Interstellar + Ms Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

It was in the midst of the last few A Level papers that I caught Interstellar. I was initially extremely skeptical that a SCI-FI movie could deserve so much acclaim, because I don't personally prefer spacey science fiction movie or books. Honestly, I entered the cinema not really knowing what to expect (because I only watched half of its trailer lol), other than the fact that it IS supposedly a good movie.

ON A SIDE NOTE can we just take a moment to aesthetically appreciate Anne Hathaway?? I spent a large part of the movie admiring how her features complimented her hair and I swear she is the only person with sharp enough features who can pull off a short boring haircut???

According to my friend, the film is very characteristic of Christopher Nolan, with its dense concepts like time distortions, relativity in space, dimensions, parallel existences etc all pertaining to space travel and stuff. I have to confess I have yet to watch Inception (yes omg ikr) so I was abit unprepared for the barrage of abstract concepts Nolan would throw at the audience. Plus, the similar-looking space crafts and all the jargons on space travel in the film confused me abit. 

I'm also surprised that they did not further develop this film into a 3D one, because all the computer generated landscapes and surroundings seemed really suitable for a 3D film. But then again, people might actually get migraines from all the flashing lights in some scenes.

I find the story plot rather amazing, with just a good balance of emotional tear-jerking scenes. I find it funny that it was only 1 hour into the movie, I think, when the film had its saddest scene, the one when Matthew McConaughey bursting into tears upon seeing his daughter all grown-up. The soundtrack by THE Hans Zimmer also gave me goosebumps throughout the movie

I never liked sci-fi movies and books because they're hardly realistic and logical. I didn't like the fact that there were two semi-sentient robots in the film that are completely capable of perception and speech and move about in such an odd manner. The entire scene when Cooper was ejected into blackhole and had to signal to his then-daughter in this continuous bookshelf dimension also seemed preposterous and way too incomprehensible to me. But then again, given my lack of understanding of time warps in space and "what on earth is a blackhole?", I can't delineate what is fiction from non-fiction in this movie. 

Also, the ending where time travelling Cooper finally met up with his elderly daughter bore abit of resemblance to the ending of THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, a book by Audrey Niff -something which I have toiled over 2 years ago and subsequently swore to never revisit again (because it's so lousy and stupid - you're telling me a man that disappears, and appears back again in his BIRTHDAY SUIT, during his work as a public librarian can hold on to his job?!). It kinda reminded me of the book and in fact, I think the whole time-travelling and meeting a person thing is abit cliched so I didn't particularly enjoy the ending.

Overall it's pretty much an amazing movie.

During the A Levels period, I also read Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Like the news and media were raving about it quite a long ago, and I decided to give it a go. 

The book surprisingly features bland, unexciting writing, like a first-person narrative from from a 10 year old. Fine, it may be a teen fiction but I don't remember John Green's writing in Looking for Alaska (the next book I'd burn after The Time Traveler's Wife) being THAT boring. 

The pictures throughout the book indeed piqued my interest, because they are quite creepy. According to Wikipedia, the photos were supposedly procured to be made in to a PICTURE book, but now look what you've done, trying to weave all these pictures into a story plot by writing a narrative to fit these photos, instead of the other way round. I thought the incorporation of some photos were completely uncalled for, like the below 2 masked boys. Like ok, so Jacob met these two masked creepy boys, SO? It was extremely disappointing to realise that some photos did not make any contribution to the plot. They were completely unjustified and just mere photos. 

There was this astonishing inaccuracy in the writing as well, when of all of a sudden, the name 'Billy' was mentioned, with no prior references or any appearance of a Billy in the story.

I find the entire concept of being in a 'Loop' (basically a time-void safe haven for 'the peculiars'), and the cat and mouse game of the monsters and the children quite promising for a YA fiction, but the brainless narrative just ruined its chances and made me skim the pages abit too frequently. It was quite a let down. I won't be touching its sequel lol

Cycling at East Coast Park! Played Cards Against Humanity and caught Pee Mak at KY's house

Fancy Armrest

I've been watching Youtubers play CAH and I honestly thought it'll be easy but I was so bad at making up funny sentences

Foreword and 2013/2014

It has been a long time since I've last posted on BllyBrwn! I used to blog about the littlest mundane things in my life (as you can see from hundred over posts yearly in my archives). I would just like to start off with a short disclaimer that those ancient posts were crafted when I was, what, upper primary to lower secondary? Some just make me go "What is WRONG with me". So don't expect them to be of substance (not implying that my upcoming posts are that worthy of reading), and they certainly don't represent the (smarter, wiser) being that I am now. You all have no idea how mortifying it was to read through posts from my 12 year old self OMG CRINGE. With that said, I'm resurrecting BllyBrwn for the sole purpose of sharing what I like, and perhaps update bits and pieces of my life.

If you were to scroll down, in the more recent few posts, I featured books that I've read, but I've just unceremoniously dumped low resolution pictures of them with no reviews or anything. I'm looking at doing reviews of books, dramas, movies in this space!! It'll be fun to talk about what I like, recommending things to people if there are any. I'm not gonna post like a string flattering pictures of myself (I don't like the lingo 'Selfie', it sounds stupid in my opinion lol ), because huh how to look good in photos??? And I don't have an ego size that matches up to blown-up pictures of my face. 

I've not been on a hiatus. I have created a private blog like 3 years ago, somewhere in the secluded depths of the internet where I do reviews and stuff, and where I also, rant, ramble and bitch about life. I'm still active on it, maybe even more active than ever. It's limited to a few people only so do pm me or whatever if you're interested! And also do pray that you're not one of the few people that I rant about hurhurhur 

Just a bit of background info, BllyBrwn (Billy Brown) was created when PSLE was over (L O L) with the help of my friends. I've since deleted many, many embarrassing, incriminating posts which I am not proud of but you may look forward to more 'intelligent' posts, I pray. 'Billy Brown' is a musical number that talks about a homosexual that had abandoned his family, ditched his religion and still ended up being confused over his sexual orientation. The number of posts have dwindled over the years because I didn't have enough social life to update, or the motivation to blow the dust off this space. Within these two years, my life revolved around nothingness and A levels, the latter a topic that hardly needs to be rehashed lol ew

May I present to you some pictures of my life in 2013 + 2014

Nepal OCIP:

Secondary school friends:

Misc.:

Vhapsody 2013 & 2014

VJCO

That's all I have for now watch this space :-)

Moving On!

I just had a class reunion a few days ago and nothing beats the familiarity of old classmates.
My point is, being in VJC brought about so many changes. New experiences await. The school has a dynamic culture, truly living up to what they claim to be and possess. Moderating studies and play. But I'm not sure I'm up for it. Coming from a neighbourhood school and suddenly being transplanted to a swarm of students from VS, Cedar, Anglican and all makes me inferior, and at times, makes me feel compelled to prove myself.
It's not that I like my previous class or something, but when hanging out with my current class I long to go back to 4R1 where I had at least a person whom I can relate to. The past few weeks has been a whirlwind of emotions and blurness. Everything was progressing so fast and I can't seem to catch hold of being constantly on the move and the practically snowing LT5. Sometimes I felt happy, but most of the times, otherwise.
It's not that I dislike it, it's just that the fact that I'm in VJ hasn't sunk in yet and I think it never will? Even as I type 'VJ' it's so foreign and prestigious-sounding. But I know that ultimately, VJ is the right choice. Of course, this is just the beginning and I know things will get better!!!

What have I been doing?

Working at Chong Lee Jewelry and La Belle Diamonds under the awkward supervision of my Aunt/Uncle
Pretty Little Liars Season 1 to 3
Running Man fever
Reading
Shopping
Applying sunblock
The Sims 3

Post Exams!

O levels are over!

BEFORE

AFTER

This was only 1/3 of paper wastage

GUESS WHO ( it came with a copy of The Origin of Love, so I bought it and now I have 2 of Mika's newest album)

Check out his hair! I like the swirls and curls
Anyway, I have been reading alot, as ever.

The Origin Of Love

The Origin Of Love is the absolutely enjoyable, it's so joyful, so brave and so lovely!

I can't say it's the best Mika album out of the 3 because this album is much different from the previous 2.

Check out the album art!

He does all his artwork with Yasmine, his sister. Even for the previous 2 albums!

The best part was that I purchased it the day after it was released. Hmv Somerset called to notify me and my hands were trembling as I threw on a proper outfit and headed to Orchard immediately.