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| Okay everyone, just prepare yourselves for the biggest unloading of fangirlism-gone-wild that I have had in the LONGEST time (since DBSK are going through some major crap right now and that makes me sad but, ANYWAY --).
I just got back from watching NINJA ASSASSIN.
So the movie itself was alright. Good, okay in some places, cringy at most parts (I will elaborate and define this later), but certainly not on my favorites list or even memorable.
The film was R-rated, but I coddled my Dad into going with me to watch it, and it turns out the movie people barely even looked at me and pretty much let us breeze through. I admit, it WAS violent. And bloody. I mean, in the first part, a guy gets his head completely split in half horizontally through the jaw. LOTS of CGI'd gore.
Oh and speaking of CGI, there was gratuitous ammounts of it. Especially with all the flying shuriken and splattering blood. I have two main highlights of the movie which pretty much overshadowed the barely alive story, which was the overuse of blood, particularly fountains of it (it looked like tomato juice most of the time, and almost unrealistic).
And then... the only main reason why I watched this movie in the first place --
The holy hipthrusting hotness that is RAIN (AKA JEONG JI HOON), OH MY GOD.
All this intense workout for the movie really just shaped up that already gorgeous piece of body that he had before when he was shaking up a storm on the stage in the Korean spotlight. Oh jizz, I swear, look at that photo and tell me that body is not a fine piece of art, especially when it was twisting its way through a mob of killer ninjas, slicing and splicing and owning ninja butt.
I didn't even care about the storyline anymore, because it was just... RAIN. HOLY.
There was a teensy problem. His HAIR. Ick, what did they do? Drag it through a vat of oil? Why couldn't he keep the Rainism hairstyle that I love so much? Give him a mop that looks good when it's dry, please.
And another thing that made me cringe throughout the whole movie was the cheesy mono-syllables that he had given to him in the script, especially where he said "your heart is special", and "oh Mika, Mika, I like you even more", where I cringed for all I was worth and I just felt like I could die in my seat from the second-hand embarassment, especially since it sent the cinema LAUGHING.
His Engrish is just full of fail. Ugh. And it was even hard to understand what some of those ancient Ninja clan members were saying because of their exaggerated accents.
Hollywood will never quite get enough of stereotyping Asians. But eh...
Anyway, the main point is that as a movie looking at it from an unbiased, non-Rain view, it was OKAY. It was bloody gorey alright, but what gets to me is how fake the blood looked. Kill Bill did better than that. They should have hired Tarantino or something, or whoever choreographed the Bride's massacre scenes in O-ren's pad. Could have learnt a thing or two instead of using what looked mostly like... uh... red paint?
Oh, btw, I'm not bothered by blood at all. I've already brainwashed myself by watching tons of gorey slasher films at a younger age, and ehh... I've watched Hannibal while eating an omelette and it didn't bother me at all. I mostly laugh when limbs are served, particularly if they make it looks as CGI's and outrageous spelt with tomato juice effects as in Ninja Assassin.
And pardon me, but I'm no forensic expert... Does blood really bubble up like that and spew like a fountain? Or like a HOSE?
So it didn't bother me sitting there and watching ninjas and cops get their vital organs split open or pulled out. I was just happy to see my Rain.
I just wish the audiences could see Rain with better hair.... Hmph...
But it was still HOT, like FIRE UNF. Look at this transformation:
  His body really tightened up! And he lost the roundness in his cheeks O.O To be honest, he looked rather sickly, but his STOMACH ON THE OTHER HAND, AND THOSE ARMS... They were like ROCK CANDY <3 CHOCOLATE-SHAPED ABS UNFFFF.
Overall though, I'm just happy to see him on the international screens over here. In a major production, with a major role.
But I'll opt for singer Rain over Ninja Rain anyday (that body IS a nice little machine though xD).
He'll always be my beloved singer. My boy <3
So I'm just going to love this movie just because of Rain. That's my conclusion.
Sad? Nahhh...
It's fangirlism :D
Love Izzy
PS: The last fight scene was epic <3 Everything else was too damn dark to see anything >:o
PSS: Rain, eat a little more and get those cute cheeks back and the NICE haircut again. But please, just keep that body, and start singing again. I thank Ninja Assassin for that hot killer bod <3 Now let me hear that husky voice. And DON'T try to speak English. Please baby.
PSSS: Some b*tch set her lips on Rain in the movie. Ugh, it was a cheesy short-lived romance too where I squirmed in my seat, suffering through badly put-out sentences in barely passable diction, like "Your heart is special. I can hear it. Can you hear mine?".
Well, the girl gets a katana through the heart later so ehh... lol
I'm so mean xD
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| (haha, I played with the title. Ah, why am I so silly...)
It's easy to get carried away during the first few days of my long-awaited Thanksgiving break. Before I know it, I'm sure I'll be cramming and scrambling to get my scholastic juices in flow, hours before the school week begins again.
Today, I woke up at 5pm. That's right, I said 5pm.
My body's biological clock has been whacked up so much, that I now require 12 hours of sleep -- work out what time I slept at then. And who's fault is that? -- Mine.
It's almost 12am right now, and I'm going to at least sleep at 1. I cannot waste away my days like this, and tomorrow, I'm at least going to attempt to even lay a finger on my homework... If I even know where to start. Priorities...
At least my writing and more importantly, my music muse is back. I'm glad that I've been able to play to the end of Grieg's piano concert, second movement at last, and I started putting the piano and orchestra parts with my teacher. The chords Grieg wrote are just... amazing. Gorgeous harmonies.
I have to get ready to bake again for Thanskgiving. I'm really lucky that it's not my week for washing dishes, because we're having quite a few guests over and that means a full sink. Poor Justen :P
Now, I'm going to grab a shower and maybe add a few more pages to my fanfic chapter that is currently in the works. I'm really excited for this story this time, because it's my first murder/mystery and as an avid CSI fan, it's been fun so far. I'm worried I might lose track of time though and go to sleep at a later time than intended. I really don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow though except for laze around (and POSSIBLY do homework). I know what I'm doing Wednesday though, but that's a secret :P
Last thing;
I got my two ordered CDs in the mail. Girl power! Younha's "Someday" album and Tenjochiki's "Graceful 4" album. Both are great.
Love Izzy
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| I baked a 100 of these today for tomorrow's church picnic, by doubling the ingredients, but if you just want to make about 50 of them, then follow this, and don't go crazy like I did :P
Also, I would reccomend baking for 12 minutes maximum. 10 can be a little too soft, depending. And dark brown sugar WILL make the cookies look darker.
And I personally don't like cookies with nuts in them, so I don't put walnuts when I make these cookies. But if you like it, go ahead ;D
Ingredients:
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 6-ounce package semi-sweet chocolate chips
- * optional* 1/2 cup chopped California walnuts
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 375° F.
Grease tray. Into large bowl, measure all ingredients except chocolate chips *and nuts*.
- With mixer at medium speed, beat until well mixed, constantly scraping bowl.
- Add chocolate chips *and nuts*. Stir in well.
- Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls, 2 inches apart, on tray. Bake 10-12 minutes until cookies are lightly browned.
- Remove cookies and put on wire racks to cool.
 I strongly recommend this recipe! There's something satisfying and independent about making baked goods from scratch, and if you want to do chocolate chip cookies, this is a good manual to follow. Nothing beats the taste of freshly baked cookies.
These cookies are not what I would categorize as "soft" cookies, by the way. But they're sort of chewy, depending on how long you bake them for.
Last thing, if you want to be smart unlike me, I would advise getting 2 identical trays (I only have one), so you can save time. One batch of cookies takes about 10 minutes, and the recipe makes 50 cookies. Do the math.
Considering I doubled the quantities of the ingredients, and made 100 cookies, my one puny tray only fit 15. Here's a challenge for you on this Thanksgiving break so you don't totally escape from school; How much time did it take for me to bake my cookies, MINUS the time I took to measure my ingredients and mix them (I'm really paranoid and specific about measuring so it usually takes me a while).
Have a great holiday, everyone :D
Love Izzy
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| These days have been a real personal struggle of turmoil for me. I haven't been this confused about what's in store for me, or where I'm going. Nobody likes that stagnant feeling in life I'm sure.
It's constantly difficult, but I have to continue to put my trust in God. He has a plan for me.
Most often, it's very difficult for me to document the true extent of struggles I maintain in my daily life, but it's not always necessary. I just don't want to fill up this blog with insecurity, on confusing matters of which I myself don't quite understand.
Letting things out can be good. Having someone listen to them and respond is even better. And that doesn't happen a lot.
It's also a little lonely being left at home by myself frequently.
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| I have been fascinated with this word these days -- possibly my favorite word of the year (even though I can't remember what was last year's).
The concept that it conveys about the contrast between light and dark, and the uses of these two to make a sole impact is just... intriguing.
What I don't believe in though, is that it is solely used in only the category of visual art.
Though the term started out in painting, I think it can be applied to music and literature too. It is my belief that light and darkness isn't just seen, but it is also felt. We don't just see the warmth of the sun, but we can feel it. Light and warmth are coupled together; synthesized together.
I admire authors who can use such a term in their writing. And composers in their music likewise. We can feel the invoked rhetoric, or hear or imagine, the contrast between light and darkness in other tangible or intangible arts otherwise.
And it's a beautiful word -- chiaroscuro.
Not to say that I don't appreciate the term used in the visual arts, or else confined to. We live in a world of those effects. We see the shadows against an object, and the illumination of the moon's light on the surface of water. For an artist to convey this realism of shadow and reflection by strokes of the brush on canvas, is an amazing thing. Because it can be realism, or fantasy.
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