How Embarrassing!

So the lovely HektikLyfe started a blog called Now on Video. It's a awesome blog where anyone can write their opinion on movies. Well, I thought Hey, that a cool idea. So I thought up a movie and wrote my first post. Except I'm stupid. and I didn't realized that the blog was only on movies that were only out on video not the ones that are still in theaters. Hence the name Now on Video... I didn't even realize this until I already posted and everything. Ugh!

Anyway, now that I'm thoroughly embarrassed, I decided not to let that post go to waste. Here you go.

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Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik (Patel), an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much?

Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika (Pinto), the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show?

When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. (IMDb)

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The things I liked most about this movie:

1.) I've never heard of any of these actors/actresses before so the story was easier to sink into without relating the actors/actresses to their other works.
2.) I like the idea of a nobody becoming a somebody. It makes me warm and fuzzy.
3.) I'm a sucker for a good love story. c:
4.) Even though it is rated R, none of the language or violence was unnecessary. There wasn't even graphic sex scene!

The things I didn't like:

1.) Nobody's ever heard of it!


I give this one a 4.5 out of 5. Great movie.

I Can't See!

Last week, while I was in down town Atlanta hanging out with my friends, we decided to go to a Premier Exhibit's Dialog in the Dark.

They're the same company who does Titanic and Bodies.

At first I didn't want to go because $25 is expensive for a spontaneous adventure for broke college students, but one of the employees (about our age) said he could get all 5 of us in for $50. Yup. It's only $10 per person. Of course, me being to only sensible one, I was completely against it. It was kinda shady, you know? I didn't want to be scammed and my money to be stolen.

Ugh! I hate peer pressure! Yeah, we ended up going.

Dialog in the Dark was a very cool experience. For one hour, we were lead around in complete darkness through different environments such as a park, a sidewalk, a boat, a grocery store, and a restaurant while trying to use our other four senses. The whole time, I was completely lost. The only thing I recognized was a kayak that was on the dock near the boat. I was also always the last person in the room. At one point our tour guide shouted into the room to see if anyone was still in there and scared me so badly that I screamed. Lame, I know.

One of the cool parts was at the end when we found out that our tour guide was blind! I kinda guessed it but finding out made the whole experience way cooler. He told us his inspiring story of how he became blind three years ago. While going to pick up his nephew in a shady park, he got shot by a stray bullet and awoke from the resulting coma three months later completely blind. He'd only been working at Dialog in the dark for three months, and he truly seemed like he enjoyed his job.

With exhibit locations all around the world, I highly suggest you visit one. It's a truly fascinating experience that I think every one will enjoy.

11 Days Since Last Post...

And I've finally get 30 minutes to myself before I have to go to work.

You know, I always perceived Christmas as a calming holiday with plenty of time to spend with family because of school and work holidays.

Not until this year did I realize how very stressful it can be. This is actually the first year that I can pretend to afford gifts for the people I love -- the key word being pretend. I don't think I can really afford all the gifts that I purchased with my lovely credit card; but hey, it's Christmas right. So I've been giving all my spare time to finding the right gift, calling to make sure nobody else has bought it, and buying it with my magical credit card.

Side Note: Have you seen the preview to the movie Confessions of a Shopaholic. I want to see this one just to make me feel better.

Anyway, the only gift I have left to buy is my boyfriend's. And he was so specific that I really don't have to be creative. Also, we both decided to give each other our gifts after the holiday when we get the next paychecks.

As the last minutes of my free time are slipping away, I ask you: How is your Christmas shopping going?

By Popular Demand

Ok so only one person wanted to see it.
Anyway, I recorded myself singing the song that won me my awesome trophy at the talent show last year.



Enjoy!

Not Quite That Famous... Yet.

Last year on New Years Eve, my church held it's first annual Destiny's Got Talent show. When it was first announced, I knew that I would sing Time to Say Goodbye sung by Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman. I found this song during the previous summer and instantly loved it. It's in Italian.

Here is the link--> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp0ccQVy1og


And I won first place!! (out of 18 people) It was so much fun. See my nice big trophy c:
And I love dressing up and singing, especially in a language I don't speak. hehe.

Any way, so this year I am entering in this talent show again. My goal is to give a better performance than I gave last year. Therefore, I need an awesome song. Here is where I have a problem. I have absolutely no idea what I should sing. I was thinking about singing something from Josh Groban. You know how much I love him. I was thinking Solo Por Ti which is in spanish (link)or The Prayer which is a duet (link).

But my brother says that I should sing some thing new, something fresh, but he has no suggestions.
My boyfriend thinks I should sing the song from the movie The American Tail: Fieval Goes West (link) but I can't help but think about the little squeaky mouse. I don't really want to sound like that.

Anyways, I was hoping you guys could help me with a song decision. :D

I really would like to sing in another language. Something pretty. Like Italian or Spanish. I could even do Russian.
I like the opera/pop. If that genre exists. lol. Vocally songs like movie themes or soundtracks.
I like Phantom of the Opera stuff as well. Or anything written by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

I need all the suggestions I can get.
Thanks

I'm Back!!!

Sorry everybody. These past two weeks have probably been the most stress filled ones out of the whole year.

• My boyfriend (Everett)'s wallet was stolen in Best Buy. We had to get his debit card turned off but he had no identification so the teller had a difficult time doing that. Then we had to get him another license but that cost money that he didn't have because his wallet is gone. So I had to pay for it. Then we had to go back to the bank and get new accounts and new cards.



• My mother and father are currently having a custody battle over my brother (14 years old). My brother Eric went to live with my dad about 7 months ago. And for some reason unknown to all but himself, my dad wants full custody of my brother and surprised my mom with papers. My mom retaliated by retrieving Eric from my dad's house which also doesn't make any sense and definitely doesn't help. Currently, Eric is living with my mom, sister, and I as it had been up until 7 months ago. This ridiculously pointless battle is still going on and is just racking up the lawyer bills. My solution is just let Eric pick where he want to live. I think he was fine with my dad and don't understand why my dad had to have full custody of Eric.



• My sister Ashley (17 years old) is going through the stage where any little thing you ask as a favor is totally inconvenient to her. Example: Yesterday, I took her, Eric, and Everett to go see a movie. Because I work at the movies, I also had a little business that I had to take care of with one of my managers. It only took maybe 5 more minutes. Because I wasted those five whole minutes of her time, she was upset with me the rest of the day. Despite the fact that I took time out of my impossibly full day to take her to a movie.
  



• Since I got into a small car accident last summer, my car insurance went up. Therefore, I have to work even more than I already am in order pay off the bills. Living pay check to pay check sucks. I worked every day I could, even Thanksgiving Day, and am going to have to work hard during the Christmas holiday as well.
  



• I have one week of school left before final exams. There's one project due on Wednesday that I haven't even started. Another is due on Thursday that I haven't even thought about.



• To top it off, my car is a mess with all the leaves that my feet collect and deposit on the floor. Tissues are strewn about as well because of the changing seasons. My bedroom is unspeakably messy. I can't stand the piles of clothing, books, and papers that litter my floor. I'm going to have to stay up later tonight just to get my self organized.

I'm off to go start these projects. My goal is to finish the 1st project by tomorrow, the second one by Wednesday, clean my room tonight, clean my car tomorrow morning, and sometime before the end of this year make some time for me.

Please tell me something happy... something better/worse than what I'm going through... anything.