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That was a short-lived hiatus, wasn’t it? It’s just because I’ve got a few things to blog about now.

Like how I watched Horton Hears A Who just a few hours ago. And how I’m trying to take greater care of my face because my mom asks me too. And how my cousin has opened a blog and I want you to visit him.

But first things first: Horton. He makes me laugh. Not so much the mayor of Whoville. 80% of the movie made me laugh, while the rest of the percentage, made me go, “Why isn’t it making me laugh the whole way?” I liked the movie, don’t get me wrong. I did. I just thought it wasn’t enough. I think it’s just me. Really. It’s typical me. Get all the great reviews from people, and end up disappointed. Not entirely disappointed with Horton, although I can say I preferred The Spiderwick Chronicles, just not entirely satisfied. I’ll give it a 3 out of 5.

So. My face. Nothing is wrong with it, in my opinion. Other than the occasional oily moments, I think I have avoided my face from breaking out, kept it healthy, and all that stuff. But my mom doesn’t seem to be happy with it. As most moms are with the rest of the things you say and do. So I bought myself toner, serum, and some sort of cream (to minimize pores!) from The Face Shop before we caught Horton.

I didn’t spend a fortune, which is a good thing, and I think I’m just going to give it a shot. If my face does break out, I’m definitely going back to just washing my face with good old face wash rather than slathering on creams, toners, serums, and whatnot. But we’ll see what happens.

Lastly, for my post tonight, I would like to plug my cousin, Alim, for his newly-opened blog! Hopefully it stays opened, and constantly updated, unlike his sister’s. Haha. (I know you’re reading this, Liz!) I’m somewhat promoting him and his store, and whatever he has got to offer. Hehe.

Crap. The boyfriend’s MIA again. Going to head to sleep now. Good night!

I just came back from the cinema with 12 other people, and we watched The Spiderwick Chronicles. Being a kid-fantasy-movie buff, the genre in which makes me feel like I’m six and still believe that fabulously magical things exist, I LOVED IT. It was funny, scary, sad.. I loved Thimbletack and Hogsqueal. The funniest characters! One line I remember quite correctly, from Thimbletack was, “I die. You die. We die. Bye bye.” FUNNY! You really have to watch this movie. One of the movies I will surely remember. Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Next movie on the list: Horton Hears A Who. Trailers looks mighty hilarious!

Speaking of hilarious, I got this from Shasha’s entry. It’s KEN LEEEEE!!

ROFLMAO!!

Wow. OK, no. Jason Castro wasn’t so bad this week. Although he was better last week. What I liked about this week was his interview! Go on, click and watch (if you haven’t.)

So adorable.

I watched American Idol tonight, it was the boys’ turn again. Ten of them performed, I only managed to catch six as I returned home from work late because of Knowledge Sharing (a mid-weekly thing that The Company has every last hour of the working day.) But! I thought, out of the six, David Archuleta was the best. He performed brilliantly, and I think his vocals were amazing!

Loved it, absolutely loved it. He came to my attention only during Hollywood week, because I missed the San Diego auditions where he sang John Mayer’s Waiting On The World To Change. If you missed it too, here’s a video from Hollywood week, with a clip from his first audition.

I didn’t watch Jason Castro perform this week (and I can’t be bothered to watch the re-run), but judging by the recap, I didn’t think he did as good as he did last week.

On to another topic: tomorrow’s my last day at The Company, and I start at the new place on Saturday. People are wondering why I’m not taking a break. I personally think that if I take this Saturday off, and have a long weekend, I’ll be extra nervous about starting new. It’s unbelievable, though. The things that I need to be mentally prepared for.

I think physically, I’m fine, because I wasn’t unemployed for long months and early mornings are like nothing, so.. I think I’m going to be all right.

Can you just hear me pepping myself up? LOL.

Speaking of work, The Company had an event called Movie Outing Weekend (or other) on last Sunday afternoon, and we watched Vantage Point at The Empire cinema. I brought my sister along as my plus one, and it was great. I had a great time. The day before, on a Saturday night (Brunei’s 24th National Day), my family and I watched Jumper, also at The Empire cinema. There were a total of 30 — initially 26 — of us. When we called the cinema up to book for tickets, he asked in a disbelieving yet serious tone, roughly translated from Malay to English, “Are you serious? Are you serious to book 20 tickets?”

And I said, in an equally serious tone, “Yes. Adults. And six children.” And he just had to ask again. And again. And he didn’t stop until I promised him that I will be there to collect the tickets in 15 to 30 minutes. LOL. I still find it funny until today.

“Banar kah ni kan booking 20 tickets? Banar kah?”

ROFL. FUN-NEE.

Both movies were great, I loved Jumper, and I don’t know why people felt it was incomplete. I think it was the lack of information of how Jumpers came about, and Paladins. And the sort. I loved it, nonetheless. I give Jumper 4 out of 5 stars, Vantage point 3.5 out of 5 stars. (Ooh. So I rate movies. So sue me. LOL.)

I’m going to head to bed and get some rest. I happen to be having a tiring week, what with the boyfriend being away. Funny. He was always away, but seeing that he’s in another country, he’s just.. farther away? *shrugs*

What I do know, is that I miss him loads.

I think I need to see more David Archuleta videos. His singing cheers me up.

I’m a bit too lazy to post pictures of the Singapore trip as they are too many of them, but here’s the link to the two albums. They are all in chronological order. Heehee. Lazy bum, I am.

What I really want to do is share with you this song I loved from the top 12 guys performances this week on American Idol. I liked the two Davids, though David Hernandez didn’t stand out this week. I also liked Michael Johns, but I loved him most when he sang Bohemian Rhapsody on Hollywood week. He made me sing, too!! “MAMAAAAAAAA!!”

LOL. Only in the comforts of my own home. (I just realized the last paragraph was ‘week’ overkill.)

But the performance that I really loved was of Jason Castro’s. When he appeared to be in the top 24 during Hollywood week, I went, “HUH? Who IS this guy?”

Jason Castro

Then when he was on that stage with that guitar, he was brilliant! Not too keen on the hair, though. Can only imagine how he keeps his head clean. The length of his dreadlocks and his eyes remind me of Gil Ofarim somehow.

So here’s the one song I want to share with my readers. Click play.

Have you ever felt that a song was made for you? I was just going through the CDs I had in Putih — that’s my car’s name — and I stumbled across a Robbie Williams track, one of my favourites, it’s called Better Man. I’ve always liked the song, but I never really had the chance to listen to the lyrics. (I’m a lyrics person.)

Then when I did, I thought, wow. I think this song was made for me. Pushing aside, of course the fact that it’s called Better Man. But nonetheless. The words sort of fit me. It’s like a song I want to sing to the rest of the world without, well, singing. Hahaha.

Here, let me just share the song lyrics.

Send someone to love me
I need to rest in arms
Keep me safe from harm
In pouring rain

Give me endless summer
Lord I fear the cold
Feel I’m getting old
Before my time

As my soul heals the shame
I will grow through this pain
Lord I’m doing all I can
To be a better (wo)man

Go easy on my conscience
‘Cause it’s not my fault
I know I’ve been taught
To take the blame

Rest assured my angels
Will catch my tears
Walk me out of here
I’m in pain

As my soul heals the shame
I will grow through this pain
Lord I’m doing all I can
To be a better (wo)man

Once you’ve found that lover
You’re homeward bound
Love is all around
Love is all around

I know some have fallen
On stony ground
But love is all around

Send someone to love me
I need to rest in arms
Keep me safe from harm
In pouring rain

Give me endless summer
Lord I fear the cold
Feel I’m getting old
Before my time

As my soul heals the shame
I will grow through this pain
Lord I’m doing all I can
To be a better (wo)man

First it was Brad Renfro. Now Heath Ledger?

Possible drug overdose. Really sad, that is.

In other news, I have a horrible headache and back pain. I think it’s because I keep on moving around in bed and can’t sleep well due to the absence of my air-conditioner.

Thankfully, the Internet connection is back to normal.

One of my favourite TV shows is back, and on its seventh season. Unfortunately, to quote a friend, it lacks lustre. It isn’t as funny as it used to be. Maybe the funny writers are on strike. But AI doesn’t use that many writers, or any at all. They have tons of producers. (And editors.)

Other than that.. I have a new woman that I would like to add to my list of “women I want to become.” Which, in the past has only one name on it.

I will share more, but it’s time for me to watch Amazing Race: Asia.

My left eye is bloodshot. It started last night, and I thought it might have just been my contact lens, so I threw it out. But it is still watering and looks worse than last night. I am worried.

Someone I bumped into at a sushi restaurant yesterday said that I might have contracted conjunctivitis. I am still hoping that I haven’t.

I watched National Treasure: Book of Secrets yesterday afternoon. It was completely packed. Even when I booked tickets before midday, the 3 o’clock show was full, only the 5.15PM show was available. And by 4PM, no more seats were available to be booked, save for the single seats in odd places. I know because I tried reserving for two more seats, only ending up with one because the other didn’t want to sit alone.

How was the movie? Great, I loved it. Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars. Way better than AVP — Requiem. I told my boyfriend that AVP — Requiem might have fitted in in the 80’s or 90’s, along with the Chuck Norris films. Haha. He thought I was being funny, but he didn’t appreciate the joke much. LOL.

On an unrelated note. Has anyone had a listen to Jordin Sparks’ No Air with Chris Brown? It’s good.

I’m off. Work is in a few hours. Toodles.

.. I am my mom’s family’s event manager. True story.

I just had a random fight with him. Our first fight in 2007.

Getting off that random boat;

I also watched Alien VS. Predator — Requiem with my colleagues yesterday, including a former blogger by the name of Nadd. (I know you are reading! ) It was such a pity that the movie wasn’t that good. Don’t even waste your money on watching it in the cinemas, or buying a DVD. If your friend, sister, brother, cousin, or spouse has the DVD, then just borrow it off them. But then you’ll be wasting your time.

Just don’t watch it. Rating: 2 out of 5 stars. If it wasn’t for the hybrid, it would have been 1.

But I’d like to thank my colleagues who paid for my ticket and drink! (I didn’t find out in the end because they won’t tell.)

Liz’s family had a barbecue going on last night, and that was loads of fun. Fighting over food and whatnot. Haha. I don’t know if they had chocolate fondue (again) because I left to watch the movie.

I hate that tomorrow is a working day. I just want to laze about at home. Which, I seem to be not doing ever since I’ve got those things they call spare time. Whatever spare time I have, someone is bound to have something for me to do. Like drive them somewhere, or watch movies with them, or have lunch. Hahaha.

I’m supposed to have lunch with Maurina today, but I can’t because, like I said, I’m my mom’s family’s event manager.

(I am also sad that there haven’t been pictures of the GBN by our official photographer yet, but I am patient because I knew he took loads and loads of pictures and he has to recolour some of them as they were taken in the “orange veranda”. Hehe. Also, boys have been popping up here and there asking me why I haven’t invited them to the GBN because they saw me in a picture posted in Rano’s site. Seriously, boys. It’s called GIRLY Bloggers’ Night, and if that doesn’t take full effect, it’s also called GIRLS in December. LOL. You know I’m kidding. [Not about the name of the gathering, though.] Hahahaha. )