Filed under: Currently Reading | Tags: breaking dawn, Currently Reading, stephenie meyer, twilight saga
I’ve finally finished it. I’m currently experiencing post-series-completion syndrome. Will elaborate when I feel like talking about it.
Basically, I liked it. I know SOME PEOPLE I KNOW (*cough cough*) will probably hate it a lot and would have a field day if they read it. I could tell this was one of those tying up loose ends and satisfying yourself and your readers kind of book.
Filed under: Generalness | Tags: A.R.Rahman, advertising, airtel, Cell phone commercials, commercials, Generalness, motorola, music, telus
I’ve always been addicted to books, movies, songs, fictional characters, etc. But never before have I been addicted to cell phone commercials. The advertisers seem to have mastered the art of inducing addiction. Now they just have to make me actually BUY the products. I don’t really understand the reason why I’m addicted to cell phone commercials specifically. From what I’ve been able to gather, it seems like it’s the music for the most part:
The first one is the Telus fish commercials. Their song selection is really appropriate, somehow. My favourite is the one with the blue fish trying to pick up the pink fish until her boyfriend shows up. But they only show that at the movies as far as I have seen. But here is another good one:
And then there’s the really catchy Motorola Razr commercial with the two good-looking models in the subway. I found the song so addictive that I actually looked for the full song. It’s called Le Disko and it’s by a band called the Shiny Toy Guns. :
And finally, the most addictive one for me right now are the Airtel commercials- 1. Because they’ve got actors (Madhavan and Vidhya Balan *squeal*) and 2. They’ve got the best Indian music director in the world (A.R.Rahman) composing their jingle which is so..beautiful. Now let me go cry for calling a commercial jingle beautiful. But this is one of their really nice commercial because it features the music director himself and they focused on the jingle:
This one with two boys playing football at the border is really sweet:
This one with a bunch of historical minutes is pretty good as well:
And I like this Express Yourself ad as well, which is Airtel’s tagline:
Filed under: Generalness | Tags: confessions of love, love, miley cyrus, nick jonas, shakespeare
Who wouldn’t when they see this oh-so-articulate confession of love?:
http://tv.msn.com/tv/hotgossip/8-06-08_6/?gt1=7703
-For those who prefer not to deliberate over whether they should laugh or cry, Miley recounts of their first meeting:
“We became boyfriend and girlfriend the day we met. He was on a quest to meet me, and he was, like, ‘I think you’re beautiful and I really like you.’ And I was, like, ‘Oh, my gosh, I like you so much.’”
To think we’ve come from ”What’s in a name?..” to “Oh, my gosh, I like you so much.”
My friend argues however that this is concise and direct, so it makes things easier. And truth be told, they are 15 year olds. But still I’m pretty sure, I wouldn’t even as a 15 year old, have said THAT.
“Only a year more and I’ll be 18!”-That sums up how it feels being 17. Poor 17, so overshadowed. It still hasn’t really set in yet. But it was a fun birthday, just relaxing with friends and then a trip to Frankie Tomatto’s with family.
My parents actually pulled the birthday thing on me; the one where the staff spontaneously breaks out into song or whatever…and i don’t think I’ve ever been so surprised, because I’ve never been to Frankie’s before. Actually i was more terrified, then i was embarrassed. But it was pretty funny.
Still can’t wait to be 18! >_>
Filed under: Currently Reading | Tags: Currently Reading, history, philippa gregory, royalty, tudors, women
WOW. Philippa Gregory has become my favourite historical fiction author. I am very, very, addicted. After reading ‘The Virgin’s Lover’ and ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’, I thought there were no more of these books. But turns out I was wrong. ’The Constant Princess’ is about Henry the Eighth’s first wife Katherine of Aragon. ‘The Boleyn Inheritance’ was about Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard. And they were really sad. =_=
Before I go on, I should warn people that history is one of my passions. And I have a specific obsession with the Tudors (which started LONG before they decided to make it a TV series that I have not seen. T___T)
Anyways, I had no idea that Katherine was the younger sister of Queen Juana of Spain. I had just found about her from reading ‘Scroll of Seduction’ so it was quite interesting to read from different points of view. I also didn’t know that Katherine Howard was Anne Boleyn’s cousin. This only served to cement my perspectives here though.
All this time I was constantly changing ideals on who was the evil person here; first I felt sorry for Anne, then I thought she deserved it and felt sorry for Katherine and Mary Boleyn. Same thing with Mary Tudor and Elizabeth- wavering allegiances. I know I shouldn’t be basing my opinions on Hist.Fic. but oh well.
Then I read ‘Scroll of Seduction’, and ‘The Boleyn Inheritance’ and I realized something. The women were pretty much faultless (well ok some of them were ambitious.)
But I think that most of the time, women were powerless and basically manipulated by the men, which was saddening as a reader because I could feel the increasing sense of helplessness as the stories of these women progressed. At first I could tell myself “Oh, this character was really stupid; she should have just done this, or not done this.” Yes, there were some cases that these women could have handled better; but it would have been useless in the end. In that world, surrounded by those ambitious men, those women were nothing but pawns.
Just lookat what happened to Juana of Spain when she had had enough of being a pawn tried to rebel; Her own husband (who apparently loved her) and her own father declared her crazy and sane at his whim. They locked her in a tower for most of her life.
I developed a sene of admiration for all of these women in the end, no matter how they ended. Katherine of Aragon was a brave woman, and a true queen. Even after her love was taken from her she managed to accomplish her goals. But I couldn’t help thinking that what a difference it would have made if it had been King Arthur and not Henry. But of course, then we wouldn’t have Queen Elizabeth.
Even Anne Boleyn was set up by the male patriarchs of her family along with her sister who somehow managed to escape the fate of her sibilngs. But she was ambitious and that was her ‘fault’. Katherine Howard was a 16 year old who was similarly set up. But today she would have been the equivalent of Paris Hilton, so it was obvious that she couldn’t last as a queen.
Anne of Cleves was the smartest of the lot. She agreed to lie and become the king’s sister in order to save her neck. And she managed to do what she wants to do rather than be manipulated. Yay.
But that’s how it was back then, so I guess not much point in complaining. But I still wish I was born back then, no matter how bad it was..as long i wasn’t royalty : p
I hope I haven’t given away too much, haha.
