Back again!

Oops so I realize that I haven't blogged in more than a month. Partly cos I've been doing my assignments for school and trying to do some revisions before the exams. 'Trying' being the key word here. But mostly cos I've been in this mode:

I mean I even shelled out $19 to watch it in IMAX despite being unemployed, that's how much I loved it.

Since then I've been spending an embarrassing amount of time on the tumblrs dedicated to Tom Hiddleston's hands and voice (lol wat is my life?!). Srsly though, I don't know what brought this about. After I watched Thor, I didn't understand the Internet's obsession with him and was busy drooling over Chris' arms.

Exhibit A:

But after watching The Avengers (twice!), idk man, I've been Loki'd!

Which is really weird cos he actually looked so much better in Thor!

 

From 'Thor'. Better hair & perfect brows!

 

From 'The Avengers'. Brows are too light and I don't understand what's going on with his hair!

Thor, on the other hand...

 

From 'Thor'. The bleached brows were just not a good look man and that beard...

 

From 'The Avengers'. No more bleached brows but the hair lol

Man, it was just ratched ass wigs all around in The Avengers.

Anyways, now that I've shared my very insightful comments on the movie and managed to complete 2 of my assignments for class, I will be back to continue posting pics from my trip tomorrow, provided I don't get side-tracked again lol.

Paris Day 4 Pt 1 - Angelina Tea Room & Sacre-Coeur

First stop of the day: the famous La Maison Angelina for their Parisian breakfast set.

The beautiful interior.

We ordered 2 sets of breakfasts.

Glass of fruit juice and of course, the famous hot chocolate!

Assorted pastries.

Various jams and butter to go with the bread!

Angelina is also famous for their Mont Blanc, but I didn't have any space in my stomach left for that, so maybe next time heh.

After a very filling breakfast, we shopped around in the Rue Saint Honore area before going to our next stop. It's fun to walk around there and see all the tourists with giant paper bags from Hermes, Prada, Dior, etc. Hmm someday...

Anyways, we went to Sacre-Coeur next. We intended to take the funicular up to the church, but somehow we missed it completely and ended up climbing all the way up on foot. It wasn't a very long distance but it was pretty hot that day! I mean, it was like 18 degree celsius but I didn't think it would feel that warm so I had brought my coat with me, lugging it around gave me the sweats.

Loads of people sitting on the steps, soaking up the sun. Not me tho, I couldn't wait to get inside, where it's nice and cool, in the shade.

Sacre-Coeur is located on the top of Montmartre, the highest point in the city, so it presents a great view.

A very cool street performer. My mum says a Korean TV show invited him over to perform on the show, how awesome is that?

No pictures of the interior cos no photography is allowed.  It's beautiful tho, you'll just have to take my word for it.

And we finally found the goddamned funicular so we took it to get down and back to the train station.

Pretty short ride down lol.

Loot for the day, just a couple of small things:

A new wallet from Miu Miu for me! I've been using my old wallet for like 10 years now, so I figure it's time for a change :3

Woof

Took this picture of my fur child earlier...

He looks like he's making a :o face, if you don't think it's the cutest thing ever, I will fight you.

What's In My Purse

I love reading 'in my purse' posts, so here's one from my purse today:

Small Classic Flap:

• Pink leopard print make up pouch (a freebie from a magazine)
• In the pouch - mirror, lip gloss and lip balm.
• Zippy wallet
• Phone

Just playing around with the macro lens.

close up of my phone accessory :)

Movie Review - Grave Encounters

I really love found footage films, there's a new one coming out, The Chernobyl Diaries, about a group of friends who go on a tour of an abandoned city near the Chernobyl disaster and end up stranded there as night falls when they realize that the bus that took them there has broken down (whatever evil being that is lurking in the ghost town fucked with the car!).

So while waiting for that movie to be released, I decided to check out another found footage movie, Grave Encounters, last night and it was pretty good.

Here's the plot summary:

Lance Preston and the crew of "Grave Encounters", a ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena has been reported for years. All in the name of good television, they voluntarily lock themselves inside the building for the night and begin a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera. They quickly realize that the building is more than just haunted - it is alive - and it has no intention of ever letting them leave. They find themselves lost in a labyrinth maze of endless hallways and corridors, terrorized by the ghosts of the former patients. They soon begin to question their own sanity, slipping deeper and deeper into the depths of madness, ultimately discovering the truth behind the hospital's dark past...and taping what turns out to be their final episode. 

So after watching the movie, I couldn't sleep last night. Idk man, the movie did have some pretty good scares but after watching it, I wasn't like scared to be alone in the dark by myself or anything. Then later when I went to bed, I couldn't stop thinking about it, I would fall asleep and then wake up again a few hours later with the movie still in my mind, I even had a dream about the movie (the dream didn't even make any sense so I'm not typing it out here lol). I think it's because it didn't have a conclusive ending.

Like how was the footage found? What happened when the caretaker guy came to unlock the doors at 6.00 am? What did he find? Did he find their equipment all intact but no trace of the crew? Or did he find their bodies there or something? Inquiring minds want to know.


Parts of the movie that creeped me out

• It was 2 hours past the time when the caretaker was supposed to come and unlock the doors, and there was no sign of him, and it continued to be dark out.
• The crew forced the front door open with the gurney and found more hospital hallways instead of the street. The other side of the door had the 'Death Awaits' graffiti that they saw when they were going in. That was when you knew they had literally no way out and were just basically waiting to killed by one of the spirits.
• The guy who was playing the psychic got separated from the rest while they were running away from a ghost and had to find his way back to the group in the dark as he didn't have a torchlight. Through the night vision camera they installed earlier, we see things like doors moving on its own around him and then later he gets choked by an invisible force and then slammed upwards into the ceiling.
• The host goes off to look for something to wedge the elevator door open and on his way out of the room he spots a bloody tongue on the floor and a few drops of blood drip down from above, he looks up and sees the camera guy who disappeared earlier crouching on the ceiling like a spider and his mouth was all bloody, damn, that really made me jump.
• While the group is arguing a figure sprints across the hall into another room in the background and they run after it thinking it's their friend that disappeared earlier. Instead they find a blond girl in a hospital gown, standing eerily facing the wall, Blair Witch project style. Then she turns around and her face is like this:

OMG you guys don't even go here!

The face kinda spoiled it for me. Yes, it's pretty scary, I mean, I'm having a hard time typing this out as this face stares at me from the screen, but it's also screams bad CGI and that kinda takes you out of the movie. It looks like those scary faces they use in videos on Youtube, usually named 'REAL GHOST CAUGHT ON CAMERA MUST WATCH!!!!' or something. It would probably be better if the crew just freaked the fuck out when they see a ghost girl standing there in the room and run away screaming and the sound of a ghostly howl is heard behind them.