singing 'Eternally' repeatedly

My eyes were glued to the tv for seven hours: I finished all 10 episodes of Innocent Love in one sitting and had only papayas (plus some junk food) for dinner. When I get engrossed in watching a drama, I turn into a disgusting couch-dwelling loser.

I ♡ HEART ♡ INNOCENT LOVE THOUGH. Thoughts tomorrow!

sweet dreams, everyone ♡

let's schwack 'em he says

I really super adore Stark Sands as Lt. Nathaniel Fick in Generation Kill. Not Stark Sands per se..just his portrayal of the character in the HBO miniseries.

  (l-r) Meesh the translator, who's that?, A.Skarsgård, S.Sands as Lt. Fick, who's that?

 Alexander Skarsgård is the eye candy of the series, I guess, even though I'm totally all for Fick only (lol). Skarsgård's face is just so typical Scandinavian! EVERYTHING down to the seemingly-browless look. My sister's friend once told her that everyone in Sweden looks alike and if you live there for a reasonable period of time, you'll start resembling them as well. That said, Sweden is supposedly THE land of good-lookers. It ranks highest for both accepted female and male members of this online social dating site called beautifulpeople dot com or something. There was quite an uproar about the site because they only allow beautiful people to be members to ensure the face quality of the pool. Current members vote on potential applicants' pictures and majority of Swedes are accepted into the superficial fraternizing club. The country that ranks highest for rejected applicants is UK and therefore Brits were voted as ugliest in the world. Since this site is only popular in Europe, I don't think it's fair to condemn Brits as ugliest in the world despite their fame for being ruddy-faced.

Sorry for going on tangent here but anyways,
Generation Kill is impressive! Some of the dialogues spoken in it are straight up the best and most fun ones I've heard in a long time. And better yet, it was based on a true story (and true dialogues).
If this somehow pique your interest to watch it (swoon over Skarsgård's Scandinavian features, anyone?), I suggest reading it up beforehand because there's an overwhelming use of modern military jargon that no one in the movie bothers to explain at all (to make things feel more authentic, I suppose). Be warned that this means the series is strictly M-18 due to the nature of the plot and the truckload of everyday cussing. aha.

here's some to whet your appetite (all from imdb.com):

Evan 'Scribe' Wright: AAA batteries, dip, Skoal, Copenhagen, baby wipes, flavored pringles in a can and adult diapers. As requested. Why do you need me to get all of this stuff?
Sgt. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert: In the infinite wisdom to whoever runs the military post exchange store, they won't sell this stuff in quantity to military personnel. But, for civilians like yourself, the sky is the limit.
Evan 'Scribe' Wright: And why is that?
Cpl. Josh Ray Person: To Keep us angry. If Marines could get what they needed when they needed it we would be happy and wouldn't ready to kill people all of the time. The Marine Corps is like America's Pitbull. They beat us, mistreat us and every once in awhile, they let us out to attack someone. 


Lance Cpl. Harold James Trombley: Hey Pers, didn't your mom put your picture up on the Wal-mart Wall Of Heroes?
Cpl. Josh Ray Person: Yep. My grandma did when I went to Afghanistan. I'm on the Nevada, Missouri Wal-mart Wall Of Heroes. I even got my dress blues on.
Sgt. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert: If my mother ever distributed my likeness without written authorization, I would disown her.
Cpl. Josh Ray Person: Technically speaking, Brad, but... didn't your biological parents disown you when they put you up for adoption?
Sgt. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert: Point, Ray. I was one of those unfortunates adopted by upper middle-class professionals and nurtured in an environment of learning, art and a socio-religious culture steeped in more than 2000 years of Talmudic tradition. Not everyone is lucky enough to have been raised in a whiskey tango trailer park by a bow-legged female whose sole qualification for motherhood is a womb that happened to catch a sperm of a passing truck driver.
Cpl. Josh Ray Person: At least my mom took me to NASCAR!
Lance Cpl. Harold James Trombley: ...Your dad's a truck driver?

 ++++++++

 Niceeeee.

OF WAR FILMS

Band of Brothers is such an amazing show. 

As an avid war movie fan, I'm embarrassed to say that I watched it for the first time just last night, but I finished all 10 episodes by today. That's how good it is. The acting was excellent, the settings stunning and most importantly, the stories are real and inspiring. These are all key ingredients of a good war movie.

BRAVO HBO!

Other movies of this genre that I like are:

• The Thin Red Line (thumbs up!)
• Saving Private Ryan
• The Boy In The Striped Pajamas [German]
• Napola [German] (my favorite by far. It's released as 'Before The Fall' in the US)
• The Lives of Others [German] ( I think this one is an Oscar winner a few years ago and it definitely earned that award)
• Full Metal Jacket
• Defiance
• The Pianist
• Life Is Beautiful [Italian]
• Le Grand Meaulnes [French]

"If I never meet you in this life

Let me feel the lack

A glance from your eyes

and my life is yours."

- The Thin Red Line.

I watched Boys of Tomorrow

and don't really get it.

Is the point of the movie the transformation of the lead character?

There were too many messy incidents happening for things to wrap up nicely in the last 5 minutes of the film. 

It doesn't make sense.

Anyway, I read an article about a documentary that uber-symmetrical-face Kim Bum will be shooting in April. The management is inviting fans from 80 over countries (supposedly) to join filming and travel with Kim Bum to Seoul and other famous cities in Korea. The audition is starting in March (when? where?) and filming will start in April. I want to apply for it but I really have no idea how to.

will be checking updates on omonatheydidnt regularly. 

;)

Lesser Things

I didn't touch my phone at all yesterday. Perhaps, someday, just perhaps, I'd be able to live without constantly thinking of going online, surfing the web and fiddling with my phone. Reading a book earnestly helped divert my attention from such stuff too. I've been reading this book I bought at LAX a couple of years ago called The Koreans: Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies by Michael Breen which compiled stories about the east asian civilisation from even before the Choson era. There are gruesome details about punishments used to be carried out in the ancient days, how the social system stood and what-not. I love books like this. In fact, this made me want to read one on Chinese civilisation because I'm certain the stories would be even more interesting than Korea given the size and history of the Middle Kingdom.

What prompted me to read such books is my upcoming trip to a rural Chinese area in April to celebrate a distant relative's 100th BIRTHDAY! I can't remember the name of the town I'm going to (sorry Dad, wasn't paying attention that much) but it's nowhere near the big cities and people are generally nicer/less scheming than the ones from urban parts of China. supposedly. I've yet to confirm this. hehe. Anyhow, it'd be a nice change to go somewhere with fresher air than Jakarta. The atmosphere here is literally #CCCCCC
*nerd*

And... I've decided to dye my hair dark brown next week. I'm going to be the only person with colored hair in that small Chinese city! hahaha. I just hope this won't make me a target for petty crimes. My father reassured me that the family we're going to visit knows the head police in that town so I shouldn't worry about security but he also reminded me to bring canvas bag instead of leather bag so I feel confused about this whole issue. You may think that I am ignorant and overly suspicious of Chinese (even though I'm a Chinese-Indonesian) but my motto when it comes to dealing with any Chinese from China is Better Safe Than Sorry. I definitely can't match up with them on wits so I'm going to keep this siege mentality until proven otherwise for every single case. ^^

Ahhh If only I get to go to Beijing and Shanghai too. How nice it would be! I've never been to any other parts of China except for Shenzhen and it was only a short day trip that wasn't very memorable so I don't regard it as 'having been in China before'.

Where I really want to be now is S. Korea! So that I can go to SM concerts!!!!!! Or maybe not, since SM is still under fire for unfair contract terms. The investigation seems to be ongoing still. SM is obviously nowhere as good as JE in dealing with authorities and their artistes.

sigh. Bye bye pop concerts. At least there's always Youtube to turn to.

Lady Gaga's JUST DANCE - SHINee version.



This dance routine was apparently plagiarised from a choreographer in the States who created it for a small Pomona performance to the tune of Rihanna's Disturbia but I think SHINee did a good job nonetheless. Besides, they shouldn't be blamed for the plagiarism as it is their choreographer's fault, not theirs. The biggest crime committed here, really, is by their stylist. WTH are those costumes??????? And by 'those costumes', I mean only Taem's fugly court jester-like blouse/top. It's preposteroussssssss.

Sleep On Needles

I think I need to go out more often. Otherwise I need to start a project to take my minds off things that keep coming back to haunt me. Time keeps on ticking by and I just can't go on like this.

Between watching season 3 of How I Met Your Mother (I lurrve Barney!) and clearing files off my iPhoto and desktop, I drew this

done using a small Wacom Bamboo & Scribbles app.

the original image.

My drawing is considerably fatter than the original image. 

I didn't know about the tracing paper function on Scribbles until after I completed the simple drawing. Oh well :/

It's pretty fun and I get to practice my pen tool skill.

Maybe I'll draw and doodle more regularly from now on.

I am your valley

My afternoon naps last four hours nowadays. That's it, I'm officially turning into a pig. And these naps bring about the strangest dreams. This afternoon, I dreamt that a friend R broke up with his long time girlfriend to be with his petite, pretty cousin. Isn't that crazy? The funny thing is that, the girlfriend, whose a mutual friend, mentioned years before that she's jealous of his boyfriend's closeness with his cousins, particularly that pretty cousin but in real life, we ALL KNOW that the comment was a joke and there really is nothing more than family love between him and his cousins. Then why that dream? I was so shocked. Maybe I dreamt of him because his birthday is coming up soon. I have to remember to send him a card and a gift :)

Anyways, I just found out that there's actually a weighing scale at home right by the gym equipments so I stepped on it the other day and shock of all shocks - I'm back to 40something kilo for the first time in, what, six/seven years? It seems surreal. I haven't been eating less than usual so it might be the stress working its way or maybe the fact that I cut my hair not too long ago. Hair is heavy yo.

My sister and I promise to sleep before midnight every day but it's already 1.26 am now. Way to go, us. haha. I really should stick to what I promised to do so I'm going to cut this short here.

Here's a quote to ponder through the day:

whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure, but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

- Immanuel Kant.

xo.

momofuku cookbook makes my heart a-flutter

 

I'm not much of a cook but for this MOMOFUKU cookbook, I'd go to the kitchen and start dedicating some time to be better in cooking! David Chang is amazing! His hands literally creates food porn. And this book has such a kickass design too. It's LOVE ALL AROUND. I LOVE DAVID CHANG. For those who are not familiar with the name momofuku, it's the line of restaurants in New York City created by him. Le sigh. I love food and books, seriously.

Tomorrow I'm going to check out if NARS' Turkish Delight lipgloss is available here. It has really good reviews from makeupalley.com and I'm just itching to find out about it for myself.

For the ones who are more in tune with the going-ons in KPOP world (kpop is srz bizness, yo), I just wanna say that I don't think there's any hidden, super dark conspiracy going on regarding the 2PM boycott. They are enduring unnecessary heat from the issue and these poor things are just 20 something POP IDOLS. Give them a break. They are neither capable of creating a grandiose conspiracy (as if their schedules aren't packed enough) nor would they need/want to do that because in the end, they who face the media will have to be the victims to take in the flak no matter how the matter turns out.  Jay vented out poorly on his myspace and even if that wasn't the reason his contract was recently terminated, it's just terribly unfair to put all the blame on the other 6 remaining members.

but again,

Am I right or am I right?

P.S: Key's diva faces/actions make the BEST gif images. The one above is my current favorite. I'm gonna use his diva gifs as emoticons and to drive home my points in the future! Yay KEY.

You Know I'm No Good

I dropped my brand new L'Occitane milk makeup remover and the fragile plastic bottle broke at the neck like no one's business. I thought it'd be more durable since it's made of plastic but clearly I was wrong. Good thing I almost use up my current bottle so I had an identical container to transfer the milk from the broken bottle. Ehe!


Draining the content into the old bottle.

Recently I bought a few addition to my skincare products but I haven't been using them long enough (a week?) to be able to write a review but here's the mini haul.

 

 

I'm the kind of amiable customer who gets persuaded into buying anything you spend five minutes explaining for. While shopping around at Vivocity with mom and cousin, this Israeli man from Jericho Cosmetics pulled me into the store and asked me to just 'try' the dead sea bath salt. We ended up buying that AND TONS of other stuff but at a very good rate though because the manager gave us a discount after buying so much....ugh, it's just a vicious cycle. I guess it's okay since I really needed to get a good cleansing face mask and this one supposedly contain Dead Sea clay and is 100% organic. At least it's not just a mud mask I can get from some Japanese store. Nice music to my ears so far, but have yet to see its full effects yet.

This is the day moisturizing cream I got free for the mud mask purchase. 

I've read lots of rave reviews about this P & J fluid foundation and finally gave in and bought it. 

The coverage is really sheer and not very build-able but it feels really light and has no awful scent like drugstore foundations do. The SA also threw in a small sample bottle of the primer since it's my first P & J purchase. I actually like the primer more than the foundation and now that the sample is finished, I'm going to buy the full sized bottle. Their packaging and design are top notch as usual. Damn them Japanese are really good at it.

But the best foundation I've ever had is still this

it's just awesome. Lancome, MAC, Bobbi Brown, whatever, don't even come close to this in terms of quality. I'm almost done with the tube and it makes me sad to think that I can't get it here. I bought this in Paris several months ago and now I wish I had bought a few more back-up tubes. It was pretty expensive so I didn;t and now I'm crying a river. bah.

When this tube is used to its last drop, then P & J will have to do for me until the stores here stock Avène fluid foundation.

K, k. It's really late here, gotta sleep!

♡