17 Again

20 years ago, Mike's got married with his high school sweetheart when he was told that she was pregnant.
He abandoned his basketball scholarship for her and their new life.
It was what he decided by himself. It could be said to be "romantic", at least partly...

But look at him now. No job, seperating life from his wife and almost no family bond with their two kids.
That decison of givung up the colleage has been one of the biggest regrets for around-40 stranded Mike lately.

One day Mike encounters a mysterious janitor, visiting his alma mater to reminisce. He transforms Mike into his 17 year-old himself.

Basically, I'm not interested in a story like this.
But I just thought it might not be bad to take a look at a "Friends" star, Matthew Perry and one of the hottest guy, what media would like to call, Zac Efron.

When I was 17, mostly I devoted myself into preparing the entrance exam for the university.
I'm not disapponited with that. It was not mandatory, but necessary. It was worthwhile.

A Heart in Winter

I think I was lucky to find this film by chance out of so many broadcastings by the Cables.
In a nutshell, this is a story about 3 French grown-ups caught in a love triangle.

Maxime is a violin workshop owner.
He's what they call, alpha man. Leader type, dominant, generally popular.
No wonder he has casual relationship with young, promising and incredibly beautiful, which seems considerably important, concert violinist , Camile.

Meanwhile, Stephane is polar opposite.Introverted, unemotional.
He works for Maxime's repair shop as a skilled craftman.

In a typical love formula, girls falls for a vigorous man like Maxime, but then gradually and uncosciously or subcosciously being attracted by a man like Stephane.

Well, personally, I'm a person who tend to be fascinated with Stephane type from the beginning...
So, I was hoping that Stephane and Camile get together.

But the plot didn't go as the formula.

Stephane rejects Camile's affection towards him !!

To make the thing more surprising, it was just when she impiled she'd like to make love with him.

Can you believe this?!

Who could do that reaction when you're a man and your heart is obviously inclined to the relationship with her?

From what I come from, at least here in Japan, people still believe men are supposed to do this kind of seductive invite, while I don't , hahaha...

So I totally understand her devastation when he didn't accept her.

It must have been so mortifying as ever.

You know what, I'm suggesting that I had the similar experience. WTF !! (Sorry for my word.)

I foud out one review, googling this movie.

It says with some evidence that Stephane is a gay and everything is being manipulated by him.

He only wanted to hurt Maxime who won't love him back.

Is that true?! I'm not sure.

Even if so, I wouldn't take the story this way.

Wish I had a chance to watch again. But the DVD seems to be discontinued....(> <)

Precious

I don't know what exactly I wanted and what I expected from this film.
Maybe I have to admit this, because I'm no hypocrite.
I wanted something to make me feel happy as I am now, by comparing myself to sort of a social pariah like Precious.

Anyway, since I knew about the movie, I'd been dying to "SEE", not "WATCH".
Actually, I just couldn't wait for the theater release and I've finished the original novel before I was headed to the theater. Hahaha.


Once I started the book, I was shocked.
I've never seen a book contains nasty words that much !
Some I could guess the meaning contextually, but some I didn't have any clue at all.
Besides, spellings were reflective of the way people in "Project" speaks so that I felt I was almost there, listening their dialect directly, which was good point.

Precious is 16 year-old, obese, illiterate living in the ghetto of Harlem.
She's pregnant when the story begins. This is her SECOND child with whom?!
It's her father !! She's been raped by him since she was quite small.

Addtion to her insane father, her mother is also disfuctional.
She abuses Precious verbally and of course physically, not tring to do anything for her family but just relying on welfare.


Her first baby has Down syndrome and she calls her "Lit Mongo".
This is only written in the book.
You might associate Mongo with some kind of Spanish name, but Mongo is named after Mongolian since kids with this challenge seem to be Asian.
As one of Asians, I was not confortable with this...

Even though I know it's not a true story, I wanted to put a curse on the author.
Because Precious finds out she's HIV positive having being carried from her diabolical father.
How could her life more miserable?! Is it necessry to make her more fucked up?!

But she decides to move on with her 2 kids, being seperate from her mother.
Doing what she can now, every single day. This is the rough story.

Her mother played by Mo'Nique is outrageous. But at one scene, I was totally with her. When she admitted her abusive behavior against her own child, she claimed like, " I wanted to be loved, I needed to be loved. My kid took it away from me. That's why I started bullying"
The way she took was completely wrong, but everybody needs love and to be loved. This is natural desire, isn't it?

My room with Kanga

Maybe you know how messy my flat is, with piles of stuff that I've been hesitating to toss away for ages without finding any decent usage.
Against chaos on the floor, the walls were purely white and no decorated.

In a nutshell, I'm a poor organizational person myself.
But one day the room has made a great change !

Honestly, I wanted to make a tote bag from this vivid cloth, well, actually, I wanted to someone good at to do this for me since I'm all thumbs. You can say "you have two left feet !" if you want.
Either way, my plan didn't work out well.

Then this idea stroke me. How about just putting it on the wall?

It was good. This brings me inner brightness. It was a quite revelation to me. How you decorate your room, it really matters, doesn't it?!

Just FYI, this is called Kanga, originally from Tanzania. Please check here if you'd like to read this article in Japanse.

The Ugly Truth

I clearly knew that this was not my cup of coffee
and actually it wasn't, Hahaha. But there's one thing that I've learned from this film.
You don't tie your hair up when you want to turn your guy on.
Let your hair down. Is it an "ugly truth" or not?!

My first K night

I had girls' night out to K town the other day.
I'm the one who planned this. First, only two girls, and then three, finally four girls got together.

Well, I don't even know where to start or when it's exactly started and I'm not going to tell you what specifically fascinates me, but the truth is, I'm intrigued by K culture for the first time in my entire life.

I've never ever pictured myself being stepping into this town. I still can't believe.

It was kinda weird, but I genuinely realized that people change !!

I have absolutely no idea what this suprising penchant goes at the end, but just like I used to when I was hooked on something, I'll be deeply into this for a while. You'll see.

New York, I Love You

Some already know that I'm going to NY this summer.

I repeatedly watched SATC and now I'm into Gossip Girl, but that's all that I know about the city since I've never stepped into Manhattan.
I'm thrilled to expose myself to "real" New York.
Like this way, NY is looming up to me. That's one thing I decided to watch the film.

This contains 10 different relationships of New Yorkers.
I was not really inspired from any of them.
I just felt a sense of "melting pot" at least, though...

Now I'm gonna learn something more practical, like subway riding, surroundings of my point of stay...