I know I'm supposed to be studying for the trials today but HOLY MOLY I have just had the mother of all weird dreams. And I really really really really need to write it down before it fades from my memory (although it is surprisingly clear in my mind right now. Most dreams tend to fade in within an hour). Um, sorry in advance if I've mentioned you in this dream, I can't control my subconsciousness, LOL. P.S. Sorry for all the random location jumps in this dream - the scenarios tend to go all over the place.
It started off with me jumping into a hole in the ground. Kind of like Alice in Wonderland but not quite. It seemed like I was in an Animal Crossing game - I even had an inventory that I could pull up and take things out of. Anyway, I jumped into a hole and immediately, I was surrounded by giant globs of goo that started attacking me from all sides. I ran for my life across this really weird landscape until I found a small little cottage and locked myself in. Inside this cottage, I recharged and picked up useful items and got ready to face the globs of goo again. I walked outside, got mobbed and died.
The dream transitioned to Nancy and I running through the halls of Sydney Girls High School. We were late for something and the school was so big. Let me just take a moment to describe the location. It wasn't like the Sydney Girls I knew. This school had so many levels, it had a basement, a ground floor, storey one, storey 2, storey 3, etc... There were lifts and elevators used to transfer students to the different floors and all the hallways were white, spacious and lined with giant windows. Actually, it was more like a mini-shopping centre.
Anyway, it turned out we were rushing to the cafeteria and when we ran in, everyone turned to stare at us. We got our trays of food and sat down at a table. I think we were new students at the school. Strangely enough, we were sharing a table with some miniature, little monks - all of them boys. They kept staring at us and eventually one of them asked, "Are you Korean, Chinese or Vietnamese?" So, what did I say? I replied, "BO?!" LOLOLOLOL. Don't ask me why - I don't understand it myself. Maybe it was because the cafeteria was lined television screens and all of them were playing reruns of Boys Over Flowers. For some reason, Bonnie was sitting at a nearby table and when she heard me, she turned around to give me a "WTF" face.
After eating, I walked out by myself and was heading towards the escalators when I saw Lee Min Ho. He was standing there, leaning against the banister and all of a sudden, I turned into Park Shin Hye (the actress from You're Beautiful). We just stood there watching each other and all of a sudden, the City Hunter theme started playing in the background - the one with all the trumpets and violins.
Location jump to my townhouse. It was quite dark and late in the evening now. I was back to being Cynthia and I think I was in a food tech lesson with a few members of the E class. We were told to split into twos and I partnered up with Othilia. The teacher came around and handed out different types of seafood to the groups. Othilia and I got some kind of weird mutant fish that looked like a cross between a tadpole and an axolotl and fuck, it was ugly. Other groups got eels, jellyfish or yabbies.
The teacher told us to peel off the bits of shell stuck to our fish. We did that and ten she went around handing out handfuls of "magic dust" to every group. We then sprinkled the magic dust onto our sea creatures and all of a sudden, they turned invisible! The teacher then said, "Now try to catch them before you cook them." So we released our ugly looking fish and watched it swim away. Everything then turned into chaos as different groups ran around with giant nets trying to catch the invisible sea creatures. Actually, they weren't invisible per se. You could kind of see them out of the corner of your eye - they had a glowing white outline that made it easier for us to catch them.
I remember seeing Stephanie and Nancy screaming together while trying chasing their glowing jellyfish. That was funny. Othilia and I had a lot of trouble as the shape of our one didn't really look like anything. The people who got yabbies were way more successful. Eventually we caught our ugly looking fish but I used too much force to slam the net over it, that I think I might have smushed it in half and it died :(
Location jump AGAIN back to Sydney Girls and now the whole school was in chaos. Apparently a rebel group of students had infiltrated the school and were causing a whole lot of trouble. Teachers in uniform marched like soldiers through the halls and alarms were blaring off everywhere. And it turned out I was the rebel leader. I had a large group of kids who were helping me escape but first I had to get a disguise. So Nancy and I went to the markets (yeh, I'm not sure where the markets came from) and I bought new stockings. Erm, it probably would've made more sense to buy a trenchcoat and sunglasses but well, I bought stockings. I kind of wandered around a little bit but then realised that my band of rebels were depending on me back at the school.
I got back to the school and resumed hiding from the teachers. But at one point, I made a dash for the elevator and just as the doors were closing, one of the teachers stuck her hand in and wrenched the doors open. I started kicking and screaming like a lunatic and even delivered some awesome karate kicks that landed. It was so chaotic. Explosions were happening all around us, alarm bells were ringing and my rebels were spreading mayhem throughout the school. But I didn't get to see what happened next because I time/location jumped again.
I was in a car driven by some of the rebels. We'd managed to escape the shcool and were now heading for a safe house. Turned out that safe house was a store on the side of the road. It was called something like "Squid and Sweets" and when we pulled over, the couple that owned the store welcomed us inside. The store was split in half down the middle and apparently, the wife owned the "sweets" side and the husband owned the "squid" side. I helped my friend pick out some lollipops and then we said goodbye, got back in the car and drove away.
And then I woke up.
Feel free to put on some atmospheric music and adopt a melodramatic tone of voice while reading the following passage.
A drama is like a boyfriend. When you're together, everything's all right. You
feel like you're in your own little world and everything outside of that bubble
is of little importance. Everyday, you're excited about seeing him. Sometimes
though, you've got to remember that the world doesn't revolve around him. You
can't neglect all of life's responsibilities. As much as you'd want to spend all
your time together, you've still got to study and concentrate at school.
Unfortunately, sometimes it won't work out. Eventually, you'll break up. He will
love you, then leave you. You'll cling on to all those memories, refusing to let
go of such a significant part of your life. Maybe you'll mope for a few days,
maybe a month. But in the end, time will erase the pain and you will find
someone else, you'll find another drama to devote your life to. Hence, a drama
is like a boyfriend.
WARNING: This post contains spoilers about the last episode of City Hunter. Don't read if you don't want stuff spoilt :)
First off, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. No more Shitty Hunter :'( I am very sad. Like all things I love, I tend to get too absorbed into the story so when City Hunter finished, I felt like I'd just lost a big part of myself. Oh GOD, it's like Harry Potter all over again.
It was a pretty good finale though. I guess it wrapped up everything nicely - the necessary people died and our hero got his heroine (actually that is kind of ambiguous but I will explain more later). But it wasn't epic. Although I've got to admit, City Hunter did start to lose some of its steam ever since the 15th episode. I feel like a lot of characters got sidelined due to the main conflict. Kim Na Na for example, she had so much potential to be a kickass heroine but they kind of... forgot about her. She became a source of angst for Lee Min Ho but apart from that, didn't have much of a role.
Anyways, I'll do what I did last time and compose a list of Unnecessary Questions which ran through my mind while watching the last episode of City Hunter:
- Lee Min Ho, why you so sexy?
- Is it just me or do all of Lee Min Ho's singlets get lower and lower and lower with every passing episode? More importantly, how many singlets does he have? Not that I'm complaining about the singlets though...
- How can a person survive a bullet shot through the chest? Why do the heroes never die, despite getting injured somewhere fatal?
- Why do people just stand there pointing guns at each other but don't actually pull the trigger? Why do you need to give a long, drawn-out dramatic monologue? You know you could just shoot him and be done with it.
- Why is it so easy to eavesdrop on the President's conversations? Why is it so easy to sneak into the President's villa? Like what-the-freak, even I would make a better bodyguard.
- How does Lee Min Ho manage to look unbelievably gorgeous even while crying? How come Park Min Young's face doesn't go all blotchy and red when she weeps? HOW COME MY FACE TURNS TOMATO RED AND RASH-LIKE WHENEVER I CRY??
- Why are the Presiden't bodyguards so useless? I'm talking to you Kim Na Na. What kind of bodyguard doesn't notice when there's a stranger in her house? To be fair, she does kick ass sometimes.
- LEE MIN HO AND PARK MIN YOUNG, WHY U NO KISS?????? Are you saying that I spent 20 hours of my life waiting for you guys to make out and all I got was a moment of intense staring in an airport?! Well actually, there was a kiss, but come on, that was only one! What happened to, "When it'll all over, I'll come find you"? Like DUDE, give us some fanservice here. Lee Min Ho and Park Ming Young were supposed to get married, they were supposed to have cute lil city hunter babies, AHJUSSI WAS GONNA COOK THEM DINNER EVERY NIGHT!
- And last but not least, CAN I HAVE A SEASON TWO??
Who wouldn't be smiling like that if they got to manhandle Lee Min Ho?
Here are some much clearer versions of some of the Hunger Games movie photos that EW just released. Josh Hutcherson does look really buff, doesn't he? Whereas Liam looks all tall and lanky. Ah well, Peeta IS supposed to have spent his whole life lugging sacks of flour everywhere, so I guess it makes sense.
First look at Josh Hutcherson as Peeta and Liam Hemsworth as Gale.
Judging from the phrase "Hunger Games Hotties", I would guess that they're trying to market it as a teen romance flick (which it so isn't). LOL that last one with the oh-so-glorious glory shot makes me want to laugh out loud. But they look okay I guess. Josh Hutcherson isn't so bad blond. I especially like the look he has in the second last picture. Plus, it's not looks that count. It's whether he can act or not, right?
My exact feelings right now can be communicated through the above picture. I just feel like putting my head to my desk and staying like that for the rest of the week. Or month.
This is the first time I've broken my "30-minute" rule that I've been following for the past three (has it only been three?) days. Literally all I've been doing it studying. I live, eat and breathe history. Fuck, I even started to dream about history last night. But I digress. I broke the rule because I really wanted to blog about my sad existence.
"The trials will be over by next week" has been my mantra over the past few days. It's what kept me going. After all, I can half kill myself trying to cram for the exams (5 essays and a few short answers within 4 and a half hours, over a two day period) and then just let it all go afterwards. I get a break between the trials and HSC after all. But today, my piano teacher just reminded me that my Musicianship 4th Grade exam is coming up next month and I have less than 3 weeks to prepare for it. And all those days of not revising my cadences and composers have finally caught up with me and now I need to spend my days re-reading stuff about fucking Bach, Handel, chord progressions and Baroque Suites. Hence the *headdesk* up the top.
It feels so self-defeating. Why do I do all this studying? Of course I want the marks but it's so PAINFUL to put myself through this everytime I get a Year 12 exam. Because I'm in year 11, I tend to feel like I have to overcompensate and make up for the disadvantage of doing the test one year early. Also, I'm starting to ask myself, what happens next? Danny mentioned something along these lines in his blog. About asking yourself what happens next and feeling purposeless. I feel the same right now. What happens after these trials? I have to start preparing for the Musicianship exam. What happens after the Musicianship exams? I start preparing for Year 11 Preliminary Exams. What happens after the Preliminary Exams? I start preparing for the HSC. Right now, the future looks so bleak and depressing :(
On a lighter note, although I feel like burning all my history textbooks and stuff, I also feel motivated to do some exercise. :O SHOCK! GASP! Oh yes, I did just say that. I WANT to do exercise. I don't know what brought this on though. Maybe after finding out Lee Min Ho's weight (which is extremely extremely light), I realised that I didn't want to become heavier than him. Cause that would be so weird. Or maybe Othilia has subconsciously influenced me to do more exercise through her health/fitness posts. Possibly a combination of the two.
Studying for modern is like trying to dig a tunnel to China with nothing more than a spoon. You can spend hours and hours scraping away at the dirt but after a week, all you have left is a small crater in your front yard and a really dirty spoon which you will never use to eat with again. This is exactly my situation. I have sat here from 7pm to 11pm this Monday, trying to study as much as possible and I've barely scraped the surface of the freakin' topic. I was aiming to battle "Conflict in Indochina" as well as "Russia and the Soviet Union" today but alas, all I've been able to do is dot point the main events of Indochina and give myself a ginormous headache. I thought I was doing okay. Until I read the exemplary responses of past papers. You'd think I would've learnt not to do that from last time. But anyway, I realised that I only know the surface of things. I know the basic basic facts but I've got no quotes, no statistics and no actual references to back up what I'm saying.
For example, I say
"The Tet Offensive was a tactical failure for the Viet Cong but was successful in the fact that it caused American attitudes to change back home."
But then to get a band 6, I am supposed to say,
"The Tet Offensive of January - February 1968, which involved a combined forced of 70 000 to 80 000 Viet Cong soldiers invading 9 cities and 30 provincial capitals, was a tactical failure for the Viet Cong but was successful in the fact that it caused American attitudes to change back home."
Do you understand my dilemma right now? And it's not like I can suddenly remember a billion statistics and quotes before the trial next Monday. Plus, knowing my luck, even if I try to remember some stuff, mostly likely it will not end up in the test.
PLUS, the section doesn't involve any multiple choice or short answer questions. It's just two extended response, 25 mark questions. (You get to pick which one you want to do though). And if by chance, neither of those two options appeal to you, then well, YOU ARE SO SCREWED.
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