Oliver James played me!

When I was about 13 or 14 I watched the movie What A Girl Wants (2003) starring Amanda Bynes and Colin Firth. Bynes’ character travels to London to find her long lost father (Firth) and in the process meets and falls in love with a boy named Ian, played by Oliver James.

At that time, Oliver James was the typical cute boy that every girl my age would’ve had a crush on. He was British and therefore had a British accent, was a talented musician, and almost always played a sweet and charming guy.

There’s a scene in the movie that used to always make me get kiligs. (The English translation of this Tagalog word is hoity-toity, according to Google Translate, which is a fair attempt at translating a word that even Filipinos can’t really explain.) James and Bynes are lying down in a small boat just chatting away and Bynes is pouring out her heart to him, and she says something along the lines of, “I just want to fit in.” And James responds, “Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?” And if I remember correctly, all the girls in the room squealed. And then the coupled kissed and we all squealed some more.

You can see parts of the boat scene in the trailer below. The above line by James can be found at 1:33.

In mid-August last year (about a month before I turned 23), during one of my routine Facebook Newsfeed scroll-thrus, I came across a photo that someone had liked:

Oliver James quoted Dr Seuss to solicit a kiss from a girl >_>

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Fun on 9gag

I was browsing 9gag the other week and I noticed to the right of posts there was an image promoting the 9gag app for smartphones. The ads feature stills from various movies or shows, and often show an actor giving a thumbs up. Coincidentally, some of those ads made the actual post funnier than it already was, so I took screenshots of some of the ones I thought most hilarious. Here they are:

(NB. Click on the image to view larger in a new window. Below the image is a link to the original post on 9gag. Also, excuse the crappy blurring; the app I used to do it is a free trial version.)

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Wu are you?

Last night I discovered that this so-called “Childish Gambino” is, in fact, Donald Glover, who plays Troy Barnes on Community. I learnt that he got this alias from an online Wu-Tang Clan name generator. I have no idea who the Wu-Tang Clan are. I now know that they’re some sort of rap group.

Anyway, I decided to find out what my Wu-Tang name would be. I found several generators that all generated different names. Here are some.

Crafty Barnardo

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Here comes the sun

Here are some photos of the sun that I’ve taken over the past several weeks that I’ve been meaning to post up.

I was in the library at uni one day doing some research and downloading some updates (taking advantage of the faster-than-at-home wi-fi ). I can’t remember if I stood up and looked out or if I looked up at the window that was sort of hiding behind the top of the desk I was working at. But I looked out and saw this amazing image of the sun’s rays emerging from a gap in the clouds. It had been really cloudy in the recent days/weeks (it was usually forecasted to rain), and to see just a bit of sunshine brought joy to whoever saw it. I know I sound really cheesy right now, but it’s the truth. Taken with my brand new iPhone 4S, September 17 2012, 5:33PM.