Twilight & Coffee Bean & Mashed Potatoes
So.
My plans for the next five years + One car ride = No more plans for the next five years.
It is very sad. It is very very sad. Sad!
We are starting a club called dunno-what-to-do-for-the-rest-of-our-lives club. Or something like that lah I forgot liao. Membership not extended to Jason and Jia Wei. They are starting the know-what-to-do-for-the-rest-of-their-lives club. Or the have-plans-for-the-next-five-years club.
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I watched Twilight today!
I quite liked it. Surprisingly exceeded (low) expectations. =) Movies never ever outshine the books, though.
Inkheart is coming out in Jan 2009 - I walked past a poster coming out.
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Food - Paddington House of Pancakes + Popcorn + Coffee Bean - we forgot doughnuts.
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We went searching for a glass bottle for Yee Wei and her soon-to-come reign of terror. There was a bottle with a detachable bunny head. Be grateful - we didn't buy the bunny bottle. We bought a purple one instead.
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We called Kum Foeng to laugh at her but she said very sadly, 'I can't hear you and I don't know what's going on.'
(We were wondering if you were going to MidValley to dress up as a very tall elf or something Christmassy.)
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Syn Dee had an hour to spare so she came to my house and WE MADE MASHED POTATOES. How random is that?
The mashed potatoes were good. We made them in half an hour. Syn Dee does well under pressure. We had too little gravy and too much onion.
Spontaneity, people, is the whole point.
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Forgive the seperation of events into sections. My thoughts are jumbled. I seem to have difficulty forming a coherent plotline.
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I had KFC to celebrate the ending of SPM. What did you eat? =)
Wall-E
juvern.blogspot.com says:
I like the cleaning robot!
juvern.blogspot.com says:
and the umbrella robot!
juvern.blogspot.com says:
wall-e was so mean =(
Garfield says:
to?
juvern.blogspot.com says:
he touched the cleaning robot =(
Garfield says:
...
juvern.blogspot.com says:
it completely reminded me of my brother and I!
Garfield says:
i guess ur the cleaning roobot
(he is so completely right.)
I watched the Dark Knight!
It was glorious.
The poster says 'Welcome to a world without rules' and Gotham City was made that way by one person: the Joker. He was insane, loves anarchy, and utterly, scarily but completely brilliant. His schemes! They are means without end - chaos without purpose but - wow.
The pure irony of Harvey Dent. The White Knight to juxtapose Batman, the Dark Knight. Who is the hero? Who will cross that line and break that one rule - who will turn away at the last moment, at risk to himself? It's a parallel to the ferry incident, the guilty vs. the innocent and whether fear will take control. Pure anarchy. (To the guy in the orange suit who threw it out of the window without a hint of hesitation - thank you for making me believe in the world again.)
Batman. Bruce Wayne. Yay to stealing the entire Russian ballet and putting them onto a yatch. Yay to swooping off a very tall building. Yay to disappearing while people aren't done talking - I want to know how you do it. Yay to your Lamborghini I WANT ONE. Yay to the interrogation room scene. And yay to swerving away.
I loved Dark Knight for its realism, complexity, morality and its questions. If those aren't what you're looking for, watch it for its action sequences, the multitude of things blowing up, very sharp knives, a magic trick invoving a pencil and the Joker, Two-Face's faces, the cars and the clown masks. You won't regret it (unless, of course, you're looking for sunshine and rainbows).
in memory of heath ledger
Labels: movies
Beauty and the Beast: The Musical was enchanting. The performers, the sets, the music - flawless, magical, relatable, familiar - the whole experience was amazing.
Lumiere and Cogsworth! were absolutely delightful. Lumiere had several sexy hip-shaking, let's-light-up-into-fire moments while Cogsworth flashed the audience! No really, they were amazing and I loved the Be Our Guest scene.
Be our guest! Be our guest!
Put our service to the test!
Beef ragout
Cheese souffle
Pie and pudding "en flambe"
Lumiere and Cogsworth! were absolutely delightful. Lumiere had several sexy hip-shaking, let's-light-up-into-fire moments while Cogsworth flashed the audience! No really, they were amazing and I loved the Be Our Guest scene.
Be our guest! Be our guest!
Put our service to the test!
Beef ragout
Cheese souffle
Pie and pudding "en flambe"
Lyrics made me hungry!
(Chip - the teacup - is SO CUTE!)
The library scene was perfect.
Belle and Beast reading together - sigh... It tied in so nicely with an earlier scene when Belle wished for someone who would understand. And the scene was so tender and knowing and comfortable you couldn't help but believe in their relationship.
HE GAVE HER A LIBRARY.
I can't find more pictures of the musical. =(
One of my favourite scenes was of the Beast singing atop his balcony. Despair, loneliness, dashed hopes. The only true solo on the stage and he deserved it. Bravo to making a beast likable.
The classic Beauty and the Beast song was sung by Mrs. Potts, the teapot! Strange choice, I thought. (I'd been looking forward to the song the whole musical!) I would have loved a duet by Belle and her Beast - a simultaneous attraction and repulsion thing - but it was not to be. Mrs. Potts sang it well though, and Belle and her Beast were instead to her side having dinner.
Gaston creeped me out because he appeared in a skin-tight orange vest! Argh my eyes! He was also somehow quite gay... and oh-so uber swarmy-arrogant you can help but roll your eyes - the poses he pulled! He must have showed off his biseps 10 times!
'For you, mademoiselle.'
'A miniature potrait... of you. You shouldn't have.'
'Don't mention it!'
The Beast was marvelous - scary and swooping and menacing at times, frustrated (but she is being so difficult!) and childish at times, sensitive and charming at times, funny, sad, despondent, vulnerable, scared, in love.
Somehow the Beast stood out more for me compared to Belle, even though she appeared in practically every single scene! Scenes with her father with touching, especially when she said 'take me instead'. Her voice is fantastic, but so is the rest of the cast's and together they make for a great show.
And I shall end this with a quote:
Cogsworth
(suggesting things to woo Belle)
Flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep...
The guy beside me burst into laughter. Boys.
Belle and Beast reading together - sigh... It tied in so nicely with an earlier scene when Belle wished for someone who would understand. And the scene was so tender and knowing and comfortable you couldn't help but believe in their relationship.
HE GAVE HER A LIBRARY.
I can't find more pictures of the musical. =(
One of my favourite scenes was of the Beast singing atop his balcony. Despair, loneliness, dashed hopes. The only true solo on the stage and he deserved it. Bravo to making a beast likable.
The classic Beauty and the Beast song was sung by Mrs. Potts, the teapot! Strange choice, I thought. (I'd been looking forward to the song the whole musical!) I would have loved a duet by Belle and her Beast - a simultaneous attraction and repulsion thing - but it was not to be. Mrs. Potts sang it well though, and Belle and her Beast were instead to her side having dinner.
Gaston creeped me out because he appeared in a skin-tight orange vest! Argh my eyes! He was also somehow quite gay... and oh-so uber swarmy-arrogant you can help but roll your eyes - the poses he pulled! He must have showed off his biseps 10 times!
'For you, mademoiselle.'
'A miniature potrait... of you. You shouldn't have.'
'Don't mention it!'
The Beast was marvelous - scary and swooping and menacing at times, frustrated (but she is being so difficult!) and childish at times, sensitive and charming at times, funny, sad, despondent, vulnerable, scared, in love.
Somehow the Beast stood out more for me compared to Belle, even though she appeared in practically every single scene! Scenes with her father with touching, especially when she said 'take me instead'. Her voice is fantastic, but so is the rest of the cast's and together they make for a great show.
And I shall end this with a quote:
Cogsworth
(suggesting things to woo Belle)
Flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep...
The guy beside me burst into laughter. Boys.
poke
watch Stardust
seriously
watch
the shopboy who turns Orlando Bloom-esque who turns into a mouse who wants cheese who turns into the ruler of Stormhold who flies into the sky
the pretty girl who will marry the guy with the cooler wedding gift
the other pretty girl who flies out of the sky (and glows) and gets onto a unicorn like 'oh of course there's a unicorn! who's surprised that a unicorn appeared?' and wears amazing dresses and a bathrobe
the beautiful scary witch with her knife and her green magic
Captain Shakespeare who deserves to be watched rather than described
the prince in a bathtub
the girl who goes 'I'm Bernard' in the lowest register a guy can have
the ghosties
the prologue with the Prince Caspian actor
the keeper of the wall! and his karate moves!
the other witches and their sacrificed animals
the ghosties!
the fairytale that will make you feel happy despite your best defences.
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