Pretty Little Liars and Me

WARNING: THIS IS GOING TO BE AN EXTREMELY LONG POST

Hello world!

I was reading this blog (Yep, I read my own blog) and I realized I haven’t blogged about Pretty Little Liars. I was so shocked I couldn’t believe it.

I am a H-U-G-E fan of pretty little liars because of the mystery and suspense and shock in it. Those who are very close to me know I am obsessed with the show. Anytime I get a call or a text and I am asked 

what are you doing?

I’m watching PLLs.

What is PLLs?

Pretty Little Liars.

By the way, if I am watching PLL and I reply your messages, it means I really love you.

I started watching Pretty Little Liars the year 2014. When my laptop got spoilt, I stopped watching it. I felt uneasy at first, but I got over it.

I came back to it in the latter part of 2016 (somewhere in November) and watched from season 2-7A.

Now that I have to wait till April to find out who AD is, I have been watching PLL theories of various people who think someone is AD.

The various theories given have a little bit of truth in them. For instance, I watched a PLL theory which days that Maya is AD. In the series, they never said Maya was dead. They said they think the body they found is Maya’s.

See that?

Also, some said Mona killed Charlotte by using facial expressions and gestures and other things that looked so true and relatable.

Also, some claim Charlotte is still alive. The body they found was a fake body with a mask of Charlotte.

And so many other PLL theories feels.

We can’t wait for #PllEndGame. I have been scrolling Twitter every day and it now a routine for me.

I have my fingers crossed.

Let’s Talk About Christmas Movies

What is the celebration of Christmas without watching some good Christmas movies, videos or TV Specials? Sometimes, we need that motivation to see that we get an urge to celebrate it.

I used to love watching movies, when I was a younger and in secondary school. I am more of a reader now than a watcher. But I love me some Christmas movies. These are some of the Christmas movies I love

The Muppets Christmas Carol

I remember when I was a little girl, I saw the commercial of this movie in our video cassettes. The commercial looked scary, so I had no desire to watch it. But as I grew up, the fear left and I had the courage to watch, and I tell you, it wasn’t that scary as I imagined.

Home Alone

I grew up with this movie. If you haven’t seen it yet, then you are not a Ghanaian. This movie is a bonus on television here in Ghana.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

This is the part 2 of Home Alone with the same characters, and the return of the burglars. But this time, the adventure was done in New York, not Chicago.

The Polar Express

This movie is so magical and beautiful. I just love it. I don’t need to say much, but go watch it.

Barbie in ‘A Christmas Carol’

I love this movie, because it is beautiful, fashion is fabulous and Catherine is pretty.

It’s a Wonderful Life

I just got to watch this movie last year. I even wrote areview about it. it is not entirely a Christmas movie, but the ending makes you feel festive and emotional.

A Charlie Brown Christmas

I have been watching this cartoon since I was a little girl, and this movie makes me nostalgic. It reminds me of my childhood and makes me laugh, because cartoons of those days look funny.

Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas

Funnily enough, I watched this before seeing Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas. So, I fell in love with it. That doesn’t mean, I do not like Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas. I love that one too.

LDS’ Joy to the World

This is a great movie to watch on Christmas Eve. It is about the birth of Christ, and the accompaniment of the voices of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir made it so heavenly.

Charlie Chaplin’s Gold Rush

I do not know why I added this to the list, but the song Auld Lang Syne by Mariah Carey is playing right now as I type this, and it reminds me of this movie, when Charlie Chaplin was stood up by Georgia (who was his crush) and her friends on New Year’s Eve.

I currently have more Christmas movies waiting for me to watch them. It is one of my December goals to watch more festive movies.

Any Christmas Movie Recommendations?

Dreaming of You ft Selena Quintanilla

Hey world!

How is your day/night/whatever time you are reading this?

Last month or so, I watched Selena. Selena is a 1997 biographical film about the life and career of the late singer, Selena Quintanilla-Perez. Jennifer Lopez played the role of Selena in the movie.

After I watched La Bamba, I read that there was a similar movie like it, and thus how I got the movie, Selena.

I used the handkerchief as I watched the ending. It made me cry like how the La Bamba movie made me cry. I do not know why old movies with sentimental endings make me cry. I am yet to watch a modern movie with sentimental endings like this.

Over the Rainbow is one of the songs I recognized in the movie and We Belong Together, a song I heard and learnt from the La Bambamovie. The song I fell in love with and added to my playlist was Dreaming of You. It’s a very romantic song to play before you go to bed.

La Bamba and Selena have a lot in common. The characters were both full of life and made happiness their main priority, apart from their music career. They also died when they were rising in the music industry and were very young. They are both true stories. The only difference was, Ritchie was killed in a plane crash while Selena was shot by her best friend.

They both end in a very sad way, but they teach us one thing. They made the people around them happy.

Look for La Bamba and Selena to watch and thank me later.

Late at night when all the world is sleeping

I stay up and think of you

And I wish on a star

That somewhere you are thinking of me too

'Cause I'm dreaming of you tonight

'Til tomorrow, I'll be holding you tight

And there's nowhere in the world I'd rather be

Than here in my room dreaming about you and me

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Movie Review: Like Stars on Earth

Hello. Good morning! It’s a beautiful day and although, I’m not sure of the weather forecast and the sun is not yet out, I hope the sun shines (not so hard, lol), so that the light can enter my room to make it feel lively.

Today, I bring to you a movie review. I don’t remember the last time I wrote a movie review on the blog since La Bamba. I normally do novel reviews, but hey, no problem. Today is a movie review of a movie I watched recently, and it's from Bollywood. I’m probably the last one to watch this, but I have watched it more than five times already since the Easter Break.

Alright, the movie is Like Stars on Earth, originally titles Taare Zameen Par. It is a movie of a boy, Ishaan Awasthi, played by Darsheel. He is what we call, a student with special needs.

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight year old boy who had academic problems and no one understood him. He was always compared to his big brother his big brother, Yohaan (Yohaan loved his brother so much), who excels well in school. Apart from his academic failure, he has poor grooming skills. No one understood him, and his father thought he was just been lazy and so, he was sent to a boarding school.

Depression and loneliness sets in.

There, he made a friend, Rajan and met a teacher, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, played by Aamir Khan, who helped him to change his academic performance to a better one.

Amazingly, Ishaan has a great talent for art. His imagination might be absurd but he turns them into art.

Reasons why I love the movie+ Lessons I learnt

The movie is great for teachers to know that, every child is special no matter how dumb he is

Ishaan, though, had lots of problems, has a huge sense of humour

Success is not defined by being a doctor or engineer. You can be whatever you want, success is yours.

I found out about famous people who suffered from dyslexia

There are many students with special needs. They special needs are not physical only. You have to be patient with such students.

Develop your talent and embrace it.

Brothers love you, not matter what you are.

Quotes from the movie that I loved

 "There's a merciless and competitive world out there. And in this crazy world, everybody wants to grow toppers and rankers. Everyone wants a genius for a kid. Doctors, engineers, MBA. Nothing less is tolerated. 95.5%. 95.6%. 95.7%. Anything less is blasphemy, isn't it?"

 "Every child has his own capabilities, his own desires, his own dreams."

 "To show you that there have been such gems amongst us who have changed the course of the world because they could look at the world differently. Their thinking was out of box and not everyone understood them"

"On the Solomon islands, when the tribes need to clear the jungle to make way for fields, they don't cut down the trees, they simply gather and collect around it, and hurl abuses at the tree, they curse it. Slowly but surely, after some days, the trees begin to wither. It dies on its own."

Have you watched the movie? What did you learn from it?

PS. Cute faces of Ishaan

Holiday Movie Review: It’s A Wonderful Life

I decided to watch It’s a Wonderful Life since every foreign friend of mine always talks about it during the holidays. I decided to watch it. What is so special about this Christmas movie? Is it a movie that will make me use my handkerchief? I gave it a try to watch.

After writing a paper on Wednesday, the following day, after doing some washing, I sat down on my desk and reluctantly watched the movie.

The movie stars James (Jimmy) Stewart as George Bailey, Donna Reed as Mary Hatch who later becomes Mary Hatch Bailey and Henry Travers as Angel Clarence Odbody.

It’s a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy Drama film and it is about a man who has given up most of his dreams in order to help others. His suicide plans brought the intervention of the Guardian angel, Clarence. The Guardian angel shows George all the lives he has changed and how different life would have been if he hadn’t been born.

I enjoyed the movie. It was not bad at all. I thought I wouldn’t wipe some tears but I did.

One lesson I learnt from the movie is, no matter how small you are, no matter how insignificant you are, you make differences in people’s lives.

I love the ending so much, I played it several times and smiled and pondered it in my heart.

I know my calling in life, and I have to use it.

I will give the movie 4.5 out of 5.

George Bailey: What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word, and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That’s a pretty good idea. I’ll give you the moon, Mary.

Mary: I’ll take it. Then what?

George Bailey: Well, then you can swallow it, and it’ll all dissolve, see….and the moonbeams would shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair….am I talking too much?

Mary:  Bread…that this house may never know hunger. Salt….that life may always have flavour.

George Bailey: and wine…that joy and prosperity may reign forever.

Have you watched the movie? What did you learn from it?