Say What

I know that some (defining quantity less than 1) people read my posts. Okay. Some of you are my friends and sometimes you have nothing better to do. I'm not delusional.
But I was nicely startled to find out that a Karl Urban fan site had my blog referred to my Pathfinder movie review. Wonders of wonders. She/He was even cool enough to quote me. Me! Oh what joy.
Anyways. I thought you should know. So you don't feel alone. Feel free to insert my witty writings in your conversations now. Like, "..admittedly the blogger Nella did say in her post that cabbages are the most revolting vegetable in the world.." or "Did you read the post Nella wrote on the wonder of brown wrapping your textbook?". You know, to add more spice in your conversations and for you to appear more erm, resourceful.
Hahaha.
Happy New Year, my cuddly porpoises! Hope you did not regret too many things you did in 2007 and here's to looking to a whole other year of flustering about stuff that is not really important. Have a good one!

Banjir

Ati asked about the flood. Well Ati, basically Pahang, Kelantan and Terengganu banjir. Damn bad banjir it was too. It has since receded significantly but at one point almost 2500 people in Pahang was forced out of their houses because they cant breathe underwater and that was where their houses were. There has also been deaths from drowning. Ghastly stuff. And we have a house in Temerloh. Which is in Pahang. Nothing happened to it (it just got slightly damp from the rain, good thing it's made out of paper) but my uncle's houses were not so lucky. Temerloh also lost a couple days of power and water due to the banjir. Here are some pictures.
The ironic thing is, this house in the picture is their banjir safe-house. This house is on a hill and was built so that when the original house gets flooded, they could hightailed it to this house. So much for a contingency banjir plan. Snort. And before you feel sorry, these people actually lives in KL. The one that got submerged and almost-submerged was the weekend house (the original, flood bent house) which is affectionately known as the chalet. The almost submerged, so called safe house on stilts is called the annex. My family's house is the bungalow (the one that is not made of paper). Yes, original people we are when it comes to naming stuff. But the banjir, to us, was all good. The kids had fun playing with the water and the boats and fishing. Only my aunt (you could see her in the second picture) got mad that her citrus groove got muddy. She's very particular about her lemon trees.

My Weekend

Saturday

1. Attended a wedding (which I seem to be doing almost every weekend lately)
2. Played Monopoly at Ed's for 4 hours.
3. Had pizza for dinner.
   
4. Home by 930.
5. Dinner again (Mak cooked some awesome stuff, I just had to)

Sunday

1. Slept in.
2. Waved Mak, Abah and little brother goodbye (they we going back to see the flood damages to our kampung house)
3. Watched TV.

Tadaa. How's that for a truly productive weekend? How was yours?

We Just Don't Talk Anymore

Warning: Post may contain nuts, elements of sappiness and may invoke gag reflex.

Denial (is not just a river in Egypt)
I don't hate you. I don't think you're not good enough for me. I don't think you're boring. I don't think you're insecure. I don't hate you.

Query
Why did we stop talking? What are we waiting for? Why must you have a good reason to call me? Why shouldn't we go out anymore? Did we stop having fun together? Who said I hated spending time with you? Who said this relationship should mean anything more than what it is? Who fucking said anything about marriage? No, seriously, who?

Story
I like you. I think you're funny. I like spending time with you. I'm sad we are going through this. I think this is crap. I am okay with what we have. I am okay with where we are. I am more than okay with you. I have hope for more but I wont say them. I'm bad with things like this. I never have the best of luck with making these things last. I am a tad afraid but I am a lot happy. I am selfish when it comes to me and my heart. I like you. I really do.

Plea
Lets not force this. Lets just enjoy what we have. Please talk to me about this. Lets work this out. Please lets just talk.

Enhanted

Gosh darn goody golly indeed. Since the classic Disney prince-prince storyline is probably the most overused and clinched plot there is known to men, Disney really had their work cut out for them to come up with something new and different to the prince/princess franchise. And by God they've done it!
Enchanted was delightful. It pokes fun the other Disney works, shows more of the gray areas in happily-ever-after but still holds that distinct Disney-ness. You know, the one that makes you feel you believe in love and the goodness in men and that good will triumphs over evil. The same feeling you get when you watched their princesses movies when you were 6 and how you feel when you visit Disneyland.
Amy Adams was an innocent Disney princess personified, complete with graceful, over expressive hand gestures. James Marsden was adorable as the highly self absorbed and slightly clueless prince charming. Love the scene when he was eating hot dog on their date wearing that absurd SOL green crown. And I couldn't get enough of the Wicked Step mother and the bumbling man servant and Pip, oh lord, Pip was hilarious. Methinks the casting could've found a better Nancy. McDreamy was okay. He didn't have much to do except to look cool and bemused and dashing. He has the hair for it.
This movie is hilarious. Really, really hilarious. The part where she called all the rodents in NYC too help with the cleaning up; favorite. scene. ever. And the running gag with making her own dresses. And the song in the park. How...Disney. I was enchantedly entertained (a cornier play on words I've never heard, this is what Disney movies do to you).
I love it (if you cant already tell). For a moment right after I really felt that true love exists and there's goodness in everyone and the world is not such an ugly, twisted, dirty place and Disney is not another corporate capitalist bent on raping the world economy through celluloid and plater castles and disillusioning young minds to the saccharine plasticity that is essentially merchandised and retail happiness. Ahem.
So well done. Another classic, I say. Well done.

Here's my other Disneyland related posts : Disneyland Japan Picture. I couldn't find my HongKong Disneyland posts. Here's the IMDb link and the Rotten Tomatoes link.