I didn't know such fun things existed, but here we are! All thanks to my Rhapsodic friend who tagged me :)
So this is officially my first blogger award (as well) Yaayy! Thankoo Xana!

So here are the rules:

1.If you are tagged/nominated, you have to post 11 facts about yourself.

2.Then you answer the 11 questions the tagger has given you & make 11 questions for the people you are going to tag.

3. Tag 11 more Bloggers.

4. No tagging back.

5. Person you tag must have < 200 followers

The above bit is copy pasted from my friend's blog. Before we get to the more difficult task of finding 11 more fellow scape bloggers, lets get writing!

11 facts about myself. I'm sure this must be easy. But considering this is an anonymous blog (about me), this might be an interesting one.

1. I'm a girl in her early twenties
2. The first time you talk to me, I might come across as a very put together, mature person / or someone who looked totally like an outsider who makes no effor to fit in.
3. I'm actually not anyof that
4. I love food, and I am in a long standing battle with my weight
5. I have a drivers licence but I don't/ am not allowed to drive(This is more difficult than I thought it would be!)
6. I want to know everything about this man made world
7. I like watching more than being involved (Anything... a conversation, a fight :P )(Checks out friend's blog to get inspiration!)
8. I like long rides, drives, the sun rise, the beach, high places, wind, rain, thunder, lightning, lighthouses, big colourful flowers and stationery
9. I'm scared of all animals. (Except ants - the smaller ones, and I can kill cockroaches) Dogs are my ultimate fear, and they constitute most of my nightmares.
10. Smiling/ Laughter is my defence mechanism. I smile when I'm in a confrontational situation. I have smiled real sweetly many times when I was cursing someone inside.
11. I have magical powers. Honest! (I have witnesses!)

So that wraps it up! (But why 11 things anyway? Who came up with it? Why not 12?)

12. I question too many things

Now questions for me to answer - Like a mini interview, cool right?!

1. Blogging to me is_.

A method of finding my way back to sanity. My hideout. My recluse. My space where I am myself the most.

2. I recommend the following 3 blogs for you to read when you are free: _ , _ and _.

feelinit (A teenager's perspective of life), dramabeans (if you're into kdramas) and 1001 awesome things (If you just want to feel good)

3. 5 songs on my play list. (Losing inspiration here)

Just 5? Can we make it 10 pretty please? I don't want a few of my songs to feel left out you see...

1. Far away - Nickelback
2. I Remain - Alanis Morissette (Prince of Persia OST)
3. Sarangigayo - Howl (Goong OST)
4. Life is like a boat - Rie Fu
5. Maalai Neram - Andrea Jerenia & G.V.Prakash
6. No other - SuperJunior
7. Crush - David Archuletta
8. At the beginning - Donna Lewis and Richard Marx
9. Gravity - Maya Sakamoto
10. That Man/ That woman - Secret Garden OST

4. The last 5 books that I read were___.

Yikes! Does reader's digest count? :(

1. Psychopathology - A compilation (For my exam - tee hee_
2. Perhaps Love - Cathy J. Sarto
3. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskel
4. Eldest - Christopher Paolini
5. Insatiable - Erica Rivera

That wasn't all that bad

5. The one movie that made me cry__.

A walk to remember/ Kal Ho Na Ho [The latter was a bit more embarrassing as it was at the theatre :/]

6. Some day, I will _______.

Fly? Find the purpose of life? Ride the waters of Venice on a Gondola? Be the author of more that 15 bestsellers!!! Drive a car? ... be allowed to drive a car! 

Someday, I will know what I really want to do with my life, and who I really want to be.

7. Ten places i want to visit before- whatever.

Another list...hmm.....

1. Italy - All of it
2. London  (Go down daddy's memory lane)
3. Orange county, California
4. Surandai
5. The Alps, Germany
6. Seoul
7. ALL the palaces of this world
8. Disney land!!!
9. Backpacking in the U.S. of A
10. Finally....The top most tip of the Khalifa

(I thought this list will be the easiest, but is so so wasn't. Gosh I'm losing my touch)

8. The one person who made a HUGE impact on my life would be?

My dad

9. The last time I goofed something up __.

This morning?

10. New year resolutions for 2013?

Get a job, get my book published, get a boyfriend. (Not in any particular order :P )

11. (finally!) One secret that nobody knows :P

I'm an alien vampire. I hail from the distant planet Vampiritus.

[For all my other secrets, read the rest of my blog ;) ]

Phew! 

My turn to tag people now! Muhahahahahahahah

Jeff

Fellow Dreamer

Crossworder

Sugar Cube

Anonymous friend

PK

Dev

OT Dreamer

Mr. G
Kally

Since I could gather only 10, maybe the cycle can continue with 10? But I shall ask 11 questions as originally intended. Here you go!

1. Biggest achievement of 2012
2. Something you want to tell someone (With or without the name of that person)
3. If you could redo/ correct some past action in your life, which would it be, and how would you change it?
4. If you could time travel, when and where would you go?
5. Your favourite word is:
6. The most beautiful place you have ever been to?
7. The best food you've eaten (Where, when and how can we get access to it?)
8. Your pet peeve
9. Secret crazy hobby
10. If you could spend one day with ANYONE alive in this world right now, doing anything you like, who would it be?
11. Love is....?

Those are the questions. Get cracking and get tagging :)

Like she said, you guys rock!

Till later, ciao!

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Weblog + Movie review: The Dark Knight Rises !

Yes yes yes ! I've seen it :D
Oh, I had such an amazing day on the whole, that I have to make a weblog-gy post.
[I'll tell you when my spoilers for the movie start, so post that point, please read AFTER you've seen the movie!]

So my day started early today, with my dad waking me for some work at the bank. We got it done pretty quickly, and I opted to walk the short distance back home, so he could go straight to work from there. As luck would have it, my footwear bonked out on me, but as real luck would have it, it did so 5 steps away from a cobbler. Since I had my music, plenty of time and the climate was pleasant, I had absolutely no issues waiting around for him to repair my shoes.

So there I was, standing along the side walk and watching the traffic. Right about then, a guy in a scooter who crossed the road, and drove straight up the side walk. It took ALL my willpower to not laugh at his expression. Though he looked a lot awkward, it turned out that he had intentionally driven up there, so he could wait for someone. Since he was pretty cute, I wasn't complaining ;)

Then I got more lucky, an old school friend happened to cross by, and we caught up quickly. Soon after, someone who recognized me, and knew my mom stopped by to talk to me. She was sweet crinkly old lady, who waited with me till he was done. We walked a small distance together, before we went our separate ways.

With that pleasant start, I got home, and was soon getting ready for the super combo : Tuna Sub + The Dark Knight Rises.

I'm gonna rewind by 3 days here

17th July 2012

Toing toing toing

me: u have col on Friday ?

  yup

  :)

 zoo: ya i do

  why is it a govt holiday"

10:31 PM i have on sat also :(

  depression already setting in

 me: no, dark night rises is releasing

  I wanna see first day first show :P

 zoo: waaahhh dont remind me :(

  oo lol naice!

 me: bunk na

  hehe

 zoo: ive never seen anything first day first show

  !

 me: me too !!

 zoo: u should book now or u wont get tickets

  o no ur tempting me to bunk...

10:32 PM but will we get tickets?

 me: one day earlier na

  will go to skywalk on thurday

 zoo: u might not get

 me: if I get tickets, u'll bunk ?

 zoo: ... temptation!!!

 me: it may not be in cinemas for a month after

 zoo: waaaah dont depress meeee

10:33 PM but if i start fasting on fri!?

  aiggo

  il bunk?

  coll io mean

 me: you still dont know ?

 zoo: i*

 me: yesh yesh !

 zoo: nah it depends on whether they site the moon

 me: ooh...

 zoo: but i dont wanna ditch u off

 me: u'll know by thurday morn ?

 zoo: im cool with bunkin :p

10:34 PM me: :D

  yaayy !

 zoo: wait il ask my mo

  hold on

 me: okie :)

 zoo: ok so dad said 98% its on sat only

  ottoke?

10:35 PM me: lets do it !

  iif we get tickets

 zoo: but if that 10% happens?

 me: 2 % na

 zoo: lol yea getting tickets will also be super difficult

 me: its a friday

  and eng movie

 zoo: you prob have to book wed late night

  like 2 am typees

10:36 PM yaa but since its batman

  itll get sold pout!

  out*

 me: o.o

  I dont know online mooking

  dont have credit card so

 zoo: ok il try wed nght!

 me: oka...

 zoo: if by 1 am or so i can book il get

 me: but isn't it 24 hours prior ?

 zoo: otherwise ul have to run to skywalk :D

10:37 PM me: yush !

 zoo: lol yay excitement :D

 me: 10 AM, I'll be there by 9.45 :P

 zoo: sooper :Dme: happiness :D

18th July 2012

Me: Hey, so you’re gonna try booking tonight midnight, and if u get tickets, leave a text, or I’ll go get it tomo    morning.

Zoo: Call!

Miki: Hey, what you up to?

Me: Plotting perfect method to ensure we get FDFS Dark Knight tickets.

She calls me, and goes ever so slowly,

Miki: Umm…. Bookings have already opened, my bro just booked his tickets for Saturday. Friday tickets are almost all sold out.

Me: Whhaaaa~aaatttt!!!

What ensued was a series of screeches and exclamations, conference calls, series of website checking, and contingency actions. At the end of which we had it. 2 tickets to one of the top rows, right at the center seats of the first day second show of The Dark Knight Rises!

It was on a Friday, and at 2: 30 PM, so obviously a Tuna sub (Sub of the day :D ) was gonna be the lunch plan!  

19th July 2012

With just one day to go, the logical thing to do is to watch The Dark Knight. It was done meticulously.

Annnnnddd all set!

So back to today :)

20th July 2012

1: 10 PM: Pick up Zoo on the way to Subway

1: 15 PM: Start the Tuna ordering process

1: 24 PM: Tuna subs in our hand, and 21 minutes to eat it. We had to leave at 1:45, as we didn't know the way to the cinema.

This is something that subway fans probably already know, but I'm repeating it just in case; 

Never go to Subway on your first date! In fact, don't go there on your first 5 dates ;)

Go there with friends who will happily laugh at your face,

Always get extra tissue with tuna subs

And for those unfortunate times with the tuna escapes the confines of your sub, they have folks at the counter - so you can scoop it up without losing too much of your decency - unlike trying to lick it off the paper, though you may be very very tempted to do so!

In spite of the technical difficulties, we finished in the stipulated time! 

1:50 PM: Zoo's phone started talking. GPS navigation system!

 It was the first time I was using one, and apart from the interesting statements she/it used, it was totally useless (Sorry Zoo :P ) We went all over the place! And finally found the cinema by good old fashioned asking for directions.Hehe.

The place looked like it was international men's day. There were a total of about 9 girls there. (Don't tell my dad!) Did we regret it? Till the titles, totally! After it... FIRST DAY SHOWS ARE THE BEST !!!!!

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Spoiler Alert: WATCH THE MOVIE BEFORE CONTINUING!!!

If you weren't planning on watching it though, please change your mind, and go watch it!

So I'm gonna keep it Brief!

Best. Movie. EVER!

In a little bit more detail, and in no particular order, as my head is bubbling from the movie's awesomeness!

It was more like the best ending ever. Which by itself is a big big give away.

My first pleasant surprise was that Anne Hathaway was in it. I've always liked her, 

Its also a definite definite plus that Batman finally gets a girl. I don't know if he'll get to keep her, but for once he got a girl.

As someone who read the comics too long ago, and watched bits of the cartoon, and has forgotten both of it, I was soo soo glad tha no one important died. I almost thought Fox would!

Annnnddddd, Robin is finally here! I'm so looking forward to the next movie, where it'll be Batman and Robin!

Now that the gushing is over, my proper critique of the movie.

On the down side, Anne Hathaway's costume looked too much like a cat woman wanna be. I know she's a cat burglar and all, but c'mon, a little bit more creativity wouldn't kill ya! Another thing that I did not get was the way they tossed around that nuclear reactor turned bomb. I am not very strong in physics, so honestly telly me, wouldn't rattling that thing around set it off? o.o
Another big set back was how the tore apart Bono's gruffness with sentimentality in the end. It was like you suddenly realize that the dragon you were both in awe of and scared of, was in fact a lizard's shadow.
And lastly, the most comedic part of the movie was Marion Cottilard (As Miranda Tate/ Talia)'s death. She went like how cartoon characters die. Talk talk talk - punch dialogue, then toduk, neck falls, and she's dead.

That said, I liked this movie. Definitely. Christopher Nolan has not let us down one bit. The tone was interestingly different. And at many places, I felt like it was very similar to other super hero movies, though this movie didn't feel so much as a super hero movie by itself. And at some others, it felt like a detective theme.

On the whole though, it was more a platform where Bruce Wayne finally finds the balanced Batman. That's the Dark Knight who rises. 

Till now, he had anger and a strange sense of owing - probably for his father, as a motif to be Batman and Rachel as a motif to not be Batman. But he finally did not have extremes pulling at him anymore. Rachel's dead, and he gave his everything to save Gotham City. So the Batman hence forth will be completely Bruce Wayne's Batman, with (hopefully) no self destructive tendencies. Which was beautifully depicted with him literally being trained to fear death again.

This movie divided its focus between him attaining that balance and the making of soon to be very important - one of the best super hero side kicks ever - ROBIN! Which when we finally realize it's him, you cannot help but grin happily. 

Somethings I did not understand why were - Why did Bruce Wayne have to be killed off, and his property divided? Wasn't it just Batman who needed a fresh start?

And why oh why oh why are Americans so in love with the idea of destroying entire cities?! Avengers, Transformers ... most super hero movies have a major bulk of cities being brutally ripped apart, with thousands dying - but all the important characters and one sentiment inducing school bus or an old age couple barely surviving. If there is a logic behind that, please let me know!

So that's how it was. A very very very satisfying ending, where both Zoo and I couldn't help but keep grinning. I loved that Alfred got to be pleasantly surprised, and all his patient waiting finally bore fruit!

Now I shall patiently wait for the next edition of Batman... and...wait for it! Robin!

So that's how my day was :)

We've already made plans to watch it again on the big screen!

Hope you had a great day as well !

Cheers *.*