2011: A Movie Year in Review

Same as my previous post on the resolutions, I've pulled my 2011 movie list from the side for review purposes. Colored ones mean seen ones; linked ones mean posted-review ones.

2011 Movie List
1) Sucker Punch
2) Thor
3) Priest
4) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
5) Green Lantern
6) Rise of the Apes
7) Transformers: Dark of the Moon
8) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
9) Captain America: The First Avenger
10) Smurfs
11) 11.11.11

And I still can't believe I included Smurfs in that list.

5 out of 11, which is fairly worst than 2010, since the numerator was 6 and the denominator was 10. Ugh. On the plus side, I managed to catch a few others off-list, though I'm surprised that Immortals is not on there, but it may be be that the list I'd checked wasn't updated with Immortals yet.

Anyway, here's my 2011 movie off-list, the reviews of which will be up shortly (except #1 and #7, 'cuz how do you review a concert movie?):

1) Kung Fu Panda 2
- Mom wanted to watch it. Shockingly good.

2) Immortals
- Like I said, didn't even know the movie was due in 2011.

3) The Adventures of Tin Tin: Secret of the Unicorn
- totally unplanned, but my office organized Movie Night so I went. And I'm so so glad I did.

4) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
- also unplanned, but it was Christmas weekend and I had 6 days of non-work.

[And the indirects I watched on Emirates, to and fro Italy:]

5) X-Men: First Class

6) Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil

7) Glee: The Concert Movie
- By the trip back there was nothing else to watch.

2012 movie list up in a bit. AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!! :D

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2011: A Resolute Year in Review

Pulling the list from my side-thingy (it's still there at point of writing), I will review the resolutions I had for the previous year to see how I fared. It's also a slight deciding factor in my 2012 resolutions, which will come in a later post.

So without further ado:

2011 Resolutions - To be...:

1) consistent

- No comment.

2) outgoing

- Fail. I did talk quite a bit more this year, but I don't think it's counts as 'outgoing'.

3) the opposite of the noun for 'procrastinate'

- Borderline pass. This is still a massive work-in-progress.

4) an active blogger

- Argh. 10 less than last year. In my defense, I do have a coupla posts lined up, though I don't think it's enough to make the gap. At any rate, those will go into 2012's number.

5) an active moviegoer

- Okay, I saw only five movies on my list, but watched an additional few more that wasn't. This would mean more than 6/10, no? Anyway, I'ma check this.

6) more patient

- HA!

7) more tolerant and a lot less bitchy

- HA HA HA! Oh, how I crack myself up.

8) thin and fat, simultaneously

- I have no fucking idea what possessed me to type the above sentence, but I'm quite fat now, sooo... based on the above sentence, partially achieved, yes?

9) confident, and not a pushover

- Fuck no for the confidence, fuck YES for the backbone. I'm quite proud of the latter acquisition.

10) Mandarin-proficient, and able to bust a move

- Hell to the effing naw, yo!

Well, 3/10; looks like 2011 was a fairly disappointing year for resolutions.

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Happy New Year!

Happy 2012 everyone!!

Don't let the nighing end mar your celebration! Enjoy the holiday weekend! xD

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Merry Christmas, everyone! :D

Wishing you lovely tidings of joy, happiness, and presents by the ton-ful!~

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Easy.

Ever heard the Paula DeAnda song of the same name? The term 'easy' is usually used for women rather than men (in fact, a lot of derogatory things are used to describe women), but this song comes to mind, if you're looking for opposite instances.

For me, I'm two minds: I think it's ton flattering if a non-repulsive guy shows interest, but if he shows so much interest that it borders or crosses that fine line between affection and desperation, no thank you.

All I'm saying is, the guy shouldn't play hard-to-get, but he also shouldn't put it the fuck out there for everyone to see.

Now, I will detail a situation that is still unfolding before my very eyes, and the futility of this entire exercise is what annoys me the most. More on this in a bit.

Right, here goes: Boy and Girl, separate departments. Boy shows interest; nay, Boy pens 'LOVES HER' in thick black letters on forehead, and proceeds to parade everywhere advertising said inkage in clear view on face. Girl is nonchalant; doesn't seem to encourage, but neither does she discourage.

Boy also likes to visit Girl at her workstation. A LOT.

You may begin to feel slightly sappy and go, "awwwww", but I would tell you at this point that Boy's favourite time to visit Girl is during proper working hours. Not during lunch, not after office hours, BLOODY HELL TO THE NO. He loves to visit her when the working environment is in full swing, and whenever he does, he has to walk right by me to get to her, because Girl's workstation is, unfortunately for me, fairly close to mine.

Oftentimes, Boy visits Girl right about when I am about to assign work to her, or when I need to ask her something work-related. This specifically cheeses me off, because for some reason I actually feel apologetic that I had interrupted his pathetic attempts at endearment in order to get some fucking work done.

Boy even organised a pre-birthday lunch for Girl ('cuz Girl was to take leave on her birthday day), and even got his senior colleague to drive him to the cake shop (so that he could get the cake without her being around), and then drive him to the restaurant we were to lunch in. I mean, aside from the totally un-fucking-necessary subterfuge, I am appalled that a mere month-old n00b actually had the audacity to ask of such a favor from his senior, considering the distance between the cake shop and the restaurant.

And yes, one month. That is how long Boy and Girl had only known each other, when all of the above was happening. The fact that Boy had already been exhibiting stalkerish tendencies within their first days in office, is already sickly sweet and/or shudderificly pathetic, depending on my mood.

That is not even the juicy part. You see, Girl is already, and currently still, in a relationship. /futility

[DUN DUN DUNNNNNN!!!]

Boy should be well aware of this fact, since everyone but me has Facebook these days, and he would've added her in a hummingbird's heartbeat. Like, if I had seen it on her Facebook (she was showing photos and I glimpsed), without a doubt he would have already.

[Unless he had blocked any and every memory of himself seeing her relationship status, and/or is currently in denial.]

Which further highlights the pointlessness of the entire situation. If you love her (or at least, like her deeply enough), stop trailing her like a lovesick asshatpuppy, man the eff up and tell her how you feel. Never mind she has a real boyfriend; ball will be in her court. It may hurt, but at least you'll know where you stand.

After all, all's fair in love, and fortune tends to have a soft spot for the bold.

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A Posting in Point-Form: What I Have Been Up To:

• Finished exams, totally passed, totally stoked.
  
• Went to Italy, French Riviera, mini-Swiss town. Planning to post, with pics. Now looks at local prices and divides it by 4.3.
• Planning to finish off Melbourne trip post as well. Been putting it off for two years now.
• Took a whole bunch of leave from work, slept through most of those days.
• Skipped the office Christmas party, and damned proud about that fact. Still had to contribute to present pool, 'cuz was asked.
  
• Gained weight, got lazy, stopped caring about outward appearance, started wearing flats and the same skirt to work every day.
• Feeling very lethargic and procrastinate-y at all times. Beddy-bye in about an hour.

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So.

I see I've not posted substantial up in at least five months. Needless to say, the writer's block is back.

Naw, that's not right.

Saying that the block is 'back' would mean that the block had gone away at some point. It did not.

I honestly don't get why I can't write like I used to. It's not like I'm perfectly content with my life that I have absolutely no complaints. I am disgruntled about something almost every other hour every day, I have a shitload of things to bitch about, and yet I can't even sum up mere words to express how I feel, no matter how strong.

Granted, I'm not the most eloquent person in the world, but when it comes to writing, I think I can afford a little less modesty and say that I'm good when it comes to putting pen on paper. There are a lot of things I can't do, but the one thing I can, that I'm most proud of, is write.

And now I don't even have that anymore. Ugh.

Anyway, I have three movie reviews lined up since July, one Melbourne trip for chronicling that happened in 2009. Go figure.

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