Sunday, February 21, 2010

Fat blonde.

Accomplishment of the day: I finished a 500 word karangan.

Not bad, not bad. Bet my grammar and vocabulary suck though.

Highlight of the day: Went out to get earphones with Kelvin and Insan.

Met up with them in the canteen before leaving, and Insan was complaining about some "fat blonde". Wondered who for a while, then realised he was referring to Annabeth from 'Percy Jackson'. He thought some fat blonde was portraying her in the movie, 'Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief' when she's supposed to be a slim, pretty, brunette (which we watched later on just to see if she was a fat blonde. Turned out to be a Selena Gomez lookalike).

Then got laughed at 'cause of the earphone-cutting story (apparently a lot of people know now).

Waited for the bus for seemingly ages.

Drooled over the selection of earphones, headphones and speakers at the Somerset313 HMV. Finally got what I wanted (after spending half an hour or so trying to decide what to get), then headed to Wisma Atria after lunching (well, sort of. Complained incessantly about the huge amount of ice Long John Silvers's puts in their drinks, largely reducing the amount of actual drink).

Played around with the games on demo at Sony Style with Insan while Kelvin went to check out that camera model he wanted.

Insan got owned by a little girl. (The game was slightly retarded, anyway. You can walk up to the soldiers shooting at you with machine guns and simply kill them with a knife. Talk about fail.)

Hung around some more 'cause the colour Kelvin wanted for his camera wasn't available. I would very much like a surround sound system please. And a HD projector. That'd be cool.

'Percy Jackson' was all right. Not bad at all, although it's just weird that Zeus is so terribly unreasonable. Should be much better in the book though. And Insan will definitely agree with that statement, 'cause he was all "It should have been like this, and they changed everything. Oh my God, it's an entirely new storyline. And Annabeth, what did they do to her?" and stuff like that.

Movies based on books just don't make it somehow. Sometimes, I just want to say, "Forget public appeal and give us what the book says, 'cause that's what true readers want," but then again, without public appeal, it'd be a total waste of resources to actually make the movie.

It's a hard decision. The right balance between being true to the book and public appeal. And many directors and scriptwriters just fail right then and there.


Okay, going to bed now.

Night.


P.S. You may only sit on those "priority" seats on MRTs and buses if you've got a bloated stomach, a stick/cane, something resembling a miniature you, or if you're wearing stripes on one trouser leg. Or if your head floats right above your shoulders and have no visible hands or feet. Either one.

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