Sunday, January 21, 2007

Filmage...

Well I kind of stole this idea from James a while ago, but never actually got round to writing about it...

During January my life felt quite sad and empty, because I was completely deprived of films that I wanted to see in the cinema. The line ups in the odeon, ugc and duke of yorks, just made me want to cry, quite frankly they should have shoved their gritty/'real' dramas up somewhere, ur rude!?!

However there is quite a few films in the near future that I cannot wait to see! And this is where I steal James's idea and write about the films I am very much looking forward to in 2007. Thanks James ;-)

Anyway here is my list:-

The Foutain - It has got some awful reviews but I want to see it anyway.

Notes on a Scandal - going to see this on Sunday - you can't beat a good film about someone's messed up obession!

Epic Movie

Hot Fuzz

Science of Sleep

28 Weeks Later - Some of my friends didn't particularly like the 'army' section of this 28 days later, but I didn't really have a problem with it, as surely, at the end of life as we know it - some people would go a bit loopy and alpha male on you... Looking forward to this regardless.

Sin City 2 - Loved the first one - so hoping this sequel is great too!

I was also looking forward to seeing Bobby - which I watched last weekend, it was a little cheesy in places but overall quite good, an interesting mix of stories and Sharon Stone was great - I didn't even realise who she was until she glammed up at the end.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Five Things

Uh-oh I'm it, Joh got me.

Well, urr, so five things that people here are unlikely to know about me...

1. I was a weird child, being imaginative unfortunately for me meant that I developed some wacky ideas. I wanted to be Indiana Jones, not a princess. I wanted to be pasta so that I could fully understand the human digestive system and become a scientist - who knows why? Who cares! I wanted to be PASTA! I also wanted to be water, I some how got the romantic notion into my head that if I was water and went down the plughole, at some point I would be part of waterfall.

2. I have two brothers (I'm in the middle (middle children are meant to be messed up) which may explain point one) who I have very little in common with, but love to bits. I am to this day convinced of my childhood belief, that my older brother is the funniest person on the planet. I wish I could see them more often.

3. I wear a size 6 shoe. Fascinating. And I have freakishly small hands - just compare them to yours, next time we meet...

4. I wrote my first book when I was 11, it was called What's Wrong Doctor and was about my hearing problems (I am partially deaf) - I still have it around somewhere. It was used to raise various bits of money for a disability charity and my junior school gave me a book of puzzles because they were so pleased of my achievement.

5. I have three tattoos, 2 dolphins, one is on my arm, the other on my left hip. I also have the chinese symbol for peace on my right hip. I would like to get a forth and final tattoo when I get to my target weight.

I now have to pass this on, but I don't have masses of friends who maintain a blog - so those of you out there who don't have a blog - hurry up and get one, all the cool kids are doing it! Instead I am going to pass this on via the social whoring webiste, myspace... So Kira, Magic Pete, Marcus, Trev and Thea - you are it!

Friday, January 05, 2007

Happy New Year

Hello!

Happy New Year!

Had a very relaxed Christmas, only marred by occasional moments of hyperventilation and panicking about my job interview next wednesday. Santa was kind enough to drag me around various shops in Malta to buy lots of new clothes. Sadly however I also discovered, that one shop I visited, called Promod - has an english on-line shop, this could be very bad because I want to buy all of their clothes... Anyway I have now made the resolve not to buy any more new clothes because if I am going to carry on losing weight, they'll soon no longer fit me and once again I'll live in fear of exposing myself ;-)

Maybe I'm getting old but I can't really remember much about the start of 2006, but the summer of it was horrible, too hot and I thought I was going loopy from time to time thanks to some horrid medicine I stopped taking. And from September onwards its just been the GI Diet and a lot of joy from discovering that I can actually shrink. Plus I no longer care that everyone might know how much I weigh - I have lost all shame about that one and now I feel real pride in my achievements so far. Unexpectedly it also has taught me that I don't need to keep a smiley face all the time, that it is quite okay to let people know you are human and hurt too.

I hope 2007 is going to be a good year for me - I certainly don't feel that I need to make any resolutions as I have already been slowly working on fixing all that need to be put right...