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.
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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.
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Do Not Disturb
Posted on February 28, 2005 by Ching under School.
I’m skipping ACCT 560 (Accounting Information Systems) today to study for my BLAW 431 (Business Law) exam. I was supposed to study for it on Friday (but I went to play poker at APL HQ instead; then when we got home, Brian and I watched this Katie Holmes’ flick Abandon). I tried to study for it again on Saturday after working out, but I ended up reading more of my new favorite blog Return to Happiness. Then I blogged some and then it was time to go to our couples massage. Afterwards we grubbed at Wildfire Diner, this new diner that Brian’s parents discovered a couple of months ago. We were going to see Hitch, but decided that our favorite balcony seats (A6 or A7) were probably sold out at the theater since it’s date night and it was already almost 8p. I didn’t want to have to sit anywhere else so we nixed that idea. We just ended up going home and watching Saw (that movie is messed up; good plot twist, though). I decided I would go to bed right after the movie so I could wake up early the next day to study. I planned to study before my workout this time. Didn’t work. I was able to get up early as I planned. That’s not the problem. It’s just that whenever I get on the computer I always find ways to procrastinate. My procrastination method this time was reading more Return to Happiness. I did pay bills though, so I got those out of the way until my next paycheck comes. Anyway, pretty soon it was time to go workout. By the time I returned, I just had enough time to shower and then go to dinner at my in-laws. Dinner, which normally is a two-hour affair, lasted almost four hours. We were there from 5p to a little after 9p. Jason was there so we did a lot of yapping before, during and after dinner. And then we played Phase 10 as I mentioned in the previous post. We got home at 10p and by then I was too tired and sleepy (we had lasagna and pasta always makes me feel sleepy afterwards) to even attempt to crack the books. I thought I would have a few minutes to study at work today but work was really hectic. I barely had time to think! I have lots of things on my to-do list for tomorrow so I really have to study tonight. My only option is to skip ACCT 560, which is okay because it’s a kind of boring anyway. Besides, Jen won’t be there and without her to entertain me I’ll zonk out for sure. She brings crayons for us to draw and doodle with during the lecture. It helps keep us both awake. Anyhow, since she’s not going to be there with her crayons and good humor (yikes, that sounds like ice cream; no she doesn’t bring any ice cream to class; although, that might be an idea for next week), I figured I’d be better off staying home. I know I need to study tonight, but whether or not I get around to actually studying… Well, that’s another question altogether. I’ve already killed much needed study time by posting this blog entry which, incidentally, was only supposed to take two seconds but I ended up writing a whole bunch!
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