The year 2009 is not the best year in the book. A lot of deaths shocked the senses out of everyone while natural calamities swept nations and cities. To put it bluntly 2009 was a rough year for all of us.

So why don’t we try to give our best Christmas 2009 celebrations to wash away all the bad memories hmm? We came up with brand new animated Christmas cards and Christmas video greetings only seen at CardFunk that you can enjoy this year. Remember the dancing santa and sexy dancing santa girls we came up with last year? This year we’re going to make…

SO. MUCH. MORE.

You don’t have to settle as a dancing elf for this year. You can be so much more than just a couple of dancing elves. Choose from a wide selection of dancing characters this Christmas and use your own photo on these Christmas cards.

Dancing Elf? Why not Dancing Christmas Cowboys? Or Christmas Celebrities? or maybe even Dancing Christmas Toys? You can be anything and anyone!

With CardFunk, you can be so much more than just a Christmas elf and take on so many different roles. All you have to do is upload your photo.

We’re not just about to unveil all the cool Christmas video greetings we have in store for you guys. So to be updated, why don’t you bookmark this page, or subscribe to this blog so you can receive useful updates?

Christmas gifts aren’t the only special thing about being a kid. It’s actually more on the sheer excitement of getting those Christmas gifts and all those toys. As you grow older, you start expecting smaller-sized Christmas gifts (smaller size, bigger value of course) but how many of us can remember the anxiety and the hope that that huge box under the Christmas tree is ours?

When you’re a kid, the bigger the box, the better. Let’s not forget the Nintendo ‘64 kids:

Seriously, when was the last time you felt excited over a Christmas gift? Maybe the reason why parents love giving toys as presents is really more about satisfying their own christmas wishes. I mean come on, who didn’t laugh at this video? Part of us kind of wished we were that kid.

If not for the Nintendo ‘64, at least for the excitement of receiving a Christmas toy that you really really want.

As the Halloween season is fast approaching, so are the movies that will take advantage of everyone’s scare-mood. Halloween is the best time to be launching horror movies since people are pretty much receptive to it. Why not? The whole point of Halloween is to be freaked out by something. Show this movie in any other day of the year and it would not have mattered as much.

The most talked about Halloween movie of 2009 is none other than Paranormal Activity. Part of us believe that the big reason why it has become so hyped up is because of the brilliant viral marketing strategy. There are quite a few films that tried to use such strategy to sell more in the box office. One of the more famous examples is the disappointing Cloverfield and the surprise hit The Blair Witch Project.

But did it really start that way? Well, not exactly. When Paranormal Activity first came out, it was doing good when it first came out. But only when they employed a brilliant internet marketing strategy did Paranormal Activity get the wildfire treatment.

Like it predecessors, PA relied on the realism of “real” footage to deliver their point across. Horror movie junkies who grew up in a Stephen King scenario would scoff at the treatment since for most people, no blood and gore = not a horror movie.

So why is PA such a hot Halloween movie for 2009?

Realism. There is now finally a horror movie director who believed in the adage “less is more”. Writer/Director Oren Peli is concerned with the fear that lurks in the subconscious. Not the ones found externally. You can show monsters to the audience, you can show them big foot, you can use the myth of Friday the 13th to scare your audience but Peli decided to use the subconscious.

These are images and events that we push right at the back of our minds because it’s easy. Because it’s completely unnecessary to brood over the trivial things. So what if the door flew open and then flew back? It’s probably just the wind.

… or the mind playing tricks again.

That is exactly it, ladies and gents. The biggest scare that you can ever get comes directly from your own mind. Not someone else’s and certainly not from a couple of writers and producers.

It’s about time that horror/suspense movies take this dramatic route. Don’t you think so too?

Quick! Give us ideas for Halloween Costumes! We’ve already expressed our sheer approval for sexy Halloween costumes that women creatively come up with every year but now we need something unique. Something unique to the depressing year that is 2009. What, it wasn’t depressing for you too?

Anyway, while looking for Halloween costumes we came up with a list that you can consider as well. That is, if you have the guts to:

1. Octomom Halloween Costume – okay so Octomom was so last decade ago but that’s what makes this Halloween costume effective. Everyone knows who Octomom is so if you show up at a Halloween party wearing a tentacle suit with babies at the end of each tentacle, you’d be welcomed with either disgust or amusement. Either way, people will be talking about you! (or throwing things at you)

2. Sperm Man Halloween Costume – superheroes have been very popular this year and the last. Most box-office hits are comic adaptations so why don’t you join in on the fun? Here’s a Sperm Man Halloween Costume and prepare to travel in between Batman and Robin. Be careful though, because ladies might not want hang with you.

3. Sexy Nemo Chick Halloween Costume – if you weren’t touched with poor lost little nemo, you are not human. So to honor this touching movie, dress up in a sexy nemo halloween costume! Perfectly logical. What do you think? What? Who CARES if you’re a dude?!

4. Sarah Palin Halloween Costume – Sarah Palin has made a remarkable contribution in the entertainment industry (oh sorry, were you expecting ‘political’?) and as such she deserves the recognition of a Halloween costume. Not only will you have the license to make political jokes all night, you will also be staying true to the “girls dress like sluts on Halloween” rule. We don’t have anything against Sarah Palin. It’s not her fault that she looks hot in that tight office skirt. Right? Right!

5. Michael Jackson Halloween Costume – One of the most iconic deaths of all time happened in 2009. And that is MJ’s death. Dressing up as MJ or better yet, as MJ Thriller Zombie will be one of the coolest things to happen in Halloween. Nobody will make fun of you. Everybody respects a tribute. Just make sure you practice all the right moves. While everybody respects a tribute, NOBODY respects a FAIL tribute.

6. Kanye West Halloween Costume – the easiest one to do in the bunch. You don’t even have to wear the ridiculous sunglasses or carry a bottle of Hennesy to pull off a Kanye West Halloween Costume. All you have to do when people ask you who you’re going as, is interrupt their question. They’ll recognize you immediately. Prepare to be punched in the face a lot for the whole night though. We all know how many people wanted to do that to Kanye.

So what do you think of our top six Halloween costumes for 2009? Of course this list is nowhere near godfather status so give us your own ideas of Halloween costume for 2009.