The Best Of Our Lives: May 2010

JOHN'S WEDDING DINNER

*too bad Sam has to leave early*

I honestly never expect that John would invite my family and i to attend his wedding dinner.. But too bad Mr and Mrs Lau could not attend - but they definitely wish them well.. And it was totally fun.. Having to see one of my best friends getting married (especially him).. Hahahaha.. He had also given me and my Len Sen buddies a chance to get together in a complete group because whenever we come out for tea, it is not always a complete set of members (especially Sam and Tiger-always busy and not around).. :(

Other than telling everyone how much i have enjoyed last night's dinner, i would also like to thank my Len Sen buddies for being so nice to my hubby.. He was scared that he wouldn't be able to mix around but they made him feel comfortable with their jokes and messing the karaoke sessions a bit.. Hehehehehe...

And to the new Mr and Mrs Teh, wish you both all the best, take good care of each other and we are now waiting for the next good news ya (pregnancy)!!! Hehehehe..

Thank you all once again, take care and we should come out more often ya..

Love you guys very much.. :)

SUDDENLY FELT LIKE DEDICATING THIS SONG TO SOMEONE..

When your down and troubled,

And you need a helping hand,

And nothing,

Whoa nothing is going right.

Close your eyes and think of me,

And soon I will be there,

To brighten up even your darkest nights.

You just call out my name,

And you know wherever I am,

I'll come running, oh yeah baby

To see you again.

Winter, spring , summer, or fall,

All you got to do is call,

And I'll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah,

You've got a friend.

If the sky above you,

Should turn dark and full of clouds,

And that old north wind should begin to blow,

Keep your head together and call my name out loud now,

And soon I'll be knocking upon your door.

You just call out my name and you know wherever I am,

I'll come running to see you again

Oh yes i will see you again.

Winter, spring, summer or fall,

All you got to do is call,

And I'll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hey, ain't it good to know that you've got a friend?

When people can be so cold.

They'll hurt you and desert you,

Well they'll take your soul if you let them,

Oh yeah, but don't you let them.

You just call out my name and you know wherever I am

I'll come running to see you again.

Oh babe, don't you know 'bout,

Winter, spring, summer or fall,

Hey now, all you've got to do is call.

Lord, I'll be there, yes I will.

You've got a friend.

Ain't it good to know you've got a friend.

You've got a friend.

SURPRISE!!!

Just when i thought that everything is getting better between she and i, suddenly i have received a news about her being transfered to the higher floors.. Sadly she is not allowed to say no... Although sometimes i am angry of her, argued with her or stopped talking to her for a couple of days, after everything had passed, we will be happy again.. Joking and making loads of noise in the office and sometimes laughing because of something minor.. I just cannot believe that after working with her for quite some time and already getting used to her way of work and her mood swings, she has to leave... Sometimes thinking about it makes me really want to just leave without a notice.. But that is just too childish.. I will see how things will go after my trip back from China with hubby.. If my "new boss" is as nice as how i have worked with him before i was being transfered, then i might just consider hanging around a little longer..

STUPIDITY

After his Beijing trip, i thought that he will turn to a new leaf.. But it seems that he is still the same old Mr Lau.. The first week after his trip he was doing ok.. Showing some improvements.. But after that week, he starts his routine again.. Until today.. It is getting worst and worst each day.. This morning, he came home at 6.15am.. He did not come home after bringing mom out to meet Janice at her camp and taking mom to dinner.. And as usual, after dropping mom home, he went out... Until this morning 6.15am.. He thought that mom and i would not know about it.. But he was so damn wrong... How can he be so stupid to think that we are dumb??? I think he should know that i have caught him coming back this morning.. The funniest thing is that if he got the balls to come home early in the morning, why can't he just open the gate and the door as usual?? Why must he be so discreet on opening and closing the gate like how you would see in slow moving clips???? And when he heard mom's alarm clock rang, he just rushed into the bathroom and pretend as though he has waken earlier (GREAT!!!!)... He even changed my cat's potty this morning (which is quite rare)...

I really cannot help but to keep wondering where he went and what is that that made him so hooked up... I am very curious.. If you would say it is because of the current badminton match that's been going on or his favourite snooker and his fucking booze, i seriously doubt it... There must be something else...

I know his tactics really well... I think mom knows about it too... If he comes home in the wee mornings, he will open and close the gate slowly and then change into his pjs and goes to bed as making the impression that he had came home around 1am or 2am.. But not this time.. You have been caught by your wife... I reckon that this is great.. I even can't wait for the real drama to begin... Call me wicked but this is how i am... If you have crossed the line, i will make sure you pay for it dearly...

MY NEW VENTURE

I have been trying to make my own tiramisu and finally have succeeded!!!!! Last week was ok but this week i am more confident.... Thanks to hubby's and Janice's taste buds and willingness to be guinea pigs... But too bad we did not have any pictures of the result... But Janice did take a couple candids from our first experiment.. Hehehehe... I really love it when we are all packed in a small small kitchen doing a small project... :)

MOVIE REVIEW - MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY

Other than The Fall, i had also fell in love with Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day and have been watching it over and over again these couple of weeks.. It is a romantic movie about a middle-aged London governess, finding herself unfairly dismissed from her job.. In an attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse..

PS,
Check out the theme songs as well.. Totally awesome!!! Especially "If I Didn't Care" - sang by Amy Adams and Lee Pace (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-DhABLiirg)

SUMMARY:-

In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (played by Ms. McDormand) is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Without so much as severance pay, Miss Pettigrew realizes that she must for the first time in two decades seize the day. This she does, by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse (Ms. Adams). Within minutes, Miss Pettigrew finds herself swept into a heady high-society milieu and, within hours, living it up. Taking the social secretary designation to heart, she tries to help her new friend Delysia navigate a love life and career, both of which are complicated by the three men in Delysias orbit; devoted pianist Michael (Mr. Pace), intimidating nightclub owner Nick (Mr. Strong), and impressionable junior impresario Phil (Mr. Payne). Miss Pettigrew herself is blushingly drawn to the gallant Joe (Mr. Hinds), a successful designer who is tenuously engaged to haughty fashion maven Edythe (Ms. Henderson) the one person who senses that the new social secretary may be out of her element, and schemes to undermine her. Over the next 24 hours, Guinevere and Delysia will empower each other to discover their romantic destinies.

Well, for those who are interested, please kindly click on the below links:-

Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ba5P0PoVpo&playnext_from=TL&videos=7W-osY0sbqo

Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoopKoexeNM&feature=related

Part 3 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdQH5fEtKso&feature=related

Part 4 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxg404OQAPI&feature=related

Part 5 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_9oZisq1Ds&feature=related

Part 6 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqRjqlFcAik&feature=related

Part 7 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKe_npSOkb8&feature=related

Part 8 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RESSbwsAZjw&feature=related

Part 9 (finale) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udq0DYC5yfQ&feature=related

Thank you very much and hope you will enjoy them..

MOVIE REVIEW - THE FALL

Recently hubby and i have been crazy about a small and cute little girl from the movie that we have recently discovered, THE FALL.. This movie is totally amazing.. I have been searching anything and everything about this movie, the artists, the director, etc.. I have been watching this movie over and over again... And i have even managed to find a site for me to watch the whole movie.. This movie is basically about a small girl (CATINCA UNTARU), staying in a hospital and befriended a paralyzed stuntman (LEE PACE) and began their journey through their imagination of a story created by the stuntman..

SUMMARY:-

Roy Walker (Lee Pace), an early 20th century Hollywood stuntman, lands in the hospital after performing a dangerous stunt to impress his girlfriend. Bedridden, distraught, and suicidal after losing her to the star of the film, he befriends fellow patient Alexandria (Catinca Untaru), a young immigrant girl with a broken arm. He enchants her with a fantastical tale about five heroes: an Indian, an ex-slave named Otta Benga, an Italian explosives expert called Luigi, a highly fictionalized version of Charles Darwin accompanied by a monkey sidekick named Wallace (after Alfred Russel Wallace), and a masked bandit. An evil Governor Odious has committed an offense against each of the five, and they all seek revenge. They unite, and are joined by a sixth hero, a mystic, who is depicted emerging from a tree trunk. Their story is presented as Alexandria vividly imagines it; for instance, Roy's "Indian" is supposed to be a Native American, but she sees him as an actual resident of the Indian subcontinent, as she has friends among immigrants from India who work alongside her in the orchards of southern California (where her injury occurred as she was picking fruit).

Although Roy develops genuine affection for Alexandria, he also has an ulterior motive: by telling tales and gaining her trust, he tricks her into stealing morphine from the hospital pharmacy so he can attempt suicide.

As the line between fact and fantasy blurs, real-life people begin to populate Roy's fictitious stories and the stories themselves become a more collaborative tale to which Alexandria also contributes. A hospital nurse (Justine Waddell) becomes the center of a romantic feud between Governor Odious and the masked bandit, who turns out to be Roy. Alexandria herself becomes a character in the story; while Roy is the masked bandit in her imaginary version of the story, she is his daughter. Mesmerized by the epic, ever-changing story, Alexandria returns to the pharmacy to pilfer another bottle of morphine for Roy. While climbing on a ladder to reach the pills high on a shelf, she loses her footing and falls, injuring herself.

After surgery (depicted in an expressionistic stop-motion animated sequence by Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein, typical of their style), Alexandria is visited by Roy in the recovery room, where he consoles her and confesses his deception. He can now only imagine a grim ending to the tale, and encourages Alexandria to ask someone else to tell it. Alexandria insists on hearing Roy's ending.

Roy reluctantly begins the rest of the story. The heroes die one by one, and it seems that Odious will be triumphant. Alexandria becomes upset, and Roy insists, "It's my story." She declares, "Mine too," and in the end is able to exert some influence on the course of the tale. Not only does she change the tale; she helps Roy overcome his real-life issues.

Once they are fully recovered, Roy returns to work as a stuntman and Alexandria returns to picking fruit with her family in the orange groves. The Fall ends with the showing of the film in which Roy appeared.