movie review that you don't ask for no.1

Secret Obsession
(a Netflix Original)

obviously, I'm only interested to watch thanks to Brenda Song. aka London Tipton.
From the moment the movie started, I already felt, uninterested. LOL I don't know. Maybe I was already super annoyed with the world when I decided to give this movie a go. or maybe it's just CinemaSins. 🤣

Here's what I wrote:

• the most unrealistic scenario of a movie ever.
• for one you already know who the bad guy is.
• The 'plot-twist' was mediocre.
• Sigh - maybe i watched too much crime documentaries but come on now. That was basic criminology 101!  (Spoiler Alert!!) The detective only began covering his mouth/nose and screwing up his face when he was like 10 feet away from a week old dead bodies. BODIES! A WEEK! he should've been gagging the moment he stepped on the curb side. fyi, the dead bodies were in the bedroom. The camera even showed a decaying human bodies! arghhhhhhhhh
• Another one; for maybe about the same time, another body was kept in a trunk of a car. *heavy sigh* again, that one person only screwing his face when he opened the trunk from outside. BUT WAIT! there was a person hiding at the back seat of that car. which is obviously closer to the trunk, no? BUT she didn't even smell shit?! AKUSMI?!
• There was ONE particular character yg I don't know why was given the time of day but nothing came out of it other than to become a false suspect. I understand their need to make his character exist BUT my problem is WHY HIS DIALOGUE MISLEADING?! (again, SPOILER ALERT!) He was acting like he was the scandal or something. Very suspicious. but his character was just killed off? what??
• Oh the detective back-story connection with the present-story was weak. Like, mesti kah?
• Ending was 'nyeh'
• CinemaSins - I'm blaming you for making me this annoyed with a movie.

D for effort? 

am I going to recommend this movie to you? God, no.

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Studio Ghibli

Finally~!

I finally get to watch more Studio Ghibli movies.

The first was Spirited Away.

my first and I love.

and second, The Secret World of Arrietty.

Saoirse voiced Arrietty. I like this one. it reminds me of Thumbelina.

Third, Kiki's Delivery Services.

I really wanted to like this one but I can't. 

Fourth, Howl's Moving Castle

becoming my second fav.

and Fifth, My Neighbor Totoro.

erm. Totoro's noise is unsettling. I don't care if he supposed to be cuddly and ish.

I think I heard Dakota Fanning voice in the female character lead voice. for the Eng dub btw. I haven't bothered to Google to confirm.

Yes, I watched them in English dub. you know how lazy I can get with watching anything with English sub.
Although, I'm re-watching Howl's Moving Castle in its original dub with English subs. I just wanted to know how different the feels going to be. So far, I'm impressed. but in my opinion, the Japanese dialogue makes more sense?

I think at some point, I'm reading too much into these movies. and judged too hard. These are beloved by many and I'm being critical. dam. I need to chill. am I the only one yg need to take a breather and broaden my mind before watching anything coz If I don't, I become so salty? Just me?

Anyway, what I like to focus on a lot to was the graphics, the designs, the feels in these movies. They are very exaggerated but it fits? am I explaining this right? pokoknya, I love the colors! its 2D but it felt real? I don't know how else to express it. its just cool. I enjoyed that part in all the movies.

and from there, I felt motivated to write again.

That's one of the reason why I wanted to share this; I just wanted to share that I'm motivated to write my story again. 
I haven't properly start the 'writing' part but I'm getting clearer things on what I want my storyline to be like. In my head. 
All thanks to these movies. Each one of them has different environment/world and the way they were laid out in the movie helped me laid out my own. It's refreshing and I can't wait to share my first chapter on AsianFanfics.Com. All I need to do now is to just start writing. LOL


What other movie from Studio Ghibli I should watch next?


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my BuJo Mar & Apr Theme

I thought I've shared my March 'cover' theme. rupanya not yet.

here they are.

March

April

again, these are inspired by AmandaRachLee's. 

The March one was pretty easy and I was so happy with my color theme. I also love the idea of using only four pages for the spread. I mean, for me lah ah. Since I only wanted to do the cover, calender, mood and habit trackers. 

April was a bit challenging. It took me two nights to finish. The first night I was stressing out and was being so meticulous. Then on the second night, I just 'wing it!'. and I thought to myself, "if only I 'wing it' kemarin I could've finished earlier" lol.

That's the thing about doing this 'BoJu' theme thing; it made me wanna push myself into doing something that I thought I can't do. 

For example, I can't really draw or sketch and when I try, I always ended up stressing about it. but the next thing I do (if I really wanted to do some drawing), I told myself to calm down and just draw. and that usually do the trick! I usually ended up with better drawing/sketch than I expected. 

but too bad I don't listen to my own advise. LOL

ah well.

I wonder what's Amanda's May theme gonna be.

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Starry Night

Suho released his 1st mini album, Self-Portrait, on 30th Mar 2020.

and it made remember why I appreciate his vocal. Please be reminded that he was in musical theater production before. To me, being in a musical theater production proves you have a vocal prowess.

anyhoo, 

in his album, there's a song with the title Starry Night.

I'm freaking out becoz I was starting with my Pretty Little Liars again, the first book from the fourth and final arch, Crushed, and I just finished the chapter (spoiler alert!!) where Aria stole the Starry night painting. like! *GASPPPPPPP what a coincident!

but after that I was like, "nyeh"

ANOTHER coincidence! I had my music playing on my phone at that time and the next few song after Suho's Starry Night was BoA's Starry Night. and I thought, "Whats with SM and Starry Night eh?"

and then much much later, 
came Onew's 밤과 별의 노래 (Starry Night), from SM Station released, a duet with Lee Jin Ah.

like, whaaaaaaaaa

hahaha I don't know I'm making such a big deal out of this but I guess I'm a true 00s kid who grew up watching MTV. There was once a set where they played 3 videos back to back becoz all three videos have one thing in common. eg: Laundry machine place. and this is exactly what I'm doing right now: 3 songs with similar title. all under SM Ent. LOL

but I was mostly excited about that crazy coincidence between Suho's Starry Night and PrettyLittleLiar's Crushed.

to end, here's the three song mentioned:

Suho - Starry night



BoA - Starry Night



Onew and Lee Jin Ah - 밤과 별의 노래 (Starry Night)




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my favorite color

Hi!

proper greetings this time. 👋🏼

took me a while to start this one coz I was checking whether I have made this kind of post before or not. but couldn't find anything on it. So, here we are.

...30 years laterr...
I found the post. I mentioned my 3 favorite color in here. I'm afraid I'm gonna contradict myself about how Purple isn't Male-related LOL.

My favorite color. hmm 🤔 It goes from liking Lime Green, to Colors, to Purple, to Orange, then to Mint, then anything Pastel, then Yellow. I mean, I don't know how people can have just one favorite color.

The reason why I have so many is becoz, back in high school, I remembered feeling very envy with other friends; they be buying cute items from this Knic Knac shop with their favorite color and i couldn't buy any coz they didn't have that cute thing in my favorite color, Lime Green. Apparently, Green isn't a color for a girl?
I think from that moment on, I try looking for my next favorite color, you know, just in case the no.1 color isn't available.
WHO MADE THE RULE TO ONLY BUY SOMETHING IN YOUR FAVORITE COLOR? AND KALAU NADA YOUR FAVORITE COLOR, YOU KENOT BUY? WHO?!

but that was before. I'm all grown up now and have a shopping problem. BHAHAHAAHA

sigh

anyway, my favorite colors. Lets discuss.

Pink

90s Power Ranger. Pink Ranger. Kimberly. oh how I love pink ranger! but I have to mengalah with my cousin, and ended up liking Yellow Ranger. coz she the other female ranger.
Then fast forward to high school. oh how I hate pink. coz a classmate was sooo minat Pink that everything she owned was pink. argh. but I guess I was just jealous LOL coz I wasn't 'supported' to buy whatever I want.
That was then. Now I like pink. in pastel. coz its prettier. rose gold is another shade of pink and is prettier.

Light / Lime Green

ok. this one is funny. I only like it coz I was following my sister. this is also during my highshool period. I remember she had all her stationery and books' wrap in that Lime Green color. and I was following everything she did. coz I always want to be my sister. *cue Ashlee Simpson - Shadow. LOL I think I was in that Lime Green phase during Form 5, Lower and Upper Six.
I stopped liking it tho.
but now I'm accepting it again.
coz

NCT!

Purple

This was when I began understanding that favorite color is supposed to be your own. and I remember thinking, what can I buy that represent Harry Potter? This was before the existent of Pottermore and its House Sorting. At that time I, as everybody else's too I'm sure, a Gryffindor, which is red but I don't want that to be my favorite color, so I rack my brain and came up with purple coz in book 1, Dumbledore was wearing a Purple robe.
LOL
still one of my favorite color now but the only reason i avoided it, if I can help it is becoz I don't like seeing one color in my wardrobe.

Orange

Onew. I wasn't able to buy official merchandise and I was looking for things that I can relate to Onew. and he was one of the MC on a show and his 'jacket' was orange color (other MCs were wearing diffent color from each other too). so orange.
I seldom choose this color nowadays.

Mint

SHINee World. Official merchandises are expensive as fuck. Suho mentioned recently, "capitalism". dam right it is. anyway, Instead of crying over that official SHINee phone case I can't afford, I ended up buying one that is just SHINee color.
still my favorite now. Its funny, coz this color is associated with 'aesthetic' stationery color for some reason. hence, easier to get my hands on. 👍🏼

Yellow

Now, this is from Pottermore. I was sorted once before (not Pottermore) into Ravenclaw but that was before I started picking colors that have some relation to my favorite things. Ravenclaw is blue by the way. So, Pottermore sorted me into Hufflepuff. My initial feeling was 'so I'm not a Gryffindor worthy' but soon after I'm like HASHTAG HOUSEPRIDE BITCHESSS! lol again, official merchandises are expensive as fucckkk and instead of stressing over that, I bought color that associates with my house color. Yellow.
THANK GOD for primark and online seller! #youthemvp
come to think of it, I once choose yellow coz Onew wore yellow jacket twice. Yes, i'm that crazy. hahaha

Peach 🍑

this is definitely becoz of that Ice Peach tea drink. I don't know what Peach the fruit real color is. I don't think it as pink as the emoji indicates. but I like that color. I think this is the pink that makes me like pink again. Then, I bought the Too Faced Sweet Peach Pallette. then that Nivea Delicious Drop Peach&Vanilla flavor lipbalm. then Jaehyun.

BONUS:

Red

*cue Taylor Swift - Red
LOL this one is the most random. I only ever pick this color when I'm buying gadget or its accessories. I know it started with that Sony Ericson w760 Walkman I once had. It wasn't entirely red but it accent was. I bought my sony viao, back then, in red coz it matched with my phone. I wanted to buy a red car just so it matched my phone and laptop. I didn't get to tho.
Now, I owned red laptop and a red car. but really, not becoz its my favorite. I can't put this color in my favorite list actually. Red color is more sentimental to me. My dad used to have a red car. Hmm.. I think that is why. That second last sentence, honestly, just pop up to the top of my head. huh



There ya go. What's behind the color that I pick.
but if you see me picking up color that is not in this list, its becoz its the only nice color that I can pick. Why my color not being there stop me from picking it up/ buying the thing, right? If you needed it, you just gonna deal with the color choices the kadai provides. 😜

What's your color story?

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