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So, it’s almost the end of the first week of 2012 but since I’ve been out of town recently, I haven’t got the chance to say Happy New Year folks! Let me tell you in brief what I will do this year. 2012: I’m gonna be 2.0 which means I’ll upgrade myself in many many aspects. First of all, I am still a half-vegetarian. Processed and canned meat still isn’t allowed in my body and I will strictly limit my intake on meat. Also in 2012 I will do more morning jogs and am planning to sign in a yoga class. Then I’m gonna take on as many Spanish as possible to get that ‘advance’ badge. I will have this short movie project pretty soon and that will be an exciting challenge because I submit my presence as the producer (YEAAY!) much work to be done there. More baking and cooking for me because I am an amateur cook and as a woman, my feminine side can’t take that tittle. I got to be at least ‘good’ at cooking. As for movies, less is more in 2012. I’ve been crazzzzy about it last year and it was awesome but it’s time to upgrade my other interest. Oh and the biggest project of 2012: find a scholarship abroad. College life is just around the corner so yeah, it’s gonna be an epic journey for me, thus I want a Sunny January for my beginning. 

3 movies to start the middle of the week, randomly I watched these movies and I’m instantly in love with the setting, angle and the technique their using while shooting. Well, without further or do, I present….

ANOTHER EARTH

To me, the most artistic part of this movie is the way they take the shots. It’s magical and enchanting but also real. The story line itself is deep and different. A little summary; Rhoda was just 17 when her can crash on another car and killed a whole family. When she came out from jail, she figured out that the father isn’t dead and she’s trying to make up her mistake but ended up losing her guts. In her effort of escaping earth and reality, she entered a contest to win a trip to earth II. Now if you’re an indie lover like myself, this movie is a must. It’s beautiful.

TREE OF LIFE

BluRay is now my new best friend, and HD too of course. Because they always add 

the excitement in movie experience. Tree of Life is a poetic movie that took mybreath away with its ambient. A family with a regular family problem living a regular life. A simple idea but that’s where the art is. When you translate a, what seems to be an ordinary thesis, into a personal message. it’s very much like a poetry. Anyway, I couldn’t judge this picturesque movie because this is that kind of movie where you have to experience the meaning yourself.

ONE DAY

This is personal to me, I thought at first this is gonna be another romance story. A little comedy, a little tears, a lot of romance kissy kissy scene. but I was wrong. The relationship between Emma and Dexter is like no other I’ve seen, it’s close to Harry and Sally but not similar. A little summary; Em and Dex met after a

graduation party, they begin as a romantic friends but continue on as just friends.Every year for 20 years on one day (15th july) they somehow always cross one another. They have  moments where they live a different life but in short, they’ve always needed each other. Until one day, they realize, they are meant for each other. To me, what makes this movie so romantic in its own way, the setting of time and place of course, and that platonic love. the best kind of love. Best line was when Dex said ‘I’m just better when you’re around’ likewise here, Dex. I am just better when that best friend of mine is around.

Holiday is on its way close! and I got just the entertainment when all the TVs are playing same old holidays movies, the radio singing the same song again and again and where you can just spend your spare time before family dinner. The special feature is, all the game that I picked DO NOT HAVE any opponent, cause yes, I don’t like to lose and it’s better to see your own score increase. These games I found are in Google Chrome App Store, so for all you Chrome lover, search away!

Flood-It! is one of my ultimate time killing game. The objective it to flood the whole board with one color. You can choose 3 board; Small, Medium or Large. Small board allows 25 moves or pick of colors, if you click more than 25 times before you can flood all the board, you lose. The medium board got 35 moves and the large one got 50 moves. What’s great about this game is, for me, I always want to beat my best move. at the moment it’s 20 (halla!)

WordSquared is the perfect choice for words fetishes, vocabulary lovers and scrabbles addict (like myself). This is just like scrabbles but you do not have an opponent. You just complete your own board with your own words. There’s achievement to be completed and that self pride when you can use all 7 tiles. Not the mention all the new words you can learn (I know it sound so geeky) makes you fell kinda smart! you can connect by twitter, facebook, goggle account and many more.

Sinuous is an addicting, relaxing, simple game. My kind of game! This is super simple, all you got to do is move the blue string thingy around to get score and avoid the red dots. You also can get extra life, gravity shield to make the red dots move away, shield to move through the red dots and get scores, minimize dots to make the red dots smaller and time warp to make the blue thingy move slower. Every time you level up, it’ll get faster and faster so, test it your self and I will ask you “wasn’t that addicting?”

Chain Rxn is these colorful bubbles that makes a chain reaction whenever they touched each other, and beside the pretty colors and that anxiousness you get whenever there’s 1 last ball that you have to capture, it’s actually just THAT. How simple, right?You just got to complete trapping a particular sum of bubbles in order to go to the next level, but you know, I really like those pretty bokeh-like colors. Oh and you should connect with Facebook for this one.

Little Alchemy is one of those brain twisting game of discovery. It will leave you questioning. How to play this game is easy but it’ll get tricky to the point of you screaming “NO, I WONT USE THE CHEAT SHEET” but you know you want to. So, just drag and drop the elements that you have to make other elements appear, there are about 280something elements to be found with just 4 or 6 elements to start with. Other similar game is Doodle God but it’s better to play Doodle God in iPhone or iPod.

hell yeah, it is December and I will recapitulate on what I did and probably did not do on November. For starter, I did a video clip cover on Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris’ We Found Love. It was so much fun. I got to dress up like a bad girl, went to airport 

(for the 1st time) and illegally shot video there ahaha, rode on the trolley, direct the whole thing and edit the video till it’s done and done! It was a lot of work nevertheless was it a bundle of fun and joy. I’d do it again for sure, in fact I already have a plan! 

Then I did see Tintin the movie with my mom,dad,sister,uncle and aunt. I am in love with him. British boy oh British boy. Well, the movie itself I think is an epic animation. Detail, well adapted and exciting. 

After the video clip, I got a play assignment. Boy, this time I’m on sun’s flare. I got approximately 10 days to prepare and practice etc. so just imagine costume planning,property,backsound,sfx,script,practice and budgeting in 10 fat day. At the end I did well and my group… we went on stage and thankfully we did good.

My parents and uncle love love love Tintin very much so,now seeing Tintin in that wide screen seems so surreal. The story was also fun. I could not help but to say, J’adore Pirates. I love detectives stories, action, dogs and British boy. So this movie is, personally, a perfect entertainment! 

It’s a feast!! my friends are turning 17 these months (Nov-Dec) so we’re planning parties and went to one. on 19th of November I went to Silvi’s 17th birthday party. It was raining and I was tired from the debate competition earlier in the morning but It was a fun opportunity to dress up!

Watch the National Basketball team play against Malaysia’s team in SEA GAMES! and took pictures with 3 of the player and the coach. They’re so freakishly (but coolly) tall.

Finally I watched Another Earth. one movie I am so curious about that when I watched it, I feel like I don’t want to know what’s it about. Full review is coming your way so be patience and we’ll see together.

Other things that I did: 

1. Sang karaoke for the first time with my family. I sang a Mandarin song, a Japanese song and an India song. guess who got 95 of score singing ‘Tsunami’? yup, it’s me and my sist!
2. Addicted to Foster the People 
3. Busy to the point I have to fall asleep to rest. Didn’t even remember when was the last time I PLANED to sleep. 
4. Got so tangled in the play and video clip, I fail to do other assignment
5. Watch 90210 season 1

Busy is now my middle name, therefor, I shall just recap on what happens this month LATER on when all my hectic schedules are cleared. Just so you know, though I’m busy and all, I am having tons of fun. Of course minus the over the limit phone bills, stress, planning, re-planning, directing this and that, going here and there, etcetera etcetera. Shall I say I’m addicted to the euphoria of all this busyness. 

October, october, october. That time of year when scary is fun and vampires are once again suck. So yeah, I’ve always been this anti-horror lady but I never said that I dislike thriller and suspense. Heck, I love mummies, mysteries, murder and unsolved crimes. Though it’s safe so say I’m not into ghosts and paranormal thingy. I mean, why be scared for something that aren’t even real or visible. Aren’t you more afraid of, let’s say, a bumble bee. A whole swarm of it buzzing towards you. Or your friendly neighbor who happens to have a well groomed collection of chain saw and saber? Ah yes, those unsolved questions and inquiries. Well, I’ve got just the theme. Sounds cliche but Alfred Hitchcock took my heart away with his trailer of Psycho, and since noir colors are more thrilling and exciting, I will watch at least 3 of his noir films and let’s see if I can continue with 2 others. Oh and yes, I will watch all of them in flat screen TV. Let the scream begin!!