Movies

This day, I watched 2 movies. The first, Spiderman 3, and followed by 13 days.

After watching Spiderman 3, I’ve come to realise that my movie expectations and demands have changed radically since the likes of Matrix Revolutions (the third sequel). Although Spiderman 3 isn’t bad, but I findt a tad predictable and rather generic. It’s as though I knew the ending and how every character would develop, leaving no room for surprises. It’s worst when there isn’t any twist in the end, concluding with highly corny scenes.

However, it did bring me a revelation. Over the past 2 years, I’ve been travelling on this high speed bullet train, using all my effort and energy concentrating on grabbing hold onto my seat so as to not slide off, stealing only occasional glances out of the window. I have failed to call for a stop nor slow down enough to marvel at the beauty that is just outside the train window. Things that I should treasure as once past, will never be found again.

In fact, studying is just an excuse or facade for school. Knowledge gained from textbooks and worksheets is actually a by-product of going through this amazing process called school. Studying or academics, I dare say, is not the most important aspect of school life. It’s only a necessary evil to justify one’s continual existence within the walls of the institution.

The most important take away from the years of schooling, has got to be the experience. The smell of the flowers, the beauty of the clouds, the lush greenery of the vegetation along the tracks. Within the vegetation lies the undiscovered insects and animals which can only be seen when we stop and take a closer look – the very essence and life of the ecosystem.

It is the simple pleasures, the little amusements in life, the fellowship with friends, the love of neighbours, and the equal suffering through the idiosyncrasies of school life, which brings the colour to the process called school.

The ingenious puns, the witty remarks, the lame jokes; The Whose Line is it Anyway daily, brings the very joy that school stands for.

So truly, ask yourself, what is school to you? Is it a place to gain knowledge? Is it a place to have a great game of soccer? Or is it a great place to just buy time?

I’ll make it a point to do things which I could never have done after graduation.

This post is a compression of three. Exams ended with a bang! Business and Management has been a breeze; I wish all papers were like that, including Chemistry.

Then, there’s this movie that my friends and I watched, Scoop. 3.5 upon 5. I’m just not fascinated by it.

Following which apart from a few lunch encounters and hazy ones, I got my Western Digital harddisk RMA’ed. The process has been really smooth and painless. I just dropped the drive off at their distributor office after creating a RMA case on the WD site. It’s near my house too. So, if you need to RMA any WD harddisk and do not want to mail them, you can always pass them to me.

I’m quite amazed that the electron still works after so many years of leaving it in a corner.

Haha. The script writers for Singapore Dreaming has won the MONTBLANC New Screenwriters Award. See, good movie right?

Today’s paper was great. I doubt if anyone can fail it; it’s designed such that everyone passes. Hope this applies to the Chemistry paper too.

I’m glad that it’s the bad air quality and the tiny clock, not my eyesight which I thought had degraded so badly.

Straight after school, we dashed off to Plaza Singapura to show our support to Singapore Dreaming. It’s a great show in short. 4 out of 5. But I’ll give it a 5 out of 5 as I’m supportive of our alumnus.

The idea of watching a movie sounds outrageous to most people at this time of the year, but it is a good way to practice impromptu planning and stress relieve.

I’ve got tons of things to blog about but I guess, I’ll save it for later.

Singaporeans and ACSians, please see that you go support Singapore Dreaming by buying a Cinema ticket for it before the run ends. Watching it however, is optional, but make sure you support it monetarily somehow.

After all, it’s a film produced/directed/written by Colin Goh and Dr Woo Yen Yen from the famous Talking Cock.com. If that’s not enough, he’s an alumnus, together with Mr Brown and Mr Miyagi. At least, help them break even lah. Support support a bit mah.

This day, or yesterday rather, I was on the train and I saw an amazing sight. There were 4 elderly ladies sitting on four seats consecutively and at City Hall station, the crowds reached a neck choking level. 2 older elderly ladies came in and stood around the seating area.

The most surprising and the most, for the lack of a better word, despicable thing happened. Rather than the hordes of seated able-bodied people giving up their seats, 2 seated elderly ladies stood up promptly to offer their seats to the other 2 who just came in.

Unfortunately, I was standing too far to be able to encourage people to give up seats to those who needed them more than they do.

Watched Pirates and found the Dog scene a waste. Overall, 3.75 upon 5.

People never fail to amaze me. What’s amazing to me is that there’s a person who is extremely displeased with the additional time given for studying due to the World Cup match where exams are to be delayed by a day.

In other news, solidarity for Mr Brown in action. Actually, I was thinking about Mr Brown wrist bands where people can wear them and show support. If massive numbers of people wear the bands and walk around Orchard Road, isn’t that as good as a street protest without any form of organisation? The Police can’t take that as an illegal gathering as after all, it really isn’t a gathering.

Well, some of you asked for my desktop screen shot, so here it is:-

I watched V for Vendetta last night and found it perfect. It’s the best movie I’ve ever seen so far. Do catch it if you haven’t; you won’t regret it.

5 out of 5.

In other news, violence in Singapore and nobody bothers to do anything. Big Brother didn’t come in time I think.