Movie 2: Dating a Vampire (2006)

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Alex Fong is cute. If it isn’t already obvious, that sentence is a dead giveaway as to what my gender is. He has the bad boy look, yet the character he plays is oh-so-pure. It’s his friend Chuen who’s a pervert, and he sure looks like one.The love story itself is messed up. In fact, I’m not sure why it is a love story. All Fong’s character does is see the vampire a couple times and then “save” her from being married to another ghost. That does not constitute dating, m’kay? The flashbacks during the climax are thusly ridiculous and wrong. Besides, it is implied that Fong’s character has a girlfriend, making the whole thing double wrong.

On a side note, what kind of name is Banana? Do people in Hong Kong really name their kids after fruits and such?

Book 6: From The Two Rivers: The Eye of the World, Book 1 (Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan (2002)

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Once, I read The Hobbit and wondered who died and made J. R. R. Tolkien king of literature. The book was a mouthful, and afterward I just refused to start reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy at all. I figured if the movie managed to make me fall asleep (I only watched the first one because I wanted to see what the big deal was about Legolas slash Orlando Bloom), surely the book would do an even better job.Well, this book triggers some seriously bad memory. It’s written in the similar style as The Hobbit – which I can’t stand. So after the first three pages, I put it down and never look back.

Book 5: Almost Home by Nora Raleigh Baskin (2003)

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Cute book. I remember sixth grade. The homework, the bully, the first crush, oh!

One down side is the special appearance of a couple words I highly disapprove of – in a children’s book, that is. I feel like calling Will “gay” or a “fag” is unnecessary, even if those words come from the antagonist’s mouth. Yeah, kids do say them today, but they could easily have been modified into something tamer and family-friendly . . . like “jerkface” or “dumbwhusky.”

I’m not concerned with being politically correct; I’m just trying to protect the children.

Book 4: Teach Yourself Judaism by C. M. Pilkington (2000)

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The first book I read to learn all about Judaism: a religion I hear about so often yet I have absolutely no clue about. Actually, Judaism isn’t even a religion; it’s an identity.Informative book. Now I know that Torah is the first five books (also the Pentateuch), not the whole Old Testament. Now I also know what “kosher” means. I just missed the part that talks about Talmud. What the hell is it? And where does Kabbalah fit into the whole Judaism thing?

I’m going to find even more books to enlighten myself . . .