I Should Be Banned From Entering Any Kitchen
Yesterday, in my attempt to cook, I broke 2 ketchup bottles and a new bottle of mango chutney which I have been saving to eat for months (one of those impulsive buys that I never seem to grow out of). Total cleaning up time: 30mins, total time cooking: 0. Next time, I will stick to things that I can just stuff into the microwave or toaster. In the name of all things sacred, cooking is hazardous to my health.
I think I have paid all my sleep debts in full. Today, I washed my pillows. I think tomorrow I will attempt to fold my clothes and arrange them in a systematical manner but if that is too strenuous I will vegetate in front of the TV instead.
The latest season of Akademi Fantasia starts tonight. Let the madness begins!
DVD LIST
If you have the luxury of time (like I do), a working DVD player and enough Paypal credit to get these DVDs on eBay, watch:
Seven Samurai (Japanese) - my favourite movie of all time. It’s funny, it’s sad, it’s violent, it’s human. It’s about 7 men hired to protect a village from thugs. Sounds so simple, na? My favourite character? Ha. Kyuzo, of course.
Amelie (French) - Audrey Tatou had a successful career before the Da Vinci Code, you know. I remember watching this with Awa and she solved the mystery of the photographs at the photo booths before it was revealed (I did a one up when I solved the Sassy Girl twist). Let me see if I can summarise the movie: it’s about a girl who goes about her daily life decoding/ interpreting the events happening around her whilst looking for love.
My Sassy Girl (Korean) - funny funny funny. It’s one of those childishly funny movies that you should watch with a group of friends so that you can laugh your heads off over the extreme silliness. Watch out for the marching scene in the subway. It’s about a boy who accidentally acquires a girlfriend in the subway, falls in love (of course), loses her, writes the story on the internet, makes a movie and gets the girl back.
Shaun of the Dead (English) - Actually, I saw this by accident. Oh! It. Is. So. Damn. Funny. Any movie that has a scene of a zombie playing PS2 gets two thumbs up from me. It’s about a group of people who is trying to outrun, outwit, outplay the zombies when they take over London one day. Their zombie impersonations are hilarious.
Love Letter (Japanese) - I can’t say enough how much I like this little movie. It is so sad. Ogenki desuka? Watashiwa genki desu! *shouting at the mountain*. It’s about a girl who writes a letter to her (deceased) fiance and received an unexpected reply in the mail. Is it a letter from the heavens? Has her love come back to be with her?
Run Lola Run (German) - Oh yeah, before The Bourne Identity, Franka Potente was the redhead running throughout the movie ‘Run Lola Run’. It’s about Lola who has 20 minutes to get a s***load amount of money to save her boyfriend’s a**. So, she runs.
High Fidelity (English) - adapted from Nick Hornby’s book of the same name. I love it. It is so true to the book. Jack Black’s character cracked me up. Of course it helps to have the (super) cute John Cusack in the lead. An insight into the male psyche. It’s about how a guy deals with the greatest breakup of his life, in the same way he deals with everything else, with pop music.
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (Japanese) - This is NOTHING like the joke that was Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within. You don’t have to be a Final Fantasy fan to enjoy this movie. Okay. Okay. So the plot can be a little bit complicated if you don’t understand the backstory (or if you have not played the game). The graphics are so next-gen console, you will believe that Cloud Strife is human. It’s about.. well.. good versus evil. A strange sickness is inflicting the world and it’s up to the brooding, non-smiling Cloud to save the day. Ok, so he has to deal with the ghost of his dead girlfriend and JENOVA (the alien form from which Cloud’s superpowers spawned) and the white-haired, impossibly cute Brothers. Zuruzuru. Of course Cloud wins. And he gets to endorse Panasonics’ camera-phone in the process. Yes, people. He’s a celebrity endorser. All’s well.
Constantine (English) - Any movie with Keanu Reeves is a no-brainer. Plot? What plot? I don’t watch these movies for their plots. What I like about Constantine is the anime-inspired camerawork (check out the scene where John throws away his cigarette as he is about the leave the taxi). The plot? You really need me to explain the plot?!
Children of Heaven (Iran) - Normally I stay away from movies starring kids coz I can’t stand the cuteness. This one is about a brother and a sister who share a pair of shoes to go to school. Go get it! It’ll teach you a thing or two about being wasteful.
