Review: Kraft Cheezels Biskitz

I am a cheese lover.   But I guess this is the first time cheese seemed tasteless for me.

I ate 1 pack of 30g Kraft Cheezels Biskitz this morning to end my craving for something salty.  Either my expectation with Kraft is so high based on products experience or my taste bud is just not cooperating.  I got disappointed. 

The cheese powder tasted more of a flour.  No cheese flavor.  No salt.  And I wondered why.

1)     Made in China – Imported by Singapore.  (Whichever part of the process went wrong.  LOL.)

2)     Size 30g – Products packed in bigger sizes usually tastes better.

If point 1 is the reason, I need to try this in Philippines.

If point 2 is the reason, got to convince a friend to buy the bigger one and try a piece or 2 from their pack.

If none of the above, got to see the doctor and have my taste bud checked.

A Moment to Remember

A Moment to Remember (내 머리 속의 지우개 literally Eraser in My Head) is a 2004 South Korean movie.


Cast:

Son Ye-jin as Su-jin

Jung Woo-sung as Cheol-su

The first segment of the film, staged in romantic comedy style, introduces the protagonists, a woman named Su Jin and a man named Chul Soo. The movie highlights their accidental meeting in a convenience store and confusion over a can of soda, followed by their subsequent courting despite the social standings that should have kept them apart.

The second segment follows the couple now settling into married life. Su-Jin learns to be a housewife as her husband cares for her. But as the segment progresses, Su-jin begins to display forgetfulness, including an incident in which a fire breaks out because of a forgotten stove. While Chul Soo caught the fire in time, the seriousness of the incident and others draw them to seek medical help.

The third segment involves the revelation of Alzheimer's disease and the couple's consequent response to it. Su Jin is heavily burdened by the knowledge that she will forget her husband and hides it from him at first until he seeks advice from the doctor himself. Despite the disease, they make the commitment to stay together and as the disease progresses, the trials the couple go through increase because of Su Jin's forgetfulness.

The fourth segment reveals Su-jin in the final stages of the disease and the grief Chul Soo experiences because of it. Yet he remains beside her, despite her lost memory, hiding his eyes behind sunglasses when he visits her so she can't see his tears.

The end of the movie finishes off with Chul Soo replaying the first time they met in the convenience store with all her friends and family in the store. In the final scene, Su-jin is riding beside her husband in the car in the sunset, and he can finally tell her, "I love you."

***This is the first movie that i cried so much!  Unbelievably great - the whole package! Very much recommended!

Rate: 5 Stars

Movie Review: Listen to Your Heart

I liked the movie generally.  It’s a movie with a lesson.

Great job for the character portrayal.  (Sign language was a plus).

Great supporting actors and actresses.

There were just few areas that I feel are too gray. 

-           The mom’s character was unrealistic.

-           Danny suddenly had seizure.

Synopsis:
In the film, a struggling New York City songwriter, Danny (Kent Moran) becomes enamored with a wealthy hearing-impaired girl, Ariana (Alexia Rasmussen), from Greenwich, Connecticut, who cannot hear the music she inspires him to write. After falling in love against the wishes of her controlling mother, Ariana becomes torn between hanging onto the shelter her controlling mother (Cybill Shepherd) provides and fighting for a love that, if given the chance, might just change her life.



CAST:

• Ariana - Alexia Rasmussen
• Danny - Kent Moran
• Victoria - Cybill Shepherd
• Roger - Frank Watson
• Tony - Ernie Sabella
• Marianne - Lisa Benner
• Nicole - Amy Clare Lockwood
• George - Robert Ousley
• Mitch - Luke Moran

AWARDS

• Winner - Best Picture at the Action on Film International Film Festival
• Winner - Audience Award for Best Feature at the Rhode Island International Film Festival
• Winner - People's Choice at the New York City International Film Festival
• Winner - Audience Award at the Temecula Valley International Film Festival
• Winner - Audience Award at the North Country Film Festival
• Winner - Best Actress (Alexia Rasmussen) at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood
• Winner - Best Supporting Actress (Cybill Shepherd) at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood
• Winner - Best Narrative Feature (Merit Award) at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood
• Winner - Screenwriting (Alan J. Bailey Award) at the Action on Film International Film Festival
• Winner - Best Art Direction at the Action on Film International Film Festival
• Winner - Best Overall Film at the Offshoot Film Festival
• Nominated - Best Actor (Kent Moran) – New York City International Film Festival
• Nominated - Best Actress (Alexia Rasmussen) – Action on Film International Film Festival
• Nominated - Best Supporting Actress (Cybill Shepherd) – Action on Film International Film Festival
• Nominated - Best Produced Screenplay – Action on Film International Film Festival
• Nominated - Best New Writer (Kent Moran) – Without a Box Written Word Award

Why I love my work (and everything that comes with it)

While some tend to avoid talking about their jobs, worse lambast on their Facebook walls all their emotions about work, I take this opportunity to share why I love my work and everything that comes with it.

I am blessed to have this job in many ways which I am going to share further.  Yes, the job itself is the blessing but  I am (honestly) more enjoying the results of this blessing.  And I have called them sub-blessings.

Sub-blessing 1:
I got this job because of an ex-workmate who recommended me to her boss. 

Of course, I went through the application process before I got it.  There were two of us who applied for the same position, the other is my friend/ ex-workmate too.  I got hired but I was assigned in a different department.  My friend got the post. 

Nevertheless, it was great.  I got a job.  Then my friend found a better earning company and resigned.  And then I was assigned to that post.

I am grateful that I never had any ill-feeling with what I went through.  As they say, “Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”  Job is a blessing!

Sub-blessing 2:
Where do I work?  Location: Western part of Singapore.  Office is situated near the sea that divides Singapore and Malaysia.  Highway.

I love the wideness of what I can see from the window pane.  The green grass and the see beyond that restricted area.  Very placid.

And just before our bus company fetches us in the afternoon, I can have few minutes to breathe the fresh air, feel the warmth of the sun, and stand looking at a wide area.

Why I value those simple things?  I just do.

Sub-blessing 3:
The people.  The company is owned by a family of gentle and generous people.  I have learned how they started for a small business to a big one and now is branching to another company.  Good things happen to good people. 

My workmates.   Great people.  Everyone is just too easy to approach, no issues.  Everyone is nice. 

Miscellaneous blessings:

**Yesterday, I went to the warehouse to hand a document to the warehouse manager.  I then realized that the company is just too big and it is expanding (just acquired another lot I heard + business growing in China too).  Business is growing.  Blessing.
**My desk is twice the desk I had from my previous job. 
**My monitor is 20” flat screen, Dell. (Technically, I do not know how to describe it.)  It is big.
**I can go off at 6pm!  No over time required.  Amazing!  Everything is just managed well that I can say, I have life!
**Lunch is subsidized by the company. 
**Food.  Everybody loves food.  The directors and managers would always buy for us.
**Team concept. 

I know I missed to include few things.  But I will edit the blog when I remember what I missed.

Which company I work for?  PM me. LOL.

My point is, having a job is already a blessing.   How you see the small things with it is another blessing (with sub-blessings + miscellaneous blessings).

Google Blog

This is my first blog.  I used to have blogs which I am no longer accessing now.  Just got tired, I did not have time then too.  Yesterday I read a blog from one blogger, did not know Google has this feature. 

Since I can access Google in office, my blogging begins today.

When I started typing the first word above, my thoughts started planning on the contents forgetting the fact that blogs could have any contents.  Blogs.  So much for blog organization.  Anyway, que sera sera.  No pressure required. 

Why I was bothered? 

-    It has been a while since I blogged.

-    Proper English is rarely used in the country where I am at now.

-    I rarely read nowadays, things around me may not be running the same way I thought they were.

-    Comments.

-    Blog justice.

My list can go on and on.  But it would make me more hesitant to blog.  So I am going to end this now. 

Hope you will enjoy reading my blogs!