Starting Over

So, it looks like I have not been writing anything until I found a really good article about the 5 habits of happy people even the biggest grump can borrow it came to me that it would be nice to share whatever I am learning on a daily basis as part of my passion. Coz I feel really good whenever I share any detail I found on the net, or heard on the radio or learned from a student or from anyone who I talk to. So, this is going to be part of what's going to make me feel I am creative and helpful, maybe ^^

So, as I mentioned this article that I found last night, I shared it with my friends at work and as one of them had a really frustrating day since our shift started, she found the material inspiring. So instead of turning to retail therapy, she can derive the discontentment by enjoying a girls-pasta&dvd marathon-night out. DVDs I brought includes my all time fave 50 First Dates, The Notebook, The Wedding Singer and Twilight. Oh well, what's so different in this collection, you noticed? Twilight that is, one of my friends, believe it or not, hasn't seen it yet! She isn't a fan she says. O.o So this is what we are up to tonight. Oh and since I am the adventurous one when it comes to cooking, I'm left to the discovery of a new pasta recipe and found this Ham, Edamame, Mint Pasta + Truffled Breadcrumbs. I'm into pasta so this is going to be a really NEW experience. I can't wait to take pictures! ~~

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Ashley's Sobe shoot videos

Here are videos related to "Ashley Greene: Wearing Zero" for Sobe Zero Calorie drinks. As you'll see, Ashley didn't just decide to wear paint one morning and head on to the beach. There was a long process behind those photos we've been ogling at down at Superficial. It's one of those science-and-art projects that I won't pretend I understand, but I feel like buying a Sobe already.

There's more on the sobeworld channel on YouTube. Thank you, Sobe!

(Don't miss Oberhofer's lilting "o0Oo0Oo" and "Landline" tunes in the Cherimoya Punch and Strawberry Dragonfruit videos!)

Ashley Greene wears nothing but paint

Our favorite vampire sibling is endorsing some energy drink called Sobe. And to get us to drink it, she posed for Sports Illustrated wearing only paint pigments. Yup, that means she didn't have clothes on. Always awesome to start the year on a clean slate.

Here she is in a pink-scaly number. Got it from Superficial. There's more of it there.

Happy 2010!

Last New Year I posted a nice little poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox on this blog. This year, Lord Alfred Tennyson has just the perfect piece that I think beautifully expresses all that my heart desires for 2010. Happy New Year fellow Twilighters ;)

RING OUT, WILD BELLS

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,

The flying cloud, the frosty light;

The year is dying in the night;

Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,

Ring, happy bells, across the snow:

The year is going, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind,

For those that here we see no more,

Ring out the feud of rich and poor,

Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,

And ancient forms of party strife;

Ring in the nobler modes of life,

With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the want, the care the sin,

The faithless coldness of the times;

Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,

But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out false pride in place and blood,

The civic slander and the spite;

Ring in the love of truth and right,

Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease,

Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;

Ring out the thousand wars of old,

Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and free,

The larger heart, the kindlier hand;

Ring out the darkenss of the land,

Ring in the Christ that is to be.

Embedded media on this blog gone awry

I just went over my posts on this blog from way back and I noticed that some video clips I linked to from Access Hollywood are no longer the right ones, and some music files I embedded from Imeem are gone. What gives?

The video clips in question are those of scenes cut from the first Twilight movie. The music files are those from the OST.

Hope I'll get time to fix this before the holiday ends.

Eclipse - June 30 is the date to mark!

The wait is shorter this time. Eclipse the movie is just six short months away! Here's the poster I grabbed from the Twilight Saga's FB profile.

SM's birthday

Oh geez... I had been so busy doing nothing over the holidays that I missed one important person's birthday. Belated happy birthday Stephenie Meyer! She was born the same year I was--in fact, just nine days later. As I wrote in my entry for her birthday last year, I feel a sort of kinship with this lady because she, too, believes in true love and magic. But let me edit that this year: true love = magic.

About Edward's pelvic bones

...that I didn't even catch a glimpse of in New Moon. Because Edward's Volterra plaza scene went very fast, and my mind was busy reconciling the images on screen with what I had in mind while reading the book.

So what did I think of the movie?

It was Jacob's party, there's no argument there. I sensed an effort to play down Edward's "godlike" aura (as described in the books) so he wouldn't overshadow Jacob's character. Jacob was hot, of course. His hotness was enough to make some people defect to Team Jacob (but not me, hehe!).

Edward, on the other hand, was made out to be a ultra-emo vampire. Which I don't have a problem with, except he had the hairstyle to go with it. Reminiscent of Simon LeBon back when Duran Duran was big. Not too hot. Plus they made him look too pale and gaunt, like a regular heartbroken guy wasting away. Problem is, he's not a regular guy. He's not human. Vampires are supposed to be unchanging. The state of their heart is not supposed to be mirrored by the state of their, uhm, face. His loneliness would've shown in his eyes, but his overall look would still have been godlike. But I guess that would've required a lot of "eye acting" on the part of Rob.

Overall I liked it. It had the expected gasp moments, particularly in the part where Jacob took off his shirt for the first time. The mass intake of air was audible as Jacob's beefcakey bod filled the screen, albeit very briefly. Guffaws followed, presumably from the boyfriends who got dragged to the movie house by the girlfriends.

But the most emo part for me, which I think remained faithful to the book, was when Jacob begged Bella not to go with Alice. That was the defining moment for their relationship, or whatever it was they had. I could almost hear Jacob's hopes crushing under Alice's Mercedes as they drove away. That was the moment where love triumphed over logic and the instinct for self-preservation. In short, that was the moment where the "crazy in love" excuse was made to look good.

Emerging from that place where you don't update your secret Twilight blog

Okay, so if someone's still following my secret Twilight blog, thank you.

Matters in the human world have taken me away from the blog. So it's been months since that last post about Edward's pelvic bones (more on that later). My new workplace is paranoid about Web surfing and social networking sites. They're not really digging up the logs or anything, but I'm expected to be responsible there because, well, I'm among the 'seniors' (in all sense of that word). I don't do Facebook or Twitter there. I use my 3G phone for those. I know, it's corny, right?

The good thing is, I was able to form another coven in my new workplace. My Twilight saga books made the rounds among my female colleagues (including the daughters of one). I watched New Moon with three of them. My New Moon movie companion, the one with lots of outtakes of Jacob and the wolf pack, also made the rounds. Even odder, it stayed a couple of weeks with a male colleague.

So, my point really is, I'm still dazzling mortals all around. And I'm reviving this blog because I feel it's about time I did.