Pandarific!!

This short story was inspired by the song "According to you" by Orianthi.

“Hey, can you take out the trash honey?” Robin stood there, her hands on her hips looking at her boyfriend sitting on the couch watching the game.

“Yeah sure, 5 minutes,” was his reply, he motioned with his hands for her to leave without even looking away from the screen.

“That’s what you said yesterday, I didn’t know 5 minutes was 24 hours,” She was getting frustrated. She tapped her fingers on the table to get his attention. Finally he got annoyed and got up quickly, turned around and stared. He was telling her with his eyes words he did not want to say himself, but the message was clear, he wanted her to shut up and leave him alone.

She shook her head in disbelief, tightened her lips together in attempt to stop a scream, and a tear rolled down. She turned around, took the keys and stormed out. She had enough of him and his laziness. It wasn’t like that before, in the past he adored her couldn’t stop calling her. Wanted to be by her side every moment and listened to her laugh as if it was the song of angels. All these past memories made her even sadder as she drove out and towards somewhere else, somewhere far away from him. It wasn’t just this, there was verbal abuse coming up every now and then. At first he would apologize later and they would make up, but not anymore, now he didn’t care whether she existed or not. It came to a point that she would have welcomed his criticism with joy. No, she didn’t want to be so desperate, everyone had told her that he was not worth it but she just couldn’t let go.

Who could she go to? Samantha? No, she would just say “I told you so”. So would the rest actually, mentally browsing through her friend list, she just didn’t know who to turn to. In the end, she found herself driving up to Steve’s house. What had led her here? Guess it was just because Steve was always the friend who just heard her problems all these years with silence that somehow comforted her.

Was he even home? She cursed herself for not thinking of the possibility, but a phone call and the word “Hi” was all that was needed. In five minutes she was in the house and on the couch, bawling out all her hurts and problems. He didn’t say a word as always, just nodded, patted her shoulder and gave that simple assurance with his eyes every time they made contact. After all that, 1 solid hour of tissue paper and complaining, she gave out a huge sigh and slumped into the couch.

“Want some water?” he asked, she nodded her head and he went to get it. He came back with a cup, handed it to her and sat himself down on the other side of the couch. As she sipped the water, he stared at her. She looked up from the cup and saw him staring, embarrassed she said “Stop staring, I’m such a mess right now, my hairs all around the place and my make up’s ruined,” as she started fussing around herself, he took her hand and told her to stop. She was stunned but she stopped and looked at him in surprise.

“Robin, I’ve never ever seen you this messed up before. This is the worst.” He said.

She was offended and snatched her hand away, “Well I’m sorry for being a mess. Gee, guess I better go clean myself up for you. What? You want to start ordering me around like he does?” she asked sarcastically.

“No, that’s not it.” was his reply as she got up to leave. Again he took her hand, “I think you’re in this mess because you haven’t been reminded about how beautiful you are. “That stopped her; she searched him, seeking for the meaning behind what he said.

“From what I’ve heard from you tonight, you’ve just been told how useless and stupid you are. And after so much, no matter how much you try to dismiss it, you started to accept it. You started to want to hear something positive from him, so you stuck on and clung on to him. You told yourself that one day he’ll wake up and realize how he hasn’t appreciated you and everything will be fine. But that hasn’t happened right? No, he’s not going to change, in fact he’s going to remain that way unless some miracle happens, and even that has to be a big powerful one. Robin, look at me!” he got up and clutched her by the arms tightly. She didn’t look at him; instead she turned her head to the side and refused to budge.

“How would you know anyway?” was her bitter reply, his words has stung her as every one of it was true. “So what? So what if all you said is true? Are you going to force me to break up with him like everyone else has? Or are you going to try and relate to me? Because I highly doubt you were in the same relationship as I am. What IS IT STEVE??” She was so angry now that she turned towards him and screamed as loud as she could to his face.

He looked down and loosed his grip on her. He gave out a sigh, “No, I’m not going to do all that. I’m just going to tell you the truth,” he said in a soft but serious voice.

“Oh the truth is it?” She said in a mocking tone, “I’m ready, come on, what? I’m a big idiot for clinging on to this guy? Sorry, but I get that from everyone, next please!”

There was silence for a minute and finally he said softly, “I think you’re beautiful, you’re just so incredible and the Robin I know and love is outstanding. She doesn’t let anyone put her down, but at the same time she’s kind enough to be anyone’s friend. I love your laugh,” at this he chuckled, remembering the old times. “I haven’t heard it for a long time. And I know you’re brave and tough, you care about others more than you care about yourself. You’re everything I’ve ever wanted Robin, I love you.” He touched her right cheek with his hand softly and turned her head towards him, she looked wonderingly into his eyes as he started to arrange every strand of her hair in its place.

“Thank you,” she said softly, just loud enough for him alone to hear. He was still arranging her hair when he smiled and wanted to say "Welcome" but was abruptly stopped with a kiss on the mouth from her.

I had no prior information about the movie before watching it except for a friend who said it was awesome, and my friend olivia wanted to watch it too, so we just bought tickets practically 5 minutes before the show, that's how last minute it was. All i knew, guessing from the poster, that it had a lot to do with guns and action. Spot on!

Sypnosis (From IMDB):
Four American soldiers who are in Iraq are sent on a mission to recover plates for printing 100 dollar bills that were used to print a billion dollars. After doing the job and returning to the base their commanding officer is killed in an explosion and the plates are stolen by another operative. They would be court martialed and sent to different prisons. 6 months later, the leader, Hannibal Smith is visited by a CIA spook who tells him he knows where the man who took the plates is and wants him and his men to recover it. So he helps him escape and he breaks out the others and they go after the plates. But after doing it, they discover that the spook might not be ok. And a military intelligence officer who was involved with one of them is pursuing them. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com

I especially love murdock, he's a lunatic and declared crazy, but he's so funny and a really really good helicopter pilot. Face is the hottest, Baracus is tough but nice too especially the jokes they play on him having a fear of being in a plane. And the leader Smith, he's a good leader, caring for his team members and excellent strategist. I like each and every character because they're so distinct and you just grow to love them as the movie goes on.

The jokes are funny, not dirty funny or cheap funny, but good old laugh out loud funny. That's hard to get these days. One part that i don't really like is that the action scenes were filmed close up, so you see them punching and the action is all around. You can't really see what's really happening but you get that they're pulling punches all around. I guess it is realistic, but a bit confusing as you don't know who's punching who and it makes me a little dizzy. I also got a few people mixed up as i think they look alike (This may just be me).

So go! Watch it!

By: Me

Constructive/Productive random: Doing things randomly that bring benefit to one in the end of the day. [Ex. Deciding to exercise]

Downright Random: Random for the fun of random. [Ex. Putting on purple coloured lipstick]

Dumb/ Destructive Random: Random acts that cause harm to others. [Ex. smashing someone's window]

This drama is about this guy Jeon Jin ho (Lee min ho) who is mistaken as a gay guy and allowed to live as a roomate to the girl Park Kae in (Son ye jin) who needs the money to repay a debt.

I found this drama a few days before my accounts exam i think, yes, very very bad timing. What got me interested was the basic storyline and lee min ho. What i like about this drama is that the characters get together earlier than usual so it's not like you're forced to see them like each other but dare not confront the other. That, for me, is very very irritating. The chemistry between the characters is good and they're really such a cute couple. It's the typical, indifferent and focused guy falling for the clutzy and free spirited girl. The other thing that i like about this drama is that i actually like the 'other' guy. Normally, i'm wishing that guy just disappear, but this time, that guy actually had character development and turned out to be quite decent. A little gullible, but decent. Only because the 'other' girl is so evil and self centred you want to strangle her. Let me put it this way, she just wants anything the main heroine has for the sake of taking it away from her. There are a few references to gay stuff but it's a love story between a guy and a girl so it doesn't go deep into exploring those issues (which is kinda good too for me) in fact, it's just used to carry the story, so to speak. I like the soundtrack too, very nice, some catchy and fun too.

I would recomend this show, just for light and easy viewing. It's only 16 episodes after all, so it's not going to drag much like those shows that go up to 24 or even worse 52 episodes. It also gives you a chance to have a new view of lee min ho without tha curly hair if your last drama of him was boys over flowers hahahaha.