De Niro Sealed it All - A Stardust Review

As Christmas approaches, the genre of movies being shown have magically turned to fantasy. All to the happiness of frustrated warlocks like me. From unicorns to ogres or from giants to dwarfs, they all seem welcome attractions and distractions. Hehe!

Last Wednesday, I was lucky enough to finally get a chance to watch my much-anticipated movie on the big screen on its first day. I just came off from duty, feeling tired after almost 8 hours of wrestling through my nursing tasks.

The movie started quite bleakly- its fifteen minutes of slowly introducing its characters to the moviegoers was done in subtlety. Maybe it was so much subtle that I did not even get to prepare myself of the viewing experience I was about to be enthralled.

The storyline was packed with adventure, drama, love, magic and a whole lot of different things. Despite the disarray of characters and emotions, it all seemed to have blended well like coffee is to cream.

Michelle Pfeiffer (did I even spell it right?) was the perfect villainess. Though superficial her reasons are for doing so, she epitomizes the usual dark and murky persona befitting a royal enchantress.

The two main characters (Claire Danes and Charlie Cox) were equally superb. I don't really like Claire Danes but here she glows ( literally or not!). Charlie Cox, though quite unknown by my standards, made Tristan as believable a known fact.

Oh and Robert Deniro! You wouldn't expect how his character would turn out. He had me laughing like a hyena when he made his dance number. You shouldn't miss it I tell you! He truly sealed the deal!

My overly critical self ended up enjoying two hours of pure exhilarating movie experience making me wanting for more.

But all things have to come to an end!

Stardust will surely be a favorite. I better go off and do some quick editing in my profiles because my favorite movies has just had their new companion.

No regrets. It was all worth it.

Shi**y Experience

For the past days, I have been contemplating on changing the blogger template. Being the new blogger that I am, I ended up utilizing as much as the blogger template had to offer. I've invested on learning a little HTML to somehow alleviate my ignorance. Just the basics as they say.

Last night, I came upon Pyzam and it offers templates way better that what I saw in blogger. No offense to blogger, but there were a few selections thee that I really like and might actually even love (murag love story).

So, I went ahead copying the code and changing my template. The worst part of it is that in the process, all HTML code I have made in my side bar as well as my Adsense are also going to be deleted. Heck I'm not gonna do it. Of course, I wouldn't want to redo all my code and having to copy it again and paste it is much of a hassle to me. (Call it laziness)

It's just that I suck at HTML.

I shifted from CompE to Nursing because I never liked programming.

Mao ra!

Aaawww

During childhood, we express emotions so genuinely because we are untainted by personal gain. We do not manipulate people to get what we want. Although we throw tantrums but once Mama or Papa gives us the "look", we fold like a pliable sheet.

In the spirit of sweetness and in memory of our childhood, I am sharing this simple video.

Makes me want to become the child I was all over again!


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Kangaroo beats Aussie Car Racers

In what could have a usual car racing day in Australia, an unexpected guest racer joins in.

After the gunshot signalled go, in the middle of race track turned up a galloping kangaroo. The riders, instead of getting busy fighting amongst themselves, had an extra load of work up their sleeves to ensure the poor creature survives the race track with minimal injuries.

True enough, the kangaroo was saved and it survived a day of peril in the race track.

Call it fish out of water!

Resident Evil Never Fails Me Part 2

Truly, watching Resident Evil on the big screen is both a viewing delight and an intellectual experience. Not only is it fit for the lovers of the said RPG game, but to the general viewing public. Although it would require a lot of toning down of its violent scenes to make suitable for the children.

Mila was superb. Not only was she a sight to behold but she also emanated a believable expertise in the martial arts that one would envy all her abilities.

The supporting cast was equally notable. Although most of them died in the flick, their deaths were absolutely not put to waste because it made the viewing experience a lot more scary, a lot more believable and to some point a lot more gory.

The movie ended quite as expected. Mila's quest was not finished and the pursuit for Umbrella Corporation has just started. I am eagerly anticipating the next installment because fro sure it would exhibit a dozen more Milas.

And it Struck Me

I was reading a blog of another famed blogger, Migs, regarding falling in love - and how it washes everything away like a flash flood.

In a world of superficiality, people do not get to appreciate the simplicity that surrounds us. Only when we are with our true love, do we get to see that the petals makes the flower jubilant with color, that the water is silent when it runs deep and the sky is blue because of the sea.

I would have been in no writing mood but because of this song, I am obliged to share a simple and poignant symbol of how genuine love should be.

I present to you, "Never Saw Blue Like That" by Shawn Colvin - soundtrack of runaway Bride and Dawson's Creek.

Never Saw Blue Like That by Shawn Colvin

Today we took a walk up the street
And picked a flower and climbed the hill
Above the lake

And secret thoughts were said aloud
We watched the faces in the clouds
Until the clouds had blown away

And were we ever somewhere else
You know, it's hard to say

And I never saw blue like that before
Across the sky
Around the world
You've given me all you have and more
And no one else has ever shown me how
To see the world the way I see it now
Oh, I, I never saw blue like that

I can't believe a month ago
I was alone, I didn't know you
I hadn't seen or heard you're name
And even now, I'm so amazed
It's like a dream, It's like a rainbow, it's like the rain

And somethings are the way they are
And words just can't explain

Cause I never saw blue like that before
Across the sky
Around the world
You've given me all you have and more
And no one else has ever shown me how
To see the world the way I see it now
Oh, I, I never saw blue like that before

And it feels like now,
And it feels always,
And it feels like coming home

I never saw blue like that before
Across the sky
Around the world
You've given me all you have and more
And no one else has ever shown me how
To see the world the way I see it now
Oh, I, I never saw blue like that before

Oh, I, I never saw blue like that