We got Netflix last week. Unlimited streaming = movie marathons. A rundown:
1. Penelope: 3.5/5
Strangely, I found Christian Ricci more attractive with a pig nose. I think it proportions the rest of her abnormally large features and forehead. The movie was pretty cute but got a bit uneven once her character decided to venture out into the real world.
2. Ponyo: 4/5
Imaginative, gorgeous, and severely weird - expected Miyazaki. I thought the minimal storyline didn't really warrant the overload of imagery and fantastical events. It reminded me a bit of a Howl's Moving Castle and Totoro hybrid...but the sum wasn't as satisfying as the individual components.
3. The Pickup Artist: Incomplete
Couldn't get through it. 80s Robert Downey Jr. just doesn't compare with 90s/00s Downey. For one thing, the guy has obviously gotten his teeth fixed since his 20s.
4. Only You: 3.5/5
To make up for the disappointment of #3, I opted for RDJ 7 years later. Pretty charming adult romantic comedy. Marisa Tomei's ditziness got a bit overwhelming at points but...swooon over RDJ bending over backwards in love. Yep.
5. Dumb and Dumber: 5/5
Hilarity increased 100x upon realizing that Jeff Daniel is a doppleganger for my father-in-law. Especially when presented with the fact that Steve had the exact same hairstyle in the 70s.
6. Priceless: 5/5
Audrey Tatou delivers again. Fantastic French romantic comedy.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Another Taiwan Trip
Out of everything I experienced, what probably amazed me the most were how advanced the techniques have gotten to make Asian eyes gigantic.
Holy Geez.
Holy Geez.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Abundance of crazy Asian parents somewhat explained?
News Today:
Man stabs 28 kids at a kindergarten in China
To quote from the article:
"A survey of mental health in four Chinese provinces jointly done by Chinese and U.S. doctors that was published in the Lancet in June concluded that China likely had about 173 million adults nationwide with mental health disorders and that most, 158 million, had never gotten any professional help for their problems."
[Warning: Grossly simplified calculations/estimations]
Okay, so if the current average in China is 1.7 kids per adult Chinese woman in their life time, and the total Chinese population is 1.3 billion, I'm estimating China's non-adult population is ~0.6 billion. How so? Cue the following:
X = China's kid population
1.3 - X = China's adult population
(1.3-X)/2 = China's female adult population (generous estimate)
So [(1.3-X)/2]*1.7 + (1.3-X) = 1.3 (total) -- > ~0.6 billion kids/0.7 billion Chinese adults.
So, out of 700 million Chinese adults, 158 million (or 22.5%) have untreated mental problems. So, that's approximately a 1 in 5 chance that any Chinese person you meet is unwell but won't admit to it. Also..refer to title of this entry.
Not to strictly infer China is the only country full of crazies (honor killings, anyone?), or that my math inference is actually accurate (I'm pretty positive that the adult population is much larger). I do feel like there is something to be said about the negative effects of the cultural stigmatizing of admitting you need help for issues that aren't physically apparent. On the flip side though, you could get a situation like over here where anxious mothers over-diagnose and medicate their kids into submission whenever they exhibit any form of normal behavior that's deemed too overwhelming to handle. Oh, and a lot of emos. Ugh.
Anyway, a lot of generalizing and negative implications can be made, so I'll just take the cop-out route and say I'm just glad I ended up with the family I have :).
Man stabs 28 kids at a kindergarten in China
To quote from the article:
"A survey of mental health in four Chinese provinces jointly done by Chinese and U.S. doctors that was published in the Lancet in June concluded that China likely had about 173 million adults nationwide with mental health disorders and that most, 158 million, had never gotten any professional help for their problems."
[Warning: Grossly simplified calculations/estimations]
Okay, so if the current average in China is 1.7 kids per adult Chinese woman in their life time, and the total Chinese population is 1.3 billion, I'm estimating China's non-adult population is ~0.6 billion. How so? Cue the following:
X = China's kid population
1.3 - X = China's adult population
(1.3-X)/2 = China's female adult population (generous estimate)
So [(1.3-X)/2]*1.7 + (1.3-X) = 1.3 (total) -- > ~0.6 billion kids/0.7 billion Chinese adults.
So, out of 700 million Chinese adults, 158 million (or 22.5%) have untreated mental problems. So, that's approximately a 1 in 5 chance that any Chinese person you meet is unwell but won't admit to it. Also..refer to title of this entry.
Not to strictly infer China is the only country full of crazies (honor killings, anyone?), or that my math inference is actually accurate (I'm pretty positive that the adult population is much larger). I do feel like there is something to be said about the negative effects of the cultural stigmatizing of admitting you need help for issues that aren't physically apparent. On the flip side though, you could get a situation like over here where anxious mothers over-diagnose and medicate their kids into submission whenever they exhibit any form of normal behavior that's deemed too overwhelming to handle. Oh, and a lot of emos. Ugh.
Anyway, a lot of generalizing and negative implications can be made, so I'll just take the cop-out route and say I'm just glad I ended up with the family I have :).
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Last Avatar hater post (I swear)
Quoted from Cracked:
Out of the millions upon millions of species that exist on Earth, there was only ever one intelligent bipedal primate: humanity. Finding a race of whatevers who look almost exactly like us plus a few extra eyes, some body paint and smoking hot bodies isn't just wishful thinking, it's plain stupid. And especially if you're an amazingly popular and powerful director with access to billions of dollars worth of cutting-edge CGI so there's literally no limit to the creatures you can come up with.
They could look like anything. Monkey-faced bar stools. Spleens with Care Bear icons for mouths. Anything! But why bother with all that originality business when you can come up with something that looks exactly like goddamn humans, albeit ones who have been dropped in a vat of blue dye and then undergone horrific plastic surgery to look more like cats.
Not content with this bit of biological plagiarism, James Cameron also applied the same "take two Earth animals and combine them" principle to every other creature on Pandora with equally absurd results.
Out of the millions upon millions of species that exist on Earth, there was only ever one intelligent bipedal primate: humanity. Finding a race of whatevers who look almost exactly like us plus a few extra eyes, some body paint and smoking hot bodies isn't just wishful thinking, it's plain stupid. And especially if you're an amazingly popular and powerful director with access to billions of dollars worth of cutting-edge CGI so there's literally no limit to the creatures you can come up with.
They could look like anything. Monkey-faced bar stools. Spleens with Care Bear icons for mouths. Anything! But why bother with all that originality business when you can come up with something that looks exactly like goddamn humans, albeit ones who have been dropped in a vat of blue dye and then undergone horrific plastic surgery to look more like cats.
Not content with this bit of biological plagiarism, James Cameron also applied the same "take two Earth animals and combine them" principle to every other creature on Pandora with equally absurd results.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Olympics (with links)!
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Zing
Nick: I see enough of your globbyness daily.
Me: If I were any other girl, you'd be in the doghouse.
Nick: If you were any other girl, I'd call you pretty.
(To be fair, I did instigate the conversation by lifting up my shirt and jiggling my belly to demonstrate my fullness.)
Me: If I were any other girl, you'd be in the doghouse.
Nick: If you were any other girl, I'd call you pretty.
(To be fair, I did instigate the conversation by lifting up my shirt and jiggling my belly to demonstrate my fullness.)
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