December 18, 2009

Other Wishlist!

Aside from my book & DVD wishlist, here are other things I wish to have this Christmas.

1. flip flops (9 & 1/2 shoe size)
2. cross trainer rubber shoes (9 & 1/2 shoe size)
3. laptop earphones
4. gym shirt
5. spa gift certificate
6. casual shorts (32 waistline)
7. belt for jeans
8. black back pack
9. black sneakers (9 & 1/2 shoe size)
10. board shorts (32 waistline)
11. external hard disk (250 GB or higher)
12. Japanese slippers
13. laptop cleaner
14. big 4r photo album

December 11, 2009

DVD Wishlist

1. Tokyo Story (Director: Yasujiro Ozu)
2. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Director: Milos Forman)
3. Annie Hall (Director: Woody Allen)
4. Osama (Director: Siddiq Barmak)
5. Rear Window (Director: Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Blade Runner (Director: Ridley Scott)
7. Bonnie and Clyde (Director: Arthur Penn)
8. Double Indemnity (Director: Billy Wilder)
9. Drunken Master II (Directors: Chia-Liang Lu and Jackie Chan)
10. 8 ½ (Director: Federico Fellini)
11. The Fly (Director: David Cronenberg)
12. The Godfather 2 (Director: Francis Ford Coppola)
13. Goodfellas (Director: Martin Scorcese)
14. It’s A Wonderful Life (Director: Frank Capra)
15. Miller’s Crossing (Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen)
16. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Director: Woody Allen)
17. Raging Bull (Director: Martin Scorcese)
18. The Searchers (Director: John Ford)
19. Singin’ In The Rain (Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
20. Some Like It Hot (Director: Billy Wilder)
21. Seven Samurai (Director: Akira Kurosawa)
22. Tsotsi (Director: Gavin Hood)
23. The Sea Inside/Mar Adentro (Director: Alejandro Amenabar)
24. The Barbarian Invasions/Les Invasions Barbares (Director: Denys Arcand)
25. All About My Mother/Todo Sobre Mi Madre (Director: Pedro Almodovar)
26. Cinema Paradiso (Director: Guissepe Tornatore)
27. Fanny and Alexander (Director: Ingmar Bergman)
28. Rosetta (Directors: Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
29. The Sweet Hereafter (Director: Atom Egoyan)
30. Million Dollar Baby (Director: Clint Eastwood)
31. Letters From Iwo Jima (Director: Clint Eastwood)
32. Whale Rider (Director: Niki Caro)
33. Closely Watched Trains (Director: Jiri Menzel)
34. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Director: Jean Renoir)
35. The Discreet Charm of Bourgeoisie (Director: Luis Bunuel)
36. Nowhere in Africa/Nirgendwo in Afrika (Director: Caroline Link)
37. The Child/L’enfant (Directors: Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
38. The Son’s Room/La Stanza del Figlio (Director: Nanni Moretti)
39. Eternity and A Day (Director: Theo Angelopolous)
40. The Eel (Director: Shohei Imamura)
41. Taste of Cherry (Director: Abbas Kiarostami)
42. The Mourning Forest (Director: Naomi Kawase)
43. Flanders (Director: Bruno Dumont)
44. Oldboy (Director: Park Chan-Wook)
45. Uzak (Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
46. Devils On The Doorstep (Director: Jiang Wen)
47. Humanite (Director: Bruno Dumont)
48. Paradise Now (Director: Hany Abu-Assad)
49. Eastern Promises (Director: David Cronenberg)
50. Bella (Director: Alejandro Gomez Monteverde)
51. Hotel Rwanda (Director: Terry George)
52. The Hanging Garden (Director: Thom Fitzgerald)
53. Sanxia Haoren (Director: Zhang Ke Jia)
54. The Return/Vozrashcheniye (Director: Andrei Zvyagintzev)
55. Monsoon Wedding (Director: Mira Nair)
56. The Circle (Director: Jafar Panahi)
57. Not One Less (Director: Zhang Yimou)
58. Cosi Ridevano (Director: Gianni Amelio)
59. Fireworks/Hana-bi (Director: Takeshi Kitano)
60. Gomorra (Director: Matteo Garrone)
61. II Divo (Director: Paolo Sorrentino)
62. Lorna’s Silene/Le Silence de Lorna (Director: Dardenne Brothers)
63. A Room With A View (Director: James Ivory)
64. Do The Right Thing (Director: Spike Lee)
65. This Is Spinal Tap (Director: Rob Reiner)
66. The Silence of the Lambs (Director: Jonathan Demme)
67. Hannah and her Sisters (Director: Woody Allen)
68. Toy Story (Director: John Lasseter)
69. Tell No One (Director: Guillaume Canet)
70. Man On Wire (Director: James Marsh)
71. Happy-Go-Lucky (Director: Mike Leigh)
72. Burn After Reading (Director: Coen Brothers)
73. Wendy and Lucy (Director: Kelly Reichardt)
74. The Edge of Heaven (Director: Fatih Akin)
75. Ghost Town (Director: David Koepp)
76. The Bands Visit/Bikur Ha-Tizmoret (Director: Eran Kolirin)
77. Afghan Star (Director: Havana Marking)
78. You, The Living (Director: Roy Andersson)
79. Still Walking (Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda)
80. The Hurt Locker (Director: Kathryn Bigelow)
81. The Song of Sparrows (Director: Majid Majidi)
82. Sin Nombre (Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga)
83. Precious (Director: Lee Daniels)
84. The Last Station (Director: Michael Hoffman)
85. Amreeka (Director: Cherien Dabis)
86. 35 Shots of Rum (Director: Claire Denis)
87. An Education (Director: Lone Scherfig)
88. The Damned United (Director: Tom Hooper)
89. Goodbye Solo (Director: Rahmin Bahrani)
90. Revanche (Director: Gotz Spielmann)
91. The Maid (Director: Sebastian Silva)
92. Up In The Air (Director: Jason Reitman)
93. Inglorious Basterds (Director: Quentin Tarantino)
94. Invictus (Director: Clint Eastwood)
95. The Messenger (Director: Oren Moverman)
96. A Serious Man (Director: Joel and Ethan Coen)
97. The Prophet/Un Prophete (Director: Jacques Audiard)
98. Three Monkeys/Uc Maymun (Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
99. White Ribbon/Das Weisse Band (Director: Michael Haneke)
100. Where The Wild Things Are (Director: Spike Jonze)

Books Wishlist

  1. What Happened to Anna K. by Irina Reyn
  2. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
  3. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
  4. Disquiet by Julia Leigh
  5. The House On Fortune Street by Margot Livesey
  6. Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw
  7. Lush Life by Richard Price
  8. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
  9. The Book of Dahlia by Elisa Albert
  10. Say You’re One Of Them by Uwem Akpan
  11. Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
  12. Snow by Orphan Pamuk
  13. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
  14. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006)

  15. Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)

  16. The Liars' Club, Mary Karr (1995)

  17. American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997)

  18. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)

  19. Maus, Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)

  20. Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996)

  21. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)

  22. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)

  23. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997)

  24. Blindness, José Saramago (1998)

  25. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)

  26. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (1992)

  27. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood (1986)

  28. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (1988)

  29. Rabbit at Rest, John Updike (1990)

  30. On Beauty, Zadie Smith (2005)

  31. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (1998)

  32. On Writing, Stephen King (2000)

  33. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)

  34. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (1996)

  35. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)

  36. Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)

  37. Possession, A.S. Byatt (1990)

  38. Naked, David Sedaris (1997)

  39. Bel Canto, Anne Patchett (2001)

  40. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (2004)

  41. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (1990)

  42. Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch (1988)

  43. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005)

  44. The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)

  45. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt (1996)

  46. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003)

  47. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (1998)

  48. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)

  49. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (1995-2000)

  50. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (1984)

  51. LaBrava, Elmore Leonard (1983)

  52. Borrowed Time, Paul Monette (1988)

  53. Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene (1991)

  54. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende (1988)

  55. Sandman, Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)

  56. World's Fair, E.L. Doctorow (1985)

  57. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (1998)

  58. Clockers, Richard Price (1992)

  59. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom (1990)

  60. Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)

  61. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)

  62. Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware (2000)

  63. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (2006)

  64. The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993)

  65. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987)

  66. Drop City, TC Boyle (2003)

  67. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)

  68. Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)

  69. Money, Martin Amis (1985)

  70. Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick (1994)

  71. Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)

  72. Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997)

  73. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)

  74. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)

  75. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)

  76. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)

  77. Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)

  78. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)

  79. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman (1997)

  80. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (2003)

  81. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1989)

  82. Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (1990)

  83. Cathedral, Raymond Carver (1983)

  84. A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell (1998)

  85. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)

  86. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)

  87. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)

  88. Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney (1984)

  89. Backlash, Susan Faludi (1991)

  90. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (1994)

  91. Holes, Louis Sachar (1998)

  92. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (2004)

  93. And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)

  94. The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006)

  95. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (1995)

  96. Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999)

  97. Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001)

  98. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)

  99. Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (1987)

  100. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (1991)

  101. Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (1998)

  102. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (2003)

  103. Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson (1992)

  104. The Predators' Ball, Connie Bruck (1988)

  105. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1995)