Thursday 31 January 2013

:SPOILER HEAVY: Hansel&Gretel Witch Hunters review

Prior going to watch the movie, I heard that it was very gory and that it didn't get good reviews because it was bad... and that people shouldn't buy tix to go see it.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED, CHALLENGE FINISHED.
T'WAS AMAZING!
At the beginning of the movie it starts off with the tale of Hansel and Gretel. Familiar enough. They get left out in the woods by their father, they see a gingerbread house, they eat the house, they walk into the house, they see a witch, they kill the witch in the oven. Almost like the original tale.
Except the witch was so fucking creepy, Hansel and Gretel are immune to the witches powers (which is kinda obvious that they must be witch children), and the candy that Hansel ate is poisonous and will kill him if he doesn't take frequent injections (evident after the opening sequence).

Jump to the opening sequence where Hansel is talking just before the opening credits start... and he is not talking in an accent. Actually neither him or his sister (and their "disciple") talked in an accent, which kinda threw me off a bit because everyone talked in an accent, but it wasn't that big of a deal.

ANYWAY, opening sequence was amazing. It continues the story of Hansel and Gretel and how they saved children at first from witches and how they grew up to become witch hunters (Oh joyful childhood, you died so young)! Amazing use of "newspaper articles" to continue the story within 1 or 2 minutes, and music&animations that kinda looked like it was part of Flyleaf's music videos... yes, sketches, lots of blood, and realistic looking fire, so the little artistic girl in me went like "OMG I'VE SEEN THIS STYLE SOMEWHERE BEFORE I LOVE IT."





Anyway, opening sequence finishes with them as fully grown adults. And the story continues and they finally realize what happened to their parents. That's all I'm gonna spoil you with as far as the plot goes.

I love how they kind of also had the use of "good witches" and village people burning girls/good witches for no reason and no real evidence that shows if they were witches (reminded me of the Salem witch trials).. but the scenes where they showed H&G's mother was kinda predictable that she was witch.

A few scenes creeped me out.
- The evil grand witch who looked pretty transformed into an ugly thing.
- The witches drinking a bowlful of the blood of children.
- The evil grand witch makes a guy eat worms and bugs ..and his stomach explodes...
- They find their old house.

All the bloody gruesome scenes i think had a fair amount of blood I think. Less than Django, but enough to make you sick.

A few Notable scenes.
- Gretel headbutts the town deputy so hard that his nose bleeds.
- Gretel bites him in the nose after getting captured for no reason and makes his nose bleed again.
- There was a troll named Edward who had big blue eyes and saved Gretel. He is the only Edward besides Edward Scissorhands that deserves my sympathy.
- Hansel gets into the pool naked with a girl. Notable because every time an actor has a scene with a girl in which he has to make out with her naked, i feel bad because it was probably hard... *badumtss* It looked like a hard scene to do, like what if the guy had a boner (in front of the camera, cast, and crew) in the middle of filming?
- Evil witches from around the world gathering for the blood moon. Notable because I recall Little Red telling me that there are many witches around the world who are all probably pagan.. I think...
- Gretel is the only one who can work her witchy powers but doesn't use them. Notable because I also recall Little Red telling me that every female has a witch in them. In fact I myself could also technically be a witch if I actually practiced being Wiccan.
- Their mother was actually good. Not like in the original fairytale.
- They find the creepy old gingerbread house. Hansel finds it first and goes "You gotta be fucking kidding me..."  and then Gretel finds it after and goes "You gotta be fucking kidding me..." LOL
- Their future disciple asks them for an autograph and Hansel is all like OH nonono-- but Gretel was like OH YEAH SURE :D and then they open the book to sign when they see all of the news articles that involve them, LOL talk about crazy creepy and obsessive.
- Said disciple sees H&G behead a witch and almost has the urge to throw up... really funny because he said he was training to be a witch hunter like them.

Also really interesting how they combined fantasy and myth with religion.

Love how they twisted another children's classic. It makes big children like ME happy. :3 I enjoyed the story! It's not like most story-to-film movies where they kind of change the story altogether. They just continued the story.

Some things that could've been better were the accents. The swears I'm alright with, but it just sounds so modern day when they talk that you forget that it was set way back when, esp since everyone talked in an accent. If the whole cast didn't use accents, that would have worked too. Afterwards when it was just those two talking it was fine.

My favourite character was either Gretel because she was so tough and I like tough females, or Edward the troll because he has big blue wattery puppy eyes and he was just a big clumsy oaf with a good heart that you can't help but feel sorry for because even though he's big and strong he was always picked on by the evil witches to do their bidding... like kidnapping children. and he always had this really sad innocent looking puppy face every time he looked at Gretel ;__; AWEE!! Oh another notable scene was when Gretel gives him a pat on the chest signalling to him that he's  doing a good job, he gives this really funny grin ^_^ so cute!
and when Edward gives Gretel a leaf bowl of water for her to drink and she refuses, he was like... "DRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINKKKKKK!" in a mean voice but then has puppy eyes after. x'DD AWWWEEE!!

I think I'll give this movie.... 8 out of 10. because i like fairy tales, i like fairy tales twisted, it was short and sweet (they didn't find the need to drag it out), little to enough gore and used it when necessary, special effects makeup was awesome, opening was my favourite part of the movie... and i think near the end, it kinda leaves an opening for a sequel.

~~~~~
I originally wanted to go see star trek: into darkness next because of how action packed it was.. but this new trailer looked so sad that i didn't wanna see it anymore :(

More movies to see are Oz (because i want to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of oz), and Warm Bodies (because it looks funny, but apparently it's really scary)...

... and maybe Jack and the beanstalk because the actor who plays the main zombie in Warm Bodies is Jack.

Wednesday 30 January 2013

Made of Honour.

As Maid of Honour, it is my duty to make Little Red happy and relieve some stress off her shoulders for her wedding. Sounds simple right?


I wish it was! This blog post goes out to all my friends who will be/who are maids of honour.

Here are a few things I did to help the bride:

I hooked her up with a family friend who's a wedding coordinator. Pretty sweet right? ;)
I sewed her and her mate's (faux) fur-lined capes for the wedding ceremony. Originally the plan was for them to pay me back, but I decided "Nah, just give it to them as their early wedding gift. It's around 200 for both capes anyway." She looks so great in it :) And she looked even better when she was in her dress!
I actually showed up to all of the bridal meetings. Pretty good, must be loyal, yes yes?
I accompanied her to David's Bridal to help her choose her wedding dress in place of her mother. Not bad, it was just like on TV, so I was prepared.
I helped her with motherly woes.. well.. more like distract her from motherly woes.
I also amateurishly redesigned her blog. It was my idea for her to start a blog for her to kill time and have a place for her to vent and brain-vomit. But after noticing how much she vented, it was obvious that I could do more to please her. SO! Prettied up her blog and now it's super pretty :3 Quite proud of it.
I think I am unofficially the makeup person too... MIGHT have to run that with her again.
I am also the go-to person whenever she needs to vent. So nice of me right? ;)
Did i mention that she lost a flower girl because the girl's mother decided to have HER wedding 2 days after Little Red's wedding? So she's obviously gonna use her daughter... it technically shouldn't be a problem, however Little red already told the mother countless number of times not to book the wedding date close to hers :\ She did it anyway. So it was agreed that I'd have my niece be her flower girl, with the approval of my older sister. YOSH!! She'll probably make a cuter red riding hood flower girl anyway. ;)
Also did concept sketches for her wedding cake/cupcakes and decor for the ceremony and reception.

Little Red, if you can read this, I know a girl who bakes some pretty mean cakes and owns her own business ;) holla at me if you're interested! But i think i already told you who it is...

Well that's all I've done so far. it's still the first few months.

Other than that I don't think I'm doing enough >_> she's all the way down in Hamilton and I'm all the way up in Canadian-jersey shore-in-the-woods. If i lived near her i think I'd be taking her out more often. Other things on my to do list is to plan for an at-home spa date for all the girls (or go to an actual spa), have a bridal shower/party/sleepover (complete with dinner), give the bride special treatment away from home, have a mock engagement photo shoot to prep her for the real deal, plan a bachelorette party/slumber party.
I might also paint a nice housewarming gift for her. Y'know put my painting skills to good use.

Did I mentioned it was red riding hood themed? Ooo yes. This is gonna be fun!! A tad stressful on my part. But since I'm Asian, I've been programmed to handle the pressure!

I'll be fine :) ...RIGHT..? o.o

Monday 28 January 2013

We've got the spirit, you've got to hear it under the sea!!

Wow, haven't posted in days...

I saw an episode of My Fair Wedding where David Tuttera created 
an undersea wedding where the reception and ceremony were all in 
the same room and reception started right away after the ceremony!

I loved the idea but i kinda didn't like the colours though. I kinda 
want something like this for the venue. Lots of shades of blue, 
pastel/rose water pinks, whites, gold, lilac... it just looks a little 
bit more grown up.


This image was taken off the internet....


 this photo was taken during the yule ball at Paradise Banquet Hall ;)
inside the room that i wanted for the wedding reception hehe~~


same with this one. it just looks more magical that way :3 hurrhurr

It's strange, i never really used to think about getting married up 
until high school when i just started dated steven. 
(yeah i know, we've been dating since high school.) 
the idea of having a mermaid/undersea/beach themed was 
nonexistent. i went through a phase and wanted a disney 
themed wedding or a lolita princess wedding. 
(what was i thinking??) 
ok maybe the disney one is still lingering at the back of my 
skull but only because of the little mermaid.

so then i decided to have a little mermaid wedding instead.. but 
there was the issue of steven's super asian family. so why not have 
kingdom hearts theme wedding?? i still keep my mermaid and have 
it so that we go into the "world of mulan" to have a chinese banquet 
hall dinner. but i have this thing where its like "we have asian food 
at home all the time. why am i gonna go out and eat more chinese 
food? getting REAL SICK OF CHINESE FOOD." 
SO, scrapped that idea and scrapped my cutting of cutting the 
pretty white kingdom hearts cake with the heart at the top with 
a keyblade.

the mermaid idea still remains. In asian culture, I'm still 
considered a child up until my wedding day right?
RIGHT! so even if the idea seems childish, i think it's fitting! 
so i decide to go in a completely different direction from my other ideas.

-Beach wedding? ok not bad, but it's Toronto and we're in Canada... 
nearly impossible to have a tropical beach wedding.
-Nautical wedding on a boat? ooo how romantic! except the boat is 
gonna capsize under all the weight of the guests... and there's extra 
paperwork to do because in order to get married and have a 
ceremony, there needs to be an address... and since we're on a boat.. 
on water.. NO ADDRESS.
-Under sea themed wedding and have it indoors? getting closer, but 
will it look like a prom rather than a wedding? colour scheme is important.
-UNDERWATER DESTINATION WEDDING WITH SCUBA GEAR! 
uh... Andrea, relax your imagination a little bit ok? also pricy laa.
How about a beach wedding indoors? eh... i don't know if it'll look right.

Oh well. i rounded it down to beach wedding or under sea wedding 
indoors. but then i was like "well why have a beach wedding if there's no 
beach? just go all out and have indoor undersea wedding!" 

now i had a conundrum.. what colours will make it look more grown up 
but still underwater? hence the above images. it kinda looks like the 
Broadway lighting for the little mermaid musical when Sebastian sang 
"under the sea" haha looks perfect :3 hurrhurr
Seriously can't wait for the big day to come. :le squee:

Now what to do for food... seafood? what about people that have 
seafood allergies? what about vegans? what about sustainable seafood 
eaters? ;__; 


what about all the mass amount of asian people and their picky eating habits???

Wednesday 23 January 2013

Places to travel to

Scandinavia (Finland especially)
Scotland
France (Paris opera house and palace of Versailles)
Grotta della Poesia, Roca Vecchia, Italy
Disneyland, Disney cruise ship,Disney world, Universal studios
Miami Beach
Iceland
Pamukkale
Santorini
Melisaani Cave
Lechuguila Cave
Belgium
Hawaii
Cancun/Bahamas
great barrier reef, Australia

... this is gonna be a shit ton of money...

Monday 21 January 2013

Against animal abuse, gambling, and Stephen Harper.

On Saturday I went to Hoi Cho Tet (Vietnamese gathering for Chinese New Year).

Every year my mother says that it's an obligation for all the kids to be there with the parents because it's a once in a life time thing to be together with family... well no not really, we've got Xmas, bdays, etc., but I digress. For Chinese new year you MUST be with your family.

SO here I am in a warehouse with Steven, younger sister and her boyfriend, and my niece. just wandering around the place trying to find something to do, while my parents enjoy performances by Vietnamese singers and youth groups.

This year, unlike most years, was so empty! There was no PlayStation truck. No separate youth stage for dance offs, singers (last year J Reyez showed up), or fashion shows. There was less food compared to last year, less sponsors... less stands to look at... this year.. compared to most years.. was SO BORING!

But anyway, that's not what I want to talk about. I want to talk about what I saw there. Was so horrible, I just can't be quiet about it.

Gambling

There was this table that was used for gambling. They made children play for money, they made girls play, wives... they tried to get my niece to play! First of all let me tell you something.

I HATE GAMBLING.

Gambling is what got my family back in Vietnam into trouble. My grandmother gambled away our house and the deed to the house (that MY MOTHER bought), my uncle gambled away the pedestal and trinkets that were used to light incense to "call back ancestors," he gambled away my clothes that I gave to my cousin because she didn't have any. And now because of their actions my family is on the street and paying rent to people when they could've had a house that was fully paid off, clothes on their back, and money to spend on food and education.
Because of this gambling, I found out that my mother (when she was younger) could've had the chance to become a singer and could've attended a music school, but my grandmother didn't want to dish out the money for her education. she used that money to gamble instead!

Second of all, these older folk that set up this table is teaching these children to blow off money. Why are you teaching them bad habits? Gambling is an addiction! You're not supposed to be even teaching them how to gamble!! If they lose, you take their money that their parents worked for! You people are the scum of the earth and deserve to rot in hell.

And do you know what was worse about this place?

They were gambling, using a GUINEA PIG.

Animal Abuse

Imagine being trapped inside a cage, with people jeering at you and telling you to run, and there is thundering noises, and you haven't been fed. Imagine people betting on which hole you're gonna run into out of fear. Imagine the crowd, loud, boisterous, banging on the table and you're just a tiny thing just trying to avoid the loud sounds, the host using a microphone to sing stupidness, and yell numbers.

That's what these people were doing.

It's already pretty loud in there, with a marching band playing, dragon dancing, people yelling and children screaming, singers singing, drums pounding... guinea pigs and other rodents can't stand loud sounds. This poor thing was in one corner of it's cage, trying to hide from it all.

And it's illegal to be gambling in a place outside of a casino. You're not authorized. But gambling using an animal for your own entertainment is .... ugh. I'm disgusted. How is this allowed?? This is animal abuse! You bank on the animal's fear. That is entertainment for you? Look!! there's a marching band playing! There is music, there is trivia games! Why must you gamble? Why must you use an animal for gambling? You're not in Nam anymore where they don't give a hoot, you're in Canada! Be a little more humane!

Luckily, my niece (who the guy tried to convince to drop her money onto the table) was able to understand that it was cruel to be banking on the guinea pig's fear, and that she shouldn't give money away when her grandpa gave it to her.
"Grandpa worked hard for his money. Gambling is bad."
Instead she used that money for a tiny jade charm that she could wear around to show off.

Stephen Harper

I stated in a previous blog post:
Every year Harper always sends us red lucky pocket money (tradition for Chinese/Vietnamese people) and there is always a two dollar chocolate coin and a laminated card wishing u a happy new year in my parents native language, coloured and with an image of his family, and the Vietnamese flag behind him. Well, gee, Harper that's nice and all but how is this gonna help Canada and the environment and the economy? I sigh. Use my tax money for something useful please?

At this point I already made up my mind that I will never set foot inside this place in the future. So I walk off to blow off some steam when my parents say "Oh the prime minister will be here!"
Really, for what? PR? Sure enough I was right.

The new, first Vietnamese-Canadian senator convinced him to come.

Now as most of you can probably guess... I don't like Harper. For plenty of reasons. Harper is ruining Canadian wildlife. We had thousands of protected lakes and rivers, and now because of Bill C-45 only 62 rivers and 93 lakes are protected. And now because of the business deal in China, if we try to protect whats left of Canada's wildlife, China has legal rights to sue us.
He's getting rid of our rights as Canadian citizens, destroying the environment.
Did i mention he let an old Native American woman starve?


WHAT HAPPENED TO "OUR TRUE NORTH STRONG AND FREE, OH CANADA WE STAND ON GUARD FOR THEE" ? He just FLUSHED IT DOWN THE DAMN TOILET.

And now he's trying to curry favour with the Asian community?

No.

I refuse.

I will never support Harper. I will never support the conservatives. Harper, you can try to get as many photo ops as you can, you can try to buy votes within the Vietnamese community, but you will NEVER, EVER get my vote.

~~~

Anyway we went home early, and my mother and father stayed back. Steven, sister, and her boyfriend, and my niece went home and we just happened to smack-talk about Harper in the car. This conversation about got so heated on the way home (Steven was defending Harper for his business deals, but I am so against Harper that I reject what anybody else says). It got so heated that when we got home my niece pointed out that I said the "F word".

Oops. I didn't notice... ;__; I'M A HORRIBLE AUNTIE.

Oh well. At least she knows it's a bad habit and doesn't copy me .__.


Sunday 20 January 2013

Yule Ball + today

So after my two day disappearance, I shall blog about the Yule Ball that I went to on Friday with a bunch of my friends (I'll blog about Hoi Cho Tet another day).

I've posted photos on my Facebook account already, so if you haven't seen you can migrate to the 2013 album. They're all captioned and stuff too.

When everyone arrived we were all in blue, which was an unplanned accident BTW, everyone thought it was a Ravenclaw conspiracy because the decor of the hall was supposedly in "Ravenclaw" colour (Blue and Bronze) when really it was in Yule Ball colours... Blue and Silver. The staff were dressed in Hufflepuff colours (black and yellow) WOO PUFF PRIDE!!

They had live performances, including a rock band... alright I admit, for a formal dinner that was harry potter themed it was confusing.. i didn't know whether to put my devil horns up and head-bang in my Guess by Marciano dress, or dance like I was in the middle of being possessed. In the end I just sat in my seat until the generic pop/r&b songs came on. But before this they had BALL ROOM DANCING JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIE!! At some point I got swept off my feet by a tall/dark/handsome/friendly figure who was not my boyfriend and we just started dancing but I had two left feet and kept stepping in weird places. afterwards when he lifted me up and put me down I ran over to my boyfriend and my friend Jess to drag them to the dance floor. It was so fun!! Later Jess decided to teach us how to properly ballroom dance like the Disney princesses... but that ended as soon as "Call Me Maybe" came on. x')

At one point we got into a conga line... and after EVERYONE did the Barbara Streisand (by Duck Sauce)... which included a series of "invisible disk scratching", front claps, back claps, and pelvic thrusts. IT WAS HILARIOUS. And then we did that funny head bob thing to "Baby Don't Hurt Me." Ugh, it was such a blast!! I even got to see Steven must some moves which I've never seen before!!

And near the end they brought out a Honeydukes sweets table!!!

I got home pretty late (12:30am) so I didn't stay until 2am, but... Overall experience was amazing! It was so much better than my prom (Masquerade theme, but no masks allowed... how dumb is that?) Props to York University's Ministry of Magic! It really felt like I was in the movie! They had chocolate frogs and bubbly butterbeer that tasted so good!! 4 course meal was good, much better than the dinner I had for prom... and I paid less money compared to my prom! SO AMAZING!!

~~~

Anyway today I played Disney Universe with Steven. Yes I am aware that it is a kid's game but it's so much fun! You get to wear costumes, go into different worlds, fight bad guys... it was kind of like kingdom hearts but for children, and much easier. It's something that I can play, but it also allows me to relax. Did this for a few hours until it was time to eat. So while I ate I watched a few brides picking out their dresses.
Again, always smiling like an idiot once they find their perfect dress.
I've been dress picking before with Little Red for her dress. And like.. to know that she's on the verge of becoming a wife, or even knowing the fact that she's starting a new life soon, and even knowing that next year I'm getting married is really... surreal. You don't really think about it happening to you or your loved ones but when it does, you just can't believe that it's happening.
We're actually growing up (ironic, earlier i played a kid's game)
With that thought at the back of my mind and just watching a bunch of bridal shows, and just playing the same image of my friend picking out her dress, being reminded about how happy we both were when we found her dress... it just makes me smile like an idiot.

Friday 18 January 2013

Morning

Today I dreamt some stupid mother abandoned and mistreated her new born baby. So I took the baby in. Don't get me wrong, I don't like children, and I don't plan on having any ATM, but when you hold a baby in your arm who needs you, who's so weak and fragile that it's life depends on you, when it looks at you and smiles when you speak, your heart kind of melts and you feel sorry for it. :( the baby kind of reminded me of my niece. Her mom doesn't take care of her, so I have to devote my time to take care of her. On top of chores for mom and school and a part time job.

Anyway, onto less depressing things, the Yule ball is today so I'll be taking loads of pictures today. Camera is charged and everything. But I won't actually be on for a few days because tomorrow is Hoi Cho Tet... A Vietnamese gathering for Chinese new year. Full of festive decor inside a warehouse of some sort. Anyway every year Harper always sends us red lucky pocket money (tradition for Chinese/Vietnamese people) and there is always a two dollar chocolate coin and a laminated card wishing u a happy new year in my parents native language, coloured and with an image of his family, and the Vietnamese flag behind him. Well, gee, Harper that's nice and all but how is this gonna help Canada and the environment and the economy? I sigh. Use my tax money for something useful please?

Well enough of that. I won't be online till maybe Sunday to upload pictures and stuff... so bye guys !!!

Thursday 17 January 2013

Today shall be a day of storytelling.

Alright now some of you might find this really dumb and you might laugh at this (or at me), but I kid you not. I think I was visited by an archangel named Michael.

Ah can you hear that? I can hear the lot of you laughing and snickering and PFFTT-ing. But let me just tell you this story because you might find it entertaining and it might give you a good laugh.

So one day, my friends... (let's give them pseudonyms) Zephyr, Trumpet, and Spock (you know who you are) decided to coax me into watching an episode of Doctor Who. One with the Weeping angels. YES THOSE ONES. THOSE CREEPY DEMONIC ANGELS.
Not even FIVE MINUTES INTO WATCHING THE EPISODE, I HAD SHIVERS DOWN MY SPINE ALL NIGHT EVEN WITH MY BEDROOM LIGHT ON, HAD THE CONSTANT FEELING OF BEING WATCHED, AND I HAD TROUBLE SLEEPING.
And all it took was for a performer to dress up like a stone angel, move several meters from the original spot, cover their face.. and (when the second actress stopped looking at the angel) put their hands below the eyes a few centimetres to look at the camera... so that it looked like it was looking at me. And then i felt ringing in my ears and something behind me... of course i turn off the computer and jump into my bed as if hiding under the covers will protect me!
(But seriously though, why do we all do that? If we were going to get killed or haunted, wouldn't they just kill/haunt you from underneath the covers, or attack the covers?)

I think I can hear the lot of you dying of laughter. But moving on.
I was convinced that the next time my friends and I visit the cemetery at night, (yes we do this every Halloween) disrespectful or not, "I AM BRINGING AN AXE AND SMASHING WEEPING ANGELS TO BITS." Obviously I don't think that way NOW, but... I digress.

That night I couldn't sleep and kept my eyes wide open... I even had a metal rod under my pillow, my turtle nightlight ON (that plays music and stuff), and multiple stuffed animals on my bed for protection *Cue laughter* but that's not the end of it. You would think that i would have enough energy to stay awake. NOPE. I fell asleep from trying too hard to stay awake.
So in my dreams I actually encountered many demonic weeping angels.inside an old building that was just like the one in Doctor Who. I thought I was going to die.

And then all of a sudden I was being held by a being with wings. Ok yeah cutting to the chase, I believe it was an angel. He told me his name was Michael and he gave me a gun so I could shoot at the stone angels. He said he will protect me on the condition that I do not look at his face (which was very weird). So while he offered me protection. I gunned down all the weeping angels so that they turned to rubble, and I woke up feeling at peace. Odd.

And this happened well over a month ago, this dream of mine.

While the dream was still fresh in my mind I consulted Spock, local neighbourhood myth historian, about my dream to which she (yes, I said SHE) asked if I have ever watched Supernatural.

No I haven't watched Supernatural. I only watched the first episode but 5 minutes in I got creeped out and stopped watching. (Why that was relevant, I didn't know.) She then asked if I know about any of the Archangels, because if I do know it's probably because Archangel Michael is the most well known and popular of all.

I've heard of archangels, but I didn't know there were specific names... and as I've said before.. I'm not a religious person, therefore I don't pay attention to anything related to religion.

She then proceeds to tell me that the Archangel Michael (St Michael) is the angel of protection and that if he did indeed visit me in my dream, it means he must be watching over me. *Cue laughter* Though it was strange that he told me not to look at his face, but she tells me that in a lot of places you're "not supposed to look at anyone who has a holiness level of OVER 9000 in the face" so it's no big deal... that or maybe it's just a Phantom of the Opera thing that carried over into my dream and made it seem like I'm not supposed to look at his face >.>;

But anyway I did a couple of tests. Apparently if you "speak" to your guardian angel, they'll send you a sign of some sort. And apparently Archangel Michael is very blunt when sending signs. SO I asked him to send me feathers. Three times. And in those three times I was alone (in the bathroom, on the bus, and in the school hallway) a feather fell from nowhere. And I don't wear down jackets at all. But I was still not fully convinced (those feathers could've come from anywhere who was there previously). So I ask him to appear in my dream again, and I did this like maybe 3 hours prior to going online and forgetting about it. So when I went to bed I actually forgot about it until he appeared in my dream. And I was in a misty place.

(Ok I must really sound like a delusional and crazy person or something, but for your entertainment I shall continue to make a fool out of myself.)

I didn't really remember much about my dream but I remembered him visiting, and he was standing in the distance so I couldn't actually see his face. And then I abruptly woke up. Maybe it was because I was so intent and focused on really wanting to see him that I dreamt of him instead? Or maybe he did appear because I willed it. In any case, I think I have my own guardian angel.
Oh Andrea must be CRAAYYY... Anyway what are your thoughts on it?

Yule Ball Tomorrow: prep

So tomorrow is the yule ball and I am mad excited about going!
Besides prom, I've never really attended a fancy formal dinner before... but this one is gonna be super awesome because it's HARRY POTTER themed!

I don't really know what to expect, but all I know is that it's at Paradise Banquet Hall inside the Queen Mary room. Conveniently enough, I live right near this place so transportation shouldn't be a problem ;) Coincidentally this is also the banquet hall room that I want my reception at.

Here is what they said we were gonna have at the ball.
-WIZARD ROCK SONGS
-a raffle draw for a broom 
-free butterbeer mocktails 
-a FULL 3-course dinner and dessert
-dancing OF COURSE
-honeydukes sweet table
-professional photos!! AND if we really want, they can Photoshop an owl on guests arms because they have a GREEN SCREEN!!
-A cash bar so I can get me some Smirnoff! 
-Blue chandeliers!!!!

Honestly this is gonna be a fun night. Long dresses for females of course required but they won't behead you for it if you come in a short dress. it's just so it actually feels like you're at the yule ball.

So this is my dress that I purchased from Guess by Marciano that was on sale in my size!



And I'm gonna be curling my hair like Taylor Swift's Wonderstruck hair... because its so mermaidy and pretty!! <3

Honestly cannot wait for tomorrow!! Will tell you how it goes!

Wednesday 16 January 2013

Love of my life.... What to do for our 6year anniversary..

So I came to the conclusion earlier today to buy Steven the God of War saga... Only to find out he has part one and two... But has not touched it! Smh.

On a better note. At least I know what not to get him for our 6 year anniversary.
And here I am presented with a new dilemma. Do I get him anything? Or be a cheap girlfriend? Save up for our wedding? Or not look cheap and be dumb spending money on useless stuff? Hmm... Well in any case i still spend money... So i suppose I shall pay for a nice dinner and rent a movie? Hm... maybe wings and alcoholic beverages and a good movie... Like the Clash of the Titans... Or Prometheus. Yeah those sound awesome.....

Actually now I'm contemplating on visiting the beach. In the weather? Yes why not? Just as romantic. Sitting along the lakeshore, watching the waves rock back and forth, listening to the crashing of the water .... Accompanying the sound of symphonic metal? Yeah.. That looks amazing.. Jut us two, the sand, the water, the cold, and the music. Ok not exactly romantic but the image in my head looks wonderful. Just us sitting and breathing in nature.. Breathing in the early air, the dawn on light... A sight so silence the heavens... And there I just roughly and loosely quoted a line from "Song of myself " by Nightwish.

Any other suggestions for a 6year anniversary date?

Tuesday 15 January 2013

My favourite quotes.

John F Kennedy: We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

Jacques Yves Cousteau: We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

Jimi Hendrix: Even castles made of sand fall into the sea, eventually.

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A few unknown quotes... if anyone knows who said them can you tell me?
-Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

-The world turns softly, not to spill its lakes and rivers. The water is held in its arms, and the sky is held in the water. What is water, that pours silver, and can hold the sky?

-The people are like water, and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat, or overturn it.

Sunday 13 January 2013

Django review :SPOILERS: and Tom and Jerry.

Ok while it is still fresh in my mind, I shall type what i thought of it here... BTW I'm not gonna edit this.

It was 3 HOURS LONG.

now before i start, let me put in an FYI.
1) THEY USE THE WORD 'NIGGER' A LOT TO EMPHASIS HOW RACIST IT WAS BACK THEN. THAT DOES NOT GIVE ANYONE AN EXCUSE TO CALL ANYONE THAT WORD. IT WAS WRONG THEN, AND IT IS WRONG TODAY.
2) In defense of Tarantino, and to everyone freaking out over the use of the word "nigger" in the movie, TO NOT USE THE WORD WOULD BE THE SAME AS DENYING THE RACISM EXISTED. OK? OK.

the opening sequence was cool. it was like a really old movie from way back in the say.. like when Rambo was filmed.

The beginning when the "dentist" rescued Django and the other slaves i thought it was great. it showed that not all the white people were horrible. and when he taught Django to read and he was teaching him words, i thought it was very cute. i kept thinking "aww he cares about his education and literacy!"
i especially liked the way Django mounted his horse and how everyone was making such a big deal out of it. i think i remember freaking out too because i knew "oh shit he's not allowed to do that given the time period and such" but then as the movie progresses, u get used to it. (reflection of the way society has adapted to it perhaps by making the audience feel that way?) i noticed transition of music went from old blues/folk to rap. symbolic of the fight for rights?
Still near the beginning, the dentist let him pick out his own clothes. aww...

into the movie, the plantation owners wear white pillow cases that look like KKK hats... and arguing if they should be wearing it because, for one, they cant see. and two, they can't breathe. but villain number 1 was insistent and was like "but it's very symbolic if we wear it"... Tarantino poking fun at the KKK? LOL. love the way he did that. i mean they DO WEAR pillowcases over top of their heads. 
and that last bit when the dentist knew they were gonna get ambushed and decided to kill the lot.. that was epic.

halfway into the movie you're introduced to Leonardo's character.
hold on a sec, let me just "squee" about this man for a second.

Leonardo DiCaprio, I've watched all the movies you've ever been in from when I was a little girl! Romeo and Juliet (for English class), What's eating Gilbert Grape (for family studies class), Titanic (to translate into Vietnamese for my mom), Inception, Revolutionary Road (also for English class), Blood Diamond (for Hollywood&History class) just to name a few! And now this movie... You are an amazing, experienced, and flexible actor. You have always been a part of my life some way or another, and I respect you so much as an actor, and as a person for what you are doing to save the Antarctic, so if I appear biased in this review and praise you of your character way too much, it is because I absolutely adore you and I wholeheartedly believe you deserve a throne to be worshipped on!

OK back to what i was saying. His character was so bloody scary and absolutely disgusting that i shrank back in my seat so many times. there was this one scene where he handed a hammer to his fighter to bash in the opponents head... and one scene where he let the dogs eat a black man who attempted to run.
I HATE HIM. HOLY!!
I remember specifically this one scene that keeps playing in my head where he takes the skull of a deceased servant, and used an 1850's medical equipment .. a SAW, to saw off a portion of the skull. i am not going to spoil the rest because you need to see it and it is just way to scary for me to recall all the details.
But holy, he did such a great job as a villain! and his death was just so different than the rest of the character's deaths. everyone died in their own pool of blood and there was blood splattering everywhere all along the walls... but his remained clean. i loved the way his blood stained the white flower on his suit.

Tarantino even does a little cameo.. but they blew him up. haha.. his signature.
Samuel L Jackson.. oh man don't get me started. He was funny... but it was almost kind of sad the way his character was treating everyone else... and he dies and explosive death.

I'm not going to say anymore. GO SEE IT.

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afterwards i went home and watched Tom and Jerry. it looked like ignorant bliss for white folk. These are old cartoons that i watched so they had racial jokes and stereotyping and... well i felt horrible for laughing at the stereotyping after watching Django .__.
The movie portrayed them being whipped, branded, etcetc what have you, so to be exposed to a cartoon like this... i mean it was part of my childhood and the gags were funny! But at the same time... ehh....

I'm glad Warner Brothers and MGM put in a disclaimer that the cartoon was a "product of their time and that it was unacceptable." (they stereotyped Asian people too but i thought those were funny lol)

anyway i thought it was appropriate for me to talk about this since it's black history month.

Friday 11 January 2013

Homophobes, what's wrong with you?

I honestly see nothing wrong with it.

What's wrong with two people loving each other? It's not like they're holding a gun to your head and threatening your family. Unlike the lot of you threatening them and smearing the hate all over and feeding the hate to your children.

What's wrong with two people of the same sex adopting children and getting married? They'll raise their children into becoming tolerable individuals, provide them with unconditional love, shelter, food, and comfort. And what two people do behind closed bedroom doors isn't any of your business.

And as for Christians (I am well aware some accept the LGBT community, kudos to you!) who think it's acceptable to hate because "Homosexuality is a sin," and believe that it should only be "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve?" 

The book says EVERYTHING (I'm over-exaggerating, if you can't tell) is a sin. So is listening to rock and roll, pop, rap, metal, etc,. 
So is wearing mixed fabric, and inking/tattooing your body.
So is sleeping around and being sexually active before marriage.
So is trying to be obsessively gorgeous (hey, who isn't guilty of this?), forever angry and a potty mouth, greedy and money grabbing (admit it, everyone is guilty of this including yours truly), and eating a ton and being super lazy (I'm Guilty of these too).  


I'm no Mother Theresa, and I don't believe in religion... but HYPOCRITICAL, OVERLY RELIGIOUS PEOPLE SHOULD NOT TALK.

Freedom of speech and expression, yeah fine whatever, talk. Unless you're doing this (and I reiterate) : threatening them and smearing the hate-shit all over, and feeding your children hate-shit.


And I am NOT APOLOGIZING FOR MY LANGUAGE.
 

RAGE!!

Tuesday 8 January 2013

Today's favourite: Kamelot

Have I mentioned how amazing they are? It's such a shame that I discovered them too late. Oh well. Now at least I can join this generation of Kamelot followers.

I've listened to their recent concept album Silverthorn.
I really love it! If there is anything I love most, I love concept albums and music that tells stories. It's just so artistic and beautiful! IT'S A MASTERPIECE! I love ALL OF THE SONGS! And I really love how the new singer almost sounds like the old singer!... but the story for this album is just so sad :(
Still, it's quite amazing.

Now it's time to sink my teeth into the older stuff! A few of my favourites are:
March of Mephisto - ugh. No words can describe how awesome or amazing this song is.
Ghost Opera - For obvious reasons... it sounds like it was inspired by Phantom of the Opera, and I love the female part o-o it's hauntingly beautiful.
Forever - it just tugs at my heartstrings!

I especially love it when there's specials featuring female vocals. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT.

Monday 7 January 2013

Praise for The Underwater Realm :SPOILERS!:

OH MY .....Guys, GO WATCH THE UNDERWATER REALM !!

This is like so amazing. It's a series of 5 clips set in different time periods that slowly reveals what happened to the people of Atlantis.

Spoiler Alert:

The first clip was a shocker. And by shocker, I mean IT SCARED ME. It really looked like a Youtube video that was uploaded by the people who found the camera. the acting was amazing... it was scary and looked so real! ;_; I looked at the behind the scenes clip for this first part, and it was ALL FILMED IN ONE SHOT. WOW.
Then as you watch the rest of the clips, it comes less scary and you kind of sink into it... they put you into the time periods instead of showing it like someone recorded it.

There was very minimal dialogue, which I think made it much more amazing because it lets you focus and it allows your mind make up a story, so it wasn't like a normal film. It was so very artistic!

If only they released this on DVD I could watch it on my TV. I give this film 10 out of 10.

Ok I'm not gonna reveal anymore, but if you want more info about the film itself or the story behind the film, click here :)


Seriously. Go watch it!!

Friday 4 January 2013

The days are long.


Working on designing my friend's blog. If only I knew how to do HTML...

As of late I've been daydreaming.. like always.

Today I was day dreaming of my wedding. And it all started with this song...

I'd love to have a classy beach wedding.

I'd also love to don Afred Angelo's Ariel dress also from his Disney Collection.

*squee*... Back to bliss.

Wednesday 2 January 2013

Daydreamer

So as of late I've been daydreaming about the kind of place I would love to live in... Because it's winter and I've been cooped up at home.

I'd like to have a 2 room + den condo by the lake. Or a townhouse by the lake. IDEALLY I'd like either said condo or townhouse down by the sea.

I'd like to have a nautical living room, or even a living room styled like you're in a beach house



Roughly kind of what I want. But I don't want too much clutter...

Steven and I have been discussing and he calls dibs on the kitchen and his bedroom... which is fine because that means I get the master bedroom and bathroom all to myself :3 hehehe~~!

I want the my bedroom to almost be like a Victorian Mermaid Princess room. Almost like the interior of the Titanic underwater... but then I kinda want something like the underground lake inside the Paris Opera house like in the Phantom of the Opera.. But I also want an underwater room!! (complicated huh?)

Well I narrowed it down to what I kinda want. I know all three has some sort of a chandelier and a ceiling mural, so ...

Ignoring the fact that it's a baby room, please pay attention to the cute ceiling mural! They're almost like cherub mermaids!! I don't like that chandelier though so maybe Chandelier one or Chandelier two ....

For my bed I'd like a cute bed with a wall canopy.. and i want a writing/computer desk in my room... i also want a walk in closet but eh.

for the bath room, I'd want it styled like this (ignore the size):

Or like this (ignore the shower curtains):



What's your dream place?