Happy Halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! (credits to -let me know ur name if u see tis-)

still not gettin de spirit or stayin home cuz u've no frens to celebrate halloween wif u? (omg!) den welcome to http://www.hotel626.com/ it's a ghost game thing. i've not tired it thou...(i got scared when de vid started so i closed de window :X) BUT i so like de fact dat u are only allowed to play from 6pm onwards till 6am. =D enjoy~

Hot tomato

super black hair. LOL. sry man, did a few photo takin while waitin for Tama to end sch.
Look! i'm on a rockin chairrrrrr!! @_@

ate at PS basement Hot Tomato. and i dun see any relations to ANY tomato in de menu LOL. i ate de sirlion steak. ordered medium rare but SO bloody. XDXD~ i can see de blood flowin out. @_@ taste good but visually dead. mm... overall its alrtie. nth fancy bout it ahaha *bites Tama*

i waited 48 min for bus 502. T_T; went home tis STUPID bball guy kept "showing off" in front of me. hello uncle. i can oso spin somethin. i can spin a book longer den u and not drop it. even if i drop it nvm, i didn't make a fool outta myself by chasing my fallen book. and omg! u drop de ball and chased aft it!! i'm not sure to luff or give a =_= face. know why im so irritated wif u even thou tis "flirting" ting is pretty minor?????? WHY??? u are de FREAKIN arse person who is living just right above MY ROOM bouncing BALL almost every nite at unearthly hours and LOVES draggin furniture across de floor! uncle!!!!!!!!!!!!!! did u know for de past years i tot there was a ghost up there ok! cuz i didnt see any child living there and u came along. whoo hoo! tis is stupid. i'm gonna tell him off if he is gonna bouce one more time tonight. (since i already know it's not a ghost) u can't blame me..... hearing "tings" laddat ard 3am all de time is pretty scary =(

i can't wait to go kart tmr!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lemon Meringue Pie

Lemon Meringue Pie i wanna try out tis recipe next XD! if u wanna learn off my imeem 1st. ^^ i tink de old lady in de vid is kinda cute LOL.

Harry Wonders Whether Barack Is Cool

Well, actually, as any fool know, he is.
I don’t know where he gets his suits and shirts. And ties and shoes. It isn’t really relevant. They are not that interesting.
He’s playing the game of looking corporately solid.
( And , pragmatically, I’m glad he is). It appears that somewhere along the line we have colluded with an idea of what we want our father figures to look like. Because that’s what they are. They are the ones who tell us , metaphorically speaking, that everything is ok because they are reassuringly in control ( oh yeah?). And, not quite so fancifully, when we should go to war.
The fact is that female politicians don’t have the same universally acceptable corporate style to find refuge in. Thatcher did it by reflecting back a frightening combination of post war austerity and joylessness (dull clothes) combined with a folk memory of a fearful headmistress.
No-one else can now do that without looking like a pale imitation.
Palin is ghastly. ( As was Thatcher.) But that’s got nothing to do with her wardrobe. And I still don’t know what is the problem people have with Hillary. But please don’t tell me it’s her clothes.

Yes, in the public spotlight you can expect to be de-constructed. And derided. Particularly if you are female.
The fact is that there is an inhibition about ripping apart your average male politician about the way he presents himself. Why are we so deferential?
Perhaps we don’t want to incur daddy’s wrath by being so trivial. Or , even more worrying, provoke him into storming out and leaving us bereft of his oh so re-assuring masculinity.
But perhaps we are simply acknowledging the fact that men ,incompetent in so many ways , are particularly lacking in how they present themselves. Poor bunnies. We just accept that they don’t know how to do anything other than conform.
This time round, ( just like T Blair in the UK ten years ago) I don’t care if playing the conformity game means Barrack will win .
But I am still mildly curious why nobody has revealed where he gets his ties .

Cometh the hour cometh the suit

everyone crazy bout a sharp-dressed man

I suspect that there is a rift in America between those who like their aspiring candidates to look just like them, and those who prefer the candidates to look as if they are actually aspiring. There's a good discussion of all this in the Telegraph.

"Fashion has always been political since the days when sumptuary laws prohibited people of lower rank from wearing certain fabrics," says Caroline Evans, professor of fashion history at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

"But there are new, unwritten laws as to what kind of clothes political figures choose to wear. Like it or not, in a media age they will be judged by their appearance as much as by their convictions."

But politicians need to play the game carefully, insists Simon Doonan, creative director of Barneys. "Image is vital, but people need to feel gravitas from their politicians - and you don't feel gravitas from a politician who's wearing Dolce & Gabbana."

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This and that........

Sorry for the hiatus, still licking my wounds from Sunday but also still basking my my success! I'm supposed to run on November 15th in another 10K but it is looking like that will not happen as my foot is really giving me some problems. So I think it is just best I let it heal.

Headed to Nashville today for a dinner then back tomorrow for Halloween! The kids are so excited about their costumes and I am hoping I can pull off mine. (I'm gonna keep you guessing on that one) I have been a bit of a slacker this Halloween season, I didn't get a chance to carve my pumpkins all the decorations are up but no scary pumpkins. Time has just gotten away from me.

This weekend nothing big planned, except the talk with my mom about Thanksgiving. Last year she didn't come to our house which is the only reason we stay home for Thanksgiving and don't go to Dan's parents, well this year I need to tell her that we are going to NY and I am not sure how that conversation is going to go. I am so dreading that.

Nothing new to write about so hopefully I have some new blog fodder over the weekend. Enjoy !

RO ohhh

Mood: Bored. lonely.
Listenin: Heavenly days
Food: Kinder brueno
Doing wat: blogging and staring boredly into space

Kyuru kor gave me his dragon pet!! HEHE! so cool. but it's a looter. =( hope it cld fight once it becomes loyal. *evil grins*

tis sat 5 pm at pasir ris guys! =) helloween night!!! OH i can't wait. XD

night neko chan

my sweet stray neko chan. been feedin her these past few weeks. she's so adorable. whenever i leave my hse or go bk home, she'll see me and come up to get food or some neck rubs. XD "moew moew moewwww" lol! really cute.

happy birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAREN. lol! Bday girl spastic face! XDXD~~ her cute beary cake from crystal jade. and Fion's strange straw face :X:X Dickson went to "pimple" her forehead wif cake LOL! President Ice told sunny dat it's her bday den me and Fion started singin and whole class joined in. LOL.

happy bday again karen goh swee huat! :X

Fondent lava cake

ate de omu rice thing(by ajisan at PS basement) which is NOT worth it. i still love my sanma sotong shop =( Tama like de fondent from bread papa. so... yea! i made one LOL it turned out PERFECT on my 1st try!!!! congrats to me BUT... mm.. my fondent is kind of special.. in a wrong way. XD! it has to be eaten on de spot. it can't stay too long or it'll harden and taste like SHIT. :D! mm.. yea. any idea why mine is like dat? i kind of suspect too much eggs? *shrug*

look! if it cools down totally it hardens! see de fork. LOL. upside down ok!
de perfect one at de last pic. when u scoop a peice of cake out, de choco will ooze out slowly. damn yummy. =D~~ YAR I KNOW. i dun have gd quality cam dat's y it looks like some moist sunken nipple. =_= buy me de lastest cute cotton pink canon E1 for $319 and i'll LIKE U FOREVER. (love for Tama :X)

Looking for a House...

Yes, we've begun the slow, painful process of first-time home buyers. If you know any great houses or deals around the Point of the Mount area (Highland, Alpine, Lehi, Draper, Riverton, Herriman, Bluffdale, etc.) let us know!

Sarah Palin and the Needless Mark-up

Sarah Palin and I do not exactly see eye to eye on a number of policy issues, but personally, I don't begrudge her or any woman who had dressed her entire life from a consignment store (or so she says) a $150,000 shopping trip to Neiman Marcus, or Needless Mark-up, as it's known. As we know, women in the public eye are scutinised in ways that men are not, and Hillary Clinton's attempts to look presentable for the hostile attention of a merciless media shows what happens when you get it wrong. Not being a hockey Mom, I don't feel betrayed by the shopping. I never thought she was anything like me. I'm sorry she doesn't get to keep the outfits when she returns home to Anchorage next Wednesday, as consolation prize for not becoming vice president. Inshallah.

COLOURAMA EVENT 08

jangan lupa datang beramai2 ke galaxy ampang pada 1 november 2008.
meriahkan event yang pertama kali berlangsung di malaysia.

tiket - rm10

tshirt - rm35

Marine Corps Marathon 10K .....I did it!!!!!

Yes, I finished my first (and not my last) 10K wow was that exciting! I was shooting for a time of 60 min but I turned in a respectable time of 1:07.04. That means I was maintaining a 10:55 pace not the 10 min pace I was looking for but I will take it. Not too bad for a first timer at that distance. The last 3/4 of a mile was brutal, I think these marines are sadistic, the entire last 3/4 of a mile was uphill !!!!!!

It was an emotional event as there were numerous people running in memory of a family member, loved, one or simply a friend they had lost in this war. Seeing the T-shirts with pictures of these young men and women made we want to run even harder as I felt in some ways I was running for them since they fought for me. I am so sore today but it was all worth it. Below are some pictures from race day hope you enjoy!

riiiiight!!

1 of de many funny old pics i found. LOL!! ahh.. those past days were real darn funny. we were like giggling away in Giant changin room. like a pack of fresh lesbians hahaaa

old rin

hahaa!! my fave is de huggin bear photo.

was lookin thru my very old pictures. i miss dressin up wif Tama everyday. i look so young back den LOL. well... i totally forgotten bout de combination in de 2nd pic. =D (gonna wear it 1 day) and ther's alot more i didn't post up.anyway.... i have very bad self esteem. I AM UGLY! =( *rolls away while foaming at mouth*

i hate myself. ugly faggot. =_=

What the guru wears

The woman who taught McQueen

And while Wilson is undoubtedly a daunting presence, it's not because of the chic glossiness you might expect from someone so revered in the fashion world. Dressed in her uniform of plain black top and skirt (she refuses to mention designer names), she is matter-of-fact and decidedly unshowy: 'I wear black, because I'm a large lady, and I have many exact replicas of the same black outfit. I'm normally so dismissive and bitchy about my students' work, so if I always wear the same thing I kind of dissolve. I'm not putting myself in the firing line,' she booms, her comments loud, quick and fiery with expletives.

The race is a day away!

I am back from my business trip (more on that in another post) and now I am more nervous then ever about the 10k I am doing tomorrow. See today I went to pick up my race packet and man you talk about intimidation! First I feel like a schmuck because I am only running a 10K and these people are running a freaking marathon. Second there are Marines everywhere, I don't know why but it is a bit intimidating and it shouldn't be because my husband is a LTC in the Army so I know military life! :)

The weather looks like it will cooperate I type that while trying to cross my fingers because they are calling for a nasty day today but then again they were calling for it yesterdays too and it never came to be. Hopefully they aren't a day behind in their forecasting.

So at this point I am trying to stay clam and focused get all my stuff together, I have also threaten my husband that if he isn't at the finish line there will be you know what to pay!!!

OK I am off to Saturday Soccer! I'll report back late tomorrow. Have a great weekend!

Vidoll

Do u NOT know my fave jrock band?! was watchin thier old concert. argh!! thier my type of music! LOVE IT. go Vidoll! =DD Jui voice is O M G......................... as usual. gives de huanting feelings i love.

i tink ppl who dunno Vidoll are sad ppl :X jus kiddin!

dance dance

my dancer character. sexy XD! and Mizu's RIDICULOUSLY long hp key chain. lol! ytd went dancing at esplanade. Tama, Zean, Mizu, Farhana, Suki, Muffin and Chibi was there. crap ALOT aft dancing lol!! darn stupid XD

my god! look at amt of tissue we used. T_T.... if u know me well i'm always screamin "global warming ah!" and when we used so much tissue i felt BAD. ouhhuu!! T_T

Muffin offered me to go de oldsch dance thing. i SO wanna go.(Mizu go wif me :x) Meetin Stef bro nx week to catch up on things. anyways made a new fren Claudia from Mexico. she saw my blog and added me on msn. WOO! we talk alot haha she's a really nice girl =D

ah! my body is crampin up T_T~

kemenangan yang telus~

hihi.
excited sedikit sahaja.
jangan marah!
thanks semua.. ;)

Judul bikin konflik? - Filem tentang budak Kelantan kelas ketiga di KL

Oleh TENGKU SUZANA RAJA HAMAT
suzana.rajahamat@kosmo.com.my

BEGINIKAH wajah, sikap dan penampilan anak-anak muda Kelantan? Asrulfaizal dalam satu babak filem Budak Kelantan.

TERPERAP dan tertangguh selama lebih dua tahun bukan persoalan utama yang harus diperdebatkan kerana banyak juga filem lain yang bertapa sehingga bertahun-tahun sebelum dibawa ke layar perak.

Apa yang menjadi tarikan tentang filem ini pastinya istilah Budak Kelantan yang digunapakai menjadi judulnya menggantikan judul asal yang berakar-umbi di perdu jiwa sang sutradaranya, Wan Azli Wan Jusoh iaitu Koya Best.

Dalam dialek Kelantan, Azli sebenarnya 'tok sejoin' (kurang berpuas hati) dengan pilihan yang dibuat pihak penerbit, Grand Brilliance Sdn. Bhd. (GBSB) menerusi anak syarikat, Altenate Studio yang mahukan judul, Budak Kelantan.


NASKHAH yang diolah secara bersahaja menjadi daya tarikan.

Alasan Wan Azli, dia bimbang judul Budak Kelantan akan membenihkan prasangka yang tidak enak kerana judul sedemikian seperti merumuskan setiap visual ciptaan ke kanvas filem sulungnya itu akan dilihat seratus peratus menterjemahkan perilaku masyarakat dari negeri Cik Siti Wan Kembang.

"Tetapi ini filem, bila dah namanya filem, ia bukan lagi satu realiti walaupun asalnya idea filem ini dikutip daripada pengalaman dan cerita-cerita orang di sekeliling saya. Saya membesar dalam lingkungan masyarakat Kelantan dan budak-budak Kelantan. Jadi saya tahu dan faham cara hidup mereka.

"Kalau orang Kelantan akan marah nanti, saya faham kerana latar filem ini memang begitu, ia berkisar tentang konflik sosial segelintir generasi muda anak Kelantan yang tinggal di Kuala Lumpur (KL).

"Bukan semuanya tentang kejahatan, saya tetapkan masukkan sifat baik. Jadi ia seimbang kerana dalam setiap masyarakat, ada yang jahat dan ada yang baik.

"Bila penerbit nak tukar judulnya kepada KB - KL - Amerika, saya boleh terima kerana bunyinya seakan-akan kena dengan apa yang cuba saya sampaikan, tapi bila letak Budak Kelantan, alamak, saya jadi risau sikit.

"Saya lebih suka Koya Best kerana memang saya nak sampaikan 'koya best' yang difahami di kalangan masyarakat Kelantan sebagai mereka-mereka dalam yang keadaan atau kondisi minda yang tertawan (berangan)," tegas Azli yang pertama kali bergelar pengarah filem menerusi Budak Kelantan.


TIGA pendukung watak utama Budak Kelantan, Danny, Bienda dan Asrulfaizal.

Hatinya sedikit berat tetapi rasional dengan pendekatan penerbit yang mahu filem pertamanya ini mudah sampai dan meresap ke mata hati peminat filem, Azli menerima strategi komersial ini dengan fikiran terbuka.

Sebagai penerbit, Pengurus Besar Grand Brilliance Sdn. Bhd., Ahmad Puad Onah pula tidak membantah kiranya Azli masih tebal dengan prinsipnya mahu filem digelar Koya Best.

"Kami tiada masalah tapi sebagai penerbit kami ambil Koya Best sebagai working title (judul semasa dalam pembikinan). Bila dah siap kami fikir tajuk itu agak sukar untuk difahami oleh audiens.

"Selepas perbincangan, tercetuslah KB - KL - Amerika, tapi terlalu meleret, sudah nak sebut. Kami bincang sekali lagi dan timbulnya Budak Kelantan. Kami fikir ia lebih tepat, lebih dekat di hati khalayak, mudah difahami dan lebih komersial," ulas Puad tentang pertukaran tajuk filem ini yang mencetuskan sedikit tanda-tanya.

Apa-apapun sebuah filem yang baik tetap akan berdiri sebagai sebuah filem yang baik walaupun tercampak ke lorong yang gelap dan tidak berpenghuni. Judul gempak yang melonjak sehingga ke langit ketujuh sekalipun tidak menjanjikan apa-apa jika pengisiannya hancur dan fokus entah ke mana-mana.

Bagi Wan Azli, baik atau buruknya filem sulung yang menjalani perjalanan yang panjang inilah yang akan terisi ke dalam profil kerjaya seninya.

"Saya menulis dan menggarap filem ini dengan idea yang berlapis-lapis, kalau penonton yang datang menonton dan nampak nilai-nilai baik dan jahat yang saya persembahkan, itu sudah cukup," jelas Azli yang banyak melampiaskan idea kreatifnya menerusi teater dan sastera sejak melanjutkan pelajaran ke Akademi Seni Kebangsaan (kini ASWARA) dan UiTM dalam bidang seni persembahan.


WAN AZLI (kiri sekali) bersama barisan karyawan Budak Kelantan (dari kiri), Ayie, Bienda, Asrulfaizal, Danny dan Md Eyzendy Md Aziz.

"Saya cuma bermain dengan ideologi sosial dan tentang semangat dan imej Amerika yang telah masuk ke dalam masyarakat dunia ketiga.

"Saya cuma ambil budak-budak Kelantan sebagai contoh. Budak-budak Kelantan yang saya kenal kalau nak pakai seluar, nak pakai jenama Levis dan banyak lagi.

"Tetapi hakikatnya filem ini membawa roh gelap lawan terang iaitu kejahatan melawan kebaikan seperti yang sering digunakan dalam teater tradisional, hukum karma," jelas Wan Azli, 33, memperincikan isi perut Budak Kelantan.



Walaupun hampir keseluruhan kondisi filem ini diuli oleh air tangan anak Kelantan, bermula daripada pengarah, skrip, dialek, penasihat skrip serta kesemua pelakon yang terlibat, filem Budak Kelantan bukan disasarkan hanya kepada orang Kelantan.

"Sasaran saya untuk seluruh dunia," kata Wan Azli berseloroh padahal dalam hati, dia mungkin sedar hanya orang Kelantan sahaja yang faham bahasa filemnya ini kalau tidak dibantu oleh sari kata bahasa Melayu yang lengkap.

Apa yang membanggakan, walaupun dibikin dalam bajet dan ruang yang sedikit memberi tekanan, awal-awal lagi filem yang bakal ke pawagam 30 Oktober ini boleh diberi pujian.

Pertama kerana cerita dan keduanya lakonan. Rata-rata yang menyaksikan Budak Kelantan akan tertawan dengan pengolahan yang disajikan secara bersahaja oleh pelakon-pelakon yang menjayakan filem ini, terutamanya Mohd. Asrulfaizal Kamaruzaman yang memerankan watak Jaha, Danny X-Factor (Buchek), seorang lepasan universiti dan Bienda (Che Nor).

Watak-watak lain, Md Eyzendy Md Aziz (Li Bokbong), Wan Md Zuhari Wan Harun (Peija), Muhammad Haqqam Hakiri (Meghei Cikgu) dan Hushairi Husain atau Ayie (Wak Junuh) juga secara semulajadi menggambarkan gaya dan stail hidup budak Kelantan kelas ketiga yang ada di celah-celah KL.

"Saya sendiri puas hati dengan Azrul, walaupun dia baru dan tak dikenali tapi lakonan dia bagus. Danny pula seorang pelakon yang boleh masuk ke dalam situasi yang saya mahukan, kelebihan Danny kerana dia sudah popular," luah pengarah yang pernah menghasilkan teater Ari Ni Jadi Jahat ini, jujur.

p/s: jgn lupa untuk saksikan BUDAK KELANTAN the making of di televisi anda!

THE BED!!!!!!

So... this is our VERY LARGE bed in our VERY SMALL room! I know, it took me a long time to finally get these pictures on here. But it took me FOREVER to finish the bedding! So here it is, finally posted. Adam made the bed frame, isn't it amazing! He made it out of antique doors we bought a year ago in Scipio. Notice the door handle plate in the bottom? He did a fantastic job, and made our side tables to match. He is so talented. I'm so lucky to have a handyman around!

To Canada

I'm off on a book tour of Canada later today. See here for details.

Some liked it

Last night Harry and I accepted a couple of complimentary tickets to hear Tony Curtis talk about his new autobiography with Joan Bakewell at the Criterion Theatre.

Curtis, who once looked like this

Now looks like this
(and is bald as a boiled egg under the hat.)

Still, what a moving an memorable evening! Joan Bakwell was continuously prompting the quite deaf Curtis to talk about Marilyn, and eventually he did recounting the brief affair they had when both had just arrived in Hollywood after the war. He was 20, she was 18; both were unknowns who had not yet made a movie.

But Harry and I agreed that of far greater resonance were his recollections of his childhood in the Bronx, of extreme poverty and anti-semitism, of speaking Hungarian at home until he learned English at the age of five, of the tragic death of his brother in a street accident when he was nine just after they were released from a month in an orphanage because their parents were too poor to buy food.

What Curtis really wanted to talk about was the Navy, the great institution which he described as his mother and his father, which gave him equality and an escape from poverty and racism. And under the GI Bill sent him to acting school. You felt that he loved the Nany more than all his years in Hollywood.

Though rather deaf and unable now to walk, his wit was as fast as ever. A male member of the audience asked him: 'What was it like to be as handsome as Elvis and as charismatic as Steve McQueen?' Quick as a flash he answered, 'You'd love it.'

Curtis is only really famous for one film, Some Like It Hot, his career had nothing like the highs of Jack Lemmon's - but what a film that was. Like having a starring role in the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.