Friday, February 15, 2008

Enchanted by iGoogle

Is iGoogle the best thing since facebook or what? I have no idea which came first but I'm totally mesmerised by the homepage I have created in iGoogle. I have selected the Hong Kong theme and you can watch the sunrise and set before your very eyes as if you were looking out the window. Not only that, I've got news of the world, Australia, US and Hong Kong, one click away and wikipedia is right there when I need to consult with a third party. I also have the weather in front of me and I think my colleagues were sick of me giving them the latest weather report update. By the way, in Hong Kong it'll be: Sunny. Cool, Beautiful. Temperature of 20°C. Balmy.

Enchanted

I didn't plan on seeing this. My sister-in-law wanted to take my nephew to see it so I accompanied them. When I saw the preview I thought it would be an HBO movie and I was very pleasantly surprised by how entertaining it was. I'm always entertained when people start breaking out into song out of the blue. I think I've written about this phenomenon before. I wish some of my students would start singing mid-way through the class just to break up the monotony of a business writing lesson. And then they should start twirling their pens in unison and I'll follow suit with my whiteboard marker. A Michael Flatley-styled line dance should form thereafter, in front of the classroom, and we should all dance our way out of the classroom and present ourselves to whoever is waiting in reception where we shall be applauded for our performance.

No. It'll never work. First, I will have to explain to my students what a line dance is. And then... oh bloshhh... forget it! I have another idea for a musical. It takes place on a tram.

Now where was I? There were also some very funny moments in the movie - mainly the bits they had already shown in the preview. The song from the movie stays with you. I was humming all the way home. Also, I wish I had the ability to summon animals from the woods to help me clean the house. That would be one superpower I want to have. One more thing I must mention is that Gisele (the princess incumbent) makes her clothes from curtains! The hills are indeed alive. ***/5

Is Europe a country?
Oh my god, you really can't be serious! I was reading this article in the IHT and this is the video mentioned in it.




and sticking with the theme - WTF??? She should have just answered "Because of world peace." It would have been less humiliating!




3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes, I am all over your blog today.

Enchanted was good, wasn't it? But if you are after a musical, try "Once", if you haven't already. It's kind of wonderful.

Jadd

Fuz said...

seen the second one before, but good God. How stupid are these people? Made me laugh tho!

wai said...

Enchanted was good. I especially loved the cockroach and swarm of flies domestic helpers. I don't know about 'Once', I'll have to imdb.

fuz: "stupid is as stupid does"