TGIF

Awwwww!

Squeeeeee!

Less than 2 months to go and my inner geek-ness is getting all excited after seeing this trailer last week! Time to take out my Star Trek video collections and rehash my favourite Star Trek moments - yes, I still own a VCR. In the meantime let's make do with this til May 8 2009 arrives.

Sign O The Times (Part II)

It's been a rather stressful week so I thought what better way to unwind than to give myself afew good laughs...at times like these I wish I was back in London..

Smile

Can I help it if I'm such a fan??
Look at that smile..

Picture Perfect

Look at how Shiloh has grown! I just can't get enough of that blonde bob of hair, round cheeks, luscious lips, leggings and trendy sneakers (can't imagine Suri Cruise looking this adorable and hip at the same time) - you're definitely gonna be a heartbreaker one day....

A hunting we will go

MISSING

90 yellow rubber duckies
Last seen: 3 months ago bobbing down from the Jakobshavn glacier on Greenland's west coast
Reward: $100 to the first person who finds a duck

He's no dimwit

After reading a review-slash-spoiler of the movie two hours before actually watching the movie last night, I had this sinking feeling this movie was heading in the direction of Tom Cruise's War of The Worlds-logic. Could Keanu save the day..for me and Medulla?

Turns out reviews can sometimes be wrong. And in Keanu's case, biased. Despite being a remake of the original 1951 black-and-white film of the same name, The Day The Earth Stood Still is thoroughly enjoyable even if the premise of the show is somewhat environmentally cliche - planet Earth in danger of dying..due to abuse from humans..in order to save planet Earth, need to get rid of humans. Plus Keanu makes such a believable alien (yes, I do admit his dimwit reputation does affect his box-office ratings but that's something I'm willing to overlook *hehehe*) that I can't imagine any other actor in the role as Klaatu, although he does show his age in this movie (again, who cares!?!)

In the meantime, I'll be dreaming of Keanu tonight *DROOL*

Karma

AS the saying goes "what goes around, comes around". So with news of O.J Simpson being sentenced to 15 years in prison for a botched hold-up in Las Vegas a year ago, it got me thinking whether this is payback for his past..

Happiness

After

How far would you go to achieving perfection?

Apparently as far as injecting oneself (face to be exact) with cooking oil.

Each to their own, I guess...but at what cost?

Before

Sign O The Times

I know my recent posts have been on a serious tone so let's lighten things up with these:

To enter or not to enter, that is the question.

This is just too funny! Hahahaha...

Toilets rule!

Another Monday folks and I know some, if not all, of you are already counting down the days to Friday (and ultimately the weekend!)...wouldn't it be cool to have at least one Monday off for each month? Wishful thinking aside, here's something we don't often hear or read about. Who would have thought "toilets" and "lifesavers" could be uttered together where our health is concerned?

Crunch time

First and foremost, my sincerest apologies for the lack in blog activity. With Raya (I lost count over the number of open houses I'd visited this year!!), work commitments as well as a recent family loss all happening within the space of my last post, I must admit that blogging was the least of my priority although some of you might argue "if I can go on Facebook on a daily basis, then what's so different about blogging?" But let's not debate much on that for I am back peeps!

And what better way to get back into the swing of things by imparting my thoughts on the US presidential election. Yes, in less than 48 hours' time, the new leader of the world will be revealed. For now we will hold our breaths while the Americans put down their votes. Will history beckon for Obama as the first black American President? Or will there be an upset? Has McCain done enough to convince the population that he is nothing like the soon-to-be former prez?

The odds are stacked in favour of Obama. That is if we are to believe what the press have been feeding us. And let's not forget the high octane celebrity endorsements that have been shoved down our faces from day one (Oprah..Scarlett...JT..Madonna..Gwyneth..just to name a few) Heck, even the rest of the world are hoping for Obama to hit the jackpot! That, my friends, is saying a lot about what the rest of the world thinks of the Yanks.

I, for one however, can't seem to understand nor find any solace in Mr O's appeal. Is he really all that? Or just some? Perhaps I'm still reeling from my disappointment over Hilary Clinton's loss *sigh*

Whatever the outcome may be, at least I can be comforted in the fact that the reign of ho**or aka Dubya will be gone...gone baby gone!

Road to nowhere

Between this and the earlier post, I'd probably take the latter!! This is scarier *hahaha*

To go or not to go?

Proceed at your own risk...

What not to do

How assuring!

The real world?

Not sure whether Bill Gates did say these but it's hard not to disagree with them. This is particularly true where our young ones are concerned. While admirable, not everything in life can be seen in black and white and until the day real life actually hits them hard on their faces, that's when they'll realise real life isn't all that they'd aspired it to be.

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.


Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem.

The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school.

You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.

Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now.

They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you

thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try

delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT.

In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to

get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters.

You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF.

Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life.

In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds.

Chances are you'll end up working for one.

More magical experiences

Or how about this?

Magical Experience

This must be one special toilet! And it only costs 50 cents to experience the "magic" behind it *LOL*

Girl Power?

Ever since the world was introduced to one Sarah Palin, there isn't a single website/newspaper/magazine/news channel/tv programme that hasn't mentioned her name. As Obamania appears to be fading away, Palinmania has hit the States as per The Telegraph, - she 's even got her own action figures now!

Hillary who?

Strangers in the night

When Stephen King wrote "That's why I can't imagine that anything in X-Files will match Liv Tyler's exchange with one of the masked home invaders in one particularly terrifying scene of The Strangers.

''Why are you doing this to us?'' she whispers.

To which the woman in the doll-face mask responds, in a dead and affectless voice: ''Because you were home.''

In the end, that's all the explanation a good horror film needs."

..I knew I had to check this one out.

Based on true events, a couple find themselves menaced by a trio of masked psychos in the middle of the night and in the middle of nowhere. There were so many memorable scenes to choose from, mostly which involved a whole lot of ear and eye-closing as well as hiding behind bags, but one that stuck out was when Liv Tyler's character tried to hide underneath the bed, only to discover she can't fit there!!! (Note to all: check your beds. If you can't fit underneath it, get a new one. Or if junk is stored, get rid of them!)

If you like a good scare, which certainly did it for me, then this is a must-see (sorry mozart and Miss J, this one is definitely off-limits to the both of you) - currently showing at Q-lap Mall @ 11.20pm.

But the moral of the story: never buy or stay at a house where there are no nearby neighbours.

Oh, and if someone knocks in the middle of the night, let it be.