With Hanna moving through and providing lots of rain and winds, it's the perfect day for just vegging out and being lazy....
is that what I'm doing though?
No.
I'm doing my civil service by tracking down criminals for Interpol....and let me tell you...it's exhausting. =)
I don't really mind working on the weekend though....at least I get to track down these crazy villains from the comfort of my own home...and pajamas. =)
Well, I'd love to stick around and write more...but I'm needed for my next case.
Catch you later.......=)
Today marks two years since the passing of my hero Steve Irwin.
Last year I marked the occasion by getting a memorial tattoo...this year I think I'll simply remember him....
his infectious laugh, his charming smile, his one-of-a-kind attitude....
Here's to you Steve....you're greatly missed.
As promised....the dramatic conclusion to this Hogfather review:
We left off with Susan, the monster-beater, going to death's house to find out why death is impersonating Hogfather on Hogswatch (Christmas eve) with his sidekick Alfred in tow.
We also left off with Teatime and his gang trying to put a spell on all the teeth they found at the tooth fairy's castle. We've now learned that in this world, one can control you if they have some of your hair, your toe-nail clippings or your teeth. Interesting.
There is also a group of wizards at an unseen university that I neglected to mention in the first part of this review (simply because they failed to leave an impression on me) that has been sitting around talking about students, hygiene and a machine one of the students built called the Hex. (The hex is the largest thinking brain in the world)
Death and Alfred get to a small, dirty house and death reads the letter to Hogfather..."I'd like some food, some warm clothes, lots of toys, etc." Alfred, ever so graciously says "well he can settle for an apple and a truck" (or something like a truck). Death doesn't seem pleased. "What? You can't just give them everything they ask for...it's the whole socio-economics of the world. They need to want things..." he says. Alfred then explains to death about the first time he really wanted something for Hogswatch...
"I was a little lad and I saw this beautiful wooden horse in the window of a shop. I had my nose against that window all day staring at that horse, hoping someone would buy it for me. Someone did go in and buy it, and for a moment, I thought it was for me, but it wasn't. Incidentally, my nose froze to that window and I stood there, stuck for hours after the shop closed. I put up my stocking and the next morning I got a wooden horse, it was the size of my hand, my father carved it himself." Death interupts, "and that meant more to you than any expensive toy..." "No." Alfred says quickly. "You're selfish as ever when you're 9. I wanted that giant wooden horse."
Meanwhile, at deaths house, Susan reads a book and is suddenly knocked out by a huge gust of wind and has a dream of a castle of bones. She comes too and jumps on deaths horse (a white horse) and rides to this castle. (It's never explained how she finds it so easily). Once she arrives, the castle starts to collapse and she has only seconds to get out. Not without saving some random guy wearing a sheet. She takes this guy to the unseen university (apparently she can see it because she is only half human---death being her grandfather after all) and she asks the professors/wizards to help her.
"This is the god of hangovers," she announces as she throws the guy she rescued from the castle of bones on a table. He is clearly....drunk and passed out.
"What do you want us to do?" asks one of the wizards.
"I need you to make him sober so I can ask him some questions."
The wizards all look at each other with frantic faces...."you need him sober...so you brought him here?"
The wizards get together and come up with some kind of cocktail that is "pure sobriety" in a bottle. The god of hangovers drinks it....and passes out. He later comes to and says he has no recollection of where he came from...that one day he just...existed.
Similarly, this wierd knome suddenly existed earlier in the movie at the unseen university. The headmaster remembered this and said, "wait one moment...things that have never existed before are just....turning up all of a sudden. things that we imagine."
To test the theory, one wizard announces..."well I always wondered if there was an eater of socks...you know...since there always seems to be one sock missing."
"To the laundry room!" one shouts.
They all run to the laundry room to find....yup...you guessed it....a wierd little creature that looks like a mix between an anteater and a goblin....eating socks.
Susan doesn't really have time for this so she jumps on deaths white horse and starts to ride off when the god of hangovers is suddenly sober enough to jump on the back of the horse.
"I'll go with you." he says goofily.
"Are you any good in a fight?" Susan asks.
"Well....I can be sick on people."
Content with that answer, Susan and the god of hangovers ride off...into the unknown.
Back at tooth fairy's castle, the wizard Teatime employed to place a spell on all the childrens teeth is having some difficulty in performing his task. One of Teatimes other thugs has found a big vault that has numerous locks and is instructed by Teatime to open it.
Back at the unseen university, the wizards are taken by surprise to see death (again, impersonating Hogfather) drop down the chimney with gifts. They confront him and death explains that Hogfather has...disappeared and so he's taken his place to keep people believing. The wizards tell death about the wierd creatures that are coming into existence all of a sudden and then death sits down and has a conversation with Hex about what's going on.
"What will happen if Hogfather dies?" he asks Hex.
"The sun will not come up in the morning." replies Hex.
Bummer.
"Will the Hogfather die if nobody believes in him?" asks death.
"Yes." replies Hex.
"Do you believe in the Hogfather Hex?"
There's no reply.
"Dooooo yooooouuuuu believe?" asks death, sounding slightly irritated.
"Yes." replies Hex.
"Good, I need you to believe." With that, death takes off.
Susan and the god of hangovers has suddenly ridden deaths white horse right into a childs drawing and for a second I thought we switched movies to Mary Poppins.
They walk through this fantasy drawing land and find a house, open the door and voila! They're in the tooth fairy's castle. They happen upon Teatime and his gang (the gang is a little smaller now because he's killed off a few of them by this point). There's some chasing that goes on and some crazy ridiculousness. Susan and god of hangovers happen upon the kidnapped tooth fairy, only she isn't THEE tooth fairy (apparently it's kind of a commercialized business) and once the god of hangovers sees this tooth fairy employee for the first time he falls in love with her. The two of them run off (making later appearances here and there).
Susan confronts Teatime who grabs her sword (deaths sword, his second favorite weapon Susan happened to grab while snooping around his house earlier) and trys to kill Susan. Only, weapons don't work in the tooth fairy's castle...because it is built and maintained by childrens imaginations. So there is no death in the castle. And death himself can't get to the castle. There's a scuffle and Teatime falls to his death (so we think) and Susan opens the big vault with all the locks. Inside the huge room, there's a tiny wireframe bed with a little old lady (who looks awfully suspicious) resting there.
"Hello dear." the frail woman says.
"No." Susan says. "You're not the tooth fairy."
A really wierd conversation takes place and Susan beats up the old lady...then we see it's not really an old lady after all....it's a bogey man (they said bo-gee, I assume they mean boogie)...and not only A bogey man...THEE bogey the man...the ORIGINAL!
The bogey man tells Susan his story of scaring the children, but then starting to care about them and then he wanted to protect them and you know (hair, toe-nail clippings and teeth can be harmful if anyone gets their hands on them) so she started the tooth fairy business.
Then...the bogey man dies (even though there isn't supposed to be death in the tooth fairys castle).
Then Susan employs one of Teatimes gang members (who actually is a good guy) to look after the teeth.
Back at the unseen university, the professors and students are celebrating Hogswatch when suddenly Teatime falls onto one of their tables. Apparently, the tooth fairy's castle is located over the unseen university.
He gets up and leaves.
Susan goes back to the house where she is a governness but death is there waiting for her. She still needs to find the Hogfather.
Next thing you know. death and Susan are riding the white horse over a snowy mountain where there's a big hog running from some dogs. The hog is the Hogfather before he became the Hogfather and the dogs (we later learn) are the auditors trying to kill him.
Susan steps in, saves the hog, death steps in, gets rid of the auditors. (death was breaking all sorts of rules).
The Hogfather becomes himself again, the sun rises...and all seems well. Susan is dropped back off at the house where she invites death in for some hot cocoa.
Susan and death seem to be getting along when TeaTime shows up and trys to kill them.
No worries though, Susan kicks ass.
Teatime dies, death stops time so the kids Susan governs won't see the body and then hands Susan a Hogswatch card.
There seems to be a bloodied feather stuck to the front of the card. Death explains Alfred suggested he put a sparrow on the card...but that when he tried to put it on...it didn't want to stay. "It didn't seem to be in the spirit of Hogswatch at all." he says...disappointed. Susan smiles and thanks him. Apparently whatever family drama they had was now forgotten.
Death is about to leave but Susan has to know why he did what he did. Why he impersonated Hogfather.
"Humans have to believe. It's what makes them human. It's what makes them interesting." he says.
Susan smiles.
"And can you believe," death continues, "with all of the interesting things in all the worlds in this universe...someone actually came up with the idea of boredom?"
The movie ends...or so we think.
Then we see the words..."a long, long time ago..."
Death walks into a toy shop and asks the owner, "how much did you sell that wooden horse in the window for?"
"Twelve dollars." says the owner.
"I'll give you 50." says death.
"Do you want me to wrap it up for you?" asks the shop owner.
"No, but incidentally, there is a young boy with his nose frozen to your window outside...a little warm water should do the trick."
And then we see Alfred, as a boy, his nose frozen to the window.
This was definitely the MOST random movie I've ever seen in my life. I can't say that I'd watch it again...(unless I'm drinking) but I would definitely suggest it just for the pure wierdness of it. =)
We got a movie from Netflix yesterday called Hogfather.
We're not entirely sure who placed this movie in the queue....perhaps it's a leftover souvenier of the drunken mysteries night....who knows? =)
Anyhow, we got it and so we decided to watch it....well....half of it....apparently this movie is 3 hours and actually has an "intermission".
I have no idea how to explain this movie....honestly...it's probably the wierdest thing I've ever seen.
Here's a rundown of the first half:
In a galaxy far, far away, there is a world resting atop the shoulders of 4 elephants resting atop the shell of a ginormous turtle floating through space. In this world there live wizards, humans, pixies that roll joints, a league of assassins, death himself, wierd governesses who beat up the monsters under your bed, the tooth fairy, Hogfather (their version of Santa Clause) and lots of other...things.
We're introduced to all of the characters on Hogswatch eve (Christmas eve).
Apparently, these wierd, ghost things that call themselves "auditors"---though we don't know what they audit, employ the league of assassins to eliminate Hogfather....or...the fat man as the head of the league called him. The league gives the assignment to Mr. Teatime, who pronounces his name Taya-Thy-May. Teatime could be Johny Depps version of Willy Wonka's twin.
So Teatime goes in search of Hogfather (who the auditors tell the league they don't know his whereabouts, yet at the end of the conversation they tell the league "don't try to find us...we'll find you....we know where you live...we know where everybody lives...." Except Hogfather I guess.
Meanwhile, we see this governness (who got a bad highlighting job) putting some kids to bed and then beating the crap out of some monsters under their beds.
Also meanwhile, we see death hanging out at his place, keeping a watchful eye on all of these hourglasses that are meant to represent peoples lives. As they run out, he grabs the hourglass and goes to work. He happens to see Hogfathers hourglass running out (that apparently is supposed to be impossible since Hogfather is a mythical being) and decides to find out what's up.
Teatime in the meantime has kidnapped the tooth fairy.
Death can't find Hogfather but finds his sleigh (pulled by hogs of course) and decides to impersonate Hogfather so kids continue to believe in him. Death takes his pixie friend Albert (who is rolling a joint in almost every scene) with him as his "elf". Albert is probably the coolest character ever. He instructs death that his "Ho-Ho-Ho" needs some work.
Teatime and his troupe of misfits begin piling all the teeth in the tooth fairies castle together and he forces a wizard to put a spell on the pile (apparently, in this world, you can control kids when you have their teeth).
Death (impersonating Hogfather) climbs down the chimney of the ass-kicking governess and she's not happy to see him. Apparently death is her grandfather?
You probably wouldn't believe me if I told you this movie got even wierder...but it does!!!
Susan, the governess, looks in a mirror, gives herself a cool "do" and stops time with the snap of her fingers. Then she heads over to deaths house to figure out what the heck is going on in this crazy world resting atop the shoulders of elephants resting atop the shell of a ginormous turtle floating through space. =)
Then we hit intermission and turned the movie off...it was bedtime.
Tune in tomorrow for the dramatic conclusion of my Hogfather review. =)
This is awesome. I love it.
So I don't know how many of you are Twilight fans...but I found this interesting...
First off, I LOVE the Twilight series and am SUPER excited about the motion picture this coming winter.
Well...this morning I read this article about a new HBO series called True Blood...which happens to be based on a series of novels called Southern Vampire series about a human waitress who can hear others thoughts and she meets a vampire but she can't hear his thoughts and vampires are able to purchase synthetic blood so they don't have to feed off of humans anymore, etc. It just seemed really wierd to me that there were so many common factors between Twilight and Southern Vampire.
So I thought, maybe this Southern Vampire author tookd Meyer's ideas of vampires in modern time and ran with it...only I found out that the Southern Vampire series was started in 2001....two years before Meyers came up with Twilight.
Hmmmm.....
Now, I haven't read any of the Southern Vampire series and I'm in no way accusing Meyers of anything, I just thought it was...........wierd.
Akhirnya setelah terpending cukup lama, akhirnya bisa menulis tentang proses lamaran teman saya Ollie. Kenapa bisa terpending lama?
karena bingung mau nulis apa. Speachless..
Saya bahagia banget gitu loh. :)
Bukannya apa-apa. Ini ollie gitu loh, yang saya tahu banget yang selama saya berteman dengan dia, MENIKAH adalah impiannya sudah sejak laaaaaaammmmmaaaaaaaaa....... dan proses lamaran ini merupakan salah satu titik awal menuju satu yang sangat dinantikan.
Sehingga ketika ada line dari dia 'Allhamdullilah setelah tujuh tahun .....'
dan reaksi pertama saya 'WHATTTT??? udah tujuh tahun?? kemana aja gue?' xixixixixiixixixxi
Kembali lagi ke proses lamaran. Pestanya (kalau bisa dibilang pesta) sederhana saja. Hanya keluarga dekat yang hadir, dan saya merasa sangat terhormat sekali bisa menjadi bagian salah satu momen yang sangat dinantikan ini. Cause believe me, i also waiting for this moment for soooo loooonnggg ....(lamaran aja saya sudah begini, gimana perasaan saya pas ntar nikahnya yah :) )
Karena ini seperti proses perkenalan antar kedua keluarga besar,acaranya berlangsung dengan penuh keakraban dan kekeluargaan. Ada satu hal yang mungkin jadi masukan dan pelajaran buat yang lain, sebelum acara hendaknya tahu susunan acara. Karena si Ollie manyun ketika dipingit di kamar. Karena menurut susunan acara Ollie
boleh keluar setelah ada proses 'meminta' dari pihak Anang si calon pengantin pria. :)
Dan turn out menjadi salah satu proses yang sangat indah (mudah-mudahan Ollie masih ingat...yah iyalah...). Karena dalam proses ini Om Dawam, perwakilan dari pihak keluarga bertanya kepada Ollie dengan suara bergetar (aduuh saya lupa lagi kata-katanya *eel memukul kepala).
Tapi intinya ada kata-kata Om Dawam yang sangat kena sehingga Om dan Tante (mama papanya Ollie) berkaca -kaca.
Inti acara sepertinya disitu karena setelah itu acara udah lebih santai dan dilanjutkan dengan acara makan siang bersama. Singkat, padat, sederhana tapi dalem. Makanannya enak-enak dan home made semua. Sayang waktu itu saya tidak bisa pol nikmatinnya karena perut masih susah diajak kompromi semenjak kejadi Tretes :(
Oh yah tentu saja Si ollie terlihat sangat memukau karena Anang
sampai pangling. Baru ingat satu masukan buat anang, harusnya saat itu dia potong rambut :(
Next...saya ingin membahas hantaran yang diberikan kepada Ollie. Bukannya apa-apa karena ini masalah budaya, kadang-kadang ada makna-makna di dalam cukup dalam. Tapi ini hanya versi saya sebagai orang yang baru pertama kali ikut dalam proses lamaran :)
Menurut saya, hantaran selain hadiah untuk calon mempelai wanita, didalamnya terdapat juga doa-doa dari pihak keluarga. Kenapa begitu? Karena dalam hantaran untuk Ollie saya melihat ada hadiah yang saya anggap menjadi doa demi kebahagian Ollie dan Anang. Sekali lagi ini hanya versi saya, jadi hanya item-item tertentu yang saya pilih :)
Pertama wajik. Dalam hantaran ini Ollie mendapat tiga piring besar wajik dengan berbagai macam warna. Seperti kata Ipeh (fotografer weedingnya ollie) disini diharapkan Ollie dan Anang akan leeeennngggkkkeeetttt terusss... AMMIIINN
Nah ini yang ini yang saya sebenarnya agak penasaran,ada keranjang yang isinya satu sisir pisang yang gede-gede, bunga duit,sirih dan melati.
Kemudian saya menginterpretasikan, ini lebih menggambarkan pihak lak-laki, dalam hal ini Anang, dapat memberikan nafkah lahir dan batin (pisang dan duit). Dan doanya semoga kedua mempelai dapat langgeng sampai kakek nenek dan dapat melewati kehidupan rumah tangga dalam hidup susah maupun senang (melati dan sirih)
Well...terlepas dari makna-makna tersebut yang saya kaitkan dengan hantaran :)
Itu lebih banyak doa saya kepada kedua calon mempelai. Semoga Ollie nantinya dapat menjadi seorang wanita, istri, ibu, dan partner yang baik bagi Anang. (kalau dikaitkan dengan hantaranmu bu, selalu menyediakan yang manis-manis :0 )
Dan untuk Anang bisa menjadi pria, suami, ayah, partner dan yang tidak kalah penting dapat menjadi Imam yang baik bagi keluarga.
I'm so happy for both of you. CONGRATULATION.
So...lets start to count :)
I got a vanity desk and I LOVE it! =)
Got my hair cut the other day....it's much shorter than usual....and more....uh...I dunno...I'm just not sure I like it.
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