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The Notebook and Other Movies

Posted on March 6, 2005 by Ching under Movies.

Brian and I watched The Notebook before bed last night. It’s really good. You all have got to see it. If you’re female, I know you’ll love it. If you’re male, rent it for your girl. She’ll love it and you’ll get laid. Two reasons why I say that it’s good: Brian put it in the DVD player for me with the full intention of going to sleep as soon as it started. “We need to burn this movie so I can play it whenever I can’t sleep,” he commented right as the opening credits were rolling. He thoroughly believed that the movie would just bore him to death. Believe me, he really tried to fall asleep during the movie too. He lay in bed and turned his back away from me and the TV, he closed his eyes a few times in an effort to just sleep. Nothing worked, though, because he was with me to the closing credits. During the last few scenes, we were both speculating about how the story would end. Secondly, the movie made me bawl. Okay, so I’m a crier by nature.. I’ll let you in on something if you promise not to laugh: the endings of the first Shrek movie and There’s Something About Mary made me cry.. So this really isn’t that difficult of a feat to accomplish.. But I digress.. This movie made me cry halfway through it. And then it just kept making me cry and making me cry and making cry. It’s horrible – that the movie made me cry so much, not the movie. As I stated earlier, the movie is really good. So good in fact, that we’re getting it for both my mom and Brian’s mom. He’s like, “The three of you can watch it and bawl together.” Anyway, throughout the movie I kept thinking I’d seen this girl before. This girl being the actor who played young Allie. So I looked into it today and found out that I have. She played Regina in Mean Girls (which is also good by the way, even if all you get out of it is staring at Lindsay Lohan’s boobies). She looks slightly different with the blonde hair color she sported in MG but her face and those cute dimples are unmistakeable. And I would’ve been able to place her if I didn’t have a killer headache. This was a blind addition to our Netflix so I really had no clue who would be in it. I knew nothing about the plot. I never saw any of the movie trailers. I think I heard someone say it was good in passing and added it to my Netflix list. I knew absolutely nothing about this movie. It just came today as the movies normally come and we popped it in and watched. At any rate, while looking into movie details, I also discovered that this movie is based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks. And if you can recall A Walk to Remember, another movie that made me bawl, is based on another one of his novels. Anyway, I’m temped to watch Message in a Bottle, which is a movie adaptation of yet another Nicholas Sparks novel, but I’m not particularly fond of Kevin Costner so I’m not altogether convinced that I will enjoy it. Has anyone else seen it? Any comments?

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Skinny Brian

Posted on March 4, 2005 by Ching under Life, School.

These days Brian is not so skinny and sluggish and boring and not any fun at all. Where did hot, skinny, fun Brian go? =P P.S. Remember that Business Law exam that I couldn’t get myself to study for last weekend? Apparently, I couldn’t get myself to study for it because I didn’t need to. I got 122 out of 120 points possible. I still can’t figure out where the extra two points came from but, hey, I’ll take it. Go me!

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Hell Hath Frozen Over

Posted on March 3, 2005 by Ching under Poker.

I never thought the day would come when my friend Misty would ask me to teach her how to play poker. I tried to get her into the game last year by inviting her to play with us at Fingers (now closed) a few times, but she didn’t seem interested at all. Today, out of nowhere, she asks me to teach her. I think there’s an event on Sunday that she wants to participate in because she was pretty adamant in getting a crash course in poker before then. I invited her to Loft 150, our usual Thursday night poker hang out, tonight but she has to pick Whiskey (her dog) up from the vet. I told her about Friday night poker but I think he has plans that night also. She’s single, after all. Friday night is usually getting shit-faced and possibly having a one-night-stand night for single folks around these parts (except for Jason who seems to engage in this sort of activity almost every night). I told her that I wouldn’t be playing poker again until next week because our regular poker nights are Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays (with ocassional poker games on the weekends except this time) but she was quite adamant about learning before Sunday. I forgot to ask what the event was.. I would’ve been more curious if I were free but I have school work to do. I told her I’m not playing on Saturday because we have the Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowl for Kids’ Sake thing in the afternoon and then I think we’re going to a hockey game (Wichita Thunder) in the evening. She must be really desperate because she wants me to teach her during bowling. I said sure, no problem. I’m going to be doing two of my favorite things (poker and bowling) at the same time so I wasn’t about to say no. Except, I was really going to try for a 300 game this year (don’t laugh; it’s 9-pin no tap so it’s not that farfetched; I actually bowled a 297 game last year). Furthermore, I have extra motivation this year because Robert (one of my poker buddies) actually pledged .30 cents per pin to me. A 300 game will mean $90 for Big Brothers Big Sisters! So anyway, I don’t know how teaching Misty how to play poker in between frames will affect my performance. Don’t think that this is an advanced excuse for not bowling well, either. I’m just typing the thoughts that come into my head. I think I’ll be able to do both well. I am not that great at multitasking but I’m an excellent at both poker and bowling. Ha! Ha! Ha! Conceited much? I think Misty will do really well at poker. Women always tend to do well (except for me, lately). Especially cute ones. I’ll have to remind her to use her feminine wiles (a technique I’ve yet to employ myself). Plus, beginners’ luck always helps. Speaking of poker, Brian and Jason should be here to pick me up any minute. Jason just bought a new car so we’re going to be rolling in his Durango tonight. Let’s hope he hasn’t baptized the back seat; otherwise, I may just have to pass. Just kidding. It’s okay. People ride in our car and we’ve desecrated it quite badly. Kidding aside, I really hope that my normal kick ass poker player self will be back tonight. I’m tired of this poker rut.

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Who Stole My Mojo?

Posted on March 2, 2005 by Ching under Poker.

Last night Brian gave me a total of $30,000 play chips on UB which I easily squandered within about 20 minutes of playing at a $200-$400 blinds, no-limit table. What is wrong with me? I usually rock at playing online poker. Most specially if it’s for play chips! I’ve been in a poker funk lately. Something needs to be done about this because it’s starting to tick me off. Speaking of lost mojos.. For once, in almost a couple of years, Brian’s sex drive out-revved (if there is such a word) my own. He’s ranting about it in his blog. Go read.