Thoughts from Films: Clementines

I've recently watched "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" during the March Holidays because I couldn't just bring myself to study 24/7 then entire holiday could I! 

I was so inspired by these two films because they really took me out of the sometimes mindless,"feel good" videos i've been watching of late *coughs korean dramas coughs*.

Thoughts from Films...
I thought I could share my thoughts on these two films together because they do have some similarities (if you try hard and dig deep), because, at the core, these films were about a fresh start, the power of memories, of living your life to the fullest, to take a chance on love and life, and of course... clementines!

(clementines in) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

I guess some might say Walter Mitty was quite flawed in it's story, or the effects, or that it just wasn't as introspective as it sought out to be. Yes, it might be outrageous, and the focus on the romance was really distracting and pointless, but the beauty of the locations shown and it's amazing soundtrack just about made up for it!

What this film did was make it okay to daydream, because if Walter Mitty and his outrageous daydreams can make it, you can too. So i guess what the film lacked in story it made up in heart, and in the visuals.

I have a new item on my bucket list which is to learn to longboard and then board down a long winding road surrounded with lush green hills in greenland because greenland. (Or because i lifted that directly form the movie yes.)

(Adam Scott's Beard)

(clementines in) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

"I don’t need nice. I don’t need myself to be it and I don’t need anybody else to be it at me."

 - don't assign me yours."

This is a movie you love to quote from. It's basically like the crazy, confused girl's version of mean girls (there i said it). I always found myself unwilling to watch the movie because i disliked kate winslet, and comeon, Jim Carrey in a serious movie? But this movie definitely deserves the watch, a thousand times definitely, a i-stayed-up-till-2am-to-watch-you definitely.

Jim Carey really is sooo understated as an actor and we probably forget that because all his outrageous roles like Count Olaf, the creep from the mask, really "outshines" his performance as Joel Barish. So yay for Jim Carey, i followed him on twitter. 

KATE WINSLET IS AN AMAZING WOMAN. I have no idea why i disliked her so much before. Okay it was probably because i hated Rose in Titanic (whiny bitch). Kate Winslet is such a mature and again diverse actor, because being able to so fully channel the eccentric, carefree, impulsive Clementine Krucyznski? is a feat of its own. Thank you for bringing Clementine into our screen and our hearts <3 

I think trying to explain all this movie is about would probably give me a headache and concurrently feel self-conscious about how shallow I am, and it probably wouldn't end pretty so in summary: Eternal Sunshine is about a couple who, after meeting a rough patch(es), went to erase their memory of each other, and all they (and we) learn from in the process, which is a lot. What a slipshod attempt of summarising the plot i'm sorry. 

So let's just give some adjectives to describe it;
- Romantic drama
- Slash psycho-thriller (yes i got legit scared at points)
- Creepy Elijah Wood
- Cute Bruce Banner
- a tolerable kirsten dunst.
- about memory, about loneliness, about treasuring what you have, about making do. 
- completely aww-worthy balanced with truckloads of reality

I'm sorry if i came off sorta nutso,

x,

wern

MG Funfair '14 (II)

Spot claire!
Candid shot but glamorous as always!

Sucked that we wanted to eat a lot (liwen dedicated 20 just for food!) but all the stores were sold out?!?!!!! We walk to the mudpies, sold out. Ice cream, sold out. Satay, long queue. Lasagna, sold out. Smoothie, sold out.
什么屎 HAHA.

Eventually i ate a ramly burger (5), mashed potatoes (2), Gula Melaka ice cream (3) and got myself somue green tea (price: no idea i was too thirsty to care).

Loved sitting at the quandrangle and people watching, which is always the best recreational activity there is. Which is also how we spotted the cute boy (also there were many really cute kids) with the gigantic pink bear waiting for his girlfriend - hence the name of post- AND THERE WAS A SLIGHT DRIZZLE AND OHMY HALLELUJAH and then A SHORT SHOWER YAY EVEN BETTER- and then the girl appeared and it was all very cute.

~Oh young love~


How we hoboed at the quadrangle. Note mess.


Loved singing along to songs with this bunch wheeheee.


Particularly unglamorous.



The process of being caught creepily taking photos of the cleaning help stomping on trash.


Pedo-paradise right here.

And here.

And here.

And here.


In other news here's claire and i with the pencil girl!





HAHAHAHA. Scary evolution.


Then we ended up hoboing at the KAP cold storage for one last time :'''(

And with that we wrap up the day.
EXCEPT. Melly then came to my house and prevented me from bathing and stole my food and discussed men. Which is a huge yay for friendships! I foresee an overload of melly this holiday.

X
Signing off

Waiting for rain in this drought | MG Funfair '14

As I sit alone in the sanctuary half an hour early for service ... I thought i'd just give a round-up of yesterdays funfair!



We immediately started camwhoring because that's how we roll.



Mandatory creepy photo of the kids at "rest adventure'. Yes, there were tiny kids half my size traipsing on that lil' above air obstacle course. It was the best.


Of course we had to lose Sarah within the first ten minutes of being there.


Chrome is your best friend.


Liwen tackling a nacho.

Our sole purpose in the funfair was of course, to eat. Because no way were we spending our already limited amount of coupons (i only had $10 :/) on games (no skill whatsoever).


Being an extra in the prefect photo because im awkward like that.

Ramly burgers look dangerous with the meat patty that basically looks red and raw. But it doesn't taste too bad. Whilst queueing for some ramly we encountered creepy girls who spotted our claire. "OMG thats Claire Gan" "that's Claire Gan?" "Yes that's Claire Gan, she's so cute" being awkward me i obviously looked right at them and gave awah my friendship with claire, hence we couldn't get any more information about just how popular claire was. HAHA. Those kids were younger than us!

oh 10 minutes to service time to stop...
stay tuned for more!

IT'S A WERNDEROUS LIFE!

It's one of those days where i want to be a successful blogger again HAHA. I think the main reason why I will probably never be a successful blogger is that i'm way too random and i like way too many things for there to be actual cohesiveness in my blogs.

I used to find blogs so disgusting because, hell, nobody (i mean the whole world) doesn't care about what you do 24/7, yet, i've come to realise that is not the only reason we have blogs. Blogs are jut to transmit our conscious into the public, for someone, anyone out there to read! (and sometimes we enjoy certain streams more than others, ahem)

Here's a documentation of my wernderous life (despite how boring and normal it is)(and yes it is very normal), and some wernderous things i come across.

Today in H3 we watched a portion ("Life is Cheap in the Orient) of the acclaimed documentary "Hearts and Minds", and what really struck me was the nonsense people could come up with to justify their actions, and it's juxtaposition with the human conscience. I think i was brought to tears, because how can you not when faced with these shocking images, no matter how many times you've seen them.

(Everyone should watch it)(yes, I'm watching it now)

Live commentary:
- awesome propaganda song for the military
- "Our vision of progress is not limited to our own country, we extend it to all the peoples of the world"- Harry Truman
- This is not working I'm going to concentrate on the movie

However, H3 classes are as awkward as ever and I'm so NOT eloquent. I really have to kick the habit of saying "Like" right here right now.

1. I promise to try to commit to the quarter into the year resolution of not saying like in my sentences

I have the internet as my witness. 

Watch the film. Take however long you need. (I'm taking awhile)

x

wern