The Oscar gala of 2012

This years Oscar’s winners were as follows;

• Best Picture – The Artist (Michael Langmann)
• Best Director – Michael Hazanaivcius
• Best Actor –  Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
• Best Actress – Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
• Best Supporting Actor – Christopher Plummer (The Beginners)
• Best Supporting Actress – Octavia Paz (The Help)
• Best Writing Original Screenplay – Midnight In Paris (Woody Allen)
• Best Writing Adapted Screenplay -The Decendants  (Alexander Payne,Nat Faxon, Jim Rash)
• Best Animated Feature – Rango (Gore Verbinski)
• Best Foreign Language Film – A Separation (Iran) Asghar Fardi
• Best Documentary Feature –  Undefeated (TJ Martin, Dan Linday, Richard Middlemas)
• Best Documentray Short Subject – Saving Face (Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy , DanielJunge)
• Best Live Action Short Film – The Shore (Terry George, Oorlagh George)
• Best Animated Short Film – The Fantastic flying Books Of Mr Morris Lessmore (William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg)
• Best Original Score – The Artist (Ludovic Bource)
• Best Original Song – Man Or Muppet (The Muppets) Bret Mackenzie
• Best Sound Editing- Hugo (Phillip Stockton, Eugene Gearty)
• Best Sound Mixing -Hugo (Tom Fleishman,John Midgley)
• Best  Art Direction – Hugo (Dante Ferretti, Franceska Lo Schiavo)
• Best Cinematography – Hugo (Robert Richardson)
• Best Makeup – The Iron Lady (Mark Coulier, J.Roy Helandf)
• Best Costume Design – The Artist (Mark Bridges)
• Best Film Editing – The Girl With The Dragoon Tattoo (Angus wall, Kirk Baxter)
• Best Visual Effects – Hugo (Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, Alex Henning)

Do you follow aword ceremonies like the Oscar Gala, The Grammy Awords and the MTV Awords ? Do you care about who wins or not? Personally I think that’s good that these talented people get some kind of reword and recognition for their hard work and efforts. But I do think that society should raise the salaries for some vocations like teaching, health care, legal system and security. 

Hakuna Matata

Stop worrying start living. Or Hakuna Matata .

Royal heirs in the 21th century

Despite the fact that we have moved into the 21st century 12 years ago many countries are still monarchies, like Sweden, Denmark or Norway for exampel. But there are more then just three monarchies around the world. I think so far that Norway seems to be the most contemporary monarchy so far – because the Crown Prince of Norway didn’t let his own impotance stop him from falling in love – and marry for love. What makes it so remarkable is that thw woman he choose came from a simple background and she had already been married before and had one child from a previous marriage. Now they are blessed with two children of their own and their firstborn daughter will become the future queen of Norway as she is next in succession to the throne.

Sweden’s monarchy consists of our current King his wife the Queen and their three children, the Crown Princess, the Prince and the Princess and also the Crown Princess husband the prince. And soon they are to become first time parents…

What about Denmark then well both the Prince’s seemed to have found love rather late – the younger Prince had been a divorcee and father to two young boys when he met his second wife. With her he so far has one son and very recently he also had a daughter with his new queen. The Crown Prince did marry a few years ago and he seemed rather happy to be the father of a son and a daughter a few years ago they did actually become parents to fraternal twins.

Like Sweden and Denmark, Spain’s next over the monarchy will be a queen as the eldest child of the current Spanish King was a daughter – Crown Princess Elena. She also has a younger brother and sister, All three of them are married and have several children of their own. The Netherland’s have a queen as ruling monarch but her heirs are the three sons – the Princes.

Is monarchial rule an ancient thing that threatens democracy and equality ? Or is it a good thing ?

Happiness

When I… After this and that… If only…

Why wait for happiness, who are you trying to fool !? For years I used to focus on the wrog thing in life, being negative, sad and angry. 2012 will be the start of my new happier life – not because I lost weight, found Prince Charming, got a promotion or anything like that.

The way to success or at least happiness is easier than so… It’s all a matter of your attitude… instead of focusing on problems and negativity, be happy for the good things in life and start seeing everything as something positive.

Happy New Year !!!

Happy New Year !!!

In Western time it’s a new year, exciting right ? In Asian astrology the new year will happen later in 22 more days to be exact. And the new astrology sign is dragon. According to the Mayan calendar 2012 will be the year the world will come to an end…

 

Christmas time

Just 19 days left before Christmas and 25 days left of 2011. Enough said.

Gender roles & babies

So what if the Swedish Crown Princess is pregnant !? She’s not the first women to expect a child, the only thing that makes this pregnancy get media attention is the fact that the child will be the next monarch in the Swedish royal family (if monarchy still exists in Sweden) but also the epecting mother is not an ordinary woman she’s HRH Crown Princess Victoria the future queen.

Sweden hasn’t had that many queens to be exact but just because she’s royal doesn’t mean anything special she still has to go through a normal 9 months long pregnancy.

And btw, the child isn’t born yet. It is expected to be born in March. As in 2012 not 2011.

So let’s give them a break people, Crown Princess Victoria might be pregnant but let’s not take things for granted. Yes of course the baby will need a name (or four to be more exact) and he or she will probably get more than two godparents. Let the baby be born before anything.

So what if she’s an older first time mother, a lot of women do these days. And let’s not exclude the unborn child from line to exession based on presumed dissabilities. Did you forget the baby isn’t born yet. There’s still 4 months left of 2011 and the baby will probably not be born before 2012.

The storch is expected to the castle…

After everything the Swedish royal family went through in the last year and a half there’s finally some good news and reason to celebrate. The future queen of Sweden has announced her pregnancy and upcoming birth in March… This is after one year’s marriage (well add a few more months) so all the speculations about weither or not HRH Crown Princess Victoria were pregnant can now end. For this time.

Is it a girl or boy? Do you think it will be twins? Will Sweden have not only one Queen but two in row or will the future queen give birth to a prince (Crown Princess) and future king ?

What do you think they will name him or her ?

I will not say what I believe that child will be named because I frankly don’t know for one, secondly Swedish royalities usually have at least four personal names which usually already is in the family.. But I doubt Zlatan will be one of the names …

Korean food (loves)

• Kimche
• Galbi
• Samgyeopsal
• Bulgogi
• Hae Mool Pa Joon
• Patbingsu
• Kambap

What’s yours? Above is my favorite Korean dishes but personally I think Korean food is ver yummy and of course it does help that it’s very healthy. 😉

 

Korean dream

There was a time when I was convinced that the ultimate dream would be to study in Korea as an exchange student. However that’s not an option for me at first I was very disapointed but now I’m not so disappointed anymore. There’s still other possibilites to study Korean in Korea. My Korean dream lives on for a little while longer…

But I must say our relationship is pretty akward. Go figure.