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Your Career Personality: Independent, Insightful, and Ingenious

Your Ideal Careers: Architect Artist Business strategist College professor Computer programmer Mathematician Neurologist Philosopher Photographer Video game developer

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Your Ideal Best Friend is Sensitive

You are a special, intuitive person, and not everyone deserves your amazing friendship. You don't do well with snark or sarcasm. You need a best friend who is as sensitive as you are! Your best friend will likely share some of your passions, or at least understand them. More than anything else, you just want to be understood. Friendship, if nothing else, should be compassionate.

What Is Your Ideal Best Friend Like?

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but my best friend's very sarcastic as far as i know...

You Will Meet Your True Love Online

You don't feel comfortable in large crowds of any sort. You get overwhelmed and exhausted. You value deep, authentic relationships. You're not big on small talk. You are a complex and deep person. There are many layers to who you are. Your true love is a person of substance. You are repelled by superficiality.

Where Will You Meet Your True Love?

Work is Hard. Time for Blogthings!

oh well...

new wallpaper

我認我很pretentious的。

三齣一直想看的

比較自己以往，上年（2010）真的好像看少了電影，亦都少了看電影的意慾。為免重蹈覆轍，雖然commitment依舊仍然很忙，我下定決心今年要看多些不同種類的電影，還要寫reviews！要做一個film buff而不是一個差勁的moviegoer.

今個星期看了三齣一直很想看的電影，真的可以說是「希望愈大，失望愈大」啊！


A Single Man (2009)


電影的每一張海報我也很喜歡，最後選了和我的影碟同一系的這張。

中文譯名是《單身男人》，直譯的毫無詩意，也怪怪的，像中國大陸的譯名。電影未上畫時我已想看了。首先得知它是時裝設計師Tom Ford進軍影壇之作，雖對這位前Gucci前YSL設計師無甚好感（江湖傳聞這時裝設計師竟不懂畫sketch），但有靚人（一直對紅髮有種癖好，自03奧斯卡一直喜歡Julianne Moore至今；亦有英國電視劇Skins的靚仔小生Nicholas Hoult ），靚衫（guaranteed的）和靚景（sets靚到不得了）看。



看罷，發覺A Single Man十分美， 連小角色都異常good-looking，拍得美到不能美，自己本人很喜歡那些ECU（extreme close-up）。 電影也非常有內涵，演員位位演技派，特別是Colin Firth，希望他會在美國時間今晚的奧斯卡獲勝（真的想看The King's Speech）。

我喜歡A Single Man，很久沒有對着屏幕哭得那麼痛快了！但我不太喜歡那個驚奇的結局，它令電影好像少了一些不知名的東東般，沒有預期的好看。

小失望。


伸延閱讀
#1: imdb link



An Education (2009)



一直想看An Education《 少女失樂園 》，不知可時把念頭完全忘掉了。那天無聊在youtube randomly找trailers看，被它的trailer吸引住，原來我一直未看過那trailer。那短短的預告片節奏明快，加上輕快的配樂，提醒了我An Education是在我的to-watch list 上，還是在priority的部份。

在看電影前一晚讀了Lynn Barber的回憶錄，很精彩，我對電影亦正常地更加期待。



電影有很多正評，那我只好說電影不是我杯茶好了。電影最令我興奮的一幕就是Jenny（Carey Mulligan飾）和David（Peter Sarsgaard飾）跑向St. John's, Smith Square那幕，原因只是那是我每天行到science centre上課的必經之路，與電影毫無關連。除了Jenny的英文老師Miss Stubbs（Olivia Williams 飾）之外，一眾角色絕不討好，主角Jenny是一個麻煩幼稚的自私鬼。電影有一些很精境的對白，如Jenny說的”I feel old, but not very wise”只是輕輕帶過，沒有好好讓觀眾們細味。



我唯一欣賞電影的就是演員們的精湛演出，飾演Miss Stubbs的Olivia Williams，飾演David好友的女友Helen的 Rosamund Pike，飾演校長的Emma Thompson，和出場只有一兩分鐘飾演David妻子的Sally Hawkins，位位都是scene stealers。本人卻不太喜歡獲BAFTA影后的Carey Mulligan（她在interview都顯成熟大方，我只是不喜歡她的演出罷了 ），她有時很明顯在「做戲」。不過1985出生的她在拍攝時應該有23/24歲，但飾演只有16歲的Jenny也騙得了人。



當一篇六千字的文章比電影還要好看的時候，我不明白為什麼An Education會獲提名奧斯卡最佳電影。overrated!

大失望。


如果你覺得我的評論太負面，請閱：
一個較正面的好影評 － 《少女失樂園》── Sometimes an education isn't by book@香港電影評論學會


伸延閱讀
#1: An Education official trailer
#2: My harsh lesson in love and life by Lynn Barber
#3: imdb link



Brüno (2009)



中文譯名為《波兒出城之妖壇教祖三點畢露搞硬美國佬》，核突低俗的譯名引得我在電影上映時天天去背誦。

Sacha Baron Cohen是一個聰明人，他在Brüno扮演奧地利同性戀時裝記者Brüno， 一口氣諷刺了社會多個壞風氣（ homophobia，明星領養非洲小孩等）。

我非常欣賞Sacha Baron Cohen為藝術而犧牲的精神和他的大膽，他在其中一幕做的東西簡直是跟送死無異！但有一些情節是不是過了火呢？無限的男性性器官畫面又是不是有需要的 呢？



有幾段對白真的很好笑，但好像太出位了，不引用了。

我也不知到我是不是失望，看完了，笑完了，沒有很大的感覺。

伸延閱讀
#1: imdb link

Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival

I was into really crappy music waaaaay back when. Avril Lavigne and Hilary Duff were basically the two I spent most of my time listening to. In the summer of 2005, I was obsessed with Hilary Duff's song Wake Up. Forgive me I was 11. I still listen to it though. I may even sing it in the shower sometimes. Youtube didn't exist back then so I downloaded the MV via Limewire and played it on repeat that summer. I loved it. So when I knew that 500 Days of Summer is directed by Marc Webb and Zooey Deschanel is the lead, it went straight on to my to-watch list.


500 Days of Summer



I haven't been a big fan of Zooey Deschanel. I came across her in 2005/6 and she was SO pretty. Didn't find her completely attractive as an actress mainly because she looked stiff in motion!? Then I saw Yes Man on the plane, not sure if that was my first Deschanel film, but I automatically fell in love with her. It was her eyes and qurkiness. I swear I like her before Surf's Up, Yes Man and the She & Him music.





Sunshine Cleaning



Have been wanting to see it since Sundance 2008. Reason: Emily Blunt and Amy Adams!!!! Looks really interesting too.




Other films to check out:
The Limits of Control Reason: Tilda Swinton
The Girl on the Train Reason: Interesting-looking?
Mysterious Skin Reason: ~Intriguing~ only for the 18+ though :'(
A lot of them look good as well - the complete list.

HK Summer IFF - Official Site


Highly doubt I'll end up seeing these two in the cinema. Last year I was planning to see Happy-Go-Lucky in this festival and finally saw it at the start of this year. I'll probably either download/rent/buy these two above.

you were stroking me like a pet, but you didn't own me yet.

thanks to school suspension, i sleep at 8 and get up at 5 now! yep, a.m. and p.m. respectively... for this summer holiday, i have goals (more like had cos i know i could never fulfill them now) as always, which i will list later.

i spent around 3 hours decluttering my room. 3 hours but no visible progress apart from now you can actually see the opposite coast when you're sitting on the windowsill. ok i'm exaggerating. it wasn't that bad at first. you can always see kowloon.

i found stuff that i never thought that i owned, including a lovely keyring we bought in paris disneyland, a.p.c. mobile strap thing, old framed photographs. it was funny how 8 drawers would store such valuable memories. i also found some illustrations/paintings/drawings i did 2 years ago. I DO MISS ART CLASS! i don't regret that i haven't taken igcse art and design cos i can't be arsed to do sketching every weekend. actually, the thing i miss is my art teacher. i like her whereas everybody doesn't. there's also one special thing about the atmosphere - a weird mix of cold air-conditioning, acrylic paint, pastels (strange cos no one ever uses them) and smell of rust/old water from the taps. i used to make amazing crafts as a kid. my mother said i could draw too. i guess i should really start making some art. i may become the next picasso/van gogh/king of kowloon.

GOALS (that can never be met)
- do past papers!!!!!
- revise things taught last year
- make french notebooks and flashcards
- sell things online
- get off that fucking computer and buy the sims 3 (i'm not one of those who jump on the bandwagon and start playing the sims like 4 seconds ago. i started when there was only ~the sims~, yes, sims 1) and install it
- lose 10 pounds (only skinny people can lose weight successfully. TRUFAX. not me)
- watch 10 films
- go ice-skating
- go to the cinema
- tba
- tba
- ...

but honestly, in this heat, i don't want to do nothing.