Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Meet Mr. Ripley, he’s a fine-looking man unfortunately he doesn’t think so, playing piano is one of his many best talents, but that’s definitely not his greatest one. Forging signature, telling lies and impersonating practically anybody outshine all of his other talents. And before i forget, meet Mr. Dickie Greenleaf  he’s filthy rich, he doesn’t work, he’s madly in love with jazz and just like his name he’s a dick. Mr. Ripley met Mr. Greenleaf they became friends, throughout their brief friendship Mr.ripley  found his new hidden talent, which is murder and deception.

 

FREDDIE
               I want this job of yours, Tommy. I was
               just saying – You live in Italy, sleep in
               Dickie’s house, eat Dickie’s food, wear
               his clothes, and his father picks up the
               tab. If you get bored, let me know, I’ll
               do it!

MARGE
               You really should go in, it’s marvellous.

                         RIPLEY
               I’m fine.

     She approaches him, conscious of his isolation. She’s in a
     red bikini, and she towels herself dry as they speak.

                         MARGE
               Are you okay?

                         RIPLEY
               Sure.

     They watch Dickie and Freddie fooling around in the water.

                         MARGE
               The thing with Dickie – it’s like the sun
               shines on you and it’s glorious, then he
               forgets you and it’s very very cold.

                         RIPLEY
               So I’m learning.

                         MARGE
               He’s not even aware of it. When you’ve
               got his attention you feel like you’re
               the only person in the world. That’s why
               everybody loves him. Other times…

Water (2005)

 

No this is not another typical Hindi/Bollywood movie, as a matter of  fact this is far cry from the normal hindi movie that played on our tv, it is a story of the fate of widowed women in india sets in ther of 1938. this film was so controversy that the production have to change their filming location from india to sri lanka. i’m not surprised watching it made me feel humble and at the same time disdain…sometimes i wonder, who wrote this kind of laws..is it men, why does women have to become slave even after their husbands death…watch this and you’ll understand. Thanks to Lisa Ray and John Abraham good looks made me motivated to watch this movie.

Narayana: No, i’m not married

Kalyani: good god! why not?

Narayana: My father says, chilhood is time for play, not for marriage
.
Kalyani: and your mother?

Narayana: If she had her way,i’d have a daughter as old as Chuyia.

Kalyani: your mother’s right, That’s how things are.

Narayana: that’s how thigs were, times are changing.
All the old traditions are dying out.

Kalyani: But what is good should not die out.

Narayana: And who will decide …..what is good and what is not?

Kalyani: You!

BHAGAVATI: Why are widows sent here.
there must be a reason for it

NARAYANa:  One less mouth to feed,
Four saris saved,
One bed,
and a corner is saved in the family home,

There is no reason why you are here.
Disguised as religion, it’s just about money.

Paris je t’aime (2006)

  1 romantic city , 22 directors, 20 short stories, beautifully written scripts, 1 breathtaking love movie.

Francine: Thomas Listen. Listen. There are times when life calls out
for a change. A transition. Like the seasons. Our spring was
wonderful, but summer is over now and we missed out on autumn. And
now all of a sudden, its cold, so cold that everything is freezing
over. Our love fell asleep, and the snow took it by surprise. But
if you fall asleep in the snow, you dont feel death coming. Take
care.

Bob Leander: Cant we walk together?
Fanny Forestier: Im so ashamed.
Bob Leander: Why? You did it out of love, I assume.
Fanny Forestier: And what do you do, out of love?
Bob Leander: I ache… for who we were.

Hassan: I just got stung by a lousy mosquito. These neighborhoods are

dangerous. Lagos is safer. What your name?

Sophie: Sohpie

Hassan: Id give you my card but I have none left. Too bad! Sophie,

fancy a cup of coffee? Go on! Can I massage your feet?

Sophie: Why would I let you?

Hassan: you were running in my dreams all night.

The Husband: In pretending to be a man in love, he became a man in love again.

Imagine me and you (2005)

This movie completely stole my heart.

Rachel: Alright. Well… umm… tell me about the lily.

Luce: You don’t want to know about the lily.

Rachel: It’s my favorite.

Luce: Ask me about the azalea.

Rachel: Oh, alright. What about the azalea?

Luce: The azalea means ‘may you achieve financial security’. See?

Rachel: [laughs] Lovely. Now, tell me about the lily.

Luce: [pause]

Luce: The lily means… the lily means ‘I dare you to love me’.

Space movies: can you name them all?

Via Cult Films

I certainly can’t, i only watched few of em’ and my personal fave is…

ok this one is definately out of the topic but it does involved space suit and space “pod”, not to mention that is a great classic laugh.

THE GOODS:Live Hard,Sell Hard. (2009)

A smooth-talking jack-of-all-trades attempts to save
a struggling car dealership from certain bankruptcy
in this comedy starring Jeremy Piven, directed by Chappelle’s Show.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1092633/

Rotten Tomatoes, Tomatometer: 26%

Metacritic, metascore: 36 out of 100

Despite getting low ratings, it delivers some good laugh, not a surprise, Jeremy Piven character works really well on him, same goes with all other main casts here. I watched this right after i watched some bad show that i don’t think worth to share and it get me right back on my good mood, and if you’re a sales man and you watch this you know you wanna be just like Don Ready, he got the goods, he sells it, hell he even gets the girl. I kinda liked the script, let me share some of the best scene/lines from the movie.

 

BABS – What are you doing, honey?

DON- Enjoying myself.

STEWARDESS [STACEY] – Sir, there’s no smoking on airplanes.

DON – I know. It’s ridiculous, isn’t it? Don’t worry about it, I’ll be quick.

STWARDESS [STACEY] – Sir, if you light that, I’ll have to report you to the FAA.  

DON – Stacey, do you know when the first commercial flight went smokeless?

STEWARDESS – No.

DON – 1973.And did you know that in 1969, when smoking was allowed on all flights,we put a man on the moon?  

STEWARDESS – I had no idea.

 DON – Look.[don, pointing at the armrest ashtray] You know what that is? That’s a remnant of a better time, but they welded it shut. And it starts with ashtrays, and it ends with all of  our being stripped away. I remember back in the day when you got on and you knew you were in for a good time. A little smoking, a little drinking.

JIBBY – Yeah.

DON – And the stewardesses. Stacey, you come from a proud tradition of blazing hot stewardesses. And now you can’t do one damn thing without someone reporting you to the Department of Homeland Security. Am I right?

JIBBY AND THE REST – That’s right.

BRENT – You listen to Don.

DON – I had to take my pants off and nibble my Old Spice down to three ounces just to get on the plane, Stacey.

STEWARDESS [STACEY] – They made me throw out my mouth wash.

BRENT – I had to give up my bath jellies.

BABS – They made me breastfeed some old man.

DON – That’s what I’m talking about. But we don’t have to take it, Stacey. Like Henry David Thoreau and Rosa Parks and David Lee Roth when he left Van Halen, we can say, “Enough. Enough injustice.” And when you and I are old and gray,we can look back on this and remember when we were 30,000 feet above God’s green earth, and we smoked one, we smoked one for America.

PASSANGERS ON THE PLANE – Yeah!!! [CHEERING]

STEWARDESS [STACEY] – You motherfucker.

PASSANGERS – Nice work. Nice work.

STEWARDESS [STACEY] – Who are you?

DON – I’m Don Ready, and I got the goods.

Zombie Alert!!

reblog from Yahoo! Movies

My all time fave zombie movie.

for iphone or ipod gamers try HIGHWAY ZOMBIE truly rawks!!!!

can’t get enough of shooting and killing zombies!!! well soon enough they’ll be invading our tv …can’t hardly wait for The Walking Dead. the trailer looks really damn good.

p/s: i’ll be blogging more on movies from now on hopefully i’ll be consistent.

M.I.A, Where have i gone missing?

Hmm.. it’s been a while since i last updated my blog, when first started i promised my self not to neglect it because i easily get distracted, once i stop updating even for a lil’ while, it’s easily for me to lose interest , so for the past weeks i’ve been forcing my self to update it but due to  few obstacles (work+family+sickness+errands+laziness) i failed to do so, until now.

Here’s are some things i did during my missing not so in action periods.

I went back to Malacca for a short holiday, no i’m not a Malaccan i’m a pure K.L  town girl born and grew up in K.L but since i know Cary shes have been the bestest friend in the universe for me (like i have any alien category friends) we’re very close, i basically know her entire family from her mom, grand parents, uncle, aunties, cousins, even her neighbours and most of them know me too, cary is very blessed with a caring and loving Peranakan family, they were all very kind-hearted to this Malay girl, and i feel very lucky to know them, each times when i joined her relatives for makan session they will choose a halal joint just because they wanted me to join them, they are really sweet people, that’s why i mentioned “i went back to Malacca” instead of “i went to Malacca” the place have been like a home to me it doesn’t feel strange anymore whenever i’m there.

I came down Malacca specially to celebrate Nancy’s Kitchen 10 years Anniversary birthday bash, like i mentioned on my previous post, Aunty Nancy (Cary’s mum) is a proud owner of a well-known Peranakan restaurant in Malacca, i have a chance to make my short trip as a memorable ones by helping aunt Nancy to do some preparation and became the unofficial photographer for the function, i pretended to look busy snapping tons of photos, yes i’ll definitely update it on a specific post later.

Cary, Vera and me taking a break from our duty to camwhoring inside the restaurant, posing like an ad models holding a bakosia (peranakan basket) i'm a such a peranakan wannabe.

It’s was such a wonderful event so many people coming to congratulate aunt Nancy for her achievements, there is some unknown people crashing the function for the free food and beer but aunt Nancy was really cool about it. Check out my new nyonya kebaya i was forced to buy this specifically for the function, but well it’s about time for me to own one, cost me whooping Rm180 just for the top.

Aunt Nancy (owner of Nancy's Kitchen) with her good friend Miss Tay

i wouldn’t miss taking advantage of the cheap and incredibly delicious food in Malacca, so indulging and pampering my tummy is always my main mission in Malacca.

nyonya kuehs from Baba Charlie stall, halal dim sum fare at Renaissance Hotel, and chinese food fare at dragon deluxe yummy all memang best!!

I  gained 2 kg just from that trip, can a person really gained that much weight from all that eating trip in just 3 days?

oh before that trip i was forced by jenny to come up with a Halloween decoration at work and we made this gory looking mummy on just less that an hour using only limited office supplies, plastic, loads of news paper, and rolled tissue paper.

it looked more like a pocong than a mummy, huh i wished i have more time to add some ageing effect colouring to that mummy but that was good enough, thanx jenny for helping me.

Went back to my parents and spend time with my family, i had a great lunch at the new restaurant called Cozy Place located at Mangsa Maju,  great food with an english theme ambiance, very posh place to dine in. we opt for local dish really delicious you gotta try this place, thanx to my aunt Mak Tam for the treat.

one of the best butter prawns that i've had.

Refreshing lemon sorbet, gotta try the pina colada for my next visit, such a smooth texture for a sorbet.

 

 started work as usual, back to the hard reality another week to go by and cant wait for my next off day.

Went to Pavillion, BSC and Sunway Pyramid on the weekends to do some light shopping, stumble in some funny and interesting stuff,

Sunawy Pyramid

Took this photo from Xixili display window, notice the middle mannequin, looks like she smelling her underarm, hmm… doesn’t look sexy at all to me?

Giordano was my fave brand during my teenage years, it was colourful, simple and affordable brand, well like i said “it was”, looking at their latest design campaign, does that smiley icon looked “cheer up” to you? wasn’t that supposed to be a “dead icon”, that lame design cost RM40!! seriously, so unoriginal ok!!

This is a proper “dead” icon even if you put a smile on it doesn’t change the message of the icon, because X on the eye means R.I.P got it.

This is rather interesting and a  lil bit funny, me and cary looking for a place to chill and have a light bite, i spotted this place and very excited to try, hoping for a nice dessert or cakes, from afar it does looked like a cafe’ but man we got duped, nothing there is edible it’s all just an illusion to tricked us to go there.

 

turns out that it was a cosmetic store, selling of course cosmetics, decorated candles and decorated towels that looked like food. shop called BLOOP. we totally got punked!!!, where’s Ashton hiding???

Pavilion KL

I spotted this Maybank ad, stare at it and got me thinking…..

Banks came out with more creative debt and flexible payments plans  now days, is it to benefit us or them? if we are not on debt, banks will call us to take one or more? are we working our asses off every month for ourself or for the bank? how much portions of our paycheck goes to pay debts than savings??? 30% 50% 80% sheesh!!! i really gotta cut back on my spending habit. Dear, bank seriously stop call me, i don’t want anymore debts with you guys, leave me alone, if i want debt i’ll look for you, ok!!

BTW i added that “pay forever” to be more dramatic, Maybank don’t sue me ok!!! 

Bangsar Shopping Centre. 

went to Espressamente Illy to try their espresso drinks, OMG this place is great, cool and posh ambience, skill full barista, i will write a full review about it soon together with the coffee art video demonstrated by their friendly good-looking baristas, thanx guys, for the great time, err… i mean for the great coffee experience.

Archie trying to play a piano, he noticed me staring at him giggling, he gives up and decided to sleep it off, oh how i wish my cat can play a piano, eh, help me pay, some bills lah freeloader!! Bubble waiting for a phone call?? that damn phone is not working lah.

Have a chillax session at home during my off days,a ccompanied by dozens of dvds and my furry friends, too tired to socialize, skipped cinema, still hasitated about Inglorious Basterd, should i watch it in cinema?? or should i wait for a better “option”, being patients usually paid off, so i’ll just wait lah.

I slept more than usual, preparing my self for hectic overtime weeks for end year, i hate working long hours, i already hate my job, i just doing it for the money, how long can i last doing things that i hate?? seriously i don’t know i wish i can just walk away from it but the world just dont work that way ok, in the mean time i just want to laze around sleeping on my lovely bed mistakenly my fluffy cat as a big soft comfortable pillow. Trouble, please just fade away, leave me alone jut for a lil while.

Bad Ass Coffee, Take a kick ass sip of it.

There is a new cool coffee hangout in town with damn cool name, but to some people it sounds nasty? some said obscene? some questioned how the heck they got the name approved to use it here? but to me it sounds cool.

Bad Ass Coffee, nope it’s definitely not serving coffee that coming from a donkey ass (like luwak coffee), i have asked and assured of that everything served here is edible and drinkable, the first store located at GF Tropicana shopping mall.

It’s originated from Hawaii the land of the hula dance and many breath taking beaches, we’re all always dreamed to go there but perhaps this is the only and closest way for us to experience Hawaii. I first spotted the place during my visit at Tropicana mall me and Cary is looking for a place to have a drink and a small bite while waiting for “cloudy with a chance of a meatball” to start. The name and the logo mascot made us very eager to have a try.

The front of the shop, The cozy couch area (non-smoking), free wi-fi available here, the haven place for smokers comes with flat tv.

I bet you who wondered why “Bad Ass”, have they run out of idea? well i did have a small chat with one of the friendly staff over there, Mr. Kamil eagerly approached me and explained more about the place and some of their specialised coffee, the well known Hawaiian grown Kona Coffee, we’ll get to that later. Back to the name, a very long time ago when car or even road was exist donkey was the main transporter of the coffee beans which they called it the “Bad Ass ones” in honor of these working hard donkeys they named it after them. Interesting huh! the donkey on their logo really reminded  me of a character from Shrek, yeah you got it the foul-mouthed one DONKEY!!.

The Bad Ass legend story

For the ice blended fans they have several interesting choices here, not another boring mocha stuff like those normal coffee chains have, I wouldn’t miss my favorite flavour drinks made with Irish Creme syrup which hardly offered in other cafe’s, Jitter Juice hot coffee in 12oz (s) cost 12.50 this drink is a little bit too sweet for me if i just drink it like that but if i add extra shot or request for less syrup i think it’ll taste great, and for Cary she choose iced Monkey Mocha a combination of coffee and banana 16oz (r) cost rm 13.50, to us coffee and mocha is a good comb, similar like choc and banana it just have a bitter taste presence to it, their iced drinks is a must try and very special because they use coffee ice cubes, it made a lot of difference in taste especially when you let the drinks sit out for a while it doesn’t get diluted but the drinks gets a stronger coffee taste, this really good for a strong coffee lover.

Iced monkey mocha with coffee ice cubes, hot drinks cup, the refreshing chicken salad, iced drinks cup with bad ass legend story.

There is also various types of food to choose here to enjoy with your coffee, and if you fancy to have lunch, lunch sets is available, i had a chance to try the chicken salad rm8.90 for a quick bite, it’s nothing to shout about, just a simple mixed green salad leaves with a french dressing and topped with generous portion of grilled chicken it’s enough to compliment our coffee.

100% Kona coffee, some of the flavoured coffee beans Hula Pie and Butter Toffy Rum, and Peaberry.

This is the only place that i know so far that offered a 100% Kona Coffee i mean the pure original ones that grown from Hawaiian soil itself, Kona coffee is one of the most expensive and sought-after coffees in the world and at Bad Ass it’ll cost you RM129 per bag, yeah i know this must be a really good stuff, not like other coffee place which mostly sell the Kona Blend that which usually contain 10%Kona coffee and 90% cheaper imported beans, i’ve tried Kona blend before but not the 100% original ones so looking forward to it till my next visit. fascinating types of flavoured coffee beans can be found on their merchandise rack, Hula Pie and Butter Toffy Rum coffee beans already caught my attention even the sounds of it have made me drooling writing this, a must try next  time.

Bad Ass Merchandise and coffee beans rack, Bar and pick up area, outside sitting (smoking).

According to my conversation with Mr. Kamil the management has planned to open 60 stores nationwide in 6 years, i’ll have to say that’s a very ambitious move but hey that doesn’t mean it can’t be done even Starbucks (dominant marketing strategy) takes 5 years to open 100 stores nationwide this could be a good positive competition for other branded coffee chains for local market, i really hope Bad Ass would be my new favorite place to search for good cuppa and hoping it wouldn’t turned out to be like some other coffee chains who don’t care about product quality and ended up serving bad coffee. It’s still early to say, Malaysians have a lot to learn about coffee especially for those who standing behind bars and making coffee need to change their mind sets that coffee-making is more like an art than a job, take a pride of it.

For the love of Coffee.

I have finally found my self a good deal for the 9 cup Bialetti Stove Top Espresso Maker, yes i lost the bid on e-bay on my attempt to get a better deal, i also tried to find it on other on-line shopping site but to no avail, the original price here is around RM170 to 150 but in search of a cheaper price i forgot that i have a few friends who still work at Starbucks until Cary reminded me. Ati gave me her employee discount and introduced me to a wonderful new coffee ICED COFFEE BLEND, all and all it cost me RM117.60 it’s really a bargain, i hope this post will not get her in trouble for giving me an employee disc. for a return i’ll do some free advertisement for Starbucks :).

For those who in search of good coffee fix at your own comfortable home, stove top espresso maker is the next best thing after the Espresso machine, Of course it’s a cheaper choice, easy to use and easy to clean but most importantly it’s produce a good cup of coffee, this a common way of making espresso at home and most italians use the same method, using a stove top espresso maker.  Coffee experts claims that the stove top espresso makers and the electric/commercial espresso makers produce espresso of equal quality but different characteristics. Neither is superior technically, rather it is matter of taste or variety you prefer at the time, so i am sure to have a good cuppa every morning with this. The Bialetti brand itself is an Italian brand and Italian made so i’m not hesitant with the result during my purchase.

How To Use The Stove Top Coffee Maker.

1. Remove the top part of the espresso maker (unscrew anti-clockwise)
2. Remove the filter funnel insert.
3. Fill the lower part of the stove top with cold fresh water (do not past the safety valve).
4. Fill the filter funnel with ground espresso coffee.
5. Put the filter funnel back into the lower part of the espresso maker.
6. Screw the top part back onto the lower part firmly (don’t force).
7. Place the espresso maker onto stove top (boil setting), keep the flame low to med low heat the whole time let the pot work in about 5 min.
8. Remove the espresso from stove top immediately once the top part is full with coffee (careful, the espresso maker is hot)
9. Enjoy the freshly brewed espresso or coffee

*tips: Don’t let the Espresso pot sit long on the stove. It’s best to take it off immediately after espresso is done.

Now isn’t that easy, you don’t have to be ripped you pocket every time you need a coffee fix, it took you less than 10 min to get it done and served.

I did mentioned about a wonderful coffee introduced by my good friend that working at Starbucks, she’s not a heavy coffee drinker but when the first time she tried this coffee it’s like love at the first sight (according to her lah) since it’s free (to compliment my Bialetti purchase) i took and tried it and to my surprise, she was right it tasted really good. the usually coffee Starbucks always served as Iced Coffee is Kenya Blend and that is the best iced coffee beans ever it’s my favorite but this beans over top it.

Ice Coffee blend is a medium blend coffee beans, and have a very refreshing citrusy taste, every sip is perfectly balanced and caramelly smooth. the most favorite thing about this coffee is it’s very easy to make and serve, you can use neither stove top or coffee press it works best both methods, i usually brewed any desired amount of ground coffee and a small amount of cold water and just poured the fresh brewed coffee onto a cup filled with half ice cubes let it melt and add some more ice cubes and it’s done, i like it with some sugar syrup, sweetened or not both ways is pleasant.

Having a nice meal with my own freshly brewed coffee.

This coffee is perfect on a hot day, if you are looking for a refreshing and a wake up drinks this beans is definitely for you, it’s also doesn’t have a strong overwhelmed taste suitable for a beginner coffee drinker. ICED COFFEE BLEND is available at any local Starbucks stores cost RM 38.00.

But this coffee is best served chilled, as i tried it in a different ways, hot and with milk, it doesn’t give the same compliment as it’s served chilled, so in conclusion ICED COFFEE BLEND is best served chilled and chilled alone, for a hot coffee drinker there’s so many other beans choices for you out there it’s only the matter of time for me to discover it, experiment it and post it here for your reading pleasure.