The Oscar day!

30 mins to actual Oscars...here are my predictions!

Best Picture
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Zero Dark Thirty"
"Lincoln"
"Les Miserables"
"Life of Pi"
"Amour"
"Django Unchained"
"Argo

Ed's choice: Argo
Winner: Argo!!!


Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master"
Robert De Niro, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Alan Arkin, "Argo"
Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln"

Ed's choice: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Winner:  Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained


Best Supporting Actress
Sally Field, "Lincoln"
Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables"
Jacki Weaver, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Helen Hunt, "The Sessions"
Amy Adams, "The Master"

Ed's choice: Amy Adams, The Master
Winner: Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables


Best Director
David O. Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Ang Lee, "Life of Pi"
Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln"
Michael Haneke, "Amour"
Benh Zeitlin, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Ed's choice: Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Winner: Ang Lee, Life of Pi


Best Actor
Daniel Day Lewis, "Lincoln"
Denzel Washington, "Flight"
Hugh Jackman, "Les Miserables"
Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"

Ed's choice: Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Winner: Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln


Best Actress
Naomi Watts, "The Impossible"
Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"
Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"
Quvenzhané Wallis, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Ed's choice: Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Winner: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook


Best Original Screenplay
"Zero Dark Thirty"
"Django Unchained"
"Moonrise Kingdom"
"Amour"
"Flight"

Ed's choice: Moonrise Kingdom
Winner: Django Unchained


Best Adapted Screenplay
"Lincoln"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Argo"
"Life of Pi"
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Ed's choice: Argo
Winner: Argo


Best Animated Feature
"Frankenweenie"
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits"
"Wreck-It Ralph"
"Paranorman"
"Brave"

Ed's choice: Brave
Winner: Brave


Best Foreign Feature
"Amour"
"A Royal Affair"
"Kon-Tiki"
"No"
"War Witch"

Ed's choice: Amour
Winner: Amour


Best Visual Effects
"Life of Pi"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"The Avengers"
"Prometheus"
"Snow White and the Huntsman"

Ed's choice: Life of Pi
Winner: Life of Pi


Best Cinematography
"Skyfall"
"Anna Karenina"
"Django Unchained"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"

Ed's choice: Skyfall
Winner: Life of Pi


Best Costume Design
"Anna Karenina"
"Les Miserables"
"Lincoln"
"Mirror Mirror"
"Snow White and the Huntsman"

Ed's choice: Anna Karenina
Winner: Anna Karenina


Best Film Editing
"Lincoln"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Life of Pi"
"Argo"
"Zero Dark Thirty"

Ed's choice: Argo
Winner: Argo


Best Makeup and Hairstyling
"Hitchcock"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Les Miserables"

Ed's choice: Hitchcock
Winner: Les Miserables


Best Music (Original Score)
"Anna Karenina"
"Argo"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Skyfall"

Ed's choice: Life of Pi
Winner: Life of Pi


Best Music (Original Song)
"Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice"
"Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from "Ted"
"Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi"
"Skyfall" from "Skyfall"
"Suddenly" from "Les Misérables"

Ed's choice: Skyfall
Winner: Skyfall


Best Sound Editing
"Argo"
"Django Unchained"
"Life of Pi"
"Skyfall"
"Zero Dark Thirty"

Ed's choice: Django Unchained
Winner: Tie -- Zero Dark Thirty & Skyfall


Best Sound Mixing
"Argo"
"Les Misérables"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Skyfall"

Ed's choice: Les Miserables
Winner: Les Miserables


See you next here, Oscar!


###

Dusty trail

Day 3 in Bagan.

Keep calm and eat dust

###

Sleepy.town

Here I am.

So sleepy.

It is 1250hrs Yangon time and I am already in my pyjamas. Too hot outside and I am too sleepy.


###

Moonrise

Am on my way to the airport...to Yangon.

Pray for my well-being. And of course, rest assured that I will take care of myself and be a good person.

Bismillahirahmanirahim.
May my journey be sheltered from harm.


Amin amin rabbal al amin.

###

Morning...

Not Van Persie's day...

...and Kagawa's.


10 more mins at the Bernabeu.


###

Sing to the dawn

It's Wednesday now. That means I am just two days shy of my great Burmese escape. Well, not really an escape - just a week. But truth be told, I am actually kind of nervous. So funny. We share almost similar culture yet I am nervous. I would have been more comfortable in Aussie or US but no, I had to choose Myanmar.

And to think I got tickets without even knowing I had to get a visa.
The nerves!

So here's the rough plan.

Day 1-2
- land in Yangon
- check out Shwedagon Paya

- Kyaikto
- Aung San Suu Kyi house (if I can!)

 

 

Day 3-5

- reach Bagan

- lepak
- Bagan temples

- travel in horse/cart

- lepak

- take hot air balloon (possible if I beg the operators to take me in for free. No $$$)

Day 5-6

- reach Inle

- lepak

- Inle Lake

Day 7

- Yangon

Day 8

- Home

....hope it goes well.

###

Apple

...still freaking out.

*breathes*

Think of your happy place.
New York was my happy place.
Perth was my happy place.
Tioman was my happy place.
I am my happy place.
Happy.

Dont freak out. It'll pass. Soon comes sunrise and nothing's worth the suss.

We'll be all right.


###

Ah, freak out!

Barely two days of unemployment and here I am...at 3am on Chinese New Year...eating ice cream and breaking in cold sweat.

Did I make the right move?

I know I had thought it over. But the thinking was when I had a job. Now it is a different kind of thinking.

The last time I did I was 26. It turned out fine and I discovered teaching was the love of my life.

It's 7 years later now. I dont know what it is going to happen.

And I freaked out cause I saw my January bills. Bills which I already paid and was about to throw them away. Freaked out what if I cannot pay the next bills...and the next...and the next?

Oh boy.


###

Medusa

Wishing everyone a good Chinese New Year break.

Gong xi fa cai!
Xin nian kuai le!
Wan shi ru yi!
Bu bu jian kang!
Nian nian you yu!
Ming nian you boyfriend!
San nian you baby!

###

New

The day has come. It is today. Felt like yesterday it all started. ###

Saturday night live

Good lord it's already February and that means...yup...my working days in you-know-where are almost over. This time next week I'll be jobless.

I'm going to miss that place and the people I've come to know, especially Foon, Steve and Nani. They made my stay there so lively. Going to miss going back home with Meiling too.

Of course I'll miss the work. Though I know I'm not good at it but it did open my eyes to the world of entertainment. And I met my childhood Bollywood hero - Kamal Hassan - face to face!

...of course I dont like him anymore after that cause dude's such a diva.

Good times.

So, what am I going to do?

Going take some time off. Spend time with my family, look after my health for a bit cause it hasnt been peachy lately. Follow my dad to check ups cause apparently his lungs and heart are having some complications.

I will do freelance teaching whenever I can (at $100 an hour I dont mind not having CPF for the time being!) and maybe freelance writing too. This freelancing life is going to be interesting. We'll see how long it will last.

So...that's life in short.

More updates to come.


###

Ya lah!

At the Sentosa Experiential museum.


###

What would I do...

My dad has been on my mind lately, ever since he shared the health scare with us. Nothing else to say without me feeling all sick in the stomach thinking about it. So here's Drew Holcomb & the Neighbours.



Sometimes I wake up with a sadness
Other days, it feels like madness
So, what would I do without you

When colors turn to shades of gray
With the weight of the world at the end of the day
Oh, what would I do without you

A decade goes by without a warning
And there's still a kindness in your eyes
Amidst the questions and the worry
A peace of mind always takes me by surprise

I feel like I'm walking with eyes as blind
As a man without a lantern in a coal mine
Oh, what would I do without you

My imagination gets the best of me
And I'm trying to hide
Lost at sea
Oh, what would I do without you

The difference between what I've said and done
And you're still standing by my side
A guilty soul and a worried mind
I will never make it
If I'm on my own

So you got the morning
I got midnight
You are patient
I'm always on time
Oh, what would I do without you

You got your sunshine
I got rain clouds
You got hope
I got my doubts

So, what would I do without you
Oh, what would I do without you
Oh, what would I do without you

###

Bay

After a night at Marina Bay Sands with dear ole Meiling, it is time to go to work.

Birthday's over.

Life goes on.


###

The end sums up the beginning

May it get better.

Happy birthday!

:)


###

Meet Eve

It's the day before the first day of my 33rd life. How do I feel?

Amidst all the health scare happening around me, I feel blesses that I still have the chance to turn older. I never thought I could live beyond 28. Silly, I know.

So yes...32nd year has been bizarre. Slightly chaotic. But the highlight was that I got to go to Italia - something I didnt think I could do in my 20s.

So...here's to another good age. More rounded and a curvier set of numbers.

Thank you my friends for celebrating it witb me.

###

And the award goes to...(a rehearsal)

Am hating this new Blogger layout. Will transfer to Wix soon, I swear. But, in time.


ANYWAY of all the things I recorded in this still-surviving-but-gasping-for-air blog, I didnt explain the medical check-up that I had last week. It was the check-up of my life so far and what came out of it wasnt really good.

But I am not in any mood to pen that down. Illness comes and goes, I guess. And I think constant worrying will feed it further. So, I'll just try to live well and hope for the best.
It's almost mid-January and that means...aaah...the birthday is coming. 33 - what a number.Double the curves, double the bends. Not sure if things will be smooth-sailing but I am sure whatever it is, it will be interesting.

With the passing of January, it also means that the frantic season of the Academy Awards, aka Oscars, is coming. In fact, the nomination list was officially out last night and damn, so many movies I have to see before the actual day on 25 Feb.
The movies are slowly being released and if I cannot catch all (of course I cant. Wreck-It Ralph is not my thing!), I at least need to clear my Best Picture roll.

*breathes*
Here goes nothing.
Will only make predictions a few days before the day itself, after I see most, if not all of the movies.

Best Picture
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Zero Dark Thirty"
"Lincoln"
"Les Miserables"
"Life of Pi"
"Amour"
"Django Unchained"
"Argo

Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master"
Robert De Niro, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Alan Arkin, "Argo"
Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln"

Best Supporting Actress
Sally Field, "Lincoln"
Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables"
Jacki Weaver, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Helen Hunt, "The Sessions"
Amy Adams, "The Master"

Best Director
David O. Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Ang Lee, "Life of Pi"
Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln"
Michael Haneke, "Amour"
Benh Zeitlin, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Best Actor
Daniel Day Lewis, "Lincoln"
Denzel Washington, "Flight"
Hugh Jackman, "Les Miserables"
Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"

Best Actress
Naomi Watts, "The Impossible"
Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"
Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"
Quvenzhané Wallis, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Best Original Screenplay
"Zero Dark Thirty"
"Django Unchained"
"Moonrise Kingdom"
"Amour"
"Flight"

Best Adapted Screenplay
"Lincoln"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Argo"
"Life of Pi"
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Best Animated Feature
"Frankenweenie"
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits"
"Wreck-It Ralph"
"Paranorman"
"Brave"

Best Foreign Feature
"Amour"
"A Royal Affair"
"Kon-Tiki"
"No"
"War Witch"

Best Visual Effects
"Life of Pi"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"The Avengers"
"Prometheus"
"Snow White and the Huntsman"

Best Cinematography
"Skyfall"
"Anna Karenina"
"Django Unchained"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"

Best Costume Design
"Anna Karenina"
"Les Miserables"
"Lincoln"
"Mirror Mirror"
"Snow White and the Huntsman"

Best Documentary Feature
"Searching for Sugar Man"
"How to Survive a Plague"
"The Gatekeepers"
"5 Broken Cameras"
"The Invisible War"

Best Documentary Short
"Open Heart"
"Inocente"
"Redemption"
"Kings Point"
"Mondays at Racine"
"Snow White and the Huntsman"

Best Film Editing
"Lincoln"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Life of Pi"
"Argo"
"Zero Dark Thirty"

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
"Hitchcock"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Les Miserables"

Best Music (Original Score)
"Anna Karenina"
"Argo"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Skyfall"
Best Music (Original Song)
"Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice"
"Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from "Ted"
"Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi"
"Skyfall" from "Skyfall"
"Suddenly" from "Les Misérables"

Best Production Design
"Anna Karenina"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Les Misérables"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"

Best Short Film, Animated
"Adam and Dog"
"Fresh Guacamole"
"Head over Heels"
"Maggie Simpson in 'The Longest Daycare'"
"Paperman"

Best Short Film, Live Action
"Asad"
"Buzkashi Boys"
"Curfew"
"Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)"
"Henry"

Best Sound Editing
"Argo"
"Django Unchained"
"Life of Pi"
"Skyfall"
"Zero Dark Thirty"


Best Sound Mixing
"Argo"
"Les Misérables"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Skyfall"
Gonna camp in cinemas when I am not at work.


###

Are we humans?

Now I know 3/4 of the story.

How can a heart be so cold?

How can a love grow so old?

We will never ever ever ever get back together, said Taylor Swift.

And with that, the chapter ends.


P/S: No...not my love story which os yet to find a parking spot.

Down all around in and out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hphfK8YMphc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I am not embarrassed to say I can rap to this filth.

Till this day.


###

Discuss Disgust

Four days into the new year and already I feel god damn dirty.

No...I am.

Right now I am just so disgusted, upset and at my wits' end with...myself.

Hope this is not a sign of a stinking year.


...touche.


###