Sunday, March 27, 2011

short films/ job search/ jerk alert

Mar. 23 Short films: I watch 20/20 and then afterward there's a show that shows Canadian short films. That should help my writer's block. I used to watch short films on the internet in 2001 called Hypnoticfilms.com. I just checked it on the internet and it's not there anymore.

Sweet 16: In Oct. 2010, I saw this short film called Sweet 16. It looks kind of dated like in the early 90s. It starts off with a teen guy and girl getting into a car and getting in a car accident. The story is about a girl named Hope and she's going to celebrate being 16. Her parents are keeping a secret from her, and she and the audience doesn't know, but wants to find out. Then it turns out she was cloned from the parent's first daughter Ellie. Her parents cloned her.

I didn't expect that one, but I have read it in a book when I was in gr. 9 called Cloning Miranda by Carol Matas (I had to Google to get the author's name.) I'll spoil the book for you. If you don't want to be spoiled, skip to the next topic. Miranda is a teen girl and she learns her parents cloned her from their first daughter. Millions of people die a year due to not having the right kidney or organ so that's why they cloned her.

Drama film: This short film was shot in Vancouver. I know because it looks like it, it had a newspaper box with Vancouver on it, and had the actress Gina Holden (Dale from Flash Gordon) as a receptionist. I looked her up and I couldn't find the title of the film, but it's a good storyline with a good surprise.

Cut to this man Thomas who's at the doctor's office and he was told he has stomach cancer. Cut to this office and Thomas goes there to see his sister Natalie. Natalie is talking to her boss and he's telling her how to work the phone in this cubicle. Thomas tells Natalie about his dr. appointment and he needs to get access to the trust money so he could pay for his cancer drugs.

There is a framed picture of their mentally and physically disabled brother Daniel on the desk.

Natalie: What about Daniel? He needs the money.
Thomas: So? We can put him in a home.
Natalie: It's going to be some dump.
Thomas: It's not like he would know or be able to tell the difference.

The phone rings and Natalie leaves for a moment. Thomas starts going through the desk and reads what's in a folder. He sees what's on the computer about insider training. Cut to the Nurse at the dr. office who sees Thomas's folder and reads it. She starts making a phone call.

Natalie comes back and says she's really busy and can't talk to him. She tells him to stop looking at her stuff. Thomas leaves and in the lobby he gets a phone call from his loan shark. Thomas tells him to invest money into something he saw on Natalie's computer. He leaves and the security guard at the front calls Natalie.

Natalie goes to her office and tells the "boss" to get his feet off her desk. She gets the phone call from the security guard and calls the dr. who saw Thomas.

Natalie: He was here and he took the bait.
Doctor: Good. It almost didn't work when my nurse read the folder and was trying to call Thomas. Fortunately since I'm near retirement, I apologized and said I was getting old. On Monday, I'll call Thomas and tell him I misdiagnosed him.
Natalie: Now I know Daniel is going to be taken care of.

I thought there were good surprises that it was Natalie behind the whole thing, the dr. was part of it, the "boss" wasn't really her boss. You may say Natalie was manipulative, but she was taking care of her brother Daniel who can't take care of himself.

Shaolin Soccer: My dad was watching this DVD today. I came to eat lunch and I saw the last 15 min of it. I have seen this movie before back in 2005. I borrowed it from the library and it's a Chinese movie. I saw it with the English subtitles. It's a funny and silly comedy about a group of misfits who form a soccer team to beat the bad guys.

Yeah, I've heard those story lines before. It's a fun movie to watch.

Facebook: I've been working at my restaurant job for 5 months and one of my co-workers is moving away. I asked to be friends on Facebook and now I'm Facebook friends with 5 of my co-workers.

Job search: The other day was my day off so I went and looked at the banks websites. I applied to 11 places. Today is my day off and I'm looking at the usual 5 sources of my job search I do everyday. This time I'm looking over my old agenda where I jotted notes to apply at hotels. Then I realized that I kind of work for a big company that's like a hotel.

There weren't any front desk receptionist positions available at the hotel websites I looked at. Hotels have good job security because they're a really big place. The phrase: "Too big to fail." Often hotels are part of big chains. Though I'm getting a flashback of the TV show Angel where they moved their office to this big abandoned hotel in season 2. Hotels can close down.

Companies: There are lots of hotels like Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, and Marriot Hotel. There's only 1 Marriot and that's part of the River Cree Casino. I went to www.gecareers.com and they used to have a call centre, but it closed down. The jobs there are lead developer and valve technician. Nothing I'm qualified for.

Luminosity: I went to www.luminosity.com to try out one of those brain games to keep your mind sharp. It was actually pretty fun. I remember reading an article in the newspaper about those games. The article says they help a little bit.

Mar. 24 Jerk alert: Yesterday I was on the online dating site, and this guy was a total jerk to me. He has officially been the #1 worst guy I ever encountered through this site. It happened yesterday, and I'm still kind of upset about it. I was on the site, and this guy starts chatting with me. At first it was a normal conversation.

Then a few min. into it, a video appears and he flashes me. I closed the IM chat fast. Then the window pops up to ask to chat again, and I did click yes. You're like: "Why?" I guess I was curious to see what he would say. He said: "Oh what you don't like?" I closed the window again.

I then reported him to the website people. It did ask: "What do you want us to do? Give him a warning or delete his profile." I told them what he did and that they can do either or to him.

This guy is so bad, he beats out the guy I rejected. When I reject guys who email me I say that they're not my type and say good luck to them. One guy emails me back and disses my dad. I block him.

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