Dear Sir,
I know I might not be the smartest student you have in your lab, but you should know that I am also NOT dumb. All my life I have went through school with abso-fucking-lutely NO problem at all in understanding the subjects as long as the teacher knows how to make ME understand during class, in other words, knows how to teach. Instead, you expect me to understand all those things eventhough you know i didn't learn it in my native language, and, note this, even some of the natives don't understand what I am supposed to do with my research.
You were supposed to teach me, not SCOLD me for not understanding, though sometimes, scolding is neccessary, i understand that. but you! calling me, or ANYONE, stupid is just toooooo much, dont you think?! Put yourself in my shoes, try and learn something that you might not have that much interest in the first place, yet in a new language that you've just learn for a few years! hah! Even your English is not as good as you might think you are, so how DARE you looking down to other people like me, just because we are students? YOUR students?!
Not enough of that, you just haaaaaaaaave to embarassed me in front of allll, don't you? Some things are just meant for you and that student of yours, don't you know that? geez. I wonder how were you able to teach in the first place? You have this so-called "cool" character of yours at one time, making students fall for it, and think that you are this cool dude, then you just go crush their hearts when you think you want to boost their workmanship. ah, you and your useless way of thinking... who needs humiliation, worst, PUBLIC humiliation as a boost?
Thank God I won't be seeing you for that long. I'll be gone... and I hope you'll let me be gone, or else I'll be writing you another confessions. I might return one day, maybe to see my friends and the people that I care, but I surely won't be seeing you.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
your depressed student, thanks to you.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008Y
// ...and the loser goes to..
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Nick Nolte & Julia Roberts
I Love Trouble - 1994
In the early 90's, Julia came out of nowhere to become the biggest female star in the world. Nick was named People Magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1992. So why not pair them together in a screwball comedy about dueling reporters? Because he was nearly twice her age, and both of them appeared to be painfully aware of that fact.
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Ben Affleck & Jennifer Lopez
Gigli - 2003
Ah, "Gigli." The makers of "Ishtar" thank you for replacing their movie title as the funny word that means "embarrassing flop." Ben and J.Lo met on the set of their ill-conceived gangster-meets-lesbian love story, and the tabloids were packed with stories about them every week thereafter. Still, real life sparks don't always translate to the screen, and the movie's failure killed the couple's future.
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Harrison Ford & Anne Heche
Six Days, Seven Nights - 1998
When Anne Heche was cast in this romantic action movie, she was a little-known but well-respected actress. By the time the film hit screens, everybody knew her as Ellen DeGeneres' girlfriend. But even without the real world intruding, there's no way anyone would buy the 29-year-old Heche and 56-year-old Ford ending up together, no matter how much time they spent on a desert island.
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Kevin Spacey & Kate Bosworth
Beyond the Sea - 2004
The real Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee were quite an odd couple. He was a balding singer from the Bronx; she was a 16-year-old movie star. But somehow they made it work. In the movie of Darin's life, however, Spacey and Bosworth were completely unbelievable. It didn't help that Spacey was eight years older than the actual Darin ever lived to be. At least his hairline fit the part.
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Hayden Christensen & Natalie Portman
Star Wars - Episode II and Episode III - 2002/2005
After watching the uncomfortable scenes with Natalie Portman and 10-year-old Jake Lloyd in The Phantom Menace, Star Wars fans everywhere thought, "It can't get worse than this." Oh, how little they knew. For the next two prequels, they were faced with Portman and Christensen stiffly reciting George Lucas' leaden dialogue. When the giant lizard Obi-Wan rides is more convincing than their romance, it's enough to make you want to scream "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
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Madonna & Adriano Giannini
Swept Away - 2002
The original Italian 1974 film "Swept Away," was an examination of class and gender issues. Guy Ritchie's 2002 remake is an examination of his wife's dedication to Pilates. Watching this movie makes you not only question why Madonna would fall for Adriano Giannini's crude and abusive fisherman, but why she thought it'd be a good idea to make another movie with her spouse after having already bombed with her previous husband Sean Penn in "Shanghai Surprise."
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Dan Aykroyd & Rosie O'Donnell
Exit to Eden - 1994
"Exit to Eden" was a dark, romantic novel by "Interview With a Vampire" author Anne Rice about bondage and S&M. Who better, then, to turn it into a movie than the creator of "Mork and Mindy?" An even better question: what movie executive thought that the formula for box office gold was putting Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell in skimpy studded leather outfits? As the comic relief they are painfully unfunny, and not even the kind of painful that a dominatrix would enjoy.
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Justin Guarini & Kelly Clarkson
From Justin to Kelly - 2003
Casting the first and second place finishers of "American Idol" in the lead roles of a movie is sort of like letting the "Top Chef" winners perform your appendectomy. You would think being on a TV show together would make both Justin and Kelly comfortable being in the presence of both a camera and each other, but they look lost without Simon around to berate them. At least the dismal failure of the movie insured that we wouldn't be subjected to "From Jordin to Sanjaya."
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Eddie Murphy & Eddie Murphy
Norbit - 2006
It took 25 years of hard work for Eddie Murphy to go from "Saturday Night Live" cast member to Oscar-nominated thespian. But it took just 2-1/2 minutes of the "Norbit" trailer to kill any hope he ever had of being taken seriously again. As both the nerdy title character and his overweight and domineering wife Rasputia, Murphy proved he can be supremely unpleasant no matter what size or gender.
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Woody Allen & Any Actress 20+ Years Younger than Him
It was always part of the comedy in Woody Allen's early movies how a bespectacled, awkward guy like him could end up with gorgeous women. Unfortunately, no one ever let Woody in on the joke. And by the time he was casting women like Téa Leoni (31 years younger than him) and Julia Roberts (32), it really stopped being funny. The most absurd: when his character in "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion" is seduced by Charlize Theron (four decades younger than Woody).
Wednesday, February 06, 2008Y
// sleeping ugly
yes. i'm sleeping at the lab. maybe for the rest of the week. haha.
-- THE END --
update: Friday, 4:00 a.m. - am at the lab for the 2nd night (morning?). mentaiko butter onigiri is finger-lickin'-good! but all this image "ERROR: input file size is incorrect" thing is driving me nuts! for hours!! x(
Tuesday, February 05, 2008Y
// kaki wayang ERA
welcome back, peeps! (trying to sound like a GG, eh? lol) anyways, i have a great link to give. it's kinda the reason i didn't even log in yesterday -- coz i've been watching movies all day long! yes, ALL DAY! it's kinda fun now that i could watch all these movies i've been wanting to without downloading them (tho i kinda waste much time n didn't make it to the lab, damn it!), since i've been really pissed with most of the files that people uploaded at those sites. (if u've been downloading movies, u might know what i mean.) imagine, u've waited for God-knows-how-long for it to finally finish, just so u could watch the "20-second-ad" asking u to download yet another software to view the file?!! wtf, right? so, back to the link. a fellow malaysian once opened it while we were having dinner (i actually "stormed" at his place and asked if he has any leftovers since i was "too tired" from my part-time. so he cook me some. haha), so that's when i first knew about it. but, at that time, i was still having this unneeded ego that it's better to download than waiting for the video to load, which is, yea, sometimes can be pretty annoying (trust me). but come to think of it, now i've watched a lot more movies a day than when i downloaded it! so who am i to bitch bout the slow streaming?? hehe. actually, am watching one right now (wait, three!), just logging in to update u n share the benefit (if u think that way). well then, guess i catch u later. oh, right! the link. here it is! ---->>> Movie Galaxy or google nabolister.com
p/s: now u know u love me, eh? haha. (sorry bout that.. GG fever, what can i say?!) =Þ
Saturday, February 02, 2008Y
// i'm a barbie girl...
well, for most of my childhood i spent my time with playing Barbie (which was not actually
that long, now that i think about it). for me, it's more of a prize for being a top 3 in school rather than a kid with the
oh-my-kid-loves-dolls-so-let's-buy-her-one kinda mom. heh.
but i never knew that Barbie is actually widely sold. i mean, being the #1 doll's best seller or whatever they called it nowadays, it never even once crossed my mind (hey, i was a kid, what do
i know?!). after years of leaving it behind, i was recently reminisced when i watched the "
just-to-waste-time" Bratz movie. (Bratz is another girls' doll that gives Barbie a great competition.) obviously, these kinda dolls has been more than just a little girl's playmate, but since my addiction for dolls had changed to addiction for
clothes, i don't see the point of buying a new doll anymore, when u can buy a nice top with the
same price!! hehehe.
Friday, February 01, 2008Y
// gimme more
gimme gimme.. gimme gimme.. MORE! says Britney. hehe. well, was browsing thru Vogue.co.jp today, the routine that i have when i'm in the lab -- browsing the internet, that is. not Vogue; and laid my eyes on this amazingly high-priced handbag by Gucci!! gosh, shopping is like my rehab and money is like the drug/alcohol. so without it, how can i even
go to rehab?? lol. now, now, shall we call Mr.Maeda?? (haha.
long story, no need to tell.)
