Greetings from Chile.

{ January 7, 2010 @ 5:08 pm } · { vacation }
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Yes, I am in the lovely country on Chile. The longest country on earth… I think. At the moment it has been extremely hot! I have not experienced this type of weather for a long time. Ok maybe at the start of the year but that was 12 months ago! It’s been 30+ everyday for the month of December while in Melbourne it has been raining. I just can’t believe it.

Anyways my time here has been fairly good besides the fact that Chileans think they have the right to say things about your body and insult you in a way that you can’t defend yourself because they say it as a question and you can’t defend yourself because of the language barrier you have. I kid you not, I was sitting have Christmas dinner with my family and my cousins husband’s father just asked me ‘oh you’re so fat’ and ‘how much do you weigh?’…. How was I suppose to respond to that?¿? I feel like whenever I meet new people I have to walk on egg shells. When I first arrived I knew my family would comment on my weight but they are family, my family, not some random cousins husband father or a friend. It’s the most frustrating thing about being here. And I don’t have my family support either. Only my mum’s sister and brother and my dad’s father plus cousins and so on.

I find it amazing that I get I miss the little things from home. Like reading a book or watching a movie without subtitles. Little things. Also how much I miss my mother and father and my two sisters. It feels like I haven’t seen them in a year. But now that I am away I am now grateful for everything they do for me and now they are now grateful for everything I do for them. I use to be my sisters’ driver because my mum gets tired all the time, now they don’t have me to take advantage of and I don’t have them to take advantage of them either.

I have come to realise that I have been living a easy life, a safe life, and that is not what life is suppose to be like. It’s suppose to be enjoyed. I am living with people who have nothing but are very happy with their lives. Even though money would help them a lot. I am not saying that they don’t have anything. They have a little something that we don’t have in Australia or in any other developed country. They have the struggle to survive and sometimes live without the basic items. But they are happy and they don’t complain as much as us in the developed countries that we live in.

Well I should just publish this post before i edit the crap out of it and never post it!

Chile

{ November 2, 2009 @ 12:26 am } · { Random }
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Man, I have not written in the this blog for ages and I feel like I let myself down!

Well I have transferred uni courses until next year and I have not moved out.

AND the biggest news of all is:

I am going to Chile for 2 months!!

YAY I am soo excited. I haven’t been since summer 05/06. I get to see my family and experience overseas travel alone for the first time.

Anyway I just wanted to Update the blog and hopefully will write in it while i’m overseas :-)

Andy McDermott

{ July 11, 2009 @ 5:17 am } · { Books }
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Hi.

I know I haven’t done any book reviews or even mentioned reading on this blog but I feel a urge to write about this Author and his wonderful books. They are called The Hunt for Atlantis, The Tomb of Hercules, The Secret of Excalibur and The Covenant of Genesis.

I currently own 3 of his books and I might go get his new one soon. It is a shame he isn’t more well known. His first book is called The Hunt For Atlantis and it is one of my favourite books of all time. It has action, thrills and romance. It is just perfect. But please don’t be put off by the romance part though it isn’t full on in the book.

His books have two main characters, Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase. Nina is a archaeologist and Eddie is a bodyguard who is assigned to protect Nina in the first book.

Nina is a archaeologist but she isn’t another Indiana Jones. Although she does get herself into sticky situations but I promise there is no whip action and she does have her body guard to help her out in those situations. Eddie is a retired English Military spy guy and he is very knowledgeable on how to protect and not be caught by the bad guys in nearly all of the situations he gets in.

Trust me it is a great book and his other books are great also so go and borrow them or buy them because they should be read by everyone who likes thrillers and adventure novels.

I am so terrible at reviews and summaries so I give you a video of Andy McDermott telling you about his first book “The Hunt for Atlantis”.

And talking about books, I am rereading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince so I can watch the movie next week. I just love comparing the movie to the book. I can’t wait till they release all of the movies so I can reread the whole book series then I will probably have a Harry Potter Movie Marathon over a long weekend. ( I am such a dork :-P )

Michael Jackson’s Memorial

{ July 8, 2009 @ 6:27 am } · { Music }
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Hi.

I just stayed up all night to watch this special event. I truly want to make a tribute post about Michael Jackson and I am still working on it.

In the mean time I just want to say that seeing his kids at the service made me cry so much. It would be the worst thing to lose a parent that young. I just want to hug them and make it better for them. I hate children being sad and alone. Not like they are alone as they have a lot of family but it still breaks my heart for them.

And at the end of the memorial, when Paris Katherine Jackson said:

“I just want to say ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine,” she said, as her relatives surrounded her. “And I just wanted to say I love him so much.”

That just made me bawled my eyes out. I could feel her pain. I don’t think anyone in the world who was watching that did not cry.

Paris Katherine Jackson saying a few words at the memorial

Also when Jamian Jackson sang “Smile”, I thought that was the most perfect song to sing at the memorial. I have never heard it before but it has become one of my favourite songs now. It was so beautiful! Before that though Brooke Shield said “Smile, though your heart is aching”. I think that is the most beautiful quote I have ever heard. I am so awestruck.

Here is Paris Katherine Jackson saying her tearful goodbye.
Embedded video from CNN Video

My New Weight Loss Page

{ July 5, 2009 @ 6:03 am } · { Random }
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Hi.

I’ve decided to do another page on my blog. If you look on the sidebar you can see my pages and there is one called My Weight Loss Journey and it is my way of documenting my year of losing weight. And I will update it when I feel the need to.

I will talk about how much I’ve lost and my condition involving PCOS and other topics on this journey of mine.

I do appreciate comments but not  nasty or rude comments so please none of those please.

The Box

{ June 30, 2009 @ 5:34 am } · { movies }
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Hi.

I think today’s theme of the posts is horror/thriller movies. Who doesn’t like a good horror movie? I think it is because I can hear the wind outside and the rain.

Ok, this movie stars Cameron Diaz, James Marsden and Frank Langella. The concept of the movie is that a married couple are having money issues and one night a box comes to their door step with a button inside of it. Then the next day a man goes thier house and explains that if they press the button it will kill only one person, anywhere in the world and they will receive a million dollars but if they don’t press it well all hell breaks lose. Well the decision is a simple one isn’t?

I will defiantly watch this movie when it comes out! 29 September 2009 in Australia, 30 September 2009 in the USA, 4 December 2009 in the UK and 4 February 2010 in Czech Republic.

Check out the trailer and tell me what you think of it.

The Invention Of Lying

{ June 30, 2009 @ 5:15 am } · { movies }
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Hi.

I thought this movie already came out in cinemas and I just skipped it. Weird when that happens. You see a trailer for it, you forget about the movie and then when you see the trailer again you think you’re having a deja vu moment.

It stars Ricky Gervais, Jonah Hill, Tina Fey, Rob Lowe, Jennifer Gawner, Jason Bateman (ooo I love that guy!) and Patrick Stewart as the narrator.

It will come out on September 2009!

But I have to say that I don’t like Ricky Gervais. I don’t enjoy his stand up routines. He seems a bit sexist, racist and just rude. But I guess that’s how comedians get their audience to laugh.

But alas I will go see this movie because it does look somewhat funny and interesting even if the concept is very stupid.

What do you think?

ZombieLand

{ June 30, 2009 @ 4:57 am } · { movies }
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Hi.

If you thought the obsession with vampires is bad then you better get prepared for the zombie obsessed.
I personally do like zombie movie but not to the extreme like most people.

Anyway back to the trailer. This new zombie movie stars Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone (Super Bad, The House Bunny), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine, My Sister’s Keeper) and Jesse Adam Eisenberg (The Village, Adventureland). It is a comedy about Zombies that have taken over Earth (Maybe only the USA).

Looks great and funny and I just can’t wait to see it! It comes out in October in the USA so not sure about Australia :-(

Enjoy!

The Last Airbender

{ June 30, 2009 @ 4:41 am } · { movies }
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Hi.

I found a new movie teaser. I really hate teasers! They don’t tell you the whole story. Further investigating has led me to discover this movie is based on a Nickelodeon cartoon series. The trailer is very enticing and leaves you wanting more. I was surprised it is based on a cartoon as I thought it as based on a book. But no matter. Oh and it comes out Winter 2010 in Australia I would guess as it is out in the USA summer in 2010.

So check it out and tell me what you think.

The Stepfather

{ June 30, 2009 @ 4:27 am } · { movies }
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Hi.

This is the trailer of the re-make of the 1987 movie “The Stepfather”.

I haven’t watched the original so I can not make a comparison or judge between the original and the re-make.

Anyway in saying that I do like the trailer and it looks alright. I got scared at the end actually but it does have the same feeling and look as Prom Night, if you get what I mean.

Tell me what you think.

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