Schnugged at 17:51 |

NIGHT before my exam and I start to post. This is starting to worry me.

Okay. I am stressed. There's a given. But I really shouldn't be. I have two exams tommorow, one of which I am thoroughly prepared for. My book is all badly bound (thanks SNAP Printing guys! You're worse than the Dungeon GUYS!) but I have my summaries and I'm good to go. I am however, sometime tonight when I actually DO finish studying for Finance (probably 5 pm) going to glance at the revision summaries as to the policy question etc etc. But I think I'm pretty good to go. I just need to do some practice.

FINANCE, on the other hand, is really starting to get me down. I've put off tree-diagrms for ages, I don't remember half the stuff I wrote down and I am still THREE TOPICS AWAY from finishing my notes. HOwever, it is only 10.30 (I usually start cramming around 12) and I think last time, I had JUST finished my notes and hadn't actually looked at any questions. Somhow, I managed to past. Then again, I was doing some tutorial questions last night and ZOMG, they're so hard I barely got ONE right. It reminds me of the accounting exam.

So what's the plan for my poor befuddled mind? Well, I remember most of Topics 1, 2 and 3. Topic 7 is forming in my head. Topic 8 isn't too hard. I'm in the middle of Topic 6 at the moment. Topic 5 is just basically theory and Topic 6 is the one I remember the most (I started on it first weeks ago). So, the plan is to JUST FINISH MY NOTES, hopefully by 12 but definitely by 1. Then the next few hours, I'm going to practice tutorial questions, memorise them if I have to, and exam questions. Then read my notes again, stumble around my room repeating thems to me until I KNOW IT (Capital Expenditure? Four Step Plan. 1 Generation of Proposals - can come from lower or higher level staff...) and then look/print Crim revision. Then fall asleep by 5-6. Wake up at 7. Out the door by 7:45. HOPEFULLY pass my exams.

Yep. That's the plans kiddies. And mucho coffee so I DON'T FALL ALSEEP like I did with one of my other exams. Oh, I don't remember. It may have been in Year 12. The mind can only take so much. Post later.
Schnugged at 22:31 |

12.00 - 12.25, Monday, 2nd of October.
Sitting Outside Monash Bus Stop:
After spending two days of pretty much watching VM full on, interspersed with my Management Assignment of 2500 words - argh, there's a guy across the road who looks like a high school versiono f Jim. Then again he is quiet far way and it's not like the shaggy haircut is uncommon. Is uncommon a word? For a moment there it sounded vaguely dumb. There is, as per usual, an Asian boy at my bus stop pacing impatiently. Darling, it's going to be another half hour. Sit down! Jim doesn't have any books. Weird. Maybe he's staying at caulfield.
Anyway, back to my train of thought. Even dressed inconspicuously I still feel horribly watched like a voyee. Law students are literally vultures. So VM right. I come to Uni and suddenly I'm depressed that it is nothing like Neptune High/Hurst and I am no VM and there is, of course, no Logan. Sad, isn't it?
It's weird that VM can make so much out of her crap life - is this guy just doing it to piss me off? Seriously. Stop IT!
I think life should come with an OST. Life is so much better...emotionally with an IPOD in.
So we're not going on holiday this year which is cool. Along with loosing weight, I'm planning to learn how to properly essay write, do my own personal Nanowrimo (which will extend over three months with a total of 75,000) and I want to take a photography course, after of course I get my most awesome camera and read up some more about it all. They're not impossibe objectives and are up to me at my leisure.
I can't wait. I want to this summer to be about introspection and rebirth. Even if it sucks, even if nothing really amazing happens around or to me me, at least I'll have tried. Right?
Hey. Jim's gone and that Pacey has started singing in Canto. Oh god.
Schnugged at 09:03 |

The New World

Against bad judgement, I watched that silly Collin Farrell movie expecting of course, that it was going to be bad. I mean, it's Collin Farrell!! After pitfully sticking it through to the end of Alexander, I'm just over him. Sure, he's talented. I quite enjoyed him...in some role, probably, ages ago. But his reputation has preceded him and the ONLY recent film I've seen him in is Intermission and we all know I just watched that for Cilian Murphy and that really cute lady from that Emma Thompson movie, Nanny Ogg or whatever. (It's the Irish accent! It's so adorable.)

Back off my tangent, the movie was actually excellent, almost riveting. Despite Farrell, the girl (I can't be bothered iMDBing) or should I call her Pocahontas is amazing wonderful. NOT for one second did I think she was an actor and I haven't been captivated like that since...White Teeth. Oh Christopher! Cinematically, the movie is brilliant. The focus on nature and through it, the metaphors and symbolism that comes through her and her interaction between the villages/ways of life is very memorable. It's such a poetic, grand movie and hard not to watch once you're in.

So as the story goes, Virginia is invaded by new settlers and Pocahontas saves Smith's life and after a tenuous peace, peppered with short battles, gets kicked out of her tribe and falls in love with Collin Farrell who abuses her in the most non-abusive way possible (he just doesn't love her right, takes her for granted etc) and then leaves halfway through. And then of course she goes all piney...and then for no reason, except thanks to the Disney sequel, we all know she gets married to John Rolfe, Christian Bale appears in all long locks glory. Kissed my stars, here. Yay. Laurie is back. Wearing really puffy pantaloons. But his hair! It's so pretty and really does wonders for his quite harshly angled.

See, here's my argument. Watching The 300, Gerard Butler can have his hair short or even bald BECAUSE his face is kinda curvy or poofy if you like. He can do menancing but there are no harsh angles. And this my reason why I like Bale so much because he can do adorable with those long locks. Then again, he did pull off the short cut in Empire of the Sun but then, he was like 6.

Anyway back to it. So, in a most Fushigi Yuugi way, HE falls in love with her (audience, keep in mind that she is indeed 14-16 years old...so eeeee) and they of course marry and she is taken back to England and granted a successful audience with the Queen. She of course, is still in love with Farrell - at which point, I threw my hands up and went 'Oh god, why?', because who in their RIGHT MIND would choose Farrell over Bale? - /vent - meets Farrell and in that period realises that she does not love him anymore/they are in separate places and then chases her son about a garden and then in a voiceover by Rolfe, we find out she dies on the trek back.

Le FIN!

So okay, the ending not so great. Even though she likes Farrell, I was sad that it was tragically bittersweet. But the way this film is shot, made, produced, whatever you want to call it is amazingly poignant. It made me want to go trekking in Virginia and wash Christian Bale's back because admittedly, that scene was pretty hot DESPITE the fact that she's like 14 and he creepily watches her while she sleeps. Ahem. It's actually pretty sad that this movie bombed so epicly. It actually isn't so bad. And Farrell can act.

That is WITHOUT blonde hair.

In a non-Oliver Stone film. (Miami Vice was good!)

And Christian Bale helps. As always. OMG. THE PRESTIGE. A'mes, tell me how it goes!!

~ M.M.W ~

PS: Thanks to Em, for doing the research, Q'Orianka is actually 16 years old THIS YEAR. Which means that at 14, she kissed guys at least twice her age. And wow, here's me thinking she must have been 20 playing someone 15. Wow, a whole new 'EW'. I used to think that Emmy Rossum playing Christine at 16 and Gerard being 35 was disgusting but this far surpasses it.
Schnugged at 14:44 |

Current Mood: Psychic
Music: Four Walls (Funeral Remix) - Charlotte Martin

Sue's/Cathy's Birthday Dinner tonight. I have to leave early because I have this enormous essay I'm supposed to be working on now but I'm kinda not. That is. I will work on it once I see this week's episode of the office. Okay. I'm obsessed. It's been coming on so gradually that I haven't really noticed. Really.

In other news, I FINALLY saw the trailer for The 300 which A'mes has been constantly e-mailing me about. It came out within the last two days, as always, in very bad quality. But still nevertheless good. It's like...Troy + Sin City. Very stylised, very raunchy. So very good. Gerard Butler is in it and he's come far. But I still find his acting pretty patchy, a bit like my Orlando. But I still luff him nonetheless. He was blatheringly hot in POTO and that I will never forget. Lord save me from listening to PAAAAASSSST The Point of No Return again.

I am quite far, however, of spotting either David Wenham or Rodrigo Santoro yet. Give me a few more viewings. I'll find them.

In other news...Rachel Hurd-Wood is goregous. Like really goregous. Like I always knew you were going to be but why did you have to go and prove me right? Bitch got to co-star with Jeremy Sumpter (oh, don't make me feel like a pedo it's only like FOUR YEARS) and Jason Issacs in PP circa 2002-3?? Premiere for Parfum in Berlin and she's so purty. I agree with Em. She'd make a good Ginny with that hair.

SEE?

~


After watching the LIVE Versace and D&G in Milan last night on FTV (okay, so D&G was a re-Live, I missed Thursdays), I was thinking about which model I'd rather look like. Natalie although pretty and having achieved glamour girl status (that is model/marryed rich from poor background), still reminds me a great deal of the time of a petulant child. And now she's all 'married' and 'happy' with two kids and that Park Avenue Apartment with the countless Picassos and the TITLED husband (no seriously, he's like the 10th Viscount of something or another). And I don't want to look like Gemma although I worship the ground she walks on. Maybe it's because of that. She looks too 'out of this world' to seem in any way down to earth. Although I've seen her interviewed and she comes across as someone very fun and likeable and I'd love to discuss books with. I mean, who reads Proust before their Ralph Lauren run? Then there's Lily but I'd never look good as a red-head (the freckles!) and that of course discounts Cintia. Which pretty much leaves me with THE STAM and Tasha. And Tasha's noise annoys me except for at certain angles. So, it is the STAM. And anyway, she's got those hypnotic Eva Green-esque eyes. They're so...so very very beautiful. And archy. She could be a Siamese cat. Or a Queen of Egypt.

Damn. I just remembered. She's a natural red.

~

Shush A'mes. I know there are other models. But I don't like Marks, Douzen, Tiiu or Sasha. Marks is too boring, Douzen is too...sexy (yeah, she is. She's always doing Sisley!). Tiiu is nice but her features are too tiny and sharp, think Natalie Portman/Mia Farrow. And Sasha is just a downgrade from Gemma. And thinner. Yeah. I checked. She's got an inch smaller waist. Okay. This is sad. I'm off.

~ M.M.W ~

PS: I hate Gisele. *makes whip sound* And anyway, Victoria's Secret don't count.
Schnugged at 12:34 |