Autumn Splendor

How can you not love Autumn?
The only good thing about winter (apart from skiing) is that Autumn precedes it.
I love renewal.
And I love Chris Dustin's pictures.
So gorgeous and serene.
Perfection.

"A grave and monumental error"

"This is indeed a grave and monumental error."

(Observation by Rabbi Chaim Ingram re the misprint in advertisement published in the London Jewish Tribune.)

I Need Some MAC Brush

190 Foundation Brush, £24.50

194 Concealer Brush, £15.00

116 Blush Brush, £22.00

These sky-rocketing prices really does not suit any make-up brushes and some might call it crazy, but after I bought one of MAC's eye-shadow brushes, I fell totally in love with the softness of the bristles and totally am not using any other brushes.. Vain, you call me?? Yeah, probably..

Ghostly Experience

My laptop was "ACTIVATED" in the middle of the night 4am, by itself!!! And I'm seriously not kidding cuz Yoong and I were so sure that my laptop was off before we went to bed. And its a day after Halloween. I even woke up groggily to off it -__-


Spooky~~~~

Reasons for the paranomal activity:

1. It restarted itself after 4 hours after updating the system and shut down.

2. A super smart virus corrupted my laptop and start the system.

3. Yoong was sleep walking and turn my laptop on.

4. There's SOMETHING living in the house and trying to scare us!!!!!

The Decade List: Le voyage du ballon rouge (2007)

Le voyage du ballon rouge [Flight of the Red Balloon] – dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien

[Edited together from previous entries]

There are so many singular aspects of Flight of the Red Balloon, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s first film made outside of Asia, to marvel at that it's almost stupefying that the film encompasses them with such ease. Firstly, there's Mark Lee Pin Bing's cinematography, with is so ravishing in its golden hues that my eyes almost couldn't handle it. The Parisian locale glimmers in ways the city never has before, rivaled in its majesty only by Denis Lavant, Juliette Binoche and an array of fireworks on the Pont Neuf in Leos Carax’s Lovers on the Bridge.

Which brings us to the second element, Juliette Binoche, an actress so gifted as to become nearly unrecognizable in nearly every film she appears, a “character actor” and a “leading lady” all at once. Binoche makes acting look effortless, and I think that causes one to underestimate her incredible skill. There’s a moment near the end of the film where, distraught, Binoche, playing an actress/single mother, tries to wipe away her tears as she asks her young son (Simon Iteanu) how his day went. That single moment, the way Binoche provides so much feeling and complexity in a single gesture, is what great acting is made of.

And finally (though you could easily highlight other aspects), there's Hou Hsiao-hsien, the most important ingredient. Commissioned by the Musée d’Orsay to celebrate their 20th anniversary (which also brought us another of the decade’s best films in Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours), the director uses Albert Lamorisse’s classic fantasy The Red Balloon [Le ballon rouge] as a vivid visual cue, though the balloon itself is absent for a good portion of the film but, more impressively, allows it to uncover a beautiful sadness through the imagination of a young boy. Flight of the Red Balloon is an absolute marvel.

With: Juliette Binoche, Simon Iteanu, Song Fang, Hippolyte Girardot, Louise Margolin, Anna Sigalevitch
Screenplay: Hou Hsiao-hsien, François Margolin
Cinematography: Mark Lee Pin Bing
Country of Origin: France
US Distributor: IFC Films

Premiere: 17 May 2007 (Cannes Film Festival)
US Premiere: 7 October 2007 (New York Film Festival)

Outfit Of The Day

Cropped-neck top: New Look, Short-sleeve cardigan: River Island, Jeans: Malaysia, Belt: Next, Necklace: Primark and Topshop, Bangles: H&M

Why is it that my eyes gets so sensitive after I apply any make-up (mascara, liner, shadow, concealer) near the eyes?? Its like so burning painful when my eyes meets with hot steam or when my eyes are itchy, it get super itchy than normal. Maybe because of the brand?? But I don't think so cuz I've been changing brands every now and then. Is there any make-up brands for sensitive eyes??

Philippe Grandreiux's Un lac Makes Its North American Premiere 2 November

So I kind of ignored the AFI Film Festival line-up, expecting that it'd follow along the lines of all the year's previous fests, but to my surprise, I found that Philippe Grandrieux's Un lac [A Lake] will be making its North American premiere, after its official unveiling at last year's Venice Film Festival, on 2 November. Grandrieux is such a difficult filmmaker that it's easy to understand why only one of his films have made it stateside, even if it's frustrating to think so. He's brave and cinematic, which makes the fact that I've seen his two previous films, Sombre and La vie nouvelle, on home video so irritating. Though I haven't seen Un lac, I would recommend those in LA to check it out based solely on his previous films, and if you do, let me know how it stands up.