This used to be a private blog, I am now going to change it over to a book review blog. Hope you will stick around to see what I am currently reading, what I think about the books that I have recently read.
Feel free to send recommendations for books
Have any of you
seen The Vow starring Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams? My sister wanted to
see this movie in the cinema, but after I saw the trailer, I figured I did not
want a repeat of our The Notebook catastrophe. O yes you don’t know about our
Notebook episode.
When The Notebook
was in the cinema, I think I was in about 10th grade, I am not sure
at this moment. A bunch of friends and I decided to go watch it. We did not
really know anything about the movie; we just figured it will be a great movie
to watch on a girl’s night out. So we bought our tickets, got some popcorn and
cold drinks, went into the movies all dolled-up, looking pretty. When the movie
was over we had to rush to the bathroom. Needless to say our mascara was all
over our faces instead of just on our eyes. We were about 6 girls and between
us, we had a tissue per person. We were not prepared for this movie. The best
part was getting to the bathroom and seeing that we weren’t the only girls who
were unprepared. The bathroom was filled with girls trying to fix their makeup.
We burst out laughing then.
So you can imagine
my reluctance. So we waited for the DVD, which came out last Monday. We rent it
over the weekend. Let me tell you I was very glad we watched it at home. I
could pause and get more tissues. This movie is one of the best movies I have
watched in a while. The story was moving. I fell in love with Channing’s
character. This guy had to get his wife to fall in love with him, twice!
The movie is based
on the actual relationship between Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, who after being
married for 10 weeks they were in a car accident were Krickitt suffered brain
injuries, and Kim’s love was so deep that he had to make Krickitt fall in love
with him again, since she could not remember him, or their relationship.
Here is a link to
the trailer, and if you can, rent it. It is worth it.
So last night we went out on a family date. This doesn’t happen very
often since my parent work and then they don’t want to go out or there isn’t
anything showing all of us want to watch. So last night it was a tossup between:
What to expect... and Madagascar. But since our local cinema we usually go to have
a special on Wednesdays if you are a club member we thought maybe we should go
and see Madagascar, since it will be much cheaper. But alas their system was
down so no cheap 3D movies for the van Heerden family. Since we had some
Wednesday Spur special tickets I ended up paying only for 2 of the 4 tickets.
Score!
The movie was very funny. I especially liked Cameron Diaz and Anna
Kendrick. I liked her in Twilight Saga, but in this movie she really showed she
can be in big roles. Elizabeth Banks was also amazing. She got to play the lady
that everything goes wrong with. She gets all the symptoms, and she has a
terrible meltdown at a conference. It was incredibly funny.
There is also a gang of boys in the movie which gets the dads ready for
fatherhood. They walk in a park and gives advice, and share secrets about what
they have done wrong with their children. I loved the scene where they walk and
try and look cool.
I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone. In my book it gets a
solid 4 out of 5 stars.
So over the weekend I caved in and went to see Snow White and the
Huntsman.
I thought it was great, my sister did not. I loved Kirsten Steward in
this movie; it was as if the role was written for her. Charlize Theron was
great as the evil queen. And of course her being an ex-South African also helps
J
Kirsten's signature look
The evil Queen
The actors really pulled you into the movie; they submerged you into the
story and made you want to help fight the evil queen, cry when one of the
dwarves died.
The evil queen has a curse on her where she can stay young forever; all
she needs to do is take the youth of young beautiful woman. She marries the
Snow Whites father and kills him on their wedding night. She then makes it look
like an attack on the castle, and hides Snow White in the dungeon. After the
queen ‘takes’ another beautiful girls youth, she turns to her mirror and asks
the age old question “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them
all?” the mirror then replies that on this day there is one other who is
fairest of them all, and that she will either be the queens downfall or the key
to eternal youth.
Snow White then escapes after the queen’s brother goes to fetch her, she
goes into the dark forest and the queen sends an expert of the Dark forest to
get her.
The adventures in this movie is really capturing and definitely worth
it.
And of course it helps that the Huntsman is super cute ;)
The last song that plays while the credits are rolling is from Florence
and the Machine, Breath of life. It is one of the best songs, the tune plays in
my head the whole time enjoy:
Is it just me or is this month flying by, this is so scary. Lately I feel that the smallest thing sets me of either ranting about something or crying about the smallest thing, I just hate this feeling. So this week I have gone through endless amounts of tissues and a lot of saying sorry afterwards. I think the thing that is really triggering this feeling is the fact that my contract is expiring at the end of the month, and I still haven’t found anything for April, and the neurotic me hates the thought of sitting at home and not having something to do. I know the right thing will come, but still it makes life just a little bit hard.
Yesterday I was in Kroonstad for work, only to get there (it’s a 2.5 hour drive) and realise the cabling wasn’t done. So we ranted a bit and then got back into the car and drove back. So we went to Kroonstad and back all before lunch. So next week we will be going again, hopefully the cabling will have been done by that time. For those of you wondering, Kroonstad is the Afrikaans for Crown City.
A is Bloemfontein and B is Kroonstad
For those of you sitting there in anticipation to hear about Semi Soet, it was fantastic, one of the best Afrikaans movies in a long time, I hate to say it but some of the Afrikaans movies lately believe they have to be full of nonsense and cursing for people to watch it, this movie has none of that and that makes it one of the best movies. The story is about Jaci who wants to save the company from the mean “Jackal” who threatens to buy their company, to get a big contract she pretends to have a fiancé since the company wanting to hire them wants someone who has family values, she asks for a model from the agency where they usually get their models. The owner agrees and tells her he will send up a model as soon as possible. Jaci then waits in the lobby for the model and the “Jackal” walks in at that moment, she mistakes him for the model and he plays along with her charade not telling her who he is. The wine estate who wants to hire them then invites the two rival company’s representatives to the estate so they can make their pitches to the board. Jaci believes everything is going according to plan until she finds out the Jackal is her “fiancé”. They end up together after he buys their company and instead of breaking it up into pieces he gives them the chance to expand their business. This is a wonderful story and I fell in love with it. A definite must buy.
I found this music video over at itsgoodtobequeen it’s really touching and I totally love it, if anyone can please give me the name of a cd so I can try and download/buy it, please leave a comment. And check out itsgoodtobequeen, I love her blog.
Enjoy the rest of your week tonight I am going to our youth meeting at church, can’t wait, I am really enjoying the chance to get to meet new people and grow in my faith with a bunch of awesome people, we had some homework for this week. We each got pieces of paper that has a member of the group’s names on them. And we had to write on them one of the following: “I am glad you are in the group because ...” or “I appreciate you for the following reasons...” for me this was very hard since I have only talked to some of these people once maybe twice. But I think I did a good job.
Enjoy the rest of your week tonight I am going to our youth meeting at church, can’t wait, I am really enjoying the chance to get to meet new people and grow in my faith with a bunch of awesome people, we had some homework for this week. We each got pieces of paper that has a member of the group’s names on them. And we had to write on them one of the following: “I am glad you are in the group because ...” or “I appreciate you for the following reasons...” for me this was very hard since I have only talked to some of these people once maybe twice. But I think I did a good job.
