May 20th, 2012 | Category: Movies, Reviews Yes, I went to see it again. On GSC’s digital screen. 
The cool thing about second viewings (if you’re like me) is that not only do you get to enjoy the good parts all over again and notice little things you didn’t notice before or had forgotten, but you also get a chance to observe more closely the details – the details in the designs and the cinematography, nuances in the acting or in the story, musical cues.
I’m categorising this under “Reviews” but it’s more of a collection of observations and thoughts. A long collection of observations and thoughts. I shall break this up into segments, so it’s a little more organised. It’s mostly stuff I’d forgotten in the initial review (most of which was me gushing over how much I liked the movie).
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Continue reading “The Avengers (Round 2)”…
May 17th, 2012 | Category: Movies, Musings Random thoughts before I go to bed:
Why do so many movie villains speak in such crisp British tones? It’s as if they all go to a villain academy and take a course called “How to Speak with a British Accent.” I like that accent, but really… isn’t there any other accent they can use? (That said, I will admit that using that Brit accent – spoken in the right tone of voice – is pretty effective in immediately conveying the impression of “superiority”, of someone who is self-confident or who has a great deal of self-command.)
Why do villains tend to have more impressive or cooler outfits than the heroes? Is there a rule about hero/villain costume design that I’m not aware of? haha
Why is it that in many modern movies, the villains are so much more complex and appear to have more depth than the heroes? There is a tendency for the heroes tend to be a little more “flat”, or less developed as characters in comparison to the villain. I wonder why that is. Can they not be just as complex? Or is it just that there somehow exists a need to explain the evil? One can be good for the sake of being good, but you can’t be evil just for the sake of being evil? Hmm.
Time to sleeeeep.
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May 14th, 2012 | Category: Life … I shall be in Tokyo. 8D
(No, Japan is not my “dream destination.” The title of “my dream destination” still goes to Disneyland Anaheim or Disneyworld Florida.)
May 7th, 2012 | Category: A to Z Challenge So we’re supposed to do a reflection post?
Let’s see. What have I learnt from this year’s A-Z challenge?
- It’s harder writing about bunnies than one thinks. (My especial thanks to Anna, for commenting so often; and to Mum for constantly telling me she likes the poems and is looking forward to them; and to Day, for helping me with the last week’s worth of poems, when I was so often devoid of ideas.)
- It’s even harder to keep churning out poems – poems that rhyme – almost every day.
- Poem-bunnies can do more than just pop out of a hat. Among other things, they can wear hats, live on the Moon, go to the market, fly to Mars to catch stars, talk to dolls and ducks and fish, drive sports cars, write stories, and dance with fairies at waterfalls.
- (I actually like to think that it’s the same bunny in all the poems, except in the D poem… that one’s a different bunny. Maybe it’s related to the other bunny, though?)
- Poem-bunnies also eat a lot. Or at least think about food a lot. (Really. Here’s a list of all the food that has appeared in no less than 16 out of the 26 poems: Apples, carrots, carrot-cream bun, Moon-pie, star juice, Moon-rice, chocolate eggs, honey, cakes, wine, croissant, grass, lemon sorbet, chocolates, parfait, peas, tea, lychee, strawberries, melons, pears, blue cheese, carrot cake, potato chips and gravy, chocolate biscuit, chocolate milk, green tea, toast with butter and honey, tarts, berries, plums, and banana split.)
Continue reading “A-Z Challenge Reflection Post”…
May 5th, 2012 | Category: Laughs, Life 
Sick and tired of your nails? Would you like to remove those unsightly things from your fingers? Try Nail Remover now!
hahahahahaha
These Asian brands have such amusing translations for their product names. The one above was seen at Etude House. I didn’t notice it initially but Ee Laine pointed it out. Good thing she did. 
Daiso also provides quite a few samples of interesting English product names and such.
Continue reading “Engrish”…
April 30th, 2012 | Category: A to Z Challenge A zephyr is a gentle breeze
That Bunny likes a lot.
It rustles the leaves of all the trees
And cools a day that’s hot.
Sometimes when a zephyr comes
The Bunny goes out to sit
In the garden with a plate of plums
And a yummy banana split.
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And it’s over! At last.
I hope you’ve enjoyed these 26 bunny (and food-filled) poems, random as they are. 
April 29th, 2012 | Category: Movies, Reviews 
I liked this. It was a fun movie, especially if you’re partial to any/all of the characters.
For the summary, I am going to paraphrase a bit from Wikipedia’s long synopsis:
The Tesseract, a mysterious glowing blue cube of energy, is stolen by exiled Norse god Loki (Tom Hiddleston). Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., reactivates the Avengers Initiative, bringing together a group of heroes in an attempt to counter Loki’s schemes – which include bringing in an alien race called the Chitauri to invade Earth on his behalf in exchange for the Tesseract.
The heroes recruited by Fury are: “genius, billionaire, playboy, philantropist” Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.); super soldier from the past Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans); Norse god of thunder and adoptive brother of Loki, Thor (Chris Hemsworth); agent Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johanssen); Dr. Bruce Banner/the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo); and agent and master archer Clint Barton/Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner).
And now for my opinion (there will probably be spoilers – you have been warned):
Continue reading “The Avengers”…
April 28th, 2012 | Category: A to Z Challenge Upon the shelf there is a yacht
A bright toy boat in yellow.
Next to the yacht is a flower pot
And a miniature cello.
Right above them hangs a star -
A star with bright red wings.
The star, yacht, pot and cello are
Bunny’s favourite playthings.
Out of these four Bunny loves the best
The little yellow yacht.
It found the yacht hidden in a chest
Left on the beach to rot.
Bunny liked to take it to the river
On a sunny summer’s day
And watch it float, its sail a-quiver,
Down the forest waterway.
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I’m so thankful this is almost over. Rhyming is tiring. haha.
And I need to write my Avengers review. I ♥ Steve Rogers!
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