06.28.08
Euphoria Pre-Launch 08
Man.
Psychedelic orange lights.
A glass bridge I can’t walk across because I was wearing a dress.
Damn music that refuses to let you stand still.
Stilts.
Freakin’ screaming NINETEEN NINETY NINE for some stupid reason.
Freakin’ screaming HOLIDAYYY IT COULD BE SO FUN for another stupid reason.
Someone was screaming along with me.
Puke all over my new salmon-coloured shoes.
The puke wasn’t mine.
Hoisting a collapsed drunk out.
The world is spinning…
…but you’re forced to focus because the comatose drunkard’s well being depends on you.
A downright mess in front of a five-star hotel.
The mess wasn’t mine.
A frantic search for a parking ticket…
… only to give up and pay the RM20 fine…
…only to find out the next day that Touch n’ Go was used.
LOL. Let’s do it again!!!
06.24.08
Made of crap (part 2)
In my hurry to post that up, I forgot to mention a few things too, so do bear with me…
Another romantic comedy, My Best Friend’s Wedding, (starring the beautiful Julia Roberts, the vivacious Cameron Dias, and token man whatshisnameihavetogoogleitup Dermot Mulroney) has a similar plot to, if not completely ripped off for, Made of Honour. Now, let me point out the blatant sexism in the latter show.
In MBFW, Julianne realizes that she’s in love with her guy bestie when he announces that he’s getting engaged. So she tries to fight for her man, as sneakily as McDreary did in MoH. But the way Julianne was portrayed leaned slightly more towards vile temptress instead of ‘gallant’ the way McDreary was. Julianne was condemned when she was discovered by both the fiancee (understandably) AND her best friend. She doesn’t even get the guy!
Why do they paint McDreary as this knight on a white horse (literally) come to rescue the damsel, while poor Julianne ends up alone in the final wedding scene looking wistfully after the happy married couple and accepting a dance with her GAY FRIEND?!
Similarities between the two movies include sidekicks who encourage the protagonists to fight for what they want. For Julianne, it’s the aforementioned gay guy. For McDreary, it’s a black guy. Why do they have to be some member of the minority who happen be witty with good comic timing? It’s like some scriptwriter said to him/herself, “Right… so we’ve got the two good looking white leads to appeal to audiences… now let’s throw in a funny black/latino/jewish/asian/gay character to show how diverse and accepting we are.”
Nice try, Hollywood!
06.23.08
Made of crap
So I watched Made of Honour (starring Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan and Kevin McKidd (you’ll recognise him from Rome)) last week because good ole Bestie had free tickets. It’s your usual run-of-the-mill romantic comedy that Hollywood seems to churn out every quarter of a year like there is this automated film-producing machine that churns out romantic comedies every quarter of a year.
As generic as the movie was, something stuck out like a sore thumb: Why in the world is he purportedly MADE OF HONOUR if he’s trying to ruin his best friend’s wedding?! Not only ruin her wedding, but ruin her chances at being some freaking Scottish duchess in a PALATIAL home where she can just spend her days riding horses and looking at sheep or kissing random Scots in funky matromonial rituals or whatever form of entertainment they have there! What a refreshing change of scenery from congested, polluted NYC where she is from.
And from what we see of his character, he’s far from ‘honourable’… he has spent at least the last 10 years sleeping with random women and treating them callously and then taking it for granted that his best friend will always be around to hang out with him.
Why should an undeserving, selfish bastard like him get the girl in the end? Because he’s McDreary McDreamy? Arrgh.
I think I have a problem with the movie only because of its pun-y title that doesn’t really work. It sounds clever but is in fact, neither descriptive of the show (from my perspective anyway) nor its main character. In my line of work, making puns for the sake of making puns will earn you nothing less than a sharp riposte from the powers that be.
If the movie title was, say ”The Undeserving, Selfish Bastard Gets The Girl As Usual – Don’t Watch”… I’d probably take on a much more forgiving and receptive attitude towards the show in general.
Yea, real mature, hehe.
06.09.08
All that’s gold DOES glitter
I bought this for her.
This is the LaCie Golden Disk. It is a stunning 500GB External HDD which you can plug n’ play with a PC or Mac. It’s not stunning because it’s 500GB, which is nothing compared to 1TB monsters out there, but because it literally dazzles you. The freakin’ thing SHINES. It’s a smooth gold colour all over, with an actual small percentage of real gold. The distortion you see is caused by this wave on its surface, as the top is not flat.
Designed by Ora Ito, a young European industrial designer so revered people even want to buy his imaginary products.
I just wanted something she could put to good use. It was a bonus it looks realllly glam. I would’ve just settled for some plain looking one were it not for Bri, so thanks Bri. Well I’m happy she’s happy. It’s a change from always feeling the way I feel.
I’m glad she enjoyed her weekend at my place.
06.07.08
Randomness
I”m a bit high on wine. We had a bottle of Merlot at Boathouse, which went down very easily for me. It had a pleasing berry-ish taste that’s not too light- or full-bodied.
I heart Boathouse very much! So does my dog. It’s co-owned by a lesbian couple (I think), so it’s a very relaxed, very accepting place. It’s dog-friendly, for example. It’s very cosy, with woody, ethnic type of decor with soft lighting. They have an excellent menu – they’ve got many western specialties as well as local stuff, a great dessert selection, and quite a decent drink list. We’ve been going back over and over again just to work our way through the menu. Price range is comparable to… Alexis or Chillis, I would think. Lesbians go there, but so do many regular people and apparently quite a few local celebs. It’s just like this hidden little cosy spot in the middle of TTDI.
What an awesome place.
I was tempted to send an SMS or two. You know those drunken SMS-es you have a 90% chance of regretting the next day? Like… “hey,wat r u doin, im @ zouk.u hav a small dik.i look fantastic.” Or something like that anyway, lol. But I was sober enough to decide against it. When you reach a certain age, getting drunk is just no longer a valid excuse for doing stupid things, you know? Like… humping someone’s leg, or stripping on table tops, or appearing unannounced at someone’s place, or whatever. You grow older, you need to start being respectable, you ought to know your limits by now, bla bla…
Growing up sucks, did I ever mention that?
If you’re high or drunk, you’re expected to gracefully retire and go home and sleep. Because you have to work the next day. *#@! that!
06.02.08
I post more in my flog than my blog
Ok not exactly flog… more like a blog for one of our major clients. I’ve stayed up til 5am for several random nights already just getting it populated and making it look more presentable. It’s crazy! There are way more posts there than here… and apparently some people think I’m funny in that blog. LOL.
This blog is so boring compared to that one, hahaha.. I guess it’s because that’s what I have to do to FUND MY DOG’S EXPENSIVE TREATS. And my clothes and shoes and bags. And my parents miscellaneous bills. And my Viagra. Man, life is all about $$$ sometimes. It’s ridiculous! It’s never-ending!
I wonder what it’ll be like to be in this Star Trek-like utopia, where we’ve reached a point in civilization so advanced that money will no longer be the currency of economy. In Star Trek, they have like matter replicators so you will always have your basic needs like food and clothes. I’m assuming they have found renewable or unlimited sources of energy to power up the world’s living needs and more, like technological advances. So with those sort of resources on hand, everyone on Earth will be well provided for. No poverty, suffering, pollution (because you no longer have to burn fossil fuels, and people are sufficiently smart and evolved enough to know not to smoke) and whatever crap we have now in the 21st century. Man, with all these improvements… money would be the last concern on anyone’s mind.
Em yea, and Picard rocks my world.
