Hickeys from Hell :.

The last few days have been interesting to say the least.. : )

But hey, I rocked my life the way it was meant to be, and not an iota of regret. Zip. Zilch. Nada.

Well, my only regret was the fun had to stop sometime. But hey, that’s meant to happen.

I can say this though, the last few days were the most unburdened I felt in a while.

At least I can look into the mirror and smile, laugh, blush and look in horror at the aftermath of tonight.

And I’ll be smiling for days. I haven’t felt this irresponsible, carefree and young, especially in ages.

I just want to run over to my best friend’s house and tell her, and watch as she shakes her head at me and laughs.

It’s good to be be in someone’s arms again.

New York state of mind :.

 I miss you so much, I think I’m gonna cry
It’s like I’m missing pieces, incomplete, unsatisfied
Just give me reasons to return, yeah, baby I don’t mind
I’m in heaven, In my New York state of mind..

Some folks like to get away
Take a holiday from the neighbourhood
Hop a flight to Miami Beach
Or to Hollywood
But I’m taking a Greyhound
On the Hudson River Line
I’m in a New York state of mind

I’ve seen all the movie stars
In their fancy cars and their limousines
Been high in the Rockies under the evergreens
But I know what I’m needing
And I don’t want to waste more time
I’m in a New York state of mind

It was so easy living day by day
Out of touch with the rhythm and blues
But now I need a little give and take
The New York Times, The Daily News

It comes down to reality
And it’s fine with me ’cause I’ve let it slide
Don’t care if it’s Chinatown or on Riverside
I don’t have any reasons
I’ve left them all behind
I’m in a New York state of mind

It was so easy living day by day
Out of touch with the rhythm and blues
But now I need a little give and take
The New York Times, The Daily News

It comes down to reality
And it’s fine with me ’cause I’ve let it slide
Don’t care if it’s Chinatown or on Riverside
I don’t have any reasons
I’ve left them all behind
I’m in a New York state of mind

Selfish :.

I wanna be selfish, and pick up my life and go..

Not worry about anything, or consequences, live life from breath to breath, moment to moment, heart to heart.

Because life is an adventure waiting to unfold.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes, to get hurt, to stumble on my feet, to start from the bottom and work my way up, as long as I get to live my dream!

To be coddled, cloistered, wrapped in tissue paper.. that’s just as ridiculous as it seems.

Were I selfish, I would run..

Were I selfish, I would be free..

But I’m not… and I’m forced to live a madness, all the while seeking a dream.

Mrs. Jake Gooberballs :.

Jake Gyllenhaal is so hot.. I think I’ve said this a few times before, but I wanna have his babies.. He cooks, he’s funny, and he looks good in a dress…  and I wanna have his babies.. hehe..

You have to watch this interview of him on Letterman. Then you’ll understand why I wanna be Mrs. Gooberballs.

I should have my head examined :.

So me and my friends reached the end of our journey, and made the wish that many people were counting on.. and we turned Bandar Seri Begawan into a city…

Seriously folks, last night I dreamed I went on a perilous journey to turn the Capital into a ‘real city’..  And the end result wasn’t too bad you know.. as we were flying over it, magic carpet style.. It took in all the major buildings and geographic points in Brunei, and combined it into a supercity..

I’m still a little flaky and sleepy this morning.. I didn’t get to finish that city tour.. maybe if I go back to sleep, I’ll get to continue it.

The series you should be watching :.

Jericho. Jericho. Jericho.

Forget Lost. Forget Desperate Housewives. Jericho is it.

A town in the middle of nowhere surviving god knows what.

But damn.. it’s good.

More tomorrow.. I’m hopped up on drugs as it is..

Just a little unwell :.

So I’m at home with a very bad dry cough and a stuffy nose with huge doses of Scrabulous and Stargate : Atlantis.

I’m not too bummed about being ill a few days before raya. In fact, I embrace it. I wouldn’t mind if I get to stay in my room nursing my cough, like I said, I’m not too keen about it this year.

What annoys me is that my breathing is shallow and wheezy, and I have half a blocked nose, which makes things mighty uncomfortable.

But on the bright side I’m catching up on all the books and dvds I’ve bought recently. Which isn’t such a bad thing. I finally managed to watch a few episodes of Atlantis, especially ‘Grace Under Pressure’ which is the McKay and Carter episode. Awesome.

Okay, I’m going to back to being a yucky bum. I’ll catch you later..

Shadow Puppets (WARNING: Spoilers) :.

Did you hear that? That was the sound of me screaming from terror.

Okay, maybe not terror.. but extreme surprise, and not in a good way.

So I was watching Shadow Puppets, a movie I had been anticipating for a while now, because it stars two of my favourite hotties, Jolene ‘Vulcan Abs of Steel’ Blalock from ‘Enterprise’ and James ‘Sexy vampire Spike’ Marsters, of ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ fame.

Shadow puppets is about 8 people who wake up in a mental institution with no memory of who they are. As if that’s not enough, there’s something mysterious in there with them trying to kill them.

Jolene does a fantastic opening scene, waking up in a padded room.. Scared, freaked out, and slightly disturbing. But as the movie progresses, she becomes a little erratic. I don’t know whether it was problems with the script or it was just her. It was almost as if her temperance switched from scene to scene, and it wasn’t because of some monster chasing either.

James, as usual, is fantastic. How did I know that he was going to be the bad guy? Because nobody does bad guy sexier than James. (Is it bad if I say that I seriously want to bed him because of his bad sides?) With his good looks and a sexy voice that reaches down into your loins and sets fire to them.. Yeah.. *sigh*

I forget who played the psycho supermodel, but she was good. I was pretty disturbed by her. I would have loved to see her go last, because she added some texture to the story. Other notable character is Tony Todd’s convict. Creepy, scary, freaky and crude but unusually a source of comic relief.

There were a couple of plotholes which I was annoyed with, mostly to do with the rules that govern the shadow creature. The FX for the shadow creature itself reminds me of those old ‘pontianak’ movies that they used to show on RTB on Saturday nights, scary if you’re a kid, but cheesy if you’re an adult. What did scare the shit out of me was the sound track, because honestly, my hairs were on end when the monster attacked. Eerie, frightening, inhuman sounds meshed together that haunts me in my dreams. If it wasn’t for such great reactions from the actors, I don’t think I would have been that freaked out. That said, there was quite a bit of ‘woodenness’ when it came to the relations between the strangers.

Final Judgement : I was originally going to give this three and a half claws out of six, three for the gratuitous shots of Marsters and Blalock in their skivvies, and half perhaps for the story.. but I minus half because of that stupid nerd boy who should never ever been seen in movies ever again, especially in his skivvies. Ew. Not a movie you would want to seek out, but if we had Netflix in Brunei, I’d put this in the queue to watch when you can’t get your first choice films.
Maybe I’m just a big ol’ scaredy cat, but I was pretty freaked out. I had to watch a good 30 minutes of ‘High School Musical’ to get that stuff out of my mind so I could get to sleep.

Buffy/Smallville Mash-up Trailer :.

This is so amazing. Really. I actually wish this was going to be a real movie.

Lit Match + Your Butt :.

BUFFY!

What the hell is going on with you?? You’ve virtually slowed down to a standstill.. You’re not doing anything, you’re not even dreaming of the big picture anymore.. WTF! Get your ass out of your chair, head out of the clouds, and stop indulging in the repetitive DESTRUCTIVE behavior again!

Now go and DO SOMETHING USEFUL with yourself!

No love,

Buffy.

Undead and Unpopular – Mary Janice Davidson :.

I haven’t been reading a lot these days, most probably because I’m impatient and I’d rather be able to read a book with as few interruptions as possible. So normal paperbacks are out, and slim volumes are in. Which is why I love Mary Janice Davidson’s ‘Undead’ series, they’re slimmer than the normal romance paperbacks, with colourful and fun covers.

That’s not the only reason why I love her books though. Davidson’s writing style is youthful, contemporary, fun and quirky. Her heroines are beautiful, brave, but scatterbrained, and they swear! (Gasp!) Which is not your typical romance maiden all swoony and frail, expecting the man on a white charger (or sometimes in a white rolls) to come and save her.

Did I mention that she writes paranormal romances? I don’t know, but I really have a soft spot for books with modern day supernatural stories do to with werewolves, witches, vampires.. so Davidson’s ‘Undead’ series is perfect, as it’s about the Queen of Vampires who lives in Minnesota, loves shoes (yeah, me too!), and has issues with her day to day life, which mostly has to do with the fact that she’s a vampire. Awesome. If you’re expecting complicated plotlines and sweep off your feet stuff.. I suggest you go find something else, if anything, ‘Undead’ are fluffy, cute and funny reads.. definitely for the day off or when you need a bit of a cheering up, with some dark side thrown in.

‘Undead and Unpopular’ is the 5th book in Davidson’s vampire series, and like Queen Betsy herself, is still going strong. Betsy’s birthday is coming up, and in between juggling unexpected vampire visits, with a baby stepbrother, a sick roommate, trying to solve the problems in her kingdom, and a resolve not to feed on blood anymore, she certainly has her hands full with her consort Eric Sinclair, who seems to be sulking more than consorting.

The plot was a little thin in this one, and perhaps a little scatterbrained too, like Betsy herself, but probably just as endearing. Davidson could have fleshed out the zombie (haha!) in this one, as it was probably the most ‘what the?’ part of the book, and did leave me wondering as to the whys and hows.. The introduction of the mysterious European Vamps was interesting, but I would have loved to see a little more shades of darkness to them. A couple of characters just disappeared midway which kind of annoyed me, because I wanted to read more about them..

I was sorry to see my favourite character du jour murdered, I could imagine him being a love rival for Betsy’s affections in future books, but he met his unfortunate end in this one. I was damn annoyed that the confession of the murderer just came all too easily.. I wanted this to be a ‘Scooby mystery’ like the ones before it.

Final Judgement : All in all, a fun read. Perfect for bedtime, as you didn’t have complicated plotlines or bits of speech clogging your brain up when you want to drift off.  Three out of six claws, a one time fun fluff read, but I’ll be wary of the next book before I buy it.