Seriously a real-life soap opera, eh?

Oh yes, yet another post on *Raoul and *Rupert.

On Wednesday evening, November 26, 2008, Raoul invited me and my friend over for dinner, at his apartment. I brought over some vegetables, and he had a package of chicken so I cooked a very delicious meal for him, my friend and me. Like all good meals, preparation takes a long time... So, by the time that I was done with the meal, Raoul needed to and pick up Rupert...

So, Rupert walks into the door, says hi to the little doggy, and putters around. He wanted to send off an assignment for his class, but has realized that he lost his USB key. He got all upset and dramatic about how it's 10% and he'll fail the course over this assignment. Eventually, he and Raoul got into a fight... So, Rupert grabs his bag and storms out of the apartment. After about five to ten minutes, Rupert calls Raoul at the door and asks for a ride home because he has missed the bus. Raoul grudgingly accepts the responsibility and drives him home. After Rupert gets home, he calls Raoul on the phone and argues with him for a bit. There was all this talk about how Rupert was going to change the status on his facebook (from in a relationship to single, probably). After this brief talk, he sends Raoul a text message (a pissy princess one, of course) which ended off with "See you some time in the future". This to me sounded like a break up text... Within about two minutes of this text sent, we get another phone call from Rupert where there is more arguing, and it apparently ended off with "I'm going to change my status tomorrow", and some other conversation, which left Raoul saying, "Well, I guess it's over."

Unfortunately, for the rest of us regular folk who are not overly dramatic, those two are still together.

I never realized that they would actually turn into a real life soap opera, because this is exactly the type of shit that happens in soap operas. We have some bombshell woman who threatens to leave the relationship, and then doesn't end up doing it because she gets flattered back into it.

I was really looking forward to cracking open a Stella Artois (or two) and having a drink with my neighbours to celebrate the break-up. Not because I'm a nasty asshole who believes that since I am not in a relationship, anyone in the free world shouldn't have be a relationship, but because I would be free of all this self-centred, attention hogging, bitchy, drama queeny, spoiled, bratty, demanding, individual. But alas, no, I could not pop one (or two) of my Stella Artois open. * Sigh *

Bolt: 3D

On Tuesday, November 25, 2008, I went to see the movie Bolt in 3D. Bolt is a Disney's animated film. One of the last projects before the big purchase of Pixar (or should I say the other way around?)

The story is about a cute white doggy/puppy, whose name is Bolt. He is the main character in a cheesy crime drama. He is a doggy with "super powers". He has a super sonic bark that rips up roads, machines, etc., and he has super fast powers when he zoom-zooms and he can melt metal locks with his glare. However, what the doggy doesn't realize (the doggy's name is Bolt) is that this is all fake... It's all part of the show... Bolt's sidekick, Penny is trying to rescue his father, who's a professor, and has technology that the green eyed man wants (that's the bad guy). We start off the movie with Bolt seeing that his Penny was captured by the green eyed man. Because of that, he escapes the studios and tries to save Penny. What follows is a cross country journey of him trying to get back to Hollywood and to his studio.

John Travolta does the sound of Bolt, and Miley Cyrus does the voice of Penny. A fun movie for the family... Especially more fun if you opt for the 3D option. Very very enjoyable.

In other news today... There was a CD signing by James Blunt, so I got a few CDs signed (for me and for two of my friends). I usually can't stand his music, because I find his music very whiny. I can only stand one song on his second CD, Same Mistake, and the other ones, I don't really like. However, I did buy the deluxe edition of the CD (one CD and one DVD with bonus songs) and I also got him to sign that!

I'm not sayin' he's a gold digga'

Today, I found out that it is *Rupert's birthday tomorrow. Rupert will be 20 tomorrow. *Raoul told me in the car, while we were coming back from our workout, that Rupert wanted a gold chain that said "I Love You" on it for his birthday.

It's not even been a year and a half and he's already demanding gold chains?

I don't really like hip hop, but this Kanye West song comes to mind: "I ain't sayin' he's a gold digga'..."

Also, if someone really loved another individual, why do you need it written down on a gold chain? Aren't the words reassuring enough?

Us humans, we're funny funny people.

Heaven on Earth

On Tuesday, November 18, 2008, I went to see the movie Heaven on Earth. This was a movie by the director of Deepa Mehta. She was the director of such films such as Fire, Water, Earth.

This movie is about Chand, a newly wed wife in an arranged marriage. She leaves India to come to Canada, and gets married to Rocky, an Indo-Canadian man. Chand walks into a marriage, not knowing her husband at all. What happens is she walks into an abusive relationship... The movie is about her dealing with this reality by creating her own virtual reality.

However, the difficult part of the movie is that I couldn't tell whether or not the coloured scenes were in her memory, or if the black and white ones were in her memory. She fluctuates between reality, and her life based on a fable.

An interesting film, but it can be a bit confusing.

Haha, my luck with men

So, a hot boy stopped me and gave me his number today... I was exiting the metro station to go home, and he stopped, chatted me up, and gave me his number.

Too bad he's out of my league. I'm not saying that I don't have self-esteem, or I have a self depricating sense of humour, but... he's a Mormon missionary. He sounded kind of gay, and he had a singsong voice (everything ended as a question), but he probably wasn't giving me his number to pick me up. I think he is trying to convert me.

As you can see, I have wonderful luck with men.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

On Tuesday, November 11, 2008, I went to see the film Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. This is the second film in the Madagascar series, and it's a film by Dreamworks Pictures.

The story is about the four animals from the first one: Alex (the lion), Marty (the zebra), Gloria (the hippo) and Melman (the giraffe) who took a vacation in Connecticut. However, they were taken to be escaped animals and finally captured. The story begins because animal activists believe that they should be released back into Africa.

A fun movie where it's traditionally Dreamworks animation, and their style. A funny children's film with a few references for adults.

I saw this film in IMAX, but it's not one where the IMAX and no IMAX would make a huge difference. A lot of big names in this movie too, for example, I didn't know that Will.I.Am was in the movie, as well as Bernie Mac and Alec Baldwin.

Raoul and Rupert do me in again...

Yesterday, November 8, 2008, *Raoul and *Rupert do me in again.

I was supposed to be teaching an aerobics class at 9:30 a.m., and I thought that leaving at 8:45 a.m., or even 8:50 a.m. (I needed an extra five minutes to take care of some emergency banking). We would be fine...

I didn't factor into the fact that Rupert was going to go to Tim Horton's and order a cafe mocha and also two breakfast sandwiches...

And not only did we need to go to Tim Horton's... We had to go to a Tim Horton's that was out of the way, because it wasn't on the way to the highway, or on the way to the school.

So, in retrospect, the extra five minutes I took wouldn't have really mattered, because we lost about 10 minutes at Tim Horton's waiting for the breakfast sandwiches.

In my opinion, when you start not being able to be responsible with your friends, that's a problem. I understand that boyfriends come first, but if you can't get that in check so that your friend(s)'s important engagements are kept... I think it's a problem.

So, as I thought... Rupert is a spoiled princess diva who doesn't care about anyone else but himself.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

On Tuesday, November 4, 2008, I went to see the movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona. This is the latest film by Woody Allen. It features Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansen. As male lead, we have Javier Bardem. He's the guy that won the Oscar for No Country for Old Men.

The story is about two good friends, Vicky and Cristina. They spend a summer in Spain, and it is about how this one summer changes all of their lives. I am not going to go into the details, because there are a lot of small details that would just give the movie away.

This is a different style than the usual Woody Allen film. It's the third film that Johanssen has done with Woody Allen. This is also the first film where Allen did not make a cameo.

I found this film to be a little slower than his other films. I found myself checking out how long is left in the movie about a little more than an hour in...