disappointment, disappointment.

"When I heard they were turning the Korean romantic comedy My Sassy Girl into an American movie, I had mixed feelings. First, I was excited because I highly enjoyed the Korean original. But I was also skeptical because it seems many Asian movies translated into an American version simply aren’t as good. Either way, I knew just had to see My Sassy Girl." - Cara de Pescado

uh, same here cara. and ever since summer of 08 has started, i had been wondering a lot about when i was going to start seeing that movie trailer on tv! well, sad to say i went to hollywood videos the other day with the TP gang, and there it was! sitting on the shelf, stiff and new, never been watched. each and every single one of them. it was too disappointing to see them like that. i mean i knew i was going to be disappointed, but it was so bad that it didn't even get featured on tv? yikes, that must've been really bad. i didn't want to watch it, but tommy loved the original so much that he just had to see it (even though he saw the horrendous trailer), so we rented it and watched about 1/4 of it then just stopped altogether, because it was so bad not even marissa or tyler could stand it (and they havent even seen the original!). ahhhh... its good we stopped because the american version would've ruined the orignal version for them, which we're planning to watch the next time we have a TP movie night again.

really though, the movie was just bad. i mean i love jesse bradford and elisha cuthbert, they're great actors, its just that the movie didn't come out right. the humor wasn't there, the characters weren't right. cuthbert's character seemed more like a cracked out crazy lady than the sassy girl she was supposed to be. and although i really loved the movie's appeal with all the bright designs they added on, i just dont think it worked out right. as quoted by tommy, "she was better as a porno star." i guess we should've watched it to the end, but nothing was coming out right, and it just seemed like an odd rushed love story, that didn't really make sense. it just didn't translate right. it felt like you were reading a bad fanfic, those that dont make sense and have no development to it at all. blagh :( its gotta be a big zero for me. but then again you must consider that MY SASSY GIRL is the movie that changed my whole entire life, introduced me to this crazy new world of asian entertainment, that has basically shaped me into the person i am today! and if it wasnt for that movie, ck and i might've never even became friends. yuup, it was that freaking good of a movie. you need to watch it if you haven't yet :)

aside from that, good news you guys. yaaaaaayyyyyyy, i bought my camera today! OH MY GOODNESS. i'm so excited. im going to be posting pictures of evvvvverryyythinggggg.

and i can't believe mccain's vp choice is sarah palin. ahhhhhh! not that i don't like her its just ahhhhhhhh, frustrating. that means he's going to steal votes from obama just because he has a woman on his side!! i was pretty upset about it earlier this morning when i found out, but i guess the steam has cooled off. geeeez. i guess it's because i feel like obama is the only hope for america. we need a little change, don't you think? i dont want mccain to win! of course, yadadaa, we've all heard it, but it's true, it's just going to be bush all over again. why can't they lower the voting age? i guess i'm just going to have to wait another 4 years to vote.

♥PACHIA LUCY BANG!

no one cares

So I know this is a "boring" issue to talk about but lets talk about Election 2008. I like know probably five people who are my age who actually are into discussing politics and the election candidates. Well it is time to inform my fellow peers. We really should read the newspaper and watch the news.

Iowa Results
Here are the Iowa results for the caucuses. I have no idea what that means but it is like a primary vote for that state.

Republican: Huckabee

Democratic: Obama


The Iowa results are very astounding because the front runners of each party has been Clinton and Romney. Personally, I do not Clinton or Romney. I especially do not like Romney after watching him on the Republican Youtube Debates. He is just not my cup of tea. Romney has already won the caucuses for Wyoming for Republican Party. I am kind of astounded how a Mormon got into the lead. I guess America is ready for certain changes. I believe Obama can bring a better change. I suppose it is wrong to judge presidential candidates by personalities but everyone does though. I don't like how Clinton attacks people so personally and how she is very anti-Republican it seems. Well, we will see how the rest of the caucuses goes. I wonder how California will swing for the Democratic Party. New Hampshire was after Iowa and I do not know the official results but Clinton and Obama are tied 33% right now after seeing the Iowa results. I cannot wait to see who will the candidate seat for each party.

Yesterday I was watching KBS World (korean tv) on Directv and I saw this video. Again it is Clazziquai (I just LOVE them) and I thought this music video was pretty cool. I just love music videos where they put words on it, like the Kanye West "Good Life" mv.





It reminded me of my greatest fear: being alone. However, that fear is not as existent to me anymore. I have a more secure life with friends and family. I do not think I will be alone. I remember my freshman year where I had transferred into my current high school a week after school started. I was very unhappy because I knew practically no one. It was pretty sad and scary to go to a new school especially freshman year. I had like no friends in the beginning. I just attached myself to people I barely knew so I wouldn't be alone. It was just nerve racking to go to the bathroom by yourself because you knew that you had no friends and you would think other people would know that too. I am glad that phase ended because I figured how to make friends. It is better to be a newbie at school during freshman year than later in life. It helped me grow from my insecurities and learn to climb out of my shyness or else I would be forced to have no friends and live a crappy high school life. But I survived. Everyone eventually survives. You just have to learn to pull yourself together and dig yourself out of your hole instead of just stinking in self pity. I made better friends in sophomore year who were pretty outgoing and that rubbed onto myself and it was fun. I am so glad to be out of that crappy phase. I am pretty secure with my own self and I am pretty done with feeling self hatred and being a whiny baby about life. Learning how to be optimistic is much easier to make your life positive. No matter how "cheesy" that sounds, it is true.

--Christina