I’ve heard of this from a year ago.  The original classic cult manga-turned-animated movie (or was it the other way round??) will be turned into a Hollywood movie with real actors this time, and a Korean actress will be casted as Saya.

Now, I must confess that I did not watch the original Blood The Last Vampire animated movie.  But I did watch the Blood+ series (anime and manga), and I like the story very much.  (Probably because the anime was very emo… so emo that I couldn’t really take it at some parts, haha!)

So I must say, last year when I first heard of this news, I was quite upset because usually manga-turned-movie (with real actors) are bad, apart from Death Note.  I mean, Initial D was bad.  DragonBall Z was… not even bearable?  Then comes Blood.  

I watched the trailer on its website and I think… it doesn’t look half bad.  The Korean actress who was casted as Saya was Jeong Ji-Hyun (the actress in My Sassy Girl – 我的野蛮女友), and I’m surprised that her English doesn’t really make me cringe.  At some parts of the trailers, she actually did have a few facial expressions that portrayed Saya’s internal conflict (the eternal question of whether she’s a human or not).  It’s really a pleasant surprise because it’s an emotion that’s not easy to portray with just facial expressions.  Okay, maybe because I know what was going on in Saya’s mind all the time, but still, I think the actress is good.

Of course, trailers always look interesting.  I mean, look at the trailer of The Da Vinci Code.  It looked so action-packed, so intense, but the movie itself… errrrrrr…..  well, I’m not saying the movie was not good, but it’s totally not what you expect based on watching the trailer.  Of course, Reko has his doubts when it comes to such movies (i.e. movies based on video games/anime/manga), but he had promised to watch it with me if and when this movie is released here.

I’m really hoping that some film distributor will bring this movie in… I want to watch!

For the official (kinda) sypnosis, please click here.  They have an exclusive trailer there as well.

Official Japanese teaser trailer:

Full theatrical trailer in English:

The title says it all.

I’ve uninstalled Safari a couple of days back, because I realised that it actually lagged my PC whenever I tabbed to my MSN window or some other programs.  After that, I’ve been wanting to try out Google Chrome, as Steph had greatly recommended it in her blog, as well as in her comments to my posts.

So I did.  For some reason, Chrome did not want to be installed in my PC at Reko’s place, so I came back home and try it on this PC instead, and it works!  That’s a little weird, because my PC over at his place is almost ten times better than this old one… Oh well anyway, I find Chrome really loads faster than Firefox!  That’s quite a feat to me because I thought Firefox was already fast enough.

So far, Stephie was right on all counts regarding Chrome.  It was not buggy (even though I had read in some forums that it was) at all; it loads very fast; it actually imports browsing history from my Firefox (which is a plus, because Safari did not have this function), as well as saved passwords (ditto for Safari again).  The only thing I found similar between Chrome and Safari is the browser appearance.  It’s disconcertingly the same, with the Controls and Options at the right end of the address bar.  Even the icons look eerily the same.  Chrome also had the same “Most visited pages” screen, but I must say Safari had a better look, feel and layout.  Chrome felt a little… amateurish.  

But then again, Apple is known for their sophisticated design anyway.  I’m hardly on that “Most visited pages” screen, so I guess it didn’t really matter.  

I think I’ll try out the Chrome for a while more (just like I did with Safari), before deciding whether to make the switch.  XD

Thanks to Steph for the recommendation!

Today was special.

Reko and I had booked tickets for the Wolverine movie a couple of days ago, and I had told him last night to meet at the bus interchange at around 9am today.  To my big surprise, he gave me a call at 8.30am (plenty of calls, actually, but I missed all of them as I was washing up) and told me that he was already standing outside my door.  I was like, “What?!”  And his reaction was, “Yeah, I came to pick you up!”

Well, I think I was so shocked that I went “What?!” for almost three times, before it registered in my head that he’s standing foolishly right outside the door.  I quickly got my keys and invited him in (and I was still in my sleeping clothes too).

After I got changed, it was around 8.45am.  The movie was actually at 12.40pm, but we had wanted to have brunch at Marche, which would start from 10am.  Reko hailed a cab and whisked me off to Vivocity, so that we could have each have a cup of coffee before breakfast.  It was a very nice experience, sitting at Coffeebean, sipping our skinny Cafe Latte, enjoying the rare sight of an empty (and dark – since most of the shops were still closed) Vivocity, and making some small talk about making art, drawing anatomy, swine flu, etc etc.

And then we went ahead as planned, to Marche, then movies.  After the movie, we grabbed an early dinner before heading back home.

Well, it might seem like a pretty normal date, but to me it’s really special.  Because it’s been a long time since we last had such a “date”, and where he’s especially attentive to me, and I never got upset at him  for the whole day, not even once.  (Now, that’s rare!)  Not to mention the fact that he had never came voluntarily to pick me up for dates.  XD So yeah, this is the first time that he had done that, and I’m very touched (and surprised, at the same time ^^).

Thank you dearie, for I had such a wonderful day with you today.  ^_^

I guess it’s that time of the month again…

I barely scraped through this week… Today was also the last day of Reko’s semester.  After he slogged his ass through the whole semester, I thought he had wanted to celebrate.  I even brought forward the dinner I had with my girlfriends to last evening, so that I can free myself for tonight.

Even though I was extremely tired, I was still quite excited about seeing him tonight for dinner because we hardly see each other nowadays, even on weekends.  Hence, when I sms-ed him to ask if we are having dinner together, I didn’t quite expect him to say he would be having dinner with his classmates instead…  simply because he usually wasn’t quite keen on such social activities, and he didn’t seem quite impressed with his classmates all along either.

It’s not like its their last day together as a class or anything like that, but… oh well.  I guess it’s good for him to mingle around socially… I can’t really stop him from going, anyway.

I sat in my office desk at 6pm, staring blankly at the monitor, too tired to even drag myself home, especially all the packing that we had done after lunch.  And when I finally did managed to drag myself out of the office, I felt so terribly lonely.

It’s weird, because I’m usually a loner.  I don’t mind being alone.  I didn’t mind today, either.  But the feeling was just … different.  Even when I know technically I’m not alone, I still have my parents, my sis and Reko… but I can’t really shake off the feeling that I’m alone.

I trudged my way through Citylink, wondering if I should head home.  In the end, I decided to make my way to the new shopping mall, Tampines One, instead.  I had wanted to go there since it opened, but Reko just didn’t seem keen to go with me, because he hated crowds.  So do I, but I like going to new malls just to take a look, even if they have the exact same shops as all other malls.  Since he’s enjoying himself over dinner with his classmates, I guess I could go to that new mall alone…

It wasn’t as crowded as I had expected, but the shops there were nothing different from the malls in Orchard Road, really.  I finished exploring the whole mall in about 30 minutes… after that, I just went straight home.  I didn’t really wanna spend my time at a busy place where I see couples or groups of friends together all the time.  Perhaps I was the only one alone there…

Maybe it’s just me having my monthly bout of PMS…

Just read in today’s newspapers that there’s a new kind of pills just for women who suffer from PMS.  You have to eat the pills for 24 days a month, and some women claimed that it worked, and they didn’t felt so emotional or depressed anymore.  Though, the side effects were similar to those of oral contraceptives – nausea and slight bleeding.

Wonder if I should get these pills prescribed… I don’t usually like to eat pills as a daily routine, but if this PMS is really affecting my moods and the people around me, maybe I should…

Downloaded the Safari browser just to test it out and see how it is.

So far, so good. I think I’ll try it for at least a week or more before I decide whether to stick to Firefox or make a permanent switch to Safari.

:D

This is one of the very few times when I actually felt like resigning…

Someone whom I’ve defended and helped in her times of need actually talked bad about me behind my back, simply because I’m not so close to her anymore.

It’s awful to pretend that I don’t know about it and still had to talk to her normally about stuff, as if nothing had happened. It’s even more awful to see her treat me with the usual friendliness when I knew what she said behind my back.

I guess that’s the harsh reality of life…

我想大家都知道著名台湾女歌手阿桑在昨日早晨患乳癌而过世了。

虽然我知道有这位歌手的存在，可是对她却不是很熟悉。直到听到了她逝世的新闻以后，搜查了一下互联网， 才发现原来那首很好听的《叶子》就是阿桑唱的。

她的声音很甜美，很清纯，而她每一首歌都唱得很有感觉。 我真的觉得很惋惜，为什么她离开了人间以后，我才发现有一位这么出色的女歌手。

就在这里让大家欣赏她的（算是代表作吧？）《叶子》，也希望阿桑一路好走。

Rest in peace, 阿桑。

阿桑 – 叶子
作词：陈晓娟　作曲：陈晓娟

叶子　是不会飞翔的翅膀
翅膀　是落在天上的叶子
天堂　原来应该不是妄想
只是我早已经遗忘
当初怎么开始飞翔
孤单　是一个人的狂欢
狂欢　是一群人的孤单
爱情　原来的开始是陪伴
但我也渐渐地遗忘
当时是怎样有人陪伴
我一个人吃饭　旅行　到处走走停停
也一个人看书　写信　自己对话谈心
只是心又飘到了哪里
就连自己看也看不清
我想我不仅仅是失去你

看了今天的<<愛就宅一起>>, 後半個小時的戲竟讓我哭的像個淚人似的.  真的, 我哭了整半個小時.

從Mars回想起他小時後看著媽媽煮面那一刻, 直到他撥電話給已在列車上的媽媽的那一橋段, 我的淚幾乎都沒停過.

我覺得<<愛宅>>的演員全部都是超有實力的, 即使是那討人厭的公主幫, 她們也是演得超好的.

糟了啦, 都是因為汪東城, 明天我的眼睛一定又紅又腫的啦… >_<