Pottering

HELLO.
ALL I’m going to rave about in this entry is HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, which I finished at 3.40PM today, having started at around 9.10AM. No, I wasn’t speed reading.

So..
GIANORMOUS SPOILER ALERT!
Highlight if you do wish to be spoiled/discuss the book with yours truly.

Okay…
One thing I now HIGHLY regret doing for the past 39434923 years is reading TOO much fanfiction. The strong, highly imaginative and relentlessness of these fanfic writers have probably managed to cover the series from EVERY POSSIBLE ANGLE.

And when the Snape/Lily thing happened, it felt like deja vu – I felt like I was reading fanfiction. In fact, this was a sensation that I endured at MANY POINTS of the book, none of the plot twists managed to surprise me. As Schwa pointed out, Lily being a ‘Mary-Sue’ is quite a ghastly proposition. Rowling’s ability to stretch the argument wears as thin as some of the poorer fanfics I’ve had the misfortune of reading.

In fact, I have read MANY, MANY pieces of fanfiction, and some of these writers beat Rowling hands down, any day. The writing was rather amateur, disappointing, as the past few books have been. The ending was quite horrid. Not the plot, but the ENDING. Now srsly, Albus Severus is a HORRIBLE thing to name your poor child.

Speaking of dead people. I must have a minute of silence for my favourite character.
MY SEVERUS SNAPE IS DEAD. *WAILS* (BAWLS EYES OUT LIKE THE SHAMELESS FANGIRL SHE IS) Well. Yes at least my adamant stubborness on insisting that he was innocent has been proven true. Dumblydore isn’t alive- no loss. But the dead of FRED WAS COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY. It added nothing to the plot. And while we’re at it, lets aimlessly kill Remus and Tonks too! JOY. The only slightly poignant aspect of that was that it meant that ALL the Marauders were gone.

The Horcrux burning Harry’s chest and making the wearers cranky was SO LAST SEASON. We don’t need LOTR Part 4. And the Harry isn’t dead because he sacrificed himself selflessly argument was taking Narnia a bit too far. Very orignal Rowling. I’m impressed.

The last chapter of the book read like bad fanfiction. Horrible, horrible names. All these little spawn of the new generation. *shudders*

It almost feels as though Rowling has been prowling (hey it rhymes!) around ff.net too much. Unimaginable, but the way the plot works out makes me doubt any less.

Snape is gone.
Snape is gone. *feels loss*
SNAPE…
SNAPE LIVES FOREVERRR! (denial)
And I think she just killed Hedwig cause she didn’t know what to do with her. Lawl. … … Killing spree.. kill.. kill..

I’m just glad the series is at end. Its concluded. According to Rowling. SNAPE LIVES ON IN FANFICTION. And you see, we didn’t get it too wrong after all eh? He IS watching Harry’s back. We do get some things right, us writers.

I wonder who Draco’s wife is. LOL~~~~~
SCORPIUS. WHAT KIND OF A NAME IS THAT?

I’m probably going to talk about little else for the next few days. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Snape.

Potter?

Hullo, its a loverly loverly Saturday morning.
It is now 11.54AM.

I set my alarm for 9.30AM so I could wake up bright and early to write my H3 (ya right).
Its amazing how many hours I’ve already invested into my paper and all I can say is that I have 500 words for it. (:
The innate perfectionist refuses to settle for anything less than coherent, which contrary to popular opinion, is not as easily attainable as it looks.

So, enough about this H3 thing which I’ve currently yet to continue since I woke up a mere hour ago, and spent the last half fighting with the modem/router/Deep Thought which refused to connect to the dear, precious, Internet.

Speaking of the Internet, I find it highly ridiculous that the one place in TJ with the worst Internet connection is the Library.

And oh, JCT grades are BBBAD, literally.
Haha.

GP – A
History – B
Literature – B
Math (H1) – B
Econs – D

Now I’ve to figure how to get my Econs grades to rise above that abysmal mark. Everything else I’m okay with. I was aiming to average Bs this exam, and I suppose my grades are satisfactory enough, even though I dipped quite a bit for History. Knowingly I didn’t study as thoroughly as I normally do for History anyway. I’m really happy with Lit, this is the first actual exam I did pretty well in. My text essays were fine but I blotched my PCs, ironic considering I used to be so much better at PC when I first came to TJ. (Hm. Causal links?) GP was quite amusing. Well I guess Mr T is a pretty good teacher after all. GP grades last year were most horrid, but seems I’ve pretty much grasped the technique of spewing out GP-esque essays now… all I need to do is streamline my thoughts and make everything tighter, and this applies to all my subjects I suppose.

Now, time to talk about POTTER. (:
SPOILER ALERT!!
Since its open I’ve already caught it twice. On Thursday with Jason and Friday with Kitz and Jaslyn. Whee whee whee.
Must say I didn’t like it all too much the first time. It felt as though they were just trying their best to get the plot across (and so much of it already being chopped out and all) and there was scarcely any character development. Everyone was fighting for screen time of course, and there were so many moments where I know my specific group of friends would be squealing away. But unless you grasp the canon/fandom concept, it’ll probably slip right past.

I like young Snape. (: (:

Umbridge: Because you know, somewhere deep inside, that you deserve to be punished.

(LAWL)

Okay anyway. Umbridge kinda reminds me of Mrs L… TJCians, comments?
But its funny anyway.

And because I’ve had the opportunity to watch it twice I had more time to note subtleties. Did anyone notice the blackboard when they were doing their Charms OWLs? It said: Use Azio Mizuri (can’t remember the spelling, actually) ink only.
Okay I can’t really remember what the name was but it looked Jap. Haha. Japs pwn even the quill ink industry.

Secondly, this movie just gave me another opportunity to detest CHO CHANG even more. Katie Leung spent the whole movie giving BLATANTLY adoring/pretending to be shy looks at Harry. It was QUITE revolting. And then they had to kiss. Well it was a first kiss. Clumsy. And whatnot. So it looked bad too, fortunately. Thank God for Ginny and her jealous glances. I’m so glad its going to be Ginny in the next movie and not Cho. I still marvel at how they managed to weed out such an unflattering looking Chinese girl with the strangest, most confused accent I have ever heard.

Umbridge: Boys and girls are not to be within eight inches of each other!

Haha. Okay the jokes were quite amusing. And the Friday crowd at The Cathay was much more receptive than the few that were in the cinema at GV Grand on Thursday.

Kit was laughing and guffawing so loudly and at some really INAPPROPRIATE times. I have no idea why.

Luna is lovely! I love Luna. She is the PERFECT Luna! Finally some GOOD casting. After they made Sirius look like a shaggy Dorian Gray and Lupin into some unhawt cardigan toting oldie. Oh, but Umbridge was perfectly annoying as well, of course. Good casting. Her pink room with the PLATES FULL OF CATS is highly disturbing. *shudders*

The Weasley twins are so cool so cool. But I know this is probably the last we’ll see of them. BOO. They don’t play that big a role in Half-blood Prince and I know they’re probably gonna be chopped out. And they really ARE starting to look a bit too old to be in school. But they rock. XD XD

Anyway, if anyone is going to watch Harry Potter again, tell me if you notice the Gryffindor boy with the emo blond hair sitting next to Ron during one of the Great Hall scenes. WHO IS HE? WHO? WHO?!

Oh yes. And !emoHarry made his presence felt a lot, though less irritatingly than as expressed in the book. Dudley was positively amusing. I like Dudders.

Hmm. The Sirius being sent into the Veil scene was fast, no opportunity to bawl my eyes out. Lol. BELLATRIX IS LOVELY. I love Helene Bonham Carter. (: She’s the voice for Corpse Bride by the way, which was modelled after her.

And I still dislike the Dumbledore. He has ruined Dumbledore. He’s not kooky and crazy and woohoo like the first one was. He’s too edgy and pointed. Even though the plot gets darker I don’t really think Dumbledore turns into such a high strung creature.

Now I feel like re-reading Book 5 and 6 in preparation for next week’s release of Book 7. I can’t WAIT. To see how it ends and to see if JK Rowlin can redeem herself for how bad the past few books have been. Movie 6 is probably going to be really boring. The book itself was dull enough. There was scarcely any action involved and it’ll probably just be another plot vomitting session. Too much plot was unrolled in Book 6. Christian Coulson will not be playing Tom Riddle this time though, sadly. He’s too old now.

Oh well. H3. Er. Yeah. Or not.
*wobbles away*

Burnt.

Hullo. The past two days have been rather miserable downright horrible.

Except for the interlude in which I watched Transformers with Jason. The show was very, very nice. I enjoyed it tremendously. Wouldn’t mind catching it again. It was such a fun show. Was unconsciously grabbing his arm most of the time, but it was all so enthralling, I couldn’t help it. Bumblebee is the most heartwarming autobot ever. And Sergeant Lennox was rather adorable, but only when sweaty and dirty. When he’s clean he rather resembles Ryan Seacrest, which does not bring vocabulary such as ‘hot‘, to mind. Surprisingly he was Danny in Las Vegas, and Tad Hamilton, whom I never found hot. So I guess its just the uniform and grime that makes him look somewhat hot.

Other movies I’m really looking forward to:
The Dark is Rising. I LOVED that Susan Cooper series.
The Golden Compass.
STARDUST. Gaiman LOVE.

And the final Potter book. More than the movie, anyway.

Yup. Otherwise, the past day has been filled with more tears than I feel inclined to elaborate on. I just know that I haven’t cried this hard or this much in possibly, a year. Extremely tired, not physically, but my mind feels like its sliding someplace nasty, some place I used to know and am in no hurry to be reacquainted with.

I’ve not been spending much time with Daddy lately. Been letting a lot of my own whims claim my time and attention. And when the trigger events happened, I didn’t have the strength.

Galatians 3:5
Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? —

It is grace that puts me here. It is not my works, it is not what I do, or what I have done. I get only the best because I have JESUS. No other reason. Not because I have intellect. Not because I knew or did not know how to do my exams. I EXPECT GOOD. Because my Jesus will never fail me. He never did. And He’s already given me the victory for this.

PIRATEEEES

PIRATES!!!!!!!!

Okay.. So. Johnny Depp is still hot. But he didn’t get enough screen time, what with the gianormous amount of pirates that suddenly decided to crop up from the trillion corners of the globe (OXYMORON!).

So the humour was all a bit forced, nothing beats the first Pirates of the Carribean, but this so totally pwnz the second.

The last sea battle was oh so cool.

And I must commend Hans Zimmer for still being able to come with a new theme and a BRILLIANT Zimmer-esque soundtrack for PotC 3 without sounding like re-runs of 1 and 2.

The new theme is this piratey song thats so full of piratey honour that you can’t help but swell with piratey pride.

Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high…
Heave ho,
thieves and beggars,
Never shall we die…

The king and his men
stole the queen from her bed
and bound her in her bones……
The seas be ours and by the powers
Where we will well roam…

Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high…
Heave ho,
Thieves and beggars,
Never shall we die…

Its pretty awesome. I like I like.

Singapore looked nothing like Singapore.
The humour, I must reiterate, gets too slapstick at some points and the audience definitely didn’t catch most of the little witty ones because they passed too quicky. (Especially Singaporean audiences, sometimes it takes a while to get through to them. Coughs.)

ALSO, many plot loopholes which I shan’t elaborate on lest I spoil the movie for any of you.

Just.. way too many pirates and way too many crabs.

Keira Knightley is pretty, I shan’t deny it, but her predominant role was to pout through the movie and I must applaud her for having kissed practically every male lead and supporting actor in Pirates at least once. I’ll bet they scripted it all in just so everyone would get a chance to snog her.

What I didn’t like, was how Davy Jones had suddenly become such a sentimental weakling. I so didn’t understand the painful emo angst problem between him and Calypso. And the worse part was that the only line he kept uttering throught he movie was “Are you afraid to die?”, which is of course, cue for them to join him aboard the Flying Dutchman.

The ending was zomgrwrnkr!?
And if you haven’t caught it, remember to stay till the credits end.

I hearts the soundtrack.

The last fight scene was total cooooooooolnessss.
And I’ll rather they not try to make a Pirates 4.

*nods*

One of the most ancipated movies of 2007 down! Next up.. POTTER!
As disappointing as the movies tend to get (much more so following the decline of the quality of the books. My love ended at book 4. Book 5 was teenage angst, and 6 was a desperate attempt to introduce too many characters and tie up way too many plot loopholes.. unsuccessfully.) I admit to being still, quite loyal to it because “no-matter-how-bad-it-is-I’ve-read-all-six-books-to-date-and-watched-all-four-movies”.

No more Cedric, who was so smotheringly cute.

…

Oh WELL.

Midsummer’s tonight. So exciting. Can’t wait to watch them.

Banddd. and Spidey.

Saxy conversations.

fxxxzxx@hotmail.com says:
u are tired.
fxxxzxx@hotmail.com says:
too muchhhhh sax.
lizzy(: God’s beloved ; tjcsb. The battle isn’t mine, but God’s. 2 Chronicles 20:15 says:
totally
fxxxzxx@hotmail.com says:
!!!
lizzy(: God’s beloved ; tjcsb. The battle isn’t mine, but God’s. 2 Chronicles 20:15 says:
way too much
fxxxzxx@hotmail.com says:
LOL
lizzy(: God’s beloved ; tjcsb. The battle isn’t mine, but God’s. 2 Chronicles 20:15 says:
that was so intentional
lizzy(: God’s beloved ; tjcsb. The battle isn’t mine, but God’s. 2 Chronicles 20:15 says:
don’t pretend

Whee.
Can’t wait for our band tee and section tee. I’m bringing saxy back. Yeah.
Saxophonists please pay me $25 ASAP because paying the 50% deposit was zomg on my wallet.

Caught Spidey-3 after band today with Jason.
…
Well. Good&Bad.
All the logic of a Marvel movie (in other words, not much).
Harry is sultry bourgeois hawtness. PETERPARKERISFAT. I don’t care, but he really has, like, a double chin and an undefined body. And the worst part was that they kept filming his unflattering angles.
Er.. too many villians, too cliche plot, same ole’ loopholes, wimpy angst-ridden heroine whose primary purpose is to look pained and scream a lot, and conveniently always end up being in danger and at most times – the cause or catalyst for the trouble…

Still watchable. Draggy, yes, but watchable… Its Spiderman after all… you can count on the predictability of the good vs evil debate. Whats more with all the MORALS it literally preaches.

That a husband must put his wife first. A man always has a choice to do the right thing. Yadda yadda. Whee. Family movie, yo. And thankfully even though most of the plot circulated around the pale and pained Kirsten Dunst, the snog level was low.

OK.
I want sleep.
Shall stop here.
NIGHTNIGHT.
9 days to God’s glorious victory.

PS, erratum to thankyous: LUTHER, for being there for the saxes. :D:D

Shows.

Quick post.

Caught Phantom, the visuals were amaaazing. The set is pretty awesome. So are the costumes. The vocals weren’t as great as I imagined them to be. The Phantom was good. The Christine was weak at some parts. Raul is probably there just to look pretty. And everyone was just pretty much overpowered by the trilling soprano.

Overall conclusion; enjoyable. It was good. Don’t be put off by my trifling comments. Phantom is still a must watch. (:

In other news, wore my new dress today, and the boyfriend thought it looked decidedly common. *sniffs indignantly* Its okay. Jesus made me gorgeous and I made the dress gorgeous anyway.

And Adeline sang a really really nice song today.

Calvin Hunt – Mercy Saw Me
The years had left scars.
The scars had left pain.
How could he recognize me?
I wasn’t the same.

I knew I should pay and I knew the price.
For justice and law demanded my life.
Yet, his tender heart heard my desperate cry.
And he saw my past through merciful eyes.

Beautiful!
That’s how mercy saw me;
Though I was broken and so lost,
mercy looked past all my faults.

Justice of God saw what I had done,
but mercy saw me through the Son;
Not what I was, but what I could be,
that’s how mercy saw me.

Wherever you go, you can’t go too far
that his eyes of mercy can’t see where you are.
He loves you too much to leave you alone.
You’re flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone.

Yet his heart cries out for your heart today.
See yourself through his eyes and then you will say,
you’ll say:

Sin has stolen my dignity and all my self-esteem.
But I was made brand new again when mercy looked at me.

Beautiful!
That’s how mercy saw me;
Though I was broken and so lost,
mercy looked past all my faults.

Justice of God saw what I had done,
but mercy saw me through the Son;
Not what I was, but what I could be,
that’s how mercy saw me.

Not what I was, but what I could be.
That’s how Jesus saw me.

BEAUTIFUL SONG. You can find a version by Chonda Pierce on Youtube but the way Adeline sang it today was really lovely.

In other news we broke (band) camp today. The camp in itself was pretty much an exhausting ordeal. Somehow the attitude and attendance of the band is still disappointing. A lot of the J1s are either not taking things very seriously or are under the impression that we have plenty of time.

I’m extraordinarily sleepy. I get a bed tonight, not tables and my sleeping bag.

Another day in the life of a JC2 student awaits.

To do list as of now:

Design: Drama t-shirt, Band (Prelude 27) t-shirt, Band collar pin, 30th Anniversary banner.
Work: Unemployment test tomorrow, Lit Prac Crit by Tues, United Nations summary by Wed.
Misc: H3 lit? :S Read all the lovely books I curently own but have yet to complete? Own more books? Sleepppppppppyyy……………..

300!

WATCHED 300 WITH SHIK AND NEFF.
300 rocks.

David Wenham is the sex.

Okay maybe not so hot here but I can’t find any other screenshots of him.
All the bods of the Spartan warriors are.. “Omg.. are those real?”

So yes, after getting over my initial O__O! fangirlism of hot bods in general, (and contrary to the popular opinion of guys who have little understanding of female behaviour, girls do not get turned on at the mere sight of hot guys okay. It’ll take a lot more than that! Hah! *coughkennethrannaldcough*) the rest of the movie was quite, wow.

It’s pretty much a very guy’s kinda show, a lot of action, fighting, blood, death, violence, a bit of sex (not that much so Lizzy is glad because such scenes are almost virtually redundant. Also the sex was all purposeful and not ‘Oh you’re hot, I don’t know you but let’s shag anyway’) and reminded me very much of a video game. LOL.

“Level 1. Fight.
Boss defeated.
Proceed to level 2.”

And so on.
It was just wow for the effects though there wasn’t very much of a plot to begin with.
After settling down in the plush comfort of Cathay Grand, I turned to Nef (more than once) and went “So they’re all just going to die right?”
Which basically, yes, sums up the plot in entirety.
BUT. Watch it anyway. Because its nice and Lizzy likes it very much. (Not just because there are hot men and sexy Spartan women.)
Whee. x)

And oh, when I arrived at the 5th floor, Shik and Nef were stoning on one of ‘em sofa seats. I wanted to say hi, but the first sound that emitted from my lips was.. BWAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

The reason?

This.

Ken’s shirt is so TOTALLY HIM.
It’s a squirrel, holding a gun, for what? For NUTS.
AHAHAHAHA. Awesome.
And Shik was wearing his smiley star shirt and me with “Don’t Bother”, so it was pretty much a characteristic t-shirt day.
Whee.
And the boys are scary when they eat.
In total, we had Ben&Jerry’s, Ken had tako, both of them had LJS, then Ken and I had NYDC for dinner. So yes. Neff totally pwned.

And oh, while in the bath earlier, I came up with a poem. It’s dedicated to NEFF. Inspired by his worldview and the general level of idiocy I’ve had to deal with of late.

I don’t want to be elitist,
But the fact remains -its true.
There will always be others
Who are stupider than you.
I ponder their existence
And why they don’t understand,
That it is their incompetence
That stops us from being friends.
So here I am imploring
That someone hears my plea,
All you stupid people,
Please stay away from me.

TADAAA.
Kay whatever.
Watch 300.

*toddles off*