The Girl On The Train | Movie Review

Well I haven't read the novel yet but I heard it was great. Many compared the novel to the one written by Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl. I loved the movie Gone Girl, so I decided to watch The Girl On The Train while having a quite high expectation; an expectation that the movie would be as good as Gone Girl.

So, was it good? 

Well, I enjoyed the movie. I love the plot and the twist the movie presented. I kept guessing the whole time as who was the real character that killed Megan. I LOVE Emily Blunt's acting, she is such a brilliant actor in my opinion although I do think that her character is quite a nuisance. I mean, she shouldn't have got involved with the murder case from the very beginning. So I was pretty annoyed when she actually did her own investigation to "help" Megan's husband and etc (not gonna spoil it hehe)

So what did I dislike about this movie? It's a slow-paced movie. Everything was slowly unfolded, and then all of the sudden the secrets and conflicts between the characters were revealed quite fast. The movie also focused too much in showing Rachel's thoughts about her surroundings, her observations on people that it somehow turned to be kind of dragging and seems to be quite unnecessary at some point. So I was pretty bored during the first half of the movie.

I don't know, I just feel like there's something missing from the movie. So I had to give it a 6.5/10 rating. It wasn't a disappointment but the movie is definitely not satisfying :)

Finally Graduated!

University of York, England

BA in English Language & Linguistics

July 15th, 2016

So I guess you can consider this as another overdue entry but whatever, at least I finally updated it haha. Anyway, these three first photos were taken on the day before my graduation. Since my graduation was on the 9.30am session, we had to buy the flower bouquet a bit early. Getting my graduation flower bouquet was something that I was looking forward to, just because it was one of those special days where I (read: Ilham) can splurge some money on flowers happily (hope so lol). And honestly, I still didn't get over how beautiful my bouquet was. I mean, just look at those peonies, could they be more beautiful? I have good taste hehehe

And here are some favorite photos of the day. Hope you'll love them as much as I do! :)

Photos taken using Fuji EX-2 and iPhone 6

Photographer - Ilham Nasharuddin 

Travelogue | Turkey Part III - Cappadocia

Well this one is totally an overdue post. I scrolled through my entries and I just realized that I have Cappadocia travelogue entry saved as a draft. So since I went to Turkey last March, I can barely remember the specific events (read: I'm too lazy to write so I'll just pretend that I can't remember the details :P) 

So here are some photos :)

Photos taken using iPhone 6 and Nikon D3200

Lush Intergalactic Bath Bomb

I've never bought Lush's bath bombs just because. So last week I went to get a couple and man, I think this bath bomb is addictive. I kept wanting to buy more since that day (but I refrained myself). Sigh. What sorcery is this haha. Anyway, the only bath bombs that I used was Intergalactic, didn't get the chance to try Sex Bomb though as I gave it away to my friend. 

Intergalactic made your tub blue-ish, just like the galaxy. The smell is relaxing and hurm, I'm not good at describing smells but I'm pretty sure there's a scent of lime and ginger? Or lemongrass. I'm not sure. Haha. But I like it. It's not too strong compared to some other bath bombs that I smelled in the shop, hence the reason why I bought it. It also made your skin feeling smooth afterwards which is a plus. This bomb costs me £3.65 and you can definitely cut it into two if you feel like it's a waste to use it in one go.

How I wish we have Lush in Malaysia *cries*