Movie Review: Knight and Day
My friend’s friend won tickets at their company’s competition and wonderfully shared it with his friends. As a friend’s friend, I was able to watch this movie with them. Initially, I thought we were going to watch Karate Kid or Toy Story 3, but since my friend watched Toy Story 3 already and Karate Kid has only one showing that day, we decided to watch Knight and Day.
My initial thought was, “Night and Day”? I don’t even know the movie. After watching the trailer, I said to myself maybe it’s a good movie since the cast are star-studded. Reminiscing my crush with Tom Cruise era. haahah!
Movie Review: Karate Kid
A fan of the 1984 movie with the cute Ralph Macchio, I didn’t know that it was revived by Jackie Chan until a friend of mine suggested that I watched it. My friend and I went to The Village and checked the schedule. Luckily there was one starting in 30 minutes so we had time to walk around the mall then come back for the start of the show. Ticket costs RMB 80 per head and it wasn’t packed. The movie theatre itself has nice comfy seats and pretty good sound system.
Sherry Parker (Taraji Henson) is a single mom whose work caused her to move with his son, Dre (Jaden Smith) to China. While playing basketball, Dre noticed a young lady, Mei Ying, who was listening to music while reading her sheet music. Dre approached Mei Ying but was later prevented by Mei Ying’s family friend who’s well versed in Kung Fu. A short fight ensured with Dre in the ground agonizing in pain. Dre later found out, that they all went to the same school and Mei Ying is applying for a slot with the Beijing Academy of Arts. As a young man in China, Dre dreams of learning kung fu. He found a school with her mom one day to only find out that the guy who beat
Manila – Apr 29 to May 4, 2010
It’s been six months since I’ve left Beijing for more than a day trip and it was wrecking havoc to my mental health. Work has been stressful and I’m at the point where I want to look for a new job or be transferred to a new location.
This trip to Manila was even a question mark in the beginning as prices went up towards the middle of April. In any case, when I planned for this trip, my goal was to meet my 8 month old niece, get the stuff my sister sent me, spend time with my dad and do some shopping. It was a good coincidence to have celebrated my Uncle’s 51st birthday. However, the trip ended in a sad note with my uncle passing away on the day before my flight back to Beijing.
If you care to read on, I’ll be writing a daily diary of my trip:
Healthy Snack: Sunflower Seeds
The snacks I normally eat during break time or while working are either chocolates, biscuits, chips or fruits. Of the ones I’ve mentioned, fruits are the only healthy snack. We usually get free fruits from our GM when we do her fruit and vegetable shopping. Hehehe.. We’ve had several weeks of wonderful, sweet strawberries.
When the local restaurant near our office were giving away free pack of sunflower seeds as promotion, the whole team became hooked to it. I’m not really sure if there’s a correlation between eating sunflower seeds and acne but I’ve been having acne breakouts again. Maybe not because of the seeds but because of sleeping late, poor diet, no exercise and stress. Oh well.. I should get my lazy butt off the couch and dance to Madonna or Lady Gaga for exercise. Hahahaha!
Project Runway Season 7
I’m a fashion-challenged individual who would like to be comfortable than pretty and whose style is in the border of old fashioned and severe. My colleagues often tell me to put more color in my outfits but I can’t seem to gravitate out of the blacks, browns and grays which are standard for a corporate attire.
Fashion is not something on top of my list and somehow watching Project Runway educates me about fashion. Heh! This season of Project Runway brought them back to New York and Parsons. Sixteen designers were given challenges each week to see who would make or break in this fast-paced fashion industry. Heidi Klum who’s beautifully pregnant is back as the host with Tim Gunn as the fashion mentor. The season has officially ended with Seth Aaron Henderson emerging as the winner.
Book Review: The Lost Symbol
It’s been quite some time since I’ve sit down and read a book. Weekends are devoted to relaxing, doing household chores, catching up on my Facebook games and downloaded TV shows. I had the ebook version of this book since last year but was only able to upload it to my phone this year after having the Chinese fonts uploaded on the phone.
The Lost Symbol stars Dr. Langdon, who was part of the author’s original book “Da Vinci Code”. The setting of this book is in Washington, DC with the Free Masons as the leading organization. The story is about the Solomon family who in the beginning consisted of brother and sister, Peter and Katherine. Peter Solomon is a Mason of the 33rd degree. A billionaire whose son was brutally murdered in the Turkish prison. Katherine Solomon is a noetic scientist whose research brought her to measure the human soul.