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123people.com scares the bejesus out of me. It is a website where you go and search for information on anyone. Baby is lucky because there are lots of clueless people out there like her. But Bunny is special, and she cannot hide as well. So bunny deletes her other accounts that she doesn't use. la.

so yeah I just heard about the German Film Festival in Singapore (www.goethe.de/singapore), and I'm really excited about some of the films that they are showing starting next week! Of COURSE, most of them stem from WWII and the Holocaust, which sadly I am history illiterate and ...not necessarily turn a blind eye at all but just that I don't like to watch depressing movies. Or, for that matter, any type of scary film.

But there are a few I am keen to see: (oh shoot, I just used the word "keen" o_o) [summaries taken from the goethe.de website]

1. The Counterfeiters (which won the 2008 Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film)

Written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, it fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by the Nazis during the Second World War to destabilize the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England currency. The film centers on a Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, who is coerced into assisting the Nazi operation at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The film is based on a memoir written by Adolf Burger, a Jewish Slovak typographer who was imprisoned in 1942 for forging baptismal certificates to save Jews from deportation, and later interned at Sachsenhausen to work on Operation Bernhard. It won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008.
Source: 57. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue) / www.wikipedia.com

2. The Wave ("loosely-based" on a short book that I recommend reading)

The Wave is loosely based on the real experience of an American high school class in 1967. History teacher Ron Jones (Jürgen Vogel, in a standout performance) attempted to teach his pupils the realities of fascism and how easily an ideology of superiority can take root. The movement became so popular that the life of the whole school was affected. Director Dennis Gansel fashions an energetic, gripping drama that goes straight for the veins--the human psychologies and individual behaviours that contribute to collective movements. In unpeeling the emotional layers and contradictions of his characters, Gansel offers a humanistic perspective on the terrifying irony that these students may welcome the very things they denounce.
Source: Sundance Festival

3. The Vow

The Vow was inspired by the old sentimental ballad of the same name. Stripped to its essentials, the story concerned the "forbidden" romance between a monk and a nun. Though the monk never declares himself, he writes innumerable love songs dedicated to the nun. Upon his death, the songs are discovered -- and, out of respect to the sacred vows taken by both hero and heroine, those songs are buried in the same coffin with the love struck monk. When originally presented in New York, The Vow was provided with a "live" accompaniment by baritone Raymond Ellis, violinist Adi Duam, and organist Nelson Spreckling.
Source: All Movie Guide

4. Rabbit without ears (GASP!!!!!!)

Blessed with virile bravado and unshakable self-confidence, muckraking reporter Ludo (Til Schweiger) usually gets the interviews. All goes well until he lands in big trouble in the midst of a celebrity party and is sentenced to 300 hours of social work in a pre-school nursery. Expecting it to be child's play, Ludo is in for a big surprise when he discovers that the place is run by Anna (Nora Tschirner), whom he enjoyed making malicious fun of in their primary-school days. Now Anna is ready to take revenge. Mercilessly. Resolutely. Adorably.
Source: http://thecia.com.au

So there are a total of about 30 movies (some are shown twice because they are more acclaimed).

So the fourth one is definitely a romance of sorts, I suspect. It's good to have laughs once in a while. And a good cry, but that is for another time :)

And over the weekend I got a TON of sleep ^.^ and watched Max Payne (which is just OK).

And I was sad to hear that Terrence Howard has been DROPPED!!!!!!! from Ironman 2. what the heck? OH MAN. That is sad.

I'm thinking about starting a blog specifically about the food I eat in Singapore. I'm not sure yet. And what about one where I make comments about celebrities? Haha.


Oh yes, and Friday is Halloween, which really isn't celebrated in Singapore. :( But it's all right. I was never one to dress up once I hit that certain age anyways.

I had a dream that I was back in high school. Weird. Out of the blue!

OK WHAT ELSE? I started taking gymnastics classes again, and my body has not forgiven me yet. I am going again tomorrow night, but at least I make new friends ^.^!!!!!

OK adventures.....this weekend I hope that I can get some sort of TAN because I am a pale pale girl who uses Clarisonic (which keeps your face uber pale man........UBER PALE). But since it has been especially cloudy, we'll see.

I'm thinking about going to Bali (Indonesia) around Christmas time ^.^ with some friends! YIPEE!

love,
sansies