obliteratED.

 Just watched Milk, which I've been meaning and not have had time to do for a long while.

THIS is what a movie should be, and what a movie should do.

It moved me nearly to tears, and knowing that these are real people, who once did all these things, fought all these wars... that made it so much more poignant.

I can't describe it and I don't think I can do it justice anyway.

Just... Scott! and Harvey! and if they could only have had that one last moment...

Even though I'm not sure if Scott is actually a real person or someone added in for drama's sake. And even though RPS has never really appealed to me due to the slightly worrying thought that these are real people who strange stories are being made up about.

Nevertheless.

Damn, but that was a (good) blow to the heart. It was like watching V, or Dark Knight, but even better, and that's something I never thought I'd say of any movie.

 This is a really cute vid! XD


The song and the vid both make me happy! (: I LOVE THE SOCK-FISH.

Chin Ee here.. i just received a message from geof that Chorale has a performance for some "pap quality awards thing" where the prime minister will be in the audience. The performance will be in november. so the j2s cannot peform. Hence, mr toh wants to invite the alumni to join in! 
 
Date: 3rd Nov

UK terms start in September.

Incidents like this make me really reconsider going overseas to study. I've been wishing for some get-together thing where we can sing as a group again, and this comes along, and I CAN'T GO.

Sadness. ):

 I got rejected by LSE... ):

And stupid Kings STILL hasn't replied!

I feel really really blessed (in a non-religious way) to have the family I do. My aunts and uncles really treat all the cousins like their own children.

Why the sudden outpouring of love?

My uncle took over the HP laptop that we managed to get the NEC one exchanged for... and bought me the Macbook.

Even though he didn't really need a new laptop, he brushed my objections off by saying that my aunt's current laptop was too old and it was high time he should update it. That's clearly just an excuse to make me feel better, so I actually feel really bad. Especially since the economy's so bad now and his business has really suffered.

I just love my family. Gah.

Oh... and I also love the Macbook. XP though it's taking me a while to figure out all the differences and little tricks.

 WATCHMEN LOVE.

Especially Rorschach. Ah, Rorschach... ;______; You COMPLETELY did not deserve the ending you got, but in a paradoxical twist I wouldn't have loved you so much if you hadn't gotten the ending you got. Hmm.

The movie as a whole was a bit choppy, a bit disjointed, and there was too much going on and too many things/people to remember, which is not good for normal movie-goers not used to giving a movie their full attention (like my friends, who ended up not liking it because after a while they had no idea what was going on. They couldn't even remember the characters' names and roles, for heaven's sake!).

BUT, for a 12-book comic series condensed into a mere 3 hours, the director did a bloody good job. And since I could follow it, who cares about everyone else. XD

The blood and gore was a bit *_______* though. Especially the bit about the little girl, or the chainsawed-arms of the prison idiot, or the dangling bits from the ceiling when Dr Big Blue exploded those three guys pulling guns on him. And some parts were rather abrupt, like how Dr Big Blue had this sudden revelation going from 'I am entirely apathetic towards the Earth and its humans' to 'I love the Earth because you were created in it' in approximately 0.3 seconds flat. Silk Spectre is hot and has amazingly good legs, but she doesn't merit a full turn-around of one's entire philosophy just because she had a breakdown in tears.

There are a few other little things that didn't sit too well with me, but those are negligible in the face of the awesomeness of the movie as a whole. So... yeah.

WATCHMEN LOVE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law

Or maybe it's just me. Who knows, someone else might believe that this is really valid, good law worth upholding and proliferating... but that's exactly my point, really.

And, you know, my own litle rant up there is a small example of getting too deep into your point and taking it too far. It's just one little quirky nerd concept, for goodness' sake, and here I am expounding on humanity's lack of a brain (or the existence of a sadly collective one, otherwise known as the Mob Brain).

Also, I wonder why I am doing this when I have a midterm exam in less than 12 hours that I haven't exactly studied for.

Here's wishing the best of luck to everyone out there collecting results today!

*crosses fingers for everyone I know*

 I'M SURE YOU TAKE 16 BLOODY PAGES TO TELL US WHICH SIDE OF THE COURT A CORD BALL IS GOING TO LAND. DO YOU WANT OUR HEARTS TO GIVE OUT KONOMI-SENSEI?

*pants*

ARGH THE SUSPENSE.

[edit] After all the suspense... all the missed heartbeats... all the cold sweat... you come up with THIS kind of ending? *has no strength to be furious anymore* This has got to be the most stupid, most unfulfilling, most bloody unsatisfying end to a match EVER. Ever ever ever.

DAMN YOU KONOMI-SENSEI.

[edit edit] ...I take that back. Sensei... with this final twist, you have, beyond all expectations, reached new heights of gleeful sadism and indulgent cruelty to your readers.

[edit edit edit] Okay, I take back my taking back. What a sneaky and ingenious way to insert emo nostalgia at the very end! And it works, because I'm feeling damn emo now lol.

 Been reading the PoT manga for the nationals arc, because I didn't know where to get the anime and anyway I thought that the anime was getting too ridiculous in how much it dramatised the manga. I thought the manga would be slightly less absurd.

It was not.

Really, Konomi-sensei doesn't even TRY to justify the things he comes up with anymore... he used to at least come up with some vaguely plausible explanation, like this spin added to that angle and so on, but now he doesn't even bother.

I know this because I have started reading the manga from the very first chapter. Yes, I have better things to do with my time. Yes, it's a completely pointless venture. Yes, I'm just going over old ground. Yes, I have midterms.

But it's just so addictive. ;___;

Aaaand I have a new love for the Golden Pair! I always didn't like it that much because I don't like Oishi that much, but now... and InuKai, they're just so cute! Plus a renewal of my support for Ryoma, who I was getting irritated with because he was overly perfect in the anime, but in the manga he's less Mary Sue-ish and more... mature, sort of. Don't know how else to put it. In fact, all the manga characters are more real and solid than their anime counterparts.

Yet another series that proves my firm belief that manga is always better. FMA, HnG, Kyo, Ouran, etc...  and now PoT.