It was during yesterday's blog post did I read the news from Blogger that they are bailing out on their FTP users. Unfortunately my blog is one of those victimised seeing that I publish via the file transfer protocol. The only solution they gave us is to create a new subdomain (in my case; Crystalled-Roses.Net) in which their some sort of affiliate, Google will host it for us. Honestly! They'd rather go through all these trouble just to promote the bloody company. The excuse they gave was that they could no longer afford supporting FTPs. Codswallop!! I would have found myself a way round their solution if given the fact they support PHP extensions and all, but no. They do not! How bogus is that?!

Now I guess I have to migrate my whole blog to Wordpress or something. I read that that is the most recommended. I remember implementing it once some years back, but stopped for some reason. Hopefully it'll be a smooth and easy migration. The due date given by Blogger is May 1st. Goodness! I'm currently NOT in the mood to be into all these webmastery techy stuff. Honestly! But seeing the circumstance... I just hope my blog can go through this painful reassignment. So in happenstance that you see the site to be off in a few days time, just know that I'm stuck here in my room trying to fix things up.

Anyway, I've been re-watching that popular musical play of Harry Potter the whole time last night - 'A Very Potter Musical'. Seriously, the whole team deserve the fame and credit they have been getting. The play was really super fabulous. It amuses me how I could still cracked up at every single scene. I'd really love to download the whole play and burn it onto a DVD so I get to watch it on a satisfying bigger screen on the TV. All the characters are so hilarious. But I couldn't help squirming in disgust and amusement at the parodic display of passion between Ron and Hermione. *cackles*

Apparently, they made an announcement today that they'll be having a sequel to this entire play on May 14th to 16th. Can't wait to see that. Hopefully it'll be as enjoyable as the first and have all its original star cast.

But to be honest, I love Draco's character the most, especially the way he lust over Hermione Granger. The girl who played him was just downright fantastic - Lauren Lopez. What with the way she rolls around the floor every time, trying to look seductive. *guffaws* I even have to confess I have a some sort of girl crush on her. She played the blonde boy part really brilliantly. And it's quite weird seeing her in her normal 'pretty girl' state, when her Draco was just crush-worthy.

Well talking of theatreDraco, our movieDraco, Tom Felton apparently had some costume fittings recently. I assume many other actors had to do the same thing too. Wonder if it's for the epilogue. Honestly, I really am so eager to see the child actors playing the next generation. I want to see who's playing Scorpius Malfoy, Rose Weasley, Albus Severus, Hugo Weasley, and etc. Honestly, I can't wait!! Why must the movie be split into two?! Ugh!! Still hate that fact so much!


Yeah. Just saw these 3 pictures earlier from that NO magazine. Rupert this time looked particularly grungy. *chuckles* Although I don't think it's his best photoshoot. He's definitely done better. Adored his interview though. It makes me rather sad when I read or listen to the stars talking about their parting from the whole Harry Potter franchise. I guess they'd be taking it a lot harder than we fans do. I mean, they've practically been there for the past 10 years or so, and to suddenly finish it will be like a major turnaround, I guess. Argh! One more year to go till it all ends...

Mood: worried
Song: Tera Hone Laga Hoon ~ Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani

Can anyone believe me if I say that I have never once in my life stepped foot at Singapore's National Museum? *laughs* It's true. I've visited other countries' museums before but not my own country's. That will however change this Saturday. My friend and I will be attending the Egyptian exhibition that's currently in Singapore - Quest For Immortality. I collected the tickets from Sistic yesterday when I got my Starbucks Frappucino. *giggles* Sure I just recently found out from a fellow Singaporean on Twitter that apparently they only imported one real mummy for the exhibition, but nonetheless, it's still quite intriguing. Unfortunately no video or photo taking is allowed. Still, we can try to sneak some snaps in. Heehee!

By the way, news has it that Daniel was recently hospitalised for food poisoning, wasn't he? The poor chap. The guy keeps straining himself. A body can only take so much of work. His exhaustion plus with those bad intake of food must have been a horrible equation for him.


In other news, Emma Watson is starring in her University's upcoming play - 'Three Sisters'. She's doing it for free! Wow! It seems her mates there must have dragged her in. Wonder what's the story about.

Anyhow, I was just on my way back home earlier from work and had the misfortune in meeting this old Chinese lady who I guessed was asking for some sort of help. But she just pulled me to her and babbled away in Chinese, and I kept telling her in English that I can't understand a word she's saying. But no, the bloody woman just continued explaining herself to me in Chinese that time by time her voice escalated in volume. Bloody hell! Luckily another Chinese lady came up and helped me got off the hook! Honestly! The sad part is that I've experienced a similar situation before, and it still gets to me.

So, since I'm on this topic, let me get this clear. I'm not a Chinese, Indian, neither am I from Philippines, Vietnam nor Myanmar. Honestly! I've been getting all these... horrid confusion all my life and it's getting extremely annoying. My father's mother is part-Chinese, my father's father is Boyanese. Both my mother's parents are Boyanese too. And apparently, both my grandmothers were fair-skinned women, hence my supposed fair complexion. But that surely doesn't make me a Chinese. As for being Indian - yes, I admit I do understand Hindi (not fluently), but I'm still neither an Indian in race nor nationality. I just love Indian films since young and have a lot of Indian mates; hence the reason how I'm familiar with the Indian lifestyle and stuff. As for coming from Philippines, Vietnam & Myanmar... *headdesk* Honestly! I'm appalled!! I was born and still living in Singapore, and the race stated on my identity card was and will always be a Boyanese.

Now that that's cleared, let's move on to something else. Seriously! That bloody old Chinese lady really managed to rile me up. What with me being already super knackered off from work! *grumbles* Anyway... I guess I'll be off. Some daily fanfictions to read.

Mood: grumpy
Song: Zara Zara ~ Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein

My body system is not co-operating with my wilful self these few days. I've not been feeling well at all. Got a day off last Tuesday, and had to put down the doctor's tempting offer of giving me two days off instead. But being a career woman, you just have to drag yourself out of the house with a healthy smile on your face at all times. Otherwise, all you'd get are sneers. It's a typical thing to happen in every workplace in this whole wide world unfortunately. Kept drowning myself with medicines every 6 hours. Bloody hell!

Anyway, all these infirmity makes me somehow restless. I feel like going out of town and just... chill! By 'chill', I don't mean I'd go disco dancing; because I certainly don't disco. Just want to hang out and forget every stressful thing I have in my overly clouded mind.

So of course, I'm going to take that step this Saturday to meet my friend whom I've not met for the past one month. We're going to watch 'Alice In Wonderland' in 3D! The last time I wore those 3D goggles for 'Avatar', I secretly thought the 3D trailer of the movie was astounding. Hence, my decision to go for it. Tickets are already booked today; just hope we'll be on time to collect it before someone else steals it.


Talking of the movie, like I said on Twitter, I purchased the iPhone game last night - $4.99. The game's pretty fun, even the graphics are impressive. Although there are times where I find myself stuck with no way out. The above screenshot is the latest part of the game where I'm still stuck on. Wondering how I'm going to cross over that bloody wall. Any tips? I wonder too if they have a game for it for the PS3 console. Might get one if there is.

Anyway, those recently released outtakes of the Entertainment Weekly photoshoot of Daniel, Bonnie, Rupert & Emma are absolutely gorgeous! Can't help myself from thoroughly scrutinizing each and every one of the pictures. Like the poster on ONTD community said, we certainly do need the release of the outtakes of that Rupert/Emma armchair shot more. Rupert/Emma is way sexier than Daniel/Bonnie, that's for sure! I love how they made the couples sit or stand together. It's really lovely. But I wonder if it's just me, but I adore those shots with Rupert standing beside Bonnie. I've to admit I've never really felt the brother/sister chemistry between them ever, but this photoshoot was different. They do look sweet with each other.

By the way, I guess I've to delete my Foursquare account soon. I swear I've not been logging in for the past week and I do intend to keep it that way. It's just not worth it trying to compete with people who are always running around the country. And that also applies to my Facebook account. Till date I still have five friends' requests that I've yet to attend to. Still contemplating whether or not I want to close that bloody account. I've not logged in for the past... I don't know... month? I feel more comfortable with Twitter for some reason.

And speaking of which, I'd just recently blocked all those spammers from my followers list. Amusing how they get agitated that I stopped following them back. Haha! I mean c'mon, you're no celebrity for Merlin's sake!

Mood: restless
Song: Tere Naina ~ Chandni Chowk To China

It's Ron Weasley's birthday!! YAY!!! And yeah, I'm re-using one of my old blends for the entry. I'm just not in the mood to design some graphics. But the love for our favourite redheaded character is still undoubtedly there. How old is he again? It always amuse me how the real Ronald Weasley is way older than our movieRon. I honestly can't picture RupertRon as a 30+ year old man as of yet. He's still our teenage Weasley as far as I'm concern. Hence that's why I can't help feeling a bit mystified whenever their birthdays come around. *shrugs*

Since we're on that note, it seems Jason Isaacs has also just recently confirmed his completion of schedule for 'Deathly Hallows'. Hmm... Two main actors down. I can't recall when's the last schedule is for the film. I remember reading it will be somewhere in July?? Eck! Not too sure on that, but one thing's for sure, Matt Lewis has been tweeting that he's working on the film for quite sometime now. And if facts are to be believe, that should mean he's doing scenes at the Swinley Forest. What does Neville Longbottom ever got to do in the forest, I wonder? I do believe the big battle scene should be done by now considering our main villains; Bellatrix and Lucius are off the hook. Perhaps they're filming the aftermath of the battle? Hmm... Yeap! Definitely it! Whatever happened then? Sheesh! I can't remember a thing! Need to re-read the last book pronto!

Anyway, for those of you who haven't heard on the natural disasters that happened in Chile, the Tsunami waves in Hawaii -- shame on you! Don't be too ignorant about the world, people. It's way too inhuman. My prayers and sympathise to all those people who were affected. It somehow frightens me how apparent that the world is ending soon. I just sure hope I won't be around when the real apocalypse do happen. It's terrifying.

By the way, it's the Holi season down in India, I presume. A season of colours. And just recently, promo pictures of the Aishwarya/Akshay starrer have been appearing of the characters playing Holi. Looks fun!


Really, really can't wait to see this film. I seriously hope it'll be out this year as promised. It's about time we see Akshay and Ash come out together for yet another film. The previous one was good but way too intense and tragedic. This upcoming movie of theirs however is a fun-filled love story. Thus I'm really looking forward to the whole experience.

And speaking of films, what's this I read on the Internet? Everybody seems heads on for the movie, 'Shutter Island'. Unfortunately, the film's yet to release here in Singapore. I have to say, I'm intrigued! So many people have been saying a lot of good things on it. But one other Hollywood movie I'm really eager on is 'Alice In Wonderland'. I mean, come on. It's Johnny Depp!! Must watch as soon as it releases this week.

Mood: rejected
Song: Shukran Allah ~ Kurbaan

The epilogue scene is under progress it seems. Yay for me! Apparently Tom Felton has been tweeting that he had to get his head and body cast in plaster for the final Potter film. Sure the scene has not undergone filming yet, but David Yates did reveal in his MTV interview last year that the actors will have to go through this particular process for the CGI stuff to make themselve look older. It's some nifty technology the filmmakers have been using for recent films like 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'Terminator Salvation'. Agreed I haven't actually watched any of these two films and can't really judge exactly how realistic the morphs were, but I sure do hope they do a brilliant job for Dan, Rupert, Emma, Tom and Bonnie.

Even now though, I still can't help this imaginary image of Emma holding the hand of a little Hugo. It's an endearing thought. I still can't believe the fact that the story's split to two till date. Bloody hell! I've to wait to 2011 to see my favourite scenes - Malfoy Manor, Shell Cottage and the epilogue!

And speaking of the chapter, 'Malfoy Manor', I couldn't help smiling throughout the whole interview of Helena Bonham Carter. She finally did confirm her schedule completion for Harry Potter. Wow! One actor down. And is it just me or am I like the only one who gets all excited when you see other celebrities who are not involved with the franchise talk about Harry Potter? Anne Hathaway got to ask Helena whether or not she got to choose Bellatrix's wand initially. But coming back to her interview, I love how she enjoyed impersonating Hermione for the bank scene and also torturing Hermione to an almost insanity for the 'Malfoy Manor' scene. I can already imagine Emma Watson screaming and writhing on the floor under a cursing Helena in the middle of a large drawing room, whilst Tom Felton, Jason Isaac, Helen McCrory, Timothy Spall and Dave Legeno look on... Wow! Show me the bloody scene already!!! *huffs* Goodness!

Why split the movie? I still very much disapprove of it. It makes me wonder though when will the R/Hr kiss happen? Part I or Part II? The thing is that Rupert and Emma did the kiss scene very early last year right before the premieres of 'Half-Blood Prince', hence it doubts me if this 'early sked' means early kiss for us shippers? I don't think any shipper in their right mind will be affronted if the kiss does happen in Part I. It can only mean more mushy R/Hr lovin'! Who could forget all those set pictures at the beach of Shell Cottage where we see Rupert lovingly held Emma in his arms? ...Man! I repeat! Why must they bloody split the fucking movie?! They could have just extended the movie length like any other 3-4 hour Bollywood movie!

In other news, I think I'm really crushing hard on Emma's 17 year old kid brother. Bloody hell! I feel like a paedophile! I can't help it! He's growing up to be looking so deliciously good! Poor guy must have hoards of fangirls by now. I get pretty confuse at times though. Sometimes his hair looks a bright dirty blonde, but at times it's dark brown. Has he been dying it often? Hmm... probably! He's a model after all. He recently attended the Burberry show at London Fashion Week without his celebrity sister; looking cute as usual. Last I heard was that Kristen Stewart was there too? What's she there for? I thought it's British only? But anyway, I can't help ogling my screen when the first few detailed scans of the People Tree photoshoots were out.


Really nice youthful clothes, by Emma. Not even the least bit trashy. I wish to even own some of those T-shirts and blouses. They're all quite lovely.

By the way, like I tweeted today, I really have to stop using Foursquare. I can't have this competitive attitude when I'm in the middle of a busy road for instance. It's bloody dangerous! I guess I can count myself lucky to not reach to the obsession point. Seriously, all these while my iPhone is always in my hand when I'm either out of the house or office. I try to check in to every single place my foot takes me. It's crazy! Hence I guess I better put a stop to all this madness.

Mood: depressed
Song: Love Song Requiem ~ Trading Yesterday

Browsing through those brilliant masterpieces on DeviantART, and I can't help wondering what if Rupert Grint opened his own account there. I mean, he's sure got a collection ready to showcase to the world. The webportal surely can help him make a portfolio out of his art pieces. His recent butterfly art was definitely quite intriguing to say the least. The bloke surely has a style of his own. He has his own way of drawing faces; if you can compare those faces he drew with the spray paint those 7 years ago, and that caricature he did for this one interview. Love him. So talented.

Talking of art, I personally love Emma's artwork. They're girly and quite lovely. I remember those colourful teddy bears of hers and all. And let's not forget her sketches for the People Tree collection. Rupert's artwork however is more to... what's the term - conceptual art? But the cutest and most innocent drawings I've seen of the Potter stars are Tom Felton's. I remember last year, he made a sunset drawing for one of these radio channels. Albeit art is definitely not one of his pristine talents, he amused me with his cute attempt with the colour pens.

Anyway, as I kept lamenting on and on every time on the blog, pardon me for complaining about it yet again. I've been on a very tight budget for many months now... well as tight as I can control myself. But it seems this agony will have to continue till mid-summer. *shakes head* Sad news for me is that my friend had to postpone our initial planned trip to end of year due to some complication on her side. But seeing end of year is a definite no-no for me considering it's the holiday peak period by then; flight and hotel charges will shoot up. The new arrangement now is that I'm going with another friend of mine this summer instead. Learning this, my lovely mother had insisted that I save the other part of the money by myself, as she's not willing to give the initial amount she agreed to lend me. Hence, I guess that should be alright. At least, I don't have to suffer eating biscuits and control myself from not taking leaves for the rest of the year. That would be a horrible torture, because for those current and ex colleagues of mine, they would know how inclined I am to take leaves every now and then. *chuckles* Will be off for a week then.

On that comforting thought, I've been taking the first top 5 Foursquare users place for the past few weeks, which is just brilliant! The stats renew themselves every Monday. And only last night, I found out I took the 2nd place for last week. Today, seeing that it's the start of the week, I was at that point of time the topmost user in Singapore. Look!!


Of course, somebody will take over my place by now. When you're in the top 5, it gets really competitive. Ever heard of the saying, "The higher you are, the harder you'll fall"?

By the way, the Potter stars are now back for filming at the Swinley Forest, eh? I wonder which part of the story though? Emma's back in the university, hence, definitely not a trio moment. I personally can't wait to hear news of the filming of the epilogue scene. Terribly eager! I want to see the kid actors who'll play the characters' offsprings. It'd be cute to see if any of them even have the slightest resemblance to Dan, Bonnie, Emma, Rupert and Tom.

Coming to something Bollywood, I, along with some other Aishwarya Rai fans are still pretty upset at how the media, particularly 'Mumbai Mirror' have yet to have the decency to apologise to the woman for publicly maligning her about her supposed impotence. Like her husband lamented on Twitter, the editor didn't even had the guts to publish the name of the godforsaken journalist when the article went out. Whatever true story the Bachchans are facing, most of us feel that to insult her so deeply as a woman, a wife and an actress was just super low. It's her life - if she wants to have a baby late, have problems conceiving, or too busy with projects, so what? It doesn't affect their life, now does it? Why can't they have the slightest sense of humanity that such fabrications could affect a person's personal life so much? It's saddening how low the media would stoop to sell themselves. What's even worst was how they did not publish Aishwarya's full press statement condemning the article, and still make it seem that she's 'denying' it, which was just way below the belt.

But on the positive note, I'm glad to hear that her health is back to normal now and she's currently busy trying to finish her schedule for the Akshay Kumar starrer, 'Action Replay'. Wonder if they all can possibly meet the release dateline in June. I mean, it's already February now and they're still filming! So I'm not entirely sure if all 4 of her movies which are speculated to release this year will be out as promised. There's 'Endhiran', 'Raavan'. 'Guzaarish' and this, 'Action Replay'. Wish her luck!

Mood: contemplative
Song: Shukran Allah ~ Kurbaan

Ah! 4 days of blissful holiday weekend for most of us Singaporeans, thanks to the Lunar New Year. So let me also take this opportunity to wish all my Chinese readers a very Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year. Gong Xi Fa Cai! I even received a red packet of Hangbao. Considering I'm 25 years old, that is seriously an amusing fact. But man! Who doesn't love free money?

But coming to my long weekend, it's been a really lazy weekend for me. I feel like a worn out mermaid lying on the bed, sofa.., everywhere! Reminds me of this one Hindi song; 'Lazy Lamhe', which translate to 'Lazy Moments'. Ha! It was only yesterday did my Mum and I stepped out of the house for some bit of shopping.


Speaking of Hindi songs, I got really excited when I saw the first new still of Aishwarya Rai's and Akshay Kumar's movie, 'Action Replay'. I had thought that the filmmakers were so fervent on keeping the 70s look of the actors a secret. But in the end, there it was splayed on a magazine article. On first glance I couldn't even recognise the long-haired guy was Akshay. Man, I seriously can't wait for this movie to release later this year. It's one of my most eagerly awaited Bollywood films aside to the Hrithik/Ash starrer, 'Guzaarish'.

I just love the chemistry between Akshay and Aishwarya. In fact, I might just pop in the DVD of their first movie together later. Sad thing is that Aishwarya got ill recently whilst on set shooting the movie a few weeks ago. Although, her husband and father-in-law have been respectively tweeting and blogging on her health progress. She's getting better fortunately.

I have to say though that I'm quite impressed with the growing number of huge Bollywood stars getting on Twitter. The best thing is that there is no worrying whether they are impersonators or not, because they actually officially announced and confirmed each other's accounts on interviews and such, which is cool! The most recent Bollywood actor who got bitten by the Twitter bug is Hrithik Roshan and his lovely wife, Sussanne Khan Roshan.

That's why it still frustrates me so much why Aishwarya has yet to open an account for herself. She did expressed her interest on the social network a few months back when she saw how her husband had been enthusiastically tweeting away and answering fans' questions. Even though she did tweet once through her husband's account, it still leaves her fans unsatisfied.


Well, since we're on the Twitter topic, for those of you following me on Twitter might have noticed I'd just designed and changed my background. Although unfortunately, it will only look right on 1280x800 screens. I tried to think of ways to make the graphic accommodate all screens but couldn't think of any. Hence, I took the risk and decided to just leave it like that. The background was inspired by the many wonderful backgrounds I saw on the network, and hence I tried to make something scribbly and colourful which I believe suits my personality well. Not so much on the colourful part though. *giggles*

Mood: disappointed
Song: Tera Hone Laga Hoon ~ Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani