The Talented Adele

I wish I could channel every anger and depression into such beautiful music like Adele does.

The very same photo is also posted in here.

Bridesmaids (2011)

The Official Poster of the Movie

I’ve just watched this movie a few days ago. A little bit late, I know, since it was originally released on May 2011. I wasn’t really eager to watch it until I saw some award shows on cable, such as Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards. “Bridesmaids” is named as one of the successful movies ever made in 2011. Even rotten tomatoes gave good reviews to this movie. One of the actors, Melissa McCarthy, is nominated as Best Supporting Artist in Academy Award, and the movie itself is nominated for Best Original Screenplay. So, a few days ago I decided to watch the movie, and I think it was pretty good.

It’s basically a story about a girl named Annie whose bestfriend, Lillian, is about to get married. Both of them are friends since childhood and Lillian wants Annie to be her maid of honor. It means, in American culture, the maid of honor is the one who arrange all the planning before the wedding, such as the dress for the bridesmaids, the bachelorette party, the shower, and everything else relating to the bride. This gets tricky for Annie since her hands are already full with her own problems. Her cake business went down, her boyfriend walked away from him, and once she fell for a guy, it turned out that he’s not interested in upgrading the relationship into more than just a physical contact. As the storyline goes, her life is just getting worse, with her roommate, and also with one of the fellow bridesmaids, Helen, who also thinks Lillian as her bestfriend, and gave Annie an atmosphere of competition to win Lillian.

I really like watching Annie goes nuts as her life hits rock bottom, and in the middle of being frustrated she got the chance to meet with a really cute cop named Officer Rhodes and had a fling with him. But when he tried to get more serious and persuaded her to get back into baking, she bailed out, feeling that she doesn’t need him to fix her. This movie actually is about a lot of kinds of relationship, even with Annie alone as the main character. It’s about her relationship with her bestfriend and the fear of letting her down in the big day, her relationship with her annoying roommates, her fellow bridesmaids, her own mother, her f*ck buddy, and with an officer that end up to a romance fling.

It’s my favorite genre of movie, romantic comedy, and I always enjoy this kind of movie. As for McCarthy’s acting, I think she’s great, but I’m not sure if it’s Oscars’ material. I don’t think her role is significant enough to get the nomination. I’m not saying it’s bad though, in fact she’s quite hilarious and refreshing. But I still can see the movie having a strong storyline even if they remove her character. Then again, who am I to judge? At the end of the day, I enjoy watching the movie and if you’re a fan of a chick flick or a romance comedy, you should watch it too!

Being A Morning Person

I’m not a morning person. I have never been one. As a Muslim, I wake up at dawn to do my prayer, but I’d usually go back to sleep, and if I have something to do in the morning I’d take a nap anyway, until the last minute. Even if I only have 15 minutes left I still would crawl back to my bed and close my eyes. If it’s a free day, then I’d usually be asleep until 9 AM. That’s the earliest I can be awake without any alarm clock or people to bug me from my sleep. That’s why, if you come and find me before going to work or whatever thing that I have to do in the morning, you’ll see me being in a hurry and like, leave anything behind, or forget something, or whatever. And I’m just so used to it that I can handle leaving things behind and being in a hurry really well.

But I would like to be a morning person, the kind of a person who doesn’t go back to sleep after doing the morning prayer, instead, starting the day do anything what I need to do. They said a great day is started with a great morning. I would like to be that person who always has the great morning to be followed with a great day. But it’s just so hard!! Haha, or I’m just lazy. Too lazy for a person that has been working in a certain office for almost 1 year and has to come to work on 7 o’clock in the morning, five days in every single week.

I have been forced, though, these past two weeks, to wake up earlier than I used to. It’s because I have just moved in with my brother, and my Mom came and stayed in for a few days to make sure that both of us don’t burn down the house and know how to clean up and cook. So, yeah, after she left the house (we’re not living in the same town, me and my brother go to college in the same city, my parents and my sister live in another city), I start waking up way earlier in the morning. Like 5 or 5.30 am, and I do the laundry, and cook. Sometimes I wash the dishes that are left from the night before, or clean the house if I have time before go to work. But I usually leave it and let my brother does his part.

It feels so great actually that I can wake up early and do something. But in the other side, as I arrive at my office, I’ll get so sleepy when staring on the computer, doing my work. And in the afternoon, I’ll end up going home with a headache. The thing is, no matter how early I go to bed the night before, I’ll always get sleepy in the morning. I used to go to bed late at night, like after midnight, the earliest was 11.30 PM. But now, being awake really early everyday, the latest I go to bed is 11.00 PM. However, I’ll be waking up feeling really sleepy the next morning.

I admire people who get up really early and find their spirits right away, being so excited about everything they’re about to do that day. Me? I’m just not like that. Anyone has a suggestion so I can be an ideal morning person? A person who’s not only able to wake up in the morning, but also being excited about the day. Anyone?

 

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