The Dark Knight Rises.

It's minutes to midnight (and a good Linkin Park album, too), and I'm sitting here in crazy humidity (it hasn't been this humid since week 1, I think) typing these words.

The internet connection here is still terrible, so it's like nothing's really advanced all this while we've been staying here. Sure, uploading is faster with LAN connection, but that's all there really is.

Let's see if I can finish this post in ten minutes, because there is a time constraint I'm working myself on. And also because I slept for four hours this afternoon, which was a complete waste of time and now I am lagging behind many things.

Went out to watch The Dark Knight Rises last night with half my class and Suen Rong and Wei Ren (because we had extra tickets). Was quite excited, all throughout Chem and the Biochem prac (really tense Biochem prac, if I must say). Speaking of the Biochem prac, I didn't like it, because instructions were confusing and everyone was lost and it was hot and humid and we had to wear lab coats. Tsk.

So yeah, back to The Dark Knight Rises. Had high expectations for this movie, given it's about Batman and it's Christopher Nolan. It did blow my mind, actually, but I still need to gather my thoughts right. I really didn't like the fight scenes (Catwoman fight scenes were great, but everyone else looked so slow and ungainly in those costumes), but the plot was amazing (apart from the ending).

The thing about superhero movies like this is that unlike The Avengers, or Spider-Man (in general), no superpowers are involved. Just a wad of cash and really psycho people.

And what makes superhero movies like The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises amazing is what drives seemingly ordinary people (born ordinary, mind you) to do extraordinary things. The concept is that anyone can become a hero. What I admire the most though, are the villains. Villains without superpowers need more drive and depth to work (not like simply losing control of greed of enhanced powers, or having supernatural armies, etc), and an admirable amount of calculation is required to make major heists or attacks happen. It takes brains, and strange motivation that nobody understands. And it's these villains that are hardest to crack.

So yeah, The Dark Knight Rises was extraordinarily well presented, although I didn't like that Batman had to make out with every girl who simply looked his way. And I loved Tom Hardy as Bane. Such class. And power.

So today, we had English, and then Math. Nothing eventful, apart from Han Jie's second presentation (because he botched up the previous one). Talked about gay marriage and stuff, but nothing too deep 'cause I was a bit speechless.

Yeah, that's it.

P.S. Phrase of the day: "Unwholesome consumables." I'm going to start using this in everyday conversation.