It's confirmed: ( Bond 22 Spoiler )

• The trailer for POTC: At World's End is out! It looks awesome!
  
  
• Sendspace hates me my ISP's proxy. I can't pirate download get stuff that I want to :o(
  
  
• I'm bummed that I'm unable to buy this big, black bag that I had my eye on for the last two weeks; it was sold out at 5 of its branches so far. Worse still when I found out I could have a 10% ( Read more... )

( Where SPN Imitates WaT Imitates Life )

Recently, as I was movie-watching:

( Infernal Affairs )

• You know how you would buy something as gift to yourself, as a reward? See, I have this thing. I'm currently at my third job, and that makes two televisions that I bought for myself for my last two. So for this one, I'm being extra selfish for once. ( I Came With Pics )

[I] had no choice; if I had turned the camera a little to the left, you would have seen a supermarket, and if I had shifted it to the right, you would have seen a parking lot. [paraphrased]

~ Akira Kurasawa, when asked by Stephen Price on how he achieved the perfect battle scene shot in Ran. You can watch the eight minutes clip in the cut below [ ( Read more... )

Dear Self

...But that doesn't mean you have to like it. So, your mission for tomorrow is to plant your arse on your bed and finally watch the following:

1. Infernal Affairs
   Quit yakking about how much you like Tony Leung when you have not even watched this.
   
   
2. The Departed
   That said, compare the original with this remake. Only then, can you bitch about ( Read more... )

• This is the fourth lion-dance-extravaganza I've heard around the place so far. And that's just in the morning. Oy.
  
  
• Around here, the Chinese are famous for this. So famous that they started it before the festivities have even begun [it started on Friday morning], and continue it during and after said event. The it is gambling. Even the kids are ( Read more... )

• I have found the PoorGirl's!toasted dark bread with Nutella and quark; it's toasted [wholemeal] bread with Nutella and peanut butter. The last time I had the former was in 1998 in Kassel, Germany and I still remember how that taste like. Someone should hook me up with quark!
  
  
• I took an off-day from work today and I spent part of it bank-hopping for ( Read more... )

The recent/upcoming POTC: At World's End pictures really got me excited for the movie; I believe I actually bounced in my chair when I first saw them. I can hardly think of Johnny Depp without Jack Sparrow now. Seriously, all that swagger and pirate-wear before POTC? You'd think he was a pirate rather than playing one ( Read more... )