I finally had a chance to watch Alice in Wonderland after two failed attempts and I really enjoyed the movie.
I was tempted to write a review on it, but I got bored and deleted the entry. Instead I’ll just list what I thought of the movie when I finished watching it!
Some personal thoughts:
- Tim Burton did an excellent job and you could really see his vision and quirky signature all over the film. I think one of his stronger points is his ability to not be afraid to go a bit into the dark and scary. He tends to push the envelope just a little bit while holding it back for Disney and just mixes in the chaos of Wonderland. As strange as it sounds, I would love to him do a full blown horror movie because I think he would do a fantastic job.
- Johnny Depp was a hoot and the audience couldn’t stop laughing at him when he first appears on screen. He has that same charismatic charm as Jack Sparrow, however, you could tell he was just the support actor in the movie because he was held back. His makeup was phonmenal and I have to compliment those eyes because the diameter of his contact lens were so wide!
- Helena Bonham Carter, who in real life is Tim Burton’s wife, did an excellent job playing The Red Queen. She tends to go for really quirky roles and I think she fits them really well. She also has a really charismatic charm to her as well!
- Anne Hathway as the White Queen was interesting but not my favorite. Her intentionally black eyebrows were distracting to me and she had this really weird way in which she moved all throughout the movie. Like the princess on Enchanted but far more exaggerated and forced. I didn’t quite get her role.
- Mia Wasikowska really grew on me as Alice and by the end of the movie, you could tell she was perfect for the role. She reminds me a lot of the younger girl who played Atonement and she’s just strong enough to play lead.
- I actually quite like the ending and thought it was quite fitting!
Overall Verdict: A in my book! I never like the original Alice, but the new and improve was refreshing and fun to to wash and extremely visually appealing!
Last night’s hockey was INTENSE and this is coming from a non-hockey fan!
My dad looked like he was going to have a heart attack on his chair. When we had the last 60 seconds left, he kept clenching his hands, making *AUUUGH* noises and then getting up and sitting back down.
Canada verus USA this Sunday is going to be insane! Best of LUCK CANADA!
We currently have 10 GOLD MEDALS and won’t mind getting more!:D
A trickle of pictures
Signatures from Speedy Skating including Apolo Ohno “7 x medals” and Valerie Maltais.
Granville’s Station last weekend! I kid you NOT!
Hope you’ve been enjoying the Winter 2010 Olympics! =)
My Olympic Merchandise has expanded! The plush toys aren’t mine, but they belong to my cousin, he spent all of this year savings into it!
In all honesty, how many times does the Olympic make it to your own country!
It’s still surreal to watch the events on TV and then go downtown to experience it live.
I was just telling a friend that Vancouver currently feels like another country! I will be so sad when it leaves and it’s all quiet and lonely again!
I tell myself .. at least I have souvenirs to remember it all! haha.
I’m Quatchi’s #1 FAN!
For some of my readers, who didn’t get a chance to visit this 2010 Winter Olympic, I’m excited to present some pictures of my city to you!
Picture HEAVY
Hope you enjoy!
Our local skytrain, it goes underground and above!
Inside the Train
Station
Outside Waterfront
On our way to the Olympic Cauldron
At Canada Place
The Spectators
Beautiful Day, sunset!
The Olympic Cauldron fenced off due to the protests. Beautiful mountains! Ugly Fencing!
A better picture!
Burrard and Robson (Vancouver’s favourite shopping street)
CTV Broadcasting
Dinner at the Keg Steakhouse and Bar at Yaletown
Ganache Patisserie
Whistler (Before the Olympics began, I didn’t get a chance to go, but a friend did and took some awesome pictures! )
Whistler (The Snowmobile Trail they took.)
Whistler (Beautiful View!)
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Just had to comment and blog, how extraordinary this weekend had been for me!
From Friday to Sunday, I’ve been celebrating
- Vancouver hosting the Winter 2010 Olympics
- Valentine’s Day
- and Chinese New Year
All wrapped up into one!
The coming 25th it’s also my BIRTHDAY!
I absolutely love heading to downtown and seeing the tourist from all parts of the world celebrate with us.
The Athletes are super cute, the people are super fun and I can’t get enough of the Olympic merchandises. Which reminds me, when is The Bay getting more of the red hoodies? =(
Anyways, the city is so incredibly alive I can really feel the beat and the buzz and the weather has been strangely very good! Sunny and warm!
I’ll try bringing in more pictures of downtown Vancouver this Wednesday! Stay Tune!
Picture Post!
Highlights from Yaletown’s Torch Relay!
It was great hanging out with Eddie, Miran and Daniel!
End of the relay.
I have never seen Yaletown with this many people!
Misc. Pictures
The Bay, line ups were super long to get into the merchandise store!
Olympic Mascot Posters on the skytrain!
Enjoy!
Heya Girls,
I’m REALLY EXCITED to share this … but do you remember my Incoco review from last entry?
Well I finally was able to get my hands on the French ones and they are called “First Love”. They seriously turn out AWESOME, no more nail strips, because these babies are straighter than my orthodontic enhanced teeth!
My only peeve was that there were pinky strips that were ridiculously narrow and I had to use the two bonus samples strips to substitute it. You probably have idea what I’m talking about, but when you order the strips you’ll know what I mean!
Anyways, observe my perfect French Nails: (well as perfect as I can make them!)
PS I added some glitter to the whites!
I keep my nails short, but the white tips seemed to add some elongation.
These are my natural nails and I basically just sticker-ed them on and applied a top coat! They last pretty long, about 2 weeks when I last had them!
WHOOOOO! I haven’t had French Nails since I last paid for them and they chipped in about 2 days.
A+ for this product!
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And I was going to save this entry for later, but I need THROW this out before the promo ends on February 12!
Citizens of British Columbia, ClearlyContact.ca, has generously offered an additional 50% off all their frames due to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
I jumped at the opportunity and ordered my 2nd pair of glasses from them.
I placed an online order on Tuesday and it arrived on Monday! Lens custom made to my degree.
I ordered the Chanel frames (original price: $500) and after all their discount, I ended up paying about $143 Canadian with shipping!!! It would have only cost $81.99 , but I paid an additional $40 for thinner lens.
I’ve ordered from ClearlyContacts before and have worn these YSL for about 2 years and have no complaints! They are well made!
Regrettably, I have paid other eyeglass stores in the malls about $500 for just the lens, so these are a steal.
Absolute love finding awesome products and fabulous deals! Share some of yours!
Enjoy! =)
STOP the madness!
I can’t seem to stop purchasing the mascot merchandises for the 2010 Olympics!
I purchased a Snowboard with Quatchi on it. And I don’t even really need a snowboard.
A bag from Aritzia and I don’t really don’t need another bag.
And a Mascot luggage tag (which I’ve attached onto the bag.) Who really needs a luggage tag?
I’m a sucker for limited editions and I know when the Olympics are over, I will be very happy to have them! And regardless, aren’t they cute? 
I just had to write a “blog” responds to recent news events involving Toyota.
In case you haven’t heard, Toyota has recalled 2.3 million cars for sticky accelerator pedals and an additional 4.2 million for pedal-grabbing floor mats.
This screw up has tragically caused people their lives, massive hysteria and even an intervention by the US Government.
Not only has Toyota fucked up, but they have fucked up real bad.
They are currently wounded with an open sore at a 2 billion lost this quarter due to their defects.
And US Domestic makers such as GM are pouncing on their prey.
They are taking this opportunity to kick their foreign rival down by tastelessly offering special promos for the helpless owners who would are willing to swap their Toyota for a GM.
There is no doubt in my mind (or anyone else) that this is currently the perfect opportunity to leverage the US domestic auto market and let them rock back and forth on their high horse preaching about the importance of safety and quality control.
Just ask the US Transportation Secretary (Ray LaHood) who said (somewhere along the lines of) “stop driving your vehicle.” Of course he didn’t meant FORD, GM or Chrysler, he meant TOYOTA.
Held accountable for his words, Lahood had to later retract and recall his words. I guess that is what separates normal people from politicians. We can`t retract our words and lie at the same time.
For example, If I said “FUCK YOU, I didn`t do it!` to a police officer and then immediately said “I take it back” … I don’t think he would care as he hauled my ass to jail.
Anyways, what I’m trying to really point out is that although the companies are 99.9% to blame, we as a consumers are also at 0.01% to blame.
In North America (and other parts of the world that are rich), our current capacity to consume is enormous. Not only do we constantly want the newest, brightest and shiniest … we also want the CHEAPEST and BEST-EST. Churn out more! More Models! More Features! More Color! More interior! ETC.ETC.
Seriously, when GM offers to give owners special deals for swapping their Toyota with GM cars … they are not acting out from the goodness of their heart.
Under disguised , corporations could be argued as just ugly fiends, responding back with drool in their mouth and their hands hanging out -palms up so you deposit your money into them.
SELL-SELL-SELL. MONEY-MONEY-MONEY
To cut cost and make profits to keep the business a float, management (whether intentional or not, I don’t have proof) will ultimately turn a blind eye on defects that would make business go bad and shareholders mad. Until something shitty happens, like defects showing up, everything will be covered up.
Just ask FORD, who’s currently on the high horse, and even they have also made a mistake in the past.
Case in point, look back in history to the PINTO that FORD (domestic NOT Foreign!) made back in the mid-60’s. One rear-end collision in the back and the entire car would blow up due to the position of the gas tank. They later recalled their entire line when people started dying and the PUBLIC STARTED INVESTIGATING. Again, fighting strong competition from Volkswagen for the lucrative car market, FORD rushed the Pinto into production in much less than the usual time so they could gain competitive edge and MAKE MONEY.
Thus, as a consumer, I just want to tell everyone to OPEN YOUR EYES and be smart and aware about your choices. Unfortunately, we currently live in a globalized state where we entrust everything to everyone else and have become far too comfortable.
Clearly, I just wanted to write this to entry to rant to myself about globalization and its impact!
And I hope some of you were able to get something out of this entry, or if not, just realize I’m really weird! :p
Feel free to debate with me or let me know your thoughts!
Heya Folks,
Just realized that I’m very short on entries this month! Between going to school, working and snowboarding lessons on Saturdays … I’ve been quite busy, SORE and tired!
I’ve abandon thee, but I’m back.
Anyways, long overdue, I just wanted to share my review on Vancouver’s trendiest Hotdog stand!
JAPADOG!
When some of the Twilight gangs were shooting here, some of them lived at the Sutton hotel which is across Japadog, and they were said to really enjoy the food. And supposedly do did a lot of other celebrities who come here to film.
I’ve tried it once before, during a late night snack during girl’s night out clubbing phase about 3 years ago, but I don’t exactly remember what I had eaten!
So I had to go back for a 2nd round just last month!
Apparently there’s a line up almost all the time except when it rains a lot.
#1 TIP, don’t be me and line up under the PICK UP sign before going to the ORDER sign. Yes, they’ll make you line up again.
I ordered the Oroshi. Which is a Bratwurst with grated raddish, special soy sauce and green onion.
Unfortunately, I’m not a fan of neither Bratwurst, radish or green onion. So my review on this is going to be incredibly biased … but it tasted exactly like how a bratwurst would taste with tonnes of radish, teriyaki sauce and green onion.
I found it neither spectacular or mind propelling and I’m easily amused by street food.
And at this point yes, I can hear people say, “THEN KAILYN, WHY DID YOU ORDER THE Oroshi if you did not like bratwurst, radish or green onion?”
My reply, “It was a brain fart!”
So I’ll be back to try the “Spicy Cheese Terimayo” which has Teriyaki Sauce, Japanese Mustard, Seaweed with a good old fashion Jalapeno & Cheese Smokie. Ingredients I do like.
For more information, visit Japadog’s Official Website or my newly found favourite review site, Yelp.
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