The Confusion Theory

insert giant sigh here

Leni — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:05:44 +0000

i hate this , it’s not easy remembering your own dang blog address when it’s nomadic. but i really cant post pictures up here

it’s now

http://voilamerde.blogspot.com

pictures

Leni — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:38:23 +0000

why oh why dear mother of god can’t i post pictures up on my own blog?? whoaaaayyyyyyyy?????

i dont wanna bloody move again, NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Indiana Jones

Leni — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:46:45 +0000

When I was younger, watching an Indiana Jones movie meant being taken for an exhilarating thrill ride. As an impressionable kid with very little to do and even fewer brain cells, I even heavily considered doing whatever it is he does for a living when I grow up, and still remember to shower every now and then.

So I wanted nothing less with the Kingdom of The Crystal Skull. Especially since we have state of the art CGI now. Despite the mixed reviews, I was ready to be blown away.

All these expectations had nowhere to go. Forget about thrill rides, the movie is more like Epcot Center (which, I will stress for the 100th time, is hell on earth). I don’t mind the fact that Harrison Ford is older and lost a bit of the mojo, or that Shia LaBeouf, despite the fact that he is a decent actor, is not very believable as Fonzie. Even Cate Blanchett didn’t seem comfortable in her role as a communist Edna Mode.

What I hated was the fact that many times, suspense built up and then it led nowhere. The script was the worst of all, the dialogues belong to a 1992 B movie starring Dolph Lundgren, not the legendary Indiana Jones!

To make this experience even more cringe worthy, at the end of it, Indy just had to say the line “Their knowledge is their treasure”

which made me want to VOMIT! This is not Indy Jones! Indy is supposed to be a manly movie! Adventures lacking in fluffy moments, which is how we like and remember it! if I wanted fluff, I would have sit through the chinese water torture adapted from a Nicholas Sparks book.

I felt like peeing in the middle of the movie, it wasn’t urgent or anything, and i usually risk bladder infection and hold until the end of the movie, even if it’s a romantic comedy. But I couldn’t be bothered, so I went to the bathroom. That’s how I know a movie is not engaging enough. This method is fool proof until I hit about 40 and I have to have a surgery for it.

on a mission to blog as often as i can so people will get sick of me

Leni — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:31:39 +0000

I have had three interviews with the same company, all three with different people from three different departments on three different days.

And I don’t think I even want this job.

So why am I making so much effort, right? It’s ridonkculous, it’s retail, I HATE retail companies, I have never lasted for more than a week, yet I keep making the same mistakes over and over again. However, I demanded a high pay, and they don’t seem to mind, so this is why I am confused on whether I should take the job or not. I know I’m not even offered yet, but I want to be ready, so maybe by blogging about it I can see things clearly.

If I say yes, it’s because of either of these 2 things:

1. I want the money

2. My mother keeps nagging about me getting a job

I know they’re both wrong reasons and I get sick to my stomach everytime I think about waking up early, sitting in shitty traffic, and having to answer to the man, all for something that I don’t even like. Also, I hated having to feign interest during the interviews, that’s why I sort of did it halfheartedly.

I know what I want to do but I don’t know where to start. It sucks being this age with no directions, like an effin rolling stone.

But well, anyway, this has helped, I’m not taking it. Screw everyone else. I’m the one who has to do it.

insert sad emoticon here

Leni — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:15:54 +0000

As previously mentioned, I have an internet connection at home now. I registered with a fairly new company which, as far I know, has the second best price. I still have some unresolved beef with the company with the first best price (for which they SHALL PAY!).

Now, I’m not 100% happy with my provider, first of all, they are making illegal activities a little bit difficult for me, because download speed is a little pitiful.

Secondly, the modem has to be connected to some sort of solid rectangular antennae thingy, which has to be stuck to my window, so now I have to move my macbook near the window for maximum speed, because the cord does not stretch that long.

Due to the fact that I am unemployed & broke, I can’t afford a router.

I can’t spend as long as I want to in front of the magic box because there’s no table (i have shitty immobile furniture), so all i have to sit on is my beanbag cube, my back isn’t supported at all, so if I develop arthritis, we know who to sue. Plus I have low blood count, so every time I get up, I feel dizzy.

This is also my excuse for procrastinating my blog remodeling project.

I know these discomforts can be avoided if I join that evil company with the first best price.

If only it’s that easy, right?

Well, it is, but I have my pride, so I shall grin and bear the inevitable joint diseases.

this blog has gone sour

Leni — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:45:15 +0000

all the things that i wanted to blog, i have forgotten, because ive been deprived of a personal internet connection for so long, but now i has it!

and i may have a job next month. i’m not excited about it, but if they agree with the requested pay, i will do it. I work for the money, i no longer have passion. Also, I expect no fun whatsoever in the workplace.

And i have come to a conclusion that some things/people in life can be forgotten but never forgiven.

once and for all

Leni — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:10:46 +0000

Why is it that when someone offers me food and I politely refuse (“no thanks I’m full”), they always say something like “On a diet?” or “Afraid you’ll get fat?”. This is especially prominent in Asians, I know they are teasing, but it’s really annoying because you know they’re hoping I’ll say “Yes” so that they can go into a full blown wawawas on why you should just enjoy food etcetera while the truth is that most times, they,too, hope to lose a size or two.

I don’t treat eating as a chore. When I say I’m full, I’m really full, trust me, if I want your food, I’ll have it (and if I like it, you’ll be goddamn sorry). Sometimes, I just don’t feel like eating or I’m not tempted by whatever’s on your plate. And by the way, yes, I don’t want to get fat, who in the hells actually ASKS for excess BMI?

La Orfanata

Leni — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:03:30 +0000

I’ve seen my share of horror movies and out of those, I onlylike The Others and The Haunting. I’m very picky about actors in general, butI’m even worse when it comes to horror movies. I can’t stand horror for horror’s sake, such as the onesfeaturing long haired stop-motion chicks in white (The Ring, The Grudge,Shutter), teen slashers (Scream, Prom Night), they are okay as boredom killers,but other than that, you’re better off waiting for Scary Movie’s spoofs.

By the way, can everyone in the movie industry stop makinghorror movies with the aforementioned stop motion chick? Scary thing off theassembly line is not impressive.

Yesterday, I shrugged off the possibility of a sleeplessnight and went to see The Orphanage (La Orfanata) all by myself. Shit BLEW ME the crap AWAY. Not onlydid it make me jump out of my seat (very embarrassing when the people to yoursides are strangers), it also made my throat corked tight by the end—a hugefeat considering I don’t cry at movies except during PMS.

The Orphanage is about a family who moved into an oldorphanage, which the mother used to live in as a child, from here on, you knowwhat happens. I don’t know why people still do this, moving into spooky houses,it’s like they’re asking for it.

Today, I found out that Hollywood has its grubby little claws on a remake of this excellent movie. It’s sad that the American movie industry can’t come up with a good original horror movie anymore that they have to remake every European and Asian horror flick. Suckiness alert.

I slept quite well after the movie, by the way. Although showering is now a mostly open-eye task.

2 more things that freak me out

Leni — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:56:54 +0000

1. little boys in musicals.

(especially when they start singing in english accent and sound like they’re born with the wrong set of genitals)

2. excessively cheerful people

(One of the girls in my Dutch class has a permanent grin plastered on her face. Emote, robot)

Couch Potato

Leni — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:14:48 +0000

Haven’t done much in Singapore except for house chores and fat accumulation. I’ve watched countless DVDs and read a book. But other than that I’ve been very very “zen”. By “zen” I mean very very lazy. It rains every bloody day here, I might as well be in London.

Actually, I’d much rather be in London.

But I digress.

The only book I’ve read is a “young adult” novel. That’s a fancy way of saying “children’s book” with several pages of illustrations, no less.

Coraline by Neil Gaiman is a story along the line of Lemony Snicket’s Unfortunate Events series, except scarier. Coraline, the main character finds a portal in her house to another house where her “other parents” live. These parents have black buttons as their eyes and trap souls of other children and have captured her parents. Coraline has to free all of them or else she has to live with the creepy couple forever.

There is a stop motion movie of the book out, with Dakota Fanning (surprise, surprise) as Coraline. It isn’t directed by Tim Burton, though, which sort of disappoints me, he would have made this thing a classic. But I still plan to watch it if I ever get a hold of it.

I watched Wizard of Oz for the first time ever. Better than never. I liked it, I can see Judy Garland’s appeal and I understand why it’s a classic . I tried to watch my first Akira Kurosawa movie, The Idiot, which is an adaptation of a Dostoevsky novel but it’s too heavy, so I stopped halfway. I also saw Bride of Frankenstein for the first time and am halfway through F.W Murnau’s Tartuffe (though I have to say I much prefer the likes of M and Faust). Saw Sweeney Todd (finally!), loved the blood and gore. Last week, my friends and I caught Step Up 2, which is a good movie if you know what you’re in for and not expect more.

I also tried watching No Country For Old Men but I got bored 1/4 through, so maybe I’ll continue next time. just for Javier Bardem.