It was a hot, humid Sunday afternoon. Seriously, I couldn’t think of what else to do except my projects piled up on my desk. Hello! It’s Sunday and I am alone at home. No one to talk to, no one was on msn, not even many mybians were around in the forum. How boring my Sunday is. I walked about the house, checked out the children who were playing at the mini park downstairs, pressing the buttons on the remote control, went back to my desk to finish off some words in my lappy and finally I decided to walk to the fridge. I saw that bottle. A bottle, sealed with black crisp paper, filled with sparkling wine, soft pink in colour. Yes. That’s it! I untwisted the lock and released the stopper. Pop! I heard and I could hear fizzy sound, a perfect start for a glass of sparkling wine. I had a glass, half a glass. I could start working once again, and the taste of the wine? Do I need to say more? 

If you’re looking for a similar wine to have for a lazy afternoon, or for light refreshments, go for this; Jacob’s Creek Sparkling Rose. Always remember, a good wine is not defined by the stars and awards it gets, but it’s how it sinks into your palate. It’s the stars that you give makes it a good one  Cheers!

Made from: Chardonnay & Pinot Noir grapes

Country of Origin: Australia

Rating: 4.0 / 5.0  

Warning: May contain spoiler.

So what is this movie about when the title seems to suggest the life of a taxidermist? Frankly, call me obtuse if you want but the word taxidermist was never in my own dictionary. I have heard and seen the work of mounting animals for display. All I knew was just stuffing and mounting. What a frog I am!

Not too late Learning is just wonderful. I chanced upon this movie when I checked out the picturehouse. To feed my curiosity, I search for its trailer and was captivated by the scene that depicts a simple bathtub that was used for different occasions in the first story. I love how it was done, simple yet blossoming with meanings about life. My takeaway from this scene? Life is just life, someone’s life, cheap, worthless to mention coz it’s just life, life when we are all breathing and moving, be it human or animal, it’s just life, death is just the next phase. How scary huh?

I finally caught this last night after a long wait since its first opening on the 24th April. I had that ‘enough of waiting’ mood and I almost gave up on this. The show started on time, I couldn’t help but to be annoyed with so many late-comers and that really spoiled the first few minutes of the show. Late-comers did not just walk in and find their seats, but to stand in the middle aisle to catch every take of the movie. Well of course, that’s when the man masturbated, the girls were bathing in the tub, the peep, the negligence to house servant, the perversion out of care deprivation, and how he was shot in head for sleeping with the mistress. First story created laughters, disgusts, awe and sort of disbelief of what human can do in such deprivation.

The birth of a child with a pig’s tail marked the second part of the story. The boy was trained to compete in sports, speed eating contests. The love for someone, the politics, the self-esteem booster, the power one have in such contest, totally revolting with vomit scenes throughout this part of the story.

A surprising size of the child from the two renowned speed eaters couple flipped all pages to the last part of the movie. Small as he is, thin and despised by the obese father, he carried out his duty as a son and a taxidermist dutifully. He’s quiet, his stare is empty, his devotion in his work is meticulously perfect, but all come to an end after the death of his father. He turned all his attention in stuffing the body of his father and then created his own torso by taking out his internal organs, and finally cut off his own head and arm as the last piece of his work.

I did not go home with a heavy heart, cry nor laugh. I was in a daze! In a daze….
Director: György Palfi
Cast: Csaba Czene, Gergo Trocsanyi, Marc Bischoff
Genre: Fantasy/ Thriller
Language: Hungarian with English subtitles
Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Warning: Not for the weak stomachs

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If you’re looking for body lotion, think no further but to walk into any The Bodyshop counter for one of this.

Volume: 200ml

Application: Anytime, best after shower and before sleep. Just apply direct onto the skin and massage it.

Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

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NEW YORK - Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday at a downtown Manhattan residence, and police said drugs may have been a factor. He was 28. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Ledger had an appointment for a massage at the Manhattan apartment believed to be his home. The housekeeper who went to let him know the masseuse had arrived found him dead at 3:26 p.m.

A large crowd of paparazzi and gawkers began gathering Tuesday evening outside the building on an upscale block in SoHo, where several police officers guarded the door.

The Australian-born actor was nominated for an Oscar for “Brokeback Mountain,” where he met Michelle Williams in 2005. The two had lived in Brooklyn and had a daughter, Matilda, until they split up last year.

He most recently appeared in “I’m Not There,” in which he played one of the many incarnations of Bob Dylan ƒƒ‚‚ as did Cate Blanchett, whose performance in that film earned an Oscar nomination Tuesday for best supporting actress.

Ledger was to appear as the Joker this year in “The Dark Night,” a sequel to 2005’s “Batman Begins.” He’s had starring roles in “A Knight’s Tale” and “The Patriot,” and played the suicidal son of Billy Bob Thornton in “Monster’s Ball.”

Ledger grew up in Perth, and began doing amateur theater at age 10. At 16, he moved to Sydney to pursue an acting career, quickly landing TV movie roles and guest spots on Australian television.

After several independent films and a starring role in the short-lived Fox TV series “Roar,” Ledger moved to Los Angeles and costarred in “10 Things I Hate About You,” a teen comedy reworking of “The Taming of the Shrew.”

Offers for other teen flicks came his way, but Ledger turned them down, preferring to remain idle than sign on for projects he didn’t like.

“It wasn’t a hard decision for me,” Ledger told the Associated Press in 2001. “It was hard for everyone else around me to understand. Agents were like, ‘You’re crazy,’ my parents were like, ‘Come on, you have to eat.’”

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Associated Press Sara Kugler contributed to this report.

It’s time for Razzie Awards 2008 Nominations!

Lindsay Lohan and Eddie Murphy scored multiple nominations Monday for the Razzies, which sort out the worst that Hollywood dredged up the previous year.

Lohan’s thriller, “I Know Who Killed Me,” in which she plays two characters, received a leading nine (woo-hoo!) Razzie nominations, among them worst film of 2007.

Murphy’s “Norbit,” released amid a film-honors season that earned Murphy an Academy Awards nomination for “Dreamgirls” last year, received eight Razzie nominations, five of them for Murphy alone, more than anyone has ever gotten in a single year. (Congrats, Eddie!)

Besides worst picture, “Norbit” had nominations for Murphy as worst actor in the title role, supporting actress as Norbit’s beefy wife, supporting actor as an Asian man and worst screen couple for Norbit opposite either of Murphy’s other characters. Murphy also shared a screenplay nomination for co-writing “Norbit.”

“We decided that each of his characters was so offensive that he deserved individual nominations,” said Razzies founder John Wilson. Well, not only the characters in the film, but also his real life character for being such a nasty heartbreaker.

According to Wilson, Murphy’s closest competition for worst screen couple is Lohan in “I Know Who Killed Me,” in which she plays a small-town girl abducted by a psychopath and an alter-ego, a stripper who’s missing body parts.

Lohan’s movie played like a cross between the torture tale “Hostel” and “The Patty Duke Show,” Wilson said.

For worst actress, Lohan polled more heavily than any actor since Sofia Coppola in “The Godfather Part III,” Wilson said.

“‘I Know Who Killed Me’ is the most fabulously brainless movie since ‘Showgirls,’” which Razzie voters picked as the worst movie of the 1990s, Wilson said. “By the end of it, you still don’t know what happened. Are they twins or aren’t they? Did she imagine it? Can I please have my hour and 50 minutes back?” Haha, good point!

The other worst-picture nominees were “Bratz,” a live-action take on the cartoon about four chic young girls; “Daddy Day Camp,” with Cuba Gooding Jr. starring in a sequel to Murphy’s “Daddy Day Care”; and “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry,” Adam Sandler and Kevin James’ comedy about firefighters posing as a gay couple.

Sandler and Gooding joined Murphy in the worst-actor category, along with Nicolas Cage for “Ghost Rider” and Jim Carrey for “The Number 23.”

Lohan was cited twice as worst actress for “I Know Who Killed Me,” while the four “Bratz” stars - Logan Browning, Janel Parrish, Nathalia Ramos and Skyler Shaye - shared a nomination. Also nominated were Jessica Alba for three films, “Awake,”"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer” and “Good Luck Chuck”; Elisha Cuthbert for “Captivity”; and Diane Keaton for “Because I Said So.”

Along with Murphy, supporting actor included Orlando Bloom for “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” James and Rob Schneider for “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry” and Jon Voight for “Bratz,”"National Treasure: Book of Secrets,”"September Dawn” and “Transformers.”

Besides Murphy, supporting actress nominees were Jessica Biel for “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry” and “Next,” Carmen Electra for “Epic Movie,” Julia Ormond for “I Know Who Killed Me” and Nicollette Sheridan for “Code Name: The Cleaner.”

A spoof of Hollywood awards, the Razzies made their announcement the day before the Oscar nominations come out. Razzie “winners” will be announced Feb. 23, a day before the Oscars.

You see people criticizing our own country every now and then, it is just like a normal routine and you can’t be bothered about it.

Once you step out of the country, it’s a different feeling altogether. When you leave home, that’s the last thing you wanna do, and that’s the last thing you wanna hear. If it is done to the own people, that is perfectly fine.

However, some people have the guts to put down their own country in front of the own people with foreigners and they have not even been here. That person has the cheeks to say that the own country sucks and tell the foreigners not to go? Seriously, that is something I cannot understand, if one hates the country that much, then just leave the country and I wonder, why is that person in this country now? That is seriously very interesting heh?

Something that it is difficult to understand though, does it feel good or does it feel so almighty by putting the own country’s down? Does it make the person higher and better from the countrymates or rather so-called countrymates? Degrading the own country is degrading that person self, in my very honest opinion.

When you are here, the first thing you wanna do is to leave the country for somewhere else and when you are in a far far away land, you miss home so SO much. Home is always the best and no matter what, you are born, raised and bred here and nothing beats home.

Not everyone agree I know, but … well … cheers