1/12

I know this sounds really annoying...

" 1/12 of the Year of 2008 has passed by." :p

ADDICTED

I know that I always liked it. Then I would say that I loved it. Finally, starting from a month or so ago, I found that I got really ADDICTED to it (more and more)!!!!!


It is not just about having fun. It is more about feeling good (I mean, really, really good) about myself (even if I am still a "pumpkin", a smaller one). ;)

(Don't worry. It also starts with the letter "d", but it is definitely not "drug".)

One of the stupidest things that I have ever said...

"How come that it is wrong? It is a TEXTBOOK!"

I wanted to bite my tongue and bang my head against the wall when I said it. SERIOUSLY!!! Shame on me.

Wallflower

from Merriam Webster Dictionary online

Main Entry:
wall·flow·er
Pronunciation:
\ˈwȯl-ˌflau̇(-ə)r\
Function:
noun
Date:
1578

1 a: any of several Old World perennial herbs (genus Cheiranthus) of the mustard family; especially : a hardy erect herb (C. cheiri) widely cultivated for its showy fragrant flowers
b: any of a related genus (Erysimum) of herbs with showy flowers

2 a: a person who from shyness or unpopularity remains on the sidelines of a social activity (as a dance)
b: a shy or reserved person

Let it snow. Let it snow. Let it snow.

I know this is a Christmas song, but such a snowy day reminds me of it.

Creepy...

I wanted to watch "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" for a while. It was hard to resist it when I saw huge posters everywhere in NYC during Christmas.

I watched it today with a couple of friends TOTALLY by accident. (One of my friends thought that it was another movie: "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story". I had no idea why I didn't find it wrong when we got the ticket. The funniest thing is that none of us found anything wrong until the movie started. LOL~~~~ That never happened in my whole life.)

Okay, about the movie, it is a well-known story about revenge. Johnny Depp did a decent job, not his best though. I like Mrs. Lovett (played by Helena Bonham Carter) better. In short, it is a movie with not-so-complicated storyline and 500 throat-cutting scenes. Like my title, I consider it creepy for mainly two reasons. First of all, it makes you want to kill the visual effect supervisor and people in charge of the props (I mean, whoever prepared the fake "blood".). The "blood" looked so "fake" that the throat-cutting scenes seemed gross instead bloody, violent, or revenging. Since there are like 500 of such scenes in the movie, how the "blood" looks will have a big overall impact. Second, there are so many actors and actresses from the Harry-Potter movie, I kept on seeing Snape, wormtail, and Bellatrix instead of Judge Turpin, Beadle Bamford, and Mrs. Lovett.

Okay, my favorite scene: when Sweeney Todd first came to Ms. Lovett's pie place, Ms. Lovett was preparing pies and serving Todd at the same time. The scene was in a extremely filthy kitten featured with a lot of flies, cockroaches, and other unmentionables. You will see those small creatures get in and out of the scene while Ms. Lovett was busy making pie crust and, of course, singing. I am extremely curious about how they shot this.

In addition, I have never had any mincemeat pie and have no idea how regularly it shows up on the dining table of the British, but I am sure that I will never eat it myself after watching this movie.

P.S. I hadn't recognize, until my friend pointed it out, that Helena Bonham Carter is the one played one of the leading female roles (Lucy) in one of my favorite movies "A room with a view".

"You do not need to evacuate out of the building. I repeat. You do NOT need to evacuate out of the building..."

I was working late this evening. Around 7:15pm, someone used the broadcasting system of the building to tell us that there would be a test of the fire alarm. At the end of his notice, he said,

" You do not need to evacuate out of the building. I repeat. You do NOT need to evacuate out of the building. Thank you."

"Okay, no biggie," I thought and went on with my stuffs.

Ten minutes later, I knew I had been so wrong. The loud and sharp siren went on over and over and over again. The siren was accompanied by really blindingly bright flashes from many "emergency lights", one every 10 (or less) feet. It pounded on my eardrum and irritated my nerves. I started to develop a headache and wanted to scream. 20 min afterwards, a maintenance guy walked past our workplace.

"Excuse me", I said,"do you know when this will end?"
"After we walk through every floor to make sure it works", he replied with a smile.
"Oh... okay."
"Yeah."
"Er... Great..."
"It will be another 20 minutes."
"Ah, thanks!"
He smiled and walked away. Although I was not very pleased with the answer, I, at least, got some hope now.

Everything did end in another 20 min. (I mean, everything except for my headache...)