RIP

I'm finally putting this blog to rest.

It's not because I'm leaving Edward's world. Dazzling mortals is still what I do best, but it has to be set aside for the moment so I can take care of the transient concerns of the human world. Yes, they're petty, but they do eat up a lot of my time.

But this is not a final burial, for such doesn't exist for creatures of the Twilight. This means other members of the group can still immortalize the contents of their eternal souls in this blog, if they so wish.

So are they or aren't they?

So my first entry after a long hiatus is about the real score between Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. Old news, really, but something that still remains, technically, a mystery. I say 'technically' because there was never a confirmation from either party. The only seemingly official, albeit third-party, confirmation ever was something Twilight producer Wyck Godfrey said in his Time interview last June, a couple of weeks before the Eclipse opening.

Here's the part from that interview that got everyone excited:

Everyone is talking about whatever is going on between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. Is that good for business?
Do you want the honest answer? I haven't even thought of it that way.

That's not the honest answer.
It really is. I honestly don't think of it in terms of business. It doesn't affect our core business at all. The thing I do think about is, Oh my God, I hope they stay together. Because it could be awkward on set in the next movie if they have a huge falling out. It's like, Wow, they have to portray this love story through two more movies. God, I hope they stay together; please stay together. That's what affects my day-to-day.

But you walk by newsstands and it's a publicist's dream: they are on every cover.
I don't feel it's out there anymore. Do people still report on it? If you look at people who have a stable personal life, the rags get tired of them. I think we're heading to that place where they are together and that's their life and we better find someone new to create drama out of.

The way the interview went, it seems Godfrey had accidentally let the 'truth' slip. In saying that his interest in the Kristen-Rob romance was that they stay together so there would be no awkwardness on the set, the obvious premise was that the two were already indeed together. He then suggested that he didn't think the real score between Kristen and Rob had much impact on his most-successful franchise ever, because the tabloids were no longer interested in them as what they had was already stable.

But was Godfrey that innocent? Was it possible for him not to know that the real score between the two stars had been the subject of intense speculation in the fan base, which is the main market of the franchise? Did he honestly not see the publicity potential there just a few weeks short of the opening? Seems suspect.

Which is why, to answer the question in the title line, I say I don't know, and I don't care. If they're indeed together and have, as Godfrey said, built something stable between them, good for them! But they're actors. They're not Bella and Edward.

I'd only be interested if a fanfic twist emerged from this issue, such as Rob is actually a real vampire playing a vampire, and fell in love with his dark and emo co-star Kristen because her blood smelled so sweet. And after the Breaking Dawn shoot he will turn her, and they will live together and have hot, mad sex daily for centuries to come.

Emerging from Lurkland

I feel bad about neglecting this blog. There's been a lot of developments in the Twilight world that I wanted to comment on, but somehow I got sidelined by matters in the human space. Such matters always seem urgent, but in the end you realize they're just as urgent as dirty dishes that need washing, so they can be used in the next meal. In other words, they're routine, and doing them doesn't really take you a step forward.

But I didn't emerge from Lurkland just to rant on my sorry existence. I just wanted to drop in here and leave a sign that this blog is still alive, albeit in hibernation. I'll see if I can get it going again. I miss following Twilight and writing about it. I miss Edward and his shiny Volvo. I miss the vegetarian diet. I miss Forks and its mossy trees. I miss Jacob and the pack. I miss clumsy Bella and her emo moments.

I'm thinking of rereading the series to see if there are some more layers to peel there. Then I'll write here again. But don't hold your breath. Just drop in here when you feel like it. Who knows what you'll find :)

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.