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spiderpigMm. Total Konata makeover :3 How's everyone enjoying themselves so far?
Spent the whole of Monday in school today after my News & the Public lesson. Which was, really draining.The News & Public session for some reason careened off in this whole WTF direction which had nearly all of us having "EXCUSE ME?" looks on our faces. Mr N propelled the discussion to a totally alien sector at lightspeed. Houston, we certainly have a problem.
After the lesson I headed off to the library to cosy myself down in the multimedia viewing room for hours and hours of movie fun. All this is said with a deadpan voice.
So within the past two days, I've watch four movies (more specifically Japanese movies), namely Paprika, Linda Linda Linda, Tokyo Olympiad (Ichikawa Kon) and Rhapsody in August (Kurosawa Akira). I have to admit rather sheepishly, that I fell asleep during Tokyo Olympiad. Don't get me wrong! It was a beautifully constructed movie. But I'm not particularly inclined to long scenes of running a marathon, or any other sporting event for that matter. No matter how beautifully it is, anything other than soccer puts me to sleep. I hung around the Deck for a few hours and wolfed down my lunch and dinner with my Civilisations in India readings and ran back to the library to catch Rhapsody in August.
As a novice in film critque, I'm going to lay off the comments regarding the themes of the movies and stuff. Things like that should be reserved for class, and other sorts of posts, not general "hey how am I doing" kind of entries. As a movie, it was certainly effective in bringing out whatever feelings Kurosawa wanted us to feel. Whatever he wanted us to think is a totally different matter, but I really did cry at the end. The ending scene was so poignant, so heart wrenching and surreal at the same time that you have to be just swept away but the sheer despairing beauty of it all.
Linda Linda Linda is sheer fun. The song is currently stuck in my head and will probably never fade away. It's in the same vein of Swing Girls, but in a much more down-to-earth, slice-of-life manner. Paprika on the otherhand, was delicious. I absolutely adore Tokita.soft spot for overweight characters so not obvious.
"岡 政偉 毎朝、お味噌汁を作ってくれませんか。" is probably what I'm going to write on my banner for Masi Oka when he comes to Singapore for the Heroes tour. He is, in every aspect, my ideal man. :D
UWA. INAGAKI GORO IS GOING TO BE IN NEXT WEEK'S HANAKIMI?! WTF that casting totally wins at life.
I've been having severe lacking of sleep (SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THIS SENTENCE!) the past few days, and I attribute it to growing piles of work and my inability to plan my time properly. Mr N. gives rather vague details regarding his assignments and it's usually quite a bit of work; add that to the multitudes of readings and project research I have to do and my HOOKED article... I'm quite swamped over for this week. Hopefully everything will get better come the end of the month but for now, I'm quite screwed. Right now I'm taking a much needed break before I plung into the madness that is News & the Public.
Ah, Post-war Japanese Film and Anime, I love you so much. I love reading the books about it, I love watching the movies, I really respect our lecturer. After today's lecture, I stayed behind to point out a little confusing error on her slide (hurhurhur) and to comment about Rhapsody's last scene, when there was an American exchange student talking to her about the film, and about how unresponsive the lecture theatre was.
Mmm Singapore, our conservative Asian ways tend to perplex the more outspoken and outgoing foreigners don't they? It was interesting hearing it come from someone standing in front of me, so yeah... I interrupted halfway to point out some parts that I felt were odd about the movie. So I suppose, here's a big step for me in being more outspoken? I mean, hey I actually addressed someone I totally don't know in an academic area. WOAH.
Spent the whole of Monday in school today after my News & the Public lesson. Which was, really draining.The News & Public session for some reason careened off in this whole WTF direction which had nearly all of us having "EXCUSE ME?" looks on our faces. Mr N propelled the discussion to a totally alien sector at lightspeed. Houston, we certainly have a problem.
After the lesson I headed off to the library to cosy myself down in the multimedia viewing room for hours and hours of movie fun. All this is said with a deadpan voice.
So within the past two days, I've watch four movies (more specifically Japanese movies), namely Paprika, Linda Linda Linda, Tokyo Olympiad (Ichikawa Kon) and Rhapsody in August (Kurosawa Akira). I have to admit rather sheepishly, that I fell asleep during Tokyo Olympiad. Don't get me wrong! It was a beautifully constructed movie. But I'm not particularly inclined to long scenes of running a marathon, or any other sporting event for that matter. No matter how beautifully it is, anything other than soccer puts me to sleep. I hung around the Deck for a few hours and wolfed down my lunch and dinner with my Civilisations in India readings and ran back to the library to catch Rhapsody in August.
As a novice in film critque, I'm going to lay off the comments regarding the themes of the movies and stuff. Things like that should be reserved for class, and other sorts of posts, not general "hey how am I doing" kind of entries. As a movie, it was certainly effective in bringing out whatever feelings Kurosawa wanted us to feel. Whatever he wanted us to think is a totally different matter, but I really did cry at the end. The ending scene was so poignant, so heart wrenching and surreal at the same time that you have to be just swept away but the sheer despairing beauty of it all.
Linda Linda Linda is sheer fun. The song is currently stuck in my head and will probably never fade away. It's in the same vein of Swing Girls, but in a much more down-to-earth, slice-of-life manner. Paprika on the otherhand, was delicious. I absolutely adore Tokita.
"岡 政偉 毎朝、お味噌汁を作ってくれませんか。" is probably what I'm going to write on my banner for Masi Oka when he comes to Singapore for the Heroes tour. He is, in every aspect, my ideal man. :D
UWA. INAGAKI GORO IS GOING TO BE IN NEXT WEEK'S HANAKIMI?! WTF that casting totally wins at life.
I've been having severe lacking of sleep (SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THIS SENTENCE!) the past few days, and I attribute it to growing piles of work and my inability to plan my time properly. Mr N. gives rather vague details regarding his assignments and it's usually quite a bit of work; add that to the multitudes of readings and project research I have to do and my HOOKED article... I'm quite swamped over for this week. Hopefully everything will get better come the end of the month but for now, I'm quite screwed. Right now I'm taking a much needed break before I plung into the madness that is News & the Public.
Ah, Post-war Japanese Film and Anime, I love you so much. I love reading the books about it, I love watching the movies, I really respect our lecturer. After today's lecture, I stayed behind to point out a little confusing error on her slide (hurhurhur) and to comment about Rhapsody's last scene, when there was an American exchange student talking to her about the film, and about how unresponsive the lecture theatre was.
Mmm Singapore, our conservative Asian ways tend to perplex the more outspoken and outgoing foreigners don't they? It was interesting hearing it come from someone standing in front of me, so yeah... I interrupted halfway to point out some parts that I felt were odd about the movie. So I suppose, here's a big step for me in being more outspoken? I mean, hey I actually addressed someone I totally don't know in an academic area. WOAH.
