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Awakenings

It's an amazing movie!!!! The movie is based off a true account also entitled "Awakenings." It is about a doctor who uses a new drug on his immobile patients so they can "awaken." All the patients have been asleep for 20-30 years where they were in a catatonic state. They would not move or talk. However, Dr. Sayer (Robin Williams) gets help from the nurses to perform some research on the patients to try to get them to move. There is a scene in the movie where he places all the patients facing each other and gets them to play catch and another where a woman starts to eat when listening to a certain type of music.

Leonard (Robert de Niro), a patient who has been immobile since he was a boy, wakes up with the experimental drug treatment. He and Dr. Sayer form an amazing kind of friendship. It crosses the boundary of assumption that patients should be treated like "statue" and "furniture" just because they hadn't moved in many years. There should be a huge applause for both of these actors. Because of them, I was crying the whole last half of the movie. The most powerful scene is that climax where Leonard discovers that even though he's been given the gift of life again, he will not ever be treated like every other human being.

Lol, afterwards, I wiki'd Encephalitis and tried to look for any remaining patients. I TOTALLY WANT TO READ THE BOOK.

Vista Word Recognition Fun AKA Do you know what song this is?

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THE VMAS

I'm going to be extremely biased. I HATE DISNEY. Don't expect me to write anything about those teeny boppers that seem to possess young 'un's souls. I'm writing as I'm watching so I'm going to keep the enthusiasm to myself. :)

The show started out with Britney! who looked so much better than last year! We don't see the roots anymore :). Rihanna bursts out with an array of freaky dancers, herself wearing a towering dress. She sang "Disturbia" and proceeded to strip into a skimpy outfit and had a small segue to a White Stripes. I do not condone anyone to follow her mullet trend though.

Russell Brand is so true. No one knows him but he is a hilarious UK comedian. Do I agree with him? Maybe, politics are interesting. Though I can't vote quite yet. For me, Britney's win was a pleasant surprise (I thought Katy Perry for sure) because she needs a come back! She needed it. Chris Brown was no surprise because he's such an influence in the youth of America. "Wonderwall" playing in the background.

There was Katy Perry performing "Like a Virgin." Her singing is fine but her performance needs work. I don't want to watch her when she's singing.

Then Michael Phelps helped out, introducing Leona Lewis (one of my favorites) and Lil Wayne (losing his pants) and T-Pain (decked out in a magician suit).

Lindsey Lohan's still alive?! Ciara?! FANNYPAK (LOVE YOU GUYS <3) Dance video? I love Ne-Yo more as a singer, haha. Pussycat Dolls <3 cause I want to work at a strip club too "When I Grow Up."

...no offense, Twilight has even more insane fans. I'd rather not get involved with them either.

Lol, P. Diddy is working Danity Kane even behind the scenes on the VMAs but it's probably just for the laughs.

Paramore was interesting. The vocalist changed her hair again. The outfit does not really work for me... or maybe it's the hair. Her pants match the guitar and bass, XD. Wow, I must be stupid, I didn't even notice the change of set at all. I mean, it did change, right?

Slash and Shia LeBeouf (he's not in jail) with the rock video nominees, very plain. The rock category is pretty competitive but I'm thinking LP. Linkin Park wins! They are like an institution for MTV for years. These guys are pretty amazing, even on the world scene.

Pink was one of my favorites when I was growing up and she still sounds unique and looks amazing. Her dress was very cool, if not on the verge of a costume. I think the amazing thing is that she sounds like she's not fazed by anything and her biker outfit was barely there but still better than Britney's from a few years ago. There were fire hazards and I swear she unbottoned her top even more. I just realized those people dancing on the window sills were supposed to be there.

I LOVE THE TING TINGS. <3<3<3

Haha, I really did not know that Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz were married but Ashlee was extremely pretty with her long red hair and her baby bump.

Though I did not like the slant towards Sarah Palin cause teenage pregnancy isn't a reason to point someone out. As a mother, she works hard. Mothers.

Slipknot presenting Hip-Hop video. Hah. I was not surprised with Lil Wayne winning. I wasn't really paying attention to the other nominations.

Jordin Sparks is curvy and talented, I loved her style. T.I. was an interesting performer because I haven't heard of him for a while. (I don't listen to music that often) The performance was cool with the female prop and the stage.

GODDAMNIT. I wished I never had to hear this song ever again, even if Rihanna's questionable hair choices was singing it. (Ma-ia-hii Ma-ia-huu Ma-ia-hoo Ma-ia-haha). But the song eventually got better, sort of. :(

The intermission songs were interesting. I figured that many of the people watching the VMAs were really young and wouldn't appreciate some of the older songs that they played.

DUDEEEE, what is with the Disney influx? Hahaha, I actually love Christina Aguilera, so Disney is a pretty subjective topic for me. Her appearance looks a lot younger with the long hair but I love how she reinvented "Genie in a Bottle." She's an example of a great performer. What's with the cape though?

...Tokio Hotel is so... normal. Why did people vote for them? It's like another world. They don't sound interesting at all, so how did they win fan favorite???

My brother switched the channel on Paris Hilton, that's how much he hates her. She has a hellalot of extensions. Britney wins again for Best Pop Video. I was vying for Danity Kane but it's understandable, Britney is too much of a publicized figure.

Locksley, good job on the political parodies!

Geez, they even have Nickelodeon stars!? Kid Rock?! Purely a coincidence but my head hurts now... "Sweet Home Alabama" sounded odd, sorry.

And Britney wins all 3 of her nominations... (dunno, maybe they thought it will be a while until she comes back again.)

And Kanye performs *fabulous as usual*.

Trump Taj Mahal Suite

This is kind of an old event but it happened a few weeks ago when my family and my brother's girlfriend and my other brother's friends went to Atlantic City (AC). For those of you not in the know, it is a mini-Las Vegas in New Jersey. My family is just a huge pack of gamblers ;).

So, the suite hotel room was at Trump Taj Mahal. And I was stuck inside because I'm underage, so I wrote a list of complaints about the room. (I also wrote a little bit about the restaurants and the broadwalk.)

THE ROOM

Overall, the room was fucking dirty. I mean, we waited about 2 hours for them to fix it up and it still sucked. All the couches and cushions were unclean or dusty because my whole family felt uncomfortable. My mother even broke out into rashes after hugging a dirty pillow.

The pull-out couch-bed was even weirder. You pull it out and there were no sheets, no blankets, no pillows. I thought it was just a misunderstanding, that they put them in a drawer or in the closet but there were absolutely none. In the end, I was lucky enough to catch the cleaning lady for some sheets.

There were also some things that were just odd about the room, there was a concaved wall on the side of the bed and it had a small mattress-cushion lifted about 4 ft from the ground and about half the size of a twin bed. There was no snack bar, though it seemed that there was a bar style kitchen (without any gas work). The tv was also weird. There were 2 NBC channels and only one of them was clear. The NBC situated for Atlantic City was extremely boring, like the news were sucking the life out of them. (Lol, this was back when the Olympics were still on, so I was like 2AM for a basketball game? "Fuck dat, I'm sleeping.")

The bathroom was the most awkward experience of all. First of all, when you're on the toilet, you're facing the door. But on the door, is a mirror... YOU CAN SEE YOURSELF USING THE TOILET!!!! Then, bath time. There was no laundry bag? Do they expect you carry your own bag for dirty underwear? Geez... The worst part was the bathtub drain. I love taking baths at hotels, it's a fetish, lol. However, the drain was broken and hard to close. On the plug it said push, on the other side of the plug was a screw, it did not stop the water from draining at all.

THE FOOD

Our family is the typical Chinese parents, Americanized kids type of family so we go eat Chinese food everywhere we go even though it sucks. DYNASTY. Oh my. *Shaking head* Safely said, it sucked. It was an American style Chinese restaurant and none of the food tasted right, not even the soup. Believe me, I've been to enough Chinese restaurants to know that that food was bad. Cheaper food in Flushing, Queens tastes better. Though my dad gave the restaurant a 60 dollar tip, dumbass.

The Rim is a noodle bar that serves Chinese lunches. It is good. It's the type of food that you would expect from any normal Chinese restaurant. I must admit, the Korean BBQ pork is amazing.

Plate is a modern, contemporary American diner. The food is oily. That's my only comment.

BROADWALK

The beach is dirty, as all beaches. There are a lot of stray cats :(. And homeless people. And cats. And homeless people. And dead cats. And parts of homeless people.

The whole broadwalk is overpriced. The soft vanilla ice cream cone = 3-4 dollars. The sausage hot dog = 4-5 dollars. The games were bad too. Any of the good prizes (Stewie, Bryan Griffin) took a lot of money to even try to get them. It would be cheaper to just buy them. The rides are pathetic except for one thrill ride that is a contraption on a bungee and it goes extremely high and bounces quite a lot.

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That's my review for this hotel. All quantity but not as much on quality.