on the big screen.

i love the trailer already.

i am half tempted to pick up the book again.

it’s a beautiful love story and one which would resonate with people who experiences a lot of longing and waiting and not knowing in their relationship.

time traveling might be sci fi to some but to me this book simply speaks about distance in a relationship, of a man who had to take flight for reasons beyond his control, often leaving the girl he so love behind waiting, longing and wishing for his return. she never knows when he will be back. she never knows whether he will be safe. and she never knows where he will time travel to. time travel is probably a metaphor to describe people who are always not around.

the 40 year old self time travel and appeared infront of clare when she was 6. he already knew at that point that she was going to be his wife when she gets older. imagine knowing who is going to be your husband at the tender age of 6. when she was 18 and the man 40, they made love for the first time in the meadow where they often meet up. i remember being blown away by that chapter. in the book’s reading guide, it also posed a question on how the writer manage to word it in a manner such that it reduces or elimiate the discomfort readers might have in reading that paragraph. what made the story even more profoundly moving was that henry was killed in one of his time traveling episodes by clare’s brother and clare heard the gunshot when she was still a little girl…

sighs.

clare is beautiful, smart, wise and artsy. despite the wisdom, she was naive and simple enough to love henry her whole life. she could have chose someone else instead of spending her life loving and longing after him but she did not.

and i guess this bittersweet, sacrificial and at times impossibly naive and selfless love story is the combination that made me so attracted and attached to the book…

in cinemas from 3 sep.

can’t hardly wait.

心动, a pounding tempting heart.

i’ve been using the family’s desktop since a few days ago and wow, i found some good old songs i used to listen to a few years ago.

i was particularly drawn to one song – a song i used to love and a song i have long forgotten until yesterday. i think it reflects my melancholy mood very well and all my blog entries today were written with this song playing in the background.

如果相识是一种缘分
那分手是不是也是注定的呢？
人与人之间的一切
发生的自然又简单
可是却也不竟然。。。 —– 张艾嘉

♥

如果不能够永远都在一起,
也至少给我们怀念的勇气,
拥抱的权利
好让你明白,
我心动的痕迹

i don’t remember watching the movie “心动” before. after reading this, i really want to watch the movie…anybody wants to buy for me here?

hee. hee.

the fall of transformers

i disliked the movie. it was so dull and pointless – all explosions and not much substance. now, i understand why the critics rated it so badly.

i thought the first one was soooo much better.

the only saving grace for me is megan fox. what a sight!

ara

so. damn. pretty.

i absolutely love her in “dance subaru”.

3 promo and 1 graduation

30-05-09

it’s so great to come together again after a long long long long while….

we went to watch “monster vs alien”.
charlie was disappointed because he didn’t know it was an animated film!
cai hong wei fell asleep.
ismadi thought it was alright.
syaiful enjoyed it most, i think, going by the laughter.
i thought it was enjoyable.
i love BOB!

had dinner @ fish and co, glass house.
a celebratory treat from charlie, hong wei and ismadi as they were promoted!
jenice was supposed to join us because she was promoted too but had to stay home to study for exams.

dinner was nice but i was too full to stomach anything more than 1/4 of the seafood platter for 2. i heard hong wei put on 2 kg because he had to finish the remaining 3/4.

dinner ended and we headed out.
i don’t know why everyone suddenly wanted to take peektures.

syaiful: i want to take picture with chloe.
charlie: i want to take picture with chloe.
me: ok, hong wei your turn!

(it didn’t happen because charlie said…)
charlie to syaiful: like taking photo with ah meng hor…
me:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

we headed to PS for “terminator salvation” and coffee…

somebody decided to take a picture of our shoes.
hong wei said the shoes with green stripes is the nicest.
well, of course, it’s his shoes.

ismadi: your camera got timer?
me: yes!
ismadi: ok…
me: (turns to look somewhere else)
ismadi: ok ok, come, look down.
me: look down. (gasps internally – why is my camera on the floor!!!)

we had drinks to kill time until 11.30pm.
the place was stuffy.

me: wah, so hot.
charlie: you know why?
all of us: ya ya ya…cos you’re hot.

i wonder when he will be less thick skinned.

ps:

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hong wei fell asleep BEFORE the OPENING credits of “terminator salvation” ended.

why is this boy so tired?!

ps 2:

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i needed ismadi to explain to me after the movie ended because i didn’t really get it.
i don’t get sci-fi.

just the other day, i was asking yh to explain “star trek” to me because i don’t get the “came back from the future to change history” thing.

such a girly girly thing

i went to watched “hannah montana the movie” alone today and i enjoyed it.

loved the whole vibe and theme of the movie – i can watch movies about finding one true self a hundred times.

i love the country side…i love country music…i love the cowboy hats and i love the horses.

before the movie started, a young couple walked into the movie theatre and the boyfriend gasped, “omg! there are no boys in here!”

i couldn’t help smiling to myself.

i went to get the movie soundtrack after the movie – it came with a free gift – a hannah montana notebook. for someone turning 26 this year, that freebie made me feel really sheepish!

Caterpillar in the tree
How you wonder who you’ll be
Can’t go far but you can always dream

Wish you may and wish you might
Don’t you worry, hold on tight
I promise you there will come a day
Butterfly fly away

miley cyrus and billy ray cyrus, butterfly fly away

the twilight saga : new moon trailer

zomg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and everything about the movie.

and a really awesome fan made trailer.

transformers : revenge of the fallen

the trailer for transformer 2 is soooooooo AWESOME!!!!!

and megan fox is sooooooo HOT!!!!! she is so hot she even made it to a (fan-made) movie poster tag line. haha. she makes shia labeouf look like a boy. i think i was more excited than syaiful when i saw her in the movie trailer yesterday.

can’t wait! can’t wait!

john krasinski

ah, “license to wed” is hilarious and so very sweet! i love it but the movie didn’t go down very well critically.

the way mandy moore speaks and pronounce each and every word reminds me of doreen. some of her expressions also reminds me of vanessa.

i will watch it again because john krasinski is absolutely gorgeous.

now, i want to watch the office (us) because he is in it but i can’t seem to find it anywhere online!