Computer Crash

I've had to get a new hard drive because mine crashed - taking everything I had with it. Nothing was able to be recovered. NOTHING!!

I lost all 4000+ of my songs for my Ipod and all my funny pictures, slide shows and movies people had sent me over the years - gone! And worse of all... my favourite websites!

I am slowly getting all my songs back onto the computer but it is a slow process. It's actually turned out to be a bit of a good thing because I had some songs that I had downloaded for a friend (which cost me money but they never offered to pay anything towards it), most of which I didn't like.

I think I'm going to have to back up my computer from now on so it doesn't happen again!

Movie Review: Jumper

Ace and his wife drove up to my place so we could go see this together.

It's actually a pretty good movie. I must admit it is a bit of a chick flick, but there is some really cool fight scenes - especially the one where the bus is involved! Hayden Christensen is hot in this. It's great that he won't be typecast after doing Star Wars.

Definitely one I will be buying on dvd.

Plot: David Rice always believed he was perfectly ordinary --- until he accidentally discovered he possessed a "talent" that is nothing less than extraordinary. David is a “JUMPER” who can teleport himself to the streets of New York and Tokyo, the ruins of Rome, and the summit of Mt. Everest. He can see twenty sunsets in one night, whisk his girlfriend around the world in the blink of an eye, and grab millions of dollars in a matter of minutes. But David’s global odyssey takes a deadly turn when finds himself relentlessly pursued by a secret organization sworn to kill Jumpers.

Forming an uneasy alliance with another Jumper, David becomes a key player in a war that has been raging for thousands of years. As these world-changing events unfold, David begins to discover the secrets and mythology behind his incredible ability.

A Surprise Birthday

I got a call from Ace at about 8 o'clock last night inviting me to his daughter's 5th birthday party for today at the children's playground in Kings Park. He said it was fairly easy to find. As I pointed out to him, I haven't been to Kings Park in over 20 years so had no idea where things were located.

It started at 3 and I only planned on staying for 2 hurs but didn't end up getting home until 9. I thought he meant the children's adventure playground but apparently there's a newer one on the outskirts of the park which is where they were.

At one point his son who is almost 3 couldn't be found. Ace and I went looking for him. I found him and we all headed back to the party for some food and games. But he disappeared again so I checked around the playground and then thought I would check the children's toilets just in case.

He was sitting on the toilet and was literally covered head to foot in you know what! I found Ace and told him his son needed him in the toilets (well, he's not mine so it's not my job to clean him up!)

30 plus minutes later out he comes, clothes soaking wet. Guess who had to keep him entertained in the sun while he dried off? You guessed right!

We didn't end up leaving until almost 7 and I helped them take all the presents back to their place and stayed while they were unwrapped - the kids were too hyped from the sugar and weren't really interested in opening the presents at the party.

It was great fun. Now they get to do it again in a few weeks for their son!

Midlife Crisis Anyone?

My step-brother hasn't been sleeping here for the last few weeks.

Apparently he's been staying with his new girlfriend, whom he had been seeing while still with the previous girlfriend (bastard). He's in his mid 40's, and his new squeeze is around my age, but his previous girlfriend was his age.

Sounds like a midlife crisis to me...

Movie Review: The Mist

I caught up with a friend for lunch at The Old Bailey and we decided to go and see a movie. It was a choice between this and Jumper.

The action in the movie was almost as good as the action between some patrons in the cinema.

About 20 minutes into the movie, a teenage boy at the back of the cinema started talking on his mobile phone, not bothering to get up and go outside, so another guy a few rows in front, got up and tried to usher the kid out of the cinema. Obviously the teen didn't want to go and he and the older guy had words, threatening to knock each other's lights out. The older guy then physically dragged the kid out. All in all it was over in 5 minutes, but entertaining nonetheless.

Plot: David Drayton and his young son Billy are among a large group of terrified townspeople trapped in a local grocery store by a strange, otherworldly mist. David is the first to realize that there are things lurking in the mist...deadly, horrifying things...creatures not of this world.

Survival depends on everybody in the store pulling together...but is that possible, given human nature? As reason crumbles in the face of fear and panic, David begins to wonder what terrifies him more: the monsters in the mist - or the ones inside the store, the human kind, the people that until now had been his friends and neighbours?

My Kind Of Pie

You Are Apple Pie

You're the perfect combo of comforting and traditional. You prefer things the way you've always known them. You'll admit that you're old fashioned, and you don't see anything wrong with that. Your tastes and preferences are classic. And classic never goes out of style. Those who like you crave security. People can rely on you to be true to yourself - and true to them. You're loyal, trustworthy, and comfortable in your own skin. And because of these qualities, you've definitely earned a lot of respect.

What Kind of Pie Are You?

Movie Review: Definitely, Maybe

3 movies with 3 different people in 2 days. I'm exhausted!

Went to a special screening of this tonight and thoroughly enjoyed it. The girl that plays Maya is the same girl that was in Signs with Mel Gibson. If you thought she was a scene stealer in that (remember the glasses of water?) then you'll love her in this.

Just don't take your man if he's not into 'chick flicks' but is definitely a must see for gal pals.

Plot: Will Hayes is in the midst of divorce when his 10-year-old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Will recounts to her the story of the three women who have shared his life. As Maya attempts to figure out which of the women became her mother she begins to understand the complexity of love and Will realizes that it's never too late to go back.

Movie Review: The Golden Compass

I won double passes to this - I actually entered a friend into a radio station competition as well as myself and we both won! We have been trying for several weeks to see this film, but it has been hard to find a time suitable for all 4 of us. I ended up giving a pass to someone from work and went and saw this with another friend from work.

There's a scene where the polar bears are fighting which is tad disturbing in a children's film though. The special effects and the scenes and scenery is just amazing.

I can't wait for the next installment.

Plot: An exciting fantasy adventure, set in a parallel world where people’s souls manifest themselves as small animals, talking bears fight wars, and children are mysteriously disappearing. At the centre of the story is a 12-year-old girl, Lyra, who sets out to find and rescue her best friend, Roger, and ends up on an extraordinary quest to save not only her own world, but ours as well.

Movie Review: 27 Dresses

Instead of our normal catch up over Vienna Chocolate in Osborne Park, Chook & I decided to go see this instead. I've been hanging out to see it for a while. I never got around to seeing Katherine Heigl in Knocked Up (will see it next 'movie night').

I think the scenes with the cab driver in the beginning were hillarious! Overall a very enjoyable film.

Plot: A woman who has made a career out of being a bridesmaid – but never a bride – faces her worst nightmare when her sister becomes engaged to the man of her dreams. Luckily, the wedding brings around the man who may change her bridesmaid status for good.

Random Facts 20

1. Due to its eye placement a donkey can see all of it’s hooves at the same time.
2. When the Eiffel Tower was built in 1884, Parisians referred to it as ‘the tragic lampost’.
3. Fish have been known to kiss up to 25 minutes.
4. If 80% of your liver were to be removed, the remaining part would continue to function.
5. There is more than 25,000km of neon tubing in the signs on the Strip and downtown Las Vegas.
6. A skink can be detected by a human over one kilometre away.
7. Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
8. A newborn hedgehog starts to get their spines within 24 hours of birth.
9. The art of mapmaking is older than the art of writing.
10. All hurricanes form over water and last about 10 days.