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What the title says~

From the 65 eligible foreign films, the top9 have been chosen~ I’m being positive here, instead of saying films have been cut. xD Anyway, as a surprise (to many?) Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow (aka. La Teta Asustada) made the Top9, alongside:

  • Argentina’s El Secreto de sus Ojos
  • Australia’s Samson & Delilah
  • Bulgaria’s The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner
  • France’s Un Prophete
  • Germany’s The White Ribbon
  • Israel’s Ajami
  • Kazakhstan’s Kelin
  • The Netherlands’ Winter in Wartime.

At the moment, The White Ribbon and Un Prophete are lock-ins… it seems, so that leaves 3 more spots to fill. Which films will they be? I’ve seen The Milk of Sorrow and commented on them a year ago when the film won the top prize at the Berlinale. For a short review, and an article about the original title of the film plus other Peruvian films check out YAM003.

Happy Bday 2010!

January 17, 2010 — 3 Comments

Dad ur getting older…
but there are still cool points.

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Like I’ve said before, my GG predictions are kinda rubbish~ So what I’ll do is list the films in the order of their chances of winning, as well as the one I want to win.

I’ve actually seen most of the films, except for 13 (3 of which are foreign), so I think that’s pretty good.

# of likeliness of winning – movie
* I want this one to win

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Another Political Rant Post

January 12, 2010 — 3 Comments

Venezuela’s currency is sinking lower.

Argentina’s president doesn’t want to pay the country’s international debt.

Mexico reported 69 deaths to drug-related crimes in just 24hrs.

Peru… been there, done that. Well, except the 69 deaths, I can’t remember anything about that… but I do remember about terrorists and the narcoterrorists.

I’m all for voicing your opinion, but saying whatever you want (like yelling fire in a public place) or instigating violence and hate with what your saying is not permitted. Sorry to say.

Governments should give their people what they NEED, not what they WANT. Obviously, we don’t know what we [as a country, not as individuals] need because we are too selfish to look more than the tip of our noses [is this saying even plausible in English?]. We will never get anywhere if one political party goes left, then the other party goes right — Sadly, that’s the business of politics.

Maybe democracy is just a tiny bit overrated~~~

After all, the one who wins isn’t necessarily the most capable, but the most popular.

And no, I’m not a disillusioned idealist. I stopped being an idealist in high school.

And yes, I just finished watching 4 seasons of Battlestar Galactica. LOL

Behold!

Nominations are done!!

It’s actually kind of exciting, even if not that many people sent nominations. However, it’s actually a really great way to hear about all these many other films that people mentioned so many times, and I knew nothing about.

Of course, if more people had actually sent nominations, the experiment would’ve worked better. Maybe next time… so watch many more films this 2010, so you can participate next time around.

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Here we go~~

These aren’t necessarily 2009 albums, but were listened in the last days of 2009. xD

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xD

It was seriously good, and pretty.

it was so effing tasty… the green one had a Guanabana (Soursop) filling, which was my fave. Then there was the chocolate one, and the Lucuma one~~~ The rest, I think, had a sweetened bean paste… which is the most common. We also had a lot of Japanese food, which was popular because we don’t normally get makis, sushi and sashimi on New Year. There was also pancetta with crispy skin (like REALLY crispy, really so effing good). We had sticky rice, spicy jellyfish, sweet potato noodle salad, and egg tarts xD

Food is so good, why would anyone not eat?

Well, it’s last post of the year!!

I’m off to the family’s big Asian dinner as always.
Sadly, no fireworks T.T [watch last year’s here]

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We are nearly at the end of our list of 100 Songs of the Decade~~~

Some really great songs on this one, with loads of variety
with music of many genres and different languages.

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Two months worth of films to close the year,
let’s hope 2010 brings loads of good ones…

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