Friday, June 18, 2004

Today is the 18th! Tomorrow night, i am flying off to Japan! Not for vacation though. It is with my religion friends and all of us are around the same age. Can't wait for it. Haha. Being in a foreign country with my friends. Sleeping together, eating together, bathing together, chanting together. Can't imagine the joy and fun the trip will bring. But we must be serious though. We are going to visit the base of our religion, Taisekiji. But as youths, how can we let slip the chance to have fun? Especially when you are in Japan? Haha.

HOWEVER, i have got a big disaster in front of me. Tomorrow i am flying off. When i return, i have only two days of rest before the school start again. Guess what, i have one BIG stack of homework left undone. Aargh! Don't know the teachers will kill me or not, since i have not touched a large part of it. Can only pray for my safety and pray that i can make it out the school alive. JC sucks.

Went to watch Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Not a bad show. 3 and a 1/2 out of 5. This is one of the worst compared to the 1st and 2nd movie of the Harry Potter series. Why? The show is too summarised. Quite a large part of the story was left out. The movie is simply a summarised version of the story. Those who have watched the 3rd movie and read the book before should know what i mean. The 3rd book is the most interesting of the 5 books. So high expectations are pinned on the movie. However, the movie failed all my expectations, totally. In the story, a lot of interesting and brand new things are introduced and they firmly gripped the imaginations of many readers. But the movie just simply BRIEFLY introduced them. The Knight Bus, for example, take up one chapter in the book. However, the knight bus make an appearance of less than 5 minutes in the show. What really sadden me was the fact that the director left out the whole Quidditch competition. This year, Gryffindor won the Qudditch Cup. But the movie didn't even show it! The part where Harry thinks that Black is out to kill him till where he get to know that Black is his godfather and Peter Pettigrew is the real traitor is so summarised that it is unbelievable. Since when do you help a person that you think is out to kill you to stun a teacher using magic who may save you? In the story, the fact that Black is Harry's godfather was slowly revealed to Harry. But the director does it in one scene. Futhermore, the wonderful past of James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew was left out. The never known past of Snape with the four was also left out. Lastly is the origins of the Marauder's Map. People who never read the book but saw the movie will never know that the Map was invented by the four. Doesn't anyone realised something is amiss when Snape can't figure out the secret of the Map while Lupin can in the movie? After all, Harry never told anyone how to activate the Map the correct way, not even Lupin...

I am too disgusted to go on. Luckily, the 4th movie is directly by another director. But one thing give me some pleasure. Emma Watson or Hermione Granger. She sure has matured in all ways. Wow, she has become more beautiful and her dressing is now more fashion conscious. Look at what she wear during the first screening at London! Her looks really enchanted me...hee hee. She not only grown physically but mentally. During press conferences, questions posed to her was answered very carefully and well, like those Hollywood artists. One day, if she venture into show business, she is sure to be a megastar, like Julia Roberts.

Friday, June 11, 2004

Haiz... I am sick for like don't know how many days le. Damm the flu bug and the weather. Been very slack nowadays le. Homework can be comparable to Mount Everest and i am left with only one week to complete it. Aargh! Someone save me?

But on the bright side, i am going overseas! To Japan! Long time never go overseas le, quite looking forward to it. Hope i can recover in time...haiz. I don't know why, but for the June holidays up till now, i seems to be very busy. I hardly stay at home and it seems like i got something to do everyday(don't count homework). Funny but i enjoy it. Haha.

Okay, got to go le. The flu bug is asking me to go to sleep so it can attack a pathetic and defenseless me. Haiz.