talk about cheesy

omg.omg. omg. iris sent me the song we're singing for commencement next week. and it's SO SO SO SO cheesy. i wanna puke just reading the lyrics. imagine: "the world awaits our enterprise, for we're sons and daughters all set forth from Alma Mater's Halls...we will draw new strength from past golden days recalled...bringing honor to the fore to NUS forever more." *gag* yuck yuck yuck. is it too late for me to pull out of singing for commencement??

and i spent all day yesterday helping mum to do her project. imagine that. approx 12 hours of cutting paper animals. what kinda teacher is she sia? her own project and she gets me and bro to do it FOR her. *rolls eyes* at least my fingers aren't hurting today. they were cramping like heck last night. should pay me $6 per hour. muahahahaha!

in school today. brought bro to use the library. his first time at nus. cool. lol. of course there are those idiots who still don't know what is the meaning of 'don't vandalise the library books'. you'd think at their age they'd know this simple fact by now. but...goes to show. the higher up you go, the more stupid you get about stuff like this. geez.

btw, using myspace account too. http://www.myspace.com/mezzogal it's not much. just a reproduction of my blogger blog onto the myspace blog. but...whoever's got a myspace account, intro yourself and add me. i got no friends. *act pathetic*



mood: blank
listening to: world of our own - westlife

and the work ends...

lol! i've finished my stint at hitachi. at long last sia! today i spent 2 hours fruitlessly dailing 2 people who were obviously not going to be available to answer me. but it's done! muahahahaha!

and, mum's handed in her 2 weeks notice. she lasted all of 2 days. ha ha ha!



mood: giggly
listening to: dreaming of you - selena

just some mindless ramblings.

i screwed up the psalm again. sigh. considering not cantoring for a while. my voice never had the chance to recover since i last fell sick. :p and it's affecting my voice. it's getting a whole lot worse, and it's seen when i cantor.

went shopping with mum. saw this really cool top, nice, cream colour, beaded. but a tad too small for me. sigh. and there was no other one in that design that's a bigger size. all you people who are small, count your blessings. it's so easy for you to find stuff to wear. got a new pair of shoes. needed to. my darling old pair is gonna fall apart in the near future. one more heavy rainstorm and it'll be bye-bye for good. haven't gotten round to throwing them away yet.

supposed to go cut hair. but the queue was so darn long...i'll wait till next time. cos i'm too cheap to go to a proper salon. lol. of course, a proper salon would do a much better job, but they'll charge like a million times more.

wanna change a video for my blog. but can't decide what video to put. so, for now, no music.

need to call the agency later. *reminds self*



mood: stoned
listening to: to the stars - randy edelman

quick one. i'll elaborate later on.

job went fine. was on the phone the whole freaking day doing the crazy call down. i never spoke to so may answering machines in a day in my life. *shakes head* interesting experience. and now mel wants me to come in on monday also. remind me to call the agency to verify that.

mum is now employed. she's a childcare teacher. haha! almost 6 years since she did her diploma. and now she's finally found a position that she likes. lol.

and i recreated that crazy "visual journey" thingy that i made years ago and lost. click HERE if you wanna see. it's about the SACSS days.

i considering watching the "from hell" later. about jack the ripper. if only to see johnny depp. muahahaha!

alrighty. all for now.



mood: hyper
listening to: Lord of the dance - gypsy kings

today has been an interesting learning experience. today was the first day of my 2 day temp job. poh lin's recommendation. remind me to slap her when i next see her. supposed to be data entry. ends up being the multi-purpose, free for all temp employee of the office. poh lin would be better suited for it.

let me explain. ok, i reported at 9am, the person A isn't there yet. so, after explaining myself, in which no one at the office knows i'm supposed to be there, i'm sent to wait at the reception area. which is very nice and pretty and had a nice hitachi plasma tv showing off the company's achievements. wait till 9.30 then A arrives. wasn't till 10plus that i actually started some work. expected the wait lah. that was ok. collating data for him. then, went for lunch by my lonesome. A went out before me and came back like, half hour after me. and i went for the full hour. anyway, A's work done, he passed me over to his colleague M who wants me to help her do RSVP-ing. which is...call up a bunch of people on a VERY long list and ask if they're attending the company function. *jaw drops* it's times like these, i actually feel thankful for juice asia's training in how to talk to strangers. well, anyway, there i was, calling up god know's who on the list. and getting all their secretaries, answering machines, and automatic answering systems. there was even a case where the person i spoke to claimed that the person i was looking for didn't exist in that company. talk about really needing to update their contact list. geez. thank god, it'll be over tomorrow 6pm. if i go really slowly, maybe i don't need to talk to so many people. :D cos that's all i'm going to be doing tmr. i've been told. i'm gonna go through the list again, then after that, help to stuff envelopes. and they call this data entry. oh well, beats making tea.

interesting thing. there's a lot of ang moh's in the office. they strolled in at 10.30, sat down and started chitchatting in really really really loud voices, went for lunch at 12, came back at 2, hung around for an hour or so, then went in for meeting. and basically that was their day. geez. being ang moh, good life sia. haha!

i can handle it. if i can handle juice, i can handle anything.

more tmr after i finish.




mood: tired
listening to: medley: hark the herald angels sing/o come let us adore him - clay aiken

i'm reading "shui hu chuan" aka "the water margin" translated by pearl s. buck. in english, the title changed to "All Men Are Brothers". how crazy am i? probably not as crazy as when i took on "hong lou meng". lol

go take a lookie at chin lin's blog. lucky girl, travelling all over UK like that. jealous.

mood: jealous
listening to: crazy neighbour doing renovation.

updating again. i completely forgot to wish poh lin happy birthday on sunday. *smack myself* gosh. what kinda friend am i? but anyway, we already met up for dinner on friday. that was interesting. me was supposed to meet sumi at 5. she didn't show up till 6. so i spent the hour meandering through bugis junction. at least i managed to get present for feng cai and dad. i think i must have meandered through bugis at least 3 freaking times. but, she showed up in the end. met poh lin and duan hui and went to seoul garden. that was fun. we ate from 7.30 all the way till 9pm before we got started on dessert. that duan hui very cute the way she kept throwing mushrooms into the soup. but at least, we didn't eat any uncooked or badly burnt food. :D

sunday. stupid lectors practically started to scold me cos i didn't have a prepared song list ready for them at their demand. *rolls eyes* i was never aware that i had to have the list for them. they were like, the evening mass always does one up very nicely, why can't you do the same?? maybe i'm supposed to do a list, but the point is, you could ask nicely what. that kind of tone. totally turns me off. even if i could do it, i don't feel like it anymore. it's not my fault that the scheduled animator didn't show up. and i already offered you the book liao. stuff there written nicely out. and you act like it's invisible or something?! geez. and it's not like it's their first time animating at the church. they know by now how it works. grrr. after this episode, a specially prepared song list for you is a privilege not a right.

moving on. eugene vaz did mass. thank goodness. else i would have fallen asleep during homily. he did a half hour homily, but it was really interesting. or rather, he was very interesting to watch.

baby came over in the evening. she's so so cute. she talks and talks but we all have no idea what she talking about. it's not in any language any of us recognises.

and today, i saw my clay aiken google alerts. guess what that crazy JP is up to now. the whole affair is becoming more ridiculous and idiotic than it started out to be. now, he's apologising for the whole issue, saying that he's seen the error of his ways and he shouldn't have spilled to the whole world that he and clay...well, you get the picture. and btw, he's not denying that they were together. he's just denying that he sold the story to the tabloids. bullshit. i like this comment that someone made: "The Claymates are not to be trifled with. They have an omnivorous wrath that can only otherwise be found in legends about Yahweh and Cthulhu.
So John, you should just give in to the Claymates and let them lynch you. You will never have peace nor joy in your life ever again anyway." bravo! JP, you crazy idiot, it's too late to apologise for anything. no one will believe you now.

and i'm still behind on my to do list. geez. not a good thing. definitely not a good thing. :p time to get to work girl!




mood: blah
listening to: don't save it all for christmas day - clay aiken

I Am
by Mark Schultz

I am the Maker of the Heavens
I am the Bright and Morning Star
I am the Breath of all Creation
Who always was
And is to come
I am the One who walked on water
I am the One who calmed the seas
I am the Miracles and Wonders
So come and see
And follow Me
You will know

Chorus:
I am the Fount of Living Water
The Risen Son of Man
The Healer of the Broken
And when you cry
I am your Savior and Redeemer
Who bore the sin of man
The Author and Perfecter
Beginning and the End
I am

I am the Spirit deep inside you
I am the Word upon your heart
I am the One who even knew you
Before your birth
Before you were

chorus

Bridge:
Throughout the Earth (I AM)
The Universe (I AM)
In every heart (I AM)
Oh, where you are (I AM)
The Lord of Lords
The King of Kings
The Holy Lamb
Above all things

Yes, I am Almighty God your Father
The Risen Son of Man
The Healer of the Broken
And when you cry
I AM your Savior and Redeemer
Who bore the sins of man
The Author and Perfecter
Beginning and the End -
I AM

feeling very lazy lately. effect of baincells dying from underusage. haha! supposed to do some article thing for the LC newsletter. haven't got an idea abt it yet. so, nick, if you really want me to write something, you better set me a deadline and/or a topic.

*spoilers*
anyway, i've finally watched "da vinci code". and my thoughts...i seriously do not understand what is all the worry about. the movie is so unconvincing that it's boring. and it's boring to the point that i would have gladly closed my eyes and slept, if only i didn't want to waste my $7. but i think, you can watch it if you have spare cash, if only to see what is happening, what is causing all this hype.

i find that the writers made a conscious effort not to antagonise anyone. for every line that is said that is against jesus being divine, there is another line that shoots it down and questions it. i like the way langdon constantly reminds us that all we rely on are symbols and that symbols can be misinterpreted. the movie practically opens with him showing everyone how people misinterpreted posiedon's triton for a devil's pitchfork. i also like the way the movie incorporated the divine influence of jesus into the thing. they deviated from the book by adding in this sequence of langdon falling into the well as a child and how he prayed and was comforted by the feeling that he was no longer alone and going to die in the well. langdon asked sophie, now that you've found out that you're the direct descendent, what will you do? will you destroy the faith, or renew it? like langdon constantly says, "what matters is what you believe". "Why is it divine or human? Can't human be divine?"

characters...aringarosa doesn't look like he can be taken seriously. it's his face lah. silas is so cool! ow about the self-flagellation and the cilice. but he's one of those poor tortured souls that are tricked into thinking that what he's doing is the right thing. my fav character is leigh teabing. i kept finding him very funny for some reason. (he's got a lot of cool tech toys in his house) oh ya, and i absolutely love the way the characters spoke the language they were supposed to speak. not like the "memoirs of geisha" where they all spoke english. here, where applicable, they spoke english, french, italian and (get this!) latin. how cool is that!!!!! one funny moment that i remember. at the end, after sophie finds out that she's the heir to jesus christ, she tries to walk on water, but of course it doesn't work, then she says, "maybe i'll have more luck with the wine." ref to turning water into wine. oh ya, and i love the backward reversing car chase in the front part of the movie. one of the best car chases i've seen. :D

moving on...just watched project runway. i am thoroughly impressed by daniel franco today. sad he got eliminated. it was the lingerie design challenge, he, as usual, was working on a last minute stuff, totally got on the nerves of his 2 other team mates. but it worked in the end, they were more or less happy with their designs. but the judges were not. daniel's team was one of those in the lowest. and in the QnA, one question was who in the team was going to be eliminated. santino's team immediately pointed to emett. which is understandable, he's the weakest of them. but daniel...he refused to let his team members answer that question and he told the judges that if it came to his team, he is responsible for what happened, he will let himself be eliminated rather than any other member. *aw* what it must have cost him to say that. he's a returnee from the first season, and he's made it this far. plus, he IS a good designer. i like his designs. very wearable. but he got his wish, his members were safe, he got eliminated. as he was packing up, he pinned a note to one of his designs, something about holding on to your dreams. :p

like i say, it's sad. i think emett should have been eliminated. santino was accused of being cowardly when he pointed the finger at emett. i never really liked daniel at first, thought he was kinda hao lian. but he's earned my respect in what he did today and he did not deserve the cut. daniel showed today that what responsibility really is. he has given up this project runway dream, something that he begged the judges to let him back onto, so that he can protect his team mates. daniel franco did the right thing, even though it must have been so hard for him. he cried on the runway when he told the judges his decision to accept responsibility. reflecting on leadership and responsibility. will i be as responsible if such a situation happens to me? will i willingly take the blame for things that go wrong under my charge? i'm not sure that i will be capable of giving up everything like this. i know what is right. but it's so hard to do it.



mood: sluggish
listening to: Angel in Disguise - Corrinne May

to do list. playing with latin

i am so lagging this hols. the effect of being over slack.

to do:
1) cleaning:
- wardrobe
- table (inc all the cabinets, papers, and organ shelf)
- comp (and defrag it too)
- piano. (it's so dirty. you can do drawings on the dust. geez)
2) at home:
- teach jonathan's maths B book. and science. and practically everything else but chinese.
- make andrew pass econs.
- fumigate my room to kill all the stupid mosquitoes (i will not be surprised if i get dengue again)
3) church stuff:
- plan hymns from now till september (darn khoo)
- stuff from that meeting with nick
- teach them gregorian chant

sigh. i'm so lazy to start.

i'm struck with the latin bug. ever since the gregorian workshop. found THIS site online that has the latin translation of the bible alongside the english one. some quotes:

"et Verbum caro factum est, et habitavit in nobis, (et vidimus gloriam eius glorium quasi unigeniti a Patre,) plenum gratiae et veritatis." - "and the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." John 1:14.

"dicit ei Iesu, ego sum via et veritas et vita nemo venit: ad Patrem nisi per me." - "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6.

"ego Alpha et Omega, primus et novissimus principium et finis." - "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." Revelations 22:13.

"et Spiritus et sponsa dicunt veni. et qui audit dicat veni. et qui sitit veniat qui vult accipat aquam vitae gratis." - "and the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Revelations 22:17



mood: slack
listening to: Your Song - Alessandro Safina/Ewan McGregor

i'm aching all over. ouch.

first, my left hand fingers hurt from practicing guitar.
the thumb of my right hand hurts from a lose squash racket grip.
right arm and practically everywhere else on the right side aches from sudden exertion of squash yesterday.
head ache from the stupid fella doing renovation (drilling) upstairs.
eyes ache from being tired.

sigh. lol. i almost wish school is starting again.

p.s. sad that ATCA has closed. so hard to find clack elsewhere liao.



mood: blah
listening to: butterflies and hurricanes - william joseph

now that feeling has returned to my fingers and it doesn't hurt anymore, me here expanding my blog from last night. ok, the reason my fingers were hurting was cos i was trying to self-learn guitar. haha! i'm proud to report that my guitar is in tune. and i tuned it myself! lol! what an achievement from someone who has never touched a guitar for more than 10 seconds in her life. went to the music shop to buy replacement string that the bro broke while playing with the thing. and almost bought the wrong kind of string after bro told the man (wrongly) that we have a classical guitar. *rolls eyes* as much as i don't know anything about guitars, at least i know that ours is NOT a classical guitar. it is (as i suspected and now confirmed) an acoustic guitar. bought a teach yourself guitar book. lesson one, how to strum and C, Em and G chords. i can do the Em and G and switch between them, but C is a killer. haha! check back one year from now for my progress report.

and...again. i'm gonna talk about the "da vinci code"(dvc). i accept that the thingy is highly controversial and all. but i think the church is becoming totally ridiculous in what it's doing about it. btw, in case anyone's thinking of asking me to go novena with them, forget it. it's a complete and utter waste of time and only spoils yours and my day. for fucks sake, the picture of jesus at orchard is JUST A PICTURE!!!!!!!! it is NOT jesus. it's a piece of printed plastic! why da heck are you making such a big fuss of it? it's not even a consecrated picture or what. that novena i attended yesterday (mum made me go), the priest's reaction to it SO annoyed me. he's acting like it's the freaking end of the world. what thing about doing penance for singapore. i will not go into details of what he said. just know that to me, it was utterly ridiculous. it's just about as stupid as that thing i heard about people going on prayer walks and praying out loud at the top of the hdb flat to consecrate the estate to jesus. complete nonsense. the movie's already out. there's nothing you can do about it now. so, just shut up and accept that which you cannot change. yesterday this thought came through my mind "o ye of little faith. why do you fear?" like i said before, if you have enough faith, something like this will not shake your beliefs. i saw in the catholic news, there are 3 categories of people's reactions to the dvc. (rephrased) 1. those who see dan brown and dvc as the devil incarnate. 2. those who haven't read the book, seen the movie, and don't care at all. 3. those who see the issue as a learning opportunity. and i shall stop now before it becomes another church bashing session. the church and me, we have agreed to disagree. end of story.

what else to talk about...saw in dawn's blog about singapore idol. haha! that's why i'm not bothering to watch singapore idol this year. i think it's becoming stupid also. i saw the trailer for the girls' show. you know what? they all look exactly the same. clones of each other. the same phenomenon occured at the miss singapore universe and all the other beauty pagents. and frankly, i don't really care about the local scene. look at taufik. where is he now? look at all the past winners - talentime...all the chinese competitions. there is not enough market for them. and they are not exactly that good either. and btw, simon cowell rocks! he's my favourite judge this season. randy will say something, usually trying to sugar coat it a bit, inserting lots of "dawg"s and "yo dude"s. then paula (shudder shudder yuck yuck) will be totally saccharine sweet and mainly repeat what randy said. THEN simon speaks his mind. which imo, is a proper opinion, not sugar coating whatever and setting the facts (most of the time). there was a poll i saw, about whose comments we like most, randy, paula, simon or ryan. ryan?! since when does he give comments??? lol.

moving on. the nus business school ad. the one with the ang moh girl. i think that is TOTALLY RIDICULOUS also. geez. i was one of those who *cringed* when they saw it. but then, i'm biased against nus. so... who da hell would be THAT excited to go to nus? and who says there are cute guys?? point them out to me. i haven't seen anyone fitting that description yet. *cringe* again. disgusting ad. i shall not say more lest nus decides to kick me out. much as i hate the place, i don't wanna be expelled.




mood: bitchy
listening to: touch - clay aiken

i'll blog more later. my fingers hurt. i've been trying to learn guitar. now i know why the guy said that guitar lessons are half hour per week only. haha! fun though.

wanna share this poem someone emailed to me.

SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask, How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?

You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say, Hi!

You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It's like an unpoened gift...
Thrown away.

Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
--



mood: pained fingers
listening to: nothing.

finally...

finally jeffrey has sent me his photos from the mj concert.

jeff, me and shi yun (argh! dark!)
mj choir at rehersal with nelson.
zaidah, me, jeff at rehersal on stage.
alumni choir rehersingbackstage before performance. let's see if i remember the names.erm...cass, er..benedict?, that's it. i give up. sorry. cass, benedict, jeremy, hafiz, harris, shi yun, zofia, joy, gladys, me, zaidah.
backstage again. with mr yong this time. let's see...harris, benedict, jeremy, hafiz, mr yong, shi yun, zofia, gladys, me, zaidah, (infront) jeff, cass, joy.
sunset boulevard musical
and after the performance, outside VCH. zofia, me, harris, hafiz, zaidah, gladys, someone, joy, shi yun, and jeffrey.

haha! someone pls help me out with the names. :D i'm such a horrible senior.





mood: amused

listening to: go the distance - michael bolton

okie! stuff to talk about. since i've got time now, have to stop being lazy about it. latest first...just got back from first class of the gregorian chant workshop. it was ok. went through a bit of latin linguistics and pronounciation. guy who taught the class was kinda cute. haha! evoked memories of peter tan. anyway...the class was kinda big. nativity church sent an entire contigent there. think it was almost the whole choir. st stephen's me, aunty margaret and helen. but anyway, the poor guy teaching (francis), patience is phenomenal i think. there was times when i saw this "oh shit!" look on his face when trying to get us to pronounce or sing properly. he taught us simple how to read the score techniques. which actually i find easier not to use. simply cos he says to use the solfege first before singing the words. and...well, i admit, my do-re-mi isn't that good. but i think it was quite interesting class. useful if we ever do latin parts in mass.

which brings me to my next point. aunty margaret was kinda commenting she's picking up that fr khoo is beginning to become very indecisive about whether or not he wants us to use gregorian chant in church. not just her lah. the previous meeting, when diana asked if we need to use chant in mass, he says, if you want - not a must if the choir doesn't want to. apparently, there was some screw up between 2 ppl in church that involved gregorian chant in mass. and cos of that screw up...ya, i think khoo decided to lay off it for a while. weird. but, i think my choir will learn gregorian somewhere along the line. but don't know if going to use it in mass yet. and how da heck are we supposed to teach the congregation???! lol.

*spoilers alert* stop reading now if you haven't watched x-men, are planning to watch and don't wanna know what happened.

moving on. watched "x-men3" yesterday with sumi, bro and jonathan. omg. it was cool! okay, story line. movie opens with professor x and magneto going to visit a young jean grey, before she enters the school. jump into the future. the govt has discovered a 'cure' for mutations. this cure will turn mutants into ordinary people again. but we find out later that the 'cure' is actually the DNA of another mutant boy whose powers is the ability to neutralise other mutants powers who are in his vicinity. magneto finds out about this 'cure' and it's source. he takes offense at it cos to him, and the x-men also, there is nothing to cure. their mutation is not a disease. meanwhile, scott/cyclops 'hears' jean calling him and goes to alkaline lake where he sees her alive out of the lake. they have a nice hot and steamy moment of kissing. anyway, then, the x-men somehow find out that something isn't right, they go to alkaline lake to find scott, but only find his glasses. and they find jean. then, prof x discovers that jean's evil alter ego phoenix has re-emerged from behind mental barriers, giving her extraordinary powers, but being totally impulsive and unstable. (ok, i apologise. i'm getting bored with describing the movie, so i'll cut short) jean finds out that she's become something different from what she was. she runs back home. magneto finds out about her and her increased powers. he and prof x simultaneously arrive at her house, mirroring the first scene. there, prof x tries to convince her to control her power, to let him help her. phoenix emerges and wrecks havoc on the house, killing prof x. i think she left with magneto after that. as jean, not phoenix. and then, meanwhile, magneto is assembling an army of mutants to destroy the 'cure'. scene is alcatraz. he walks onto that bridge, and uses his power to carry the bridge all the way to alcatraz. there was this line "charles always wanted to build bridges". lol. ya anyway, big fight goes on. btw, cute thing, the human soldiers all learn by now, so they use plastic guns instead of metal ones. so when magneto appears with his "you homo sapiens and your guns" and does the hand thing, it doesn't work. lol. at least they learn. well, they filled the guns with the 'cure' instead of bullets. so, a lot of mutants got hit. and the x-men had to come in and have a mutant civil war instead, to protect the humans. and magneto got hit by the 'cure' in the end. so lost his powers. aw. then, the army tried to attack jean, phoenix took over and wrecked havoc again. omg! that was so cool lor. she totally disintegrated the army personnel, lifted up the sea water around alcatraz also. imagine disney's fantasia, but with real water. huge wall of water lifted up. and everything in the way was beginning to disintegrate. but wolverine was the only one who could survive. cos he heals fast see. so, he killed her in the end. sigh. oh ya, and there's a cut scene after the credits. in it, there's a hospital bed. and prof x is on it. and he wakes up and saids, "hello moira(the nurse)." and i think she replies "hello charles." gasp. i thought he was dead!! food for thought.

jean is so darn powerful now lor. but scary the way she can disintegrate people like that. i mean, she lifted the whole darn house. ok, if that's not good enough for you...she apparently survived in a a telekinetic bubble in the depths of alkaline lake! a billion gallons of lakewater must have gushed over her. and she survived. *jaw drops* sad that she killed cyclops. poor cyclops. but a good thing was...cyclops managed to see her with his own eyes, rather than through a visor, before he died. she killed the professor too. geez. me was thinking, oh my god! she killed professor x???! *jaw drops further* but she was so strong. even magneto couldn't challenge her. speaking of magneto...i was kinda sad for him in the end. cos there was this scene, old men in the park playing chess. and poor eric had no one to play with him. cos his dear buddy charles is dead. BUT, he did the hand thing, and the chess piece quivered. ooh! there was also a hint of regret also. after jean/phoenix threatened him with the 'cure', he walked away muttering "what have i done?" muahahaha! also a bit sad was rogue. poor girl had to stand by and watch the other girl hang out with her boyfriend iceman. and she thinks it's her fault cos she cannot every touch him. and "there's only one thing on a boy's mind". lol. so, she went to take the 'cure'.

partly, the 'cure' is like a salvation for people like rogue. but in other ways, i understand why magneto and others found it offensive. it's like telling them that you're the Other and you are worse off than us. it's like...(no offense to anyone at all. just drawing an analogy) white people telling black people that, hey, you're different from us, and who you are is a problem, but don't worry, we've got this thing that will cure you of being black. 'problem' depends on how you define 'normal'. the kid with the wings. he's 'normal' cos it's natural, in his DNA as a mutant to grow wings. but it's not normal according to human standards. depends on the person's POV. scary the way he tried to cut them off at first. and the poor kid who IS the 'cure'. mutants were coming to kill him for something that probably wasn't his choice anyway. you think he'd have had a say in whether or not he could help to create a 'cure'? the poor kid was locked in a room the whole day. picture those padded cells, completely white on white. and they were going to kill him. completely and utterly destroy him, cos his DNA inadvertly contained something to neutralise their powers. it's sad.

but i agree with one article i read, that this movie is more of an action flick as compare to the previous 2. apparently the previous 2 were more character oriented. much more development of character. this one, there were so many characters introduced that it was hard to really delve into any character. but overall, i think this movie was pretty good. entertainment wise. i'll give 3.5 stars out of 5.

alrighty. all for now. thanks for reading all my crap. muahahaahaha!



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