Thursday 23 June 2016

MOVIE REVIEW : The Imitation Game

Holla ~

THE IMITATION GAME - one of the mind-blowing movies that I had watched last week.



I learnt lots of new things from this movie.

Enigma.

Yasss, enigma is one of them.

Before this, I had no idea about what enigma is actually about. Now, I do really amazed on how people can break the codes of enigma. It is so cool, definitely cool!

I don't want to tell the summary of the movie because I am not willing to give the spoiler. For everyone who still don't watch this movie, you MUST watch it. Seriously.

I do like this movie because of the persistence of the main character - Alan Turing - who had been bullied in his secondary and been rescued by a friend named Christopher. Since then, they had been good friends until one day after a long break, Christopher didn't come back to school. Alan got the news that Christopher was dead, leaving him scarred. Christopher was the one who introduced ciphers and codes to Alan as he had once said that Alan would be good in those things. After he grew up, he had became an introvert yet very intelligent. He offered himself to work for breaking the enigma. He built a machine to break the enigma and named it after Christopher. Everybody thought that he was insane but because of his undeniable effort, he finally succeed.

What makes me a bit disappointed about the main character is when he admitted that he was a gay. That is why he was really desolated when Christopher died, as he had fallen in love with Christopher before that. It is too sad that he was actually dead for committing suicide. His creation is now known as computers.

All over all, I do rate this movie 4.5 over 5 stars! Enjoyed watching as I had learnt lots from it :")

xoxo,
Iffah

Saturday 18 June 2016

VOCABULARY OF THE WEEK ;)

Hello and a very good evening.

So here are the new words that I have learnt throughout this week.

1. Facile - arrived at without due to care or effort; lacking depth.
"As one teacher remarks about a trouble student, "There is no facile solution"

2. Bestow - present.
"He bestowed public buildings and river improvements in return for votes.

3. Need - pay close attention to.
"But she was already too far gone to heed the warning voice."

4. Exalt - praise, glorify, or honor.
"Some exalt themselves by anonymously posting their own laudatory reviews."

5. Cower - crouch or curl up.
"The knaves lowered their weapons and shrank back cowering before him"

6. Fathom - come to understand.
"After flying for so many years, the idea of hanging up his sparkling wings is hard for him to fathom"

7. Accrue - increase.
"Jeremy’s only goal in life seems to be to accrue as much money as he can."

8. Acidulous - harsh in manner or flavor.
"Because the salesclerk spoke to me in an acidulous tone, I chose to take my business elsewhere."

9. Fervid - marked by great passion or zeal.
"The candidate made a fervid speech that held the audience’s attention."

10. Inflation - a steady rise in the prices of services and goods.
"Inflation occurs as the value of currency decreases."

xoxo,
Iffah

Friday 10 June 2016

MOVIE REVIEW : Me Before You :')

Hello everyone!

Actually I had written this review for almost a week but today is the only chance I have to post it on my blog due to a very good and excellent WIFI connection here. Sorry for that haha. So here it is.

Long time no see and now I’m back here to write a new entry on a movie that I just watched last Saturday, which is, ME BEFORE YOU. It has been adapted from a novel by Jojo Moyes. It was awesome – totally awesome I can say. I never cried over an English movie before, but this movie had made me cry so hard- so hard until my eyes were swollen. I was grateful that I was not reading the novel yet; if not I would end up being like Zarith, crying all the way from the very first minute the movie was started. Arghhh I still can’t accept the heartbreaking ending of this movie. It left me with severe heartbreaks and disappointment. WHYYYYYYYYY? WHYYYY IT HAD TO END LIKE THAT?! :’(

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A successful banker and active man in his past, William Traynor never knew that his life would turn out to be the biggest nightmare to him. He was paralyzed- almost all parts of his body were not functioning except for his brain to think, eyes to blink, nose to breathe, and mouth to talk- due to a motorbike accident in the past couple years.

Louisa Clark or people do often called her “Lou” was a quirky and dauntless young woman. She was quirky in her way of clothing haha. She often wore something that I can’t even describe it as fashionable but for her, it is, and that’s making her somewhat unique and special. She was dauntless and never give up in finding money to support her family. Her boyfriend, Patrick was a sports man. She had been with him for about 7 years, without loving him that much. Her cheerful attitude had been tested when she was given a job to become a caregiver for a paralyzed man which is William.

The story goes on when Lou was able to change the cynical outlook of William to become someone that can laugh and smile like the others. Knowing that William will end up killing himself in a Dignitas House in Switzerland in the next 6 months, Lou had planned lots of events and things, hoping for William to have slightly change in his thought about his plan. Lou broke up with Pat and went for William as she knew that William meant a lot to her. William confessed to Lou that she was the only reason that he could get up every morning at his ex-girlfriend’s wedding. They had spent lots of happy time together and Lou expected Will to cancel his plan to Switzerland.

The scene on the island was the most tensing one. I cried a lot at this. Lou told William that she loved him, and she mentioned about the Dignitas and she hoped that he could abandon as she would do anything for him as long as he was alive. Will said he did have the best time with Lou for loving her and they had special times together but he could not insist himself to continue with his plan as he could not bear to live on a wheelchair; he did mention about his torturing life in past two years, living in such hopes for getting up being normal every morning and those dreams were just dreams that would never come true- he is permanently paralyzed. Lou was angry and sad. After getting back home, Lou quitted being the caregiver. Ahhh it’s so depressing to write about this. What I can just say is, Lou ended up giving in and letting William to continue with his plan. She visited him for the last time at they spent their last time together there. The last scene showed that Lou was sitting on a chair at the café in somewhere in Paris, reading William’s last will for her.

My favorite part of this movie was when Will gave the most unexpectable birthday present to Lou. A yellow stripes legging that had been Lou's favorite outfit when she was little. That was so cute, I couldn't handle myself from laughing hard at that time.  

I do love the character of Louisa Clark in this movie as she was really cute in her action even though sometimes she looked pretty clumsy and weirdo. I do love William Traynor as well. He is handsome no matter how he looks- in long hair or short hair. Sam Claflin is always be my favorite actor, since his appearance in Love Rosie. And now I’m looking forward for the next movie of him. By the way, he did a great in playing the role of William Traynor in this movie. It left a big impact on me. I still can’t forget the way he moved on his wheelchair and the way he smiled in this movie. Huhuhuhuhu *cries*



I had watched the trailer of Me Before You once before I watched it on the cinema and I was like ‘hmm nothing special about this movie I guess’, ‘eww Sam Claflin on a wheelchair with that long hair style? Looks terrible’. Those thoughts were totally vanished after I watched the whole movie. It was great. Fantastic! Worth-watching movie. Last night I had a gut to re-watch the trailer and without noticing, I felt tears. Ahhhhh why I need to watch this again ha-ha. To sum it up, I do rate the movie 4 STARS. I will give the last remaining star if the director changes the ending and bring William back to live. HAHAHA

Okay that’s all from me. Have fun reading!

xoxo,
Iffah


BOOK REVIEW : Bad Romeo by Leisa Rayven

Today I'm gonna write a book review on a novel that I recently read. Actually I had once read the novel and I did find out that the novel is quite interesting and catchy. So I decided to read it one more time and yeah, it's a worth-reading! Actually I'm not really a fan of second chance romance book because yahhh- I shouldn't tell here why- but this one was done perfectly. I knew about this book from one of my best friend named Mawaddah or I just call her Mek Dah all the time. She was the one who had always persuaded me to read this book and now I know why she really wanted me to read it. Thanks to her, finally I made it to the last page of Bad Romeo!



HAHAHA at first I really wondered why the title of this novel was BAD Romeo. Why it must to be referred as BAD? Lots of questions lingered around my mind on that time. But this was one of the books that had given a perfect mixture of fun and intense and I hung on every word while reading. 

Cassie Taylor was a good girl acting student and Ethan Holt was a bad guy around campus. Both of them were destined to work together as the main cast in the school drama entitled Romeo Juliet. The Romeo and Juliet had changed everything in their life. For a young ,torturing and brooding man like Ethan, letting someone in wasn't something easy, but somehow, Cassie was able to break some of his walls and he couldn't insist to have relationship with her. In the end, their relationship did not end well as Ethan ended up shattering Cassie's heart into pieces and left her. The reason for Ethan to do that is: he feared. He had problem in trusting people. He had the same problem towards Cassie too. That's why he broke her up. 

Years later, Ethan was changed. He knew that he couldn't live without Cassie and he wanted her back. He would do anything to make Cassie getting back to his side. They had once again reunited as their passionate love towards each other had confronted them to put away their love conflicts in their former college. 

“Don’t even try to tell me you’ll ever love someone as much as you love me, because as arrogant as it is to say, that’s bullshit. And I feel the same way about you. Everyone else is just going to be second best for us. Don’t you get that?”

Both of them were changed. Ethan was broody in the past and in the present he had became someone who was completely different- he is perfect. From a very hilarious, understanding and fascinating woman in the past, Cassie had turned out to be someone who wasn't exactly the same. I couldn't blame her for being the way the was as I knew what she had been through that had ended up making her to be like that. 

I do love this novel because of Ethan. ETHAN HOLT. The most dashing guy and coolest guy that I can ever admire even though he is only a character in a novel- for sure the guy like him would never exist in the real world. He have it all. He is perfect I can say. Having problem in trusting someone in his life is the only flaw he has. The ending is quite depressing for this one but now I eagerly want to read the sequence of the book : BROKEN JULIET asdfghjkl I can't wait for thattttttttttt.

I rate this book 4.8/5 :)

That's all for my book review. Annyeong!

xoxo,
Iffah