Best Picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Cean Chaffin
Frost/Nixon - Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Eric Fellner
Milk - Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen
The Reader - Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Redmond Morris, Donna Gigliotti
Slumdog Millionaire - Christian Colson

Best Director
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry – The Reader
David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant – Milk

Best Actor
Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn – Milk
Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

Best Actress
Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie – Changeling
Melissa Leo – Frozen River
Meryl Streep – Doubt
Kate Winslet – The Reader

Best Supporting Actor
Josh Brolin – Milk
Robert Downey, Jr. – Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams – Doubt
Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis – Doubt
Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler

Best Original Screenplay
WALL-E - Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter
Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh
Frozen River - Courtney Hunt
In Bruges - Martin McDonagh
Milk - Dustin Lance Black

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan
The Reader - David Hare
Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy
Doubt - John Patrick Shanley

Best Animated Feature
Bolt – Chris Williams and Byron Howard
Kung Fu Panda – Mark Osborne and John Stevenson
WALL-E – Andrew Stanton

Best Foreign Language Film
Revanche (Austria) in German - Götz Spielmann
The Class (France) in French - Laurent Cantet
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany) in German
Departures (Japan) in Japanese
Waltz with Bashir (Israel) in Hebrew - Ari Folman

Taken wholesale from my fb profile page!

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you!

1. I am eating a prune now. I don't frequently eat prunes, nor do I particularly like or dislike prunes, but I'm eating a prune now.
2. I am tired now. It is natural for people to just crash when their tired but I don't do that immediately when the time is eight pee am. For some reason I think sleeping at eight pee am is a waste of time and I try my best to stay up till nine.
3. I celebrated Valentine's Day for the first time this year and financially invested in this cliche occasion only to see very high returns. Happy smiley faces are worth more than my money.
4. I was worried about doing this tag because I thought maybe I'm not interesting enough for people to sustain reading until number twenty five.
5. My phone just rang, even though I was quite sure I switched it to silent mode.
6. I like staring at myself, which is also why I like full length mirrors in topman fitting rooms and underground MRT Stations with reflective doors.
7. I want to be a crazy JC guy who goes out everyday and I want to be the crazy JC mugger who mugs everyday. Am I making sense?
8. I want to bagpack through Southeast Asia, preferably with someone close.
9. I give sweets to strangers in lectures to look like a nice person!
10. I have been losing my optimism.
11. I have terrible financial planning skills. I might go bankrupt one day.
12. I think Coffeebean makes nicer coffee than Starbucks but I still buy Starbucks because I think its cooler.
13. I am eating blueberries now. No, I'm not a health nut. It's all a coincidence.
14. I didn't bother to enter all my OG mates' telephone numbers into my phone for about a week. I love them but I don't like inputting numbers.
15. I used to be a compulsive facebook friend adder.
16. Facebook is usually the first website I visit when I get online.
17. I don't react to change well. Which sucks because change happens quite frequently.
18. I am extremely fickle. My mind darts between food choices every few milliseconds when I look at a menu. This only applies to food though (rest assured future soulmate! Wherever you are! Haha)
19. I enjoy stationery and book buying the most. Although I'm a more compulsive book buyer. Walking into Borders is orgasmic.
20. I just ate a strawberry. They came together with the blueberries on a plate. So no, I am not a health nut.
21. I used to blog a lot, now not so.
22. I still like clothes from Topman, even though everyone seems to be wearing them now. If I have time to shop I will still go back there! Screw individualism hahahaha.
23. My mom and dad made me in South Africa. Maybe that's why I have curly hair. Screw you secondary school mates!
24. I cry at movie parts when absolutely no one is crying. I like it that the cinema's dark so no one sees me doing this.
25. When I sit absolutely still with corrected vision, I can't tell whether I'm wearing glasses or contacts.

Today is a happy day. Happy day because I bought two sunflowers for two awesome people and cycled with the kyt all the way to the middle of Changi park connector and then ate sinful food later and gave her the sunflower and then took a taxi because I was late for the second date of the day with the estherchee to have, erm, water, haha, at bakerzin yishun and it was an awesome conversation and I gave her the second sunflower so yes it is the first valentines day of my life and it's been awesome so far.

So whatever sine curve that sets my emotions in rapid crests and troughs I hope they disappear for the rest of my life because I have awesome new friends and awesome old friends which basically mean I have awesome friends! Which lets me wake up in the morning feeling cheerier and looking forward to the sun rising and these sort of happy optimistic things which I forsook months ago when tragic instances of crappy relationships crept into my life. Somewhere along the line I know I'm not making sense to you but I am I am.

So to whoever is reading this (yes I realize I still have a readership), remember that God can make a difference in your life when you actually give it to him. And remember that life is as good as you want it to be. So stand up and be proud! And say your name out loud :)

Happy valentines. Omg its 12:02 that means its not valentines anymore :(

But happy vday anyway :)

No one reads this anymore so I guess it's pretty safe to publish something this explicit about my life. At this stage of education everyone's really mature and experienced with regards to networking and being friendly and stuff. I was reading the lit text yesterday night and it mentioned something about this acrobat's tits popping out during her routine and I was like shit, am I in school? Since when did school become so RA? Then it dawned on me that next year everyone in our class would be eighteen and that means in most of the world we can actually watch porn legally so what's the big deal with the mention of a lady's tits in the lit text right?

Okay, so my point is, everyone is really growing up and more expert at this friend making thing. Everyone has new friends, everyone is in new social circles, everyone is having fun, everyone is having the time of their lives, and if I say I'm not, then I'm really deceiving myself. My class is freaking awesome, relative to other SA classes. Everyone is friendly, everyone talks, everyone is cool. And then there's the OG. My goodness, the first people I knew in SA. If there's any nostalgia in this short two weeks of saintlife its the week of orientation and they are my nostalgia. Hence I really like them a lot.

But these people I just met like, what, two weeks ago? What about the friends from last year? Or last last year? Or last last last year? I freaking freaking miss them, but they all seem to have their own lives now. Just like me. Every facebook status reads blah blah "loves his og" or "loves orientation" or "why is orientation ending?!?!?!" and yeah I feel like that too. But there's this part of me thats longing for everyone I used to know. And seeing them so happy with new friends just kills me. But this is life.

I remember when I left primary school I kept trying to bring people back together. I kept trying to organize class gatherings, class activities. And then people stopped coming, and then I felt hurt. And then it came to the stage where I just shut everyone out and just started a new life in VS. And had awesome friends and then almost never talked to anyone I spent 6 years of life with again. Somehow I have this crappy feeling it's gonna happen again. Like now.

Of course there are friends who always stand by you. Because that's what real friends do. They stand by each other. I'm still freaking lost now, but some people make it much easier. Much much easier. So now I will just take a step back and enjoy what saintandrews has to offer. And be extra nice to my classmates and ogmates to make up for this sucky mentality I had to offer them.

OG21, 09A07 :)
Thanks to people who have stuck by, you know who you are!