This is just a short little one from me. I watched this today and
beamed a great big beam. It’s a quick clip of the recent Annual Critics’
Choice Movie Awards in Hollywood. On Friday, Sandra Bullock and
Meryl Streep shared a win for Best Actress – Bullock, for the Blind Side,
and Streep, for Julia and Julia.
I can’t wait to see the Blind Side, cause I really admire Bullock, I think
she is so full of sunshine, and I thought many great things about Julia
and Julia. (which I watched with Kat in Penang – we both got really
inspired with the ‘doing something you really love’ message)
As for the incomparable Streep … well, what can one say? She is a
freaking genius!
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What I love about this clip is that while everyone would probably focus
on the kissing part (it’s SO Britney and Madonna, no?) I actually give
it a few repeats because of the wonderfully charming interplay between
the two actresses.
I’d love to think they just basically showed in that one little minute
what I think what real, strong women are.
Both are instinctively funny, smart … naturally gracious …
and supportive of each other. I think both women have a wicked
sense of humour (and not just based on this brief encounter), indeed
I think I admire women who have an innate confidence that allows
them to be sunny funny. Not in-your-face, showy, pretentious kind of funny,
like they have to put on a comedic show in order to be liked.
The radiant, easy breezy type of funny – the kind your favourite uncle or aunty has,
the kind that makes you roar with laughter and want to hug the person at the same time.
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And just because we are on the subject of laughs, I go off track a bit
and tell you why one of my bestest friends Pin is such a soothing
presence in my life. He is hilarious, sometimes in the most awful,
keju and jagung way ever! (Boy, I haven’t used that term in a while,
have I?)
Yesterday, in very spontaneous fashion, he called me close to midnight
to ask if I’d like to follow him to the night club Rootz. I wouldn’t have
gone on such short notice normally, plus I’d gone out the night before
to the dance extravaganza that is the Heineken Green Room party.
But it’s Pin, and I had not hung out with him like that in a while.
So we go. In the car it’s me, Pin and our friend Munchies.
(Sometimes these full-blooded males pretend to be lovers -but
let’s not get into that, shall we?)
They are talking about some weird, silly, TOKOK kind of subject and
somewhere along the line I tell Munchies “Eh, you never look after your
wife properly lah”, referring to his ‘relationship’ with Pin.
After 3 whole minutes of replying to my comment, there is a little lull before
someone’s mental light bulb comes on.
Pin goes.. “Hey wait a minute. I’M NOT the WIFE, okay?!!”
He’s so touchy, that Wei Pin. As if there’s
anything wrong with being the wife in the relationship. :P
Nice.
And then later in the car, and still on another stupid subject or the other …
I tell them both: “Oh my God, honestly both of you are like Dumb & Dumber okay?“
And Pin says, without missing a beat: “I CHOPE DUMB!”
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AHAHAHAHAHHAHA
I swear, these boys.
It never gets old.
xo
