This time of life (Reminiscing again)

Was surfing the web just a while ago and found a link that shows "TOP 20 Martial Arts movie scene". So I was watching some of the clips and most of em were chinese martial arts movie made in the 80s and 90's starring Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee/Jet Li. Then it hit me, movies nowadays are just filled with explosions and gun fights that in my opinion lack choreography (the truck flipping scene in the Dark Knight was an exception).

Action movies has deteriorated to lackluster productions that only involves your typical explosions (Transformers 2 is a notable example) and they claim that the movie is 'action packed'.

I've never appreciated Jackie Chan's stunts during his prime as I have now. No one in this time and age will probably put their body on the line as much as these stunt men. Gotta respect them.

On movies/TV, if you ask me which movies remind me of my childhood, I would say Karate Kid, Jackie Chan movies, Jet Li movies and Mr Bean.

Sad thing is, Pat Morita passed away, Mr Bean aka Rowan Atkinson has somewhat retired, Jet Li says he's not making anymore martial arts movie and Jackie Chan seems like he's way too old to do anymore of his 90's stunts.

What about current 2000 movies? I can't really think of anything memorable other than the Matrix and Batman (ones directed by Christopher Nolan).

The same thing can be said about music. I really can't think of a memorable 2000 song which maybe 10 years from now I would say "That reminded me of my youth".

2010 is just a month away. I felt like the first 10 years of the 21st century has been disappointing. Is it because of all the video games? Have I been stuck indoors for way too long? Well.... 10 years from now I'm sure I'll definitely remember the good memories I have probably forgotten over these 10 years.

Enough reminiscing. Time to get back to finishing up my homework before the Merseyside Derby between Liverpool and Everton at 7.30am.

(Time written : 6am Sunday Morning)

What girls can learn from Twilight

1. If a boy is aloof, stand-offish, ignores you or is just plain rude, it is because he is secretly in love with you — and you are the point of his existence.
2. Secrets are good — especially life-threatening ones.
3. It’s OK for a potential romantic interest to be dimwitted, violent and vengeful — as long as he has great abs.
4. If a boy tells you to stay away from him because he is dangerous and may even kill you, he must be the love of your life. You should stay with him since he will keep you safe forever.
5. If a boy leaves you, especially suddenly (while telling you he will never see you again), it is because he loves you so much he will suffer just to keep you safe.
6. When a boy leaves you, going into shock, losing all your friends and enduring night terrors are completely acceptable occurrences — as long as you keep your grades up.
7. It is extremely romantic to put yourself in dangerous situations in order to see your ex-boyfriend again. It’s even more romantic to remember the sound of his voice when he yelled at you.
8. Boys who leave you always come back.
9. Because they come back, you should hold out, waiting for them for months, even when completely acceptable and less-abusive alternative males present themselves.
10. Even though you have no intention of dating an alternative male who expresses interest in you, it is fine to string the young man along for months. Also, you should use him to fix things for you. Maybe he’ll even buy you something.
11. You should use said male to fix things because girls are incapable of anything mechanical or technical.
12. Lying to your parents is fine. Lying to your parents while you run away to save your suicidal boyfriend is an extremely good idea that shows your strength and maturity. Also, it is what you must do.
13. Car theft in the service of love is acceptable.
14. If the boy you are in love with causes you (even indirectly) to be so badly beaten you end up in the hospital, you should tell the doctors and your family that you “fell down the steps” because you are such a silly, clumsy girl. That false explanation always works well for abused women.
15. Men can be changed for the better if you sacrifice everything you are and devote yourself to their need for change.
16. Young women should make no effort to improve their social skills or emotional state. Instead, they should seek out potential mates that share their morose deficiencies and emotional illnesses.
17. Girls shouldn’t always read a book series just because everyone else has.
18. When writing a book series, it’s acceptable to lift seminal source material and bastardize it with tired, overwrought teenage angst.
19. When making or watching a major feature film, you should gleefully embrace the 20 minutes of plot it provides in between extended segments of vacant-eyed silence and self-indulgent, moaning banter.
20. Vampires — once among the great villains of literature and motion pictures — are no longer scary. In fact, they’re every bit as whiny, self-absorbed and impotent as any human being.

Source : Wired.com

White or Brown skin?

Asians pay $$$ to have whiter skin, Americans pay $$$ to have darker skin.

Source : GlobalPost.com

Happy Birthday to me!

Thank you me

What I did at the end of last summer~

Why girls should marry engineers

Got this off a friend's blog (Occhua)

Let me tell you why girls should
eventually marry an engineer over a
Law, Management, Arts or Medical School
Graduate. He has three distinct
advantages over the rest of the
graduates.

Advantage 1: Secure lifestyle
=====================================

An engineer boyfriend can provide you
with a secure lifestyle. At 27 years
old, an engineer probably has a
respectable, stable job that gives
him a high income to own a car,
invest, have a comfortable life, and
get married and buy a house too.
Law graduates are still working as a
lowly apprentice in law firm. Most
management graduates have just failed
on their first business plan. The arts
graduate is still looking for a job.
And the medical school graduate is
still living in a hospital.

Advantage 2: Unmatchable
industriousness
=====================================
An engineer boyfriend will dedicate an
unimaginable amount of his time and
effort to understand you. Engineers
strain really really hard to
understand their work. You can believe
that they will try really really
hard to understand women too, just
like how they understand their work,
once they believe that you are the
one. So even if they don’t understand
you initially, they will keep on
trying. Even if they still do not
understand, they will figure out the
correct method to keep you happy
(e.g. buy diamond ring = 1 week’s
worth of happiness.) And once they
find out the secret formula, they will
just keep on repeating it so that
the desired results appear. Unlike the
Lawyer who will argue with you.
The Management graduate who will try
to control your spending, The Arts
graduate who will ‘change major’.
And the medical school graduate who
will operate on you. And you know
what, it’s really so easy to make
engineer s believe that You are
the ‘one’. Say that you like one of
their project and they will be hooked
to you forever.

Advantage 3: An engineer boyfriend
will never betray your trust.
=====================================
Let me first tell you what is wrong
with the rest of the others – The
lawyers will lie about everything.
Management graduates will cheat your
money. The arts graduate will flirt,
and you probably just look like another
cadaver to the medical school graduate.
Your engineer boyfriend is either too
busy to have an affair, and even
if he does, he is too dumb to lie to
you about that. Hence, an engineer
is the most secure boyfriend that you
will ever find – rich enough, will
keep on trying to understand and
please you, has no time for affairs,
and too dumb to lie to you. plus they
r cooler than the others So girls, why
procrastinate? Get an engineer for
your boyfriend xP

5 lives gone...

Last week I've used up the last two of my five lives here in IAState.

This is a sign...

Windows 7 difficulties

It's lagging. I probably shouldn't have installed the 64bit Edition on this 3 year old laptop.

Gotta find time to revert back to the 32bit version

Happy Halloween 2009

I see alot of identical dead celebrities...

Happy Halloween 2009