I have a bad habit of leaving things to the last minute and relying on my wits, guts and God’s grace to see me through. Classic ACSian mentality, I suppose.
Also fellows: TMNT soon yes?
Meh.
It is strange. EE and TOK are over, yet nothing has changed. I’m pretty regretful. I notice a lot of changes I could have made, if I had spent more time on it. Ah, well. Too late now I suppose.
IAs loom like unclean spirits rising from forgotten killing fields.
Hmm.. That sucked. I need to work on my imagery. It would be a better world, if things were described in exaggerated, terrible and beautiful forms.
Stream of Conciousness
I’m slowly losing my ability to create coherent, well-punctuated, and grammatically correct sentence.
In other news, I am intrigued by a number of things.
I think we should all consider memorizing King Lear and quoting it at appropriate times. Usually, in the place of anguished cries. I mean :
“Out, vile jelly!”
“Howl, howl,howl,howl,howl”
And the bits about ‘fut’ and ‘foppery’, are pretty quotable as well.
*plot twist*
I am no debater. Yet, i still realize the blatant stupidity of The Arena. I don’t feel comfortable commenting on the arguments presented. I sense they suck – I am an expert on incoherent and badly-structured arguments. However, it is possible that there are some secret rules in debating. Tradition and rituals that must be followed on pain of banishment, I imagine. I mean, maybe debaters are supposed to talk really fast and unconvincingly. I thought they would have to talk fast and convincingly.
But, I am sure we’ll all agree that the UN can sneak up on you sometimes. Catch you completely unawares.
By the Way, that website’s design is terrible, or at least average. I know the budget is tight and everything, but I’m reasonably sure that people will redesign the site for free. There again, no one goes to the UN Website anymore, so I suppose its irrelevant. But still, I wonder why it looks so plain. I mean, look at the quality of American Websites. To be fair, I’d admit that the White House page should be a tad nicer than the UN page. I mean, its like the President’s page(!) so much more personal. I’m sure Kofi Annan has a very snazzy looking blog himself. The General Secretary of the UN blogging. Wow, that’s actually really something. But wait! We have politicians blogging, ministers blogging, senators blogging, ambassadors blogging. So its pretty common. But still! Can you imagine a politician’s blog? Being emo? Taking personality quizzes? Photowhoring? Tharman tagging Vivian’s blog..
“STOP SPAMMIN NOOB”
” lol, tag!”
“Heyyy V.. new skin..ftw”
A bit, the freaky, yes.
Postshow
What can I say? The show is over, and it was good. Hell, it was more than good.
It was perfect.
I am constantly in awe of the talent I see in the people I have had the pleasure to work with in the course of this production. Cast and Crew, you were wonderful, professional and brilliant. Its been a great run.
I’d also really like to thank the audience for this. As always, we’re really thankful you guys bother to cough up the cash and travel all the way down to see us. Mad props to you.
The Night of the Show
Good morning everyone. I’ve been quiet for a while. It has been a long week. In about 11 hours, 6 months worth of work will be over. I am tingling with a strange energy, that I rarely get the opportunity to experience. Its akin to the pre-exam buzz, but more happy. This is going to be a good show. I can feel it. Its the way things fall together perfectly at the last moment. Probably has something to do with morphogenetic fields.
I think I’ll stop reflecting now. I don’t want to jinx this performance with a meditative reflection, so I won’t. That comes later, maybe tomorrow morning.
Comics
I feel I’m not doing my part as one of the few comic devotees around here. (Neither are you guys.. YOU KNOW WHO I’M TALKING TO)
I mean, it’s silly that, I know about guys like the croatian-born master-of-the-art form Danjiel Zezelj and the conservative-Christian, yet wickedly imaginative Doug TenNapel.
Everyone should read at least a bit of their work, to see that comics aren’t just poorly-drawn-satanic-adolescent-male-power-fantasies.
EDIT:
Other good works (from what I can remember and from my favorites folder) include the following :
Cerebus the Aardvark – Dave Sim
Eightball – Daniel Clowes
Flight – Various contributors
We also have the more well-known writers/artists. They guys are the ones generating the sales.We have the always-wonderful Alan Moore, with works like Top 10 and Watchmen – the best book I have ever read. Neil Gaiman, with Sandman and the Violent Cases. Warren Ellis for Transmetropolitan. Grant Morrison for The Invisibles and Animal Man.
And of course, for those of you more interested in the theory and the philosophy behind comics, there is Scott McCloud, the guy who convinced my that comics are really more that just ‘books-with-pictures’.
Missing
I always feel uncomfortable when I don’t receive new emails on a daily basis. It feels as if I’m missing something deeply important.
In other news, WLA2 is giving me a headache. On the one hand, I feel compelled to do a comparison between Siddhartha and Huckleberry Finn. On the other, my original topic has already been taken, and I’ve submitted a my plan B draft, which only involves Siddhartha. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, I can’t get myself to think. My topic is missing something crucial, and I can’t tell what it is.
Meanwhile, I just realized that Term 1 has flown by. This is aggravating. Just moments/weeks ago I had a conversation with DT, during which we agreed that time was passing unnaturally slowly.
I miss term 1. We had the holidays to look forward too in term one. Now all I have to look forward to is more deadlines. Deadlines which we will probably miss.
EDIT: I’m kicking myself for missing NUS Open House today. Rargh.
I just remembered that I’m a very secretive person.
Also, SUCCESS(!). I’ve managed to clear my inbox. Finally.
SPARTA!
Watched 300 today. I won’t comment much about it. Everything that should be said has already been said here and here.
In general, It was a fun movie, but not up to my expectations. I’ll give it a 6.5/10. Cinematography was great, but I preferred Letters from Iwo Jima. The plot could have been a lot better. they should have had a subplot involving someone from the Persian side. I know its a bit clichéd, but it would have worked.
EDIT: After thinking a bit more, I move 300 up to 7/10. It had great cinematography, an average, but acceptable script and good acting, which carried the script, taking attention away from its defects by throwing lines at us like javelins.
