Happy Birthday, Daniel Radcliffe!

Today is Daniel Radcliffe's 2oth birthday and he is looking more cool and suave as he grows up.

As an introduction, he is the main star of the Harry Potter movie franchise and is currently one of the hottest young stars in Britain, along with his Harry Potter star-mates, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson.




This year saw the release of the long-awaited Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. He has turned in a splendid performance and now I can't wait to see the final film in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

This movie is split into two parts so we get to see Daniel for two more times before both he and the Harry Potter series bow out from Hollywood. I hope to see more of his acting calibre in new films after he completes Harry Potter.

As an actor, it's important to branch out your skills into several different roles in order to get a better acting depth. He has so far acted in some other films like December Boys as well as a musical, Equus.

I have yet to see his other films other than Harry Potter but one day I will catch up with those films. As for the musical, unless it comes to Singapore, I doubt I would be able to watch it ever.

Nonetheless, it's still a Happy Birthday for our favourite wizard!

Manga Read: Skip Beat! Chapter 143

New chapter 143 for Skip Beat! has finally been posted up for reading. You can find it here.

I'm sure you are as excited as me on how the story is progressing now. Well, poor Ren. It's still not at the stage where he can finally receive his birthday present from Kyoko.

For Kyoko, the beagle guy continues to harass her and refuses to give up on getting her to give him chocolates on Valentine's day. So Kyoko has no choice but to make them for him, with all her hatred of course. *grins*

Meanwhile Shou popped when Kyoko was giving the chocolates to the beagle guy. He was so angry that she actually cared to make chocolates for his enemy that he had declared his intentions right there. Though it wasn't clear cut, but he has definitely fallen for Kyoko for real now.

Shou can't escape from Kyoko's grasp and that's not because her revenge against him has succeeded. She is still a long way from there but with the Natsu role, she is slowly cementing her status as a credible actress and a worthy kouhai to Ren.

For me, I hope that she will end up with Ren. However she is still pretty thick-headed and don't realise that Ren has feelings for her. So far Ren's manager is the only one who knows about Ren's love for Kyoko. Looks like Ren still has a long way to go before he can win his lady's heart.

Plus with Shou and the beagle guy, it's going to be a difficult task but since he's such a nice guy, I'm sure he will get his heroine eventually.

Oh man, now it's another wait to the next chapter! I hope it will come soon. Perhaps by this week. =P

Movie Watch: Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince

Yesterday, Queenie and I went to watch the latest installment to the Harry Potter movie franchise, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

It was supposed to be a gathering where 3 of us would watch this movie together. However Moonie chose love over friends and decided to watch it with her boyfriend instead of us. I do feel disappointed at her choice since we have been following the Harry Potter movies ever since the first day it was aired.

Anyway I have learned not to ask Moonie to go out with me anymore. Attached people are best left alone. They usually would want to spend all their free time with their partners rather than friends. I'll just let her be. One day it will be my turn. When I have my partner, I will also dump Moonie and choose my partner. Ha! Eh... I gotta get a partner first.

Right.

This post is getting out of topic. I am supposed to write about the Harry Potter movie loh...

Daniel Radcliffe reprises his famous role as the boy wizard in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. By now he has already mastered the art of portraying Harry and in this particular movie, Harry gets to date. Hee... Yep.

There's a kissing scene between Harry and Ginny, Ron's younger sister. The actress, Bonnie Wright, has certainly grown up differently from the days when she was acting in the second installment, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Little did we know that her role would turn out to be such a major factor in Harry's life.

It was in this book that Harry fell in love with Ginny for real. For once, Ginny's affections finally gets returned and we get to see a little bit of their romance in the movie as well. Too bad majority of their love story gets cut off but that is to be expected since the book is way too thick to be fully adapted into a movie.

Tom Riddles a.k.a. Voldemort's past also gets revealed through Dumbledore's memory. Riddles' odd question on horcrux finally set the events for Harry's future when he sought to be immortal by destroying all that stood in his way and making little trinkets into his soul carriers.

It is truly scary to see that Riddle could think up such an evil plan at such a young age. No wonder everybody is so scared of him. Even the mention of his name sends shivers down everyone's spine.

However the next book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, seems destined for a better treatment as Warner Bros will release the film in two parts. Well it makes economic sense for the company as the movie is going to be the last huge cashcow in the Harry Potter franchise. After all there are only seven books in the Harry Potter universe and being able to make eight movies out of that is already amazing enough. Furthermore no other recent book series has managed to get adapted fully into movies the way Harry Potter series did. Narnia didn't even come close.

Sadly in this movie, we also witnessed the final moments of dear old Headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Personally I liked his character as he has always been so supportive of Harry. At the very last moment, he sacrificed his life for Harry so that Harry could go on to defeat that damn Voldemort. It was fitting that it was Severus Snape that ended Dumbledore's life. I'm sure we wouldn't have had it other way, unless its a natural death.

I am looking forward to the final installments to the movie franchise and I'm sure Warner Bro will do a good job. J K Rowling would not have it other way too.

Manga Read: Kuroshitsuji Chapter 35 RAW is up!

You can go to this forum, Bleach Asylum, and sign up to be a member to get access to its fabulous Kuroshitsuji section.

For some time, I have been getting my monthly Kuroshitsuji fix from this forum. Plus it's heartening to see so many Kuroshitsuji fans gather here to chat about Ciel, Sebastian and stuffs. =D

Now the latest chapter to this excellent manga has just been released in Japan on 18 July 2009. Yana introduces more bishounen (handsome boys) into this new chapter and we also see what happens to the last few remaining circus members, namely Freckles/Doll in this case.

The scanlation for the chapter is not yet up but reading the raws also gets the adrenaline moving. So many questions are left hanging for the reader to decipher. The main important thing is how is Ciel going to be developed further as the series goes along?

Yana promises that it will be a very dark manga and I am eagerly waiting to see how she goes about drawing it. Everything is going fine so far, although the fact that the Undertaker is a shinigami is no longer a surprise, no thanks to the anime. However, we do get to see his eye, unlike in the anime. I am curious how the Undertaker looks like, if Grell can swoon at the sight of his eyes. Ha!

Onward Kuroshitsuji!