Corona Time

2020 has become the most surprising year. In just 5 months time, everything change like in a roller coaster. Floods, Corona, Work From Home, American Riot, seems like every year you will get new surprises. It's almost like Forest Gumps said about chocolate, but the problem is, it's not chocolate, this is more like a stale bread that already filled with mushrooms. 

So many people have died during this pandemic, I already stayed at home for more than 3 days. At first I thought, wew this will be like holiday but paid. I could take a nap every day, and just enjoying every day in the bed. How I was wrong. Work from home apparently made you with no time boundaries, you could physically in front of the computer in long hours, working. Conference calls with clients, internal discussion, webinars, planning, and so many other things. One thing that I should be grateful is, I'm still working and get paid, unlike other Industries that suffers with great loss, my company is still surviving. 

Stay at home for many months made you crave your friends, your colleagues, longing for going out, sipping coffee in a cafe, its like all those things you used to do will only become memories. I miss the sea, I miss walking on sidewalks, eating ramen, miss my friends and their laughter. How all the small things became so precious, I wonder when time will go back the way it used to be. 

This pandemic really teach us how life is so precious, how relationship between human is the power to do anything. I valued my family more, I rely on them more, and enjoy every moment I share with them. So, my advice for you now, try your best and value your family more. Love their weirdness, love their craziness and just do your best. Just do your best. 

We have 6 months more in 2020, we don't know how many surprises that will come against us. But lets try to follow the ride and enjoy it. 

Reply 1988 - Korean Drama Review

If you ever ask me about Korean Drama, there are only 3 Korean Drama that I like. That is :

1. Coffee Prince

2. Full House

3. Reply1988

Today, I want to talk about the third one. 

Its a story about family, so if you're looking to have a funny, heart warmer story about family this is the right drama. Unlike any other Korean Dramas, there are not so many good looking people in this drama. As you can see from the poster above. 

The story is about an alley that filled with 5 families. They are neighbours. They lived together for almost two decades, their children has become a gang of friends. One family, Mr Kim and his wife the lady cheetah is a rich family. The other one is the poor one, who lives on the basement of Mr. Kim's house. Across Mr. Kim's house there are a widow with two children, and also a widower with a son named Choi Taek. 

The gang of friends consist of 4 boys and a girl. The girl named is Deok Sun, the other four boys is Sam Woo, Jung Hwan/Pal, Doe Ryong and Choi Taek. Forgive me if I wrote it wrong. They all grew together since they are at the age of 3 or 4. Every time, almost every night they will gather around Choi Taek's room to watch TV, eating ramen, and chatting. They also go to school together, every single day. Could you imagine the closeness.

So, Sam Woo likes Duk Seon's big sister, they become a couple for years until something happen along the way. The conflict starts when two of the gang member likes Duk Seon as a girl. This is the interesting part. 

The other interesting part is the parents. Like our own parents, the parents has so many lies about many things to protect their family, and also crazy habits that they keep their entire life. You will laugh looking at the parents, it's like looking your own family with their craziness. We got to admit, family do made us crazy at times, but they are the biggest supporter in our life. They will give everything to see us succeed. 

You will start to value your family, accepting their craziness. Laughing with the craziness of the casts, and enjoying their winning. Its like you become part of their families at the end of the drama. 16 episodes is not long for this drama. 

I could still memorize the story after the drama, unlike any other korean dramas that just pass me, and can't remember a thing. This one is a gem. So, please do watch the first 3 episodes and see if you enjoy the drama. 

I give this drama 4/5 stars!

Bohemian Rhapsody - A story of fulfilling your destiny

I guess not everyone as lucky as Freddie Mercury, he knows what he was born to be. He was born to be a rockstar! He was born to be a music genius, one of the best performer in history. Born as Farrookh Bulsara, he changed his name into Freddie Mercury.

The scene started a small paki was working at an airport, after his job is done, he wrote on a piece of paper, and then went to the college bar and met his band mates, Brian and Roger. Not only them, he met his love of his life, the only woman who he cling into for the rest of his lives, Mary. I love Mary, she looks gorgeus in her blonde hair, pointy nose and beautiful eyes. Compare to Freddie, she could get more handsome man, rather than a man with weird teeth.

Just like any band, the band was not agree on to anything, they argue over songs, over cars, well boys will always be boys. But one thing they are sure of, their songs were about outcast, they were all outcasts and all of the listeners are outcast. You could feel that their songs are not common words, oh after you read this, please do listen to all of Queen's songs. If you had a chance to watch the movie, I guarantee you will search through their songs. You will hear how they shout about life, about heartache, about not just being a background noise, about being a champion, about poetry and opera, and many more.

Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury really play it well, it's like he becomes him in a way. I specifically love when he stands in the rain talking to Mary and talk to him how his circles is dragging him down. Every star syndrome is how those stars felt so lonely with their fame, and their circles. This is where the your circles could be your biggest enemy, where they could ruin your whole life.


I truly love this English Band more and more after watching this movie. Their songs is definitely enters my playlist, my favorite is Don't Stop Me Now. You should watch and listen to every song, start with their hits, and hopefully you will understand what they are trying to tell the world.

So much flashlight in this movie, so many fashion statements that were beautifully placed and only Freddie Mercury that could pull it off. I love how Gwillym Lee acts as Brian May who was the most calm gentleman in the band, and off course how John Deacon didn't really care if everybody is more famous than him. Not only Freddie, Queen has Roger played by Ben Hardy, the playboy of the band.
It's a complete outcast band and the most perfect one!

The ending is SUPERB! You will enjoy the last 20 minutes feeling Freddie's energy and what he actually wants to say to the world. How the world follow his lead and have fun with him, and how AIDS doesn't really change a thing! He's truly a legend.

I luvv this movie, I think you should see it, and tell me your comments! I give it 4/5 stars!

Movie Review - The Nun

One of the most anticipated movie in 2018, The Nun. After the successful movie of Conjuring, and if you like horror movie, this is one of the must see movie. 

Cast by Taissa Farmiga as Sister Irene and Demian Bichir as Father Burke, and Jonas Bloquet as Frenchie. If you're one of the American Horror Story follower, you must have know Taissa Farmiga very well. 

In 1950's deep in the romanian woods, there's a monastery of St. Carta. Placed in a castle, it was a very big convent, with lots of cemeteries on the outside. One of the interesting thing of the cemeteries is the bell hanging on each of the grave. Well, what is a horror movie without the cemetery? You will find out how the bell works after watching the movie.

Back to the main cast, Sister Irene and Father Burke was assigned by the Vatican to investigate the murder in the St Carta monastery. As we all know, every investigation must under the knowledge of the Vatican. So, Sister Irene and Father Burke met Frenchie, the boy who found the body that hanging in front of the door of the monastery. 

To investigate they have to stay at the lodge near the monastery, and it doesn't take long before the ghosts lure them to the convent, where the real actions wait. 

For me, The Nun is quite horrific, the dark sets, the cemeteries, the convent, it just perfect set for a horror movie. Maybe after this movie you will see nuns differently, especially after sunsets. The only thing that annoys me is the ending. I thought the execution in the end will be grand, but unfortunately my expectations was too high. After all the horrific actions at the beginning and in the middle, the ending was quite too fast. Valak felt less evil and scary. 

But, maybe that's just me. Compared to Conjuring, this is like soup with less salt. Almost perfect, but there's something missing at the end. The Nun get 3/5 stars for me.

Watch the movie, and let me know if you find this movie quite horrific or not at the comment below!

XOXO

Movie Review - Searching (2018)

This is one of the most talked about movie lately. No big posters here and there, no big budget marketing in TV, malls or any kind of the usual thing we see. I never know about this movie too until one of my favorite twitter dude shares about this movie, then it caught my attention.

Searching, made only 15,566,043 USD world wide according to IMDB, with also scores 7,9/10 in IMDB. So, if you're looking for a new movie to watch this weekend, well, this could be it.

Starred by John Cho as David Kim, a father that has a perfect family. A beautiful wife and a daughter. Until cancer took his wife, and the family changed into a distant relationship. This is very common, when the glue is missing, the relationship became distant. One day, David was face timing his daughter about the house chores, and ask her daughter to do it as soon as possible. The next morning, he found out that her daughter never came home from her study group.

This movie will enlight you, if ever one of your family member or your loved ones ever missing. But don't forget, the more you dig, the more secrets revealed.

David thought he knew his daughter, he thought he knew her daily life, her favorite places, her favorite friends. But the moment his daughter is missing, he realized he knew nothing about her.

This movie is filled with lots of details, like a puzzle, one by one is crafted into one big picture. The best thing that I love about Searching is the plot twist is great. Just when you thought you already figure it out, there's always surprises at the corner. Tailored into a great big picture this movie is definitely worth to watch.

I don't want to spoil the story much, cause it will ease the surprises. Before you watch it, delete all your thoughts, follow all the cues, and enjoy the storyline.

This is one of the best storyline in a movie I have watched this year, so I give Searching 4/5 stars. If you have watch the movie, share your thoughts with me in the comments below.

XOXO

Movie Review - Hereditary 2018

This movie probably one of the most anticipated movie for horror movie lovers this year. Hereditary is cast by Toni Collete, Milly Shapiro, Alex Wolff and Gabriel Byrne. 

The movie opened with a scene of a funeral, apparently the grandma has died. Toni Collete as Annie or the mother of this family is a miniature artist, she creates buildings with people in it, where I thought this movie is leading into a vodoo thingy. The family had a big house and a tree house nearby. That morning, Charlie or Milly Shapiro is sleeping in the tree house again. From first glance, you will know that there's just something wrong with Charlie. 

After a week the grandma died, there's so many weird things happens in the house. There's this light that just passes by, or shadows that appears here and there. The trigger happens when Charlie had an accident. This is the only spooky scene in the movie I suppose, all of the other scenes are just riddles that just dying to be found out.

Hereditary presents a very different kind of horror, maybe thriller would suit it, if you compare it to the other famous movie like Conjuring or Insidious. This is actually beyond my expectations, gory in few scenes, but not too horror for me. 

You have to watched it very carefully, or else you won't understand about the story presented. Toni Collete acts is quite amazing, especially her outfit with the linen, I just love it!

Well, you should see it! And tell me how it goes..for me, this movie is 3/5 stars!

Movie Review - You Were Never Really Here

It's been a productive week, I've watched several movie lately, but this one really caught me. Based on the book with the same the title written by Jonathan Ames, this a struggle of an adult.

The main actor is Joaquin Phoenix, while he played perfectly in this role as Joe, an ex soldier who decided to become a hitman. The movie started with a man in his closet under a plastic bag, after a while he started to count and old memories keep flashing back. Joe is a child who experience abused childhood and that creates a man that suffers a mental sickness. 

 He lives only with her mother, who might reach almost 80 if I'm not mistaken. She looks so skinny and fragile, Joe takes care of her mother really well. He takes her to bed, he cleaned the messy bathroom after her mother take a bath, he is an obedient child. There is not even a single point that Joe had a personal life other than his career as a hitman. 

One day a big task coming, it comes from a famous politician whose daughter has been kidnapped and caught in the human trafficking. Joe nailed the job, he had the girl in his arms and secure her to the meeting point. Little did he know, the kidnapper is the governor. This is where the twist played, and everything just become chaotic. Joe was brutally injured, he got hit in the face, it was hard to believe that he could made it.

If you're kind of scared with blood bath, i remind you not to watch the movie. There's something I learn from this movie, even the worst man you could think of, in this case it's a hitman, they all have conscience. Joe have pictured thousands of times to killed himself, take the easy way and leave, but he simply doesn't take it. 

As an awkward man we usually see Joaquin Phoenix, this is just the perfect role for him, though I still love him in Her. Not much conversation, he only know his fist. He doesn't plan the shooting or any kind of blue print that we see much in the mercenaries movies, he just roll and go with his hammer. Yes, he killed with his hammer. 

Go watch the movie, and tell me how it affects you. For me this movie got 3,5/5 stars!