March 2013
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January 2013
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June 2012
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May 2012
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February 2012
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December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
8 posts
New Jersey Devils' Martin Brodeur out 7-10 days →
bleacherreport.com
Another day, another injury report written. My poor fantasy team can’t take anymore :(
Denmark's Fat Tax →
time.com
A good idea?
Happy vs. unhappy movie endings
Why is it that Hollywood keeps insisting on having a happy ending every single time?
Not that I’m a pessimist, ask anyone, I am quite the opposite, but doesn’t watching the same ole same ole get old?
I saw Eagle Eye the other day and the ending really was unsatisfying even though, conventionally, one would consider it a happy ending.
*side note: Anthony Mackie from The Hurt Locker is also in Eagle Eye!*
A character (I’m not going to ruin it for those who haven’t seen it) gets shot a few times. And from the looks of things, it was probably fatal.
I was bummed that character died but I accepted his/her fate and thought it was a good end to that character. He/she died nobly. I quietly mourned for that character then I quickly got over and shifted my concentration back to the story.
But low and behold, Hollywood wouldn’t let a popular character go out that way. Eagle Eye pulled a fast one on me and that character isn’t actually dead!
Wait a minute. I already accepted his/her death. Why would you bring him/her back and toy with my emotions like that, Hollywood?
*another side note: War of the World does this too and it’s totally stupid. Even more so than Eagle Eye*
When I first started watching foreign films, I noticed that a majority of these movies have pretty unsatisfying endings, at least by my American standard. Someone dies, they all die, the two lovers don’t end up together, etc.
Man, were the Germans, French, etc downers or what?
Now, though, I like a mix. I don’t want it to be a typical movie ending where everything works out and they live happily ever after; that’s not how life always works out. People do die, they don’t always end up together, etc.
Plus, it’s so predictable.
I feel that Hollywood is cheating us somehow. They can’t come up with a more unique ending and just do the cop-out ending where everything works out and all the loose ends are tied in the end.
Come on, Hollywood. You can do better than that.
September 2011
7 posts
Dear Ryan Gosling →
hellogiggles.com
Hey Boy,
I think we need to talk. You have to stop. Just stop. It’s getting to be too much. See, I’m just a girl who sits in a cubicle all day. I have to live in a real world. Not the kind of “real world” with MTV cameras and token drama queens. I live in the kind of “real world” where I have to deal with men who can’t afford to buy me coffee and who can’t emotionally commit. The longer you continue to be so Ryan Gosling, the harder it’s going to be for me to want to live in that world.
For my own sanity and for the sanity of women like me everywhere, I made a list of ways in which you can stop being so Ryan Gosling….
August 2011
5 posts
Goodbye Europe and your weird weather. Goodbye amazing food and chocolates. Goodbye German friends especially Khoa, Viet and Duy.
Hello California and the sun. Hello grandma’s home-cooked food. Hello Grant :)
“A heart is a fragile thing. That’s why we protect them so vigorously, give them away so rarely and why it means so much when we do. Some hearts are more fragile than others. Purer somehow. Like crystal in a world of glass, even the way they shatter is beautiful.”
—Narrator, Everwood
July 2011
2 posts
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
8 posts
“Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?”
—Marian Keyes; The Other Side of the Story
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“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity - it’s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance and gloom is but a passing shadow of a cloud”
—Pi (The Life of Pi)
