Thank you for the music - Amanda Seyfried

I remember singing this song with a group of friends during our pre-graduation concert. Like a pro, we were all over the place (pitch wise)lol. I like the way Amy Seyfried sang this. Enjoy.

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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This is an ebook which I had in my iphone. So I read it only when I dont have a physical book with me. Usually while waiting for food to arrive at the table during eat out.

The Tarzan version that I have has always been the Hollywood's. The 'book' has a more raw, wilder and self sacrificing Tarzan in it. Surprising a sad ending.

Taking Chance

I cried my eyes out watching this. It was so touching. It's about how a senior marine took an assignment to escort a fallen marine back to his home. True to the tagline of the trailer that this is a journey many don't see and I guess wouldn't want to witness.
But in a way I'm so glad they do this, I mean the respect, honor and the dignity thay gave to a fallen comrade. I even cried when searching and watching the trailer again.
This is so moving, pls do watch this movie starring Kevin Bacon it if you have the chance.

Eclipse

So the movie is finally out here in KL, 1 week later than it's opening in the States. And I happened to be on leave on a Friday. Ha!Ha! No honestly, I took the day off so I can go and collect my boys school report card which happened in the morning and I have the rest of the afternoon. Thinking the rest of movie goers are at school or at work, I dragged my boys to watch the movie with me. And boy, was I wrong. We were lucky to get good seats for three bcos the theatre was packed at 2:30 in the afternoon on a week day!

Would you believe it that people were actually clapping especially after certain anticipated scenes? My boys were baffled but I totally got it especially if you are a fan of the book ^_^ Jacob (wolf boy) is much cuter than Edward (vampire) in this but Edward has the bestest lines to woo Bella and of cos' the female audiences who went awww...
My favourite scene surprisingly was ... the graduation speech by Jessica which I thought was well said.

This is my favourite book of the saga and I'm very happy of the outcome and having said that I'm sure everyone knows that I'm bias with everything that has to do with Twilight. Oh well ..
Studio's had given the green light for the 4th book to be made into a movie or maybe two since the last book is quite thick. Meanwhile I'm ready for my second dose of the movie (ha!ha! only fans are mad enough like this) and this time with hubby.

Konnichiwa

Two weeks ago, hubby returned from the land of the rising sun - Japan, to visit the their car manufacturing plant. So I got these wonderful magnets ^_^ Arigato gozaimas hubby san. My favourite will have to be the sumo guys and the kimono girls. Beautiful.

105 and counting.

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

'Can't you stop going on about yourself for even a minute?'

Exactly how I felt about the main character. I know the story is about her but still ...

The book belongs to a colleague who lent it to another colleague and then to me whilst she herself hasn't read it yet.

It's about a 16 years old Tessa whom is dying and she has a list of things she wanted to do before she dies.

Echoing my earlier sentiment was Zoey (her best friend) on page 179: 'You go on and on about yourself, like you are the only one in the world with anything wrong. We're all in the same boat you know. We're born, we eat, we shit, we die. That's it.' Yup my sentiment exactly.
But of cos' Zoey said this to her best friend when she was high on progesterone hormone that caused her to be emotional without a cause.
'I'm pregnant', Zoey confessed on page 180 which I already suspected earlier. So that left me (alone) with my mean sentiment towards Tessa.

Fortunately, the book felt okay to me when Adam (Tessa soon to be boyfriend) appeared. I laughed at his antics towards her which to me was awww... sweet.

When her health starting to spiral down quickly, Tessa started leaving instructions to people around her in a form of writing. I know she's a teenager but why must her last instructions to her best friend, brother and boyfriend most of it was asking them to do the bad stuffs? What's wrong with doing good stuffs when you are alive? Won't you feel equally deprived of not being able to do good or great things in this world like others who had the chance to do so? Maybe its a teen thingy. Nevertheless the one to her dad made me cry.

P. 302 Instructions for Dad:


I dont want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's.
I want you to keep me at home until the funeral.
Pls can someone sit with me in case I get lonely?
I promise not to scare you.

If that got me to cry, her last mental note to her dad had me wailing.


'Dad, you played rounders with me even though you hated it and wished I'd take up cricket. You learned how to keep a stamp collection bcos I wanted to know.
For hours, you sat in hospital and never not once, complained. You brushed my hair like a mother should.
You gave up work for me, friends for me, 4 years of your life for me. You never moaned. Hardly ever.
You let me have Adam. You let me have my list. I was outrageous. Wanting, wanting so much. And you never said 'That's enough. Stop now'.


To me this is her wisen up. To finally acknowledged her dad. Her parent's were divorced. Her mother sort of ran away but she was around at the end but still couldn't take the pressure of dealing with a dying child. But I dont think the father knew bcos that was just a mental note from her. It would be nice if he knows she actually thought that way.

And I, finally warming up to her .

Still, what's wrong with doing right or good or say I love you when you still have the chance or time to do so? Especially to the one mattered most?

Seductive Poisons by Deborah Layton

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A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple.

This was a page turner for me. Started the book at about 9pm and finished it around 1am in the morning. It's a non fiction but the book is a classic example of how truth is often stranger than fiction. I can't believe how ignorant I was about the subject and am very glad I read the book.

At first I just couldn't understand how one can be so naive as to believe the power that the leader claimed he has but again this naive author/survivor was not the only one. Hundreds were already influenced by Reverend Jim Jones. And they were not a teenager like her. Many were scholars and educated people. I remembered how I got all jittery and nervous as Layton planned her escape and almost didnt make it. Unfortunately 918 others didn't, including her mother.