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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Hard Boiled
I have just watched the best movie in my entire life!
Hard Boiled, directed by John Woo and starring Chow Yun Fat and Tony Leung. I wonder why nobody makes movies like that anymore. Pity.
Moca wrote @ 1:49 AM
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Monday, December 24, 2007
The snow turned into rain
Nothing's changed since I left, contrary to what I've been hoping for. And now surprisingly I'm getting as much trouble from sources I've never expected! And to balance it out, enjoyment from surprising sources as well.
Wow it's Christmas eve already. Somehow I'm not really sure what that means anymore.
Moca wrote @ 9:38 AM
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Sub-zero
I'm freezing. And yet I'm no more numb (haha I actually typed number) to what's going on back at home. Being a few thousand kilometers away doesn't really change very much. And if I was hoping to get some epiphany out here in the snow I'm very much mistaken. All my putting on is muscles. Wtf.
I got a surprise message from Zhenghong yesterday night. Seems he wants to get together for some songwriting and playing and stuff. Pleasant surprise. He used to be my best friend, in primary one to three. Then he got streamed in to GEP (damn that program) and we just... sorta lost contact. He became... well it's hard to say what he became. He was always the more... mature and responsible one back then. I guess the easiest way to explain it is that he became a teenager, whereas I was stuck as a kid all the way into secondary school. ... Still am now actually. We were very very similar back then, I used to joke that he was like my mirror image, the person I could have become if I'd grown up a little and stopped being a kid. Actually I think I used to envy him, but obviously I'dve never admitted that. I don't anymore, though. Guess I'm quite happy with what I am. I don't even know whether he's still the kinda person that I wouldn't mind hanging out with (there are actually very few guys that i would) or if he's the kinda person I get annoyed at. I guess I'm pretty open to the idea, or maybe I'm just desperate to start playing again.
My score book is sitting on the table next to me open to the half-written 'Temptress', which I swore to finish by the time I got back. I just... can't bring myself to continue it.
Moca wrote @ 9:37 PM
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Escape Route
I really really feel like I'm running away. Like... go away for a week to Japan and hope that everything will sort itself out by the time I get back for Christmas. Oh well.
Moca wrote @ 8:01 PM
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Soul Burn
It's like... waking up in the morning with the wrong girl lying beside you.
Moca wrote @ 8:41 AM
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Friday, December 07, 2007
Truth Detector
I just watched The Golden Compass today, and I cannot help but comment that it was a movie that made absolutely no sense to me.
And this is not in the way that people say 'The Matrix' didn't make sense to them, because there was actually nothing in The Matrix to 'get'. This was more like me going 'Wtf. That doesn't make any sense ... ' more than ten times during the movie. Just because it's fantasy doesn't mean you can do whatever you want.
I have no idea at all why Christians and Catholics were so worked up over the movie. If I were a Christian I'd be laughing at the pathetic attempt to defame the church. After all, calling your soul a 'Daemon' but pronouncing it as you would say 'Demon' was totally the most subtle attack I've ever seen in a movie. In actual fact the whole movie could have been shortened to a scene with the author (his name escapes me) walking over to a cross and pissing on it, with none of the bullshit that went on.
Spoiler alert
Here's just a small list of the inconsistencies/gaps in the movie :
- They keep mentioning the fact that a person and his/her daemon are bonded, and if one gets hurt in any way, so does the other. So why the Hell does Nicole Kidman bitch-slap her monkey (no this is not a euphemism) and not get a swollen cheek? There are many other instances of stuff like this happening too.
- If Lyra is some uber important girl from a prophecy, why on earth would the college let her go off with scary Nicole Kidman (who later turns out to be her mother) when they already know that she works for the church? Oops I mean Magisterian. You're not supposed to know it's the church.
- If the Golden Compass is the last one in existence, and some really important artifact, the safest thing to do with it is obviously to put it in the hands of a 12 year old girl, especially one that has already proven that she doesn't give a damn about what anyone tells her.
- I know James Bond is really cool and all, but it's a little bit too much bravado to be wandering into the north pole full of angry bears alone, and get captured almost the minute we see him there, isn't it.
- Someone in the movie (I can't remember who) said that the Magisterian wants to control all the parallel universes. So... why is it that they want to kill the man who is about to discover a way to travel between the universes? (James Bond)
- If Gandalf the Bear is now the king of all the bears, why does he have to go into the final battle of the movie alone, instead of bringing an army of snarling raging beasts to own the Norwegian soldiers?
- I can understand the Gyptians wanting to raid that place in the North to rescue their babies, but I see no discernable purpose in the witches (led by the ugliest Bond girl ever) wanting to join in the fight to shoot a couple of random arrows here and there.
- Ghost Rider's (Old cowboy in a blimp) introduction to the movie was just so random.
- If a person's Daemon is a physical manifestation of his/her soul, why on earth wouldn't you pick a big scary or at least dangerous animal for it to be? Lyra keeps getting owned because her Daemon is a stupid useless rat. Or cat. Or some hamster flying thing. Nicole Kidman's baboon (wtf?) is useful in rat catching, but it'll probably get owned by James Bond's tiger?
- Also if I had to carry my soul around in me and it HAD to be a small pathetic little thing, I'd keep it locked up in a titanium box so it can't be harmed, but that's just me.
That's about all I feel like typing at the moment.
Spoilers End Here
I suppose we could grant the movie a 'Get out of Jail Free' pass by saying it's the first part of a trilogy, and that all these discrepancies will be explained in the future movies, but that doesn't make it any suckier. I didn't intend to initially, but I suppose I'll go look for the books to see if they make as much (or little) sense as the movie.
The fact of the matter is that there will always be atheists. And nothing we say or do is going to change any minds. Hell as a matter of fact nothing we say or do can ever change anybody's minds. Reason is something that has absolutely no application in that department. So just let them say what they want. Besides if anyone is weak-minded enough to convert to atheism because of the movie/books I'm sure they'll be weak-minded enough to be converted back to the church.
I guess I should reserve my judgement until all 3 movies come out, or at least until I've read the books, but this was kinda too hilarious for me to ignore. And it was, quite possibly, the worst movie I've ever watched. Also, it proves that atheism doesn't make sense.
Moca wrote @ 11:56 PM
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Good Night
I suppose it was. Perhaps not at all what I wanted it to be, but I suppose everything did work out well in the end. It was... different, I guess, but in a good way. And change is something I sorely need in my life right now.
Stupid DMC3 refuses to work.
I think I need to move on and get on with my life, but the temptation to live out this remaining one month in limbo is pretty overwhelming. I suppose I wouldn't mind it that much, considering it's probably going to speed up from here, but then again it is sorta one last chance to do things that 18 year olds do.
Moca wrote @ 6:33 PM
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Silver Platter
Zomg. Largest audience to date. Suffice to say I'm actually scared now.
Gah.
Thank goodness the piano is off-stage.
Moca wrote @ 3:37 PM
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Monday, December 03, 2007
Wart
He was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.
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'It's the curse of the Pellinores,' he exclaimed, 'Always mollocking about after that beastly Beast. What on earth use is it anyway?
- The Sword in the Stone
I keep thinking of long angsty posts that I feel like writing and eventually decide they're not worth my time. Partially because the mood's gone once I get to the computer anyway. Self-pity is unbecoming.
Moca wrote @ 9:00 AM
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