[insert string of expletives here.]
It's not that I don't have anything to post about; heck, I've got two movies and a bunch of book reviews to flood the world with more proof that I have opinions and bygoshdarnit Imma use 'em.
I'm not out of ideas. I'm not out of things to write.
It's just that I haven't been able to, well... bring them out? Bridge the gap between mind and screen?express myself. Words finally hit me two weeks after postage. Gah.
I'm not even bothered to think of a better way to finish the above sentence, so I hope you catch my drift with those two quarter-assed attempts.
At the moment, I can't even produce coherent sentences. Everything's just a jumble in my head.
Yannoe, I thought I'd really gotten past the block. It looks that the only things I can post about these days are UPDATES!!!!, which are just about the lamest things in the world and really doesn't require effort on my end, which is kinda great in a way ('cuz I'm lazy), but not as well, since there are so many things I need to vent about, and my blog is a channel to get my bitchings through.
But I seem to have lost access to the channel I need to get to the channel that I use to air my rants. Knawmsayin'?
This must be what emo feels like. Minus the suicidal tendencies.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Writer's block's back.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Okay, this review is so, sooo long overdue. Sorry about that. Have just been feeling uninspired and 'meh' lately.
Which brings me back to this movie. Meh.
Didn't hate it, didn't love it. For a movie based on a video game, could've been a lot better.
Likes:
- Alfred Molina. If he's in it, I'll watch it. In this case, I've been meaning to watch PoP already, so two birds, eh?
- The CGI is totally freaking awesome in this film! Every scene with Sand (geddit? Ged the capitalization?) looked absolutely cool, and I loved it whenever time was reversed.
- Nostalgia. I grew up playing the first Prince of Persia game, and though I sucked at it and never got very far ('cuz I suck), it was rare to get a Mac game back in the day. And I loved it. Though I kept sliding off ledges and having bloody deaths.
- Jake Gyllenhaal. Hot hot hot hot! Did not see that coming.
- The Hassassins. Cool, scary mofos. Basically any scene with them in it is awesome, and that snake time-reversing scene was the best of the lot.
- Not enough shirtless Jake. Yes, I'm a geek, but I'm also there to see Jake Gyllenhaal without his shirt on, and unfortunately in this movie, he only has his shirt off in ONE scene. Somewhere near the beginning of the film.
- PG13 storyline. I get that this is a Disney movie, but they didn't have to Disney-fy the ending. Now, I'm not against happy endings or Disney endings in general, but somehow it didn't do it for me here.
- Too much jumping, too little fighting. Seems that he's avoiding fights more than getting into them. Not much use for cutlasses here.
- Moar shirtless Jake!
By the way, is it me, or does Gemma Arterton speak a LOT like Rachel Weisz? Read More......
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Guess who's back!
[Back again. Piggy's back. Tell a friend.]
[Again.]
Annual deadhorse-beating aside, I know I've not updated in a really, REALLY long time, and that I still need to forcefeed the world my two cents on The Persian Prince: The Timely Sands.
Ooo! And Inception! Yay for regular movie-watching! :)
So the title of my post doesn't only refer to my being back to the blogosphere (well, back to be updating a bit more regular that usual hahaha), but also from my KL trip, which I just came back from Friday.
[Ready yourselves for a wall o' text, peeps.]
My department and I were in KL for our Business Development Plan Meeting, which basically details what we'll be doing for the coming financial year. We took Firefly, Thursday morning flight out at 7.05am, which means having to wake up at 5.30am. I had the misfortune of taking like, the slowest cab down to the airport, which caused me to reach said airport at 6.30am, and rush to be checked in, since check-in time is half an hour before take-off.
Upon reaching KL at 8.15/20am, it was a mad rush to the offices, since the meeting was supposed to start at 8.30am, and I say 'mad' because there was a huge, huge jam from Subang to 1Sentral and I really, really, really had to pee.
[And I've always had this phobia about exploding bladders and really horrible agonizing internal-toxic deaths.]
We got there at 9am. Didn't get to pee right away, 'cuz everything started once we walked through the door and put down our bags.
So, despite being called 'Business Development Plan' and hearing from my seniors that it was all about discussing the budget and going through slides and yannoe, really dry stuff, it was a helluva lot of fun! Only about one day was spent on going through the BDP, and the rest was team-building activities and that kind of stuff. First day, we were supposed to go into random food establishments and see how that particular service line is similar to ours. Yay for food assignments! So we went to Meal Station and had breakfast.
Other groups went to Coffee Bean, Le Meridien, McDonald's... ENVY!
Lunch was provided, and was great for both days. Chicken = heaven.
We'd received an email on Wednesday saying that there would be a team event that'll last till 9pm-ish, which I wasn't too excited about, since it would mean that we'll reach our hotel at 10pm, and after the obligatory showering and washing up, sleep at 11pm?
Shudder.
Turns out, we were to go to the badminton semifinals of the Inter-Accounting Firm Games! Which, to me, was infinitely better than what the term 'team event' usually means! Strength for strength, both set of players. The match for the first set of players was really intense; the second, not so much, since the two teams playing weren't really that good. We were up against Deloitte, and we totally won!!!
[Plus, got a PwC t-shirt that day, though it was XXL.]
We stayed in Cititel MidValley, which was pretty awesome. Our room was small, and felt slightly cramped, since they put the two beds pretty close together, but it was clean. (and that's what's most important!). I turned in pretty early that night. Got me some chocolate from Coffee Bean, then went straight back to my room to rest and recuperate and watched 10 Things I Hate About You.
Yes dear reader, you thought correct. There was absolutely nothing else on TV that night.
Second day, meant to sleep in, but I automatically woke up at 5.30am (a-fucking-gain!) and couldn't go back to sleep after. My roomie and I were the first down to breakfast at 7am. Spread was lovely; got roti canai, teriyaki chicken, wedges, franks, the usual egg station... If I were on holiday, I'd have eaten a whole lot more.
Friday was also a lot of fun, but office activities were relatively uneventful, compared to what happened to us after we left office.
We (my three seniors plus moi, not including my boss, whose friend was fetching her to the airport) had booked a taxi from the service in KL Sentral to go to Subang airport, because KL cabs usually charge crazy, but there were absolutely no cabs for the people ahead of us to get on. That was at 6.15pm, with about seven groups of people in front of us.
On hindsight, we would've been much better off hailing a random cab from the sidewalk.
We finally got a cab at 7pm. It was running low on gas, and the driver was female. Like, the needle was at 'E'. She tried to fuel up, actually, but the quite huge-ass petrol station was SO BLOODY FRIGGIN' FULL OF CARS, so she went out on a limb and continued driving.
A quarterway into the journey, heavy, heavy traffic, and it was raining to boot.
My senior joked that if we couldn't reach our flight on time, we should call the airport and tell them there's a bomb on the plane. It was our own version of the Amazing Race, if you will, 'cept that the prize isn't a million dollars but instead, a budget no-frills flight home.
Nervous laughter all around. It was about 7.45pm at that point. Our flight was at 8.20pm.
We reached Subang at 8pm, and very, very luckily, our boss (who had reached earlier than us) managed to persuade the check-in counter to wait for us and not close up in our faces. Also luckily for us, the plane was late, on account of rain.
Still, we ran all the way to the departure gate.
None of us had had anything to eat, and none of us could really eat, after all that happened. My boss had some crackers, but yea, that doesn't really count.
[Random: I've never walked on airplane-runway tarmac before this. I found it totally awesome.]
All-in-all, a very, very fun and eventful two days, and with the inclusion of the final-taxi-ride-to-the-airport, emotionally
The only thing that I'm pissed about from my trip was that despite spending A LOT OF TIME on the road, I did not manage to see a license plate that went, 'WTF'. The acronym was brought to my attention when my roomie told me that she saw one in Penang.
[MOAR ENVEE!!1ONELEVEN1]
Plenty of 'WTR's, and 'WTS's, and 'WTE's(!!) even, but no 'WTF'.
Wtf. Read More......
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