Oh Look! It's a Blibbering Humdinger!

Went downstairs to look for my Harry Potter book and came back up with cookies instead - forgetting said HP book. Does that ever happen to you? You go somewhere to get something and then come back with something else. Maybe I'm one of those people who get distracted by the "Oooh, shiny". That would explain why I'm such a bad driver. WAIT A MINUTE. What am I talking about? I'm not a bad driver. It's just that my driving instructor is a dickweed.

I seem to have missed out Number 14 down there on my list. So I'll just include it here.


After a while, exhausted and drained, Harry found himself sitting on a bench beside Luna.
"I'd want some peace and quiet, if it were me," she said.
"I'd love some," he replied.
"I'll distract them all," she said. "Use your cloak."
And before he could say a word she had cried. "Ooooh, look, a Blibbering Humdinger!" and pointed out of the window. Everyone who heard looked around, and Harry slide the Cloak up over himself, and got to his feet.

Luna is the embodiment of epic-tuosity, no?

Little Tidbits they missed in HP and the Deathly Hallows

Also known as, Eighteen Instances in which the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Movie has Failed the Book By Not Including a Much Loved Fact or Line. (I do like the movie though. I just wish they would include those little details that make the books so epic.)



1. "...with a bright white flash and a crack, a crystal ball fell on the top of Greyback's head and he crumpled to the ground and did not move. "I have more!" shrieked Professor Trelawney from over the banisters... and with a movement like a tennis serve, she heaved another enormous crystal sphere from her bag, waved her want througth the air, and caused the ball to speed across the hall and smash through a window..."



Hehe, I would've loved to see the quirky Professor Trelawney start smashing crystal balls into the baddies. Especially since she always seems so out of it.

2. "He did not recognise the room at all. It was enormous, and looked rather like the interior of a particularly sumptuous tree house...multicoloured hammocks were strung from the ceiling... and windowless walls were covered in bright tapestry hangings. Harry saw the gold Griffindor lion, emblazoned on scarlet, the black badger of Hufflepuff, set against the yellow, and the bronze eagle of Ravenclaw, on blue. The silver and green of Slytherin alone were absent."

Colour!!! T_T The movies are so colourless and drab. Sometimes I wish the director would just stop making the whole thing so utterly depressing. Hogwarts should be colourful!!!

3. "Cho spoke again, "If you'd like to see what the diadem's supposed to look like, I could take you up to the common room and show you, Harry?" Cho had got to her feet, but Ginny said rather fiercely, "No, Luna will take Harry, won't you, Luna?" "Ooooh, yes, I'd like to," said Luna happily, and Cho sat down again, looking dissapointed."

LOLs.

4. "The deserted Ravenclaw common room was a wide, circular room, airier than any Harry had ever seen at Hogwarts. Graceful arched windows punctuated the walls, which were hung with blue and bronze silks: by day, the Ravenclaws would have a spectacular view of trhe surrounding mountains. The ceiling was domed and painted with stars, which were echoed in the midnight-blue carpet. There were tables, chairs and bookcases, and in a niche opposite the door stood a tall statue of white marble."

I was so looking forward to seeing the Ravenclaw common room :'( If I went to Hogwarts, I would have liked to be in Ravenclaw. You know how Griffindor has the fat lady to guard their common room? For Ravenclaw, they have to answer a riddle. ISN'T THAT SO AWESOME?

5. "Hermione sat panting on the floor beside Goyle, who was still unconscious. "C - Crabbe," choked Malfoy, as soon as he could speak. "C- Crabbe..." "He's dead," said Ron harshly.

I know Crabbe died suddenly in the movie but couldn't they have shown Malfoy suffering about it? Crabbe got one quick glance and that's all. Keep in mind that Crabbe and Goyle have been with Malfoy since the FIRST movie.

6. "Hello Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning?"

7. "No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!" And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face."

They never showed how Fred died in battle. Or how Lupin and Tonks died too. That's not fair. Those characters deserved some sort of last glory shot of them fighting Death Eaters before they died or something.

8. "Even as they stood braced, looking for the opportunity to act, there came a great "wheeeeeeeeee!" and, looking up, Harry saw Peeves zooming over them, dropping Snargaluff pods down on to the Death Eaters, whose heads were suddenly engulfed in wriggling, green tubers like fat worms."



LOL that would've been cool to see.



9. "I'm Draco Malfoy, I'm Draco, I'm on your side!" Draco was on the upper landing, pleading with another masked Death Eater. Harry stunned the Death Eater as they passed: Malfoy looked around, beaming, for his saviour, and Ron punched him from under the Cloak. Malfoy fell backwards on top of the Death Eater, his mouth bleeding, utterly bemused. "And that's the second time we've saved your life tonight, you two-faced bastard!" Ron yelled."



I repeat. That would've been cool to see.



10. "Somewhere in the distance they could hear Peeves zooming through the corridors singing a victory song of his own composition: "We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter's the One, And Voldy's gone mouldy, so now let's have fun!" "Really gives a feeling for the scope and tragedy of the thing, doesn't it?" said Ron, pushing open a door to let Harry and Hermione through."



11. "Any moment, the people for whom he had tried to die would see him, lying apparently dead, in Hagrid's arms. "NO!!" The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound. He heard another woman laughing nearby, and knew that Bellatrix gloried in McGonagall's despair."



No one really reacted to Harry's death (with the exception of Ginny). In the book, it was way more traumatic as all of Harry's friends and the people of Hogwarts saw his "dead" body in Hagrid's arms. I don't think they did that really well in the movie.





12. "The house elves of Hogwarts swarmed into the Entrance Hall, screaming and waving carving knives and cleavers, and at their head, the locket of Regulus Black bouncing on his chest, was Kreacher, his bullfrog's voice audible even above this din: "Fight! Fight! Fight for my master, defender of house elves! Fight the Dark Lord, in the name of brave Regulus! Fight!" They were hacking and stabbing at the ankles and shins of Death Eaters, their tiny faces alive with malice...."



There wasn't even ONE house elf in the battle :( Not even one?



13. "Snape took the page bearing Lily's signature, and her love, and tucked it inside his robes. Then he ripped in two the photograph he was also holding, so that he kept the part from which Lily laughed, throwing the portion showing James and Harry back on to the floor, under the chest of drawers..."



The Snape scenes were pretty well done. If I could cry, I would've cried during that scene where he held Lily in his arms. But that doesn't make up for the fact that they only showed LESS THAN A THIRD of the Snape scenes. What happened to Snape and Lily's encounter on the Hogwarts Express with James and Sirius? What happened to Snape calling Lily a mudblood? What happened to Snape camping outside the Griffindor common room, just so Lily would come out to see him? What happened to "the intensity of his gaze made her blush." WHAT HAPPENED? *wails and beats fists against the floor* I still love you though, Alan Rickman.





Luna :D She's too awesome for words. I needed more awesome Luna quotes in the movie.





15. "Draco Malfoy was standing there with his wife and son...The new boy resembled Draco as much as Albus resembled Harry. Draco caught sight of Harry, Ron and Hermione and Ginny staring at him, nodded curtly and turned away again. "So that's little Scorpius," said Ron under his breath. "Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank God you inherited your mother's brains." "Ron, for heaven's sake," said Hermione, half stern, half-amused. "Don't try to turn them against each other before they've even started school!"



16. "Albus jumped into the carriage and Ginny closed the door behind him. Students were hanging from the windows nearest them. A great number of faces, both on the train and off, seemed to be turned towards Harry. "Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus, as he and Rose craned round to look at the other students. "Don't let it worry you," said Ron. "It's me. I'm extremely famous."



17. "Don't forget to give Neville our love!" Ginny told James as she hugged him. "Mum! I can't give a Professor love!" "But you know Neville -" James rolled his eyes. "Outside, yeah, but at school he's Professor Longbottom, isn't he? I can't walk into Herbology and give him love..."



The epilogue wasn't really that well done. I think they ran out of time. So many loose ends to tie up! They didn't even introduce Harry's other kids or Ron's kids. And I wanted to see Tonk's and Lupin's son :(





18. "I stole the diadem from my mother." "You - you did what?" "I stole the diadem," repeated Helena Ravenclaw in a whisper. "I sought to make myself cleverer, more important than my mother. I ran away with it."



They never fully explained the Rowena/Helena Ravenclaw thing about the tiara. There was also something about the Slytherin ghost, The Bloody Baron, who stabbed Helena Ravenclaw when she refused to marry him. I don't know. I find Hogwarts history interesting. The thing is, these ghosts have appeared since the first book and to hear their storylines explained in the last book was an "OMG revelation" moment for me.



"Moist" LOL

City Hunter is so satisfying. Hits me in all the right places, it does. Kind of like a frozen coke after doing a 4km run. Or the feeling you get after killing off all the green pigs in Angry Birds. Perhaps even as satisfying as the words "squelch" and "moist". Although I learnt from TMZ that "moist" makes a lot of people cringe. "moist" hehehehehe. MOIST.










Road Rage Rant

Tian's watching City Hunter now :D YAY. Hey stop looking at me like that! I swear I didn't bully her into it.


WARNING: this post contains language that is inappropriate for lil children under the age of 12


MY DRIVING INSTRUCTOR IS SUCH A MOTHERFUCKING BITCH. Honestly, if I didn't have to focus all my concentration on staying alive, I would be screaming my head off at him. Instead, I curse him in my mind with all the rudest words I know. He makes my piano teacher look like a freakin cuddly teddy bear.




Driving is .... interesting. I guess I don't hate it but right now its frustrating. It doesn't help that the stupid motherfucker keeps telling me how bad I drive. DUDE, of course I drive bad! I've barely been behind the wheel for 2 hours. What did you expect? Some sort of naturally gifted teenager who knows every single control just after one lesson? Bitch. I can't believe I have to put up with you for 3 more lessons.

All this anger is bad for my skin. I need to watch some City Hunter to calm down. I can pretend that all politicians Lee Min Ho bashes are my driving instructor.

This post is not about Lee Min Ho I swear

Teehee, that's Eva Longoria from Desperate Housewives. And look what she's holding in her hand :D



I feel like some sort of proud parent or something. Hunger Games, you are going places!


I've got an hour and a half to waste right now. Gonna stay up till 1am to see the Harry Potter premiere coverage on youtube. Hmm, I've never actually seen any live coverages before. What is a "live coverage" anyway? Is it like one of those elephant cams or something that they have at the zoo? Or is it like an actual coverage coverage? I'm not sure.


BTW, LEE MIN HO IS SO FREAKIN' HOT. (sorry, I tried to hold it in but it escaped)

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Lee Min Ho(t) <-- see what I did there? :D

Self control? Pfffff. I have none.




I am a Lee Min Ho addict. Seriously. I could spend 5 hours non-stop watching him kick ass in Shitty Hunter. (Oh wait, I just did that). He was all like, "hey, don't mind me. I'm just some random hot guy who works in IT, drives nice cars and poses as a playboy." And then he goes all James Bond/Batman-like and starts driving round Seoul at night catching baddies, absailing down buildings, planting bombs and stalking the girl he likes.

Haha and it's not just the badassery that's so awesome to watch. He's also funny. I laugh like a crazy person every time he drops his "bad boy" exterior to act like a bumbling geek in front of the girl lead. GAHHH Lee Min Ho, why so hot?

I am so not gushing. Stop judging me!

P.S. It's so strange seeing LMH in City Hunter and then getting a flashback to his Gu Jun Pyo days. LOL, I still remember the perm. Oh God, the perm!

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City Hunter

I was debating whether to watch City Hunter or blog about City Hunter. Since I have been marathoning City Hunter for the past few days, I shall take a break... and blog about it :D


CITY HUNTER IS DA BOMB!!




I had to get that out of my system. But seriously, it's a pretty awesome drama. It's got story, comedy and action but it's not cheesy, like a lot of other korean dramas. I know a lot of people tend to dismiss korean dramas as stupid and lacking depth and I can see where they're coming from. HAHA, I used to do that too. I think part of it comes from a superiority complex that people exposed to Western tv shows often adopt. But honestly, just cause kdramas don't have as much sex and drugs doesn't necessarily mean that they're boring. They're just different. It's like comparing apples and oranges. Or like comparing Bollywood movies to Hollywood movies.


Oh and I never thought I'd say this but Revenge Dramas are boss yo. I thought I was a RomCom type of girl but apparently not. It's not that City Hunter doesn't have romance, it's got plenty of that but the romance kind of takes a back seat to all the epic action. Well so far it does, but that will probably change.


For those who are confused, I will give a very very basic outline/summary that will not do the show justice:


City Hunter revolves around a guy (Lee Min Ho) who is out for revenge for VERY COMPLICATED REASONS which I will not go into. Something like, you killed my dad so now I will hunt you down and make you suffer (but way more complicated than that). But he works behind the scenes. Like Batman, y'know? He catches the baddies at night but by day he acts like a spoilt playboy rich kid.


Then there's the girl (Park Min Young) who works as a bodyguard guarding various people, like the President's daughter. She is awesome and kickass-y. Not like those stupid cutesy cutesy stereotypical korean drama girls who go around squealing "oppa!!". Hooray for female empowerment!! HUZZAH.


Then there's the hot prosecutor guy lol. He's like that cop guy in Batman, the one who abides strictly by the law but will probably end up working with Batman.


All these characters somehow get involved with each other and it becomes a hotpot of awesomeness. Okay, I told you this summary sucked. Give me a break.


P.S. Did I mention Lee Min Ho was hot? He is so kickass lol. But there was one scene where he beat a guy up with a spoon and I was just like... wtf?




P.P.S. Someone please tell the koreans that City Hunter is pronouned Ci-ty Hun-ter. Not Shit-ty Hun-ter.

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