Pinterest

Whenever i like images from the interest, i nomally save them to my hard disk but it's taking up space so finally after months of resisting, i have joined pinterest. This way my faves are more organized and i can share them with people.

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dilbert

love reading dilbert.. sometimes i can relate to what they are talking about. check out some recent funny strips taken from the official dilbert website (www.dilbert.com)

True Blood covers Entertainment Weekly

which one's your favorite cover?

sookie's so pretty, tara looks so sweet, pam's so fierce, eric and bill are hot, but where is hoyt?

beijing day 1

i'm glad i went to china last year before the whole panatag shoal started. as i've mentioned in my previous entry, while i identify myself as a filipino, of course i still want to acknowledge my ethnicity since i am 100% chinese and i was brought up in a mix of filipino and chinese culture and values.

my friend C and i arrived in beijing almost midnight on oct 21. thanks to my rusty but still reliable mandarin speaking skills we were able to navigate the non-English country without a lot of problems.

on our first day, we decided to head over to the huge huge area where the tiannanmen square and forbidden city were located. unfortunately there were quite a number of people queueing to go inside the two sites so C and i ended up walking towards the other side which had a huge square / park and the national museum of china.

china railways museum

qian men, which was located at the south side of tiannanmen square

old man playing a chinese musical instrument -- this was soo cool

some sights along the tiannanment square

last we headed over to the national museum of china. we only had 1 hour to go around the museum as it was almost closing time but it was so big we were only able to go around one large exhibition hall. when the museum finally closed, we stayed for a bit outside to do some pictorials :)

after walking around for almost 5 hours in the cold, we finally called it quits and went back to the hotel for a much needed rest.

MTV's Awkward is AWESOME!

i was curious about this show from MTV called Awkward and i got the full season 1 and watched it... and i'm so glad i did!

Jenna is the lead character of the show. She had an accident after reading a carefrontation letter from an anonymous friend and ended up in the hospital with a cast on her left arm. When she got back to school, everyone thought she tried to commit suicide and thus became an outcast. 

During summer camp, she lost her v card to hot and popular Matty, who she has had a crush on for some time. What first started as a sexual relationship became more than that during the season, however, Matty is popular and cares for what others will think of him, so while he loves Jenna, he is too much of a coward to go public with Jenna who is deemed as a social loser. 

Then there's Jake who is Matt's best friend, he started the season with the cute girlfriend Lissa. but after meeting Jenna and being friends with her, he develops a crush on her. He wasn't really planning to make a move since he has a girlfriend but when Lissa did something really awful and mean, Jake finally dumped her and has since been very vocal to Jenna as to how much he likes her. Jenna only likes Jake as a friend though they get along well, she is still so much in love with Matty. 

She waited for Matty to ask her out at the Winter Formal but Matty was such a wuss and told Jenna for them to ditch the formal and just go somewhere else. This pissed Jenna as she wanted to go to the Formal and for Matty to publicly acknowledge them together but realizing that he is too afraid and he hasn't even told his best friend Jake about them, Jenna finally called it quits. She then accepted Jake's previous offer to take her to the Winter Formal. On the night of the Winter Formal, Jenna went with Jake and they had a great time. Matty finally woke up and went to Jenna's house to pick her up but she was gone. When Matty reached the Formal he saw Jenna and Jake kissing. Jake asked Matty (in front of Jenna and not knowing about her and Matty) if he had a date and Matty said no because the girl he likes is with another guy. Jake told Matty maybe he still has a chance. Matty looked at Jenna and asked her, and Jenna was deciding whether to follow her head (Jake) or her heart (Matty) and she decided to follow her hands and she held hands with Jake, implying to Matty that she chose Jake over him. Hurt, Matty left the Formal as he was announced the winner of the Sophomore Prince crown. Back home, Jake and Jenna make out some more but Jenna stopped and told Jake she wanted to take it slow and told Jake that this was the first time a guy held her hands in front of everyone. When Jake left and Jenna went inside and to her horror, found the same stationery that was used to write the mean carefrontation letter and realized it was her mom who wrote it!

The love triangle: Team Matty or Team Jake?

This is kinda hard as I love both Matty and Jake. Matty because he is actually very sweet and romantic and loves Jenna. I just hate that he'd rather save face than be with the person he loves. while Jenna loves Matty, i think it was right for her to dump Matty. Based from experience, guys who can't be man enough to show you to his friends and hiding you is not going to work, no matter how much you love him. Either he shapes up and you let him go. on the other hand, Jake is the complete opposite of his best friend. Jake is also sweet but he likes Jenna the way she is. He treats her right, not afraid to tell her and show her he likes her. Jake told Jenna that being with her is so easy and natural, to which Jenna agrees to. A friend once told me that when you're with the right person, everything will fall into place, and that's how i feel between Jake and Jenna. Right now, Jenna feels Jake is a friend and may have chosen him as a practical decision or to spite Matty, and it can go both ways -- either Jenna will realize that she loves Jake eventually after getting to know him more or Jenna feels that Jake is really just a friend and go back to Matty. I can't wait for Season 2 and curious how the writers will create the story. I personally wish that Jenna will go to the person she loves in the end: maybe Jake or Matty (only if he fights for Jenna).

Other characters that make up the show are:Tamara & Ming - Jenna's best friends. Tamara seems to be Jenna's BFF more than Ming and as much as she loves Jenna, i find her quite offensive -- she's tacky, rude, know it all and trying hard wannabe popular. I honestly dont know why Jenna is friends with Tamara but i guess underneath that abrasive and loud outer shell is a sweet soul. The side plot on Tamara and Ricky is amusing and I'm glad that Tamara is much more gutsy that she doesn't let Ricky step on her unlike Jenna with Matty. I like Ming, i wish she had more air time as she gives more sensible advice than Tamara. Hope that next season, she will get a better story and a boyfriend and not just having the stereotypical strict mom and Asian jokes.

Sadie & Lissa - Sadie is your typical rich popular bitch but unconventional because she is fat and not pretty. and this is the reason why she is mean to everyone, like a defense mechanism for not being sexy and pretty. At first she was the main adversary for Jenna but as the season progressed, she just became kinda annoying and I wish Jenna can stand up to her. Lissa is Sadie's best friend who seems really nice but also tend to have some mean tendencies that she picked up being with Sadie too much. I feel sad that Jake dumped her as she seemed to genuinely like Jake but she also needs to fix herself - maybe Jake might like her again or it would be funny if Lissa and Jenna become friends against Sadie as the last episode showed Lissa fighting with Sadie.

Jenna's parents are quite young as they had Jenna when they were in high school. Jenna's mom is quite embarrassing but know she only wants the best for Jenna. I can't believe she would write the letter, I just dont see her being too mean to her daughter. So either there has to be a reason why she would write it or she's not the real writer. I like Jenna's dad, he is the logical one to her mom's kookiness. But i also felt bad when Jenna asked her mom if given the chance would she choose her dad and her mom said she had no choice. Awww. Hope Jenna's mom will appreciate her husband more. 

Valerie is the weird guidance counselor. she looks like Jenna Elfman, and i dont know if she's stupid and airhead or just naive but she is funny in a quirky way.

mentalist season 4 finale

The season finale was not as shocking as last year but held major surprises for me:

1. seeing patrick jane disheveled and scruffy for the very first time.. and he is still so hot.

2. his first time (i presume) being intimate with a woman since his family's passing (yes simon baker in bed kissing is sexy)

3. Jane telling lisbon, good luck and love you even though he denied remembering to say it after when confronted by lisbon.

but then this episode also felt flat due to:

1. little screen time for jane and lisbon. Felt the episode was rushed and bitin.

2. How did they fake the killing of a guy inside the police station

3. when Luthor wainwright came onboard i was undecided if he was with red john or one of the good guys. And i had a feeling he would die soon.

4. While finding wainwright dead with a taped mobile was a fun twist that red john has escaped yet again i felt bad for wainwright.

5. Fbi agent darcy to the rescue or is she the mole?

what im hoping for season 5:

1. that red john will finally have a face and be a real threat to jane and the cbi. He should be man enough to fight jane without his sidekicks. It would be more intriguing if there would be more action and less hide and seek... Kinda like sherlock and moriarty

2. That cbi will have a new head that will stick around for more than one season and actually become the team's champion and ally in defeating red john.

3. Better story for grace.

4. More intriguing cases.

Hope the new timeslot of sunday 10pm will not impact ratings for the mentalist.

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moving to wonderland

one of the reasons i started this blog was to talk about one of my passion: books. over the years, i have blogged about the books that i have read and last night while i was chatting with my friend, she gave me an idea to bring back my focus on books. that's why i've decided to create a separate book blog that i aptly named, pages from wonderland. (big thanks to my friend for coming up with this cool name!)

in the next couple of days, i will be transferring my old book posts from this blog to the wonderland blog and hopefully i can continue to create better reviews in the future! occasionally, i will probably squeeze a couple of movie reviews (my other passion) too (either in this blog or the pfw blog).

here's the link: pagesfromwonderland.wordpress.com

happy reading!