A Touchdown From The Brits.

Two beautiful young, aspiring, and (of course) stylish women from the land of British are put onto the front of the cover this week. Their styles are completely a touchdown. Seriously, do they have some kind of food in England to make their people look this sickeningly perfect?








And of course, not forgetting another Brits that has been buzzing the big screen. Miss Victoria Secret Angel, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

The Ten: Outstanding TV Series This Season.

Most of our beloved series have come to a finale, leaving us to ponder what's more to come this fall. As we come to what I would like to call as 'dry spell', we take a look back on these following series, which can be considered as the creme de la creme of the season.

#10. Bones


Best Character: It's tie between Bones and Booth. This season, we've seen them taking further step on their relationship where they openly admit their attraction toward each other. Eventhough some obstacles come in form of one blonde reporter called Hannah, we all know that Bones and Booth is the endgame and damn we are right!

Best Episode: The Blackout in Bllizard. Bones and Booth stuck in an elevator while the rest of the team are off solving the case with a suspect that suffers from a plague. Intriguing huh?

Score Card: For starter, this season starts off with slow progression, but spikes in the end. A B- would reflect the season well.

#9 Gossip Girl


Best Character: It's as predictable as Twilight in MTV Movie Award. Blair Waldorf taking home this honor. Between everything that has been going on, every girls want some Waldorf in her. However, next season, Blair needs to keep up by knowing that her real happy ending is not in Monacco, it's somewhere in New York, specifically one person named Chuck Bass.

Best Episode: The Witches of Bushwick. Blair and Chuck back together for a moment to cherish, Serena hits rock bottom, and Katie Cassidy is pure evil. CLASSIC GOSSIP GIRL!

Score Card: B for Blair Waldorf and of course all of the stuffs that have been going on.

#8 The Vampire Diaries


Best Character: Enough said, the show won't survive if wasn't for this character. Damon Salvatore is the heart and soul of Vampire Diaries because everything that comes out from his mouth send us through the roof.

Best Episode: The Last Day. It's one of the moment we remember that yes, Vampire Diaries is like Twilight, it perfects itself with sappy romances but hey that's what we want right? #sarcasm

Score Card: B As much as we love this show, yes, we have to admit that season 1 is so much better compared with this one. However, this show still deserves some recognition for some grungy jaw dropping moments



#7 The Good Wife

Best Character:
Alicia Florrick. She has come a long way from being that scorned woman in the podium. Aside from Margulies' calm and content manner, Alicia Florrick carries different element of a modern renowned woman with her own path to walk on. It will be very interesting to see whether the 'good wife' side is still there after that game changing finale which tested Alicia's own identity.

Another shoo in for best character? Eli Gold, simply put this character is all you want and ever want with its cunning, sharp tongued demeanor, he's the heart and soul of the Florrick's campaign.


Best Episode:
Foreign Affairs. The much excitement generated storyline about Peter's campaign harbor at this episode. Gut wrenching performance by Margulies that will easily be Emmy worth moment.


Score card: For its complexity and smart storyline completed with graceful casts, would have to give this series a B+ for this season.



#6. How I Met Your Mother


Best Character: Barney Stinson. For one simple reason, BEING AWESOME!

Best Episode: Subway Wars. Hilarious race of craziness in order to name who's the most 'New Yorker'. CLASSIC!

Score Card: Possible B+ for its ups and downs (funny times and serious times)



#5. Glee


Best Character: This season, I would have to pick newcomer Blaine as the life raft of Glee. His vocal stuns the audiences, his charm got us wrapped around his finger, and of course, he's the nicest boyfriend you can possibly ask! If only..he swings both ways!
Another one to pick up the win, guest star Holly Holiday delivers strong pitches with sexy moves. Gwyneth Paltrow proves she is a force to reckoned with

Best Episode: The Sue Sylvester Shuffle, there said it! Thriller/Off With Your Heads cause it's a night to remember!

Score Card: B+ for some of the most jaw dropping melody, dances, and moves!




#4 Modern Family


Best Character: Phil Dunphy. He makes us laugh every episode, I mean who paints his van with his racy family picture, jumps in front of his daughter's moving van, and even sprays a salesman with sample perfume? It's that crazy that you can not even believe it.

Best Episode: Unplugged. The craziest episode where the Dunphy does one of their silly contest by not using electronic stuffs. That can only mean one thing, hilarious that will shake your stomach to the core.

Score Card: For Phil Dunphy's antique, Gloria's still heavy accent, and Luke's adorable expression, A- will do

#3. Body of Proof



Best Character: Megan Hunt. Dana Delany can do no wrong, in my book she's always right; that's what shows in her character. Megan Hunt is sarcastic, ambitious, and headstrong, something we woman have in us. More than that, she's a layer of complication, between ambition and reality. For her portrayal, I figure Delany deserves a nomination for Emmy this year.

Best Episode: With 9 episode this season, it's very hard not to question, why this series is not aired in the beginning of the season (not in the mid season) because we deserve more of them. Judging from the following episode, the Pilot still holds the key to the pivotal development in this series. When it comes back next season, we're hoping to uncover more layer of Megan, and possibly a new romance for this lonely doctor.

Score Card: A solid A for Delany's performance, fresh storyline, and witty remarks by the writers.

#2 Nikita


Best Character: Nikita. She's an epitome of kickass beauty with brain to complete. Maggie Q portrays Nikita with such complexity that we feel so left behind with every moment without her. The twisted plot is brilliant, and heads up all for Nikita's role on it. Vulnerability, tough edge, and everything wrap into one. If only this was not CW, she would have received multiple awards for it!

Best Episode: Covenants. This is what happens when an action movie plot is given to a TV series. Multiple gut wrenching scenes, vulnerable moments, and everything with the word kick ass clashing together.

Score Card: A solid A is given for the twisted plot, outstanding casts, and smoking romance between Nikita and Michael! :)

#1 Castle


Best Character: Richard Castle. Boyish charm, genius mind, and of course attentive behavior. What can we ask more? Hmm, maybe Beckett should've answered that one.

Best Episode: Knockdown. An open wound is opened, once again as new facts regarding Beckett mother's murder resurfaced.

Score Card: Every episode is entertaining as ever, so yes, I will not hesitate for an A+ If you are protesting, see the finale and you will understand why.


As for you, what's your favorite for this season?

Sounds in below!



C

Scorned Woman: Haven't We All Been There?

"Men get laid, but women got screwed"

-Quentin Crisp

It's ironic how much a quote can resemble reality, even after women declare their emancipation. In the dawn of today's shocking headlines of Arnold Schwarzenegger's adulterous love child, it's such a heinous image for strong woman to be betrayed and screwed over by their own loved ones. Maria Shriver, Schwarzenegger's estranged wife put herself through an endless campaign trail for her husband's position as governor of California state and in the end, she got herself a bundle of joy, but this time around, it's not hers but what comes as the greatest betrayal a woman could have, an adulterous love child.
It dawns on me, as I began to wonder, how many women have gone through the aching heartbreaks of being scorned; more importantly, how many more will it be?
Here it is, the unspoken truth, the final hit on reality, that in this modern era, such thing as Cinderella like fairytale where Prince Charming does exist is nowhere to be found. When the clock strikes twelve, men leave their wives for younger mistress, dancing around as they celebrate their alpha male power. There's no such thing as happily ever after, there's only happily now but not forever for women, and happily now with you and the other for men. Women don't have an affair to remember, what they have is my husband's affair to remember.
Ironically speaking, when we talk about scorned women, we're looking at a list of women who have powerful and admirable husbands. Before the scandal erupts, we always picture them as the guy you take home to meet your parents, with two things everyone seemingly wants nowadays, job security and power to earn more from it. Who can ever forgot about Clinton's White House drama; how Hilary stood by him, through all the mobs of women claiming that they have a night to remember with her husband? Those pains and shames she had to go through was responded with "I think I did it because I could" statement?
Women are there, because they care enough not to run away when things go sour. It's not because they can't, but they realize the importance of their obligation to fight for it till the end. For women, love is a fight that you will be there till the last bell rings. It's not that women is a masochist (eventhough some are), but it's their strength that men shouldn't forget about.
Yes, everyday women are scorned, getting their hearts broken. However, it's what became of them is what matters. Rising up from the pieces, we root for women to stand up and take a look at herself and said, "freeing myself is an option, but staying till the finish line is out of question"
Whether it is Tiger Wood, Elliot Spitzer, or any men out there, women know that being scorned or not, is a chance they have to take in the name of so-called love, but it's them rising above anything is what earns them the medal of honor, of not being scorned women but being the good wife that we all can look up to.
Every women sometimes feel how much pain of being scorned, but the strength of taking the high road is unbelievable.
Scorned or not, being women is a beautiful thing that men could never understand.

-Christy

are you ready for the Big O?

Two more days to the big grand movie award of the year, yes the Uncle Oscar, or whatever you would like to call it.
So you know what you are required to do before watching it? Predicting, as always!
Here are my thoughts for some possible big winners this Sunday night, curious? carry on right away! :)
(based on the rank of possibility)

BEST PICTURE


1. King's Speech
2. Social Network
3. True Grit
4. The Fighter
5. Inception
6. Black Swan
7. Toy Story 3
8. The Kids Are Alright
9. 127 Hours
10. Winter's Bone

With it, dominating DGA and SGA and almost every awards ceremony this season, I wouldn't be left stammering if this dazzlingly historical picture lost

Best Actor in Motion Picture


1. Colin Firth, The King's Speech
2. Jesse Einberg, Social Network
3. Javier Bardem, Biutiful
4. James Franco, 127 Hours
5. Jeff Bridges, True Grit

There are no way to stop Colin Firth to deliver his Oscar speech, not even a slight stammer. This is a locked in potential.

Best Actress in Motion Picture


1. Natalie Portman, Black Swan
2. Annette Benning, The Kids Are Alright
3. Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
4. Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
5. Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

If thing goes right, Portman and her uber famous baby bump will take home the price. Yes, if only Annnette Benning didn't make her 'surprising' win which is you know, possible.

Best Supporting Actor in Motion Picture


1. Christian Bale, The Fighter
2. Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech
3. Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are Alright
4. Jeremy Renner, The Town
5. John Hawkes, Winter's Bone

Bale went from superhero to super skinny, this is time to supersize his awards! :)

Best Supporting Actress in Motion Picture


1. Melissa Leo, The Fighter
2. Hailee Steinfield, True Grit
3. Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech
4. Amy Adams, The Fighter
5. Jackie Weaver, Animal's Kingdom

It's not that I have something against Leo, it's just wouldn't it be fun, to watch 14-year-old winning an Oscar for her first starring role, or the goth princess and her eccentric speech?

Best Director


1. David Fincher, Social Network
2. Tom Hooper, The King's Speech
3. Joel&Ethan Coen, True Grit
4. David Aronofsky, Black Swan
5. David O Russell, The Fighter

As a loyal Fincher's fans, his take on the phenomena called Facebook is brilliant. Its about time for Fincher to win an Oscar (after that hurtful lost for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Best Original Screenplay

1. The King's Speech
2. The Kids Are Alright
3. Inception
4. The Fighter
5. Another Year

It's The King's Speech, what could go wrong?

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Social Network
2. Toy Story 3
3. True Grit
4. Winter's Bone
5. 127 Hours

The world would go gaga if the social network lost for category, it's born to win it!

Well, here it goes for my prediction, how about yours? Beat my prediction, sound off here! :)

xoxo,

C

Recently, I just returned from a 5-day-trip to one of my favorite city in the whole world (and soon to be resident spot), Singapore. The city is an epitome of what's a functional place is all about, thoroughly organized transportation, lavish buildings, balance between glamor and education. Yes, I've been to Singapore numerous times and I've considered this place as my second-home, literally. However, with every visit, I always discover something rather fascinating about this city which is considerably smaller from my current hometown, Jakarta.

Here are some spots which have personal meanings to me:


Marina Bay Sands (MBS) super tastic pool, a spot perfectly suitable to kill some time by dillydallying while looking at exquisite view of Singapore. For me, I finished the whole twenty chapters of John Grisham's The Confession :)


Ion Orchard, one stop place to shop. Favorite vendors include Topshop, Zara, Uniqlo, Mitju, and lots more. During my last visit, I ate Marvelous Cream 5-days in a row for a large portion. Yummm :6

Forever New has arrived at SINGAPORE :) It makes being frugal almost a catastrophe.
(Located at Raffles City, City Hall)


Hula&Co, Singaporean local brand with affordable price and finest quality :)
(Located at 313@Somerset or Wisma Atria Basement Floor)

Forever 21 at 313@Somerset, 4 stories to satisfy your shopping craves.

Iluma and its unique architecture. (Located at Bugis)


Green roof building at Nanyang Technological University. SO DAMN COOL!


Lasalle and its artistic sites. Too bad I suck at art, if only..


My everyday view, SMU buildings. How grand! :)


Nerdies for life! Kinokuniya Ngee Ann City, a must visit spot for me.


Marvelous Cream, we're two peas in a pod! :)


my future school ;) (hopefully will be in the next 5 months!) -> fyi, got my first call outs for UEE (Undergraduate Entrance Exam) yesterday! awww!
(National University of Singapore, located at Kent Ridge Road)


School of The Arts Singapore (SOTA)

There you go, my very favorite places in Singapore, how about you? Share your thoughts here! :)

xoxo,

C