Sweet Dreams Do Come True

Scottish rock singer Annie Lennox has become a spokeswoman for the UN agency fighting HIV/AIDS.

She was appointed as UNAIDS' goodwill ambassador on Wednesday, and pledged to address the "daily brutality faced by millions of women and girls" suffering from the disease.

The 55-year-old musician achieved fame with The Eurythmics, whose song Sweet Dreams reached No 1 in the United States in 1983.

She has since performed as a solo artist and spoken out on political issues. Her SING campaign raises awareness of AIDS-infected women in southern Africa.

Lennox said: "If we are to end the cycle of human devastation triggered by the AIDS epidemic, we must address the rights of women and girls, and challenge their second-class citizen status, which puts them at greater risk of HIV."

Just Married

Sue Sylvester may be unlucky in love but the actor who plays her is not.

Jane Lynch wedded longtime partner, Lara Embry, Monday evening in an intimate ceremony held at Blue Heron Restaurant in Massachusetts, reports People magazine.

Ditching the androgynous tracksuits that have defined her Glee character, Lynch dressed up in dark pants and a creme blouse while Embry opted for a sleek grey and off-white dress.

The married couple celebrated at a small reception of 19 guests as a jazz band provided the entertainment for the evening, which wrapped up around 10 p.m.

Lynch told People magazine earlier this year, “It’s just the greatest thrill in the world to find somebody that you want to be with every day.” -AP

Captain EO back at Disneyland Paris : Exclusive Interview of WDI Imagineer Rick Rothschild

Captain EO will be back at Disneyland Paris on June 12 and to celebrate this event here is an exclusive interview with WDI Imagineer Rick Rothschild! Rick, who was part of the team who designed the original concept is of course talking about the return of the attraction at Discoveryland but also reveals that other concepts were first envisioned for a Michael Jackson attraction, back 20 years ago!

I did the interview some days ago at the Cafe Fantasia located inside the Disneyland Paris Hotel at the entrance of the park and it was a beautiful sunny day. So, i've shot some new panoramic pictures and for once - as it is not usual - before you watch the intervew i'm going to show you the place where it was filmed. Click on each panoramic to see them in larger scale.

Here is the entrance of the Disneyland Paris Hotel.



The Cafe Fantasia is located at the 2nd Floor, in the center, where the castle club is and the two main restaurants.



Here is a panoramic shot of the Cafe Fantasia...



...and another one on a different angle.



From the Cafe Fantasia you have a great view on the Fantasia Gardens located at the entrance of the park.



And on the other side of the hotel guests have a great view on Main Street USA.



Okay, now that you know where this interview was filmed it's time for the show with this two parts video of Imagineer Rick Rothschild! The videos are in HD, so watch them in full screen mode!








Let's end this article with this collection of Captain EO high-res pictures that Disneyland Paris just released. Also, if you have 3D glasses i remind you that you can watch in 3D on your computer screen the rare comic-bok 3D of Captain EO released a long time ago. It's HERE.


















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Girl's Having Fun In Singapore Restaurant.

Ummm... B- for the food. Cuz its too spicy and I can't taste any belacan. Forgot to snap the Sambal fish that I had. But its still a fun day outing with the gals. Its been such a long time since I went out with gals and have a fun shopping trip. But trust me,  you don't wanna go out shopping at a shopping district area on weekends. Its jam pack full of people. And I hate crowded place. Therefore, I always ended up somewhere quiet like my house ^__^

Down... on the Ground

This post was intended to analyze the similarities and differences between Up in the Air, Fish Tank and An Education, but unfortunately it proved to be a rather uninteresting exercise in surface observations and difficult prose. So I scrapped the idea, but salvaged the only thing worth taking from it: my disdain for Up in the Air. So apologies for the jumpiness and inconclusive arguments, but I thought it might be of some interest regardless. For those who haven't seen the films, I wouldn't recommend reading as this is infested with “spoilers.”

As we’re nearing the half-way point in 2010, I took a look back at what few ’09 releases I actually saw, and one trend really stood out: marital and parental escapism. In three of the notable award contenders of 2009—Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank and Lone Scherfig’s An Education—the very same third act revelation appears as the protagonists make an uninvited visit to the homes of their respective lovers, discovering that their romantic flames are not only frauds, but frauds with spouses and children.

For Up in the Air’s Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), a man whose views of romance are mirrored (of course) by his on-the-go career which keeps him in transit for the majority of his time, a hotel bar encounter with a woman like Alex Goran (Vera Farmiga) leads to the most ideal of no-strings-attached affairs. Alex is a woman, seemingly, like Ryan: professional, mature, horny and uninterested in anything related to our traditional notions of maintaining a romantic relationship with someone. Through several different scenarios where Ryan is forced to interact with people whose notions of relationship stability greatly differ from his own, he undergoes a change of heart and falls for Alex in a way he’s likely never felt for anyone else.

In an attempt to compare/contrast An Education and Fish Tank, I hit a dead end, as they’re almost too similar. Both feature teenage girls as protagonists, their older love interests (Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Fassbender) are deceptively charming and both films happen to be directed by women. The only thing truly dividing them from a narrative perspective is their place in time and the issue of class. An Education’s Jenny (Carey Mulligan) comes from a typical middle class English family in the early 1960s, while Fish Tank’s Mia (Katie Jarvis) lives in the outskirts with her young, hot, single mother (Kierston Wareing) and little sister (Rebecca Griffiths). Their differences in quality, which is a steep one, can best be chalked up to the flatness and dryness of Scherfig’s images against the vividness and vibrancy of Arnold’s.

With surprising consistency, Jenny, Mia and Ryan’s worlds are all crushed through uninvited visits to their respective lovers’ homes. It was, after all, too good to be true for each of them, but the lessons aren’t all the same. For Up in the Air, Alex’s “other life” becomes just one of the film’s infuriatingly heavy-handed views of the traditional family structure. Alex is not only villainized through the revelation but all of the refreshing qualities that Ryan found in her morph into the traits of an unhappy wife and mother acting out. While it seemed relatively clear that Ryan’s young co-worker/traveling companion Natalie Keener’s (Anna Kendrick) function in the film was to give (false) validation to Ryan’s beliefs, Natalie’s purpose changes when the film places its scarlet letter upon Alex, as she starts to work as a defense for the screenwriters (and novelist, I suppose, though I haven’t read the book) in showing us that all women aren’t cruel, manipulative, heart-stomping adulteresses. It’s hard to determine whether the simple, vile justification of Alex’s away-from-home behavior or the nauseating placement of the interview footage of the real people laid off from their jobs where they all emphasize the importance of family is what ultimately destroys Up in the Air, but both elements certainly succeed in ridiculing the protagonist… or maybe we should have never trusted a filmmaker who tried to garner sympathy for a character who crushes other people’s lives as a trade.

All three films are available on Blu-ray and DVD in the UK. Up in the Air and An Education are available on Blu-ray and DVD in the US, and Fish Tank will be released by Criterion later in the year.

Editor's Note: Tomorrow wednesday will be the big article of the week on D&M with an exclusive Imagineer video interview and more!
In the meantime, don't miss the last news about Disneyland's future in the new Al Lutz update on Miceage HERE

TAG: Would You Rather

Saw this tag thing on Dottie K and thought that it would be fun to actually write up a post. I think some people might be interested in getting to know me better, and I'm definitely interested to know myself better (yeah, you can actually do some soul searching while answering these kinda questions)

The rules:
* Copy the picture and put it into your own post
* Answer all the questions
* Tag as many people as you like
* Tell them that you've tagged them
* See what they've answered! :)

1. Be extremely beautiful or extremely intelligent?
Ans: Extremely beautiful. Cuz I'm already intelligent, muahaha, and people will still employ you if you are dumb and pretty.

2. Go without brushing your teeth for a year or go without washing your hair for a year?
Ans: I would say, without brushing my teeth. I can always shave off my hair.

3. Be Rich or Famous?
Ans: Rich $$$

4. Have an amazing shoe collection or an amazing makeup collection?
Ans: Shoe Collection. I love Louboutin more than Nars apparently.

5. Be able to sing or be able to dance?
Ans: Dance. Keep mah bahdeh in shape.

6. Be stranded on a Desert Island or in the Desert?
Ans: Desert Island. At least there's like 0.001% chance of survival.

7. Have a Computer or a TV?
Ans: Computer. Totally can't live without it. I would cry for days if my laptop breaks down.

8. Wear spots or stripes for the rest of your life?
Ans: Stripes.

9. Drink out of a Teacup or a Mug?
Ans: Mug. Teacup?? That's not enough for my fix of Milo.

10. Receive a bunch of Flowers or a box of chocolate?
Ans: Chocolate. Cuz I can't eat them flowers

11. Have a hug or a Kiss from someone you love?
Ans: Kiss. Share my saliva baby!!

12. Wear Converse or Stilettos?
Ans: Converse.

13. Meet Johnny Depp or Robert Pattinson?
Ans: Johny Depp. No idea who the other guy is..

14. Be a Fairy or a Mermaid?
Ans: Fairy. I seriously need some magical powers right now. And who needs a tail when you can have legs.

15. A Coffee or a Cup of Tea?
Ans: Tea.

16. Pink nails or Blue nails?
Ans: Blue. Pink nails are er... bo..ring...

17. Live somewhere sunny or somewhere cold?
Ans: Cold. That's why I'm not in Malaysia.

18. Have an amazing house or an amazing car?
Ans: House. Can't bathe and urinate in a car, can I?

19. Be kind or funny?
Ans: Kind.

20. Eat Sweets or Cake?
Ans: Cake. Especially those chocolatey ones.

21. Hold a Tarantula or a Snake?
Ans: Eeerrrr..... Taran..... No... Sn..... No no no....OK, Neither.

22. Wear a necklace or a ring?
Ans: Necklace.

23. Laugh or Smile?
Ans: Smile.

24. Be hated or be a hater?
Ans: Be hated. Becoming a hater makes me grow more wrinkles.

25. Wear Pearls or Beads?
Ans: Pearls.

26. If you had to choose, lose your sight or your hearing?
Ans: Hearing. I don't wanna miss the chance to see my kids and grandkids.

27. Have lots of money or lots of friends?
Ans: Money. Yeah, I'm materialistic like that.

28. Love or be loved?
Ans: Be loved.

Phew... That's a long long process. And I tag Cath J, Sister, Elle, Hui Leng, and all the other bloggers out there. Leave me a comment and tell me that you had done this tag cuz I'm dying to know all about you. Cross my heart.