The Clown’s Meme

I’m kind of completely blanking lately… so I thought I’d just do another meme again today, just for fun. I found this meme from Sunday Stealing blog, they ’stole’ my trivia about me meme a while ago, and I love it! Today’s meme was taken from Boppo The Clown.

Here goes…

1. Who did you spend at least two hours with today? Hubs
2. How tall are you? 163 cm
3. What do you look forward to most in the next six weeks? Flying home to see my family
4. What’s the last movie you saw? How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?
5. Who was the last person you called? My Mom
6. Who was the last person to call you? A reporter from Bildzeitung
7. Who was the last person to leave you a voicemail? It’s been a long time since anybody do that, so I can’t remember.
8. Do you prefer to call or text? Text. Somehow didn’t like talking over the phone.
9. What were you doing at 12am last night? Out from the theater where I saw Norman Foster
10. What time did you wake up today? 8 Read more…

In the Newspaper

Quirky thing happened to me last Monday. I was queuing, chatting away on my phone, trying to ignore the other line that was always seemed to move faster… and there was a reporter from Bildzeitung approached me. She asked a few questions about where I’m from, what I’m queuing for, and she took a picture of me! Later on, she called, asked if I managed the tickets I was queuing for, and then she told me that I will be on Tuesday newspaper. So here is the scanned page:

Edit: translation (roughly): Astrid Mochtarram (30) from Charlottenburg stood in line from 10am. Two hours later she got tickets for “My Name is Khan”.

Okay okay, it’s not that big in the newspaper. But at least the picture didn’t look too bad . I wanted to see it first before putting it up in my blog. Just in case I looked like a crazy movie lady :LOL:. Here is how it look from the whole newspaper page:

But at least it’s not everyday I get to share a page with Robbie Williams and Til Schweiger .

Tags: Berlinale, newspaper, photo

Queuing For Berlinale

I went to Potsdamer Arkaden this morning, getting tickets for Berlinale. I arrived there a bit less than 10am (when the ticket booth opened) and the queue already looked like this:

Not that long, I know, but there were 4 lines of this length . Although, to be honest, I was still quite sure about getting the tickets based on my experience last year. Unless the movie and the time slot picked was extremely popular. By extremely popular I mean every single person in front of me would want to see it.

Two hours later, I got the tickets I want for the day Just two movies for now because we could only get tickets 3 days in advance. I also managed to stick to my list and not be tempted with movies with almost sold out tickets. Go me!

I also managed to create a list of movies I’m interested in. You can find it here.

Tags: Berlinale, Film Festival

Berlinale Movies I’d Love to See

It was quite a daunting task to go through the list of movies as there are over 300 of them. But I wanted to go through each one of their description, trying to make sure I wouldn’t miss anything I’d love to see.

This year I wanted to see uplifting movies, something that would inspire me or take me to a world of imagination. So it wasn’t very surprising that most of the movies I end up putting on my list were from the Generation section, which was more geared towards younger movie goers.

Here is my list, in no particular order:

• Knerten (Twigson). From the synopsis: “Strong? Yes. Brave? Yes. A twig? Yes. Ordinary? No! Because twigs like Twigson don’t grow on trees.Twigs like Twigson exists in fantasies and play with you in the woods when you find it hard to be with everyone else.” I’m sold.
• How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?. I’m somehow always fascinated towards architecture. I love looking at buildings, imagining what was in the mind of the architect when they came up with the idea. Norman Foster designed the dome of Reichstag in Berlin. I would love to know him and his work better.
• En ganske snill mann (A Somewhat Gentle Man). It’s hard to say exactly why I’d love to see this one. But I guess I like the black comedy, and the contrast of an ex con trying to be a good person.
• My Name Is Khan. This one has quite a buzz already. I know Shah Rukh Khan (the leading actor) from his Bollywood movies, so I guess I’m interested to see him on the screen playing someone with an Asperger syndrome.

I also wanted to see the short films section since it would be quite hard to see them in cinemas otherwise. Will update this section soon!

Tags: Berlinale, Film Festival, movies

The Gift

The Gift by Cecilia Ahern (2009)

When I picked up this book, I was actually hoping for a light chicklit read. I think it does look like it thanks to the book cover, and the author’s previous books I’ve read (P.S. I Love You, Where Rainbows End, Thanks for the Memories) kind of falls into that genre.

I like Cecilia Ahern’s previous books and I wish I could say I was pleasantly surprised to what I found reading it. I couldn’t.  The good part is the story was easy to follow and it does flow nicely. The problem is I couldn’t get pass the cliché in the story and most of the characters. To me, it felt too much like I was in a classroom, being taught a lesson of what I should and should not do in life by a teacher who likes to point fingers.

I do like inspirational books and I read quite a few of them. This one just doesn’t deliver it. It’s simply not inspiring to me. I found myself finished the book and thinking… what’s the point? Even if a lesson of finding out what is important in life is what you’re looking for, there are better ones out there. Ones that truly inspires you and touched your soul.

No, I couldn’t get myself to recommend this book. But if you want to read it, by all means read it. And if you like it, please let me know, maybe there was something I missed.

Tags: book review