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I'm so Caught Up

2009-04-17T14:46:00.001+08:00

i don't know whether its just me or because i just watched a free screening of "He's Just Not That Into You"...but I have to say that that was one of the few movies which i could say was cruelly accurate.

*warning: Spoilers*

Although some parts of the film which portrayed different times in life (like Ben contemplating adultery and Janine trying to rekindle their marriage or Mary who just can't get into a serious relationship even after trying so many different angles/technologies), we can still relate to certain characters. There were laughs in the cinema but at the wrong times? How is it that people can laugh at Janine after she had to clean up after smashing her mirror? Or how people go 'Aww...' when Alex told Gigi "You're my exception..." Its so cliched.

But whom i really related was Alex and Gigi's story. I liked how the writers allowed two characters to be have different perspective in their love lives while ultimately feeling exactly the same in the end...i.e. how Alex reacted when Gigi wouldn't return his calls exactly the same way how Gigi was with her other dates.

Memorable quote
Kelli Ann: You can't focus, jumping every time your phone rings, checking your e-mail a hundred times a day, wishing you could write songs, feeling the need to bring up her name in random conversations. You can't hide it, man. I know YOU are strung out.
Alex: Shit.

Side note: Suddenly the line "Where do we go now?" from Sweet Child of Mine - GnR pops into my head...

I say I can relate because we know we've all been there before; misreading the signs, getting stuck in a rut, waiting for the right time, getting the rug pulled out from under you, or just feeling lonely. But in the end the greatest thing is you never gave up hope

btw, it definitely was the movie that got me all sappy :P

Rocky's on the rock singing about swinging :P

2009-03-08T00:40:00.003+08:00

i know i know, its taken me a while to actually come up with songs to jam this sem but im swamped so here's the final list... :P

Our Lady Peace - Innocent (no, we're not doing the D.Cook version)

Oasis - Live Forever

Saliva - Bleed for Me

Shinedown - If You Only Knew

Scorpions - Winds of Change

actually, i wanted to do matchbox's these hard times but i can't play that well while singing so too bad :P weeknights should be alright but lets keep it like a fornight thingy...i dont wanna be too swamped :P

solitaire...

2006-05-21T03:01:00.000+08:00

u know that pre-installed game in ur computer that u never play unless u seriously got nothing to do but past the time? probably to past time before ur next class or during class itself? well, its exactly why its named that. solitaire...a word which i can relate with the other word 'solitude'...alone

consider this scenario. isolate two men in two seperate rooms for 2 weeks (of course providing food and water daily). no human contact for 2 weeks. then, introduce another human being (plausibly female) into the first room for a following 2 weeks. Which of the two men would better survive the isolation period? (oh!oh! i know this one! erm...) well, definitely not the second room am i right? he'd probably be screaming 'LEMME OUTTA HERE! i cant take it no more' before u can say 'heebe jeebies! wats wrong with u, u twisted evil genius?'

nothing really, its juz that i wanna prove a point. Man cannot live alone...(when i say man i mean individual human beings. i apologise for any sexual discriminative remarks made) we simply juz cant. why? because we were made from an image of something else (only those who've read Genesis would know wat i mean). because we try to occupy ourselves with needless materials to perfect our living. because we lack a part of our soul that makes us whole. and so we search. we seek for that one thing that can satisfy our hunger for closeness, relation, and recognition.

every1 has this need. and for the fortunate few, their needs are met. man has woman. children have their mothers. servants have their masters. priests, monks, ulamas (and what not) have God. but not every1's as lucky...notice the beggar on the street? the old man sitting alone in the corner of the LRT. the abandoned child weeping in the grocery store. the forsakened with no name to claim their grave. to these individuals i pay tribute to u, for all we ask for is to be loved.

- till the next -

ooo...lookie here

2006-05-04T13:55:00.000+08:00

imagine ur on ur way somewhere or that ur meeting a fren later, and u pass by 'innocent' pedestrians. after a while, u start to notice that there are glances exchanged, sometimes if ur lucky maybe a smile. yea, getting a smile from a total stranger sure can make the heart tingle. but no, that aint the whole piece of the cake. its the weird, long, and often protruding STARES that's bothering.... ever got those when u know this dude or dudette from far far away is staring at ya one kind and u juz cant help but wonder ' wat?! wat r ya looking at? ' now being the malaysian that i am, i returned a favour by cock-staring back.

for those peeps who feel the same please comment on ur experiences * please & TQ *

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~ STRIKE ME NOW ~

2006-05-04T13:45:00.000+08:00

the other day when i was walking in the field, i wondered 'wats the possibility of me getting struck by lightning?' ( FYI: it was cloudy...go figure ) i mean honestly, there have been cases where people have been struck by lightning. I heard bout that on ' The World's Most Amazing Videos'...the best part bout that segment is that the victims survived! well anyway, after walking a bit more, i remembered one of my lecturers mentioning that lightning only strikes the highest point in an area. WHY? i asked. He said ' because lighting is made up of charges on the clouds and on the ground reacting with each other. and since charges carry electric energy, they find the fastest/easiest ( actually the least resistance ) route to travel' - oooo...now theres an interesting science fact for the day! *damn, there goes my chances...* perhapz if i cut down all the trees and bring down the field goal post in the field, then it'll work? HAHAHA... think Jim Carrey in 'Bruce Almighty'... " Smite me oh mighty smiter! "

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its another one!

2006-04-26T23:58:00.000+08:00

yes hello everyone. first of all, i would like to apologise to everyone out there who used to visit my blog and read my rantings for not officially announcing that i would stop blogging. here i am, ready to start a new though. however, i must remind ya that i wont be so 'semangat' to write in weekly. that being said, let the rantings continue. WOOHOO!