Serendipity

Don’t download movies, it’s piracy! It’s not file sharing, it’s stealing! After all, why download when you can watch it all online? :p

www.movieforumz.com - Remember this link, and you’ll thank me for that! Hehe.

[sidenote: Should I get the 500mb external HDD for $249? For erm, archiving purposes. =x]

Watched a few movies online over the last 3 days, and I’m gonna watch Cashback and The Bourne Ultimatum soon. :p Hiak hiak. Here are my reviews, amatuerish as ever:

1) 1408 - Nice show of a guy acting with himself most of the time. Great acting.

John Cusack stars as Mike Enslin, a famous writer renowned for disparaging paranormal events. Upon receiving a postcard with the only note, "Do not enter room 1408", he decides to leave his hometown to where his ex-wife is living, New York, and check into the notoriously haunted Dolphin Hotel.

Mike specialises in horror, but is agnostic about what he cannot see and touch. Having constructed an entire career on his ability to dispel superstition and "haunted house" rumours, he’s convinced that the afterlife is the average person’s false comfort for the weak minded.

Mike’s latest project is a book entitled "Ten Nights in Haunted Hotel Rooms," and it seems that in room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel, this skeptical scribe may finally find evidence of the supernatural. Implored by the hotel manager (Samuel L. Jackson) not to enter room 1408, Mike defiantly procures the key and prepares to dispel yet another spectral sham.

As is the case with many of life’s most profound epiphanies, the writer who thought he knew it all is caught entirely off-guard at the precise moment he least expected it. Subsequently faced with undeniable proof of an afterlife, Mike may have a best-seller on his hands if he can simply survive until sunrise.

2) Wild Hogs - Damn funny, 4 loser-ish guys try to follow their hearts, to follow their biking dreams. They leave town, and came upon adventures they would never have seen themselves getting into.

3) The Ultimate Gift - The best things in life are not seen, not labelled with a price, not felt by anything but the inner souls and the heart. Grandfather leaves Jason with the ultimate gift [as his inheritance], which is a series of gifts that Jason can only receive upon completion of several tasks. He finds that there are other things more important than money itself.

4) John Tucker Must Die - Guy dates 3 girls from different cliques, so that they do not talk to one another and find out. One day a teacher fell ill, and truth be told, they found out John Tucker happened to be dating all of them. The girl who works at the restaurant Tucker brings these girls to, was often unnoticed. Under the supervision of these 3 girls, she transforms into someone she was not, and made Tucker fell in love with her. Can she help these 3 girls take revenge? Or lose herself in the process [forgetting who she really is]?

5) I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry - 2 best friends work together as fire fighters, always there for one another in life and near-death experiences. Widower Chuck finally gets over his grief, but realises he was too late to change the beneficiaries of his insurance claims to his 2 children. In America, there are gay laws that allow the homosexuals to get married. Having no other people he could trust more, Chuck entrusts perfectly-straight Larry with the task of taking care of his kids financially in case he loses his life to a fire-fighting session. Larry agreed, only because Chuck saved his life once, and told him he would do anything for him, in return. Both guys thought it was be a low-key thing, but ended up having to cohabit like a real pair of gay lovers to avoid being found out that the whole thing is fake. Honestly, I find the bathing scene to be the funniest, as the director over-dramatises how one of the fire-fighters slipped the bar of soap out of his hands, and refuses to pick it up. This is a flick about how far true friends would go for one another.

I have prolly talked about the revamping of my room since 2.5 years ago, that’s how long some of you have known me. :p I have been procrastinating, and finally getting my posterior ready to finish what I’ve somewhat started.

You are welcomed to click on the 2 photo montages to have a better view, and hopefully the first one doesn’t give you nightmares or remind you of your own warehouse or storeroom!

After my grandma passed away in February 2005, I took over her room. We’ve been using that room for more storage space thereafter. It’s embarressing to confess, that my entire nuclear family had slept in the same room [with many mattresses] as that was the only room with air-conditioner back in our old home. When we moved to this new house, the female-with-the-same-set-of-parents and I were supposedly sharing a room, but somehow, the bulk of her stuffs took over the room instead.

So eventually all of us bunked in the same room, and some years later, she decided to ‘live on her own’, and took over the shared bedroom as her own. -.-"

When I finally took over my grandma’s room, it was in such a huge mess, there wasn’t even space to put a mattress in, let alone have space to walk!

We’ve had arguments because she was the one who told me to inform her when I want to clean up my room [so that she can do so at the same time, and return me my stuffs]. In the end she went ahead first, and one day I came home to a lot of my stuffs in my new room. I guess it’s basic courtesy that I should get informed about it at least a day in advance?

But it’s thanks to her that I finally get my engine started. I had to, else I’d not have a space to sleep.

The room was completely left untouched for quite sometime after I had my heart broken, afraid that any photos/stuffs would incite some past memories. Kudos to my Mummy for helping to buy the paint for my room [dark blue and purple], and painting the room while I was busy at work. Her painting skills aren’t fantastic, but perhaps it was a good thing we’ve never painted this room before [apart from the time the house was painted in light green by the contractors, before we moved in]. So the light-green color [which looks more like white instead] took very well to the darker colors.

I dare not say the same for the other rooms in the house though. =X

Come to think of it, I only took like 2-3 full days to complete the revamp of my room. And my room is officially the nicest in my house! :p The female-with-the-same-set-of-parents is still living in a sty, although her furniture came in months earlier. :p

I’d like to say that I’m an organised person, once my things are organised, I’d seldom mess them up. My sis is a messy person, so even if she cleans up her room, it’ll still get messy eventually. =X

I like my softies, the ones in my top cabinet. Hiak hiak. YAY! Just too bad the hello kitty mouse hasn’t arrived yet, else I’d have taken a photo of the keyboard and mouse [that screams 'BIMBOTIC']. Haha.

I’m a happy girl today! My chair is so comfortable! My room is so cosy! =X Time to remove the plastic sheets from my bed, pillows and bolster. =X Keke.