Urgh! Am so irritated, stupid stupid computer. Want to bash it in. Internet not fucking working, can't even get into Messenger. On-line friends v. irritated at me, think i'm ignoring them.
V. p-off at everyone and everything. Want to scream.

*calms*

Off to Chem tutor. *screams anyway*

~M.M.W~

Schnugged at 14:30 |

After ANOTHER review, here's my daily (or yesterday) extract.

Cathy's party, not as 'gloom-and-doom' as I thought, and I only thought that because I kept having all these bloody nightmares about it. Got there, played games for like an hour and a bit while waiting for 'Charmaine' to arrive.
I really can't process how many videos we watched. Let's see, I'll try and list them.
Simone
Analyse That
Virgin Suicides
Cluedo
Ani-matrix
Reign of Fire (load of Baloney!)
and An Ideal Husband

I hope I didn't miss anything out. But yes, omg! We all stayed up the entire night watching all of that, inserting in dinner and talking in Cathy's bedroom after Bonnie left. My arms are so tired after doing everybody's hair. And when I say everybody I meant everyone but Bonnie and Cathy. I think there were two parts of the night I liked, when we were all hanging out in Cathy's bedroom, Alice, Sue and I on the bed (me banging my head on Cathy's bloody window!), Cathy was at her desk and Carman and Anna were on the floor and we were talking pure shite but it was nice and I couldn't stop laughing.
The other time was I think after the Ani-matrix and we were all lying there in the dark asking questions (well mostly me with the result of Cathy hitting me) and 'the stealing of Anna's sleeping bag and pillow and blankie and Sue poking me endlessly but it was nice and it was quite a break from trying to concentrate on that weird dream thing on the Ani-matrix.
In the morning (yes, I did stay up) it was just me and Sue sitting on the kitchen floor trying to feel cool, and then Sue went back to sleep (Cathy too) and Anna and I went outside in the sun. Cathy's dad scared the living daylights out of me when he flipped up the curtains, eek!
So yes, all in all a nicer night than expected and now I'm here writing this after having slept for so bloody long although I've had a long day...or should that be night?

~ M.M.W ~

PS: Work tommorow...I want to die!!!
Schnugged at 16:47 |

Review Mania: Virgin Suicides

Okay *rolls up sleeves* I don't think this one needs as long an entry as 'the hours'. However, despite the OBVIOUS incooporation of the many events of the book I felt it was just stringed together with really no meaning.
I expected more of their deaths, their actual faces (Bonnie's that floats out amongst the blue and silver baloons). Some bits just seemed strange and unnatural, according to the book and I really disliked the way Sofia Coppola added in certain things like Lux longing after Trip when no where in the book it mentions this or what else happens in the house. There was not much lingering on the decay of the house and James Woods, who usually plays tough, scary characters I don't think comes off very well as a weedy, emasculated dad although the parts where you can see he is obviously longing for a son were touching.
Mmm, I'm still undecided about it and then again it could be because of my reading the book and expecting it otherwise. Very beautifully done though, some shots were amazing!

So I give it a 6/10 because although the visual imagery is amazing, the writing is choppy and distented, ruining (like the hours a little) the subtle swell and flow of the book, I'm sure Eugenides is not happy ...

~ M.M.W ~
Schnugged at 16:30 |

Update: On Holiday, friends (IB/VCE/Otherwise) and the trapezeing that is my holidays! *shriek*

Everday I think how much closer I am getting to the end of them. I swear to god I am not in the mood for working. And do I have time this week? NOOO! Because hell, I want to go out with Sarah, I went to see a movie all ready, taking up my time by cooking, reading and otherwise fucking around. I have a sleepover this weekend, not including both my tutors and and and I haven't done shit-for-all of work.
And, my sister is coming back soon.

Hmm...problem or what?

Okay, holiday update. Apparently I am NOT having Christmas here, I am having it in Thailand or for that matter, on a Cruise Ship off to Thailand (not China). I better be going *frowns*. We are going now from the 14th to the 18th. Yay, first and second week shopping and cruising and then only like two days with rellies. Better than first plan but I miss Chrissie. *suck*

Friends? Okay, well Em wrote me this long e-mail about how Ames is back and she's been really shitty - like a lot lately and I've v. frustrated with her because she has not replied to me' e-mail. Urgh! ANd and and and Jen is uncontactable, she has 'unplugged' herself *gasp* and Godrricheiress is like studying or something, are uni exams now? I have no idea. So really me, Em and Mary and that's no fucking good.

Other friends, well its Cathy's b-day tommorow *hee* and I have to get her a present so yes, that's on my agenda and am calling to wish her a happy b-day on her b-day not on Saturday on which whe wants the sleepover which I have a huge problem with as the problem is with parents letting me go because we...sorta...have something else on, and I want to weasel myself out of it. Yes.

Other than that, saw Johnny English, 0/10. Load of b******* and saw Shanghai Knights again, love that movie. Love Owen Wilson, especially when's he doing his 'sexy' look. (note that I put sexy in parentheses).

That's about it from me. Tally ho and good john!

~ M.M.W. ~




Schnugged at 23:31 |

Mmmm, I saw the Hours. V.nice movie. Its like an older, more reasoned out version of the Virgin SUicides in which not that many people die. I especially liked Moore and Kidman's roles, I loved hearing the commentary from the three actresses although it downlplayed how palpable thier acting was.
However, despite it being very complciated with many twists and parallels as the director and screenwriter coudl muster, I enjoyed it immensely although I think viewers would need a little background on the novel by Cunningham.

There are so many quoes from the movie that I adore but here it one that gave my heart a flutter:

Woolf: Dear Leonard, to loo life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it, for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the yars between us, always the years, always the love, always...the hours...

That's the last line of the entire movie and it ends just perfectly, 'book-end' juxtaposition, reflecting back on how the movie began, with Woolf's suicide. She descends into the river with rocks weighing in her coat pockets, weightin her down. She walks right into the middle and looks down it, while she is still narrating from an un-reading part of the letter. Absolutely beautiful, the light, everything especially her wispy voice almost breaking. And then finally the title of the film, brilliant. (And of the original name of Mrs Dalloway)

Things that i myself made connects with the first time I saw it, the egg breaking, a nice paralel between Woolf and Vaughn. The shell breaking I think for both women is a pre-meditation towards their breakdown, Woolf seems caught out like a rabbit under a spotlight, terrified. Of course the sudden sharp soun dis causing an effect too, showing the routine embedded in each women's mind. Just a thought I picked up on my travels.

Le'see, I'll give it an 8.5. I tlost two because hell, I lost interest in Streep's character very quickly, she gives it a lot but I felt time was tken from the other two who deeply interested me. The modern woman and her psycho lover were both complicated and sometimes I felt parts of their roles were like skits as daughter and friend (of Streep's) were only cameos. Also, plot lost it at the end, as Leonard had promised Virginia he would take her back to London and then in the next scene we see Woolf killing herself? Other than some continuity and some cracks in editing, a purely vuluptous tale of the hours (in a woman's life, it seems).

~ M.M.W ~

PS: I felt it was owed a journal entry. Shall post my daily extract next. Nearly tommorow. Yee!
Schnugged at 23:20 |

I am sooo sorry I haven't writ in so many days. Well I can't reall say that 'I've been so busy' because well, I haven't. If busy doesn't mean 'cleaning room - no really, cleaning it' and 'sorting through old papers and organising it before studying' and finally 'going out to see POTC with friends'.
Well yeah, that's 'busy' for me.
At the moment I am not busy, as am looking at fashion site which is suddenly making me very relatively bored.

!!!Review!!!
Pirates of the Carribean, ah that fated film that stars that damned handsome fellow, oh lord no I'm not talking about Johnny Depp. Puh-lease. Of course Orlando Bloom *hand wave*, cmon!!! Hmm, he seemed sort of sweet, not 'oh-so-hot'. Like really sweet. Other than that, Keira Knightley was good for the 'damsel-in-not-so-much-distress', she seemed to handle her pretensious role pretty well. As for Johnny Depp, for someone I've seen in countless movies where he's being really deep and grungy, or drug induced and spattered with blood, I think he did Jack Sparrow great justice. He really brought life to the character and I like his affectations and the little nuances in his voice. The flowy, smooth movements of his gestures denote the slyness and silliness that makes up his character. Great. Rush was good as Barbarossa, he's got that positively evil face and he didn't even trip up the accent, well of course, what did you expect from an Oscar winner? (He won an Oscar didn't he? For Shine?) Well he was great. And plus he had that monkey! Hee! Story, who cares? Its a pirate, action, comedy! All in all a 8.5/10 (the .5 was for O.B. and his open shirt! *flutters*) ^_^

Doing so many chores, it makes you really fit. And I haven't been gorging myself on loads of chocolate. Weh hey! So what am I planning to do this weekie?

1) Math revision (easiest probably!) Need to borrow checkpoints and other things off Sue though, once I go through all my revision. Especially trig.
2) Think through my History essay, really pLaN it. Just planning this week then.
3) Need to research Psych/English. If Psych want to do something on Freud, if English want to do Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. Awesome book.
4) World Lit. Need to start reading!
5) Start writing up Spanish notes.
6) Do Tok sometime, when I HAVE time!
7) Revise over Psych. *sigh* That's going to be bad, dammit!
8) Revise over Chem (Worse than Psych and the hardest!) Oh gawd...

Well that's pretty much this week and I will bet you a bottom dollar that I wont' finish none but half. Shall go research Virgin Suicides now.

Other things I need to do:
1) Find out time for library at school in third week, need to go and photocopy the hell out of those extended essays. Also need to read them through.
2) Get books from Sue.
3) Find out what we're doing. Need to organise schedule while giving myself plenty of time for work.
4) No more fooling around.
5) Need to see Sarah, have not really seen or spoken to her in ages. Think this Thursday.
6) Need to see Adele and Sonia too. They want me to see POTC with them, yikes?

Woah, okay I think that's enough for now. Am going to research Virgin Suicides and look up IB site. Ta!

~ M.M.W. ~
Schnugged at 11:54 |

Haven't posted in more than a week. This is because,

A) Have no life as am IB'er.
B) Have had two tests this week, one of which I failed only a few hours ago.
C) Have had so much to worry about, including introduction to EE (Extended Essay) and WLE (World Lit Essay No.1) and maybe my soon-to-be TE (Tok Essay).

*Sigh* AM not going to have a good holiday at ALL. I am at the moment in History trying to finish my China notes which seem to be very boring and dull, all about some dude called Chiang Hai-Shek.
*sigh*

Must go. 10 minutes to go.

~ M.M.W. ~

Schnugged at 12:01 |

*sigh* I have done so much today. Except for *gasp* talking to Sue for one hour, for the rest of it I've been *gasp* working. Except for when I ate dinner and watched F. Saga. Wanna hear my day?

*Crickets*

Oh fuck...

7:15 - At least I think it was, eyesight bit blurry. Put a little too much tikky in my tomato juice. *hangover stance* Anyway, woke up as heard mum shouting - rolled over and went back to sleep.
9:30 - I think...opened eyes, could see morning sky. Realised it was curtains. Turned on radio and listened to music.
10:08 - Decided to get up. Dannii Minogue drove me out of bed to venture into the cold depths of the kitchen.
11:00 - Saw mum run out of house to go to Badminton. Feel badddd because not going. *pokes stomach* Ew, watch it bounce back?
1:00 - Have Finished Monkey Island. Bad ending. Waited through no-nothing credits for nothing. Had a bagel. Watched 10 minutes of 'Bio-Dome' and am driven to do Psych Homework.
2:00 - Need Coffee *am drone bee* Need Coffee!
3:00 - Have coffee. AM hyper. Have SEMI-Finished Psych. Now on to Math.
3:01 - Am stuck on Math. Am less hyper. Coffee wearing off.
3:02 - Have callen Sue.
4:00 - Have just hung up. Now know how to algebraically graph -> y = 2sin3(x + pie/3)
6:00 - Have done as much Math as can do. Now back to Psych! what ho!
7:00 - Have dinner.
8:30 - Forsythe Saga. (and before that! Australian Idol! *waves little lame flag*)
10:00 - Wtf have I been doing???
10:30 - Writing this?

Aha. Hasn't my day been all right? Have other news to wow and amaze you. Apparently mum has organised a cruise to go to Thailand from Malaysia after my cousin (who I haven't met! Like wow!) wedding. Fuck. I don't want to see the rellies. *pats self on back* Oh dearie. But I really don't know whether to go. I think not, extended essay etc. But I want to go on cruise, i've never been. *sigh* It would be great, really it would. I wish I could go with someone other than my mum.

Okay, am thinking what to do for Extended Essay. Here is my list for what to do, all of tommorow.

1) See Mrs Rawlings for :
a) Extended Essay Topics
b) Learning Perspective Topic Sheet

2) See Mrs Peterson for:
a) Meeting on Wednesday to discuss essay writing
b) Therefore have to write at least a plan on essay

3)
a) Have to find somewhere to do Community Service on Holidays. Am going to be busy as hell.
b) Want to organise work experience for holidays. Shall have to call places and see. Build up courage.
c) Have to organise things for Karen's homecoming. Was supposed to do this weekend but forgot. Weekends are too short.

I think that's about it. Yay and Tally ho! THis is all procrastinating when I should be doing Chem Prac and History Plan and and and and STUDYING FOR MATH AND PSYCH TEST! I am so behind! *wails* Will catch up in Spare if they aren't taken up by bloody MASS SINGING REHEARSALS!

~ M.M.W ~

PS: If fuckwits are reading this I apologise most profusely for not updating you on current situation. Internet is being a prig. Love you all and see you soon. And no, Em, I'm not dead. *schnugs anyway*
Schnugged at 23:06 |

Oh lordie.
Have not posted in a week. REally really need to get comp fixed. Its being an absolute shit lately. Hrum...I am chatting to someone I really don't want to chat too. Oh no, this isn't a fuckwit gang, its someone from school. *sigh* I didn't exactly want them on my list but...they sorta asked me and I couldn't be horrible and say no.

Anyhoo, so how was the week? Pretty good, even though I failed my chem test, lost my STar card, am irritated, am tired, am sick, there is no Panadol and absolutely hate my life. Nah, that's not true.
Am in middle of MONKEY ISLAND and cannot finish it. *sigh* Oh woe is my life. What strife, what strife.

OMG! They've changed Livejournal. *freaks out*

Enough of me, am off to watch SIMPSONS.

~ M.M.W ~
Schnugged at 18:08 |